Work In Progress - FitoverForty

[fitoverforty]

Hello all, thank you so much for the kind words and best wishes.
It has been a long few days.
dad is still in hospital. They did surgery Thursday to insert a pacemaker and defibrillator to hopefully help his heart achieve and maintain a steady rhythm. His heart only has 30% function - so I am praying the added hardware will help him.
So far, the doctors have had to adjust the defib. because it was not working properly, and he was having some problems. Now, it seems better, but he can "feel" the shocks the defib. gives his heart when it doesn't beat correctly - kind of unsettling to say the least, and it does it at night, which wakes him up.
So, all in all, good news, just have to wait and see how he does.

In other news....
So proud of son. he got up at 6 a.m. and ran 1.5 miles with me this morning. He is officially "in training" to run a 5K with me in late October. He did good for his first early run. He almost backed out of it when I woke him up - until he saw that it was still dark outside and i told him he could wear the little flashing runner's light.
I finished out and ran a total of 3 miles.

[EdgarHF]

Hopefully, all will be better in the long run for your father. I'm glad to hear you will be doing a 5k. Its sounds cool that your son is going to do one with you.

[fitoverforty]

Thank guys. boy is a chip off the ole block.
He won his class fitness test. Beating out the other kids in pushups and situps.
He did 115 pushups, 100 situps - left everyone else in the dust, he did.
That's boy!!!

[Boss Man]

You posted recently on a thread of mine, about why your influence on your child was something you felt necessary and why it was important to be a good rolemodel.

Now you're proving why doing that is one of the best things you will ever do, because he is showing you, how the things you have done have made a difference to him. His actions are a compliment to how you have raised him, but also a compliment about you as a person.

You can be very proud of yourself and so can your father, because his precious daughter is giving him more things to be proud of, many years from now, when he looks back on his legacy and realises he helped to give the world a child capable of what you're capable of. Your Son compliments you as a person, just as you compliment your Father and just to know what you Son is like, at a time of difficulty to your Father, will surely be of huge comfort to him, by showing him what he has done to help his Grandson turn out well, by raising someone who can be the Mother that a young boy needs in his life.

Now your Son can potentially become someone that makes his own mark and if he becomes a father, do what is right, to continue a lasting legacy in your family, of good people raising good people.

You are a wonderful Mother and Lady Lynne and I'm glad I wrote what I wrote the other day abotu people like you, because you've proven the legitimacy and validity of every word, by showing people your worth to this world and to your family. You son could have started becoming someone very dissapointing, by getting into bad things, but you've given him the chance in life to progress beyond that, by educating him properly about being human.

You ARE a successful parent. Be proud of yourself. You've had a difficult job to do from day of conception, through birth and beyond, but you'r doing it in your own unique and beautiful way.

Keep smiling and keep remembering all the value and worth you have, that comes from all the positive things you have ever done for yourself and others. You're making an impact on lots of people, so it will never matter that you never get written in hiostory books, or become a quotable notable, because your impact on others will reach as far as you let it and often do whatever you mean it to.

Take pride in yourself, you should do. I'm really proud of you misses. You're amazing and the fact your Dad has that knowledge to help him through something tough, is one of the best things you've ever done for him. Your actions are repaying him for his.

Chin up, keep smiling and GOOD LUCK with everything. You are such an important part of this world to those around you, so if you only ever remember one thing well, remember that and remember what it's worth .

[ldematto]

Phew! Bossman - who are you???? You are wise way beyond your years.......I know one thing, I'd be proud as could be you have YOU as son!

What he said Lynne - always remember

[fitoverforty]

Your Son compliments you as a person, just as you compliment your Father and just to know what you Son is like, at a time of difficulty to your Father, will surely be of huge comfort to him, by showing him what he has done to help his Grandson turn out well, by raising someone who can be the Mother that a young boy needs in his life.

...I never thought of it in that way. Thank you so much for your inspirational words. I'm sending YOU a BIG HUG for being so sweet and caring to take the time that you take each and every day to uplift and support the shapefit members.
When I stumbled across this website over a year ago, I had never been on a forum of any kind, and I had no idea how much you and other folks here would impact life. It has helped me to improve life, given me a sense of community support, and a renewed feeling of confidence.
When ever I am down, or feeling a bit unsure of myself, shapefit family never fails in their support and belief in me and abilities - this is SO important and has been a lifesaver more than once. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!

