Oh how plans can get so easily sidetracked

Hello Blog world. I have had an amazing week. My learn to run sessions seem to be getting easier on my body. I am not sure if it was the Chiro adjustment or what but my right hip/lower back isn't quite as sore as it has been for the previous weeks.

Regardless of feeling better physically I have only gotten up at four a.m. only once this week and did an awesome UB workout. Rest of the week has only been jogging/walking (2x). I will kick my butt this weekend.

Reason I did not do my planned workout this morning (treadmill L2R) is because we went out for our date night last night. This involves beer for me. It sucks quite honestly because last night I was conscientiously aware that my inhibitions are affected by the alcohol and I get that "tomorrow is another day" attitude. I don't know how many blogs I have read that exact statement. I didn't overeat, I just drank 5 beers. No big deal really but 5 is enough to make me feel like crap throughout the night and not get a good sleep. So I didn't get up at four. AND my SO actually said "here have an onion ring, I don't want you to totally disappear". That was my first obvious sabotoge from someone else close to me. I was a bit shocked.... But I got over it :)

So too bad for him if I do disappear cause I am not going to stop until my body say's it's time.

Hope everyone has a FANTASTIC weekend!!

--
Sent from my mobile device

Snow??

I had a slack week last week. I exercised Wednesday/Friday and did my Learn to Run sessions. That’s IT!!!! I mean what’s up with that? -- I needed the break --

Monday night was week 3 of the L2R, and we did the 2min run, 1min walk x 7. I made it through. My lungs struggled a bit, it was cooler and windy outside and we certainly aren’t running on level ground. Then I came home and walked the dog and afterwards stretched the heck out of my back and hip (with the help of my dog… she sat on me and she’s heavy the little brat). I feel much better today for it. So tonight’s schedule will be the Turbo Jam 3T or Turbo Sculpt & the Ab Jam session. I need to get my strength training sessions back in to the scheme of things. All this running (ha, 14 minutes Monday night)… is going to eat my muscles away… Do you believe that? This is what a personal trainer told me last week. He said he thinks it is very wrong of me to do this running clinic because based on my heart rate, my body is in an anaerobic state and is eating away at my muscles for fuel, not the fat. Hmm….. Is he right?

I’m just going to burn off that fat and build that muscle at the same time… might move back a step or two during the muscle building phase, but I’ll still be burning fat during the cardio and I’m not quitting now….

I joined this short 4 week fitness challenge through a facebook group I belong to. I’m only going to do 3 weeks as the last week I will be in Mazatlan sitting on the beach, swimming in the pool, and hopefully doing my week 5 (5min)/6 (6min) of the Learn 2 Run sessions on a treadmill or on the boardwalk along the ocean. The FB challenge is over the day we get back and so I’ll probably be very bloated (I bloat with the heat and humidity… and likely the alcohol I’ll drink). I probably won’t be winning any prizes but I like the challenge so going to put all I can into the next three weeks.

I’m logging everything I eat and exercise on a daily basis so hopefully I’ll be able to see a positive trend and keep it up long term. I don’t go below 1500 calories per day as I am not on a diet (per se) but eating in a clean way for a lifetime. I’m just keeping the calories below 2000 until I reach my weight goal. Which is still 45lbs away…. Yah I know I said in an earlier post I wasn’t going to weigh myself, but as a scale junkie, that lasted about 2 weeks.

And it’s snowing outside – what happened to spring?

OMG I Hurt!

I ran or rather jogged last night, second week, 1min run, 1 min walk x 10. To most, this probably doesn’t sound like much but to my old body, it was major.

