What the Dr Said

Yesterday I had a Dr. appointment to discuss weight gain and loss and pain in both IT bands.  The Dr., has put me on a 1600-1800 daily caloric intake, great just what I want to count calories.  I suck at this and it drives me crazy.  I can't seem to even write down what I eat let alone how many calories it is.  With that said I am really going to try hard and DO IT!  I am starting slow to finish off this week because we will be out of town for the weekend and I know I won't write down what I eat nor will I know the calorie content.  I will start fully on Oct 3rd!!  Good luck to me.  The overwhelming part for me is when you make hot dish or lasagna and have to figure out the calories, it boggles my mind. 
On to the IT band pain, this has been going on for sometime now and it is partly due to the fact that I have a rotated pelvis, which causes my hips to pop out of place which in turn puts awkward pressure on the IT bands, that is how I understand it in a nutshell.  I will be going to see a sports medicine dr in the near future.   I am guessing this will lead to some physical therapy.  I am not opposed to this however when they have you doing exercises that are so strange in nature it makes me want to not do them.  Example, laying inside a door frame like a balled up cat, really, and this is helping my hips how?     We shall see how all of this pans out.  At this point my regular dr said I can continue working out like I have been without any restrictions.  Good to know.  Along with recording calories starting Oct 3rd I will also go back to doing the Supreme 90 Day DVD.  I am going to start completely over.  I did awesome for 2 and a half weeks in Sept.!!!     Since I get overwhelmed so fast I am going to take both the food and the exercise day by day.  I know I can do it and I want to do it so I WILL do it.  

I need to learn to work "interruptions" into my plan.  An example of that is when I work a double shift, 16 hours means no workout, one missed workout leads to two missed workouts which keeps going from there!!  I need to make myself understand that just because you miss one doesn't mean you have to continue down that path.  

I am working the 3-11 shift today, goodness I need to learn to say NO when people ask me to switch shifts, it always screws me up.  However this morning I got a great workout in and burned 885 calories in and hour and 18 minutes, which equaled 5.91 miles on the elliptical!!! 

I have tried commenting on a few people's blogs and "good old blogger" must be having a problem again because it isn't letting me!!!!!

Have a great weekend!!

Want the change- be the change

I am taking a little break from reality for the weekend to try and get my shit together.  I am stressed, pissed, upset and any other emotion you want to throw in there.   I am sick of people saying they will support me, and not holding up their end of the deal.   Frankly I am sick of everything right now!  Exercise, trying to eat right, things that are out of my control, bad news.  Everything!!!!

I will be back in a few days with a much better attitude.  


Want change?  Then be the change!!!!!  Nothing happens on it's own!

Still Faithful

I am still faithful to the Supreme 90 day workouts.  I do good with the workouts however I am still struggling with the eating.  Even though I struggle I am not eating as much as I was before I started.  I was down 2lbs last week but am back up to my starting weight this week.  I do feel "different" I am not sure what it is my clothes aren't loser and the scale moved back up to my starting weight but there is something "different" I just don't know how to explain, maybe I feel a wee bit stronger, not sure,  I will work on figuring it out but bask in the joy of something feeling good for once!!!

I Think I Finally Get It!

I think I finally get the concept that just because you work out on a regular basis that does not give you an open invitation to eat whatever you want!!!!!!!
I started on Sept 1st doing Supreme 90 day, I believe it to be the 'knock off' version of P90x.  Knock off, who cares it cost me less than $14.00 at Target on clearance and it is a BUTT KICKER.   It came with an eating plan and a workout schedule.  I did really good on the first two days eating and working out, then the weekend came I did the DVD and went to the gym on Saturday but my eating was HORRIBLE, Sunday I didn't do the DVD nor did I go to the gym, nor did I eat good!!!..

Back on track today, even without following the plan this weekend I am still down 2lbs from when I started.   I realized this morning while doing the DVD that unless I am willing to follow the eating plan there really is no sense in doing the DVD's.   Sure it is exercise but for me I need to see results and without the right foods for fuel that won't happen.   I am not willing to put myself through a BUTT KICKING workout anymore then eat back my workout in less than 2 hours by eating crap!!! 

I am off today so I will get all my food ready for the next couple of days at work.   

I am determined to have a good week!!!!!!! 

Wishes for a good week for all!!!!!

Fallen Officers 5k

Today i did nothing that I needed to do and I must say it was nice.  All the things I need to get done with still be there tomorrow.

Last Saturday I ran my 1st 5k, well I did the Warrior Dash in July which was a 5k but we won't count that since it was "3.1 miles of hellish fun".  On to the Fallen Officer's 5k.  It was a perfect morning for the race and I did it in 36.35 minutes.  I ran most of it only taking a few walking steps here and there.  I am certain I may have walked more but the thought of getting lost made me keep sight of runners ahead of me.  This was a very small race, it was unfortunate as it was for a good cause, I don't think they advertised much.  There was probably only 50 run/walkers total.  The other thing was that the path was not marked very well.  Had I not seen the women in front of me turn the corner I would have kept going straight and been completely off the course.  See why I had to keep runners in my sight!!!  This was also the 1st annual run so if they continue to have it yearly I will continue to run this one as long as I know about it. 

I got some not so nice feedback from one of my sisters, this is what she said, " what was your time"  36.35, " I thought you said you trained", Shut up, " well when I ran with Sharon (my other sister) her time was 29 minutes and mine was 30" (this was also about 4yrs ago)  Shut up, at least I ran today, more than I can say for you.  Still makes me mad that she said this but to each their own.  Then I was telling my boss about it, she has been wanting us to start a running group as she thinks it would be great team building, we really don't care for our boss.  Anyway she asked my time and I told her 36.35 she says " Well I guess that is respectable"  What is wrong with these people.  However the next day my boss brings me in a magazine with an article on how to train for a half marathon.  Both their comments made me mad but when I think about it now, who cares, I did it for me and not them and if it made me feel good then that is all that matters.  Will I run a half marathon, maybe, who knows I just started to "like" running outside. As, Future Fit Mom"  said If I want to run 13.1 I have to do it for myself not because someone wants me to, not because I need to prove something and not because someone else did, Because I WANT TO FOR MYSELF!!!  True that!!! 

