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Hopalong:
Lighter, I'm awed...have been eager to hear a front-line account about the [drumroll...] yeti-pot.
Badda-bing!
Hope you are desnottified and feeling better soon, or at least...breathing through breathing apertures.

Hi Ales, I'm soooooo awed about your workouts.
I don't think I'll add SAMe since for me, the side effect profile's too daunting. But I could up the
Zyflamend, I'm on a moderate dose of 2x/day and many people take up to 4x. I'm not on any
chondroitin product now so that would be another to add if arthritic stuff increases. I'm hoping to
hold it off.

I have failed at the gym. Just so difficult to add to a 9-hour + 40-min. commute day, which now
needs to include pooch walks. I still walk, nothing drastic during the week. But...I've bought a
Nordictrac mini-stepper for my office.

What I totally struggle with is MOTIVATION to get out and do it, or do it more. The stepper idea
is to combat the dangers of my sedentary job, which I've been feeling is literally rotting my body.
We have no stairs, and are in an isolated area where there's not much safe outdoor space for
walking other than a slanted parking lot (which hurts my back). So, my idea is, every hour, hop
on my stepper right in my cubicle and take 10-20 strides, to keep blood moving during the day.

I don't know why I don't DO it. It's doable. So...my battle is really with my own mind.

xo
Hops

lighter:
Hops,

I always do better with work outs when they're "formal" affairs. 

If I have to be at a regular place at a regular time, I'm there.

If I have all the freedom to willy nilly do whatever, I don't do anything.

Good to see you're doing something at the office.  It's a start; )

Lighter

sKePTiKal:

--- Quote ---What I totally struggle with is MOTIVATION to get out and do it, or do it more.
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--- Quote ---I don't know why I don't DO it. It's doable. So...my battle is really with my own mind.
--- End quote ---

Right here you summed up my own frustration with myself. I wish I could spend the time to decode it... and figure out how to "rewrite" that obstacle in my brain!!!

My intuitive D, might have provided a clue yesterday. She was talking about a friend of hers who's been in therapy most of her life - and that (to a lesser degree) she's seen the same tendency in me too. That is - when an "issue" comes up - we tend to immediately seek shelter in cerebral analyzing of it from every angle possible... creating a structure of descriptions around it... etc... that kind of becomes a cage (or a protective cave).

Instead of just acknowledging "I feel this" -- and then going and digging a hole until one feels better. Physical exercise actually is the "antidote" (for me) for obsession, blowing molehills into mountains, all the little neurotic hamster paths my mind likes to repeat over & over. So I'm throwing the resistance/reluctance/procrastination/avoidance of physical exercise motivation into the same "problem basket" or "opportunity bag" as the self-care issue.

Is there something like that for you, too?

Hopalong:
Exactly, PR! I'd MUCH rather spend days reading the latest research summaries on procrastination than...do what I need to do. If my job were digging rabbit holes on the internet...I'd be a CEO. (Still get away with a good bit of that, for which I'm thankful.)

hug
Hops

sKePTiKal:
:LOL: :LOL:

The internet is satan!! It's the "fruit of knowledge"... and always there... always tempting me to allow myself to stay firmly rooted to this chair, running from website to website... filling my brain with other people's conversations, thoughts, or ideas... and allowing me a place to add my own, too. It is however, reassuring, to hear some of those other people talk. For me, it's like taking a survey of the collective consciousness to be privy to the forum postings of people "talking over the fence" to each other. Life going on - as it's supposed to. People telling their "minutiae" as Boat says... what they did yesterday; crabby old men solving the geo-political problems of the world and bemoaning the chances of survival of "young folks these days" (just like they did when I was 16) and the gossip - oh my; the internet is the ULTIMATE gossip grapevine - LOL....

We used to laugh at my step-dad... who at 90 could outwork all of us... because he'd squoosh down into his recliner and like a cat, wiggle around until it completely cuddled him... flip on the tv news... and within 5 minutes be totally asleep. I think the internet is kinda the same thing for me, at times. It drowns out - without overwhelming me - the usual stream of ear worms, and daily complaints (didn't I just vacumn that?), and even the "auto-pilot" instructions that I haven't been able to modify the code for in my head.

SOMA for the "always on" world. Too bad they don't make computer monitors that radiate the right light for SAD... hey - wait a minute! Lets do a kickstarter campaign - crowd source the idea - and announce an IPO in 18 months!! We'll all retire rich... LOL...

I got up waaaay too early this morning.

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