Day one

A year from Now you may wish

You had started Today

-Karen Lamb

The Hundred Days Project Infinity

This picture has nothing to do with the fourth of July.  Independence Day is an important holiday for the nation but this is about my project launch.  Starting today July 01, 2015 and ending October 19^th, 2015, I will conscientiously choosing better lifestyle choices, in food, environment and other things. This is the next 100 days project.   A benefit to this lifestyle make-over is a more productive life, I want to spend my time efficiently.  I have other plans for the website blogs and my writing and my personal life.  Family is very important to me.  I wouldn’t have survived ‘til now without family.  To do right for me I have to do right by them. 

My household needs a lifestyle change and we need it like 2 years ago. I can’t change myself and expect others to follow.  We have to be an example to the young.  Studies show that when a family takes up the task of changing lifestyle through eating habits and etc.  It is better for the children overall.   Obesity is a major problem for people in “first world” nations.  It has hampered my family for generations, but it runs deeper than that.  Because even the supposed “skinny” relatives have effed-up lifestyle habits.  I want to be healthy.  I also need to be healthy.  Many of my post might sound like this in the next 100 days.  The method is repetitive.  If I keep typing and reminding myself of the purpose I should be able to reach a goal.  Plan to be reach your goals not the other way around. It worked with twitter and it worked as a writing exercise I gave myself last year.   On Twitter, I began requesting followers and giving reasons why.  I wanted to see how many I can get simply by asking for a whole year.  I mentioned my reasons and the campaign every time I asked for followers.  In a month I have over 200, many of them writers like myself.  Others were artist of a different medium.  I was impressed.  Of course I am not famous enough yet so that my following out numbers those I follow.  But that is okay.  I expect better when I begin publishing, my stories and the Red Mushroom. 

Last year I realized my word count was sickeningly low.  I had lost my creative will to write.  I partly blame listening to audiobooks but they were only 1 part of the problem; the other problem was that I just didn’t have anything to say or I thought there was nothing to say.   My solution was to force myself to write 300 words or more on each entry.  I stated my cause and reasons until it no longer became necessary.   I will be stating my desire to change the bad habits in my lifestyle until I see and report positive sustainable change and benefits.

Specifics

In the next three months and a half, I will be writing about lifestyle change.  The pros the cons.  I will be writing about changing eating habits, healthy choices, and exercise routines and where to find them.  I will do my utter best to trick myself into a better healthier lifestyle.  I will write about the mental, emotional and spiritual sides of these things.  How lifestyle, wellness, health and well-being go together to be an overall better human being.  I will do my best to be entertaining, informative and inspiring. 

Geronimo!

Day 11 - The Core

A year from Now you may wish 

You had started Today

-Karen Lamb

The core is a part of the body exercise instructors, talk about a lot.  The Core have many programs dedicated to it.  Some of them I have watched, some I have attempted to work through.  I have always gotten stumped when the Instructors says, “Make sure your core is … or your core should be ….  I would immediately lose focus especially when they add “you should be feeling it in your core.  And all I felt was uncertainty.  I was doing something wrong. 

Since deciding to add an exercise routine to the lifestyle change, I have searched the internet for an answer to what exactly is the core.  I eventually found the answer.

Google defines the core of the body as this:

Major muscles included are the pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis, multifidus, internal and external obliques, rectus abdominis, erector spinae (sacrospinalis) especially the longissimus thoracis, and the diaphragm. Minor core muscles include the latissimus dorsi, gluteus maximus, and trapezius..

Wikipedia defines the core as this:

In anatomy, the core refers, in its most general of definitions, to the body minus the legs and arms.^[1] Functional movements are highly dependent on the core, and lack of core development can result in a predisposition to injury.^[2] The major muscles of the core reside in the area of the belly and the mid and lower back (not the shoulders), and peripherally include the hips, the shoulders and the neck.

In the article ”Do you Know what your core really is and what it does?”, Jeff Kuland, from breakingmuscle.com explains the core as a complex series of muscles, extending far beyond your abs, including everything besides your arms and legs.  It is incorporated in almost every movement of the human body.  

Of the three I understand and like Kuland’s definition better. His article was a quick easy read with a self-explanatory title.  He also offered exercise test and a chart to help people that are into dead man lifts.  With some clarity, I was able to go forth and do push-ups free of reluctance.   Wikipedia also gave an extensive explanation of the core of the body, but it is Wikipedia and can’t be anyone’s only source. 

I felt that Google definition required a medical dictionary and chart. 

Now that I know what Instructors are talking about I am able to look at myself and admit my core needs serious work.  Although I am working with the Gym Box.  I am still researching.   There is so much information out there.  The path for an acceptable body is abundant. Then they break up into genders, vegan, meat, weights and cardio etc etc.  I might even have to dedicate a project to the body.  I don’t think that I can be like the writer AJ Jacobs, I won’t be able to do it for a year, three months is my limit.  I will also have to work on conclusions.

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Day 6 - TGIF

A year from Now you may wish 

You had started Today

-Karen Lamb

Reflections of the week.  There has not been as much change as I would have liked.  Which mean progress has not reached expectation.  Actually I really didn’t have any and that might be where I made my mistake.  There are many factors to being a lifestyle change and well-being.  I tried to analyze some of it but I think I just complained about my issues with it and various stages misconduct.   It is amazes me how a person can write the same thing in 300 word or more and it all sound like the same thing over and over again.  I am trying to change the tone of these entries.  The point is to sound more objective and less subjective. Even when writing about myself.  I am actually tired of writing the world ‘I’.  So starting next week I will do my best to stop.  In this post it will sound like a mix bag.  Some paragraph will be subjective and some objective.  There were all written at the same time.  English teachers and professors across the nation just cringed.  This is no way to write an essay.  TG this isn’t the writing website blog.  This is the health and well-being.    

Over the weekend I will be coming up with daily recipes to try and making a schedule.  So the week can be filled with productivity.  Unfortunately for you few readers, it will be put up here for your view.  With hope and true grit I will be making better decisions on the course of this blog and my lifestyle.  Last year I found some website blogs that have been praised for their content, I will look them up again.  I want to see where I am hitting and missing.  I am glad that I was able to post something for the last 4 days and meet the word challenge.  If anyone is interested you might have to look at old posts.  There should be better references and cites of work.  Which will me a well thought out and prepared post.  Not sure I will be there yet but next week I will do better.

 

What does the 100 days project XX{20} at 100daysvi.blogspot.com mean.  When it was started the founder thought it was an original idea and anticipated followers and more.  Achievement, accomplishment, creativity and support.  A circle of friends and family, encouraging each other to meet their goals within the 100 days deadline.  It did not catch on and maybe that made the founder a little depressed.  She too became unable to reach the various goals she places on herself short term and long term went to the toilet.  She regretted it and refused to give up so now we are at #20, strange enough it could be actually the 21^st  or 30^th.  Four years ago stuff got shaky.  Twenty is a nice round number that the founder believes it is best. Of course the next project will be 21 and this may be mentioned again.  The writer plans to prepare better post so that will not be the case. 

In conclusion this entry is all about what I didn’t do and I didn’t go into detail.  The plan is to not give up and make sure that this week is not repeated.  Moving forward is the short term goal.  Observe experts and steal what you can without being sued.  Or revamp it and make it your own.  Be funny, be happy, be content, be well and ……

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