[EdgarHF]

This is one heck of a website!

[Bonnie]

Your welcome & thank you also for all of your support.This still is the only forum I've ever been on, felt no need to even think of looking at another, well except boss man's & thats because he is so fabulous This site reminds me of a kitchen coffee time back when family & neighbors/friends gathered around the table & caught up on what was going on for them.Something sadly lacking in peoples lives these days.So cheers to this site & all the people who make it work !

[fitoverforty]

This video is awesome. Inspiring is too small a word. Triumph over adversity, finding a way back to yourself, breaking out of the chains of obesity and depression. Giving hope to everyone who is struggling with their own demons and roadblocks in their life.
If you believe it, you can achieve it - just get up and start trying, one step, one day at a time.

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Getting back to the person you were born to be...not the person that life made you into.

Todays inspired workout:

4 mile run
1st mile timed at: 10:25
2nd mile timed at: 9:03
3rd & 4th mile, no time, just steady state.
The two timed miles are the exact same route, out and back - so felt good that I was able to run the "back" over a minute faster.

2 sets of 25 bicycle crunches
2 x 1 minute front planks

Hope everyone has a great day.

[fit-fanatic-2025]

Great video!! It was very inspirational! I'm going to add that to favorites so i can watch it when i'm feeling unmotivated.

[Noosk]

I watched that vid the other day (think someone put it up on facebook). Fantastic stuff and truly inspirational.
Your run looks great - kudos on the minute less 2nd mile! Keep it up!
Noosk

[ldematto]

Great video - very inspirational - thanks Lynne!

[fitoverforty]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty awesome. I've watched it over at least 5 times. When I see him cross the finish line of his first marathon, with his dad and his brother on each side of him, I tear up! Then seeing the emotion on his face after crossing the finish line of the Ironman, I'm just a puddle by then.

Oh...I forgot to write earlier in workout post - I almost got hit by a car! Well, truthfully I almost ran into a car. I was on the last 1/2 mile of run, intently focused on the sidewalk in front of me, when out of the corner of vision to right, I saw a car backing out of a driveway - I was probably in his blind spot, so he couldn't see me...I literally skidded 2 or 3 steps trying to stop in time, and I just did, then backed up and waited for him to back out - heart pounding out of chest...whew! that was a close one.

[Boss Man]

When I stumbled across this website over a year ago, I had never been on a forum of any kind, and I had no idea how much you and other folks here would impact life. It has helped me to improve life, given me a sense of community support, and a renewed feeling of confidence.
When ever I am down, or feeling a bit unsure of myself, shapefit family never fails in their support and belief in me and abilities - this is SO important and has been a lifesaver more than once. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!

That's why this site exists and why I try to do what I think is right, to help build and maintain something worthwhile.

I believe whole-heartedly in what sites like this represent, but I've also seen sites where admins bend the rules, or act irresponsibly, try to undermine people and impose pathetic rules. Sites where some people think petty points scoring is funny, dissing with no substance to it, people thinking being more knowledgeable makes them better than others, banning a lot of mods, than airing their dirty laudry in public for anyone to see and frankly some sites are run and maintained with a lack of real world view.

People forgetting the real reason for such forums, or forgetting the reasons why they started them. Thing is, when you have really big forums, with shed loads of members, you can get away with some improper stuff now and again, because you won't alienate enough people to cripple activitiy, but that's lazy and wrong.

We're not perfect here, but we do what we think is best for all.

Here, we protect the members. We try to give them a pleasent environment every day. Ban spammers every time they come on and work hard to limit future attacks. Give people personal time in private if they need it and try to make time, because this site is here for everyone and everyone matters and so does their needs, wishes and feelings and it's a simple but broad way of respecting others and people who threaten that way of working are not welcome.

What we do here allows for a broad tapestry of individuals, each as important and unique as the next and you're just one of those people Lynne, without which the site wouldn't be as good. You gained a community in your life, we gained an absolute gem and I'm proud to be here with you and every single other person .

So THANK YOU for giving us your time, heart and humanity. You've bene doing great things in your life for you and your family and you have never meant or been more important to the world than right now .

[EdgarHF]

Crazy thing. I was emailed a link to the same video today and posted the link in journal before I saw you had already posted it