Day 334 (day 5 / week 47)

Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009

Yesterday was another busy workday. I don't know why I say that. It's ALWAYS busy. It's a rare day when it's not busy. They send me home or call me off when that happens lol. I walked 16,734 steps! That's almost 8 miles (7.92 to be exact)! I left on time as well. Because I prayed. I couldn't leave on time without Him. I've proved that too many times to get called in to the Boss Lady's office to have it addressed.

My ankle still hurts. It is traveling to different parts of my foot but it bugs me. Gotta be careful and mindful of what I am doing. Posture is key I'm sure.

This night (Monday night to Tuesday morning) was the best that I have slept since Pebbles left. It was the best sleep I have had in a long time. I slept through a lot it turns out. I slept through a thrashing toddler in the bed. I was out as soon as my head hit the pillow. I don't even remember my hubby getting in bed. I slept through putting him in his room--my hubby is always very loud when he does this, because he HATES doing it (I don't blame him, I hate it and it's my job). I slept through the Monkey Boy waking up at 4 am and standing next to me lol. How I slept through that, I have no idea--the creepy feeling of someone up in my face watching me sleep ALWAYS wakes me up lol. It woke my hubby up and I slept through him trying to put the boy back to his bed and failing, and through him putting the boy in our bed again. It was a good sleep. I hope Pebbles found a happy home.

Anyway I am in shock that the end of the year is right around the corner. It's in less than 30 days. That scares me! I didn't meet my 175lb goal, but I have 28 days to do it. I am glad I am carrying my resolution onto 2010, but am excited that I took full advantage of this entire year. What a blessing. I decided to join Fit Lizzio (aka Nerd Girl) on a challenge to lose 10 lbs by Christmas. I am also trying to eat more protein. Like double what I have been eating (I got a chance to talk to a real live dietitian at work!). This entire year I haven't lost that much in a months stretch, or even a 2 month stretch, but I am going to try. Did I just set myself up for failure already saying it's pretty impossible? *shrugs* Maybe I can do it. Afterall, I am a star! (lol couldn't say that w/ a straight face). We can do all things in Him who gives us the strength to do it, so I can if I try!

I am planning to have measurements and pic up in the next 2 or so days. Scary. I'm sure there is no improvement at all. I have to get w/ hubby, and I hate how it gets so dark so early now, because it makes it hard to get it done after he is off from work--not enough light in our house to take a decent picture.

Hope everyone is well. How are you goals coming along?

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 324 (day 2 / week 46)

Today I did a 2 parter. I woke up early, did day 3 of the 30 Day Shred (level 1) and then later in the day I spent 62 minutes exercising with Mii on the Wii Fit.

Today I modified a lot of the cardio on the 30DS. My ankle is really starting to bug me with all of the jumping, so I just limited the jumping. Jumping jacks are OK, I don't know why, but jumping up and down, straight up and down, hurts. During the butt kicks and jump roping I did the shadow boxing and jumping jacks. I just rotated those throughout the entire video. Whatever, I don't care. At least I'm doing it, ya know? lol. I hate to say it, but it's only day 3 and I'm already getting bored. Maybe I should move onto a different level for the sake of my sanity.

On the Wii Fit, my Wii Fit age was 29 (so glad I have been staying in the 20's although it means absolutely nothing) and I did a combo of balance, posture, relaxation, warm up, mind/body, arms and some other things. It mixed in yoga, strength training and the games that help w/ coordination and such. I love this thing. Here is my calendar. When I check in each day, I stamp the day with my star, cause ya know I'm a big-fat-hairy-star (it's appropriate) and you can see my Mii, with her new hair and color (light blue instead of black). Her hair is a little shorter than mine, but it's the same idea I guess (a bob).


(I guess she was kind of checking out her butt when I took this picture lol)

The Wii Fit also gives me tips, which I though I would share with you today:




I also walked 1.57 miles w/ the monkey boy and pebbles, trying to practice what we learned in puppy class.

