I also found Hot Yoga to be very beneficial for healing. I was in a car accident in 2007 and suffered neck and shoulder injuries. PT helped but only so much. The best thing for me was Hot Yoga. I don`t do Hot Yoga anymore but it worked for me at the time.
I am currently walking as much as possible, going to Yoga about 4 times a week and I have started a program of light weight training. Very light weights!!!! I was feeling like I needed something more and decided to do the light weights. I will see how this works. I do it on my own. I did this in the 90s but with heavier weights.

I've been consistent but not feeling super motivated. It took me awhile to recover from some over-training and a cold I couldn't kick. I'm finally feeling normal again and have started a different training program supposedly geared towards masters age group. We'll see how that goes. Agreeing with Gretchen that having both girls at home makes watching my diet more difficult as their preferences are much different than mine and I tend to keep more not so menopause friendly snacks in the house.
Thanks, Carla. This is a timely reminder to check on goals! Good luck everyone--keep up the good work.

After years of doing nothing, I JOINED A PILATES GYM! yes, i'm shouting....i just can't believe myself...i used to do yoga, then the teacher that i loved moved, i tried with other teachers, dropped out, tried again a couple of years ago, it didn't last. then i read about a new Pilates gym opening in my neighborhood, this one actually has classes that fit into a working persons life (ie early mornings and evenings as well as weekends)...so i bought a 8 classes a month package to force myself to go...I've been to 4 classes so far...and i'm using muscles i forgot i had!....and of course, i had to buy a Pilates capsule LOL....

I have had a very difficult year fitness-wise. I just ended my term as president of my local 200-plus-member Rotary Club, and believe it or not combined with my day job that pretty much took every spare minute for the past year and a half! Something had to give and I'm afraid it was fitness and diet.

So... my last day as President was June 30 and I was at the gym on July 1, 2, 3 and 4! Yay! Have cut out alcohol, at least temporarily. Cutting way back on calories. I have about 15 pounds to lose but more importantly I need to get my fitness back. My husband and I are leaving on a bicycling vacation in less than two weeks so that will be a nice boost, I think.

Onward!

Wow! Let's all try to all keep,doing our best, while being good/patient with ourselves.

MsMary - love hearing from you. Have a blast during your cycling vacation!

Thanks, Runcarla!

I am coming back to report that my sweet husband and I did a long(ish -- 25 miles) bike ride over the weekend and I lived to tell the tale, so I am feeling less apprehensive than I had been about the upcoming vacation!

My goal was to get back into the weight room regularly. I haven't exactly achieved it, but I did make progress. In January I was going regularly and then various things at home threw me off plan. I've returned to it this month. Last month I returned to my short runs and HIIT.

I walk at least 10,000 steps a day (varies between about 6,000 and 20,000 and usually averages anywhere from 11,000 to 15,000 per day over a week.) This is fine but I need more vigorous exercise as well and especially work with weights. I feel so much better when I engage in it. I'd like to add yoga again, too, but for that I need a teacher I really like and a studio that feels nice to be in. Haven't found it yet. Despite Vancouver's preponderance of yogis.

I didn't set a weight loss goal but I do want to lose the 8 to 10 stress pounds that have crept up on me in the past three years or so. I don't want to go to my lowest adult weight (where I was when I joined YLF) because I don't think it's fully sustainable but about 5 pounds up from that would be great and IS sustainable for me if I continue with weights.

This is an old thread.