When I went to the gym Monday night my r'ball partner didn't show so I worked out my legs for the first time in 3 months...and when I woke up yesterday and wasn't sore I thought that maybe I took it too easy on myself....BUT when I woke up this morning and went to get out of bed...OMG...I almost fell on my face..(it didn't help that I was late and the sheet was wrapped around my legs) ...every muscle in my legs were SCREAMING at me...especially those muscles in my inner thighs...the only time I want to feel those muscles Is when I've had GOOD SEX..
I'm playing r'ball tonight and hopefully my muscles will loosen up by then...if my partner doesn't show up again then I think I'll just do some cardio...on what ever machine is available (except the stair monster which I know I'm not ready for yet..it kicks my butt every time).
Last night I broke every rule I've made for myself as far as my foods goes...I ate late, just before going to bed, and I had some Sugar...which I know gives me heartburn big time....So anyway I wake up around 3 am choking on acid in my throat...got up and threw up, peeing on myself because I didn't have time to go to the bathroom and I have no bladder control anymore...So after I cleaned myself up and ate a couple of tums (to get rid of that acidity taste in my mouth) ...I gave myself the biggest Lecture...I HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY BODY or it will punish me...
So believe me the next time I'm feeling good and EE TELLS ME that a little sugar won't hurt me...I'M NOT LISTENING.....I know better and I'm not falling for that again...
I do have to admit that it does help me stay away from foods that I know I don't need..because it's not just that it will make me gain weight (or hinder my losing weight) it's that my body doesn't react well to most foods that people eat ...I know if I eat RED MEAT I will get gas & diarrhea, if I do milk products I will get congested, if I eat sugar I will get Heartburn....so it's Fresh Veggies & Fruit for me...
Yesterday I put MY Weight Struggles on my page...it's hard to realize that I had reached my goal of 169 lbs and then fell back into bad eating habits which made me not only gain weight but gave me medical problems..You would think I would Learn by now...
I'm setting myself more weight goals....I want to weigh 180 by my B'day in April and by the end of the summer I want to be down to 170...My ultimate weight goal in life is still 159...I believe I can do it with a lot of hard work...
Showing posts with label Gym. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gym. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Yay, It's Saturday
I don't have anything planned for today except to clean up the house a little which is a never ending job. My question is how can a place get so messy when there's only me here??? I swear everywhere I look I see used Kleenex's and it seems like I'm always picking them up and putting them in the trash..at least my dishes are in the dishwasher and ready to run when it gets full (which takes about a week)...I can't wait to feel better and to get my breathing under control again so I can paint my guest bathroom..I cleaned it this morning and I really hate how dirty the walls seem..it's been over 15 years since I've painted in there and it really needs it..I wish I could afford to upgrade the sink and lighting..I do have my dreams (although I've decided putting a bookcase where the bathtub is won't work..lol)..but need to just hold onto them and wait till I catch up on some bills ......
I'm done with my Saturday morning calls for the American Kidney Services..I swear This week's call list was 4 pages of #s of Old Old Old People and believe it or not I loved talking to them..One lady had just lost her oldest daughter to cancer this past week and was apologizing to me because she wasn't up to getting anything together at this time to donate..Then there was the older gentleman who just lost his wife the day before..he too apologized that he didn't have anything this time but said to call him back the next time we were in his area...he was so nice.
I have so far (I still have 3 more days to call back the one's I couldn't reach) 40 definite yes for donations and 20 maybes (which is funny because it's like these old people don't want to say No and hurt my feelings, last week I had a total of 4 maybe's) I will call ALL of them back the Tues before just to confirm and hopefully some of the maybes will turn into Yes's (although it would surprise me)...My first week of calls I had 42 Confirmed pickups scheduled and the drivers actually picked up 38 which is an 88% pickup rate...and that's what I get paid on is how many of the confirmed pick up actually get picked up..I figured that at this rate I'm being paid $6 an hour. I guess that's not too bad for part time work done at home and my own leisure..but I'm sure not going to get rich this way...I'm still playing the lottery...it's my only hope of really getting rich since I have no rich relatives waiting to die...at least the monies from this job will help out. Even if it's only a little, I'm still ahead of where I would be if I don't do anything..I can tell you this..it's a lot less stress than driving a School Bus...Whew!!
