WEEKLY HEALTHY LIVING CHECK-IN MAY 11TH, 2019

**This past week has been pretty much the usual.... Busy Teaching my classes, attending others classes, continuing to stay on track with working out and getting activity in as much as I can..... Water has been going alot better since its now warmer out,...however sleep has kind of gotten off track again this past week since I've find myself staying up later than I should be, so need to change that habit again and get back on track......... The facility that I instruct at started a BOOTCAMP this month!.. I LOVE bootcamps!..Its a 30 minute bootcamp twice a week... So I decided to go for it and get involved. I needed something different to add to my workouts, So that was something "New" that I got involved in this past week and it will run for about 5-6 weeks per session.... I enjoyed the first night so far, and looking forward to going back this up-coming week. Prayerfully it gives me the "extra" boost I need or can use!.... I know just from that "first" 30-minute session, I was surely 'feeling" it for the next few days!

**The warmer seasonal weather has been pretty amazing here the past week, lots of sunshine, so I was able to get out alot this week with walks to the lake with my dog in the afternoons (getting him out and activity as well)... and getting in evening walks with my husband when I'm not taking an evening fitness class.....It has certainly put me in the SUMMER-MINDSET and "Vacation-Mode" as well!... So we are attempting to plan our first spring/summer getaway for this month to the Beach~ And I'm certainly ready~ Its close enough that we can do a day trip or stay awhile... so we just want to make a trip out of it and stay a bit get away~

**Another hightlight is that I got a NEW FitBit and it just arrived yesterday morning!..... I decided to upgrade my FitBit BLAZE to the FitBit VERSA~...The Versa will now allow me to track my Pool workouts this summer which was something I couldn't do with my Blaze~ But I will now be able to see what my activity really is since I do alot in the pool.. I'm excited to get that up and running as it will now have "Every" feature that I desired~

**This weekend is Mothers Day weekend, and I wasn't certain if I'd get to see my mom or not as she was away all week... but she just got back yesterday afternoon from a trip, so... Today Saturday, I am going to get my POUND Workout in at the local warehouse, run some errands, and finish getting her Mothers Day gifts... Then visit with her on Sunday and spend some time together.~ ...And hoping to see my son as well before he leaves to go to work?!....Will see how that goes?!....... My May goals are to continue with as much activity as I can get in, and continue to do my best to keep on a good path and track since summer months can bring their own challenges with staying on track!

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!~

@PoliteOcean

**Hi there everybody! How have you been doing this past week? I have been good but very busy!

**We have just reached the end of our FIRST week of May!... What things did you do this week? What did you find yourself doing "differently" since the new Month started? I mostly worked this week but need to really try to find time to myself this weekend.

**What plans or goals would you like to make or see yourself making for the month ahead? How will these plans & goals benefit your over-all health and well-being? I would love to work on making my room clean and get to the gym.

**How many of you will celebrate MOTHER'S DAY this weekend? What will your plans be or consist of? (This consists of ANYONE who has "Fur-babies" as well!) My mom is another state, but I will call her for sure :)

**What have been your "Highlights" Or "Struggles" over this past week? Highlights have been hanging out with friends during breakfast, but work has been a struggle because I have been so tired.

**What are your weekend Plans?! I work today but I am going to a party tonight. I will be going to church tomorrow and probably be relaxing the rest of the day.

Another busy week. Weeks are flying, but I think I am getting back on track after 2 weeks of getting off course, due to taking on too many projects at once. Things are more at a normal pace would should help staying on track. Weather has been rainy which limits outdoor activities Still goal setting to stay on track. Plants outside are starting to bloom and I have have finished most planting between the raindrops. Put in about ninety plants around the rear section of property. Which keeps blooming until frost in November. Worth the effort for how nice they look during the warmer months. Gardening for me is good to release stress. Looking forward to swimming also. Let us know how you Fitbit works for swimming as I was thinking of upgrading also. Enjoy your weekend.

@PoliteOcean I've been in the hospital the past 7 weeks because of kidney failure. I have no recollection of how it happened. My landlord found my body in my condo. Apparently I was delrious for a week. My potassium pump and calcium pump were messed up. All I know is I woke up in the hospital. I won't be able to move back intoi my condo because it's too dangerous for me to live by myself. I am medically unstable. Right now I'm in a rehab nursing facility. My doctor is keeping my blood pressure artificially low and I don't know what the reason is. The doctor is here is good about drawing blood and sending it to the lab to keep up with how my physiology is doing. I've had my blood drawn 5 times in the past 6 days. I just got my laptop on Friday so it's good to be back online with all my 7 cups friends.

