For the last three days now I've started back to pushups. I've started each of the three days with the intention of doing 5 sets of 5 each. So far I've only gotten to the third set. Why? My sister died and I have been a bit of an airhead.
But I am on my way to the 100 pushups goal again. Stuttering start, but the point is that I keep starting.
I have the urge to go run the 16.2 mile bicycle loop around this small town. I haven't run more than about 3-5 miles just a few times over the past couple of months, but hey, I always get it done.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Going on 5 months, no sugar!!
Yeah. I can't say that it is hard. There is something about having decided NOT to do sugar that makes it easier for me. I know the decision, and my ability to stick to it so doggedly, is tied to my sister's journey, dying of cancer. When there is little you can control (I've been a caregiver to her for going on 10 months now), and you light on something you CAN control, it feels so empowering, in an otherwise powerless situation.
All the days spent at her house, there was virtually NOTHING healthy in her refrigerator or cupboards, ever, unless I brought it in. Though her husband, a family practitioner no less, is the worst of the junk food junkies, she and her kids were close. The youngest daughter was the only one who really feasted on fresh foods, though she had sweet tooth as well.
And there were always tons of sweets, from cookies, cakes and other desserts that friends brought over, to the professional cookies and treats brought home by the youngest daughter who worked part time after high school at a bakery, to five or six different containers of ice cream, plus ice cream bars, etc. It was crazy. So much stuff got thrown away too, only because there was SO MUCH STUFF.
I need to get back on the pushups, and get some runs in, or more hikes. Since we came back from Christmas early due to my sister taking a severe downturn with her battle, we've been pulling duty at the hospital hospice room (again full of sweets). Each evening when we come in to get settled in my sister's room, I take plates of cookies left by friends and family in the adjoining family suite, TO THE NURSES STATION. Yes, I know, they should be eating healthy too. There is something about a night shift though, that makes them vulnerable to the sweets. But me, I've sworn them off and am so glad I did! Otherwise I'd be up 20 pounds (especially since this has been over the holidays too) and climbing.
OK. So I know better than to say I NEED to get back to pushups, et al. That is a cop out. I will DO 5 sets of pushups TODAY, and will carry that forward each day, back on the regimen.
Thank you for this blog that no one reads but me in my free association of thoughts on paper. You help me get my head right.
All the days spent at her house, there was virtually NOTHING healthy in her refrigerator or cupboards, ever, unless I brought it in. Though her husband, a family practitioner no less, is the worst of the junk food junkies, she and her kids were close. The youngest daughter was the only one who really feasted on fresh foods, though she had sweet tooth as well.
And there were always tons of sweets, from cookies, cakes and other desserts that friends brought over, to the professional cookies and treats brought home by the youngest daughter who worked part time after high school at a bakery, to five or six different containers of ice cream, plus ice cream bars, etc. It was crazy. So much stuff got thrown away too, only because there was SO MUCH STUFF.
I need to get back on the pushups, and get some runs in, or more hikes. Since we came back from Christmas early due to my sister taking a severe downturn with her battle, we've been pulling duty at the hospital hospice room (again full of sweets). Each evening when we come in to get settled in my sister's room, I take plates of cookies left by friends and family in the adjoining family suite, TO THE NURSES STATION. Yes, I know, they should be eating healthy too. There is something about a night shift though, that makes them vulnerable to the sweets. But me, I've sworn them off and am so glad I did! Otherwise I'd be up 20 pounds (especially since this has been over the holidays too) and climbing.
OK. So I know better than to say I NEED to get back to pushups, et al. That is a cop out. I will DO 5 sets of pushups TODAY, and will carry that forward each day, back on the regimen.
Thank you for this blog that no one reads but me in my free association of thoughts on paper. You help me get my head right.
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