I've been thinking about cancelling my membership with the gym. It's $40 a month that I could put toward my other bills and truthfully I haven't been using it enough to justify keeping it..I know I keep saying I'll get back into it but I've mainly been keeping it so I can play racquetball which I love and there isn't anywhere else I can play but I've only been averaging 1 day a week..that's $10 each time I play..that's pretty expensive for 1 hour ...I can work out at home and also get back into running at the park (which I really loved) for cardio so I don't really need. I'm also trying to start up a fitness group with Thus Fit...not sure how to juggle all I want to do with the time I've got..still looking at my options.
Just Mainly trying to get my life back to Normal (what ever that is), health wise at least..
It seems like , with my health , it's like being pregnant.... in the morning I have so much trouble breathing and am all congested and then after 1 pm I'm feeling better, not so much trouble breathing and only have to blow my nose every once in awhile..I just want to get back to feeling good again...I've been real careful with my diet...no processed sugar. But for last night when I got the biggest urge for pizza..so I got a DiGiorno Spinach Mushroom frozen pizza and had 2 slices (wrapped the rest for later in the week). I should have stuck to only one but it tasted sooooo goood...it did make me a little sick last night..my stomach cramped up and I got some heartburn..but it didn't make me cough...I figure it was the tomato sauce on the pizza but I could not find a frozen pizza at the store that didn't have a tomato sauce...I used to buy Amy's Roasted Veggie pizza (which had tomato's but no sauce on it) but Wally World (where I do most of my food shopping) doesn't carry it...they do carry some of Amy's other dishes but not the pizza's..Now I'm afraid to try to eat any more of the pizza I have but I don't want to waste it...so it's a dilemma for me..for now it'll stay in the freezer so when I can't stand the urge any more I can microwave me 1 slice...
Oh yeah...let me tell you what I won't ever fix again...this morning I didn't have enough dried cranberries for my oatmeal so I added some frozen blueberries to my water...which changed the color to a pretty red and when I added the oatmeal to it...it still didn't look bad...but then I added my whipped egg white and all of a sudden the mixture turned a horrible PURPLE color...it reminded me of this horrible mixture that my older sister used to make that she called Goulash..
As for taste..after I added my honey and I closed my eyes while eating it..it actually didn't taste too bad...but I'm telling you it was Slimy & UGLY Looking.....so much for experimenting with what I do have..I love my oatmeal in the morning and have been trying to think of things I can add to it and get my fruit in for the day...dried apples work good if I add some cinnamon...and have been thinking bout trying the dried mixed fruit..but after this morning now I'm afraid...but never say die is my motto for today..
Need to go make some flash cards for my French lessons so I can be ready for tomorrow when the group meets at the French Bakery. Talk about temptation..but I all ready know that I can't eat anything there. Will just have some tea.
'A la prochaine Mon Amies
I'm done with my Saturday morning calls for the American Kidney Services..I swear This week's call list was 4 pages of #s of Old Old Old People and believe it or not I loved talking to them..One lady had just lost her oldest daughter to cancer this past week and was apologizing to me because she wasn't up to getting anything together at this time to donate..Then there was the older gentleman who just lost his wife the day before..he too apologized that he didn't have anything this time but said to call him back the next time we were in his area...he was so nice.
I have so far (I still have 3 more days to call back the one's I couldn't reach) 40 definite yes for donations and 20 maybes (which is funny because it's like these old people don't want to say No and hurt my feelings, last week I had a total of 4 maybe's) I will call ALL of them back the Tues before just to confirm and hopefully some of the maybes will turn into Yes's (although it would surprise me)...My first week of calls I had 42 Confirmed pickups scheduled and the drivers actually picked up 38 which is an 88% pickup rate...and that's what I get paid on is how many of the confirmed pick up actually get picked up..I figured that at this rate I'm being paid $6 an hour. I guess that's not too bad for part time work done at home and my own leisure..but I'm sure not going to get rich this way...I'm still playing the lottery...it's my only hope of really getting rich since I have no rich relatives waiting to die...at least the monies from this job will help out. Even if it's only a little, I'm still ahead of where I would be if I don't do anything..I can tell you this..it's a lot less stress than driving a School Bus...Whew!!
