So, today marks the first time I have gone on a hike in many years (more than 15 years) and I am so out of shape. My face was so red from being overly hot on the walk, it's almost as pink as my shirt! I took some photos, and wanted to share. This is Arroyo Verde overlooking Ventura, California, and the Pacific Ocean. Next time I will hike up higher to get photos of the ocean, I couldn't do it today, it kicked my butt! But, I feel great right now, and that's all that matters!
Fasting again today. It has been 21 hours thus far today. I love how I don't even think about food anymore while fasting. My tummy is definitely shrinking!
I'll be eating dinner around 6:30pm tonight.
I'm doing three 24 hour fasts per week. Loving it! And, now incorporating hiking into my routine. Enjoying this immensely. Thanks for being so supportive everyone! ♡
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It look oks a spectacular area of beauty. Here in Surrey (UK) the terrain is gentle and is typical English countryside. I originally came from the UK county of Derbyshire which is mountainous and wild. Both beautiful in a different way. Three years ago I gave up smoking after years of one to two packs a day. It takes a long time for the body to recover but I’m there now and enjoying walking more.
Congrats on giving up smoking. That's so difficult!
I loved hiking when I used to do it regularly. Right now, it's difficult to do, but I am getting back into it. Walking is soothing to me, I love it. I love being out in nature.
I feel the same way. I've not had many interactions with people where I felt that people were as soothing as nature. Hahaha
Definitely something wonderful about laying under a tree watching the leaves dance in the wind, and definitely something so soothing about the sounds of birds and the cool breeze on my face. I can't say that a person or people in general make me feel as relaxed, or give me as much pleasure as say dipping my foot into a cold stream after removing my shoes on a hot day of hiking.
People, for the most part, have caused me anxiety, or stress.
And cities, while big, and wild and beautiful in their own right, can be scary places to walk.
I know what you mean. I live in the London suburbs and I will no longer work in or even visit certain areas. It’s very sad because as you say cities can be wild and beautiful and London is a truly beautiful city. However I’m not going to keep looking over my shoulder just in case some maniac comes at me with a knife or being in the wrong place when a fanatic decides to activate his suicide vest. The peace of the countryside and the innocence of animals are the only thinks I truly care about as I get older.
Agree with you completely on this. I used to enjoy day trips to London, not been for a long while now and if one of my sons go I’m very pleased when I know they’re on the train back. I live in Birmingham but right on the very southern edge, the Warwickshire countryside is 10 mins drive away and I go into the city centre maybe twice a year- buy what I need as quick as I can and get out!
One of my favourite places to visit in London is the Victoria and Albert Museum and I still go there as I don’t have to go into the centre of London. I hate being scared for my own safety.
I live in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey and the Surrey Hills are 20 minutes drive so I am fortunate.
When I went to London I went walking with a group of people who I knew and I loved every minute of it. Also, Wales is gorgeous, and I went walking all over Wales, in Newtown, Powys, right in the center, rolling hills and little villages, I loved that so much!
Thank you. I love photography so I will be posting more.
this looks very much like some of Mediterranean countries scenery that I walked through..it can be very dry and hot.. I could run over miles of it in one day without water..mind you this was before my 60th birthday..😏
how things have changed..now days it's a pain to walk anywhere and am never without an easy to carry container flask with a straw full of ice and water..I can normally refill the container with water 2 or 3 times before I need new ice.
they brilliant we all have them and use them all day.. I make sure that my children fill there's up with ice before going to school.. it's hot here 😎
Because of my anxiety and depression, I've been in bed for almost 3 years, so because of this it's hard to get moving, so exhausted...SO out of shape too, I get told just get up? Believe me I don't like how I feel. No one knows how I feel.
I completely understand. I was there a couple of times in my life. I felt like a rat locked up in a rat cage. I was in my bedroom for a couple of years with bad depression, and I had put on a lot of weight, this was back in 2005-2007. I was feeling so depressed, even wishing I was dead. One day I woke up and thought of myself, like a pet rat in a rat cage, and I realized the entire huge beautiful earth was out there and I was staying in my bed. I was putting myself in a prison cell, essentially. I felt sick, I had rashes, and I felt itchy, and I felt toxic all over, even the thoughts in my mind were toxic.
One day I had a revelation. I decided to change my thinking. I decided to stop beating myself up so bad, and when I would open my eyes in the morning instead of just hating my life, I would tell myself "You are beautiful, and amazing, and special, and you have a special reason for being here, and you deserve to feel the sun on your skin, and the ground beneath your toes, and you are free to go wherever you wish to go."
I moved out of North Carolina, and back to California. I started loving myself more than I could even love anyone else, and being nicer to myself than to anyone else. Complimented myself all the time in the mirror, until I convinced myself that I was worth it.
I would hate walking in the day time because I felt so sick, and hot and sweaty, so I would walk at night when it was cool.
The more I would walk, the better I felt... it was a long journey, let me tell you, but I realized self talk and self love can heal us.
