~*~LeT's gEt MoVInG MoNDaY~*~

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 6:27am
Good morning-

Hope you all had a great weekend, you're rested up and ready to start off the new week. Hey, last week of August for those of us that don't like heat and summer. I'm really looking forward to getting through my morning clients so that I will have time for my workouts and planning my week. I'm ready to RECHARGE! DH is back to work, my clients and I are back from vacation and my body is ready to get reorganized, recharged and back on track. Anyone else like that? You do much better on a schedule or regiment?

OK.. for those of us that have been kind of operating by the seat of the pants...take charge of your life...let's do it! Make exercise a priority. Not something you will get around to if you have time. Take time to talk with your Creator. Not just fit Him in somewhere (if at all) between running out the door and driving to work. Take time for you!

What is your workout today?

***cardio only

15 minute project?

***way more than 15 minutes but, plan through September and get some filing done.

Have a super day!

Phyllis

Live With Passion!

Phyllis

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 12:52pm
I'm glad my ds is only doing the football this fall. As it is, he's at school from 7:45 a.m. until after 5 now & it will be later when the games begin. No wonder our kids are zonked during the school year! Hope your kids have fun with their soccer and band.
Katherine (Kat)
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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 1:05pm
I know what you mean, Kat. I sort of wish Rob were playing team sports still, but on the other hand, I'm relieved he's not. He gets to school about 6:45 and is home by 2:45, except after jazz band on Mon. and Wed. when I pick him up at 4 (Practice is 2:30 to 4). He also has guitar lessons on Wed. night. With the homework load, that's probably enough.

It's a fine line between having them involved and overdoing it, isn't it?

Rhonda

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 1:06pm
Good day, everyone!

I've got to get back on the workout wagon. Tonight will be the full one to kick my week off on a high note. As beautiful as Saturday was, my 3-mile walk was hardly a workout walk - more like a pleasant ramble. Took me an hour, so I know I was dillydallying along the way. Even cleaning was leisurely - I stretched it to fill 2 hours. And Sunday, except for those few sorry weeds I pulled, I sat on the deck and looked at all the work we need to do in our backyard; actually, some of it is best left to professionals, but until we call them, the prettying up is going to have to wait.

My heaviest exercise all weekend was cutting the strip steak we ordered out at Outback - not going to order that cut again.

Maybe DH and I will do a brisk 4-miler tonight. If not, cardio will be 5 mile on tread and exercycle; then the weights will be clanging.

Have a gorgeous day, friends!

Donna

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 1:11pm
I wonder if some of us are in an end-of-summer slump. It could happen!

Rhonda

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 1:28pm
I'm thinking of it as saving myself for the challenge.

Miss P




 

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 1:32pm
Maybe. But I think in my case it's just my pattern - I started off in August going great guns on workouts, kept it up for a few weeks, lost a few pounds, got smug and self-congratulatory, relaxed, and ate things like steak, garlic mashies, and Caesar salad for a couple of days (and more starchy carbs than I've had in almost 3 weeks). Since it's Monday and AF has left after an abbreviated stay (she's learning not to hang around these days), I'm ready to get going again.

Plus (and I know this does nothing for you), the cooler weather is a real shot in the arm for me. I'd rather open a window and feel the fresh breeze than turn on the fan and blow stale basement air around.

Donna

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 1:43pm
The pattern sounds all too familiar! Plus, Aunt Flo was supposed to be here by the 19th (although with the pattern for most of the last three years, it would have been around the 15th), and she's still not here. I'm sure that's working on me.

Even though it's still very hot here, I can sense changes I don't like. The angle of the sun moves as it gets closer to autumn, the oak leaves are starting to fall already (just yucky brown, but good mulch), and the flowers get spindly from weather conditions, among other things. My system seems sensitive to all that. I really need a Bahamas beach house!!! I think that would do the trick. ;-)

I will try to have Patty's good attitude that I am saving my strength for the challenge (Fake it till you make it!) and just maybe it will actually work.

Rhonda

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 2:35pm
You might try www.chicos.com. They have a lot of that kind of stuff.

Step away from the cookies!

Phyllis

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Phyllis

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 2:39pm
Hmmmm...maybe m&m's should be involved in the challenge.

Phyllis

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Phyllis

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Mon, 08-25-2003 - 3:32pm
M&M's should definitely be involved in the challenge...and cookies too.

Lori