And I am having a hot flash as I type and just pulled a chopstick out of the kitchen drawer to get my hair off my neck. I understand why woman cut their hair off as we mature...why does it start at the back of the neck?! Anyway. This thing called Menopause; The definition is the ending of your cycle. That's it, that is all it says. For real. Oh my goodness and I don't even know where to begin. One thing I know for sure is I get why my mom was the way she was. Kinda crazy.
Night sweats, hot flashes, anxiety, memory loss, short temper, emotional, indecisive, weight gain, metabolism slows down, sex drive slows down, and on and on. Oh and our kids are going through puberty also. I am glad I have boys. No one can really warn you about what you are going to go through and it just starts to happen, maybe you start with night sweats, then you have some anxiety. A Little crabby here and their you think nothing of it..PMS you blame it on, Then it comes more often, having a hard time being around a lot of people? Wake up at 3 AM almost every night and can not fall back to sleep? Does everything your partner does drive you crazy? Do you cry...at the craziest times?! seriously. OMG Windows rolled down in the middle of winter.
We do have to give some applause to the people in our lives that are around us all the time. The hormone struggle, to do it natural or to break down and get some hormones. I did my Perimenopause all natural, I just went into to Menopause in January. Only 48 and full on Menopause, sheez. I may have to break down and ask for help. It may save someones life, lol!!
So here is what I have learned. Drinking in moderation is best, cutting out a lot of sugar helps, exercise keeps you feeling better about eveything, especially because for some their can be weight gain. Meditaion has really helped with the anxiety. I think that has been the hardest thing for me. Remember my sweet friends if you need something to move you through this ask, that has also been hard for me. I am not a pill taker, part of the anxiety, but I would rather not be miserable anymore. Until next time. Much love
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Monday, July 6, 2015
Sometimes we need to forget what WAS familiar.
Read that header again, Sometimes we need to forget what was familiar. April, my trainer said this to me in conversation. I had to put it in my phone because that is so simple but yet can be so challenging. It plays out in so many parts of our life. Eating habits, sleeping patterns, relationships, etc. What does it take for that to sink in? How long does it take?
I have been working with April for 2 weeks now. I am having to retrain my brain to forget what was familiar... again. I have thought a lot aboiut the mind piece of weight loss. The impact the weight loss has on you; not only visually, but mentally. If we don't tend to the mental part, we sabotage the visual. Let me break that down. I lost 80lbs. I look very different to eveyone, but to me I have only lost maybe 20 visually. My mind still sees me at the same weight. How do we get the real us in our head? Visually AND menatlly?! I will let you knowwhen I get there.
This is why I work with April. April holds me accountable for my mind and knows that she can easily help the visual. Real is important to me and April is that. She has some great tips too !!
Nurition Tip: Remeber that water is essential for weight loss! Not only does drinking plenty of water help you lose weight, it also gives you more energy, strength and ambition for your workouts. The recommended daily consumption of water is .5 ounces per pound of body weight. So an average 150 lb. person should drink 75 ounces of water daily for optimal performance.
Fitness Tip; Your fitness goal should looked at as a journey, not a destination. You did not gain the weight in a week, so you will not lose it in a week. Each day, each workout is a chance to marvel over your progress. Admire you determination to stay the course, to really dig into the very heart of who you are. This is a journey! A fantastic one. You wont reach your goals in a week, so relax, just take the first step into your own journey and move forward everyday.
So if what we are doing does not serve us in a healthy way...it is time to forget what WAS familiar. Bring the mind to the visual, the present. Bring the mind to who we are now without the old thoughts. The feeling that one more walking lunge is exactly what I need!!!! Check out www.ascent-fitness.com Until next time. Much love.
I have been working with April for 2 weeks now. I am having to retrain my brain to forget what was familiar... again. I have thought a lot aboiut the mind piece of weight loss. The impact the weight loss has on you; not only visually, but mentally. If we don't tend to the mental part, we sabotage the visual. Let me break that down. I lost 80lbs. I look very different to eveyone, but to me I have only lost maybe 20 visually. My mind still sees me at the same weight. How do we get the real us in our head? Visually AND menatlly?! I will let you knowwhen I get there.
