Well It's Official...

Today’s News:

I just got back from my personal Physician (well not actually personal as she is a temporary replacement for my normal doctor) and she highly recommends that I STOP all running. That any high impact type cardio will only continue to do damage to my body. I think I actually pouted.  

 

She said “You have a lot of muscle mass and need to start working on your flexibility and lengthen your muscles”.  No more heavy weights, no more high impact cardio…. Now what do I do?   Pilates! “But I can’t do Pilates – I have no flexibility and it is almost impossible for me” …. So duh… I guess that says it all doesn’t it??  She said if I didn’t start doing that now, by the time I am 80 I will have nothing but joint problems as my muscles are really hanging on tight and not allowing my joints to do what they are supposed to do. Something about lots of calcium buildup. I need to do more research and figure out a plan. Guess my body was really telling me that this running thing was not for me – I guess it just isn’t for everyone. Bummer L And you know the comment about the muscle mass – kind of throws me because if I have so much muscle, why isn’t my metabolism out the roof and why am I fat..? (cause I’m older and drink too much beer… oh and that late night snacking has a big factor in this too).   But I also saw something today that kind of proves it a bit, I saw some before pictures in blogland of a lady who is 20 lbs lighter than I am but visually looks quite a bit larger than I do. Hence that muscle versus fat scenario where the more muscle you have the more lean you look… size of the pound I guess. People keep telling me that I have no idea how much I have lost as they visually see me, I see the scale. Maybe I should start listening eh? (ß Yup, I’m Canadian J)

 

Foot update:

And as for my foot - when I got home last night, I had a look at the bottom of my foot and there is a huge bruise in the middle of my arch – no wonder it hurts so much. Today though, it is feeling quite a bit less painful than yesterday and I can tell that I am on the road to recovery. At least I’m hoping that I can start walking again tomorrow. And since I now have to do some Pilates to strengthen and lengthen, I bought some beginner DVDs’ on my way back to the office from the Dr’s and I’ll give them a try in the mornings starting tomorrow. Once I’ve gone through all the physiotherapy that I need to start (Dr also recommended I get more help from my PT), and Active Release on my muscles (ouch), then maybe… just maybe I can pick the running cardio up again… Probably hopeful thinking.

 

So for day 3 of my Challenge:

 

I did great on the food yesterday until the late night snacking. I don’t think I had enough food for dinner and need to up that  a bit to prevent the munchies before I go to bed. I really need to just go to bed hungry and get out of the snacking mindset. So far today the food is on mark except I missed my morning snack as I forgot to bring something with me to the doctor’s. 5 hours is too long to go between meals for me and even though I have just finished lunch, I am still “feeling” hungry. H20 it is….

 

Again for exercise – none today as I’m still letting my foot heal.

 

So here goes to investigating Pilates…. Wish me luck.

 

Hope everyone has a fantastic day.

 

S