SparkPeople is a great free fitness or weight loss program.
I just updated my blog there, I am ARTSLIM at Sparkpeople and you are welcome to add me to your friends there.
Because I am traveling in a caravan I am not updating my weight. I wish I knw=ew how to remove the weight scales measure from my page as I dot use it I am simply using a good leather belt. I am on the outer notch, my personal idea of slim would be the inner notch and I 'don't give a hoot what the scales say.
That belt can be my guide, that's all I need and if I can wear it, what ever the notch says, I am HAPPY with the shape I am in regardless of if BMI says I am slim, fat or Obese. I am not obsessed my weight, I want good health physical and mental health achieve though my art and fitness activities and the primary goal right now is my novel.
It is my primary goal of my novel, that has kept me away form SPARK.
It is time consuming to update and write motivations. I know this. That's why I seem to have excelled at one or the other, the ART or the SLIM in the past. To achieve BOTH once more. I know I need community encouragement and I need to journal. So here I am - making my commitment. SHOUTING OUT that I am aiming for ART+SLIM=ARTSLIM for ME- Nothing less.
I can easily give myself over to my creative passion and excel at the art or craft of my current choice.
I can and have at times mastered my weight giving release to a passion for fitness and perusing an active,healthy eating and portion controlled eating plan.
I have also at times succeeded in getting enough sleep.
Guess what I've struggled with?
Probably the same thing you might find hard to do.
I now need to combine ART (professional novel writing or painting tours) with fitness activity or the SLIM. That's my name - ARTSLIM and that is the group of people who I need around me.
I need other people who understand the difficulty of combining a sedentary lifestyle that they have no desire to change, because it is the ART-the PASSION of their lives. People who hole a creative goal and important as their fitness goal. Friends who understand they they are alive because of both fitness and creativity.
Because the arts are labour intensive we, perhaps more than most need to encourage each other to maintain that ARTSLIM balance. Combining ART and SLIM or Creative and Fitness Goals.
The purple ribbon represents my 'other' role in life that of a carer. I have life responsibilities just the same as everyone else and a family I love and must keep as priority no one while achieving all the rest. We do anything we choose.
So my What am I made of goals are.
* Carer duty healthy lifestyle includes healthy positive living and eating plans for two.
* Creativity - Novel writing, novellas, non fiction writing work and seeking financial return -awards & publisher.
* Fitness - A/ 5,000 steps a day. or equivalent. (I had painful injuries or I would make that 10,000 if I had somewhere to swim at the moment I would cut that to half)
* " - B/ 45 minutes of aerobic physical activity
* " - C/ 15 " of strength and balance training
I just updated my blog there, I am ARTSLIM at Sparkpeople and you are welcome to add me to your friends there.
Because I am traveling in a caravan I am not updating my weight. I wish I knw=ew how to remove the weight scales measure from my page as I dot use it I am simply using a good leather belt. I am on the outer notch, my personal idea of slim would be the inner notch and I 'don't give a hoot what the scales say.
That belt can be my guide, that's all I need and if I can wear it, what ever the notch says, I am HAPPY with the shape I am in regardless of if BMI says I am slim, fat or Obese. I am not obsessed my weight, I want good health physical and mental health achieve though my art and fitness activities and the primary goal right now is my novel.
It is my primary goal of my novel, that has kept me away form SPARK.
It is time consuming to update and write motivations. I know this. That's why I seem to have excelled at one or the other, the ART or the SLIM in the past. To achieve BOTH once more. I know I need community encouragement and I need to journal. So here I am - making my commitment. SHOUTING OUT that I am aiming for ART+SLIM=ARTSLIM for ME- Nothing less.
I can easily give myself over to my creative passion and excel at the art or craft of my current choice.
I can and have at times mastered my weight giving release to a passion for fitness and perusing an active,healthy eating and portion controlled eating plan.
I have also at times succeeded in getting enough sleep.
Guess what I've struggled with?
Probably the same thing you might find hard to do.
I now need to combine ART (professional novel writing or painting tours) with fitness activity or the SLIM. That's my name - ARTSLIM and that is the group of people who I need around me.
I need other people who understand the difficulty of combining a sedentary lifestyle that they have no desire to change, because it is the ART-the PASSION of their lives. People who hole a creative goal and important as their fitness goal. Friends who understand they they are alive because of both fitness and creativity.
Because the arts are labour intensive we, perhaps more than most need to encourage each other to maintain that ARTSLIM balance. Combining ART and SLIM or Creative and Fitness Goals.
The purple ribbon represents my 'other' role in life that of a carer. I have life responsibilities just the same as everyone else and a family I love and must keep as priority no one while achieving all the rest. We do anything we choose.
So my What am I made of goals are.
* Carer duty healthy lifestyle includes healthy positive living and eating plans for two.
* Creativity - Novel writing, novellas, non fiction writing work and seeking financial return -awards & publisher.
* Fitness - A/ 5,000 steps a day. or equivalent. (I had painful injuries or I would make that 10,000 if I had somewhere to swim at the moment I would cut that to half)
* " - B/ 45 minutes of aerobic physical activity
* " - C/ 15 " of strength and balance training
