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I have been on bed rest for a few days, not ideal for fitness training or slimming.

A dog injured me last Saturday.  The dog did not actually touch me, it was the comedy of events that occurred, a real slapstick comedy situation if it had been filmed it might have won a funniest home video competition. I told the story of the dog attack in my doggies blog  

When this happened I was horrified, I was so pleased with how my gym program is going and I know how important to my weight management an active lifestyle is, I honestly did not know how I could come into my fitness blog and say, I was 'doing the sofa, feet up all day, activities'. I was disappointed and annoyed that this had happened.  I count my blessings, as it could have been a lot worse.

I did work out that I can do crunches and toe taps and my upper body, weight work out, from the couch, so there is no reason why I cannot have a good upper body work out.

I also was conscious that I must not comfort eat.  I have kept my mind very busy with developing some new web sites that I can use in the future. I have wanted to write some of the short stories from my travels, so I created my   Campfire-yarns site and will begin writing short stories in there during this recovery period. 

I began several other blogs, about subjects that interest me aside from this one about fitness and slimming. I have one, “words and works”,  where I record beautiful and inspiring quotes I find, some of which I will use on the fridge magnets I create from images of my artwork. I am still working in this blog/website, adding individual shopping carts to all the magnets and beginning to let people know it is ready for viewing even if not fully developed and I am doing some training in how to write a better blog.  So I am keeping my brain fit, lol, J, trying to relax and enjoy the enforced rest and stay focused on not overeating.  I am surprised at how hungry I have been doing sofa duties.  real stomach hunger before my meals, not just emotional hunger.  My gym instructor was talking to me about how the brain burns a lot of calories, lol, so, see, J, I am exercising.

This week is a good test for me. It is one thing to manage my weight while I am able to be active.  This week gives me a chance to learn how to eat for a sedentary person and work out what exercises can be done from a seated, legs up or laying down position.  I know I can keep up my upper body and core muscle exercises. 

I have had two full day and evenings of resting my legs, my good leg is fine now, it’s just the one with an old injury I still need time to heal. All will be goodJ, and I will let you know how things go.