When your body betrays you

I managed to hurt my back late last week.  It's my lower back, pretty sure it's just strained muscles, but, they're NOT getting better.  My knee (my problem knee) has started to hurt too.  I have held off on visiting the chiropractor because my muscles were so tight, I just didn't figure she'd be able to do much.  I never found time to call her today, and she's closed tomorrow, so, I have to wait until at least Wednesday.  I REALLY hope I'll be feeling better.  I've put off a bunch of things around the house because I'm just achy and in pain.  It's starting to pile up, which is affecting my morale too :(

I have been using ice, heat, massage, BioFreeze, Icy Hot, ibuprofen, Robaxin, you name it I've tried it.  It's SO frustrating when your body won't cooperate - I'm SO jazzed to be starting the personal training thing, I don't want to be injured!

So, I guess for now, just lots of rest.  BORING!

A new NEW chapter

So, as many of you know, I work at a University.  Our Kinesiology department is taking volunteers to work with their senior students who are going to be personal trainers.  I signed up as a volunteer and I found out today that I was drawn (there were 65 volunteers and only 30 slots to fill)!

So, I'll be working out with a personal trainer at least three times a week for an hour each time.  I think this might just be the push I need to get myself moving and motivated :)  I'm VERY excited!

I'll post about my workouts here once I get started! :)

Planning ahead

Planning meals ahead of time is generally a good idea. That being said, I'm REALLY bad about actually doing it.

I intended to cook something on Sunday, but, with the Super Bowl, that just didn't happen. So, I'm eating things out of my freezer. They should probably be eaten anyway, before I make more things to go in there.

I've developed a bad morning coffee/hot chocolate habit though, so I picked up some things to use in smoothies tonight, and I made some egg muffins to eat in the mornings so I'm less tempted to buy an actual gluten-laden muffin.

This should hold me over til the weekend so I can cook some more stuff :)

Laziness is a killer

One of my biggest issues with eating is a failure to plan ahead. Yesterday I should've cooked something up to eat throughout the week, but, I didn't, because nothing sounded good. I can always eat a salad at work, so I at least have that to fall back on.

Just one of the things I need to work on.

I DID, however, ride 5 miles on my exercise bike yesterday. My legs were BURNING from being out of the groove, but hopefully I'll get back to being consistent and that'll help with my endurance.

Resurrection

I've really let the blog fall by the wayside, it's been a VERY long time since I posted anything.  If any of you out there in cyberland are still paying attention, I am going to work to be more consistent with my postings.

Since I last posted, life has of course been up and down, as has my commitment to eating cleanly and exercising. 

I am back at it again.  I have been riding my exercise bike, I started at 5 miles per day and have gone as far as 10 miles a day.  I was sidelined by a nasty cold that messed with my breathing and I spent a few days in bed about a week or so ago.  I can finally breathe again and now with the weather changes my knee is aggravating me again.  I hope that'll go away with continued careful diligence.

I've been working hard at work and that will continue - I do a decent amount of physical labor by moving computer equipment around, along with walking all over campus going to help people.  Over the summer I was taking close to 11,000 steps a day just at work alone. 

In addition to making sure I ride my exercise bike, I do some weight lifting along with using my Total Gym (woo Chuck Norris!) and situps and push ups.  It's my goal to be able to do more push ups and really strengthen my upper body. 

I'd like to start swimming for exercise, but I feel that I need to do some decent conditioning before I take that leap (also need to lose a little bit of weight so I can find a suit that I like that will fit!).  We'll see what the future brings :)