Yeah. So three days after my last post I got sick again. Laryngitis this time. Another round of the evil antibiotics and another week of exercise lost. I'm trying not to feel down and overwhelmed by it all, but I'm frustrated, for sure. I was doing so well the first week of December, then I've been sick the entire time since then. What's with that?!
I feel like I've been either sick, getting well, or coming down with something for the last 10 weeks! Ever since that case of strep in the beginning of October, really. *sigh* This isn't like me...I've worked so hard to build a strong immune system and now I seem to have crashed.
I'm frustrated. Definitely frustrated. Because my position can't be filled by a temp (yay for small business!) I didn't take any time off. I think that has definitely made my recovery longer and slower. Going back to exercise too soon has made me relapse and/or catch something else right away the couple of times I've been sick, so I'm taking two more days before starting back.
I've not decided yet exactly how I'm going to finish c25k in order to start the 8k program. This week is TOM, so it's not an awesome time to be starting back on exercise and running, but I'm determined. I'm just so tired of being tired! And sick of being sick, too! BAH!!
Here's hoping the rest of 2010 doesn't suck quite so hard.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Countdown to 2011...Day Nine
*blush* I'm not being a very good blogger right now. My reasons are good--getting tons done on my primary novel--but I also know that writing about my weight loss efforts has been key to my success in the past. Blog, I must!
I had so much catching up to do on Saturday that I literally forgot all about running until the sun was setting...I was so frustrated, but I guess I needed another day to rest. Don't want to do too much too fast when getting well, right?
What about that weigh-in though, eh?! 3.8lbs is not too shabby!! Ah, that feels good. I know some of it might come back now that I'm exercising again (water in the muscles, blah blah blah), but for now I'm loving seeing that number go down. I'm so close to being in the '40s!!
I finally went for that W8D1 run today. I really didn't want to go. At all. I talked to Bestie for a few minutes, and she was very encouraging. So I went, but I didn't want to. For one thing, it was 40 degrees, which is COLD to this Florida girl. For another, I hadn't run in a week and a half...and therefore had zero idea what to expect out of my body. Well...28 minutes DONE, and I wasn't even close to death!! Oh, man...what a rush! I did a full on Rocky double fist pump at the final chimes on my podcast. No, I'm not kidding. *double fist pump*
I am starting to feel like an actual runner now. Awesome, right? And even though I'm not a SUPER competitive person, I kind of like knowing that neither my represented-the-USA-in-junior-nationals-basketball-and-played-for-Auburn dad, nor my danced-and-cheered-through-high-school-and-college mom, nor my wants-to-be-a-real-life-super-soldier-like-Captain-America little brother, nor my pretty-much-lives-for-video-games littlest brother can run for 28 minutes without dying, but I FREAKING CAN. Yeah, it's in the plus column for sure. My college-baseball-star-turned-medical-student big brother can probably still run for that long, but he's a freak of nature and shouldn't count anyway. :D
So it's a little after 10pm now, and I'm sooooo sleepy. *yawn* Today was good. Important things happened, like my run. However, I know starting tomorrow, I'm probably going to feel hungrier than usual, so I need to be on my toes and NOT SKIP MY SUPPLEMENTS. Right.
Bonus: I've worn my new two-sizes-smaller jeans every day this week and felt AWESOME!!!!! Yay for smaller clothes!!
I had so much catching up to do on Saturday that I literally forgot all about running until the sun was setting...I was so frustrated, but I guess I needed another day to rest. Don't want to do too much too fast when getting well, right?
What about that weigh-in though, eh?! 3.8lbs is not too shabby!! Ah, that feels good. I know some of it might come back now that I'm exercising again (water in the muscles, blah blah blah), but for now I'm loving seeing that number go down. I'm so close to being in the '40s!!
I finally went for that W8D1 run today. I really didn't want to go. At all. I talked to Bestie for a few minutes, and she was very encouraging. So I went, but I didn't want to. For one thing, it was 40 degrees, which is COLD to this Florida girl. For another, I hadn't run in a week and a half...and therefore had zero idea what to expect out of my body. Well...28 minutes DONE, and I wasn't even close to death!! Oh, man...what a rush! I did a full on Rocky double fist pump at the final chimes on my podcast. No, I'm not kidding. *double fist pump*
I am starting to feel like an actual runner now. Awesome, right? And even though I'm not a SUPER competitive person, I kind of like knowing that neither my represented-the-USA-in-junior-nationals-basketball-and-played-for-Auburn dad, nor my danced-and-cheered-through-high-school-and-college mom, nor my wants-to-be-a-real-life-super-soldier-like-Captain-America little brother, nor my pretty-much-lives-for-video-games littlest brother can run for 28 minutes without dying, but I FREAKING CAN. Yeah, it's in the plus column for sure. My college-baseball-star-turned-medical-student big brother can probably still run for that long, but he's a freak of nature and shouldn't count anyway. :D
So it's a little after 10pm now, and I'm sooooo sleepy. *yawn* Today was good. Important things happened, like my run. However, I know starting tomorrow, I'm probably going to feel hungrier than usual, so I need to be on my toes and NOT SKIP MY SUPPLEMENTS. Right.
Bonus: I've worn my new two-sizes-smaller jeans every day this week and felt AWESOME!!!!! Yay for smaller clothes!!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Countdown to 2011...Day Five
Sooo, yeah. It took me the rest of this work week to get over that stupid cold. I'm still a little congested tonight, but everything else is back to normal.
I missed a whole week of running. I'm not sure what to do yet. I think I'll go for a run tomorrow and see how I feel. If I can go 28 minutes with gas in the tank, I might move on. Then again, I might just combine weeks 8 and 9 to get back on track. I'll have more information about how my body is doing after tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow...it's WEIGH IN day!! I'm feeling pretty good about what Mr. Scale will say tomorrow. True story. Even though I didn't get any workouts in after Monday...I did sooooo very well with my eating, in spite of being sick! Go, me! True, my protein levels dipped a couple days, but tomato soup isn't supremely high in protein...:D
Tomorrow is an important day; I best get a good night's sleep. Can't wait!!
I missed a whole week of running. I'm not sure what to do yet. I think I'll go for a run tomorrow and see how I feel. If I can go 28 minutes with gas in the tank, I might move on. Then again, I might just combine weeks 8 and 9 to get back on track. I'll have more information about how my body is doing after tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow...it's WEIGH IN day!! I'm feeling pretty good about what Mr. Scale will say tomorrow. True story. Even though I didn't get any workouts in after Monday...I did sooooo very well with my eating, in spite of being sick! Go, me! True, my protein levels dipped a couple days, but tomato soup isn't supremely high in protein...:D
Tomorrow is an important day; I best get a good night's sleep. Can't wait!!
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