SparkNB's Journey to Fitness

  1) 140 points a day on Sparkpeople (track fitness, food, water, goals, etc.) 2) Lose ~14 pounds 3) 1.4 hours housework daily 4) 1.4 hours exercise daily 5) 14 sites 6) 14 social contacts irl 7) 14 new tech self-teachings* 8) 14 inches smaller 9) 14 pieces of clothing either revamped or purged 10) 14 images* 11) 14 dinners cooked* 12) 14 jobs apps* 13) 1.4 non-Spark blogs/day 14) 1.4 hours standing computing/day *1 every 2 days Member Comments About This Blog Post v RITZIBROWN  Next step   :D 2532 days ago v MYRINA_SAVANT Great goals  2537 days ago v CD5745313 Very ambitious goals. Good for you! 2537 days ago v CD14869212 2538 days ago v TENNISJIM awesome list 2538 days ago

  I live part-time in AZ and in MI. No inet in the rural spot I live in AZ, not even on my phone (mountains, etc.) so no Spark. But back to MI, so back online, and now back to Spark, thru 2014, at least. Last third of 2014 goals tomorrow! Member Comments About This Blog Post v SPARKNB I'm a bit late but still will respond to the comment about 'nice warm AZ'... HA! not in the summer...it's really hot! Usually at least 100 days over 100! I was supposed to leave at the end of April, but was doing a project outside, and had several bouts of heat exhaustion, so didn't finish until June, then left in July, finally, and took my time coming to MI, where my folks live. Staying thru the holidaze this year because dad's 80th birthday is in mid Dec. 2531 days ago v CD14892622 Let me get this straight, you went from nice, warm, Arizona to Michigan for the winter?  We head down to Florida from Maryland for February :-) Glad you are back "at it" here at Sparks. Hope ...

  with new motivation, locale, opportunities, etc. More later.... Member Comments About This Blog Post v SILLYHP1953 We need a break sometimes...glad you're still around. 3505 days ago v GLMOM2 3508 days ago v LINTPICKER glad you are back, we have all been there and done that! 3515 days ago v STELLAR-LIGHTS Welcome back! 3515 days ago

  Finding it a little pushy to post everyday, because I'm in like 80-90? groups, lol, and hate it when my name is one of the most recent a few days later when I visit some of them. Speaking of groups, I *AM* planning on winnowing some, because I signed up for tons to hit different interests, but some are multiples, and others aren't active currently, and it's just not efficient to have so many. But didn't really screen 'em beforehand, just like I don't rinse dishes before the dishwasher (I figure if 2 or 3 dishes need re-cleaning afterwards, no big; much more time and especially water-consuming (and also a bit of fossil fuel energy) to pre-rinse the whole load beforehand, rather than 0-3 after)...and I know, some think dishwashers aren't efficient, but studies show they are more, than washing by hand, plus it's my WORST chore, (maybe because as a kid, as the oldest of 4 it was my responsibility) worse than toilets, mopping, laundry, cleaning, etc. Anyway...

  Too fat, even if somewhat a 'fit fat' as I like to call it (just ran a 5k, and I wasn't the last one! and time was a little slower due to ice over most of the course sidewalk, and I didn't run in the street). Fat enough that the home scale doesn't register me, which was embarrassing to note on the private team's weigh-in board...I'm the heaviest one. :( I'm not even sure if my estimate is correct...I *just* had broken the 300 pound barrier last time I was sparking, but now I'm above it again, though my clothing hasn't changed much so I think I'm basically the same. The other reasons, besides embarrassment / defensiveness / stress about many weird little things like the scale: 1) a kick-off for the new year, accomplishing something 'big' in my fitness goals in 2010 besides running a 5k. 2) health...mom's cancer and dad's heart issues and my approaching 50's (a couple of years off) mean that some of their health issues wil...

  Felt okay about binge-ing on buttered popcorn (used healthier spread), over the weekend, until I saw the total fat g...whoops. 'S-okay though, did force self to exercise...need to spend less time on fb, and get up earlier. Haven't gotten myself to do the AM exercise yet, will do so tomorrow, either because I'm more motivated, or, really, because of the LAKE EFFECT SNOWSTORM...at least several inches to shovel...dig out winter clothes!. Was going to log into spark yesterday eve, but then had several hours of PC issues, that somehow fixed themselves, after several reboots and I logged into safe mode with networking...was able to update malwareBytes and ran full scan-nothing...meanwhile WAS online in inet backgammon. Weird. But now caught up with almost all logging, except fitness Oh, and spark is having trouble with logging fitness...can't enter it 'cuz nothing comes up. Member Comments About This Blog Post v SILLYHP1953 I've had to fogive myself for quite a lot...