So my neck still hurts. It's a lot better, but it still hurts when I walk/run around...which I've ironically had to do a lot today. I locked myself out of my house about 45 minutes before work. "fine, ok, I'll just go." After getting a coffee, about 3/4 of the way to work, I realized that I did not have my food with me, so I thought, "Ok, I have enough time to get home, grab the thing, and get back to work if I really hustle, and I turned back towards my house to retrieve it. I did not realize until I was about 5 steps from the door that I did not have the keys to unlock it. So here I was with 15 minutes to work, and no food for the day. I hustled my butt to work, and hustled it to the supermarket in the 30 minute time I have to eat at work...all of this basically at a super fast walking pace. Sufficed to say, I am bushed. Especially cuz my neck hurt thru all of this, making it even less fun.
Anyway, now I gets to work out. Woo. Laters.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Somethin's up
Not 100% sure on the why, cuz there's a lot of factors, but I did something to my neck yesterday, and it's hurting like heck whenever I bend it in...most directions. This caused me to not sleep well last night, and concequently oversleep so I don't have time to jumprope and eat and still get to work on time. Gonna do jumprope when I get home, before I eat dinner. Hopefully by then my neck will be feeling better. Gonna see if I can take it easy today...something is obviously up with my upper back, and I'd prefer to not tweak a muscle. As of now, I'm the only one at work who has yet to do that, and I'd really like to keep that streak going.
Tonight is gonna be rough...gotta jumprope AND workout after work, which I don't usually do. Well, at least I have tomorrow off.
laters all. New pics will be up once I get the time.
Tonight is gonna be rough...gotta jumprope AND workout after work, which I don't usually do. Well, at least I have tomorrow off.
laters all. New pics will be up once I get the time.
Friday, August 27, 2010
plateau
So I've hit the plateau like a bug on a windshield. I feel like my whole body is heavier, and that everything is more difficult. I can complete the workouts, but I'm hitting failure on more than one exercise. Quite frankly, planks, pullups, and bicycles murder me. I'm REALLY hoping this passes soon, cuz it sucks.
Food wise, a-ok. Guacamole made, and it is delicious. I'm mostly just snarfing it with a spoon, but I used cucumber slices once, and it was awesome. I'm REALLY glad that we got the little bit of more food this week. Just one egg white and a bit of yogurt has made a massive difference in how hungry I feel throughout the day. Knowing now how my metabolism works, chances are I'm going to be hungry all the time again at the end of the week. Woo.
Just another 32 days to go. We can make it! Push thru team!
Food wise, a-ok. Guacamole made, and it is delicious. I'm mostly just snarfing it with a spoon, but I used cucumber slices once, and it was awesome. I'm REALLY glad that we got the little bit of more food this week. Just one egg white and a bit of yogurt has made a massive difference in how hungry I feel throughout the day. Knowing now how my metabolism works, chances are I'm going to be hungry all the time again at the end of the week. Woo.
Just another 32 days to go. We can make it! Push thru team!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
strange things and general dissmay
Ok....to start with, NEW PICS. Apparently I have more back than I deserve. Hells yeah to that.
Quick note...I can't wait until I get "before workout" and "after workout" snacks...cuz I'm STARVING thru my entire workout. I have to plan it out so I eat about a half hour to 45 minutes before I actually start so that I'm not too full, but have SOME food in there. Get on that, Patrick.
Now, down to the more meaty bits of what I wanna tell you, and the reason for the titling of this post.
Number 1: My indulgence was to go to a friends going away party. I had a slice of pizza, a bit of a cupcake, and a few drinks (not weak ones, either. This party was not the place fer mimosas.) To preface this, my brother was there, and a number of other people at least my size. I had as much as they did. Now, the weird part is that I didn't get drunk at all. I stayed sober thruout this party...but everyone else was shitfaced drunk, staggering and some of them falling down. It was a very odd experience, because I've always been a lightweight, and haven't actually had anything to drink in a LONG time. I do beleive that my body quite simply killed the alcohol. It was actually intensely disappointing, kinda like getting an ice cream for yer indulgence, and then discovering that it evaporates about 1/2 of an inch from yer tongue. Major disappointment. However, I wasn't hung over either.
