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HouCuseChickie

HouCuseChickie

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Good morning! I wasn't really feeling the whole workout thing yesterday, but tried to do something fun to get in some fitness. I put on some fun music, grabbed some weights and kettle bells and just did about 40 minutes of dancing with weights. So, if I was doing swings with a bell, I'd throw in some dance moves. I'm sure I looked ridiculous. I cooled down at the end with about 10 min on the bike...so a little over 3 miles.

I also thought some more about the car thing and decided to reach out to VW to start the lemon law process. We'll see how this goes. I'm trying not to stress about it, but this is not a fun situation.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Good morning,

The weather has been nice, so yesterday I walked 1.4 miles (my street) in about 30 minutes. Further proof to my gym teacher freshman year that yes, when they did allow me to walk the mile, I did it in less than 20 minutes (I used GPS this time).

Today I'm back to the elliptical for the "let's get the heart rate up as high as we can so no migraines for us!" Brutal. I'm also throwing in some squats and using hand weights while on the elliptical.

The tough part has been my diet. I'm eating a LOT of avocado. The problem is (and this is partially relayed to me having no thyroid) is that I'm always hungry. I try to always have fruit around for snacks and Goldfish if I want carbs, but when I start exercising regularly, it's like all I want to do is eat. Until I get to dinner, then I'm like, nah. It's during the day when I want food constantly.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl said:
Good morning,

The weather has been nice, so yesterday I walked 1.4 miles (my street) in about 30 minutes. Further proof to my gym teacher freshman year that yes, when they did allow me to walk the mile, I did it in less than 20 minutes (I used GPS this time).

Today I'm back to the elliptical for the "let's get the heart rate up as high as we can so no migraines for us!" Brutal. I'm also throwing in some squats and using hand weights while on the elliptical.

The tough part has been my diet. I'm eating a LOT of avocado. The problem is (and this is partially relayed to me having no thyroid) is that I'm always hungry. I try to always have fruit around for snacks and Goldfish if I want carbs, but when I start exercising regularly, it's like all I want to do is eat. Until I get to dinner, then I'm like, nah. It's during the day when I want food constantly.
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That might be a good thing. Your body's metabolism is faster earlier in the day and slows down in the evening. You could maybe try eating your big meal for lunch, then eating a smaller meal for dinner. My friend's husband lost over 100 lb that way, I think. I know he ate his big meal at lunch and a smaller meal for dinner, and nothing after 7pm, but I'm not sure how much he lost that way.
 
HouCuseChickie

HouCuseChickie

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I think I'm going to work out after work and batting practice today. Yesterday, I got in a workout during my lunch. It wasn't as long or as far as I'd hoped. I biked just under 11 miles, did leg work, and some abs...but I got a very exciting distraction early on into my biking and didn't get as much in. I was checking my emails while biking and somehow, my name has come up on our county vaccination site. They said to get your name on the wait list even if you weren't eligible right now, because it would put you further up in the line once the state called your group OR if they had extra available and your name was next on the list at that time. I'm not currently eligible based on age or health, but I guess I was next in line for extra. So, I'm going tomorrow to get dose 1. What's really crazy...I registered my husband right after I did mine and we've gotten nothing for him.

I also heard from VW yesterday. I now have a case manager assigned. Their email sounded kind of sharp, because the person who logged my case entered the wrong area code for my phone number. So the case manager tried calling me multiple times, just to get a wrong number message. I really hope they side with me on this. I am at my wits end. I have to take the dog into the vet by the end of the month and I can't even have her in the loaner.
 
HouCuseChickie

HouCuseChickie

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Good morning! It was later than anticipated, but I got in a workout last night. I did 30 minutes with my kettlebells and 30 minutes (10 miles) on the bike. I still feel like I'm cheating when I don't get in a full cardio workout, but I'm trying to remind myself that 30 minutes swinging weights around is hardly nothing. I may take a break today since I'm not sure how I'm going to respond to the vaccine. I guess we'll see how I feel afterwards. Also hoping to hear more on the vehicle today.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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HouCuseChickie said:
Good morning! It was later than anticipated, but I got in a workout last night. I did 30 minutes with my kettlebells and 30 minutes (10 miles) on the bike. I still feel like I'm cheating when I don't get in a full cardio workout, but I'm trying to remind myself that 30 minutes swinging weights around is hardly nothing. I may take a break today since I'm not sure how I'm going to respond to the vaccine. I guess we'll see how I feel afterwards. Also hoping to hear more on the vehicle today.
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My workout was riding my bike in the wind today. It was STRONG. Gusts up to 100km/h here today. I'm not sure if it got quite that bad in our area, but it was difficult to bike, and there are branches littering the bike paths, and I had to drive around a branch in the street during my driving test.
 