Hope you all had a great night. Can you believe the month is almost over???? Gees. Make it count, the day's are flying by!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 323 (day 1 / week 46)

Today was day 2 of the 30 day shred. I did level 1 again. I didn't have the monkey boy bothering me today, but this time Pebbles was. All good, I just put her outside and finished :).

I am sore and my ankle that I recently sprained is starting to act up. I noticed it during the jump rope part today and during the butt kick part. I need to be careful because I have to work regardless, so during those cardio segments, with the jumping, I am doing arm up/knee up and horizontal bicep curls/leg kicks, from Slim in 6. It's the only think I can think of to do, to substitute in. I'm sure throughout the next 28 days, I'll think of more, and my ankle will get stronger.

On top of the ankle my knees are popping all over the place. I stopped taking the glucosamine regularly (I forget a lot now) so it wore off I guess. I really need to start taking it again. I felt invincible. My popping knees make me feel old.

I meant to get onto the Wii Fit today, but only did the Body Test. Today we started Pebbles' dog training. If she doesn't quit jumping, biting and tearing up everything, my hubby is going to give her away, so I enrolled her in puppy school. The instructor said he hasn't seen a puppy as hyper as her in a long time and that I am going to struggle, but as long as I am diligent, she will eventually learn. Today we played the "name game" (to get her to learn her name--she already knows this) and limp leash walking, which she does ok with around the house, but as soon as we hit outside, she goes crazy. I took her to the dog park also, and brought the Monkey Boy, so I walked a mile, just in the time I was there (30 mins or so).

I'm tired and am gonna head to sleep. I have a pic of my Wii Fit age for today (26) but I'm too lazy to put it up. I changed my clothes (top color) and my hair to reflect my new(ish) hair. My Mii looks so cute :).

Have a good night. See you in la manana, unless I procrastinate a 2nd part of exercise all day again, like I have been doing lately. Don't do this. It sucks. It really does. lol.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 308 (day 7 / week 43)

Today I took advantage of the chair and my crutches. I woke up this morning really sore (shoulders and triceps) so there is definitely something to using the crutches, working my arms. They are like static triceps contractions I guess. Every time I take a step with the crutches, I am holding my body weight up with my arms, using my triceps, biceps and shoulders. Try it. The next time you are in between 2 tables, put your hands on the table and lift your body off of the floor, supporting your body on your hands. That is what it feels like to use crutches. It is exhausting. I had to stop several times to give my arms a break. It took me over 20 minute to get to and from my car, the same distance that it takes me 3-5 minutes to walk. My arms hurt.

The other thing that I did was take advantage of the rolling chair in class and the carpet. I had to use the restroom, but it was on the other side of the elevators, and my arms were sore from the crutches, so some classmates suggested that I roll down the hallway in the chair, instead of use crutches. I looked like an idiot, but I got there quicker than I would have on crutches and I got a GREAT leg workout (right leg only lol) which I never expected. My thigh was screaming! I almost stopped, and then realized that I could use it as exercise, like as quickfires for the day. I was rolling backwards, pushing with my right leg, and there was tension because of the carpet. I pushed myself easily 100-200 times down the hallway, passed the elevators and back to the class room. My leg is sore. Only my right one lol. I hope (and I am totally kidding when I say this) that my right leg doesn't end up larger than my left. That would be a fun story to explain to people that stare. I would get a tshirt made if that were the case. That would be awesome.

I am off to bed. I am SO sleepy.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 307 (day 6 / week 43)

Today was tough because I felt pretty limited with what I could do with my sprained ankle. I kept it wrapped all day, put ice on it and kept it elevated for most of the day.

I had to go to work to fill out more paperwork in HR this morning, and I used crutches so that I could give my ankle a rest, like the ER doctor told me to. Man, crutches are hard! You have to be careful not to put too much pressure directly under your armpit because there is nerves there that you can do a lot of permanent damage too. You are supposed to support your body in between your bicep and like the side of your chest, and put your weight on your hands. It's hard and my deltoids are sore now from the crutches. I'll be using them again tomorrow.

