Inspiration

Inspiration can come in the most unlikely of places... for example, yesterday, my surgeon's office was doing live Facebook videos, and they were doing their version of the 12 Days of Christmas... but it was the 12 Hours of Christmas. And it was: In the 12 Hours of Christmas, my Dietitian gave to me...

It was really cute, and frankly had a lot of good information in it... for example, did you know that if you take your iron and calcium at the same time that your body will absorb the calcium instead of the iron, because calcium is a bigger molecule? I certainly did not. I knew that you couldn't take them both at the same time, because they absorbed in the same spot... the duodenum, which is now bypassed in my body. But I didn't know about the molecule size. Very cool!

So, the inspiration I mentioned in the title of this post came from one of their videos yesterday. In the 7th hour of Christmas, my dietitian gave to me, 7 days of exercise/activity. Today, when I was eating my lunch (leftover baked ricotta), I took a bite of the melty cheese, and didn't chew it enough... which means, OUCH, it got stuck in my belly. So, I had 20 mins. left in my lunch, and I decided to try and walk it off (which I managed to do). After I started feeling better though, I looked at my Fitbit dashboard, and realized that I had my steps set at 5,000/day, mainly because I work at a desk. I was meeting those steps every day. So, I'm challenging myself, and raising it to 7,000. After that, I'm going to move it up to 10,000 (which is the recommended number of steps per the American Heart Association, fyi. :) Or at least it used to be... now they're more concerned with the number of minutes you get... ). Here's some tips and suggestions from the AHA on Walking. :) And in the healthcare field... especially in a Heart Surgeon's office (that's WAY simplified of the types of surgeons I actually work for... if you're curious, ask! :D) We're BIG fans of the AHA. :D

So, my inspiration is that I'm going to hit my 5 days/week of exercise, and I'm going to meet my steps daily. I even just started a challenge with my friends on Fitbit to make them get into it more too. :D

I also did 28 mins of yoga tonight... I'm going to be so sore tomorrow... I haven't done yoga since before Vivi was born. *Sigh*

How about you? Have you had any good inspiration as of late?

~♥~
Lady D