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Dancing

July 16th, 2011

Just came back from a party. Went there a bit late as we had to shop and pour petrol – don’t want to end up stranded on the highway and had to call the emergency roadside assistance now do we? :) . But we reached the place in good time. So all is well.

I don’t remember when I last dance in a crowd. At home I do dance, but not in a crowd. That was a long, long time ago. Dancing in the garden with friends in a warm Summer evening. Just sweating along and having fun. Wish can do it more often. :)

Lifestyle, Personal ,

Group hiking.

July 16th, 2011

I am rather excited about the next group hike. Although it is just in the planning stages, but sure am looking forward to it. The last time we went we got lost in the forest for about 2 hours. I had a tom tom gps on my ipod, and someone else is using an ovi gps on Nokia, yet we could not find our way out. Those things are for driving so what do you expect? :)

I think that day we ended up walking for 9-10 hours straight. A few hours tracking (before we got lost), a couple of more hours lost in the forest, then a few more hours walking by the country road side cause we couldn’t catch the bus.  Despite how messed up it turned out, we would do it again if we can.

Perhaps the next one would be towards the end of August or early September when the weather would not be too hot nor too cold.

Personal

Foot detox patch.

July 15th, 2011

I found a plastic bag full of foot detox patches that we got for my mother in law. She didn’t want to use them, said she isn’t this sort of things. So I took the opportunity to try them out. Might goes well with the health supplements I’m taking.

Although detoxification process has been around for a long time but only recently that it has become popular in so many treatments. Usually it would be the first initial stage to begin with before other further treatments are used on patients. Detoxification is a process to clear away impurities in the body so that treatment will be able to absorbed better, hence a higher chance of healing. That’s why we see more and more rehab centers with detox programmes be it hydrocodone vicodin addiction detox, or any other opiate addiction detoxification.

I did try foot patch detox before for a few weeks, though not too sure about how it well it works. Though I saw that the foot patches ended up being still dry even after the whole night.  Now that I’m taking supplements, perhaps I would be able to see it’s workability easier now.

Therapy, Treatments ,

Zumba dancing again.

July 15th, 2011

Goodness, I think it has been ages since I last did the zumba exercises. Now that I’m at home for the holidays again, I took out my exercise dvds that I haven’t used for some time.

I have to admit that I kind of got rusty a little bit. Doing zumba and being aware of the danger of scratching my laminated floor with my shoes can be a little distrating. My floor ain’t laminated pergo flooring but just the cheap laminated flooring that’s easily scratched. For today, I only did about 20 minutes of zumba. Will add more minutes to my zumba dancing routine after I get the carpet back on the floor.

Personal, Workout ,

Rewarding weightloss with chocolate?

July 15th, 2011

My body weight can go up and down like a yo-yo. Not extreme changes so I suppose I have nothing to worry about. Although I am not lucky enough to be one of those people who can eat what ever they want and yet be slim, I am still lucky that all I needed to do is just eat less and I can see the difference quick enough.

I saw that I loss the weight that I gained the past few months, albeit not all, and I’m pretty happy about it. They say that, one way to motivate yourself to losing weight, is to reward yourself with the little things that you enjoy in life. Buy your self a new pair of earrings everytime you lose a pound perhaps. Or go for a relaxing massage for every 5 pounds you lose.

For me, I love chocolates. Yes, some can be very high in calories, but since I eat less chocolates when I am trying to lose weight, I suppose using the Coupons at Sharis Berries and get myself half a dozen of Shari’s berries berries dipped in chocolate would do not harm for a reward. Well, according to ‘Chocolate Can Help You — Lose Weight!‘ article that is.  It is all about knowing how much you eat and eating sweet things sometimes can help curb the cravings.

Weight loss

Step aerobics.

July 9th, 2011

Aerobics has been around for as long as I could remember. Even my mom used to do aerobics back in her younger days. I’m not quite a fan, but I’d give it a try. Especially the steps aerobics which said to tone the legs. Just wonder whether I can use the metal step stools that I have in the kitchen for the step aerobics. :)

Weight loss, Workout ,

Weak ankles.

July 7th, 2011

I have to admit that ever since I became a SAHM, I didn’t walk as much as I did when I was still a student or working later on. So after 5 years of being at home and then started working in a job that requires a lot of standing up and walking about – keeping an eye on 15-20 kids a day, running after them or go up and down stairs running errands – I find that my feet are constantly hurting nearly everyday. A colleague mentioned about weak ankles and said that it may be the cause of my pain and suggested that I use ankle braces for basketball or martial arts to keep the ankles stable and see how it would be.

Well, I didn’t believe her at first. Because I didn’t think I have weak ankles. I tried using my husbands ankle braces and see. So far so good. It feels comfortable actually to be wearing them when I do plenty of walking. Perhaps I do have weak ankles after all.

Health gadgets, Personal ,