MOLLY'S RANTS

[Jaguar]

Molly your freaking awesome, thats why I call you The AWESOMENATOR, cause you are one !!!

[mmhmm]

That's absolutely astounding, Molly! Good on ya!

[irishpad]

Mar 3, 2015 16:31:48 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

I signed up for a personal trainer today ... 8 sessions just to see how I like it (at a private gym). I need some direction and assistance for strengthening and endurance ... so I'm excited. Tomorrow at 10:30am is my first session. (They are pricey, but at least they offered a cash discount, right?) Anyway, I turn 50 in 2 weeks ... so it's my birthday present!

Lunch today: spicy ranchero egg white salad; steamed spinach/mustard greens/collard greens/turnip greens and snow pea pods; salad: romaine, cucumber, beets, onions, red pepper; and some carrot chips and roasted green beans. (That's 12 different veggies!)

About 10 years ago I did a 6 sessions with a personal trainer at my local YMCA to learn how to learn how to lift properly and to help set up a variety of routines to use.   It was money well spent.   Has helped me build muscle mass, overall leaner body and really helps avoid weight fluctuations.  I was 42 when I started.  Still going 3 days a week and feel better at 52 than I did at 40.  Good luck with your training Molly  _{(and awesome job on your 9 month accomplishments of healthy eating leading to better health!)}

[Bonny]

Mar 4, 2015 19:30:46 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

I don't know if I mentioned it, but in the 9 months that I've been working on pursuing health-enhancing behaviors, I've managed to .....

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lose over 150 pounds. (Shhhhh! I just wanted to tell someone, ya know?)

Wow!  You are AMAZING!

I love how supportive your husband is. He is your "wonderful" DH!

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

We biked 16 miles this afternoon!

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Today was visit #2 to the personal trainer.  I've discovered that I seem to have a record-setting capacity to sweat ... at one point it was a bit like standing in a rainstorm and I was thinking I needed windshield wipers for my glasses, LOL. (We're in the mid-80s here already ... I'm fat and going through menopause ... lest you think I was about to keel over!) I have decided NOT to wear an oversized t-shirt next time and instead to wear a cooler tank top ... and I might bring a hand towel, too. But I am assuming this is working and it's good for me ... since all sorts of parts of my body were complaining mildly at the time and are complaining more loudly now ... and I expect that my body will be really pissed at me tomorrow. Then I get to go back on Wednesday! (I'm doing this twice a week for now on Mondays and Wednesdays.)

[Jaguar]

I want to get into good shape as well, so I'm making an appointment with my orthopaedic surgeon, to look into a few things. My knees are awful and it's been 14 years since the last surgery. I wanna dance again, shake my butt and all that.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I biked 9 miles this morning

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I biked 8 more miles this afternoon (that's 17 total!)

[Jaguar]

Here's a gift for you :

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

We biked 18.5 miles today

[Robert not Bobby]

Sept 15, 2014 19:17:22 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

I have a love-hate relationship with my scale. OK, not really. I have a sometimes-I-think-my-scale-is-possessed-by-Satan, and sometimes I really LIKE my scale sort of relationship. If my scale were one of my Facebook friends, let's just say that some days I'm willing to see her annoyingly chirpy posts in my Newsfeed, and other days I'd rather cheerfully stab the HIDE button as quickly as possible, while fantasizing a BLOCK and UNFRIEND option.

When I re-started my latest healthy eating quest (I'm determined not to call it a diet), I accepted the fact that I needed to purchase a new scale. After all, the OLD scale ended up at the bottom of the swimming pool during the Summer of 2011 and it seems that scales don't float. HA! Too bad, we chubby women float just fine, thankyouverymuch! Anyway, I decided to just do my shopping on Amazon because that place seriously has everything. EVERYTHING!

Anyway, while reading up on various scales, I was rather annoyingly bemused and dismayed that many scales only go up to 200 pounds, or 250 pounds. Hello, scale industry ... some of us are much heavier and need scales that might actually survive a suprise encounter with us in the bathroom in the morning. Anyway, I finally settled on a Talking Scale that could handle significantly more weight than I needed, which helped my bruised ego.