This is why I work with April. April holds me accountable for my mind and knows that she can easily help the visual. Real is important to me and April is that. She has some great tips too !!
Nurition Tip: Remeber that water is essential for weight loss! Not only does drinking plenty of water help you lose weight, it also gives you more energy, strength and ambition for your workouts. The recommended daily consumption of water is .5 ounces per pound of body weight. So an average 150 lb. person should drink 75 ounces of water daily for optimal performance.
Fitness Tip; Your fitness goal should looked at as a journey, not a destination. You did not gain the weight in a week, so you will not lose it in a week. Each day, each workout is a chance to marvel over your progress. Admire you determination to stay the course, to really dig into the very heart of who you are. This is a journey! A fantastic one. You wont reach your goals in a week, so relax, just take the first step into your own journey and move forward everyday.
So if what we are doing does not serve us in a healthy way...it is time to forget what WAS familiar. Bring the mind to the visual, the present. Bring the mind to who we are now without the old thoughts. The feeling that one more walking lunge is exactly what I need!!!! Check out www.ascent-fitness.com Until next time. Much love.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
The beauty in a life passing on.
The outside of her house was immaculate; the inside was full of fear, organized chaos and not letting go. Let's just say my mom would have needed a couple credit cards for the baggage. After my mom passed, being the only child, I was to take a look into what she had left behind. You could say; I really got to know my mom and what a gift it was with a tremendous amount of healing.
The house description is such a perfect metaphor for the appearance of my mom. Always put together from head to toe, but on the inside she was packed full of stuff. My childhood was rocky, lets just leave it at that. You can say I overcame a lot. For that I am am grateful. Up until my 30's I was really a victim of my youth and what my mother had put me through. I say it that way because it feels like that in the mind of a victim. One day in a counseling session, my counselor looked at me and asked me why I was such a victim. I responded with a list of things my mother "did" to me. She just shook her head and said; are you going to keep that for the rest of your life, or are you going to forgive her and start living? She saved my life that day.
The sweetest gift in that was being able to accept my mom for who she was just as she was. The day she passed away I held no anger or resentment only love for her ...the INSIDE of her. When I started the journey of cleaning out a house that she could not and had not lived in for 10 years I Met my mother from the inside out. Her fear brought out the OCD and hoarding disorder. I called it "An archaeological dig". The things on top were from the last year living there all the way down to her birth. I really could go on and on about everything she kept to how many of the same things she had, but the real gift was I learned how much she loved me, which I had once had doubts because of actions.
Let go. Move on. Love. We miss out on so much when we hang on to STUFF. Get to know your parents, love them just as they are. from the inside out. If we don't know better, we don't do better. Know better. Until next time. Much love.
The house description is such a perfect metaphor for the appearance of my mom. Always put together from head to toe, but on the inside she was packed full of stuff. My childhood was rocky, lets just leave it at that. You can say I overcame a lot. For that I am am grateful. Up until my 30's I was really a victim of my youth and what my mother had put me through. I say it that way because it feels like that in the mind of a victim. One day in a counseling session, my counselor looked at me and asked me why I was such a victim. I responded with a list of things my mother "did" to me. She just shook her head and said; are you going to keep that for the rest of your life, or are you going to forgive her and start living? She saved my life that day.
The sweetest gift in that was being able to accept my mom for who she was just as she was. The day she passed away I held no anger or resentment only love for her ...the INSIDE of her. When I started the journey of cleaning out a house that she could not and had not lived in for 10 years I Met my mother from the inside out. Her fear brought out the OCD and hoarding disorder. I called it "An archaeological dig". The things on top were from the last year living there all the way down to her birth. I really could go on and on about everything she kept to how many of the same things she had, but the real gift was I learned how much she loved me, which I had once had doubts because of actions.
Let go. Move on. Love. We miss out on so much when we hang on to STUFF. Get to know your parents, love them just as they are. from the inside out. If we don't know better, we don't do better. Know better. Until next time. Much love.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Feeling no need.
