Day 12 – the Rant

A year from Now you may wish 

You had started Today

-Karen Lamb

I haven’t done this in a long time, title an entry for the blog website ‘the rant’.  Even though my writing may seem a little disoriented, I try to keep on topic. Today I have no real focus, but I still had the desire to post something here.  In the entry before this one I typed that I will try to do write about food, mind body in a cycle of some kind.  Today is a food day.  I haven’t tried another alternative oatmeal breakfast.  In fact I had a setback, I ate a box of cheez-its and they were delicious.  It was the only thing I ate yesterday.  Anyone on the healthy track that reads this is going be like ‘WHAATTT!”  I haven’t been 100% good but I have been better than I was yesterday and I will be feeling it all day today.  

How did this happen?  I told myself that I shouldn't keep food in my room.  On Tuesday I broke that rule and brought in the infamous box and other cheesy calorie loving goodness.  I don’t know if I said this before but I love cheese.  It can be a downfall for me. I know that I will most likely have to get my food portion into some kind of order because I can overdue it.  So that is something I have to work on.  Along with all the obvious things that I have to work on. 

Wednesday, I had a mental shutdown.  I went to sleep like 5am in them morning.  I did a good zombie impression then conked out completely.   This will completely mess with for rest of the week.  I haven’t typed about this a lot but I have trouble sleeping.  I have always had this problem since I was a kid and I kind of made it worse by having a night job.  I may even have a mild form of shift work sleep disorder.  I am not sure and I haven’t spoken to a doctor about it.  What I do know is that it can takes a week or more before I can fix my sleep cycle again.  Until then I will be struggling to write and struggling to maintain the mission of the 100 days project XX.  Sleep is a topic for another entry.  I have a feeling I typed that before.  Let’s hope I do research and utilize the correct citations and references. 

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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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10 - The Meaning of Lives

    

 A year from Now you may wish 

You had started Today

-Karen Lamb

The title may seem confusing but this is how I explain things in my head.  I have two lives, my internet life and the real one.  Sometimes they get along splendidly too often they are getting on each other’s nerves.  One of the sub goals of this project is to blend the two lives.  It is a lifestyle change process. This made me wonder, what is lifestyle?  What is wellness?  The definitions are so simple but so important. Lifestyle is the way in which person or group lives.  Wellness is the state or condition of being in good physical and mental health.

The first time I joined the daily challenge by MeYou Health, I took a test that let me know that both my lifestyle and wellness were poor.  It was not something new to me.  A person existing understands that they are on the bare bones of living.  It is one of the reasons why changing or asking for help very difficult.  Or why they are grumpy.  Now that I my mind is not set on a negative track, I wonder how I was able to go through life and not understand what was happening to me.  I mean I felt the effects of everything.  The causes were all different or maybe they weren’t I just rolled with the punches.  Then started to look like the punch bag. 

I have struggled with lifestyle, wellness, weight loss on previous projects that were doomed to failure because I lacked specific keys to success.  I don’t even think I have them all now.  I am still grappling with motivating myself to do differently. However I am putting out the effort in small increments at present.  I am going with the adage ‘small changes big effects’. 

It was decided to have 3 foci on this blog, mind, body, food.  Yesterday’s post was about food.  Today is the mind. Tomorrow is about body, I think. This will be a two weeks probation. If I am lucky I will be able to write something that make a little more sense.  

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