Monthly Archives: August 2017

Health and Fitness For A Better You

It’s transpired all some time recently. We’ve buckled down at the most recent eating routine – the Mediterranean eating regimen, the smoothie slim down, the all protein consume less calories, the all-carb eat less, the treat eat less – losing 10 pounds, 15, even 20 pounds, just to pick up everything back a couple of months after the fact to say the very least. You’ve considered your wellbeing important. You’ve invested the energy and cash putting resources into every one of these eating regimens and weight reduction, fat consuming pills, which work for a brief span, yet you can’t keep the weight off and get the conditioned body that the big names have when they do the eating methodologies and take the pills. Why would that be? I’ll reveal to you why…

This is on the grounds that you take your “wellbeing” genuinely. You may be astounded at what you simply read. You may be supposing I thought I should consider my wellbeing important! What do you mean by that? Indeed, truly, you should be cognizant about your wellbeing and what goes into your body, however shouldn’t something be said about your wellness? Many individuals will preferably get on a starvation consume less calories than deal with the wellness part of the condition. Wellbeing and wellness resembles nutty spread and jam – they simply go together. Truly you can stop eating so much junk food to shed pounds, yet in the event that you never work out, and never place wellness in, you will never construct muscle and be conditioned. Keep in mind, having more muscle consumes more calories. What’s more, yes you can work out at the rec center each day or do cardio consistently, however in the event that you eat unpleasantly that won’t precisely work either.

Taking a shot at both your wellbeing and wellness is an entire commitment to your body and you’re prosperity. Will it profit you now, as well as having the best possible wellbeing and wellness design will enable you to fight off maladies and afflictions, for example, joint pain, osteoporosis, coronary illness, stoutness, elevated cholesterol and hypertension and give you a punch in your progression and additionally fearlessness. Concentrating on your wellbeing and wellness is not bouncing on some prevailing fashion eating regimen or taking an enchantment pill handy solution. It’s an existence arrange for that will enable you to carry on with a more extended, more beneficial, more full life.

Specialists have dependably said that the best eating regimen is the one you can stick to. Also, I concur. It’s not tied in with eating any one, particular nourishment to keep the pounds off. Wellbeing and wellness is tied in with adjusting your life. To get specialized, say you will probably get more fit. Well in fact, it doesn’t generally make a difference what you eat. For instance, you can eat burgers and still get in shape. Truly, I recently said that. The catch is you simply need to eat it with some restraint. A request of burger and fries from your most loved fast food joint however is viewed as greasy nourishment. So the issue there is that regardless of the possibility that you expend the more-than-1100 calories in a Big Mac combo and are fulfilled for the occasion, the truth of the matter is that these sustenances appear to influence you to need to eat more. Actually, an examination distributed in the Journal of Clinical Investigation demonstrated that these sustenances up your hunger for quite a long time in the wake of eating greasy, oily nourishments. That is the reason specialists say it’s smarter to eat balanced dinners to enhance your wellbeing and wellness. All things considered, the message is truly basic. Organizing both your wellbeing and your wellness is the best way to go. It is the guide for a more slender, more conditioned, fitter and more beneficial you.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Elemental…

For this week’s challenge, explore the classical elements of earth, air, water, and fire.

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Earth

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Air

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Water

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Fire

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In Case I Didn’t Mention it, The Last Few Months Have Been Hard

Yesterday I did something out of the ordinary. I took some time off.

I have a history of trying to work something productive into every moment of everyday. I am constantly cooking or tidying (not that you’d notice), writing, reading, knitting, etc. I don’t sit still very well. It’s part of the reason yoga is such an important part of my day. It’s the only time I try to decompress, and most days, I don’t do that very well.

Since Felix was born, and especially since we had Rufus, I haven’t been away from my kids (outside of work) for more than a couple of hours at a time. Mostly, I didn’t want to be. I like my kids, and I don’t like interrupting their routine, but since January, when I became a stay-at-home mom, I have been with my kids All. The. Time. And I needed a break. So did Brock.

Anniversary celebrations well under way. 4 years with @hashtagphysics. ????

