Suspend-It

I have been praying fervently for a work from home setup for the longest time now. Guess what? Early this month, our CEO gathered all the managers for a capacity resolution meeting. A lot of clients are expanding and there are just not enough seats available due to their quick expansion.

Consequently, I was included on the list of people who can work from home. Yipee! ^_^ It’s just what I need – some time to rethink about my work and what I want to do with my life. I almost filed for a one-week leave just to do that.

Now my ultimate work from home problem is this – how to avoid being excessively plump. Although apidex may be of help, but I need exercise as well. In fact, I crave for exercise. Hmmmm… I just might consider barre3 – where ballet barre meets yoga and pilates. I’ll just check the rates this week and see if it fits within my budget. Will keep you posted.

My netbook crashed last week, so I had to buy memory and other netbook parts I have been postponing on replacing. My computer crash gave me a good excuse to start moving around. I was running again after so long. My muscles have weakened after being in desk- hibernation for so long. If before I could run for hours, after a few blocks I was panting for breath. Not good, definitely not a good sign.

So after my computer gets fixed I promised to get back into shape. I’m sure it won’t be long till I get back simply because I’ve managed to eat healthy over the years, I just couldn’t go and exercise- my excuse? I simply have none.
“So training shoes….good seeing you again!”

I ran again as promised. I decided to run around the park this time. It felt good hitting the grass and tile flooring at the park. I even saw a few familiar faces. Most of them remembered me. Said my hi’s and hello’s and even hanged out with Audric after by a bench.

I met Audric at a Christmas party 4 years ago. He was a sweet charming man. He got divorced a few years before. His wife cheated on him and didn’t want him back. He was heartbroken and his wife was never seen again leaving him with 2 children to take care of. In his depression he knew he needed an outlet, he has after all two kids whom he has to love and care for. This was when he found out about running. It first started out as a way to tire himself to sleep instead of crying all night. After a few weeks of running, he started feeling better, he started feeling light and he was more energetic and concentrated. You can say that he got hooked. It is definitely a better choice to get hooked on running than alcohol.

When I met him again he seems more happy and contented. Apparently he met a woman a year ago and he’s planning on proposing this month. I was so happy for him it is definitely good to hear about stories like this.

Saw Audric and his fiancé last night, Yes they are engaged! Congratulations mister! I’ll be there at your wedding!

My high school friend Angela had her baby Christened yesterday. It was the first time I had seen her since we graduated high school. She’s still pretty, as usual, but a bit on the plump side compared to back then.

When she laid her eyes on me, she gushed over my figure stating I look exactly the same as I was in high school. She asked me what I did to maintain my figure cause she’s been using best weight loss supplements just to get her high school figure.

I couldn’t help but laugh because my current figure should actually be credited to the stress I have been getting from my obstinate, ball-less General Manager who uses the managers under him as escape goats. I was honest of course and told her the truth. I did advice her to try out Biram Yoga. It’s great not only to help reduce her weight, but it also helps improve your skin and disposition as well.

My sister Anne has been having a hard time controlling herself from stuffing food into her stomach whenever she sees appetizing dishes. Since she’s fond of night outs, she’s consequently constantly exposed to a lot of mouth-watering delicacies. Unfortunately, her night outs is starting to take its toll on her “voluptuous figure” as she puts it.

Normally, the easiest solution for this type of dilemma would be to take appetite suppressants. Then again, why pop those in when you can do yoga – Bikram Yoga to be exact? And I quote the following benefits from Bikram Yoga Grass Valley/Nevada City:

BENEFITS OF BIKRAM YOGA:

• Reshapes your body
• Restores flexibility
• Tones, strengthens, and lengthens your muscles
• Strengthens your spine
• Improves circulation
• Reduces risk of sports injury
• Achieves relief from pain
• Reduces your weight – lose pounds by balancing your metabolism
• Raises energy level
• Diminishes the effects of stress
• Increases balance, coordination, focus and discipline
• Clears your mind
• Calms your soul
• Ensures healthy and balanced functioning of the skeletal, muscular, circulatory, nervous, digestive, elimination, respiratory, endocrine, and mental systems of the body

BENEFITS OF THE HEAT:

• Warms the muscles for greater flexibility
• Helps achieve a deeper stretch
• Flushes toxins from the body
• Improves efficiency of the immune system
• Creates a cardiovascular workout
• Burns calories
• Builds endurance

So, next time you think of getting back your covetous figure, go Bikram! 0;)

My company is teaming up with the Bikram Yoga studio located just within the area to promote health and wellness among its employees. They had an orientation about the benefits of Bikram Yoga during our break last Wednesday. Although I already know all of those since I availed of a one-week unlimited trial last October, I attended the orientation to get a good grasp on the rates and promos.

I was not disappointed. They’re giving us a 30% discount for the monthly rate! Hooray! ^_^ I just wish they’d agree to extend the discount to family and friends as well. My friend Mark would really love that especially since he’s been stressed for the longest time. My sister, on the other hand, definitely needs to do yoga to accompany her intake of Fastin. That way, she’ll get toned up while losing weight.