@PoliteOcean

1) I was on a break from 10thfeb till 6th may as i had exam. I came back again to 7cups and am so happy to be a part of the community again.

2)I gave my best in the exam and it went well, so am happy. I wasnt much into group chats before going to self care break. So participating in the group chat this wekk is one new thing i did.

3)My plans for this month is to study well for other exams am having for the next 2 months and perform well in them.Doing well in the exam will help me for my career and hence will shape my life and help me be calm.

4)I am going to celebrate Mother's day. I and my brother have planned to cook food tomoro and help mom get some time to relac. Cause afterall, the whole year she is busy taking care of us. Yet i am not good at cooking and hardly my bro too.So we will take help from dad. (I love doggies, yet i hardly have one yet).

5)My struggles last week, was that, there was a cyclone around 3rd may and it affected here as well.So i went to my aunt's home before exam. And the trains were cancelled mainly, hence we had hard time to figure out which trains were there and were the transportation and everything fine because of the cyclone or not.

6)My weakend plan was to help my brother with his project drawings. Coz he is enjoying his vacation and told me to help with the drawings for which he will give me chocolates haha.

7)I want to say that, i am feeling so good to be back and be a part of the community again. Its feel to good to chat and to post the forum replies.7cups has become a part of my life and am so glad about it as well.

Have a good day ahead

My last workout went well! I mostly kept on track with the circuit although with a few breaks thrown in. My asthma is back to being under control! I was still feeling it during my warmup, but it seemed to settle fast, my heart rate didn't shoot up this week like last, and after a bit of productive coughing later that day I felt back to normal. Even being at a greenhouse with a cat hanging around and some dogs didn't trigger any lung problems.

I have struggled with some stepups to the point where I onlly manage a few in each circuit round, the box puts my leg higher than a 90 degree angle. It wasn't done in the last circuit, but recently she has thrown in doing it from the side instead of forward/back and with that I totally failed at it, I had to switch to something different as I could not force myself up. That was something I tried at home this week, from the lawn to my deck where I can get 90 degrees pretty much dead on. The up/down front and back is pretty manageable that way. The side is more of a struggle, but at least it's doable so hopefully having that slightly lower way to practice at home will mean that I can work up to being able to do the higher one in the gym.

I was out doing gardening stuff this weekend, picked up some stuff at a greenhouse yesterday and planted carrots and potatoes today. Took longer than usual as all the outdoor stuff is still getting sorted, my husband had to get the hoses hooked up and all those types of extra things on top of planting.

I didn't do anything big for Mother's Day, but I did call my Mom and talked to her for about an hour.

@PoliteOcean

**Hi there everybody! How have you been doing this past week? Hi! The past week (I'm going to count this week so far which is only been a couple of days) it's been pretty average in all honesty. It's been mainly School that's really been focused on. I don't know in all honesty. There isn't anything that I can think of that stands out about the week so far except a guy in my form in school keeps talking to me, that's pretty irrelevant though to the question.

**We have just reached the end of our FIRST week of May!... What things did you do this week? What did you find yourself doing "differently" since the new Month started? Well, it is obviously been 3 weeks now, in May so far, but I would say this month has gone quite well over all. It has gone quite quickly and obviously I have had some struggles but at the end of the day I'm still here and mentally I do think I've improved which I'm so happy about. This week on Monday I just had school and I saw my friends and boyfriend for about 15 minutes after school, that was about it. Today I have had school again - it's my mum's birthday - and I'm about to go and have dinner out with my parents which I'm not looking forward to. Since the new month started I think I have been more confident more accepting in parts of my body and I think that's all I can think of so far. I have tried better in school to be honest.

**What plans or goals would you like to make or see yourself making for the month ahead? How will these plans & goals benefit your over-all health and well-being? For the plans and goals this month I just want to be more confident in myself I want to be happy and I want to be healthy. More specific goals that I want is to maintain my nails so with gels and acrylics and I want to get my hair better: to clear the layers. I do have to get it trimmed but not the layers to make my hair neater. Then I want to grow my hair out and have it look again like I used to have it. It will take time but I'm looking forward to it. I think all these plans and goals will make me more confident in myself which will obviously contribute to other aspects of life and I just feel like I'll be a better person overall. I'm not sure.