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For our fourth anniversary, Brock and I made it happen. We left the kids at home with grandma went out. We drank our coffee hot, we ate too much Indian food, we saw a movie. Then, after all of that, instead of going home and putting the kids to bed, we went to a hotel for a little peace and quiet.

At our first movie since Rufus was born. We'll be seeing Wonder Woman.

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It might have been too quiet. We’re used to the hubbub of 2.5 boys and the near constant sounds of traffic and sirens and neighbors. And even though this hotel is probably less than two miles from our house, there was none of that. The suite was a cocoon of silence and privacy. I have had a baby living in my bedroom for the last three years, I don’t get a lot of privacy. I was so out of my element, I was unnerved enough to dig out my white noise app and think about turning on a thunderstorm just to have something to listen to–because apparently the music we had playing wasn’t enough for me.

Our home for the night has three rooms. And a hot tub. Because this is the first night we've ever spent away together. Ever.

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While the quiet was surreal, having an evening with my husband without a baby waking up in the middle of the movie and then again just as we’re going to bed was just as magically restorative as I wanted it to be.

Helping Felix make the transition to starting pre-school no longer feels so daunting, even though it means establishing a new daily routine for everyone, and dealing with some intense three year-old emotions. And there are other things I have been putting off (writing synopses, querying agents, finishing drafts, etc.) that don’t seem so scary today as they did yesterday, even though yesterday they felt a helluva lot more doable than they did six months ago.

I want to hang onto this feeling. I want to capture this sense of renewal and invigoration and seal it into capsule somewhere inside me where I can open it up whenever I feel bogged down by endless to-do lists, or when the baby wakes up an hour after I finally got to sleep, or when I have to be an extrovert at my service industry job and all I want to do is sit in a corner and read a book.

I know I can’t. But I can be better about taking care of myself. When I feel peaceful, it’s better for my family, it’s better for my writing.

Even though Felix’s school doesn’t start for two more weeks, tomorrow morning we’re all getting up early so we can practice getting out of the house by 8. That means my alarm goes off at 5:45. Despite opening the coffee shop for years, I am still not good at getting up in the morning. But I am getting up this early so I have time to do yoga. Because if I take care of myself first, maybe I can maintain a little bit of this energy.

Health and Fitness Training: The Ultimate Beauty Secret

In the present current world, magnificence means a considerable measure. With the prettiest countenances to spellbind the overall population, from magazines to TVs to sites, each young lady needs to know a certain something. What does it take to wind up noticeably the following “IT” young lady? What’s a definitive delight mystery?

Carrying on with the life of the rich and acclaimed is very simple in the event that you elegance the fronts of the excellence magazines. All it takes for a young lady to live in the fab path is to just be lovely. A definitive mystery to accomplishing magnificence is wellbeing and wellness preparing.

Being solid and fit is your ticket to progress. Be that as it may, it comes with a cost! It takes diligent work and persistence to accomplish it. It doesn’t occur without any forethought, in this way, you need to prepare yourself. How about we begin!

Tip # 1 Pump your Heart

The heart assumes a key part in your body. It pumps the blood which conveys oxygen and supplements required by your body. In this way, your heart dependably should be fit as a fiddle. To accomplish that, ensure you pump your heart. There are many activities which encourage cardiovascular molding. The most fundamental of all activities is strolling or running. In case you’re simply beginning, it’s best to begin your activity by strolling no less than 30 minutes for every day. You can plan your strolls at the season of your accommodation. You can do it at your subdivision, at the recreation center, or anyplace else you need to. Do the strolling administration for around a month and after that progress to running. You can begin running little separations at that point run longer ones as you come. Once you’ve made this a standard, you’ll unquestionably run your way to a superior heart!

Tip # 2 Strength is Beauty

Quality or resistance molding is dependably a critical piece of preparing. You need to practice your muscles so as to keep your body conditioned. Additionally, it stimulates you. Most ladies may fear building up in any case, you’ll just beef up on the off chance that you enable yourself to be! The preparation is intended to take care of free muscles. It additionally diminishes hazard for damage and by being physically conditioned, you’ll be more sure!

