No motivation

I have zero motivation. I have nothing to say any more and would love to have someone post for me. I have run out of ideas and an am more then happy to hand it over to someone else. Or, if someone would be generous and post something, that would be great. I need some ideas!! Thanks!!

Feeling like this?!

An Indoor Workout!!

My husband's schedule has changed, again. I have not been able to find time to go running, at all. My sister found this workout schedule and did it herself and she hurts today!! I can't wait to try it myself!!

The 100 Workout:
 100 Jumping Jacks
 90 Crunches
 80 Squats
 70 Leg lifts
 60 Jumping Jacks
 50 Crunches
 40 Squats
 30 Leg lifts
 20 Jumping Jacks
 10 Minutes of Running
She got it from http://losinggweight.tumblr.com/post/10481536746

Migraines and exercise.

My younger sister, Jordanne, and I suffer from migraines. Jordanne gets them more frequently then I do and we have tried lots of things to help with it. She found this article on Foxnews.com and sent it to me. I like that exercise has been found to help with migraines. Another reason I need to get back to running!

Regular aerobic exercise worked just as well as relaxation therapy or the anti-epileptic drug topiramate in preventing migraine headaches in a Swedish trial.

"This non-pharmacological approach may therefore be an option for the prophylactic treatment of migraine in patients who do not benefit from or do not want daily medication," wrote Dr. Emma Varkey and her colleagues from the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, in the journal Cephalalgia.

Varkey's team randomly assigned their subjects to one of three regimens for three months: aerobic exercise on a stationary bike (40 minutes three times per week), a standard form of relaxation therapy or daily topiramate.

Previous studies have shown that relaxation therapy and topiramate are both effective for migraine prevention, the investigators note in their paper.

The 91 women in the trial were all from a single headache clinic in Sweden. They were between 18 and 65 years old, had neurologist-diagnosed migraine, with or without aura, and got headaches two to eight times per month.

All three treatments reduced the frequency of some women's migraine attacks by as much as three quarters, although the average reduction was more modest.

In an e-mail to Reuters Health, Varkey admitted that she was a bit surprised by the small between-group differences. 

"Topiramate is a drug of first choice which has shown great effects in studies. It was a bit surprising and very interesting that the change in number of migraine attacks was almost similar in all three groups," she said.

"The only parameter where topiramate was better compared with exercise and relaxation was the reduction of pain intensity," Varkey added. "On the other hand, the non-pharmacological options were free from adverse events and the exercise group increased oxygen uptake, which is very positive."

None of the women in the relaxation group or exercise group reported side effects, but eight women (33 percent) in the topiramate group did and three withdrew from the study as a result. The most commonly reported side effects of the drug included numbness or tingling, fatigue, depressed mood, vertigo and constipation.

Finding that exercise is not inferior to topiramate as a prophylactic measure is "of great value," the researchers note in their report, because patients often seek non-pharmacological options for migraine.

"From a wider health-based perspective, it should be stressed that patients with migraine are less physically active than the general population, and that exercise has positive effects in terms of general well-being and the prevention of disease," they added.

"Additional and larger studies are, of course, needed to verify our results and to gain evidence for exercise as migraine treatment, but our results are hopeful," Varkey told Reuters Health

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/10/exercise-may-offer-drug-free-migraine-prevention/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fhealth+%28Internal+-+Health+-+Text%29#ixzz1bp774N8p

Malea's new baby!

One of my favorite cousins, and helper of my blog, has had her baby! I am so excited for her! Her little girl is healthy and so is she. I hope that they recover well and adjust to new life together. Congrats Malea! We are all here for you! I can't wait to see more pictures.

(I would post pictures but I don't feel that I have that right since it is not my child. I hope you can all send her your best though!)

Does this count?

Hunting

I am going hunting. I haven't hunted with my own tag since I was 14, so it's been a little while! I am excited to be going. Hunting burns 489 calories per hour! I hope I don't have to spend too many hours hunting, but at least I'll be burning a lot of calories.