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I worked out very hard for an hour at the gym, yesterday, I used the treadmill for intervals of brusque walking and jogging for 20 minutes before and after a weight resistance workout on the machines, then mat, bench and balance ball workouts followed by a good stretching routine at the end. I pushed myself to the limit, I would have worked my muscles as hard as I had during the Extreme Measures, trainer directed work outs I did last Thursday and Friday but without the exhaustion where I could not perform at my best. I preferred working out on my own, self-paced, allowing myself to take breaks when I needed them, rather than trying to keep up with a 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 and again being yelled, by the trainer.  As a brief experience, I benefited by attending Extreme measures, as an eight-week course, it is too much for someone without an athletic background at my age.  I will use all I have learned and make sure my training sessions are harder and broader in variety and I build on the aspects of the Extreme Measures program that worked for me.

I have learned a lot from the Extreme Measures participation. I have learned that I can do more than I thought possible, in my training, but I have learned that I prefer to be self motivated and I can push myself and I prefer to maintain my own independence of judgment of what I can do and what am not yet ready to do. Maybe it is time for me to accept, I am not a good candidate for a group class. I can and do best as my own fitness trainer. I felt a lightening of weight off my shoulders knowing I am gaining enough knowledge of a wide variety of fitness training to be able to plan challenging work out programs to increase my fitness, myself, even for when I will be traveling and not have the convenience of a gym. I also feel  the mild burn of warm, well worked, shoulder and upper back muscles, lol J telling me I had a great increase in my fitness level, workout J.

I came home in time to catch the news on TV; they were talking about a new diet, whereby you swallow this $250. Capsule and go on a ridiculously low 500-calorie diet  

phentomine reviews. Phentermine is an amphetamine grade weight loss pill.

Do you know I used to take these, amphetamine grade weight loss pills, back when they sold over the counter without a prescription, when I was in my twenties and early thirties? Most women used these three a day diet pills to suppress appetite, and speed metabolism back then. Taking amphetamines in the seventies was a normal thing to do. I started taking them when given them by a nurse when I was working long 12 hour night duty nursing shifts, in the premature baby ward and sitting feeding a baby it would at times be a struggle to stay awake and I was told to , ‘take one of these, we all do’, to keep awake on the job.  I also had some serious health problems during my twenties, I was having TIA’s (mini stokes), leading up to having a massive stroke when I was 32. I have no idea now, it is so long ago and if taking amphetamine based diet pills were related to those occurrences.  I blame the sheer exhaustion of being a young mum trying to work 60 hours a week at night (and probably I would have been taking these acceptable at the time amphetamines), and caring for my children during the day, plus a lot of stress, for my serious health decline in my early and mid adult life.

 Following the news report about this, burn fat pill and diet, a doctor was interviewed and he said, with obvious annoyance showing in his voice, ‘When will people stop looking for the latest diet to buy and just get off their backsides, walk around the block and eat healthy’. Lol, I LOVED that comment and felt so good because I now live life that way and I will forever be grateful that I have been time and again, given  another chance to regain my health, following setbacks.

Never again will I knowingly abuse my body with the extremes of workaholism or deprivation dieting.

 I am loving my new striving for a balance of being active, building my strength and enjoying  healthy well balance portion controlled meals along with not being obsessed with what the bathroom scales tell me but listening to how fit my body feels and enjoying life immensely J

 
 


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