I've been thinking about cancelling my membership with the gym. It's $40 a month that I could put toward my other bills and truthfully I haven't been using it enough to justify keeping it..I know I keep saying I'll get back into it but I've mainly been keeping it so I can play racquetball which I love and there isn't anywhere else I can play but I've only been averaging 1 day a week..that's $10 each time I play..that's pretty expensive for 1 hour ...I can work out at home and also get back into running at the park (which I really loved) for cardio so I don't really need. I'm also trying to start up a fitness group with Thus Fit...not sure how to juggle all I want to do with the time I've got..still looking at my options.
Just Mainly trying to get my life back to Normal (what ever that is), health wise at least..
It seems like , with my health , it's like being pregnant.... in the morning I have so much trouble breathing and am all congested and then after 1 pm I'm feeling better, not so much trouble breathing and only have to blow my nose every once in awhile..I just want to get back to feeling good again...I've been real careful with my diet...no processed sugar. But for last night when I got the biggest urge for pizza..so I got a DiGiorno Spinach Mushroom frozen pizza and had 2 slices (wrapped the rest for later in the week). I should have stuck to only one but it tasted sooooo goood...it did make me a little sick last night..my stomach cramped up and I got some heartburn..but it didn't make me cough...I figure it was the tomato sauce on the pizza but I could not find a frozen pizza at the store that didn't have a tomato sauce...I used to buy Amy's Roasted Veggie pizza (which had tomato's but no sauce on it) but Wally World (where I do most of my food shopping) doesn't carry it...they do carry some of Amy's other dishes but not the pizza's..Now I'm afraid to try to eat any more of the pizza I have but I don't want to waste it...so it's a dilemma for me..for now it'll stay in the freezer so when I can't stand the urge any more I can microwave me 1 slice...
Oh yeah...let me tell you what I won't ever fix again...this morning I didn't have enough dried cranberries for my oatmeal so I added some frozen blueberries to my water...which changed the color to a pretty red and when I added the oatmeal to it...it still didn't look bad...but then I added my whipped egg white and all of a sudden the mixture turned a horrible PURPLE color...it reminded me of this horrible mixture that my older sister used to make that she called Goulash..
As for taste..after I added my honey and I closed my eyes while eating it..it actually didn't taste too bad...but I'm telling you it was Slimy & UGLY Looking.....so much for experimenting with what I do have..I love my oatmeal in the morning and have been trying to think of things I can add to it and get my fruit in for the day...dried apples work good if I add some cinnamon...and have been thinking bout trying the dried mixed fruit..but after this morning now I'm afraid...but never say die is my motto for today..
Need to go make some flash cards for my French lessons so I can be ready for tomorrow when the group meets at the French Bakery. Talk about temptation..but I all ready know that I can't eat anything there. Will just have some tea.
'A la prochaine Mon Amies
Friday, January 09, 2009
Life is about to take another turn!
I heard from the American Kidney Services and started working on the call list tonight..And I'm not sure I'm really ready for this...EE & MM are both having fits...
FACT ....I need monies to pay off my credit cards and driving bus just doesn't pay enough so I KNOW I need a part time job.
The customer service job from home seems like a good deal. The work is a no brainer. There is no sales involved, no traveling and no boss looking over my shoulder all the time....It's calling from home and it will take 3 nights of my free time and my Saturday morning . It's definitely something I can do. The thing is I've been crunching the #'s and I'm not sure that it's going to be worth my time (EE & MM talking)....It is Commission (and that's how I got in this mess with the credit cards in the first place, working at the gym on commission only) At the worst I figure I'll be earning about $5/hr . Supposedly the potential is there to make more (that's always the story with commission)....and after taxes who knows what I will end up. I really haven't checked into any other part time jobs so I don't know what the pay is out there for the kind of work that I would qualify for...I figure it's not much more. I do know if I don't do SOMETHING I won't make even that....unless I win the lottery...and so far I haven't had any luck on that one...
So I'm committed to do a least this call list which is 10 pages long (around 700#s) out of which I need at least 35 hits...Tonight I spent 45 mins calling around 30 # and got 3 hits..I figure 10 more hours and I might make it....I will come home tomorrow night and hit it hard then call on Sat morning...that should give me an idea how this job is going to go...