I wanted to do my Wii Fit, but didn't :(. Probably isn't a good idea right now. I rested most of the day, until about an hour ago, where I did some heavy cleaning. I leaned on my good foot and babied my left ankle. It was only about 30 minutes of cleaning and dusting (my hubby helped me too--such a sweetie). I didn't vacuum or mop--I will wait until the weekend, when hopefully my ankle won't be as tender as it is now and I can put more weight on it.

I think I am satisfied with what I did. I really didn't think crutches would be much of a workout but they are. I am calling this a (non)rest day, using heavy cleaning as my mode of exercise for the day. I wonder what I will do tomorrow. It'll be fun to see how I am going to maneuver the crutches and my backpack lol.

Thank you for your well wishes! My ankle feels differently than it did yesterday--not good or bad. It's more achy today and puffy if I leave it unwrapped, but I am not having the sharp pain like I was yesterday. The top of my foot hurts a little bit too but other than that, everything is great (even with that everything is great!).

Hope you all have a great night! Make tomorrow count. Be creative! I know I will have to be! There are so many things that count as exercise. You'd be surprised!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 306 (day 5 / week 43)

Today was a normal work day for the most part except that now I'm sitting in a wheel chairing the ER b/c I hurt my ankle transferring a patient from her bed to the chair. Bad idea.

Anyway I'll post more when I know more. My ankle hurts. That's about it.

Have a great night!

I can do this. I am a star.


-- Posted from my iPhone

UPDATE: I sprained my ankle around 11:30 yesterday morning and have to stay off of it for 2 days (including work & school :( ). I didn't have it addressed until close to the end of the day (6pm or so) because I wanted to see if I could walk it off. I couldn't. I still managed 10,718 steps for my short shift. I totally forgot about the 1st and doing measurements, mainly because I was working on the 1st, but I will post them this weekend. In the meantime I am going to focus on upper body exercises.

Day 240 (day 2 / week 35)

Right now I am sitting on my couch with an ice pack on my foot. I went to a car show with my hubby and FIL tonight and slipped and fell with my leg pinned in back of me. I was wearing my flip flops so only my foot got scraped up and is swollen, thank goodness. My ankle bothered me earlier, but now it's only my big toe.

Today for exercise I did sort of a potpourri of things, if you will. Not traditional exercise, but things that I know that I get a good workout from--mopping and heavy house work, jumping around and dancing with the Monkey Boy. We do this thing, like in the movie Flashdance, where we run in place really fast and go in circles, like ring-around-the-Rosie. We walked a lot today and then went to a small car show tonight, and all day The Monkey Boy wanted to be held the entire time so I got a pretty good workout with that (man! He's getting heavy!). The thing that bummed me out the most about my fall was that when I fell, my wrist or hand hit the button that cleared all of my info stored on my HRM from today. Oh well. I know all of this was over an hour's worth of stuff so I will just call it that, but I don't have the calorie burn info anymore. Oh well, I shouldn't be so dependant on it anyway lol.

Thank you all so much for your support. After hearing what you feel about my question, "Did I blow it yesterday?" and feeling that yesterday was a more than usual phsyical day (it's usually a physical day at work, but I don't usually have to move beds around and do as much heavy transferring), I am going to let go of any negative feelings I have about it, and just keep moving on. Thank you for your opinions and for caring enough to respond! ((Hugs to you all!)).

My computer is about to die any minute, so I have to end now.

Have a good weekend, and see you tomorrow!

Make it count! There are so many ways in which to do so!

I can do this. I am a star.

day 160 (day 6 / week 23)

Today I remembered why I get up early to exercise. Exercising when the Monkey Boy is awake is fun, but I don't get much accomplished. I procrastinated for almost TWO hours today before doing anything. *sigh* I did level 1 of the 30 day shred. At some point later in the day I want to do level 2 as well, but we will see.

