Hello Rebellion

[Morag]

Hey folks,

 

I typed out an huge hello message yesterday, turns out I don't function well late at night, who'd have thought!?

 

Anyway, I'm a 32 year-old, happily married, stay at home mom of two boys. I've been a RPGamer a decade and then some, and in recent years PC- and console gamer as well. I love about everything else those survival/build-up games (7 days to die, starbound), but followed by a close second: team play (Mechwarrior:Online). At the gaming table I've usually gone for the Druid, Mechanic, Shaman flavoured classes, going for supporting the team above doing the tanking or killing. I can tank, if we need that, but go for the more maneuverable, think-outside-the-box approaches if I am free to do that.

 

Recent changes and how I found here... I found paleo years ago, but lacked the commitment to go for what I wanted for myself, bringing excuse after excuse to my mind instead of looking for solutions. A four-headed family doing ok on one income is a scramble at times, but with some careful changes and monitoring we're trying it now.

Not 100% because of a lot of reasons, these are the first coming to mind:

• a.) I'm not a fanatic, nor do I believe there to be One Twue Way^TM to do any given thing.
• b.) I have a few things (cheese, salami, english muffins...) that for now are cut from my diet, but will eventually find their way back into it, maybe.
• c.) the "one day a week I refuse to worry about foods at all" mentality does seem like an okay approach.

 

Short term goals

Easter Monday I started switching my diet (= the way I eat, not to confuse with "to diet", I don't like the later) to more or less paleo. Goal for now (until the end of the month: check how feasible financially as well as time-intensively it is for me to eat paleo while my three men eat as before (ish).

 

Next parallel step is the physical things I'm changing: I've been dancing Oriental Bellydance for nearly 3 years now, I'm doing okay in medium level class, but the overall lack of fitness, I'm severely overweight (206 lbs on a 5'5'' frame), do limit me at times. And the thought of carrying my four year-old smaller child around without strain, really does sound great. I'm currently working on a body weight workout routine every other day, walking for a minimum of 10 minutes on the off days, but my notes suggest a slight trend that the off-day-walks are growing longer, without me intending them to. win!

Holding this pattern is my current goal.

I have one dumbbell, a 2-8 kg thing that I am playing with atm, gonna see where things lead. (no plans to add gym, or buy any equipment... maybe a pull-up bar when I lost some weight and gained some strength...)

 

Finding my way here on the day a new 6 week challenge starts sounds like "now is as good a time as there is" so I'm gonna think on quests and goals for a day or two and head over there next.

 

I'm glad I found you guys and look forward to some discussions and exchange of knowledge.

Morag

 

PS If I talk about weird foods or have no clue about something that you can get EVERYWHERE.... I'm over in north germany. Sometimes I even talk weird.

 

PPS Native german, english second language, working on regaining school spanish, adding danish, currently on hold: italian, german sign language (need to reaquire babysitter perk to continue leveling this, but dang it's fun!)

[Nedwin]

Looks like you've got everything under control!

[Morag]

Looks like you've got everything under control!

Heya Nedwin, yes things are going places. I'm currently doing physical therapy for an arm/shoulder thing that's coming from my cervical spine. Just yesterday my therapist encouraged me to get back to training, so in good spirit I did 18mins of yoga this morning, and one 30sec plank, yay, babysteps.

I am planning to apply for an apprenticeship and learn a trade, but things aren't that cooperative on that front, sadly. Sitting down is still very painful for any period over 10-20mins.

Nutrition is good though, and healing is making progress too, so that's good.

Everything else will come in time.

[couchsurfer]

Welcome Kat!

 

Solid goals you go !