Number 2: This is more of an uncertain dread thing. I may have scabies. Tiny mites that burrow under your skin, and live there, laying eggs and making homes INSIDE YOU! ugh. I don't have any of the signs yet, and I'm no more itchy than normal, but still. Just the thought that I may have it is enough to make me analyze every tiny bump on my skin and every little itch I feel so that they seem ENORMOUS and HORRIBLE. Ugh. At least it's easy to treat, if it turns out I do get it.
Anyway, those are the big things I have to report about. No fun fer me, it seems. Workouts/diet continue unabated. I'm not NEARLY as motivated to do anything as I used to be, and I REALLY want to sit down with some kind of junk food. Really...something like chips/salas, or quacamole. The truth is that if I really really wanted to, I could, but it'd take SO VERY MUCH work to make PcP acceptable chips/salsa...but it may be worth it. hmmmm.....
Also pullups suck.
That is all.
Quick note...I can't wait until I get "before workout" and "after workout" snacks...cuz I'm STARVING thru my entire workout. I have to plan it out so I eat about a half hour to 45 minutes before I actually start so that I'm not too full, but have SOME food in there. Get on that, Patrick.
Now, down to the more meaty bits of what I wanna tell you, and the reason for the titling of this post.
Number 1: My indulgence was to go to a friends going away party. I had a slice of pizza, a bit of a cupcake, and a few drinks (not weak ones, either. This party was not the place fer mimosas.) To preface this, my brother was there, and a number of other people at least my size. I had as much as they did. Now, the weird part is that I didn't get drunk at all. I stayed sober thruout this party...but everyone else was shitfaced drunk, staggering and some of them falling down. It was a very odd experience, because I've always been a lightweight, and haven't actually had anything to drink in a LONG time. I do beleive that my body quite simply killed the alcohol. It was actually intensely disappointing, kinda like getting an ice cream for yer indulgence, and then discovering that it evaporates about 1/2 of an inch from yer tongue. Major disappointment. However, I wasn't hung over either.
Number 2: This is more of an uncertain dread thing. I may have scabies. Tiny mites that burrow under your skin, and live there, laying eggs and making homes INSIDE YOU! ugh. I don't have any of the signs yet, and I'm no more itchy than normal, but still. Just the thought that I may have it is enough to make me analyze every tiny bump on my skin and every little itch I feel so that they seem ENORMOUS and HORRIBLE. Ugh. At least it's easy to treat, if it turns out I do get it.
Anyway, those are the big things I have to report about. No fun fer me, it seems. Workouts/diet continue unabated. I'm not NEARLY as motivated to do anything as I used to be, and I REALLY want to sit down with some kind of junk food. Really...something like chips/salas, or quacamole. The truth is that if I really really wanted to, I could, but it'd take SO VERY MUCH work to make PcP acceptable chips/salsa...but it may be worth it. hmmmm.....
Also pullups suck.
That is all.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
I'm bad at this.
So blogging. I suck at it. I seriously have no idea what to write. It's not that nothing is happening, or that I don't feel this that or the other thing that people usually feel on PcP. It's more that I tend towards privacy. If I don't talk about something within about 30 seconds of it actually happening, I don't care to tell anyone about it. This is true of conversation or blogging. Either way, I just don't really wanna write all that much these days. Which is probly because of the PcP.