She speaks in a faintly British accent. It's all very civilized. When I tap her gently with my toe (as gently as a fat woman balancing on one foot can be, LOL) she greets me with a "Hello! It's ready." (I always wonder why she doesn't say "I'm ready?" but have decided to just be grateful that she's not self-aware like the scary computers in the Terminator or Matrix movies. Because if she WERE self-aware, the LAST thing she'd want is some grouchy fat woman squooshing her on random mornings, right?) Anyway, with that faintly British accent, it just makes my weigh-ins all the more civilized, sort of like Downton Abbey Dieting. "Would you care to step on the scale this morning?"

I can tell you that I've tried placing that digital talking scale ALL over the tile floors in my house, and have determined that I weigh the lowest immediately in front of the pantry window. (Yes, I have a window in my walk-in pantry. You may now be jealous.) However, in deference to my neighbors and innocent passerby, coupled with my penchant for weighing in buck nekkid, I've opted for a more standard scale placement in one of our bathrooms. I can also tell you that I tend to weigh less when I step on the scale first with my right foot, and THEN my left foot. Yes, I did try this ... over and over and over. In fact, I was disappointed NOT to find a listing in the Activity Log of calories burned on those charts online for "Get on and off the scale over and over and over again, while holding your breath and sucking in". Seriously? Why isn't THAT a listing?

Anyway, I step on my scale on randomly and haphazardly selected mornings. Or when I think I've just had an impressive poo. (Can we say poo in here? I hope so. I say it a lot. Poo! Poo!) I re-started my healthy eating quest on June 1, and I just past the 15 week mark last Saturday. I know that some people say "weigh every day." Frankly, I can't handle that sort of emotional trauma on a daily basis. Still others say "weigh once a week" or "weigh once a month" or "Don't weigh ... just get a measuring tape" or "go by what your clothes are doing." After 49 years of being me, I've decided that none of those things work for me, so I do what DOES work for me. I step on my scale when I feel like it, with the one rule that I do want to make a point of stepping on it the first of every month.

I am ridiculously fat, 49 years old, and I'm in what's known as "pre-menopause." Which means I get both my period AND hot flashes, lovely. About every 3-4 months, I skip a period. Once, I skipped 2. Then it returned, like uninvited in-laws fresh out of prison ... unwanted, but grudgingly allowed to stay for a few days. I have decided that my body is a lot like the Bay of Fundi ... which (as any Trivial Pursuit or Jeopardy Geek will tell you, has the highest and lowest tides in the world, LOL). When I retain water, I REALLY retain water. And when my body is done with that water .... it flushes it out rather impressively. As far as I can tell my frequent scale encounters, I retain water before my period, during my period, after my period, before ovulation, during ovulation, after ovulation, every other Tuesday, and whenever there's a showing on cable of Law and Order. Seriously, my secret power is SPONGE.

This means that sometimes I step on the scale and it's up 2.5 pounds from the previous day. AAAUUUUGGGHHHHH! Of course, the logical side of my brain merely points out to my emotional side that since I didn't actually eat 10,000 extra calories in one day, it's water and poo. I end up muttering "It's just water and poo, it's just water and poo, it's just water and poo" to my scale a lot. If the NSA has weirdly chosen to bug my bathroom, they're probably (1) really confused and (2) absolutely convinced I've got Tourette's Syndrome.

Anyway, that's my rant for now. I shall rant again. Ranting is cathartic for me. (And I'm secretly hoping that it burns calories) And, for those who are curious on how I'm doing? I've lost 82 pounds since I re-started my healthy eating quest.

Maybe next time, I'll post a Biking Rant?

That was brilliant. Just eat healthy...it is not that hard to do.

It was an inspired RANT.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I biked 17.25 miles today

[Jaguar]

Mar 15, 2015 15:15:30 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

I biked 17.25 miles today

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

March 17 is my 50th birthday.

My goal (which I set for myself last year) was to be healthier on my 50th birthday than I had been on my 49th. Back then, I had poorly controlled diabetes, poorly controlled asthma, serious mobility issues (I wasn't really able to drive and walking to the mailbox was difficult), high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. I decided to start really exploring nutrition and "health" and it led me to the book "Health at Every Size" which led me to the book Intuitive Eating.

