SparkNB's Journey to Fitness

  photos-ak.sparkpeople.co m/nw/1/0/l1075186225.jpg "It's the hard that makes it good...." -this quote was in the movie 'A League of Their Own" and I think is a good accompaniment to "Pick your hard".... I have been having a bit of a sad time in the past week because of something that happened with my work, and found that I just TOTALLY stopped caring about things that were important to me before (which was weird, because I really had been caring about SP), and ended up on some binges, (albeit healthier than previously). The ennui and depressed feeling wore off as the week wore on, but I ended up not exercising much either, and missed the climax of the fall color here by stewing in my windowless basement office - I work remotely so little contact with others, and no commute. Without my regular hikes, and partly because of the rainy weather, I had no reason to go outside, or even see much beyond the windows, mostly just the wood paneled basement walls, a

  I haven't been online much lately, so little tracking of food, and no exercise, so no tracking of it. (Hmm-never really thought about how when I exercise, I am motivated to record it on spark, which motivates recording food, which motivates exercising to have something to record, and on) The weather has been kinda crappy (cool, gray, rainy) even though the leaves are peaking at their autumnal glory, I have only seen it from the yard. Gonna go for a hike in an hour or so though, and excited about it. Stupid phone/charger cord not charging phone, and don't like to go without it, plus watching Fareed, Candy, et al on CNN etc like I do many Sundays. Plus I don't really like my gym much. Its very cheap, but the women's room TV is set to weather radar (which I'm a superfan of normally, EXCEPT when I'm exercising on fitness machines!) My old gym, which closed, and was 5-6x more a month, had ellipticals that had a view and personal tv's with cable; the ellipticals

  I wanted a pumpkin soup today (we had our first frost last night, so 'soup is good food'; and wanted some protein, so added lentils. Couldn't find the recipe I wanted on SparkPeople, so I made my own:  recipes.sparkpeop le.com/recipe-detail.asp?r ecipe=2813644 Enjoy!     Member Comments About This Blog Post v JUSTYNA7 I'm making the recipe as we speak! DD can't have spices so I will divide it into two (it only has cinnamon, parsley and salt in it right now) and add the rest of the spices to mine. I had pumpkin in the fridge leftover from muffins I made and exactly one cup of red lentils... meant to be, right? Thanks for sharing this. Justyna from the Wriring Diet team.  2494 days ago Comment edited on: 10/16/2014 11:15:49 AM v JUSTYNA7 This posted twice... sorry  2494 days ago Comment edited on: 10/16/2014 11:16:27 AM v 1CRAZYDOG Sounds awesome! 2497 days ago v BBEAGAN Darn, I just made pumpkin soup too, butI didn't think to add lentils. And I went with cinnam

  A little late but my list of goals for October* & my Hallows harvest          1) eating seasonally, organically, locally, as much as I can: lots of pumpkin and squash things and apple things, last harvests of herbs from the garden - very healthy; also some spaghetti squash instead of pasta; also mixing it up with grains (the first of the harvests was at the beginning of August) and grapes      2) Losing 2 lbs a week    3) Writing on non-Spark blogs - 1 a day for the rest of the month*  4) Also pre-writing and researching for Nanowrimo in Nov* ~5555/day  5) A graphic a day*  6) Min of 1 hr exercise; bonus for 2 hrs/day exercise 6 days a week        7) An hour of web code ed; an hour of house work; 100 sparkpoints daily          8) 10 sites*    9) 10 job apps*      10) 1 hour standing computing daily    -will have to make a daily schedule, as I fell quite short on some of my Sept goals; and this is a little more ambitious, but focused      *keeping in mind that Oct is also mostly u