Hey ladies...hot chocolate anyone?
And an ice pack for my thighs?
I went to the gym yesterday and got a massive runners high and then did waayyy too much of a workout after. I hurt:bawling:
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Hey ladies...hot chocolate anyone?
And an ice pack for my thighs?
I went to the gym yesterday and got a massive runners high and then did waayyy too much of a workout after. I hurt:bawling:
ibuprofen might help...Quote:
Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*
I'm going to start waking up at 4 or 5 am and walking everyday. I am going to work my way up to jogging.
I've been planning to do this the past three days. It hasn't happened yet.
Isn't anyone here a ****ing lush?
21 days here and no alchohol Seriously, it was beginning to be a problem. I've got to run off some blubber and keep my thoughts clear for a while. Then next fall, I'm going to have a pumpkin ale and get nice and giddy after just two. Or maybe in the summer. I''m a big fan of the summer ales....hmmm....Quote:
Originally Posted by Riesa
Hi,any coffee for a newbie? Need a few cups before I adventure into the literature section.:D
Aww yeah that's sad but like in a nostalgic love kinda way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
And I'm okay, it still hurts sometimes but I'll be back at the chiropractors soon anyhow :rolleyes:
I hope you've recovered by now, Classic!!
and welcome, MataHari! :)
Sprinks you are too young to put your back out! esopecailly if you are goiung to work in a library, ( everyone at work has devveloped job related back problems :eek2: ) the jkey not to bend when shelving but to crouch, or simply give in and sit on the floor! :D
You should crouch regardless. That means you are using your legs and not your back.
I have Hypermobile Joint Syndrome - I put everything out in seconds! I sit at the chiropractors and everytime I move I crack, and then I'm told "You're not meant to do that, it's my job!". Yes I've learnt to kneel at work if I know it'll be a bit of a job on the bottom shelves, and I do often end up sitting on the floor doing it :D. I do okay there, and it's actually helping me strengthen up. I did a year and a half or so after my knee ops of physio, and I really shouldn't have stopped, but I did. So doing my job at the library is actually a really good thing :D.
The job helps my confidence too, my condition will pretty much only get worse (my hips are starting to get a lot worse, they crack often now.) so I was worried I'd never be able to manage a real job, because it gets worse each generation and my mum is only in her 30s and is already classified as disabled because of the condition.
Humm no worries sprinksy keep up with libraries ( esp as as far as I can tell australia is the promised land and the frontier of public library invoation) its the twisting that generally is the danger ( oh and pushing and riding on heavy book trollies or spinning them round and round ans stopping them with one hand which ends uup with you being jerked right around, isnt too good for your back , fun yes good no!)
Im in the danger bracket for slipped discs and chronic back pain myself so Ive been thinking about doing some excersise to strengthen my back , also I really need to lose weight, any ideas aanyone?
Yeah I got warned about trolley dangers :p, and mostly I just have to watch my wrists, from pushing too many books at once.
Not really, I'd suggest going to a physiotherapist or the like for back strengthening things, because things like that are better off tailored to the individual because they can cause damage if you do ones unsuitable to yourself. I can't do much physical activity due to my HMS, so mostly I just do bike riding (exercise bike though :D), swimming (I had to do hydrotherapy anywho) and walking, mostly with the dog.
Banned from swimming for a year due to the ear :bawling: my mum is a physio but yeah.... cant ride a real bike, cant afford a gym and phobic of dogs :D
I think Imight take up running ( ran for the first time since I was 6 a couple of weeks ago and it was such a fantastic stress relief I kind want to do it again!) or race walking :D
you do a lot of walking around anyway nightie. Have you thought of investing in an exercise ball? can get them for a fiver and they can be used to strengthen your back, tone up and correct posture. I use one. They are used in the alexander technique and Palates.
I noticed this week with the aniseed balls, that everytime i felt like a munch (which is when i usually raid my house) i sucked on one of them instead and i didnt eat as much crap! been great. so everytime you fancy a munch suck on an aniseed ball!!! :D
That reminds me a little of a girl I know who was trying to stop biting her nails last year, and so she carried around toothpicks to chew on instead. Which is fine and all, but it was so funny when she'd look at you and say "Would you like a toothpick?" :lol:.
I'm pretty good at breaking habits if I want. All I have to do is one night think "I must stop biting my nails" and I don't do it again. But then they break and I bite them again. If they didn't break I'd be fine!
Speaking of which, I'm going to paint my nails green and yellow for Australia day :D. Well... maybe just green if I can't find yellow :p
Very Patriotic! Although i'd represent yellow more with Oz than green.
Yes but I only have fluoro green nailpolish! I'll have to hunt around and see if we have a yellow one. I know we have orange... Hmm... I'll find something :D
That's like how we get people all decked out in either blues and reds or green and golds, it gets all confusing because green and gold are what we recognize best, but our flag is blue, red and white, so stores stock a lot of things in those colours!
