Monday Monday

 

I have been reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.  I am striving to quiet my mind and live in the moment.  As I sit here with a quiet mind (not) many things come to mind.  I was thinking about all the toy recalls, seems that life was so much simpler when I was growing up and even when my children were younger.

Remember the days when the best toy was a wooden spoon (no lead paint there!) and a pot.  Yes, it was noisy but that baby sure had fun (and stayed put playing for quite a while). 

Then my quiet mind 🙂 wandered to children with attention disorders.  Are we just more aware of this problem because there is more media coverage or is this an escalating problem.  Does it have anything to do with cartoons, the speed of the action content or video games.  Have our children lost the ability to sit still and follow a slower moving story?

Those are some of my questions for today.  Now I shall read a bit more of a New Earth and try to put into practice what I read.  It is definitely not as easy as I thought it would be.  I am also at the point after reading about half of the book that I am not sure of who I am anymore…….and they say this book will make me more at peace and show me the way to personal happiness….I will continue reading.

Out of the cold and into the spin room

 Today is so cold it would freeze the whiskers off a cat! The weatherman said it is  -24 fahrenheit….. freezing.

I am now on a path to bettering myself…vision board? …in place, Oprah’s new book selection?..A New Earth…being read (slowly, but progressively being read,  gym?  back on track!  I get up at 5:30 (that’s a.m.), quietly get into my gym clothes and am out the door by 6:00.  I head to the gym for a 6:15 spin class. 

My new regime is to try to burn 1000 calories a workout, 4 times a week.  I am also trying not to offset my workout with eating too much…. 1200 calories a day should be enough without starving? 

So I spin for 45 minutes….. 400 calories right there.  I run upstairs from the spin room to the “big gym” hop on a cross training eliptical machine (I love that machine), do more cardio for 50 minutes ( thought I would die!!!) and burn 600 calories!  I hit 1000 calories for the very first time.

Seems this goal of hitting 1000 really set my fitness routine on fire. Now the only problem I have is scheduling into all that cardio time some weight training.   If  anyone has any suggestions I am all ears.