Still Day One

I wrote the intro over coffee, and now I'm through with the coffee and need to get started on something. Makes sense to me to write out a plan, and post it here. At the end of the day, I will blog about what actually happened. Hopefully, some of what you see here will also appear later. :)

So I guess there will be a morning post and an evening post. I can write about which recipes worked, and which were a disaster. I can relay recommendations about what I tried, consumed, used, etc. And I can reteach to you any tidbits I found along the way.

Fitness: I'm a mess. I last about 2 minutes on an elliptical. I can touch my toes, but only if I have surgery scheduled to repair the damage. I can not do one girl push-up. You get the idea. And while I like to feel a little soreness after I work out, I don't want to hurt myself and have to wait for healing. So it's baby steps. The first days will be ridiculously easy, but hopefully the challenge will kick in soon. Or maybe I will keep getting stronger and never notice that it's getting harder! Right.

Fitness today:

Walk 10 minutes. Set your phone or a timer for 5 minutes and head out. When it goes off, go home.

Push-up - on knees (girl push up) lower only 2 times - don't try to push up even
Don't laugh, I have a shoulder issue. I'm planning to really sneak up on push-ups.

Stretch: I have set up a stack of books 16 inches high. Every time I pass by this, I am going to put my hands flat on the stack and hold the "not much of a stretch". When there is no longer a stretchy feeling, I am going to remove a book. The way I understand it, you're muscles don't stretch will unless they are relaxed, so this is a way for me to take the weight off of the muscles so I can relax them.

House: Today I am going to tidy up the kitchen and dining room. Wash all the dishes, and set the table so it doesn't become a dumping ground. Not clean, just tidy. I may do more, but that's my first goal. So much easier to clean when things are not laying around everywhere.

Laundry: Throw in one load to wash and dry while I am cleaning.

Dinner:



See you tonight!

Day One

Welcome to my life. I am a close to 50 year old woman, who is trying to figure out what went wrong. Don't get me wrong, a lot, and I do mean a LOT of parts of my life went right, but they are all leaving the nest and I'm finding out that I have to grow up again. I'm too old for this.

Somehow, I have let my life get in a state of disarray. But this I mean that there is no part of my life that is where I want it to be. This includes my house, my finances, my hobbies, my job, my body, my face, my relationship with my husband, well, you get the picture.

Now, I am not a terrible looking person, I am not hugely obese, I am not broke, and I have everything I NEED. I have healthy, smart almost grown children. I'm probably close to being the average fifty year old American woman. Which, of course, makes me sound like a first class whiner. But the truth of the matter is that I'm not happy. I am not helping anyone in the community, we spend too much money on eating out, I don't like people to drop in because my house is not where I want it to be, and I don't feel healthy. Plus, I am bored to tears. I don't know what to do with my time. (more about that later) So it's time to start making some changes. A little at a time. And today, it's day one.

So come along with me and let's get busy reinventing ourselves. Getting healthy and fit. Cleaning up our houses. Learning some new recipes. Learning a bit about issues in the news. Who knows where this journey will take me, and whoever wants to come along via reading, and/or doing it along with me.