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@MusicCandy Hello! I have to get ready for work but will post more later!
Hello! You have certainly been very busy at work! Did you end up on the day shift? I am sure getting switched from shift to shift will not help your sleeping. My shoulder has started to bother me as well. I feel like I have been taking care of it - not returning to swimming, going very easy on weights, stretching every day - so it's frustrating to feel that pain creeping back.
My last two weeks have been pretty uneventful. I have exercised pretty well and eaten pretty well. I have not been logging my calories, but I feel like having used that program has given me a better concept of how many calories I am taking in when I eat my usual diet. My weight has fluctuated up and down within a couple of pounds, so I think I am doing ok with maintenance. I have made no progress toward losing those last 5 pounds that I thought might get me into more of my pants, but I am starting to think that might have to be a summer project again, when I have the time to do more exercise than I am doing now, especially getting out on longer walks on hilly trails. So I guess if I can hold to my current weight, that might have to do for now.
Our schools are now totally mask optional for everyone. I feel we should have kept them for the rest of the school year, but once the governor removed the mandate for kids, I knew this was coming for staff and adult visitors. I will keep wearing mine, and there is a handful of other staff members also wearing theirs, so at least I don't stick out like a sore thumb! All of the 5 other women on my team immediately stopped wearing theirs. I expected it from three of them, but was surprised and disappointed by the other two.
How have your shoulders been this week? I am sorry to hear that your good shoulder is starting to bother you too. It's so much harder to tolerate all the bodily pains and the stresses in life if you can't sleep at night. I am praying that you have been able to get some rest. I am glad your daughter has recovered, but sad for her that her bf still has not proposed. It's good that she is keeping busy and doing so well! I know that helps you feel better. I am the type to worry about my kids and everything else when I wake up in the middle of the night, so it is always good to know they are doing well overall.
How are you liking the kombucha? One of my friends used to make it, and I really tried to like it but I just couldn't!
I did not walk at all this week, so maybe today I can squeeze one in. I hope you have gotten some nice walks, and especially some better rest. Thinking of you!!
@SadMe70
As always, its nice to open up the program and see a note from you. Work hasn't been terrible, but I've been busy all afternoon and evening. I had help for hours and I did my stairs while she was here, but I was on my feet anyway until just now. I didn't work extra last week and was off Thursday night which helped since I didn't sleep Wednesday night from shoulder pain, but Thursday night was OK. I think it is just going to be some good days and nights and some not so good for awhile. I did an easy machine workout at the gym 2 days and just stretched on my own the other days along with our morning walks.
I'm so sorry your shoulder is bothering you again. Does your upper arm hurt a lot too? That seems to be the worst for me sometimes, not my actual shoulder joint. The online videos help me when i know I'm not going to pay out of pocket for therapy again. There is one with stretch bands, beginner, that i like too. Like isn't the best word, but it seems effective. I hope you get some relief, I can relate. It seems like swimming would be good as exercise, but I am not much of a swimmer anymore.
I don't understand the no masks in schools at all. At least the infection rates really are going down, and of course now politicians have so much else on their mind. I can't bear to watch the news except a few minutes. I feel so helpless just watching the devastation. I don't know what that crazy man is trying to accomplish just decimated the whole country. Hard to know the end of it all.
I think you are doing just fine with maintaining your weight for awhile. Summer will be here soon, I am excited to even see spring. I haven't gone much either way either. I decided to fast from solid food on Wednesdays during LENT, midnight to midnight, I couldn't do it on a work night. But last week I started and then went to Ash Wednesday service. I will donate an extra $5.00 for that 2 meals to the homeless guy I see on the street every Friday on my way to work. He is very humble and sweet and I know something about him. I don't pass money on the street to just anyone. And read an inspirational book chapter before bed instead of the magazine i usually read, I thought of my plan while walking and decided to just do it and not overthink if I could keep it up. I am a worrier too.
I really do like the kombucha flavors I have tried, but definitely diluted. I remind myself i used to drink vinegar in water and that upset my stomach, but the taste is a little like that. I mix it with water or even diet sprite, When I first tried it I hated it too, but that was straight - diluted is better.
I hope you got your walk in, today was nice weather. I'm hoping for more warm days. i heard the spring peepers on our walk last week, and that cheered me. Thank God we can get out in nature. Thinking of you too this week, be good to yourself.