Niwa

Hey Fush! Glad to have you here!! You have great goals and I look forward to your accomplishments!!

Hello everyone!! I am not sure if anyone remembers me, but apparently I have been a member since 20-freaking-13!! I come back with great shame that I haven't done much in regards to myself and my health, but I am finally ready to change this! I just got back inside from a mile walk during which I thought how lonely I was and how I felt like I had no support. If only there was a place... THERE IS! So here I am again, reintroducing myself My name is Paula, but in the online world I tend to go by Niwa (Niiwa if taken har har), I am currently 29 years old and I live in Scottsdale, Arizona. My ultimate goal is to just be healthy. I've always wanted to be that person that goes hiking one weekend, biking the next, maybe a long swim at the lake another, just an overall adventurer. I have always loved the outdoors (especially swimming, I grew up on a beach!) but I have never really gotten out there. I told my boss that once I get under 200lbs, I am going skydiving!! I enjoy the typical "lazy" things such as knitting, playing video games (anyone here play LoL?) and watching shows and what not. I love to cook, but I hate doing it because I live alone and I don't like cooking just for myself. I have a real problem cooking too much and then hating leftovers, getting a bunch of dishes dirty just for me, and then having to clean. I really need to work on this! Anyway, I don't want to bore ya'll with a book, but I'm really looking forward to being more active, here and in my life. Hope to find some people that I can relate to and get the motivation I need! Woo!

Hello there! Welcome to Phoenix - hope you like it here. I haven't really been active around here but I am looking to change that this year. I just got back from a mile walk, it's gorgeous out there!!

I'm laying there on the ground dead. I've been dead for over a year now, and I haven't been able to use my resurrection scroll to get myself up. Is there a a priest out there willing to come rez me? What feels terrible is I read those emails Steve sends out, I get excited about starting over, and then I get a Starbucks coffee, or go get tacos for lunch, and stop by Chick-fil-a for dinner on the way home. I get on the scale and see that I've gained 10 pounds since last year, I put on my favorite pair of pants and realize I cannot even zip it up, and then I get depressed and do nothing about it! I used to be so active around here, so determined to get fit and healthy, and then it just stopped. It makes me feel dumb since I know what I can do to make it better, but for some reason I just don't do it! But I really want to do it! I really want to hike a mountain without feeling like I am going to pass out, I want to run a 5k with friends or bike across town without gasping for air and cramping for days, I want to live! I think I am ready to start over. I want to celebrate my 30th birthday in three years with a new me. I want to go to sleep happy and wake up energetic. I want to be the person who I feel that I am. I had a soda last night (those tiny coke cans, which are new to me). The last time I had a soda was about two weeks ago, and before that probably another couple of weeks. I've been able to replace that with mostly water or tea, with the occasional coffee here and there (loaded with sugar, of course). I need to eat more veggies and meat - I need to cook at home!! I need to get off my bum and to the grocery store. I miss you guys.

Thanks for your response, I appreciate the time. I think my primary goal is to be healthy. I want to be active and lose weight, so I am working on currently changing my diet. I am focusing this month on changing my diet (so far, I've had no soda or fast food this month!) and am slowly starting to cut out sugars and diary. I've been really bad, eating bread like nobody's business, so that's another important goal. I've already decided that my October challenge is going to be no candy (take that Halloween!) and to start working out consistently. I think what I need the most help in is food planning. I'm terrible with making breakfast (because I wake up at the last possible moment to get to work) and once I'm at work, I have to get food somehow. I get home, and I don't want to prepare anything.

Hello everyone! Some of you may or may not remember me, I was really active at some point, then kind of disappeared. I'll try not make this into a rant post, but I went on the hiatus as my boyfriend and I separated, and he was a rock for me in helping me get healthy that suddenly shattered. I had to move out, get my life together, and figure things out. In the process, things spiraled out of control and I gained all the weight I had lost while being committed to a Paleo lifestyle and working out. This has made me unhappy and enough is enough! I am back and ready to kick myself in the butt and get myself in to shape. Now that I am on my own, things have been quite lonely, and I think if I don't reach out, and get help, It'll get worse. So here I am, tears in my eyes, accepting how unhealthy I have been and asking for support. I know I can do this, I just need to find the strength that I once had thanks to you guys. May the force be with me! I can do this now

This was supposed to be the year. The year of me! The year that I get into shape, get healthy, loose those pounds.. and now it's the middle of the year and I've barely moved. I started with passion, I did good, then life happened and down the drain I went with it. I was actively and sticking 100% to Paleo diet. I was working out, pushing myself hard, feeling good! Basically my boyfriend and I started this journey together, however when we broke up (and i was kicked out of the house) it just went to the crapper! I now live alone, and am trying to get back into eating healthy and working out, but the will power is so low right now because I feel so alone. I know, this is depressing.. but I wanted to know if I can get some help.. someone to talk to, someone to push me.. someone to make me feel like I can do it again. Hey, I worked out this morning at least, but then I had toast! I also bought a soda.. grr! Sorry for being all over the place. I'm just trying to put my thoughts out there.. I can make sense of it later =/

I just got back from vacation, and apparently there was an issue while I was out in regards to our forms. Someone printed a form with the wrong font and all hell broke loose. I was told that a PDF can loose its fonts on different computers, but I thought the idea of a PDF was that the file stayed the same, regardless of where it was opened. I later found out the form that was printed from a Word document, which makes sense why the font got screwed up, but regardless my co-worker kept telling me that PDFs have the same issue. I have tried to find an issue of this happening to other people and I can't, so I was hoping someone here had an answer for me.

What are good stretches to do afterwards?

I started to include lunges in my morning routine, but I find that my legs are incredibly sore (after just 10!) and that it's very hard for me to even walk for a couple of days. I was wondering if there was another workout I could do to help my legs get stronger, as I feel that the lunges are just a bit too much for me right now. I am doing squats, so I would like to do something else for my legs, if anyone has any suggestions

The last time I set foot in the gym, I was overhearing what I can only assume to be a personal trainer tell a girl to do "50" of some leg machine (it was like a curling thing for legs? I have no idea). When she was done he was like "OK 50 MORE!" I was just shaking my head - he was going to kill her!

I only have one to suggest, since a lot of the ones I like have already been suggested: Foster the People - I listen to "Foster the People" station on Pandora, and have found a lot of their songs to have a good beat to them. And what better than a song telling you not to stop!?

I'm very tempted to try this, but I'm also not sure. I do like hot sauce (I am fond of a Mexican one called Valentina) so I really want some Sriracha, but I don't want to buy a whole bottle if I don't like it. I did find a recipe at one point for Sriracha pops, which I wouldn't mind making lol