I had a great week last week as I’m sure you discovered when you read last Saturday’s recap! I brought my A-minus game (let’s be honest here, I could have brought it a little more than I did, even with the limitations the boot puts on me) and knocked out almost 3 pounds on the scale with last week’s weigh in! I didn’t want to undo what I achieved, so I strove to continue with AT LEAST an A-minus game all this week as well. As I mentioned last week, I also changed up my food ever so slightly.
• Saturday: I had to make up my 900m swim from Friday,
so I made sure I got that done. I had
actually decided while doing my laps that I would bump up to 1000m, but my foot
kept cramping so I just finished my 900 and called it a day. When I got home, I walked around my apt
complex for 2.5 miles.
• Sunday: Sunday-funday! Schlangin’ some kettlebells is what I do on Sundays,
yo! And got me a new shirt to sport
while doing it too! “Getting my
kettlebell on.” You know it! Just like last week, I added the circuits of
the bodyweight exercises plus a plank hold at the end to my kettlebell
rounds. I decided to add something else
to this workout to make it EVEN BETTAH! What
could that possibly be?!?!?! Pull ups! Well, modified pull ups. I have to work my way back up to doing
full-blown-from-a-dead-hang-pull-ups again.
But my pull up bar adjusts and I can do modified pull ups, so that’s
what I’m going to do until I can start doing them from a dead hang! I did as many as I could do with each round
of the kettlebells…basically, until failure.
That ended up being 10 reps each round, so a total of 40 modified pull
ups!
• Monday: I’ve seriously got to come up with a better
name for this workout other than the “creative gym session.” That sounds so…meh. Shoot me your ideas! Had physical therapy again and that went
great! I was with the 3rd
different therapist in 3 visits…HA! I like
all the therapists I’ve worked with so far.
They’re all super nice and knowledgeable. This visit was with Amy and she’s a runner
too! My 30 minute session went way to
fast because her and I talked running the WHOLE TIME! It was awesome. I needed that. And I hope I have more sessions with her for
this very reason.
• Tuesday: [mental] therapy day! I’m a little loathe to park at my work
parking garage for fear that someone might see me walking around and think that
I’m faking or whatever and that I shouldn’t be out on medical leave. So, instead of walking before and after my
appointment for extended periods, I opted to park super early so I could do my
entire walk pre-appointment. Any further
walking I might want to do post-appointment, I can just go somewhere else to
do. I parked at Whole Foods in their
underground parking garage. I walked
about 2.2 miles pre AND post appointment.
Very nice. Then I went and got Monday’s
swim done! 1000 meters baby! I thought about going longer because I still
felt great when I got done with the 1000, but decided against it because I was
scheduled to swim again on Wednesday.
• Wednesday: headed to the gym and knocked out my
upper body + abs machine workout. It was
of course followed up by a swim. I decided
I’m going to start seeing how far I can go in a set amount of time. The time will change each week by me adding 2
minutes. So, this week’s goal time is 28
minutes. I swam 1100m in 29 minutes this
day! Woohoo! Next week my goal will move up to a minimum
of 30 solid minutes in the pool. Obviously,
I finish out the lap I’m already swimming when my minimum time hits, which is
why I went 29 minutes instead of just 28.
I had another PT appointment this day. 2nd appointment with Amy the
runner. YAY! She had me doing squats while standing on the
squishy AND the solid side of a BOSU ball.
Dude, I need a BOSU ball. I’ve
said it in the past, but I seriously mean it now. When I’m cleared from the boot, I totally
want to do BOSU squats with my Sunday funday workout! Alas, they’re not cheap. Maybe I can find one for a good deal on
CraigsList? Hmmmm.
• Thursday: I had another follow up with my primary
doc this day and that went alright. He had
me do a little walking while he watched and then had me bend my ankle to the
side to see if it hurt. And it DID. He said, yep, 2 more weeks in the boot. I was kind of hoping he was going to say that
I could come out of the boot and wear a stabilizing brace instead. Oh well.
I took this day as a rest day. I figured
that since the closest I had gotten to a rest day was Tuesday where I walked a
lot and then swam, but I hadn’t actually taken a rest day this week, so I figured
that I probably should take one…so I did.
• Friday: hit the gym for my second round of the
creative workout for the week, followed by a 3 mile walk. Even though my shoulders weren’t as “trashed”
as they usually are on creative workout days due to the TRX exercises, there
was a bunch of people in the pool and the area around it, plus a couple more
ladies made their way out to the pool area as I was accessing my locker
post-workout.
Picked up my packet for tomorrow’s Fight Like A Girl (FLAG)
5K. Proceeds benefit melanoma cancer
research. It will be the second time I walk
a race. Such a humbling experience let
me tell you. But it doesn’t get me down. I am just doing things at my current ability
and there’s nothing that can be helped about that. Just accept it! I do now wish I hadn’t paid the extra $10 for
a timing chip, though. Oh well, I registered
pre-injury…how was I supposed to know?
Also, this week, I earned a new FitBit badge! The Skydiver badge for climbing 1000 lifetime
floors of stairs! Woohoo! I do love my stairs.
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For my snacks this week, I shifted from a sweet yogurt snack
of 0% plain Greek yogurt, 1 cup berries and 1 packet sweetener to a savory
yogurt snack. I found a recipe for
homemade ranch seasoning and left out the powdered buttermilk it called for,
then mixed it with the 0% plain Greek yogurt and bought an abundance of celery
to dip in it! So good! (update: I found Hidden Valley Ranch brand
seasoning packets made specifically to blend with Greek yogurt and bought one
and the calories in the seasoning mix are negligible, so I switched to using
that…tastes way better.)
For dinner, I like to keep it light and less than 150
calories, so I decided to go with a half acorn squash for dinner each
night. I seasoned them simply with some
cinnamon and a packet of stevia. But then
my mom told me about Truvia brand stevia brown sugar blend. I found it online and I bought it and started
using that on my acorn squash instead of the plain stevia. (update: my friend Amanda found it locally at
the HEB grocery store, so I can buy it locally now instead of ordering it
online and essentially paying twice the price because of shipping costs.) A half of an acorn squash was the perfect
amount of food for dinner…maybe even bordering on almost too much just because I’m
so used to eating so small at dinner now.
I stuck with the creamy fluffy scrambled eggs made with the
lite coconut milk for my breakfasts. After
some reading I did last week, I discovered that I’m doing something called
intermittent fasting purely by chance. I
had no intentions of doing this, nor did I actually know what it was. But, apparently, I’m doing it. One of the best side effects of intermittent
fasting is that it helps control hunger urges. Yea it does!
I barely even think about food anymore.
I love it! One of the things I hate
the most about having an eating disorder is the almost constant obsessing about
food. I’m not saying it’s gone, because
it’s not. It’s just that RIGHT NOW I’m
not having a problem with it.
Soooooo, what we’re all waiting for, I’m sure, is this week’s
weigh in! How did my continued efforts
to keep up my activity levels and my food switches show up on the scale? Well, let’s check that out right now!
I have to say, I am super happy that even with as close as I
am to my goal weight that I’m still able to pull a weekly weight loss number
like 2.4 lbs! I am a little, but not big
time, concerned that my body fat percentage keeps creeping up each week. But then, also, when I look in the mirror I do
still have some “fluff” around my middle (it pretty much hangs out around my
belly button like a donut). This may
cause me to rethink my goal weight, but I’ll decide that once I’ve reached
170. If I do readjust my goal, it will
only be by 5 lbs, down to 165.
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