Tag: stamina

Daily Food Diary – Day 268 of 365

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness

Today is Day 268 of my Daily Food Diary! 💗

This year is going by so fast.  I can’t believe October is almost here. 😮   I am not sure what I will be doing as a focus for October, but I am thinking something along the lines of seasonal food trends.  With fall comes soups, stews, Thanksgiving, Halloween… I could work with that.

I did some more baking for Jen & family yesterday.  I have a blueberry cheesecake in the fridge, a chocolate and amaretto one to make today, and a roaster of smoked beans that I promised Maddy & Prim tomorrow.

It has been almost three months since I started taking collagen supplements.  Yesterday, I realized another shift that has occurred over the past few days… I have virtually no urge for between meal or evening snacks. 

I haven’t been snacking that much since I started my Food Diary, but I have still felt really hungry and weak at times ( A lot of times 😁).   That just ‘ran out of steam’ feeling.  I don’t get that anymore.  My stamina is improving with my strength.  ☺️

Last night, after cooking all afternoon, cleaning up, making supper, cleaning up AGAIN, I went into the spare room at nine thirty and did 30 minutes on the treadmill. It is getting marginally easier every time, but still I was proud of myself that I got it done last night. 🤩

Fall is here with a vengeance today.  It is cold and windy.  We are shaking things up a bit this morning.  Dan is gone for a haircut and a bit of shopping while I do my blog and my aerobics.  We will walk Molly once it (hopefully) warms up a bit.

Daily Food Diary – Day 268

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(1) 2 egg and ham breakfast wrap (495)

Snacks:

(1/2) c no added salt chicken broth (5)

(48) oz water

Supper:

(4) oz baked pork chop w/mushroom sauce (220)

(1)  c white rice (242)

(2) tbsp soya sauce (30)

(1) c broccoli (56)

(1) tsp butter (68)

(1) side salad (187)

(1) PC blueberry cheesecake (190)

Total consumed calories: 1454

Total used calories: 731

(30) min walking (53)

(30)  min aerobics (176)

(4) hrs food prep/cooking/clean up (444)

(30) min treadmill (59)

Total net calories: 723

Net calories goal: 1229 – 723 = 507 under 👍

That’s it for today.  Take care and have a great day! ☺️💖

May 14th – Progress Update

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2024, Health and Fitness

I have written a number of health and fitness update blogs.   This time, I had to go for a “Progress Update”  because it has pretty much been all progress so far  this year.

My strength is improving daily.   I have been working out with five and  eight pound dumbbells three times a week and that is paying off in spades.  Two years ago,  I was facing spring  wondering where I would get the strength to clear up our yard and plant our garden.   This year, I am working up planters, hauling seedlings up and down stairs to the kid’s playhouse (that I am using as a greenhouse), and lifting heavy bags and pails of dirt and sand.  I don’t know if I have ever been stronger.  I am sure that doing yardwork has never been easier.

Here’s hoping our garden will be as good as usual.

My stamina and energy are amazing. . I have been doing aerobic workouts  consistently six mornings a week.  I can go a solid sixteen hours a day.  One day last week, I went so hard and steady that I forgot to have lunch or do any snacking.  I have NEVER forgotten to eat – EVER.  Plus, that was a day when I was scheduled to do weights before supper!  I nailed them.  😊

And I crushed a tray of nachos for supper.  I did share with Dan, but I put away more than my share.

Other than that, I have been able to get out and about in the fresh air.  I have even been back to the dogpark with Dan and Molly.    I have EVEN been walking Molly with a regular collar – no harness or training collar.  I can’t wait to get out and do some hiking with her this year.

Molly is ready to hit the trails!

Both Dan and I have been doing pretty well at fixing and eating healthy wholesome meals.   Since I had to quit eating anything containing yeast,  takeout meals are few and far between.   I make desserts  when the kids are over for a meal, but the leftovers leave with them. 👍

Packing up the cookies to leave with the kids! 👋

My health has been holding up great so far.  I still do a fair amount of coughing, but certainly nothing like the relentless coughing fits I had all of last year.   It will take a while with my bronchiectasis.   I started taking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar every morning with my beet juice and that seems to be thinning the mucus and helping a lot to clear it away.   If the wind can keep blowing the smoke from northern forest fires away from us this year, I could experience some true healing!   I doubt that I will ever be off of my inhalers for asthma and COPD, but hopefully I will NEVER AGAIN  need the antibiotics and oral steroids that I was on too many times last year.

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Sean Patrick Flanery

That has been my motto for the past couple of years.   Speaking from experience, it is worth it.

Take care and have a great rest of your day! 🌞💕