First things first: I can't believe it's almost May. I remember growing up thinking the month of April was the longest month ever because all I wanted was for it to be May and school to be over for the year. Now, I feel like April flew by and I'm only 4 or so months out from moving East. Eeeeek!
Anyways, back to weight-loss...
This is one of those weeks I feel kind of guilty to report what I lost because I don't necessarily feel like I earned it. My body forced me to keep it real this week and stop being so obsessive because it revolted.
The week started out well enough, I went out to dinner and stuff over the weekend and on Monday did something I'd never done before IN MY LIFE: I ran, without walking or taking a break, for 45 minutes.
The longest I'd ever done before was 30 minutes (then I walk a bit and run again), I know that's big jump in time, but I was running and felt awesome at 30 minutes so I just kept running while paying close attention to my heart rate monitor (I use my HRM to tell me when I'm overdoing it) and it wasn't until minute 44 that it started going a little high. I did a quick 1 minute sprint (as I always do at the end of run) and then stopped. I was so proud of myself and overall felt great, so I walked a bit more to cool down and then stretched.
By that night my knees were a bit stiff, which I'd expected because anytime I up my time my arthritis acts up. So I iced and took some ibuprofen and elevated my legs when I went to bed...no biggie, right?
Wrong. My right knee was KILLING me on Tuesday, so my mother and I went to the pool and I did a lot of stretching and mobility exercises in the water before a long soak in the hot tub. It felt better, but I still needed ibuprofen just to walk around my house that night.
Wednesday, woke up feeling fine - yippee! Did some chores around the house and then arranged to meet a friend at the Y after my run to hot tub (yes, in Iowa "hot tub" is a verb). I'd decided I was ready after my 45 minute run on Monday to start the Bridge to 10k program and did Day 1 Week 1 of it. Didn't seem tough: 5 min. warm up, 10 min. run, 1 min. walk, 10 min. run...for a total of 40 min. of running and 13 min. walking. Easy peasy.
Um...yeah, for some reason, by the time I'd finished the 3rd interval my right knee was hurting again. WTF? 10 min. is nothing! I've been able to run that for a long time now! Only thing I can think of is the abrupt change in speeds might have caused the pain? Anyone who runs, please feel free to advise, as I'm still befuddled.
Anyways, hot tubbed with Brenda, then went home and realized this pain was completely different then just my knee hurting...it started in my knee but then went up the entire back of my thigh. I remembered having a similar pain when I was a catcher in softball and vaguely being told I had a pulled hamstring. Crap. I also remembered that when you pull your hamstring you are supposed to rest it for 6 weeks. That kind of kills my running plan of making it to 500 miles by July 1st. I wanted to be sure that's what it was so I visited my old orthopaedic surgeon from when I was a teenager and he confirmed it was a pulled hamstring.
No running for 6 weeks.
I can walk, I can elliptical (have I mentioned that I HATE ellipticals? Boring!) and I can bike, but NO RUNNING. Well, he said I could start doing some short runs in 3 weeks, but absolutely no long runs for 6 weeks. Grrr...so obviously, didn't do my normal 30 - 40 APs this week, instead I did about 15.
Oh, and on top of my hamstring I also started having some stomach problems this week (probably from all the ibuprofen) and what do I eat when my stomach is upset? Well, I eat crackers and bread and other things to absorb the acid. And I "forgot" (more likely ignored) to track at least 3 days this week. Basically, I wasn't eating a well balanced diet like I usually do and thus was completely expecting to have, at best, a small weight gain this week.
But...
For some reason, I lost 2.8 pounds. Which is a lot for one week for anyone, but really a lot for someone in the last 5 pounds of their WLJ. I'm not complaining, but I'm a little confused by it. I guess sometimes your body just does what it wants.
New Stats:
Start Weight: 232.4
Current Weight: 146.8
Weight-loss to date: 84.6
Goal Weight: 145
Pounds to Goal: 1.8
Goals for this week: find something to do for activity that doesn't bore the crap out of me and go through my old clothes that are too big for me and purge to make room for new clothes!