Oh yeah, I didn't go to the gym tonight (I listened to MM & EE) thinking I would go tomorrow night and get a good leg work out but now I know that's not going to happen...I came home to work on the seating chart for my Elementary School and then I got the call from my new supervisor and we had to spend time on the phone going over the ins & outs of the call list so I missed eating dinner until after I got done with the calls (after 9 pm) and I let myself get really hungry
and as always when I'm faced with changes I go to the kitchen and eat everything I can find...so there goes that out the window tonight...now I'm busy coughing and I know I'm not going to be able to sleep because of all the things going around in my head....Coming here seems to help a little though so who knows.....Thank God tomorrow is Friday...And I WILL get back on track with my eating...I have to My Health won't let me do anything else....
FACT ....I need monies to pay off my credit cards and driving bus just doesn't pay enough so I KNOW I need a part time job.
The customer service job from home seems like a good deal. The work is a no brainer. There is no sales involved, no traveling and no boss looking over my shoulder all the time....It's calling from home and it will take 3 nights of my free time and my Saturday morning . It's definitely something I can do. The thing is I've been crunching the #'s and I'm not sure that it's going to be worth my time (EE & MM talking)....It is Commission (and that's how I got in this mess with the credit cards in the first place, working at the gym on commission only) At the worst I figure I'll be earning about $5/hr . Supposedly the potential is there to make more (that's always the story with commission)....and after taxes who knows what I will end up. I really haven't checked into any other part time jobs so I don't know what the pay is out there for the kind of work that I would qualify for...I figure it's not much more. I do know if I don't do SOMETHING I won't make even that....unless I win the lottery...and so far I haven't had any luck on that one...
So I'm committed to do a least this call list which is 10 pages long (around 700#s) out of which I need at least 35 hits...Tonight I spent 45 mins calling around 30 # and got 3 hits..I figure 10 more hours and I might make it....I will come home tomorrow night and hit it hard then call on Sat morning...that should give me an idea how this job is going to go...
Oh yeah, I didn't go to the gym tonight (I listened to MM & EE) thinking I would go tomorrow night and get a good leg work out but now I know that's not going to happen...I came home to work on the seating chart for my Elementary School and then I got the call from my new supervisor and we had to spend time on the phone going over the ins & outs of the call list so I missed eating dinner until after I got done with the calls (after 9 pm) and I let myself get really hungry
and as always when I'm faced with changes I go to the kitchen and eat everything I can find...so there goes that out the window tonight...now I'm busy coughing and I know I'm not going to be able to sleep because of all the things going around in my head....Coming here seems to help a little though so who knows.....Thank God tomorrow is Friday...And I WILL get back on track with my eating...I have to My Health won't let me do anything else....
Thursday, January 08, 2009
How I love the gym!
For the past two years it's been hit or miss with me going to the gym except to play racquetball and even that has had it's down times...mostly I make excuses not to go...it's been so bad that a few times I drove to the gym and sat in my truck and read, then left without going inside....Then I'll have spurts where I go for a couple of weeks, work out half heartily (telling myself that I'm giving it my all) and then come home and vegetate...I think I got burned out on the gym when I worked there...at least that is what I tell myself...but the truth is the gym I go to isn't the one I worked at so I really can't use that as an excuse...
I almost had myself talked out of going last night..I started to listen to Moanin' Mona (MM) about how tired I was and to Evil Eva (EE) about how it's too far to drive and I would get home too late...and I would miss dinner....but since I had my bag already packed and in the truck and I also had the rest of the apple and cabbage from my earlier snack I decided to find out JUST how far it really was to the gym from where I park my truck and how long it would take me to get there...it took me 25 mins and it was 12 miles (remember this is during the rush hour) although it's further for me to drive home it still is not as bad as EE made it sound..