Thank you for your support, I happen to live in California, born n raised. I was out today with my grandson for a couple of hours. I was desperate to rest, he wore me out. And I suffer from stomach inflammation, so that keeps me awake. I struggle to fix this? Even to go to the mailbox is difficult. I sometimes hope to Not wake up
I live here in California too. I'm sorry to hear about your tummy. I wonder if it's diet related. I say this because my family suffers from tummy issues (passed down through the generations), and it is all related to diet. My mom for example has IBS and recently (last year) I was diagnosed with it too. However, once we both changed our eating, the issues went away. It's not that a particular food caused it, but it was the type of foods in general and the over-all diet choices. For me, cutting out carbs (breads, rice, pasta) was a huge wake-up call for me. I love pasta, you know? I didn't want to give it up. I'm not gluten intolerant, I was just eating too many foods that turned into sugars in my body. My liver for example turned fatty, my body started to become pre-diabetic, all because I lived the carb-high life, I wanna call it. Processed everything, you name it. Fast food everything, you name it, I ate it. Sugar everything, even drinks. My entire gut was hating me, and hurting me. Last March my doctor diagnosed me with Super High Cholesterol (HDL 389, Triglycerides 478), IBS, Fatty liver, Diverticulitis, Allergies (which no one could figure out, since I had no allergies on the tests, but I had the symptoms) and Pre-Diabetic. I was put on Norco for the pain (Diverticulitis), prescribed statins, told I'd need to go on insulin (If I couldn't lose weight and change my ways, etc). The amount of Prescription drugs I was told to take was alarming.
I decided diet was to blame.
I cut out all sugary drinks.
I cut out all carbs. I was sick of being sick.
I cut out all sugars from all foods (even most fruit).
I started fasting (which I knew from the past was amazing and had cured me of Fibromyalgia - which is something I had when I was severely depressed and eating horrid).
Since cutting out all those things, I have not had any tummy pain, no more migraines, no more allergies (I can breath without using an inhaler or squirting stuff up my nose all day long), I am reversing fatty liver, reversing cholesterol, and no more depression at all, no need for pills.
Let me just say simply.... what we put in our mouths, can really hurt us, even if we really really love it.
It's hard to imagine that our body can heal itself without medication, simply by changing our diet, or fasting (which by the way is a very magical thing).
I believe our bodies have several states.
Three states (not all of them but a few of the important ones):
Resting state ((approx) ~8 hours per day - ideally).
Healing state (16+ hours per day / 8 during sleep, and 8 during awake)
Digesting state ((approx) ~8 hours per day - depending on the intake of food)
To eat = digesting state
To sleep = resting state
To drink water only = healing state
Which state are we mostly always in?
Resting & Digesting. I don't think we get a good balance when we snack all day, or sleep too much, or eat too much.
It's ingrained in us to eat, eat, and eat more. Our culture tells us to. Commercials tell us to.
I decided I don't have to. I'm ready to walk on a trail for miles, without having eaten in days. Not because I'm crazy, but because I'm sure of my body and it's ability to heal. And, I want to do all I can to help it.
Every day I wake up feeling better and better. This wasn't always the case though, I will never forget laying in bed for days on end, years.. and thinking "There's no way I want to go outside in public looking and feeling like this... no way... I'd rather just stay in bed."
I remember that feeling.............. and I cry thinking about it now.
I know how it feels when your body feels so sick inside.
The first time I fasted was for 11 days. Do you know why I went so long with nothing but water? Because each day I woke up I felt better and better and better. I felt lighter, less sluggish, and like all the sick feeling was going away. I was only able to continue to fast because the way I felt was so so good, that nothing I would eat could ever make me as happy as how happy and good I felt while not eating. It was the weirdest thing, plus all my pain went away.....
I would encourage anyone with health issues to always research the benefits of fasting and always talk to your doctor.
But, just know that most doctors are trained in traditional medicine, and not alternative medicine, and fasting is seen by many doctors as an alternative type of therapy.
Research, research, research....
It might not be for you.
Big hugs to you!
I hope you stay in touch, and I'm here if you need me.
Hi WebMistress what pleasant views, looks lovely well done on your new journey, keep it up xx
I learned that I should not eat too many hot dogs. Over the 4th of July Holiday, I allowed myself to have two hot dogs (with buns) on the 4th, but the next day we had so many left over hot dogs, we fried them up with eggs in the morning (no buns) and let me tell you.... I got the worst migraine of my life (and I have not had any headaches in a few months) But, I remember being told nitrates in hot dogs could cause migraines, and that's why I rarely ever ate them, well... boys & girls, consuming 4 hot dog wieners in less than 24 hours time will definitely give little Miss Rhonda a splitting migraine. I learned my lesson.
No more hot dogs for me. The buns, happily, didn't make me feel yucky, as they usually would, but those hot dogs really knocked me on my butt the evening of the 5th.
One is fine, but more than that, no way!
Journey off a thousand miles starts with one step, Keep up the good work
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