I've made a few changes recently and one or a combination of them is wreaking havoc. I have been eating lots of things I probably shouldn't. (Including sugar and salt). I haven't been drinking enough water or taking my fish oil pills. I stopped taking my allergy meds, my diabetic meds and halved the dosage of my bp meds (at doc's direction). My legs and feet have felt like lead lately. I have had a hard time making it through workouts I have already done with ease and my joints are stiff. I need to get this figured out.
I have also had pain in the arch and top of my foot. Waiting on custom inserts to arrive at the podiatrist office. I keep pushing through. Weight has yo-yo effect lately, but I am down more this week. Down to 207.6 at home. That is my lowest to date.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Personal Win
Yesterday the doctor took me off the blood sugar medication I was taking! I am so happy. I still have weight to lose and fitness to gain, but things are falling into place.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Celebration
Not only did I have a birthday a few days ago, but as of this morning, I have officially lost 25.5 pounds since the beginning of my weight loss/ health journey. I skipped a weigh-in at work last week because we were out of town on vacation. I thought for sure since we ate out almost every day that things were going to be questionable. I managed to get in enough activity, watch my portion sizes and make decent choices.
When I got on the scale at work today, I was down 4 pounds from 2 weeks ago!
This morning I got back into the gym. It was rough, but I got back into the swing of my weight lifting routine. One of my legs was protesting having to do lunges, but I pushed through.
When I got on the scale at work today, I was down 4 pounds from 2 weeks ago!
This morning I got back into the gym. It was rough, but I got back into the swing of my weight lifting routine. One of my legs was protesting having to do lunges, but I pushed through.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Catching up and taking Vacation
If anyone is still following my blog, I thought I'd let you know how things were going. I am sorry I fell off the grid. During the finale event, the UNC Wellness Center offered us another 6 months of free membership in return for participating in a study. The study's requirements were to work out 8 times a month minimum at the Wellness Center, weigh in once a week, continue to take advantage of coaching and fill out any surveys they sent out. After much thought, my wife and I decided to pass on the offer. It really is a great opportunity and some might think we were crazy for passing it up. For us though, there were lots of factors involved. We were spending 50+ dollars a week in gas driving to the Wellness Center, it took 40-60 minutes round trip in travel time plus the hour workout was a serious time commitment (especially when you factor in that we were already paying for memberships at a gym 5 minutes from the house).
So I had Paula introduce me to a co-worker who also does training at my gym. I met with her and she did her own assessment and set up a program for me to following as well as some goals. I have continued going to the gym every day except for last Thursday and Friday when I was getting ready for vacation. My wife and I drove down to Hilton Head Island with our travel trailer and we are staying in one of the most posh RV parks we have ever seen. It has a gym, 2 pools, 2 tennis courts, a kids park, a little store, fishing pier, laundry facilities and all the standard hookups.
The kids have gotten to go to the beach yesterday and the pool today. I realized as I climbed the ladder to get out of the deep end of the pool, that I had tried to do that very thing when we had gone to a pool at a resort near Myrtle Beach and couldn't make it up the last few rungs of the ladder. The workouts are definitely making me stronger. I also tell when I hefted the pack-n-play around and it didn't make my arms tired. Still losing weight, but I'm much more excited now about the health and fitness benefits.
My wife and I have both been training for a 5K as well. I'm in week 3 of a couch -to-5K training program. I wouldn't recommend that someone literally go from the couch and try one of those programs, but it is very much the way to go if you aren't a runner and you want to get into (or back into) shape for a race.
So I had Paula introduce me to a co-worker who also does training at my gym. I met with her and she did her own assessment and set up a program for me to following as well as some goals. I have continued going to the gym every day except for last Thursday and Friday when I was getting ready for vacation. My wife and I drove down to Hilton Head Island with our travel trailer and we are staying in one of the most posh RV parks we have ever seen. It has a gym, 2 pools, 2 tennis courts, a kids park, a little store, fishing pier, laundry facilities and all the standard hookups.
The kids have gotten to go to the beach yesterday and the pool today. I realized as I climbed the ladder to get out of the deep end of the pool, that I had tried to do that very thing when we had gone to a pool at a resort near Myrtle Beach and couldn't make it up the last few rungs of the ladder. The workouts are definitely making me stronger. I also tell when I hefted the pack-n-play around and it didn't make my arms tired. Still losing weight, but I'm much more excited now about the health and fitness benefits.
My wife and I have both been training for a 5K as well. I'm in week 3 of a couch -to-5K training program. I wouldn't recommend that someone literally go from the couch and try one of those programs, but it is very much the way to go if you aren't a runner and you want to get into (or back into) shape for a race.
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