What I'm Reading This Week #22

Hello and happy first Friday of June!  You blink...it's June.  

This was the first week we started incorporating strength training back in.  (Gotta do that when the weather hits gross hot which will likely be until December. 😣)  My muscles are probably in shock.  Even though we didn't walk every day on vacation, I would say we walked a few miles every other day-ish which helped for a smoother transition into walking our park when we got back.  Sometimes we come back and our first two laps are the big teller of just how lazy we were on vacation and it typically takes a week to not huff and puff as much.  It was leaps and bounds better than when we returned from Vermont after the holidays.  (Though it doesn't help when you are wearing a coat that weighs 15 lbs on top of the vacation weight you gained!)   This week has sent us back into the dungeon as temps were in the high 80's/early 90's and you all know mama ain't down for that!  Monday we moved some of the stuff from the reno back upstairs like the other two dining chairs, the wicker chest that is our coffee table and lamp so we could have room to actually workout again.  We haven't had the motivation to get hanging anything back up on the walls including the six 20x30 pictures I got for the new echo chamber (aka-hallway).  We'll get there...eventually.

Now let's get into:

Posterior Chain: Anatomy, Function and Exercises  (As two hobblers with massive SI joint issues a month ago, this is important!)

7 Things You Should Always Do Before You Drink Coffee in the Morning—Not After   (Never thought of any of these but I'm not working out before coffee...well, not my main workout anyway.)

16 Mini Meal Ideas for When You’re Just Not in the Mood to Cook (Lord knows I need this on occasion.)

Alzheimer's Is Twice As Likely In Women As Men — Could This Explain Why?  (Welp, I'm in trouble.)

7 Signs of a Toxic Family  (Wow, a little sobering when yours ticks every box and you were blind to it for decades.)

Melatonin gummies may not contain what they claim, lab analysis shows  (For those who take them)

Why a Germ Expert Is Begging You To Remove the Foil or Plastic Seal Under the Lid of Your Containers After Opening (Interesting info and a little skeevy)

What’s That Absorbent Pad in My Meat Packaging And What Happens if I Cooked It?  (With a title like that, I had to read it!)

Chelsea Flower Show 2023: All the medal winners at this year's show  (OMG, so dreamy!)

Kevin Smith Shares His Lifelong Struggle With Body Dysmorphia After a Teacher 'Told Me I Was Fat'  (Watch the video.  Utterly heartbreaking watching him fight back tears.  The things trusted adults say to us can screw us up for a lifetime.  My great grandma said to me at 11 in front of my favorite aunt/uncle and cousin "if you work hard, you can get skinny like Mandy."  Mandy went off on her and told her I was perfect and beautiful."  What no one knew is Mandy was bulimic and was one day found in a pool of her own blood almost dying to be thin.  Keep your mouth shut when it comes to weight.)

Nothing on tap that I know of.  We need to reign it back in on the food front since we splurged on cookout eats last Saturday.  I suppose I should start planning tomorrow's stuff today so we don't stray.  I need to earn my "200 lbs lost" badge back.

Whatchu up to this weekend?

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