Exercise

I told you a few nights ago I had a plan to start my own exercise program, and today was the day!
In reality I should take some before pictures of me so I can prove when I am gorgeous again from where I came from and how great I am at self help! LOL!

But honestly I should know what I am doing since I was also in physical therapy as well as occupational and neuromuscular therapy a total of fourteen times.
I know you remember I mentioned my dance background that’s twelve years strong not to mention those four years working out at the gym, and also those four years I was race walking!

And so this should be a piece a cake… not good to mention that when you’re trying to get back into shape! Kidding, but not myself this is serious and very necessary.
Even more so now, since that diabetes scare has returned.
For the heck of it I wasn’t feeling too well yesterday and since I still do have the kit to test my glucose I did. The first test two hours after a meal was 141, not good but not too bad, the second before bed I felt was necessary due to that number and it went down to 121.
To try to reassure myself this morning I tested one more time with a complete fast from the dinner meal of last evening and this morning my glucose was at 125, which is bad for overnight and fasting. Morning numbers should be under 100 to be normal.

As if I needed more motivation than my own full length mirror; this other health issue is looming large once again, and I hate that!
Who needs this anytime anywhere?

Any-who the exercises consisted of my wonderful Yoga mat that I have owned for years and my three pound free weights; I do have two pound and five as well.
I really thought that the three’s were light enough after all my hands are bad but not all that weak yet, and hopefully my plan is to make them stronger too.
Getting up and down off the mat is the only slight glitch of my whole project, but I locked the handles of my walker alongside the mat and utilized it for that purpose and it worked! I even had a cute little pillow I made years ago from a T-shirt that I didn’t want to get rid of; the one with the Native American’s face on it saying the 'Great American Clean Up'. It is small and the perfect size for my head support on the mat.

I start with slow leg lifts together, since my tummy looks as if I were pregnant, and my hips look as if I were that wide bodied woman in the funny but weird Super Bowl commercial of a few years ago.
Sadly at the time that came out my hips were tiny, only thirty inches around!
Heaven knows what they are now, but it must be at least twice that.
I am too scared to know that truth.
All I do know is this body of mine is in a very serious health problem and so I had to intervene with myself and do what I enjoy or I should say used to… working out!
Then I rolled on to my side to do some leg lifts from that position ten on each side, and a ten count for all my beginning programs start including the raising of the three pound free weights in each hand. Good thing about already being on the floor your balance is not compromised and there is no where to fall, because you are already there!
It’s hard to believe I used to do 200 crunches with my very cute 20 inched waistline and washboard abdomen, and oh those fifteen inch thighs, were so oh wonderfully able to get into any pair of pants or slacks I desired! This was only a little over five years ago, not twenty friends!
I can do it I know I can with my own logical caution and knowledge of my own body I will… as I said before I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired!

On that note of doing something positive I would like to wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ok?

PS If you are receiving this late it is not my fault my provider was down sorry!