Tip # 3 Food to Feed your Soul

Eating regimen is essential in Health and Fitness Training. It’s awful to practice when you’re not eating right. You may lose certain calories by consuming them out, in any case, what’s simply the utilization in the event that you discover eating excessively fat the following moment?! Consequently, keep an eye out after your nourishment admission and ensure you practice good eating habits. Pick natural products over desserts. Additionally, supplant carbs with high fiber-unhealthy eating routine. Rather than eating a smooth of cake, why not eat an entire wheat bread?! It would in any case be a heavenly goodness yet a more beneficial one!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Textures…

This week, focus on the tactile element of the objects you shoot, whether it’s one distinct quality — softness, smoothness, graininess, or any other texture you find interesting — or a combination of several within one frame.

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My daughter’s straw hat with roving in it which she then spun and turned into beautiful yarn.

 

 

From freshly shorn from the sheep, to roving, to spinning, to yarn.

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Stitching The Vineyard…

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This is my wall of Vineyard counted cross stitch projects. The Vineyard map in the upper left hand corner was the first one in 1993. Tisbury in the bottom middle was the last one in 2011. There were other non-MV projects done in between the Vineyard ones and I also did eight more of the Vineyard maps during that time too.

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These are not the only Vineyard counted cross stitches I’ve done though. The one closest to my heart is the Tabernacle designed especially for me by my daughter Deb. (please excuse the glare).

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The Tabernacle is my favorite place on the Vineyard for many reasons and so this picture means more to me than I can ever put into words.

This is my counted cross stitch masterpiece. My daughter Deb took a photograph of the Tabernacle… blew it up to an 8×10 and charted it by hand on graph paper. There might have been computer programs for that but this was the early 1990’s and she didn’t have one and I’m not sure we even had a computer!. She also bought the material and my daughter Patty bought the threads and that was my Christmas gift that year. All I had to do was sew it. People always ask how long it takes to do projects so I kept track. Over the course of 3 months I sewed a total of 138 hours… every inch of the picture is counted cross stitches… even all the blue sky… and there seemed like endless amounts of that. After it was finished we took it, along with the original 5×7 photograph and had it framed. For a couple of years I just wasn’t happy with the frame though so when I had my other MV counted cross stitches framed I gave this picture a new one. I also added a little plaque at the bottom that says The Tabernacle, Oak Bluffs – Martha’s Vineyard.

But I had said I couldn’t do it… ever… I would never be able to do counted cross stitch. Too hard. Too boring. I had too many excuses. Then my daughter Deb saw the counted cross stitch of the map of Martha’s Vineyard and the rest is history. We figured if I was ever to do counted cross stitching surely something Vineyard related would get me started. She even said that if I hated doing it she’d finish the map for me. Sounded like a good deal and so I began. One X after another… counting, counting every single stitch… but then it started looking like MV and I was pretty impressed and proud of myself.

We even got written up in the Vineyard Gazette… June 21, 1996

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Pattern Release: In Love with the Night Mysterious Shawl

I’m so excited to release In Love with the Night Mysterious! This lovely laceweight shawl, worked as a triangular wedge / vortex, incorporates an Aran lace and geometric side edging, with a textured body. The versatile shape can be worn a variety of ways. The Hat Box yarn, one of my favorites from Mrs Crosby, makes it sumptuous and decadent. I love the moody, dark richness of the Squid Ink colorway (but you can see examples of different colorways, all lovely, from my test knitters!).

Both charts and line by line instructions provided.

One Size (Easy to alter size)

Finished Measurements
Height (from cast on to last row, along edging): 49” / 125 cm
Top Edge: 24” / 61 cm

Yarn
Mrs Crosby Hat Box, 75% superwash merino / 15% silk / 10% cashmere (317 yds / 290m per 3.53oz / 100g), 2 skeins of Squid Ink. As shown shawl used approx 613 yds / 561 m.

Needles
US5 / 3.75mm needles or size to obtain gauge

Gauge
20.5 sts and 28 rows over 4 in / 10cm in Wildflower Repeat

Gauge is important. Alterations in gauge will affect yarn requirements and finished size.

Notions
yarn needle
cable needle
2 stitch markers

Skills
lace knitting
cabling, to include novel decrease cable stitches
twisted stitches both RS and WS
both charts and line by line instructions provided