Anyways, back to weight-loss...
This is one of those weeks I feel kind of guilty to report what I lost because I don't necessarily feel like I earned it. My body forced me to keep it real this week and stop being so obsessive because it revolted.
The week started out well enough, I went out to dinner and stuff over the weekend and on Monday did something I'd never done before IN MY LIFE: I ran, without walking or taking a break, for 45 minutes.
The longest I'd ever done before was 30 minutes (then I walk a bit and run again), I know that's big jump in time, but I was running and felt awesome at 30 minutes so I just kept running while paying close attention to my heart rate monitor (I use my HRM to tell me when I'm overdoing it) and it wasn't until minute 44 that it started going a little high. I did a quick 1 minute sprint (as I always do at the end of run) and then stopped. I was so proud of myself and overall felt great, so I walked a bit more to cool down and then stretched.
By that night my knees were a bit stiff, which I'd expected because anytime I up my time my arthritis acts up. So I iced and took some ibuprofen and elevated my legs when I went to bed...no biggie, right?
Wrong. My right knee was KILLING me on Tuesday, so my mother and I went to the pool and I did a lot of stretching and mobility exercises in the water before a long soak in the hot tub. It felt better, but I still needed ibuprofen just to walk around my house that night.
Wednesday, woke up feeling fine - yippee! Did some chores around the house and then arranged to meet a friend at the Y after my run to hot tub (yes, in Iowa "hot tub" is a verb). I'd decided I was ready after my 45 minute run on Monday to start the Bridge to 10k program and did Day 1 Week 1 of it. Didn't seem tough: 5 min. warm up, 10 min. run, 1 min. walk, 10 min. run...for a total of 40 min. of running and 13 min. walking. Easy peasy.
Um...yeah, for some reason, by the time I'd finished the 3rd interval my right knee was hurting again. WTF? 10 min. is nothing! I've been able to run that for a long time now! Only thing I can think of is the abrupt change in speeds might have caused the pain? Anyone who runs, please feel free to advise, as I'm still befuddled.
Anyways, hot tubbed with Brenda, then went home and realized this pain was completely different then just my knee hurting...it started in my knee but then went up the entire back of my thigh. I remembered having a similar pain when I was a catcher in softball and vaguely being told I had a pulled hamstring. Crap. I also remembered that when you pull your hamstring you are supposed to rest it for 6 weeks. That kind of kills my running plan of making it to 500 miles by July 1st. I wanted to be sure that's what it was so I visited my old orthopaedic surgeon from when I was a teenager and he confirmed it was a pulled hamstring.
No running for 6 weeks.
I can walk, I can elliptical (have I mentioned that I HATE ellipticals? Boring!) and I can bike, but NO RUNNING. Well, he said I could start doing some short runs in 3 weeks, but absolutely no long runs for 6 weeks. Grrr...so obviously, didn't do my normal 30 - 40 APs this week, instead I did about 15.
Oh, and on top of my hamstring I also started having some stomach problems this week (probably from all the ibuprofen) and what do I eat when my stomach is upset? Well, I eat crackers and bread and other things to absorb the acid. And I "forgot" (more likely ignored) to track at least 3 days this week. Basically, I wasn't eating a well balanced diet like I usually do and thus was completely expecting to have, at best, a small weight gain this week.
But...
For some reason, I lost 2.8 pounds. Which is a lot for one week for anyone, but really a lot for someone in the last 5 pounds of their WLJ. I'm not complaining, but I'm a little confused by it. I guess sometimes your body just does what it wants.
New Stats:
Start Weight: 232.4
Current Weight: 146.8
Weight-loss to date: 84.6
Goal Weight: 145
Pounds to Goal: 1.8
Goals for this week: find something to do for activity that doesn't bore the crap out of me and go through my old clothes that are too big for me and purge to make room for new clothes!
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