What's the frequency LEFTY?

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Hey I started to re-read your book. As I segue into winter, it's time to double up on my health efforts. Work on my breathing again. Back to yoga when my shoulder fully heals (Jan?)

How's it going with you, your diet and are you working on your new book?

Here's where I am at.....watching the belly fat. I'm thin. But any excess weight goes to my belly, quickly. 170 is my target weight. I tend to be between 174-178. After a Thanksgiving trip to Nashville, TN I ballooned to 182. (alcohol, not food) I've worked it back down to between 176-178.

My diet is not meatless. I cut out out 80% of it though. It's truly unnecessary.

So anyway.....What's Up?

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Dman Frank. Makes for long days.

Not much. I have balance issues, and they say because of the 2 open heart surgeries, the pacemaker has a 1/16" patch it can work in. Nearly any jolt can dislodge it and kill me. The pacemaker was an emergency procedure about 2 weeks after the OH surgery. One heart chamber just died and the PM is working/running 99% of the time keeping it going. I just give advice here and there around here and in a few FB forums online. Can't get any pay from it, but we're coping. There has been some fantastic help from a few that has gotten us far. I may be able to help a friend bend a few panels and specialty pieces on his job site, but doubt I'll be doing any climbing, or much actual work. I'm tired all the time that doesn't help. Depression or heart issue? Don't 'feel' depressed, but sure miss roofing. I did help my son with a water pump install in his LeMans though. Doubt that qualifies me as a mechanic though.

tinner666 Said: Lack of meaningful activity is slowly killing me. Heart isnt doing as well as I would like and keeps limiting my ability to be real active.

What are the doctors offering you for options Frank? What are you capable of? What would you like to be doing? (besides slate repairs---keep it in context!)

Lack of meaningful activity is slowly killing me. Heart isn't doing as well as I would like and keeps limiting my ability to be real active.

Sometimes I stretch in public. Not a long exercise, but if I am standing around wasting time, I take advantage of it. Just bend over and touch my toes for half a minute.

twill59 Said: Yes, beneficial. Its not a challenge, although I do prefer the morning, before I eat anything.

That is the goal I am aiming for. If I can get to that routine, I can build from there. The mental blocks are the real struggle. It took all this time to get to exercise/yoga twice a week for 2 weeks. I do not have a set time. I know if I could set a time that would make it easier. Knowing is fruitless. It takes action. Knowing just makes it painful.

On we go. LOL

Yes, beneficial. It's not a challenge, although I do prefer the morning, before I eat anything.

The reason we shrink with age is our systems are acidic. This is unhealthy. Just like with heartburn, antacids use calcium to neutralize the acid. Our body's pull calcium from our bones to balance the acid in our body's. You remove calcium from the bones and you shrink.

twill59 Said: Stretching can be as little as 2 minutes in the morning. Thats the only commitment I have. Anything more is a plus.

That 2 minutes is truly a big deal

Do you mean that the 2 minutes is really beneficial or that it is a real challenge to do it?

Stretching can be as little as 2 minutes in the morning. That's the only "commitment" I have. Anything more is a plus.

That 2 minutes is truly a big deal

I'm 6' 2" and about 190lbs. I was steady around 181 when working on the crew. Almost two years ago I decided that I need to get off the crew and move on to making the business better, and just spend time training when I can. That part has went well, but my time in the truck has left me feeling unhealthy, weaker, and sluggish more often. I've been telling myself to change now, because in five years I might be a balloon. Luckily I'm high paced doing almost everything.

My ongoing joke with my wife whom I met in 2008, is "I need to start stretching" I've said it many times, she jokes about me saying it. I need to do it. I've done it for a whole two weeks at a time and loved it. But no commitment.

I'm ready to lay off the sugar and start stretching, just need a slight push to jump the cliff and get serious. Then my wife made puppy chow(aka muddy buddies) last night and I had to eat about a pound of them.

I started last January until March when I got busy with work again. But I still did the stretches in the morning.

Hurt my shoulder in July, that limited me a lot. I was in agony most of this season. But I was able to keep doing simple stretches anyway. Nothing with my right arm elevated. I could not put weight on it.

Why did I start? 1st of all, I've been curious about it for years. I took a physical last January and the nurse measured my height @ 5' 11-1/2". "NO" said I, "I am 6' 1"

She explained about our backs compressing as we age and mentioned YOGA. So immediately after leaving I started looking for a place. Started going 1-2 X per week.

Yes, many people learn off videos. It's all good to me! We also worked on similar breathing techniques that are in your book.

Send an update whenever lefty

I have settled in at about 171-173. It fluctuates sometimes up to 177. I do not eat meat at all. When I am away from home or on vacation I will eat fish. Whatever the specialty of the area is. I also will eat a desserts.

Met a man face to face for the first time after 8 years of knowing him through his son. I had a question ready for him, since the meeting was planned.

The question was "how did you get yourself to start yoga"? Since exercise is my biggest struggle. I was surprised at his responses. He started yoga when he picked up a female hitchhiker back in 1976. I had thought it was for vitality reasons in the past 10 years. I did not have any information to come to my conclusions. I had never asked him or his son about this before.

He also told me that he owes the development of his 40 year old construction company to his yoga practice. He said that the decisions he has made were clearer and he trusted them more.

I left there and he said that we needed to meet again. He wanted to pick my brain, but I asked him a question that he is passionate about. He did most of the talking. I walked away with the commitment to myself that I am going to do it. I did what he told me. Just do 5 minutes and find a video on YouTube to follow. I know that I need to do whatever it is I commit to before I go to sleep or I increase the chances of failure. I found a video about 2 hours before I went to sleep. Started to watch the video it was 7:16 long. I caught myself and said get up and do it. The video had 5 minutes left. LOL I thought that I am pretty limber, that was a fantasy. LOL I followed as good as I could. Felt a difference as soon as I finished.

I could not sleep. It gave me that much energy. I just got done doing the second part of the beginer's video. This one was on the lower body. I am even tighter on the lower body. She was doing it easy for the beginer. I could not even do some of it. LOL I butchered the excercises she was teaching me. I will get better with practice. Just like everything else I do.