Since I’m no longer a farmer I got a bucket full of rice to continue strengthening my hand. Lately I felt that my hands were hurting because grabbing barbells is a small grip for me. One product I got was a large rubber grip to put on the barbell. My thinking is the rice bucket exercise will build up smaller inner muscles that are the root of pain. All a person does with the rice bucket is submerge a hand and continuously squeeze. A couple squeezes later and the muscles are exhausted. Last night, as I tried to sleep my mind was running about everything health related I need to be doing. The holidays are over and life is normalizing, so it’s time to introduce new challenges. I’ve still got the little princess with me, so everything is difficult. Today has enough of it’s own worries to stay focused on. Change is pain. My first hurdle is change, dealing with the pain of doing something different. This is before attempting new healthy habits, just being in a new environment will hurt and my body will do everything to convince me to go back to comfort. Sugar and sweets discipline has to be taken care of. With kids I’ll never get candy out of the house, so I have to be able to face the evil and say no.
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