So I get to the gym, do my stretching, talk to another lady there who is stretching, she shows me another stretch for the hamstring that I hadn't tried before. Then I got on the treadmill and walked 1.5 miles for 25 mins...there was this nice guy running next to me and we talked for a while..he wanted to know where I've been...he said that he used to see me there ALL the time and then I stopped coming...told me people noticed...Whoooooo Scary... I also ran into a couple of friends that I haven't seen for a long time...I love gym rats...I want to be that gym rat again...teehehehhe...anyway I worked up a good sweat on the treadmill...it's hard starting over but I know I have to start...hopefully it won't take long to get back to where I was two years ago when I could run 3 miles in 30 mins...my breathing gave me some problems but nothing I couldn't get past..and I didn't cough at all until I got off the treadmill....then I did some bi's, tri's and chest weights...again met a couple of people that I use to see all the time....I was home by 8 pm....fixed me a spinach salad with one of the boiled eggs and a veggie burger with a slice of melted veggie Swiss on it.. which satisfied me...the I sat and watched the New Biggest Loser...these people make me look like a stick and they lost boo cooo weight in 1 week...I always did say that that show was SO unrealistic....I mean who could work that hard in the gym the first day for 6 hrs and still be able to move the next day...there's something wrong with this picture..I mean I think it's great that they lose weight and all but it kinda discourages me thinking that here I am with 50 lbs to lose which I figure will take me months to lose and they lose 30 lbs in one week (of course the guys that lost that weighed over 400 lbs).
I also went to the gym tonight to play racquetball, the other night I could only play 2 games, it was 3 tonight...As I was leaving ran into girlfriend that used to work out with (we also partied together a couple of times) so I had to catch up on all her new...she's now working out at the gym that I used to work at which is closer to home for her but is thinking about coming back to this gym because she misses all the old gang...It's great to have a support group....My arms are a little sore from last night but nothing that I can't live with...The plan is to go back tomorrow night and do legs and back...
Came home and fixed a light supper of noodles/sausage/onion/squash/zucchini/spinach with a splash of balsamic vinegar...it was delicious and I only fixed enough for one bowl so no left overs to tempt me...
I'm feeling pretty good about myself and am making some plans for how I want to go forward to making goals and reaching them...
I almost had myself talked out of going last night..I started to listen to Moanin' Mona (MM) about how tired I was and to Evil Eva (EE) about how it's too far to drive and I would get home too late...and I would miss dinner....but since I had my bag already packed and in the truck and I also had the rest of the apple and cabbage from my earlier snack I decided to find out JUST how far it really was to the gym from where I park my truck and how long it would take me to get there...it took me 25 mins and it was 12 miles (remember this is during the rush hour) although it's further for me to drive home it still is not as bad as EE made it sound..
So I get to the gym, do my stretching, talk to another lady there who is stretching, she shows me another stretch for the hamstring that I hadn't tried before. Then I got on the treadmill and walked 1.5 miles for 25 mins...there was this nice guy running next to me and we talked for a while..he wanted to know where I've been...he said that he used to see me there ALL the time and then I stopped coming...told me people noticed...Whoooooo Scary... I also ran into a couple of friends that I haven't seen for a long time...I love gym rats...I want to be that gym rat again...teehehehhe...anyway I worked up a good sweat on the treadmill...it's hard starting over but I know I have to start...hopefully it won't take long to get back to where I was two years ago when I could run 3 miles in 30 mins...my breathing gave me some problems but nothing I couldn't get past..and I didn't cough at all until I got off the treadmill....then I did some bi's, tri's and chest weights...again met a couple of people that I use to see all the time....I was home by 8 pm....fixed me a spinach salad with one of the boiled eggs and a veggie burger with a slice of melted veggie Swiss on it.. which satisfied me...the I sat and watched the New Biggest Loser...these people make me look like a stick and they lost boo cooo weight in 1 week...I always did say that that show was SO unrealistic....I mean who could work that hard in the gym the first day for 6 hrs and still be able to move the next day...there's something wrong with this picture..I mean I think it's great that they lose weight and all but it kinda discourages me thinking that here I am with 50 lbs to lose which I figure will take me months to lose and they lose 30 lbs in one week (of course the guys that lost that weighed over 400 lbs).
I also went to the gym tonight to play racquetball, the other night I could only play 2 games, it was 3 tonight...As I was leaving ran into girlfriend that used to work out with (we also partied together a couple of times) so I had to catch up on all her new...she's now working out at the gym that I used to work at which is closer to home for her but is thinking about coming back to this gym because she misses all the old gang...It's great to have a support group....My arms are a little sore from last night but nothing that I can't live with...The plan is to go back tomorrow night and do legs and back...
Came home and fixed a light supper of noodles/sausage/onion/squash/zucchini/spinach with a splash of balsamic vinegar...it was delicious and I only fixed enough for one bowl so no left overs to tempt me...
I'm feeling pretty good about myself and am making some plans for how I want to go forward to making goals and reaching them...
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