HouCuseChickie

HouCuseChickie

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Songbird76 said:
My workout was riding my bike in the wind today. It was STRONG. Gusts up to 100km/h here today. I'm not sure if it got quite that bad in our area, but it was difficult to bike, and there are branches littering the bike paths, and I had to drive around a branch in the street during my driving test.
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Doing pretty much anything in wind like that is a really tough workout. I'd be so afraid of being hit by flying debris. My luck, I'd get smacked in the head by a branch. I'm sure it also made for an interesting driving test.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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HouCuseChickie said:
Doing pretty much anything in wind like that is a really tough workout. I'd be so afraid of being hit by flying debris. My luck, I'd get smacked in the head by a branch. I'm sure it also made for an interesting driving test.
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Well, I failed. I was driving "too carefully". It wasn't too bad in the car, though I could definitely feel it. But there were wind warnings the whole day. I'm sure we'll hear about a lot of damage tomorrow in the news.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
Sounds like your tester was a bit of a blow hard as well.
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Well, he actually seemed really nice. It's just the style of driving here. My instructor's main criticism has been that I'm too careful and that will appear as "not confident", but the way he says it is just not....constructive. Like, he'll say "If you do that in your test, you'll fail immediately". And like TINY little things are evidence of "Insecure" driving....like, if you glance down as you shift to make sure you got it in the right gear. Or like, most of the time, he says to take turns in 2nd, but once in a while if you can't see around a corner, you take it in 1st, but sometimes I'll forget that I was already in 1st and I go to shift down before realizing I'm already in 1st....that's "insecure" because I should know I'm already in 1st. Or if there's a hedge, and I take the turn in 1st because even if it's a low hedge, there could be a little kid playing in the street around the corner...if I can't see, I shift down. That's "insecure". Basically, anything that you do to prevent an accident before you could actually see an obstacle or something? That's insecure driving, and you fail. But you ALSO fail if there turns out to be an obstacle there and you didn't have the "insight" to shift down. You just kind of have to guess correctly what they want you to do.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Songbird76 said:
Well, he actually seemed really nice. It's just the style of driving here. My instructor's main criticism has been that I'm too careful and that will appear as "not confident", but the way he says it is just not....constructive. Like, he'll say "If you do that in your test, you'll fail immediately". And like TINY little things are evidence of "Insecure" driving....like, if you glance down as you shift to make sure you got it in the right gear. Or like, most of the time, he says to take turns in 2nd, but once in a while if you can't see around a corner, you take it in 1st, but sometimes I'll forget that I was already in 1st and I go to shift down before realizing I'm already in 1st....that's "insecure" because I should know I'm already in 1st. Or if there's a hedge, and I take the turn in 1st because even if it's a low hedge, there could be a little kid playing in the street around the corner...if I can't see, I shift down. That's "insecure". Basically, anything that you do to prevent an accident before you could actually see an obstacle or something? That's insecure driving, and you fail. But you ALSO fail if there turns out to be an obstacle there and you didn't have the "insight" to shift down. You just kind of have to guess correctly what they want you to do.
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Is this a driving test or a psychological evaluation. The things you describe are things that don't become second nature until you have driven steadily for a longer period of time. To expect a newbie to automatically be able to do those things is a bit to picky. Over cautiousness is dangerous. Not to you but to others on the road that have no patience and will take chances to get by you or end up following to close. It was taught for years the overly careful people almost never get in accidents themselves but have caused a whole lot of them. I agree that we shouldn't be responsible for the failures of others, but in many circles society looks for the cause not just the result.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
Is this a driving test or a psychological evaluation. The things you describe are things that don't become second nature until you have driven steadily for a longer period of time. To expect a newbie to automatically be able to do those things is a bit to picky. Over cautiousness is dangerous. Not to you but to others on the road that have no patience and will take chances to get by you or end up following to close. It was taught for years the overly careful people almost never get in accidents themselves but have caused a whole lot of them. I agree that we shouldn't be responsible for the failures of others, but in many circles society looks for the cause not just the result.
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Well that's the reasoning they give....if you take a turn too slowly, someone behind you might get impatient and try to go around you and not notice the oncoming car and boom....accident. Which I GET that, and I agree with that part. Like....my dad driving 45 mph on the interstate where the speed limit is 75 was dangerous. That was way too slow and people then take risks. BUT, things like going around a corner where there's a hedge in 1st as opposed to 2nd is hardly going to be THAT much of a difference. If someone is that impatient, then it's not because I'm too cautious....they are just too impatient. It's the difference between me driving 18km an hour or 21km per hour. And then in other instances where I could see just fine, he wanted me to shift down. I get mixed messages, and basically whatever I chose to do was the wrong choice. If I shift down, I wasn't supposed to, and if I stay in 2nd, I was supposed to shift down. But it's the things like just glancing down to check that I did actually get it into 3 and not 5...how in the world is that dangerous to other drivers?
 
Figgy1

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HouCuseChickie said:
I worked out Friday and Saturday. I've been sticking to the gym and the bike and what got me to a good place last time. So, I'm trying to stick with that. I will either work out today during lunch or after work. The older one was major drama this morning and had a scare with a friend this weekend, plus the great pollening has started here, so I didn't sleep well.

In vehicle news, if you want to call it that, I have realized that I can't lemon law it based on days in the shop because I've been provided with a suitable loaner. That makes sense. That being said, they can't figure out how to fix it. They did all of the normal things to find a leak and found nothing...even though it's very evident that there is one. They have done daily Zooms with guys in the corporate tech offices to try and walk them through other processes to detect it, and so far they've found nothing. So, now they are sending someone from corporate tech in person to try and figure out what's wrong with it. They're HOPING it'll be this week. I guess if they can't fix it, it should be easier to go through the lemon process. SHOULD being the key word.
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Do you need to borrow one of my cast iron frying pans?:angelic::angelic::angelic:
 
Figgy1

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Songbird76 said:
That might be a good thing. Your body's metabolism is faster earlier in the day and slows down in the evening. You could maybe try eating your big meal for lunch, then eating a smaller meal for dinner. My friend's husband lost over 100 lb that way, I think. I know he ate his big meal at lunch and a smaller meal for dinner, and nothing after 7pm, but I'm not sure how much he lost that way.
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I'm the weirdo who is different. If I eat too early or anything heavy before 2 my whole day is upside down and I want carbs before bed:hilarious:
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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@HouCuseChickie Never ever buy a Buick. Mom has had her brand new Buick in the shop three times because the check engine light has been on. Granted, we think it's probably the dealer, but still

I'm about ready to find another Honda dealership for servicing too. I had mine in for a tire rotation and I had to take it back in a week later because they didn't properly reset the tire pressure indicator. 🙄 Granted it's very convenient because it's about a mile from work and five miles from my house, but still.
 

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