Jayniana Jones Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 It has been awhile since I've been on the forum. My life fell a part in 2017. I think my last post was June 2017 when I dropped off the forums to rehab my leg. The short summary of my adventure is I had two ACL surgeries and PTTD (posterior tibial tendon dysfunction - a fancy name for my foot rolling inward on the tendons). The advice I received for my foot was reconstruction surgery but having just gone through a second round of rehab I wanted to avoid more surgery. Two weeks before the foot surgery was supposed to take place, I made a last minute visit to a chiropractor who did things other chiropractors didn't. If my leg hadn't been atrophied from crutches, I think I could've walked out that day. Rehab on my leg took about 1 1/2 years. In February, I received the all clear to push myself physically with the exception of no direct pivots so tae kwon do is out for the moment (which is how I tore my ACL in the first place). Now I'm back and ready to get myself back into shape before I tore my ACL the first time six years ago. Here's my plan: Workout six days per week (a mixture of weights and interval training) This one include a free weight routine, walking daily, and on nice days fun, active things. Track what I eat for the entire challenge Despite my normal active stuff, I'm not losing weight and I have a feeling it's because I'm eating more than I'm burning. My biggest struggle is I hate tracking food. I grew up watching my mom and grandma constantly track food to lose pounds. It would work until they stopped. Their lives became so focused on what they could or couldn't eat and I'd get lectures on why I shouldn't eat what I did. My grandma in particular obsesses about food to the point that it is all she talks about besides her medications. There's a lot of negative association with it, but I think it might help me tweak things. I figure it's worth a try despite my hesitancy. Learn to kayak I bought a kayak because I can finally use one and I had the cash for one I found on craigslist. I figured out how to load it onto my car by myself. I took it on the lake on Friday with no problems other than I didn't paddle correctly. My shoulders were taking the brunt of the abuse because I didn't use my torso. Saturday I went to a different lake. The water was more choppy and the first thing I did was plunge into the water as I tried to get in. I'm in Wisconsin and the water was chilly. My husband reminded me there's a proper way to get into a kayak which I had forgotten about. My goal for the challenge is to kayak at least twice a week weather permitting and practice getting in and out of it like a pro. Finish my novel I've wanted to have a writing career for awhile and decided this is the year I'm going to do it. I have one novel published, one that is waiting for me to create a cover, and one that is waiting for me to finish. I planned to have my novel I'm working on finished by March 30 and I'm still working on it. This isn't a bad thing, except that I avoided the story for a few days and I think I let perfectionism get in the way. It's almost done and I think if I focus I can have it done my April 30. Then I can send it off to the editor. Once that's done I can make the cover for the one waiting, make the edits, and publish it. Write one short story a week I took on a challenge of writing one short story a week for 52 weeks in a row and send it off. Last Saturday I completed my first one. For this challenge, I'll have four more written. That's my focus for the challenge. I also plan to follow some of you. I loved the times when I got involved enough on the forum to encourage, cheer on, and see progress of others. Good luck to everyone on their adventures. 6 Quote Druid - Assassin - Adventurer Level 18 Challenges: [Current] [18} [17] [16] [15] [14] [13] [12] [11] [10] [9] [8] [7] [6] [5] [4] [3] [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Link to comment
squeakyvalkyrie Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Welcome back! Quote halfling rogue ⋆ level 4 my challenges: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ⋆ my character ⋆ my quest when it rains, look for rainbows; when it is dark, look for stars Link to comment
annyshay Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 What a saga! Welcome back. Quote Love as thou wilt. Link to comment
Sciread77 Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Welcome back! And in my case, nice to met you! Quote Adventurer, Half-Dwarf Chaotic-Good Paladin Ne me dites jamais les chances! ¡Nunca me digas las probabilidades! Character Sheet Training Logs Challenges Prepping for Adventure Prep, Adventure Prep Fall Baby, When Are We Again, Anyway?, Whirlwind, The Leaf's Locus, Harnessing Hamingja New Roots More Beginnings, More Roots Cleaning Up Facing The Hailstorm Yo Ho Yo The... Keto Life For Me? Taming the Beast Another Step Towards the Future Baking, Suburban Homesteading, and Health, The Adventurers of the Lucky Vale I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII VIII, IX Spoiler Perennial goals: Sleep 7+ hours a night, retain (and continue to learn) French and Spanish as a family, increase Spanish Proficiency for work and play, read like a maniac on my own and with my kids, carry heavy stuff Long term goals: Cut to 13-15% bodyfat, And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a baaaaarge! -> Someday I'll challenge a Disney world Gaston to a push up contest and win Link to comment
WolfDreamer Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Glad you're back @Jayniana Jones. Let me know if I can help in any way. Quote Who am I? -- My NF Character Current Challenge: WolfDreamer Returns (For Real This Time) Past Challenges: Spoiler Winter is Coming, Wolfen Strengthens His Heart, Body, Mind, and Spirit, Wolfen Becomes One of the People, Wolfen Strengthens His Chakras, Wolfen Welcomes Summer and Gets Primal, Soulcon and Spartan, Wolfen Develops Mental Toughness, Wolfen Joins the Wander Society, Soulcon, Spartan, School, and Stranger Things, Wolfen Becomes a Warrior Elite, Wolfen Goes Here and There and Back Again, Wolfen Becomes a Soulcon Warrior Elite, Wolfen Returns to His Roots, Wolfen Wanders in Soul, Spirit, and Body, Wolfen Owns the Day, Wolfen Searches for His Wild Heart, Wolfen Runs for His Life, Wolfen Hits the Trails, Wolfen Becomes an Explorer and Joins the Resistance, Wolfen Goes Back to the Source, Wolfen Begins the Hero's Journey, WolfDreamer Returns to the People, WolfDreamer Pushes Back, WolfDreamer Prioritizes, Burpees, Books, and Brainwork, Burpees, Books, Brainwork, and Bodywork, WolfDreamer Masters the Four Elements, WolfDreamer Continues to Master the Four Elements, WolfDreamer Returns to Sparta, WolfDreamer Returns to Middle Earth, WolfDreamer Continues His Middle Earth Adventure, WolfDreamer and the Fall, WolfDreamer Forges His Own Path, WolfDreamer Has Hope, WolfDreamer Returns to Middle Earth, WolfDreamer Reads Harder, Breathes Harder, and Journals More, WolfDreamer Embraces His Wild Poet, The Mad Poet Becomes Supernatural, WolfDreamer, The Mad Poet, Becomes Superhuman, WolfDreamer Elevates, WolfDreamer Becomes IronBorn, WolfDreamer Wakes the White Wolf, The Mad Poet Recovers by Keeping it Simple, WolfDreamer Clears His Mind to Find His Wild Heart, WolfDreamer Resets, WolfDreamer Strives to Become an Eminently Qualified Peaceful Warrior, WolfDreamer Springs Forward, “I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.” -- Jack London “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.” -- Leo Tolstoy "I feel love rising in my chest again Rising like a burning sun into the day..." -- Gungor, "Hurricane" "...wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." 2 Corinthians 3:17b Link to comment
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