I have a “hip” issue, where I don’t have very much flexibility on my right side. At one point in my life, I had hurt my lower back on the right side and according to the doctor, my muscles tightened up around the area to protect me. They forgot to loosen up. So now my hips are misaligned a bit. A couple of years ago, it hurt so bad I could hardly walk – hence I continued to gain weight. But I worked through it and it has become easier and easier to move it properly and I am able to walk 95% without pain and exercise with very little issues. But I still have little flexibility on that side…

So after last night’s jog/walk session – it hurt – a lot and so do my knees. Those of you that might read this blog, and that do run, I know you started somewhere. Will the aching in my legs go away or am I just setting myself up for disaster? This pounding on the pavement just doesn’t seem to be that good for my lower body and back… :( But I so like the feeling of satisfaction that I successfully completed it when I’m done and the high it gives me…. So if I will eventually get over this, I’d like to keep doing it, but if it is going to injure me and prevent me from completely exercising, then I’m going to stop and go back to my walking and Turbo Jam (and kick butt…can’t kick in this too much either yet due to the hip stuff).

Oh the trials and tribulations of getting fit :)

Ttyl
Sandra

I Hurt!

Ok, after roaring like a lion, I have a confession to make.

I have not exercised for the last three days. Yup, I know... pretty sad isn't it?

But I needed the break. My body was starting to complain and complain loudly. I was starting to ache all the time and I wasn’t sleeping well as my back was so sore. I needed to take some time off to give myself a refresh boost. I’m forty seven years old, and although I have been working out fairly consistently since September, it has really only been in the last 6 weeks that I have been pushing myself almost every day and sometimes twice a day. Going from fairly sedentary to very active has kind of pushed this old body of mine :) . I guess I can’t exercise like I was 20 anymore… although I did try and likely will continue to. I AM entering my fifties in the best shape of my life.

Now I wasn’t totally sedentary this past week as I did walk 3.5 miles yesterday and it felt good. I missed my learn to run session on Monday night as I had another engagement and the ladies I work with said it was pretty hard. We are starting the 1:1 (10 minutes running total) this week. I’m worried now because I did take the last three days off that I will find it really hard tonight. But I am going to do it, and I will make it through. It’s only got to get easier right? I’m a heavy lady, well large boned is what I call myself :) and that’s a lot of impact on my legs and back. But I’m working on gaining the strength in my legs and to lose the weight so it has no choice but to get easier.

I’ll be missing the Sunday practice session as we are going away for the weekend so I plan on running on my treadmill Friday and Saturday morning so that come Monday for the 1:2 sessions, I’m not dying….

Now, my recent March new love was the Turbo Jam workouts. With this learning to run, I’m not doing the Turbo Jam as much as I’d like to but as I mentioned above, I’m kind of wearing myself out trying to do too much at once. So once I get the hang of running, I’ll be back at the Cardio Party to have some fun. I’m still doing the TJ strength training as I feel I need to ST at least 3 times a week to gain strength in my upper and lower body but I’ve not been doing the TJ cardio sessions as much :( . One step at a time…. I’m one of those people that when I like something, I just jump right in. And for awhile there (like 10 years), I forgot how much I liked exercising.

AND one more thing, I’ve totally enjoyed reading a bunch of blogs out there, it is so cool to read about peoples successes and some of the failures as I can relate to some of them. It’s a pretty cool community.

TTYL
Sandra

My New Self-Mantra

Hello World!

I am a strong, fit, healthy, shapely, beautiful lady, with lots of warmth and an easy-going attitude. I have no more excuses why I don’t stop doing something that is not right for me. There is no reason I can’t lose weight, there is no reason I can’t stop drinking, there is no reason I can’t be at peace and happy. No excuse strong enough to beat me. There is nothing in my way, nothing but myself and I now make the right choices.

I no longer look at the numbers on the scale as that is not what I truly weigh. It is a number that gives me a total to focus on, validating what I am at - not where I am going to be - not what I am. I no longer judge myself, talk down, nor abuse my body. This body is my temple until the rest of my living days and I take care of and treasure this home my soul is occupying.

I am a Runner, Weight lifter, Turbo Jammer, Walking, Outdoor, & Adventurous Soul hanging out in a human body. I love the euphoria experienced after I have completed a run, or workout session. I reach that high at least once a day and strive to feel it all day long.
I AM Sasfitter!! Hear me Roar!!
:)