I decided to be a lot more intentional about eating with my health issues in mind, and decided to explore and expand the number of veggies that I was eating. A number of things just sort of "fell into place" as I realized that if I felt really awful after eating certain foods, maybe I shouldn't be eating them? I also started with some very slow, gentle movement and built from there.

So ... where am I now? I went from needing 240 units daily of insulin ... to being off insulin for 4 months. I went from needing my fast-acting asthma inhaler ALL day long to just needing it when I catch a cold. My cholesterol is in the normal range, my triglycerides are improved, and my blood pressure is improving. Not only can I drive both of our cars, I can walk to the mailbox with no problem whatsoever. And I can ride my bike 15+ miles. I even started working with a personal trainer 2 days a week so I can slowly, carefully, and properly learn to strengthen my legs, my arms, and my core.

While I wouldn't class myself as "healthy" by any objective standards out there ~ I do classify myself as "healthier" than I have been in the past, and I feel like I have a great foundation for learning to better love, appreciate, and take care of my body and my health. Happy Birthday to me.

I just wanted to share.

[Jaguar]

Molly your post made me tear up. Happiest Birthday hon and much love to you.

[ners]

Happy Birthday  Have a great day.

[Wisconsin Beth]

Have a wonderful B-day Molly! 

[mmhmm]

Well, golly, Miss Molly! Happy Birthday, girl! 

[Chocolate Lover]

Happy Birthday Molly!!!!!!

[swamp]

Mar 17, 2015 0:11:32 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

March 17 is my 50th birthday.

My goal (which I set for myself last year) was to be healthier on my 50th birthday than I had been on my 49th. Back then, I had poorly controlled diabetes, poorly controlled asthma, serious mobility issues (I wasn't really able to drive and walking to the mailbox was difficult), high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. I decided to start really exploring nutrition and "health" and it led me to the book "Health at Every Size" which led me to the book Intuitive Eating.

I decided to be a lot more intentional about eating with my health issues in mind, and decided to explore and expand the number of veggies that I was eating. A number of things just sort of "fell into place" as I realized that if I felt really awful after eating certain foods, maybe I shouldn't be eating them? I also started with some very slow, gentle movement and built from there.

So ... where am I now? I went from needing 240 units daily of insulin ... to being off insulin for 4 months. I went from needing my fast-acting asthma inhaler ALL day long to just needing it when I catch a cold. My cholesterol is in the normal range, my triglycerides are improved, and my blood pressure is improving. Not only can I drive both of our cars, I can walk to the mailbox with no problem whatsoever. And I can ride my bike 15+ miles. I even started working with a personal trainer 2 days a week so I can slowly, carefully, and properly learn to strengthen my legs, my arms, and my core.

While I wouldn't class myself as "healthy" by any objective standards out there ~ I do classify myself as "healthier" than I have been in the past, and I feel like I have a great foundation for learning to better love, appreciate, and take care of my body and my health. Happy Birthday to me.

I just wanted to share.

You go, girl!  And Happy Birthday!

[Sharon]

Molly your journey has been an inspiration.

[irishpad]

Happy Birthday Molly. Your "Rants" over the past 9 months have been great to read bringing laugher, huge smiles and great inspiration. Thanks for this thread, you have given many of us that spark we need to make similar, positive changes in our lives.   

Happy 50th Birthday.. ... welcome to the club!

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I biked 15 miles today

[Ava]

Hi, Molly;

I just read your whole thread.

Congratulations on your birthday and accomplishing your goals. I'll keep reading of your progress.

You are really an inspiration.

[Jaguar]

I found it, the film about eating and health done by Andrew Facca called Voyage to Betterment done here in Ontario, Canada. A group of 9 people went on the same type health route that ❤ mollymouser ❤ did with diet and exercise and they had remarkable results. But they only done it for 30 days.

I seen this film when it first came out way back in about 2009. I think Mollys story is just that much more fantastic cause she made being healthier her actual life, not just 30 days.

Congrats Molly, your inspiring.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

We biked 28.1 miles today! (My longest ride ever!) YAY!

[mmhmm]

Mar 22, 2015 18:35:59 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

We biked 28.1 miles today! (My longest ride ever!) YAY!

I sure hope you're picking different daily routes! Otherwise, you're going to be wearing ruts in the road! Good going! 

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

It was a new route today

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I biked 14.5 miles today! (And it was windy!)