I talked with the HR about the extension of the discounts after the orientation and she said she’ll do her best to include family and friends as well. I’m keeping my fingers crossed on this one. It’d be so much fun if I can do yoga with my friends. 0:D

I have had an upset stomach since Tuesday last week, when I went to the mall to get my company’s promotional tote bags. At first, I thought it was just something I ate, or perhaps even a stomach bug. So I wrote it off as diarrhea and went through the normal process of eating healthy food to detoxify and to help whatever I ate get out of my system immediately. At the same time, I took hydrite to make sure I don’t get dehydrated.

My excretion narrowed to once a day but it’s still watery. After one week of my excretion being in the same consistency, I decided to have fecalysis for fear that my amoebiasis might have been triggered. After all, in the majority of cases, amoebas remain in the gastrointestinal tract of the hosts. However, they did not find anything in my fecalysis. The doctor just advised me to change my diet – eat healthy food such as psyllium and oatmeal. That’s what I did.

Still, nothing happened. So I consulted my doctor again and she said the first signs of diarrhea may be easy to recognize, but pinpointing the cause often is not. Consequently, we tracked back to what had been happening in my life and realized that all this time it was stress that’s producing that effect. I was actually quite surprised by this fact. My symptom of being really stressed was vomiting. I did some research and found out that:

Stress can also make conditions that cause diarrhea, such as irritable bowel syndrome, worse. Here’s how it happens: stress or nervousness can cause the bowels to move faster. As a result, stool moves more quickly through the large intestine. Normally, water is reabsorbed into the body from the stool as it passes through the large intestine. The faster the stool moves, the less time there is for water to be reabsorbed. Therefore, more water remains in the stool. The result? Frequent, watery stools, otherwise known as diarrhea. Not only is the diarrhea uncomfortable, it can also interfere with your life. Fortunately, if you are a healthy adult without a fever or bloody stools, there’s no need to let the diarrhea “run its course”. Instead, you can treat diarrhea and get back to life. (http://www.imodium.ca/en/imodium-en1.asp)

Managing stress is one way to help your body systems return to normal and prevent diarrhea and other stress-related digestive problems. One of the most effective methods of dealing with stress is to recognize the source and either avoid it, if practical, or find healthy coping methods.

According to an article I read, one of the healthy coping methods include aerobic exercise which, it turns out, is also good for the digestion. Experts recommend performing about 20 minutes or aerobic exercise most days of the week. Stretching is a good way to relieve muscle tension. I have had no time to exercise for the past months, so I guess now is a good time to get back on track with sports, perhaps swimming.

Diarrhea is uncomfortable, but often preventable. Then again, when prevention does not work, and over-the-counter medications do not help treat diarrhea, it may be time for you to see your doctor.

I remember this one day when I thought about taking phenphedrine to lose weight when I was 15. I have never been obese but my excess baby fat was bothering me a lot. But then I got introduced to swimming.

In a span of 3 months swimming I was slim. I had always been a water baby. I’ve done a lot of water sports like dragon boat, wakeboarding, surfing, and scuba diving. This is how I managed to stay fit and healthy for a long time and now I’ve been doing yoga which improved my over all mental, physical and spiritual healing. I will be forever thankful for that day that my toes touched the water on that pool. It changed my whole life.

I woke up this morning with a severe pain on my heel after my first few steps out of bed. I’ve been occasionally experiencing this for quite some time now and I’ve had enough of it.

I did some research and found out that this ailment is actually called “Plantar Fasciitis” (PLAN-tur fas-e-I-tis) or heel pain, but is popularly called “flip-flop disease” among US podiatrists. This is caused by the inflammation of the tissue called plantar fascia, along the bottom of the foot that connects the heel bone to the toes.

According to what I’ve read, “plantar fasciitis causes stabbing or burning pain that’s usually worse in the morning because the fascia tightens (contracts) overnight. Once your foot limbers up, the pain of plantar fasciitis normally decreases, but it may return after long periods of standing or after getting up from a seated position.” Hmmmm… So that’s why I experience that pain in the morning.

Anyhow, I need not worry though because there are several steps to prevent heel pain from recurring such as getting night splints which gently flex your foot and toes overnight. To cap it off, based from research, I can overcome it without surgery or other invasive treatments. Thank God!

Most people focus on diet to keep their body slim but often overlook proper regular exercise. They often forget that exercise is essential for healthy living. Early this morning, I brought my mp3 player and went jogging in the park to relieve the stress from a whole week of office work. When I got there I did some stretching and a few laps of walking. To my surprise, I saw my friends, Mark and Leah, also doing exercise. I was so glad to see them since we haven’t seen each other in a while.

All three of us were in fashionable sporty outfits with matching music players. Mark was bragging about his new mp3 player with expandable micro sd memory. It was so cool! You could easily add more storage space for music just by inserting a microSD card. Anyway, after a several laps, we sat on the grass and enjoyed a small breakfast picnic together. Jogging has never been this much fun!