I'm currently at a point where workouts are simply destroying my will to live and the diet feels like I'm being fenced in. It's not that either feels bad, or that they're too hard, it's just that I don't want to HAVE to do something any more. I feel as though if I had a little more freedom in the diet, I'd be able to keep up AND be happier. I realize this as being false, mostly cuz I don't really LIKE watching what I eat. I have a bad tendency of going for the quickest food. This being Burlington, it is a lot healthier than, say, mcdonalds, but it isn't exactly what I need now. And therein lies the problem. My desire to simply do what I want is in conflict with my intellect, which is saying "do what you should." Annoying.
anyway, other than that, not much to report. 60 second planks are officially made of poo. I fail mizerably at pullups. Can barely get thru 3 sets, let alone 4. Oh, and I couldn't jumprope that well this morning. woo woo the rest is boring. G'night.
I'm currently at a point where workouts are simply destroying my will to live and the diet feels like I'm being fenced in. It's not that either feels bad, or that they're too hard, it's just that I don't want to HAVE to do something any more. I feel as though if I had a little more freedom in the diet, I'd be able to keep up AND be happier. I realize this as being false, mostly cuz I don't really LIKE watching what I eat. I have a bad tendency of going for the quickest food. This being Burlington, it is a lot healthier than, say, mcdonalds, but it isn't exactly what I need now. And therein lies the problem. My desire to simply do what I want is in conflict with my intellect, which is saying "do what you should." Annoying.
anyway, other than that, not much to report. 60 second planks are officially made of poo. I fail mizerably at pullups. Can barely get thru 3 sets, let alone 4. Oh, and I couldn't jumprope that well this morning. woo woo the rest is boring. G'night.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
1/2!
half way. HALF WAY!
I'd be jumping up and down but I only just finished my workout, so that'll be real hard.
Ok, I admit it. I'm officially getting sick of some stuff. Muscular soreness in the mornings are horrible. This is new, cuz I recently switched my workouts to the evenings, cuz waking up at 9 for me is similar to anyone else waking up at 4 am. So now I wake up achey and cranky and generally in a foul mood.
Top off waking up sore and add on being tired of simultaneously burning thru food AND being massively hungry. I'm kind of frustrated by all this, and the wonderfulness of not really having a social life, or much of a social outlet is getting me a little on edge. No big anger bursts, but I find myself having a harder time dealing with difficult social situations. Work, namely, where I have to talk to people who have a hard time keeping a single conversation in a single decade. When you have to generally start any conversation in the middle, it gets hard if yer already rather peeved at the world in general.
I blame planks. I quite literally was unable to complete them the first day they hit 50 seconds. My arms, legs, back, and stomach all gave way in a slow, unhaltable slide to prone. I didn't fall...I didn't give up, but my body quite literally was unable to hold itself up no matter how I pushed. Seriously tired of planks. Don't even wanna think about the higher times. ugh.
Anyway. Continue. Cuz there's nothing else to it but to do it.
I'd be jumping up and down but I only just finished my workout, so that'll be real hard.
Ok, I admit it. I'm officially getting sick of some stuff. Muscular soreness in the mornings are horrible. This is new, cuz I recently switched my workouts to the evenings, cuz waking up at 9 for me is similar to anyone else waking up at 4 am. So now I wake up achey and cranky and generally in a foul mood.
Top off waking up sore and add on being tired of simultaneously burning thru food AND being massively hungry. I'm kind of frustrated by all this, and the wonderfulness of not really having a social life, or much of a social outlet is getting me a little on edge. No big anger bursts, but I find myself having a harder time dealing with difficult social situations. Work, namely, where I have to talk to people who have a hard time keeping a single conversation in a single decade. When you have to generally start any conversation in the middle, it gets hard if yer already rather peeved at the world in general.
I blame planks. I quite literally was unable to complete them the first day they hit 50 seconds. My arms, legs, back, and stomach all gave way in a slow, unhaltable slide to prone. I didn't fall...I didn't give up, but my body quite literally was unable to hold itself up no matter how I pushed. Seriously tired of planks. Don't even wanna think about the higher times. ugh.
Anyway. Continue. Cuz there's nothing else to it but to do it.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
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