So When you finally get to that space when you are semi comfortable in this human suit. The moment when you begin to realize that the things that use to feel so big are really silly. I actually think about the things I use to worry about and shake my head. I have my 48th birthday coming up, 2 years until 50, and I have some goals set. With another decade coming, I feel a major shift with it and it is exciting. I have come to know me in the silence; sometimes it was forced silence. In it I let go of the fear. The unknown, the control, The anxiety, the worry. I had a need to fix it, whatever IT was. I wanted it all to be ok. Well sometimes OK is not OK. Sometimes we need to not be OK.
Are you a fixer? Do you like it all to be a "certain" way? You are going to drive yourself crazy. Another thing I learned about myself is you can not control the response of someone else. All you can do is let them respond, take it in. Take a moment to acknowledge what they are saying. I have found we are backed up with our past. I will explain...here comes another theory. So! You have heard the term "baggage" right?! We all have it. It just depends on if you are checking in at the airport with a carry on or you need a major credit card to pay for you "bags". Think about it. Like attracts like. When we get to a place where we can move about the cabin freely, we really want to attract someone who can do the same thing.
So, don't feel the need to be right, don't feel the need to fix it, don't feel the need to be defensive. Let go of the fear and just be. Be the amazing human you were created to be. Lead with love. Ask for help, embrace you as you. Go out to dinner by yourself and put your phone away, take in those around you in your own silence. You are amazing just as you are. I am grateful for each one of you in your human suits! You shine!!!! Until next time, much love.
Are you a fixer? Do you like it all to be a "certain" way? You are going to drive yourself crazy. Another thing I learned about myself is you can not control the response of someone else. All you can do is let them respond, take it in. Take a moment to acknowledge what they are saying. I have found we are backed up with our past. I will explain...here comes another theory. So! You have heard the term "baggage" right?! We all have it. It just depends on if you are checking in at the airport with a carry on or you need a major credit card to pay for you "bags". Think about it. Like attracts like. When we get to a place where we can move about the cabin freely, we really want to attract someone who can do the same thing.
So, don't feel the need to be right, don't feel the need to fix it, don't feel the need to be defensive. Let go of the fear and just be. Be the amazing human you were created to be. Lead with love. Ask for help, embrace you as you. Go out to dinner by yourself and put your phone away, take in those around you in your own silence. You are amazing just as you are. I am grateful for each one of you in your human suits! You shine!!!! Until next time, much love.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Did he really just send me a picture of his....
I heard my text chime go off, picked up my phone and there it was. Have not even met yet and there it was. Shoot. Now I am not knocking what others do, but why before you even meet does it go there? Are we that lost? What happen to the process of dating, the courtship? Why does that have to be old school? How about talking on the phone? Meeting in person BEFORE we start sending parts of our body?
So before I really began to find my grounding in who I really am and what I really want, I played into all that. Insecurity, word of the day. Feeling like I was not enough. We make silly decision when we are so uncertain of ourself. So what does it take to LOVE who we are? Letting go of all the chatter in our ear. The old story, tapes, our past etc. What we think about we bring about, for real!! I am sure some of you have read, or have seen the movie, The Secret. Funny because it is not a secret. How about, Change your thoughts, change your life or The book, The Power of Positive thinking. All saying the same thing. So why don't we hop on the train? Why is it so hard to just be positive and happy with who and where we are right now? How about meeting yourself right where you are?
Once we settle into loving and respecting ourself only then can we attract what God wants for us. Get out of your own way. Right?! Let go, relax, breath. Life is pretty darn amazing. About 3 years ago I started seeing random hearts everywhere, it opened my eyes to the fact that there is so much beauty and love in the littlest things, and in places that you would not even normally notice. I started posting them on Facebook. A Really cool thing happened, other people started noticing hearts too and sending me pictures. So AWESOME. I am putting together a book with all of them. That is why we are I here, I believe, to share and pass on love by setting an example in the little things.
Dont settle, you know in your heart what you need. Be true to you. Love you. Dont be so hard on YOU. Ask for what you need. Lead with love. Listen to your insides, that inner voice. I call it a God whisper. Call it what you will, we all have it, TRUST it. Then most of all share that love and compassion with everyone. We all need it. Until next time, much love.
