Meditation huh?

The first couple of mornings, I popped up and got water in the bottle to start drinking and shut my bedroom door so FitzGerald couldn't come in. I sat on the floor at the foot of the bed and started to meditate and realized the dehumidifier on was a distraction so I got up, shut it off and started over. Then I did some yoga for 12 minutes.

This morning things didn't work out that way and I just barely had Fitz fed and Gary's lunch made before it was time to play cribbage then he went to work. It was 2:30 before I attempted to meditate and I had company! The person in the video has a dog, but her dog is laying down a good distance away. FitzGerald climbed into my lap and he's not a small dog (Rottweiler). I think laughing during meditation is frowned upon. Pretty much the whole time he was either sitting on me, licking my arm or sticking his cold nose under my arm.

Then there was 'yoga'. I started by stretching and bending and my friend came over with his entire body to see what I was doing right in front of me so there was no room to bend over. As I started twisting and bending he got a bit excited and began to hop around back and forth in my space. I gave up. I will do yoga later. There's one video on youtube labeled bedtime yoga.

I started the Pruvit 10 day challenge with nutritional ketones today. They don't taste wonderful but I will survive. I don't think I'm supposed to eat breakfast because the directions don't say anything about eating breakfast but after morning (charged means with caffeine) ketones it says to have a low carb lunch followed by uncharged ketones and low carb dinner IF you're hungry. They don't tell you any of this before you buy. I can imagine lots of people lose weight not having breakfast or dinner every day for 10 days.

There was nothing in the advertising about money-back guarantee.

New Motivation

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The day after my birthday, I found new motivation--which is perfect timing. Every year, around my birthday I make my yearly checkup appt at the doctor's office, get a mammogram, just basically take stock. And to be honest I have piles of stuff I haven't been facing. There was a pile of clothes in front of my dresser that won't fit in the drawers, some of which are too big to wear anymore...and it's been sitting there about a year. I know-embarrassing. But after I downloaded the app and started the 'work' I realized how easy it is to set a timer on Alexa for 20 minutes and just pick up that one little mess and it's GONE. Half of that pile is clothes to be donated. The other half had to go to the laundry because everything was covered in Dust.

With my new app, I had the chance to set some goals, not too many. Starting with 'Breathe' and Drink Water first thing in the morning, which I'm already doing. I put my full water bottle on the nightstand before bed every night. Next is Clean Up the House for 10 minutes, but I set my timer for 20 minutes. Followed by 'Exercise' 8 minutes, Drink Tea, Go for a short walk 5 minutes but that's silly because how would I get in 10,000 steps walking for 5 minutes!? Last is read for 30 minutes.

I haven't been exercising lately. My Michael Thurmond DVD takes 15 minutes and I'm going to make every effort to do that before we have company today.

My walk is going to be a bit longer than 5 minutes. Garhett said he'd go with me to take the long way to Target with FitzGerald. Last night Fitz and I went downtown and I didn't quite make my steps but I did have over 8,000 steps yesterday. Day before that I had 10,681 and the last time I hit 10,000 fitbit wasn't synced so I didn't get the credit. I've had 2 bottles of water so far and it's already after 11am so I'd better get busy!