I did it!

I’m losing my personal trainer – she is leaving the gym and is moving on to bigger and better things. I am going to miss her as we do get along really well. BUT I am also really into change, so I think changing PT’s is a good thing too. Everyone has different training methods so this could stir things up for me.  She made me do push-ups yesterday. I HATE pushups and the only reason is because they are so freakin hard for me. Which just tells me I need to do them more often. My first set I had my arms almost level with my shoulders, maybe a little below and it was very hard getting 12 reps in. The second and third set, I had them just ahead of my shoulders a bit and I found that much easier. I do not know which version is the right one but either way I’m still working muscles that are weak.

My Massage terrorist is leaving too! Which I am not really happy about because her location is very convenient to my work – it is only a block away. She has helped my hip/lower back/legs so much since I started seeing her in October. She knows my body. I really don’t want to have to go try out someone else. Fortunately she is going mobile which means she will come to my home. But my home won’t be the same. The only place I have that has enough room for a massage table with enough room for her to walk around would be in my basement family room. Rather open and cool. BUT I guess I can’t have everything I want. I want to keep her as my therapist so I have to bend in the location.  When I had my massage on Wednesday she really had to work on my calves and my upper back. It really hurt people. That’s why I call her my “terrorist”. She does not take it easy on me and really works those tight muscles. I told her we are going to have to focus on those two area’s for awhile rather than the hips because since she has helped work out the tightness in that area, she can certainly work on the tightness in my back/shoulders, calves. But MAN it hurts! …. It does feel better the next day though so that is why I get it done.

This morning I got on the treadmill with the intention of trying to make it a solid 20 minutes of running without stopping. Well I passed the 20 and thought, I WILL make it to the 28 minute mark. When it came along, I thought, what’s 2 more minutes. I ran 30 minutes folks – without stopping this morning. I am happy about that because of my dismal attempt on Tuesday having to stop a couple of times trying to get through the 28 minutes. I just kept running, and trying to breathe and not look at the clock. I can’t say it was easy, I’m not sure if running will ever be easy for me, but I can say I did it! So I guess this means I’m about to graduate from the C25K program J - never thought I’d reach this point.

This morning I am going to go see my Nutrionist and bet a biofeedback done. I want to know how my body is after this elimination diet which I didn’t 100% follow the last 8 days. I had some slip-ups but in general, I was on track. I’m ready to start re-introducing the eliminated foods back into my body and so we are testing it first, then this weekend I’ll start with the citrus foods. Almost every single clean-eating recipe that I want to try called for lemons. So last night I bought some and Saturday I’m preparing some good eats.

This weekend we are “kid” free so I know that means going out and socializing. With Mr. Sandra being housebound because of his various surgeries, he is more than ready to get out and enjoy himself a bit. We are heading out to a small town close to us and visiting with friends. I’ve got a lot of yard work to do as well since last weekend was so horrible with the snow and all. Ms. Katie leaves me presents that need to be disposed of and grass (the stuff that is actually growing), needs to be cut. My yard is not pretty thanks to that little girl.

And I’ve got to get out walking again. I miss it.

I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra

And I want to send out a BIG THANK YOU  to Roxie and Karen for supporting  me in my Kidney March endeavors! It is so appreciated. Thanks Ladies!