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    10,000 Steps – Week Three

    January 7, 2022 /

    Date Weight (lbs) Bust (inches) Waist (inches) Hips (inches) left arm (inches) right arm (inches) left thigh (inches) right thigh (inches) 12/13/21 121.80  33.25  31.00  38.00  12.50  12.00  22.50  22.50  12/20/21 120.80  33.25  30.00  36.00  12.25  11.50  22.00  21.50  12/27/21 120.80  33.00  30.00  36.50  12.00  11.25  22.00  22.00  Above are my measurements from last week and previous. The dates listed are Mondays when I took my measurements. Not sure why I chose Mondays, but there you go. It’s rather cool to see that my arms and legs went down even though my weight stayed the same. And I was getting my period last week, actually got it on Sunday, so…

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    10,000 Steps and GrowWithJo – Week Two

    January 3, 2022 /

    Did you see my stats from last week?! I’m headed in the right direction! At first this week I was going to just walk in the afternoon. A 2.5 mile walk so definitely not a stroll, but I wouldn’t have been targeting my arms or my abs. I had just about talked myself out of doing the GrowWithJo videos because I’ve just never really liked doing exercise videos, really exercising for the sake of exercising at all. And so in general, I really have to talk myself into putting them on and doing them. Also this weekend, I wasn’t really feeling like I had made a difference. I had a bit…

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    10,000 Steps and #GrowWithJo – Week One

    January 3, 2022 /

    This week I decided to take a lunch break, which I haven’t been doing at all, and decided to use it for an exercise video each day, #GrowWithJo.

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  • General Musings

    Motivation – It Takes Baby Steps. And a Different Mindset

    December 22, 2021 /

    I’ve been rethinking this whole going for a walk thing. And I realize that my problem isn’t in the moving part, it’s the getting out the door part. And I’ve tried (sort of, not really) to get out. During the day is hard. And I have always liked the morning better. It’s just the getting up part.  Marty is coming to stay with us for a week, and he does get me up and at ‘em early in the morning. Wait, let me back up a bit… Marty is a Labrador. When his humans go to visit grandkids, it usually involves a plane and at least a couple of weeks,…

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    My 10,000 Steps Challenge

    December 17, 2021 /

    I’ve decided that I need to start moving more. Between the pandemic, working from home, this pre/peri menopausal middle (and thighs!) I’m starting to feel, well, downright sloth like. I do normally eat fairly healthy, I think anyway. Grain-free (or mostly), very limited dairy and sugar. I don’t consider myself a fanatic about stuff, an I’m not a nutritionist or anything. But bout 10 years ago or so I found this book and this one, and they changed my whole way of thinking about food. That summer that I followed exactly these eating guidelines I lost about 25 pounds, my skin cleared up, my body odor practically disappeared, I was sleeping better, and…

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  • General Musings

    Organize Your Things, Keep Life Calm

    December 15, 2021 /

    So, that sounds pretty simplistic, doesn’t’ it? Easier said than done, I can hear you thinking. Well, I’m right there with ya. And as someone who playfully dubs herself the “Queen of Messes,” I too have had major moan moments of, “there’s a mess again? How did this happen? Why is that stuff piling up? Again?!”  Now, I’m not here to attempt to teach you how to organize your things. That’s better left to someone like Marie Kondo. And if you’re needing help getting started may I refer you to her book, or her Netflix series. She’s got a lot of tips for sorting, organizing, repurposing, etc.  So, although I’m not the…

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    Being Grounded Staying Grounded

    December 10, 2021 /

    Being grounded takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not just keeping centered and standing firm, but keeping yourself centered through playing in nature, running your hands through the dirt and letting it crumble through your fingers. Through listening to the waves of the ocean. Through walking barefoot in the grass and letting the individual blades tickle your toes. 

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    The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

    January 9, 2021 /

    So I finished it! Only took me a year. Well, actually more like 20 years and a year. I received this book as a gift from a friend years ago. Probably for my birthday, actually our birthday, cause our birthdays were one day apart. She wrote me an encouraging inscription in the front, about inspiration and transformation and great endeavors of flight. You see even then, twenty years ago, I was trying to figure myself out, who I was, who I wanted to be, where I saw my place in this world. But my friend also drew me a picture of a Phoenix rising from the ashes. It looks a…

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