Monday, June 8, 2015
Forgiveness is the place of peace.
So, what really triggers my next blog is what comes up more than once. As I sit here looking out my windows with an amazing view of the sunset and a full view of the mountain landscape, I sigh. Just moments ago meeting my neighbor across the street , for the first time, he recently moved back in to the house because of his divorce. This was obviously not his choice, which I gathered through our conversation. What is it? what happens? I know on my end and can only reference that. I have had comments and am getting friends thanking me for for the insight of the blog. What is hard to hear is that this thing called divorce is happening so much.
My ex and I have worked consciously to get to a place where we are not the issue anymore. Our children are in the front line. Believe me it was really rough the first 3 years. I prayed everday for both of us to let our children be greater than our own egos and issues. I have so many stories on being a survivor of something that I did not think would happen, even though I asked for the divorce. When the dust clears and we are left with our selfs, then comes the question, who am I now? Where do I go from here? How do my children recover? How do I recover?
Forgiveness. The first thing I would like to share is Please do not speak poorly about the other parent in front of your kids. This action creates nothing good or positive. Second, don't use your kids as pawns and pit them against one another. PLEASE. You made a choice together to be adults and bring them into the world, act like it. Third, forgive each other. Look At what you can do, to do things different. You can not change anyone but yourself, stay focused on that. Lead with love. Last, don't beat yourself up, be kind to you. You are going to need to be there for your children and then you will find they will be there for you. Until next time. Much love.
We're going to PUMP..YOU UP!!!
Welcome to cassiedoesblogging HEALTH. So if you remember a couple of blogs back, I said I had gained 20 lbs. back of the 80 that I lost with the ever amazing menopause. Well about 2 months back I ran into a friend of mine that I have not seen in at least 10 years, April Sharrock. April Co-owns Ascent Fitness 4697 E. Evans Ave. Denver.
April and I decided that she is going to train me and I am going to blog/brag about how amazing she is!! I am very excited. Every week I will share my progress and she will share a excersise tip and a nutrition tip, something to look forward to. So there is this really cool machine called the InfrafitX I will have all the details on it next week. April said it gets rid of CELLULITE! You know I am going to be in that everyday.
So here are your tips for this week:
Health tip: If you suffer from a sluggish Thyroid, and even if you dont, you can benefit from adding certain foods in your diet that are rich in essential Nutrients. These foods, like seafood, sunflower seeds, shrimp, seaweed, and turkey not only will help with the production of the thyroid horomone, but will also optimize the thyroid function.
Fitness Tip:
Running short on time? Maybe your motivation has slowed down? Don't skip your workout! Instead pick three excersises and do three sets of 20 of the three you chose. This way you are still moving, and heck it may even motivate you to keep on moving!!
So I am really looking forward to sharing with you how things move along!! April and I are also putting together a promotion to share with you in a couple of weeks. Check out all the things Ascent Fitness has to offer. www.ascent-fitness.com or you can call 303-759-5140. Until next week. Much love.
April and I decided that she is going to train me and I am going to blog/brag about how amazing she is!! I am very excited. Every week I will share my progress and she will share a excersise tip and a nutrition tip, something to look forward to. So there is this really cool machine called the InfrafitX I will have all the details on it next week. April said it gets rid of CELLULITE! You know I am going to be in that everyday.
So here are your tips for this week:
Health tip: If you suffer from a sluggish Thyroid, and even if you dont, you can benefit from adding certain foods in your diet that are rich in essential Nutrients. These foods, like seafood, sunflower seeds, shrimp, seaweed, and turkey not only will help with the production of the thyroid horomone, but will also optimize the thyroid function.
Fitness Tip:
Running short on time? Maybe your motivation has slowed down? Don't skip your workout! Instead pick three excersises and do three sets of 20 of the three you chose. This way you are still moving, and heck it may even motivate you to keep on moving!!
So I am really looking forward to sharing with you how things move along!! April and I are also putting together a promotion to share with you in a couple of weeks. Check out all the things Ascent Fitness has to offer. www.ascent-fitness.com or you can call 303-759-5140. Until next week. Much love.
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