Oh and another thing i'll add to this is eat slowly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Not really, though. My brother was about 16 when he did it. I can remember when it happened. He was a paperboy. He was outside the house with a friend of his and they were going to deliver his papers together. He dropped one. He bent over to pick it up and that was it. He couldn't stand up. So he had quite a few visits to the chiropractor after that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
When I worked at the bookstore (10 years ago already :eek2:), I always sat on the floor. I even opted to lying down sometimes! I didn't care! :pQuote:
the jkey not to bend when shelving but to crouch, or simply give in and sit on the floor! :D
I have to agree with the exercise ball. I love mine! :D I do suggest pilates with or without the ball, though. I lost a lot of weight with that alone. I admit to having gained some back now. :blush: But that is mainly do to the fact that I haven't been doing any exercising. I've had to quit dance for the moment. I could practice at home, but, like with "regular" working out, I have just been too tired this past year to do much of anything. It seems that whenever I decide to start again, something happens to me physically that will prevent me from doing too much of anything that calls for any real effort from me (right now it is my arm). But I have my mind made up! I want to lose that weight that I have gained and maybe a little extra. So I need to do this religiously again. Some exercise routines call for a little everyday, or every other day. Whichever you would choose, just make sure you have that day or two to rest because that is essential with getting into shape, also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Yeah, I agree with this, too. But I also try to follow a diet plan. I admit that I don't necessarily watch what I eat as much as when I eat. I don't gorge myself, but if I want a piece of chocolate cake, I am going to have it! :D Anyway, when I lost that weight before (I admit that the way my schedule has been, I haven't been following the plan :(), this is what I did (I read it somewhere):Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Breakfast (I generally only eat a bowl of cereal): within an hour of rising
Snack (I make it something light): 3 hours later
Lunch (again, I make it light - if I eat something big, I won't want to eat supper later): 3 hours after that
Supper (I eat whatever I want then): 5 hours later
Snack (again, light): an hour before bed
It worked for me (hopefully it will work again). I also followed my grandmother's doctor's advice that he gave her. Eat what you would normally eat, just cut the portion in half. So it all worked. It is just a matter of keeping up with it. :) Of course, I know everyone is different, but it DID work for me until I messed up! :(
Ohhh I can sympathise with that :(. I'm 16 now and have had regular visits to chiropractors since I was about 6 due to my HMS.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
6! poor you sprinks!
6? Oh, I feel so bad for you. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by sprinks
I do walk miles everday, don't I. Excersise ball Ill think about Ive wanted to do pilates for agews but cant fins anywhere to do it. Last time I lost weight I did it by eating lots of smaller meals and cutting out the snacking, and if I got the munchies I did have aniseed balls and chewing gum. I also only ate with chopsticks which sloweed me down then but then I got so good with them I can eat just as fast with chopsticks as with western cutlery :rolleyes: :D
Yeah, for me, it is smaller meals (the cutting the portions in half). I don't eat snack food that much at all (for me, the "snacks" on the list might involve something like crackers or fruit or other "light" things). I eat it but not that much. But you mentioning gum chewing is kind of funny. I was addicted to gum chewing. I would chew gum ALL the time. I even would chew it at work, which was forbidden. But I was so good at hiding the gum that nobody knew I was chewing it. I always said that gum was my cigarette. I was terrible with it. But I think it helped with maintaining my weight. Unfortunately my jaw got so bad with TMJ that I had to go cold turkey with it. :( Too bad, really, because I knew it worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Chopsticks could be an option if I didn't have arthritis in my hand. But if I could hold them, I probably would get too good at it, too. ;) Another thing that I heard that someone did once was hold the spoon/fork with the opposite hand. I guess that if you do that, you eat slower automatically. But I would think that you would get used to that, too, eventually. Wouldn't you think so?
One thing about the exercise ball is that it is kind of odd the first time that you sit on it. Prepare yourself. I don't know how it was for Niamh, but I know how it was for me and other people I have seen. It is really just a balance thing. So you have to know that you will definitely be unstable at first. But now I can sit down like I am sitting in a chair. :)
Hey ladies, I have a question i've been burning to ask. (OK not burning I've actually just thought about it but it is something I've been plagued with for quite some time) How often do you have to unclog the bathtub drain due to hair? I haven't done a study but I'm estimating 1.5 - 2 months.
That's a job for the husband!
I used to have that problem at least once a month. It would drive my husband crazy. Thankfully it hasn't happened in quite sometime.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
How did you fix the problem??Quote:
Originally Posted by pussnboots
it's weird, it stopped on its own.
Oh no! I thought you were going to ask about something icky....you know, with the burning and all. But my drain clogs up A LOT. I keep drano in business.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
hmm. does pouring acid down the drain work?
I've done it once with draino and twice with Easy off BAM! In ten years. I'm all for a bushy administration.........
I unclog the drain every two weeks, but thats because I live in house with four long-haired girls. I actually have to pull the clog out by hand (EEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW) and then pour Liguid Plumber of Draino down and let it sit overnight. Gross...
hmm I may be pretty lucky then. My hair seems to clog quit near the top of the drain all Ihave to do is dig it out. I have a special pen I use. Why a pen you may ask? It was the closest object the first time I had to unclog.
Have i missed something that you are all going on about smelly clogged drains???? :eek:
I use bleach. Just pour some in, then wait for a bit, then follow with water that's as hot as you can get it.
On another note, my sister baked brownies last night - with NUTS!
She knows that I HATE nuts in my brownies, and yet she still loaded them with the thing!
Why, you may ask - 'So that you won't eat any, so you could stick to your diet', she says...
Imagine my extreme frustration, having to go through the delicious scent of baking brownies wafting through the house, and not have a morsel to eat! Hmph!!!
[it worked, and now I'm glad she DID put the nuts..that girl knows me!]
:lol: I relate to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tournesol
Had real coffee with Chava this evening. Lovely conversation in a very cool cozy cafe!
Ummm brownies! I love brownies! :D
I want to bake brownies...but I don't trust the oven we have (tried to make muffins, they came out a disaster!!)