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Curves after cancer - anyone a member?
I have been struggling these last few months with trying to regain my energy and get ready to head back to work, and I was thinking about joining Curves. Is anyone a member? I'm just wondering what your overall thoughts are on it, if your happy and would recommend it. It looks like it would be a good place to start, and the woman here said that they have about 5 or 6 women who are post chemotherapy who are members. I know I can't handle much right now physically, but I need to get moving! I also have my 5KM walk in September for Ovarian Cancer, and seeing as I can't even walk the 20min to my Tim Horton's (gotta have that coffee!) I think I'm in trouble!
I haven't heard of Tim Horton's but I am not too hip to these kinds of things either. I have to seek that out. I love green tea. I love Chai tea lattes, tastes like Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie. Oh my, I am really missing this stuff as I just vegetate in bed trying to recover. Something to look forward to. YUM, YUM, YUM.
I just paid $3.05 a gallon for gas. Yikes.
I just paid $3.05 a gallon for gas. Yikes.
Also have found a wonderful green tea at Trader Joes(I drive down to the one in Everett) it is a green tea with citrus blend, yummy!! All of their teas there are only $1.99 a box, also all organic.. I use to go to White Rock BC and take my 90 year old Uncle out to tim hortons for Coffee and Donuts, that and white spot were his favorite places
If you are a true Canadian, you don't have anything but Tim Horton's. It's about $1.25 for a medium, and worth every cent. I especially love hearing us Canadians complain about the price of gas (about $1.10/lt) yet we go willingly, every morning and spend a $1.25 on a CUP of coffee - the things people aren't willing to go without - myself included! We have Starbucks here, but they are usually located in a Chapters bookstore. It's $3.65 for my tall chai tea latte, and I get that as a treat once in a blue moon - that's, like, 3 Timmy's!
Hi Kathy, Bellingham is such a beautiful place, you have it good up there. We do have a Top Foods and I will try that coffee, I had hubby put it on the list. All this coffee talk means I just might have to have a cup. I have gone a whole week without one, that is good enough, right?
I dont kmow if you ever shop at Top Foods or PCCs but there is a coffee in Top Foods called TONYS COFFEE and Teas that is roasted here in Bellingham, my sis runs the company. It comes in bulk. It is all organic and good, Songbird is my favorite blend.. It was on sale for 5.99 a pound usually 9.99... Any way they roast it fresh and deliver daily, Haggens who owns them uses their coffee in their deli. Give it a try!
Good Luck with it, just go easy on yourself, Rome wasn't built in a day, eh?
I live in Seattle, coffee capital of the world (or we like to think so). Starbucks originated here, and of course you can't walk nine feet anywhere without a coffee stand present. And if you take less than nine words to order your coffee, you have problems. So we are nothing but laid back hyped up junkies.
I know the Mid-west thinks we are all elitists, so my in-laws say, and they'd never do more than pay 40 cents for a Dunkin Donuts coffee. I get to hear all the time how my $3 coffee could be spent in such better ways! But here it is a sort of social event. It is something to savor, to do with friends, to enjoy. I imagine if you are in the Northeast, it is somewhat the same.
I have not had coffee since surgery, and am wondering if I can break this addiction. DOUBT IT!
Coffee is my friend, the last legal drug around here. :)
Enjoy!!!
I live in Seattle, coffee capital of the world (or we like to think so). Starbucks originated here, and of course you can't walk nine feet anywhere without a coffee stand present. And if you take less than nine words to order your coffee, you have problems. So we are nothing but laid back hyped up junkies.
I know the Mid-west thinks we are all elitists, so my in-laws say, and they'd never do more than pay 40 cents for a Dunkin Donuts coffee. I get to hear all the time how my $3 coffee could be spent in such better ways! But here it is a sort of social event. It is something to savor, to do with friends, to enjoy. I imagine if you are in the Northeast, it is somewhat the same.
I have not had coffee since surgery, and am wondering if I can break this addiction. DOUBT IT!
Coffee is my friend, the last legal drug around here. :)
Enjoy!!!
Thanks for all your replies - I'm glad, Grateful, that you understand the coffee thing! My boyfriend and I decided to walk there one morning and I was feeling great, so I said sure! We got half way there, and I was like " Ok, we can either continue on and take a cab back, or I can turn around now, and get the car!". So embarassing! It sounds like just what I need to get going again!
Becky
Becky
I attended Curves for two years before my OVCA and lost at least 40 pounds and tons of inches, thats why I was so surprised I had cancer because I was healthier than I had been since my teens! I strted back up after treatment , but got sick again. I met a lot of nice woman and it worked really well for me. I really was not on a diet it just sort of all fell together. There was one other gal there and she and I were fighting it out for the biggest loser of the year, she won, ironically about 6 months after my diagnoses she was diagnosed with stage 4 OVCA, she is still around too, she has been on several tests and when I see her she looks good. The nice thing about curves is you do it at your own pace...
Tybear,
I haven't been myself, but I am a coffee addict too, so I thought I better reply. :) I do know that my best buddy who won her fight with breast cancer last year, raves about curves. For several reasons. She had a double mastectomy and doesn't have to feel like she is being stared at there (no men), and the women she has met are in various stages of fitness, it isn't such a "gung-ho" experience, and certainly isn't a meat market. She just feels very comfortable there. They also modified exercises for her, helped her out so much, and she said that the 30 minute work out is such a breeze and since weightlifting changes your metabolism, and many women don't lift weights usually, she feels she has a stronger, leaner body. Anyway, she loves it. I think it is perfectly suited to someone who has been through major surgery and needs to get back to exercise at a slow pace. My 79 year old Aunt goes too, and she moves slow, so that says something.
Good luck. Exercise also helps our moods and our outlook and well, it helps everything, so I can't wait to get back to it, even if it is just walking and catching some sun.
Oh, Curves will offer you a free visit too I hear, so check it out. Good luck.
I haven't been myself, but I am a coffee addict too, so I thought I better reply. :) I do know that my best buddy who won her fight with breast cancer last year, raves about curves. For several reasons. She had a double mastectomy and doesn't have to feel like she is being stared at there (no men), and the women she has met are in various stages of fitness, it isn't such a "gung-ho" experience, and certainly isn't a meat market. She just feels very comfortable there. They also modified exercises for her, helped her out so much, and she said that the 30 minute work out is such a breeze and since weightlifting changes your metabolism, and many women don't lift weights usually, she feels she has a stronger, leaner body. Anyway, she loves it. I think it is perfectly suited to someone who has been through major surgery and needs to get back to exercise at a slow pace. My 79 year old Aunt goes too, and she moves slow, so that says something.
Good luck. Exercise also helps our moods and our outlook and well, it helps everything, so I can't wait to get back to it, even if it is just walking and catching some sun.
Oh, Curves will offer you a free visit too I hear, so check it out. Good luck.
Hi -
I was a member of Curves for about a year. I thought it was a great way to begin getting back into shape. I especially liked the duration of each exercise - not enough time to get bored! It's nice exercising in a women-only zone, and most of ladies were as out of shape as I was so I didn't feel embarrassed. Good luck!
Susan
I was a member of Curves for about a year. I thought it was a great way to begin getting back into shape. I especially liked the duration of each exercise - not enough time to get bored! It's nice exercising in a women-only zone, and most of ladies were as out of shape as I was so I didn't feel embarrassed. Good luck!
Susan
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