Our son just joined a gym day before yesterday. He gets up at o-dark-thirty and gets to the gym as it opens. He then runs on the treadmill for 30 minutes, comes back home, showers, and then gets ready to come down to my air bnb to share some breakfast and some plans for the day.
I am going to try going to the gym with him (yes! at o-dark-thirty) after I move into the new condo and get it reasonably settled. I’m going to create a new life for myself outside of the visits to my husband, in the hope that this will be good for all of us in the future.
I want to get healthier. I will TRY to walk for the 30 minutes he runs, or as much as I can manage. I will TRY for every morning, though I may cut it back to every other day, or three times a week.
I’ll plan my new activities around our visits to the nursing home. When we first decided to come to Chiang Mai, Thailand to live in the same building as our son, I thought fondly of several things I would like to do –
- exercise and lose the rest of my lard
- eat healthy low carb food
- start trying to draw
- renew my love for playing a guitar and singing (very quietly! ☺️)
- take conversational Thai lessons (speaking, reading and writing)
- have regular massages/manicures/pedicures
- figure what in the world to do with my hair 😜
- see if I can find a women’s group that creates art
- communicate with a American Ex-Pat group my SIL found for me
- learn to cook using my new cookware (egg cooker, vous vide, air fryer)
- Learn to use Grab (going places and ordering food delivered)
- Getting to know Brian’s adopted family in the building (they have already adopted us as grandparents to their two children. 😁
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Very interested post. Good Idea for your activity changes. I hope you are doing very well. Every morning walking 25 minutes. Good your plan & list. I support you 💪. Good health & wealth 😄🤑. God bless you. Advance best of luck 🤞.
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Thanks, Raj. This will all start after I move to the new condo – in another week, I hope. I can’t think about anything else until we figure out the best place for Harvey and get him moved and see for ourselves that he is adapting okay. THEN I will start the gym, resume my yoga practice, and add things from there.
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Welcome, Linda. Good your thinks yoga practice . Going gym.
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I would like to get and stay as healthy as I can. I’m already eating a fairly strict low carb diet – two meals each day. I’m hoping if I start doing regular exercise once I move to the new condo, it will work with the sensible eating and help me lose the rest of the lard I have.
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Thanks,Linda 🙏
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I always Walk early morning. Regular doing exercise.
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Good for you, Raj. A very good habit. 😁
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Thanks!
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I love your plan and continued efforts to “lose the lard,” Linda. This was one of the reasons you inspire me! I also am on that same journey. I just started a new daily practice of 10 minutes of exercise! I watched a video of a personal trainer and he advised four exercises to do first thing every morning. So, I added that to the other exercises I do. All I can say now is that I am waking up hungry! Ha! So I know it is doing something! I don’t eat breakfast until 11am. I stop eating by 6pm daily. I keep moving. I think it’s helping. My husband and I have started walking around the block now that it is warmer weather here.
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This sounds like a great plan, Sheila. Good for both of you!😁. Let me know how it goes. I’m already eating the low carb, sensible diet. We eat breakfast and then dinner. I’m hoping that that, with the added exercise once I move, will work together to help me. We’ll compare notes, but you’re starting without me! I wish you the best of luck with your efforts.
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Wow! I got behind on my blog reading and missed this until now! You’ve got a great list of things to work on! How fun to take Thai lessons! I love foreign languages! Plus I should take your example and do things to get in shape!😀
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I can only talk to you re an example WHEN I get in shape! I’m only on day 3…
I am working on saying 2 things in Thai…
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Hey it’s a start! 😀🤣
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True, and my new mantra is, “One day at a time.” 🤗
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