Fitness
As I continue adjusting to using the indoor walking track for my weekday workouts, I'm going to add a few more "limbering and stretching exercises" to my routine. Here are some morning exercises recommended specifically for "business women" by beauty expert Helen Follett (St. Petersburg [Florida] Times, June 11, 1940). "Busy women, you who work… we ask for five minutes of your time between the leap out of bed in the morning and the leap into the bathtub."
4. The first exercise is for the purpose of air washing the lungs and keeping the chest in form: Stand erect, feet fairly far apart; clasp your hands behind your neck. Force the head and elbows back, inhale through the nostrils, expel the air through the lips. Breathe in as the head goes back; exhale as you return to first position.
5. This for keeping waist, thighs and hips slender. Stand tall, hands on hips. Lift on your toes, let the knees spread, lower your body until you are in a squatting position, buttocks resting on the heels. Rise slowly.
6. Wig-wagging exercise for keeping bust and arms normal: Stand tall, lift the hands high and far back. Swing the hips from one side to the other, stretching the arms full length, keeping fingers and thumbs spread. Use your muscles. Be conscious of them. Mere movements don’t mean a thing. It must be a real workout.
Reducing
The real change this week is that I'm doing away with the 7:30 cut-off. From here on out, should I feel driven to snack late at night, I'm going to allow myself to eat fruits or vegetables. I'd rather be coping with the effects of having snacked on a banana late at night than having eaten half a bag of ranch-flavored rice cakes! I'm also going to continue reducing the portion of the packaged, pre-processed foods I typically eat for dinner, cutting down to half the serving I would've helped myself to just a couple weeks ago. Now my dinner plate should be half prepared foods/half veggies.
5 comments:
Good for you on losing weight the old fashioned way :-)
I've also had to cut my portions down to half of what I use to have but it's good, I don't feel heavy after dinner anymore.
Ugh, I hate that gorged feeling. The size dinner I'm eating now feels just right --- and it's really nice to feel for once like I really am hungry for dessert. Not just eating it because I want to end things on a sweet note. (Desserts may have to hit the road sometime soon, though!)
I must say that I'm having a significantly harder time losing weight than I did when I was younger.
I feel you Jitterbug! Yesterday I did an hour and a half worht of exercises (a 30 min ab class and an hour of water aerobics). Hubbs and I went out for dinner (the stove is on the fritz) and I promptly ruined all that hard work by gorging myself on fried food. I felt so sick when I got home! Now I'm more convinced than ever that homecooked meals are better in everyway!
I love those 40s shorts..they look like they'd hide a multitude of sins. By the way, to quote a WWII war slogan, "YES, WE CAN!"
Amber, it's awful tough to stick to the straight and narrow once you're seated in that restaurant, smelling all that good food! I've found that avoiding restaurants like the plague has been enormously helpful. How long with your stove be out of order?
LandGirl, I love those shorts! So much more flattering that the saggy, satin basketball shorts I saw a young lady wearing at the rec center last night. :)
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