I am on to trying new foods that other people have posted.  I saw Roasted Chic Peas on the Dr, OZ show the other day so I am making them while I write this post!!!  Will they be good?  We will soon find out!!  My next try will be to make my own peanut butter using peanuts, coconut oil and salt!!!!   I found this recipe on http://www.healthywithheather.com/.  Check it out she has some good looking things on there and  yep you guess it I will be trying the beet smoothie!!  It looks so beautiful!!!  Here is one more site that has WWPP recipes,http://www.emilybites.com/  The Buffalo Chicken Bites look so good, I will be making those for sure in the near future.

I have been experiencing some hip and leg pain since the 5k but rest assured I am seeing the chiropractor and still got  3 workouts in this week.  Hopefully I will be back up to speed soon.  For some reason the chiropractor thinks the fact that I don't stretch before or after a workout might have something to do with my pain.  Strict orders to start doing it!!!!!  When will I learn!!  Have a great week.

Off To A Good Start

This week has been good so far.   I have been eating good, and getting exercise in.  My goal was to strength train 3x this week and so far I have only done it once.  I am ok with this as I am still sore from doing Kettle bells on Monday and last night I did an outdoor fitness class for an hour and 10 minutes.  The first half was Hi-low impact moves and the 2nd half was Zumba, let me just say I am NOT a fan of Zumba.  I'm not sure if I am sore from that or still sore from Monday.  I guess that is good!!  I won't do Kettlebells tomorrow, I signed up for The Fallen Police Officers 5k on Saturday morning and don't want to be sore for that. 

On to the tale of the Spaghetti Squash, I got instructions from Kris http://krisgetshealthy.com/, on how to cook this baby.   Thank-you Kris!! I did what she said and it turned out very good.  I had never had it before and it was good.  My plan was to take some of that and some Lasagna made from a South Beach recipe to work the next day.  I packaged my lunch up and grabbed it out of the fridge the next morning.   Oops!!!! I grabbed the container that had all the Spaghetti Squash in it.  What is a girl to do that was my lunch.  Thankfully at work we had meatballs and sauce so I scrapped scauce from the pan and used that with the squash, I threw on some cottage cheese and a very, very small bit of shredded cheese.  It was very tasety and filling!!  So for never having Spaghetti Squash before I ate almost the whole thing in one day!!!   I need to get some more of it this weekend!!!!!!

I haven't been as good at writting my food down as I would like to be but I will get there.  I am on day 6 with no pop!!  Hopefully my changes will result in changes in the scale and the way my clothes fit!!!!

Back from vacation and ready to attack

I am back from vacation and ready to put some plans into action.  Before leaving for vacation I decided when I got back that I would stop drinking Dt, Mountain Dew.   I took all of what I had on hand back to ND with me and didn't buy any today at the store!!!!! Today is day one with no pop, so far so good even with a headache.

I have also known for awhile but chose to avoid the obvious that my eating is not where it should be, it is not that I over do the portions or eat bad stuff, ok busted,  alot of it is processed and I rarely have vegetables unless they are mixed with something.    So to change this when I went to the store today I did not buy anything processed or boxed!!  I bought grapes, clementines, bananas and peaches, I bought spinach, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber and a spaghetti squash.   I don't really know what to do with that guy but I have seen before where people use it in place of noodles, so I am going to give it a try!!!!  I like some raw vegetables but it is easier for me if they are cooked and mixed in with something.  Still have to trick myself sometimes!!!

I am also going to try and prepare my meals for the week, I am going to be doing some of that prep work today, cooking a bunch of chicken and figuring out what vegetables I can mix in with it!!!  I wanted to find some divided plates that had covers today but I didn't have any luck!!  My plan was just to plate all the meals and stick them in the fridge, nice and easy to grab.   Guess I will have to use multiple containers!!!!  I am going to try REALLY REALLY HARD to track what I eat.   At this point I dont' care about calories and if I can  I will figure out the WWPP ( I get overwhelmed when you eat something like hot dish that you have to figure out all the points) if not at least I will have written down what I ate.  It is a place to start.

On to the exercise part, I have always done really well with cardio, I may not always like it or want to do it but I do!!  It is no surprise that I hate weights!!!  My plan is to start Monday doing a Kettle Bell DVD or the 30 Minute Shred DVD or go to the Body Pump class at the gym.   I will do this at least 3 times a week.  The DVD's are both 20 minutes I think and the class is an hour.  I know 20 minutes might not sound like a "good" workout to some but for me that is a place to start.  I have done the Body Pump class before and I do like it other than the 20 million squats you have to do!!  The times for the class are not the most convenient so before I would say screw it.  Not anymore!!!

This is my plan of action, I am going to take it day by day and step by step and meal by meal. 

On Saturday the 20th I plan to run a 5K for Fallen Police Officers, I am waiting to sign up to see if any co-workers are going to do it with me. 

Last but not least here are a few web sites/blogspots and an I-phone App you might find useful.   The I-phone App is called fooducate, it is FREE!!  You scan the bar code on a food and it will give you a grade and the WWPP value along with alternatives that are a better choice!!! 

Now for the websites/blog spots....  thehealthyapron.com, anutritionisteats.com, pointlessmeals.blogspot.com,http://www.howsweeteats.com/

http://www.skinnytaste.com/

Enjoy and have a great week!!
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