Norwalk: the worst way to lose weight

You know all those ads in magazines that promise that you will lose 10lbs in a week? I think they send you a bottle of the Norwalk virus. I bet those people don't know what they're getting into. I do.

So last night Dave and I were in the new GolfTown and I started to feel a bit nauseated. I thought it would pass so we left and went to my sister-in-law's place for dinner. Unfortunately it didn't go away so Dave went out and got me some gravol and ginger ale. We left after dinner because I was feeling progressively worse. We brought a plastic bag in the car on the way home (I had to use it!!). The rest of the night was just fubar. I'll save you the details. With all the water weight gone I weighed 5lbs lighter this morning. Craziness. It's taken me almost four hours today to eat a bowl of soup. Hopefully I feel better soon!

Off the wagon

I'm well into the "chip depression." Winter funk mixed with other stuff such as my thesis had compounded into a gigantic mess. On the upside eating has been delious. On the downside I probably can't do any manly pushups and I gained back all the weight I lost since christmas. I weighed in at 153.4lbs yesterday. It was the first time I stepped on the scale since I leap off the wagon.

I am planning to make next Tuesday back on the wagon day. Dave has promised to do a round of P90x with me. This plan is the goal. If I'm not ready then just some small steps in a postive direction would be good.

Winter done, bring on Spring!

So I actually learned a couple new things this winter in the department of fitness. I started hiking with snowshoes and I learned to snowboard! Snowboarding was great, except I have to learn to go faster! I have since found that it has made my ankle a lot stronger than it was before the surgery. I am pretty happy with that development.

Now on to Spring and Summer sports! I have already taken my bike out for it's first ride of the season! Did 11.97 km while Jim chased behind me on his rollerblades (it really wasn't fair but who is counting right?). He actually grabbed onto my seat at one point and dragged himself behind... that was a little tougher... made the legs burn!

I have been trying to do the gym at least 3 times a week, if not more. So far I have been succeeding... hoping to keep that up, but I am not sure what is going to happen once summer hits. I am going to want to be outside, not in a dungeon of a gym! No windows makes for a boring workout... more so when you get down there only to discover your ipod is dead... oh yeah, it happened. I am now doing this hybrid arm workout where I use the ball as well as a set of weights.

I also started Wii Activ. So I did a 20 some odd minute full tone workout last night on it and now it kinda hurts a little bit to walk. Basically if I did the exercise wrong it would wait until I got it right or it would make me redo it. So basically without screaming at me it made me do an entire workout properly. The music kind of sucks on it though, wishing I could plug some of my mp3's into it... but oh well. I have to admit I did swear at the virtual trainer a couple times... basically asking her in not so many words why she was making me do such an exercise. Gonna give it another try tomorrow night... maybe there will be less... or maybe more... swearing. Will report back with findings.

Mel

Good Riddance February!

February was not a super great month. I pulled my groin and skipped a week of workouts. Then I threw a temper tantrum and skipped another half week. Check out my workout schedule. Even though it's exactly half full, (which is great!) it's technically supposed to have only 4 days off. Oops! Due to my lack of effort in week 7 I am adding another week of P90x. A week 7 do-over.

My March resolution is to do much better. I want March to be pumped and as full of workouts as January was. Okay so at very least I will aim for 80% completion - honestly bad days are bound to happen.

Get "Beach Ready!"

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Feeling Blah

I've skipped my workouts for the last two days. Monday I was feeling sore and tired. I just wanted to sit on the couch and watch the oylmpics. Last night I actually got through 10 minutes of Legs & Back before I threw a temper tantrum and called it a night. I did the stretching routine and then I tried to attach my resistance band to the door attachment. Well for some reason this took me almost 15 minutes to accomplish. My cat has this irrational thing for the hallway in my apartment building and kept going outside. To go get her I have to open the door wider to get myself through and then the attachment falls out. I was really frustrated. Then I went to move some big tupperware boxes out of the way to make some room for the workout and the top one fell on me. So I threw a hissy-fit. I've been feeling overwhelmed lately with my thesis and life in general. Apparently it's not taking much to go over the top. I stopped the video, put on my PJs and sulked the rest of the night.

Trying to summon some motivation to get back to it today.

New Toys

At the beginning of starting P90x I bought some cheap resistance bands. I did some searching and I couldn't find any resistance bands that were latex-free. I figured I would try some latex ones out because the handle was made of a different material. So after many weeks of periodic hives I found some latex resistance bands with covers (sort of like the one shown) at Akfit, a local fitness store. I hope they work out!! I got the extra-heavy ones so my back routine should be much more intense.

While at Akfit I picked up some 8lb dumbells. There are a couple routines that I find 5lbs too easy and 10lbs too hard so I thought something in between will help me transition better. Maybe in another month I'll pick up two 12lb dumbells to add to my collection.