I am going to call today a (non)rest day for 2 reasons:

1) I can't get much done with my 2 year old son crawling through my legs when I am trying to do squats and lunges. When I do push ups he crawls up on my back, and with crunches, he sits on my stomach and bounces.

2) I think I hurt my shoulder muscle as it REALLY hurts to do push ups and the pectoral flies (laying on my back). I really want to take it easy.

Even though I will most likely do the 30 day shred twice today, I am going to call it an easy day, just because I don't want to push it too hard. I have no idea why this part of my shoulder hurts so I don't want to make it worse. It could be all of the plank positions in Level 2. I have been working on my form with those lately and maybe that could be the reason *shrugs*.

I want to walk today with Logan, but it's pretty humid out and might rain (I think yesterday they said it was a 50% chance lol). I don't want to walk for another 80-90 minutes with the chances of getting rained on. Vegas weather is strange anyway, so we'll see how things end up.

Thank you for your responses to yesterday's blog. I know that 1lb a week is good, and that I shouldn't focus on the numbers, but it just stinks when I let myself think about it. I know that I eat the right about of calories (I count fat carb and protein grams also!...well sparkpeople does) and that I am active, so don't I deserve to lose more weight like a lot of other people out there, that aren't doing as much? Erin made a good point though...I'm in this for the long haul, and the faster I take the weight off, the chances of putting them back on again are greater. I don't want that and am pretty positive that it won't happen, just becuase for me, this has been a lifestyle change. Not just about exercise. I feel better now. Thank you guys! ((Hugs))

Make today count!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 63 (day 7 / week 9)

All yesterday it rained, and it snowed while we were sleeping. I woke up early this morning to go do laundry and the first step I took out in the open, I slipped, totally fell and ate it (I couldn't even stand backup the floor was so icy so I kept landing back on --the kind I couldn't see lol). My right knee has a huge gash (that wont stop bleeding) and is throbbing. From my left hip down to my knee (on the side), it's skinned and pretty swollen. It hurts to stand, walk and it all stings pretty badly. I guess today, has to be a (non)rest day :( (for now). Stupid laundry.

If I feel any better will try to do Turbo Jam later this afternoon and will post an update, if I do. For now I will stick to Slim & 6pack and Slim & Limber, and will just listen to my body.

This totally stinks! :(

Hope everyone has a better day than I am having so far. Have a great workout (for me!).

I can do this. I am a star.


UPDATE

(2:30PM PST):
After the bleeding stopped and I finished laundry *grumble* I decided to go for a 60 min walk with Logan, to get moving, warm everything up and listen to my body to see exactly what's going on with it (I fell pretty hard on my side/leg). I am very sore and most of my lower body stings still (and my right wrist--I think I landed on it somehow or maybe the laundry basket crushed it--I don't know), but all in all, my knee and hip are fine, and it seems to be more fleshy wounds than anything. They don't feel painful like when they pop--it's more of an outward kind of pain, than inner (they haven't done that for a while btw--i think the glucosamine is starting to work!). I felt like I wouldn't be hurting myself more if I exercised.

That being said, I did Learn & Burn (Turbo Jam) and feel OK. I pushed through the aches, pains, stinging and what-not (no red flags to worry about) and I didn't go down as deep into the plie thingies (I forget what she calls it) and I didn't kick as high either. I think my left knee might be a little swollen, so I just listened to my body while doing the workout. Learn & Burn is a beginning workout and seems to be pretty gentle on my joints and knees (very low impact). I am happy I worked out, and I don't think that I did anything that will make it hard for me to workout tomorrow or that will hurt my knees/hip anymore. I don't think that I pushed myself to do anything I shouldn't have.

I can definitely say that if I hadn't been exercising for the past few months, that this fall probably would have hurt a whole lot more, and I probably could have done some damage to my knee and/or hip. Exercise has strengthened my body, and protected it at the same time (almost as if its more spongey lol). yaay!

stupid laundry.