6 month alumni Sunday

[FourAM]

Good morning to all that follow.

Let me tell you, I have been on a whirl wind this week. I think I have not really been sick or felt bad for so many years I can not remember the last time. Aside from a cold that might have lasted a couple of days but nothing that made me question my health and really think something might be wrong with me. I do not want to get my hopes up to soon but as of right now I feel great and the thought of food does not make me want to throw up.! I think I lost 4 # this week. I only had one day this week where I felt good and I did not wake up feeling that way. That is why I did some yoga instead of the schedule workout. (june Rotation) That day I went to work and felt my normal fiery self. But then it was right back to having no appetite and the thought of anything I had to eat here in the house making me want to give up food for good. Needless to say by yesterday my energy stores were all depleted and I did not do the KPC as touted for Saturday ,sorry Cendrine, I feel like I am letting you down as a workout buddy! I don't want to sound like a baby but by yesterday I was so discouraged by the whole thing that I had a good cry over it. I really did not want to do that and tried to hide it from DH because I knew if he saw me crying about feeling bad he would get worried but I just could not hold it. Don't you hate that? Sometimes the internet can be your worst enemy when you have too much info at your fingertips and start typing in symptoms and of course the first thing that always comes back is 'cancer'. I think no matter what symptoms you put in it always comes back that way.

I am hoping that whatever it was it is over but I do not want to press my luck. If it is a little bit of over-training I don't want what happened to me on Wed. repeat itself by jumping right back into it tomorrow. I think I will play it by ear and see how tired I feel when I get up tomorrow. If I am feeling refreshed like I feel today I will give it a whirl!

I will try to be back later to let yall know how it is going!

Rachel

 

[cendrine]

Rachel, you are not letting me down as a workout buddy! On the contrary, the fact that you are listening to your body is acutally reinforcing my own attempts at trying to listen to my body rather than just blindly follow a plan that does not take into account what goes on in the rest of the day! So please don't ever feel like you have to apologize, in fact I commend you for choosing to give your body what it needs, please continue to do so!
I know what you mean about symptoms and cancer. After my ds was born I had an enlarged thyroid and they had to schedule a biopsy. Scared me half to death! The good news is that it didn't show anything and I have since managed to get off the medicine which the doctor said I was going to be on for the rest of my life!
I hope that you continue to feel well. It might be a good idea to watch your heartrate this week and try not to go over 70% to give your body more time to recover. For your own peace of mind, though, it might be a good idea to get a thorough physical. When's the last time you had one?
Well, I gotta get going here, but will be back later, too!

Hi everyone else!

 

[FourAM]

Thanks Cendrine, you give me such a good peace of mind.

I woke up this morning at 6:30 which is sleeping in for me so it felt great, but then after I got off the computer I just got so tired so I got back in bed at about 9, fell asleep at about 10 watching Girls Girls Girls w/ Elvis (sometimes you just need corny) and got up at about 1. Right now I feel the best I have felt all week. So we will see. This is our last hard week at our job I think so I am going to see how it goes but I think I might take the week off. Maybe some light yoga or something. I have my yearly OBGyn appointment on Friday so I think I will tell her all of these things even if I feel better by then. I really am starting to think it was a case of exhaustion. For Dh and I both. He layed back down with me and has not got up yet. We have a pretty stressful and strenuous job sometimes and working 6 days a week I think has just gotten the better of us. And then I throw in getting up and working out those same 6 days and trying to eat clean and these things being always on my mind...Well I think it just finally caught up with me. So if I do take the week off I will probably start back up with week three of the June rotation the following week. It will be hard for me to do this because even on recovery weeks I did at least 3 days of cardio.

So now onto something else.
Tonight, since I have not been eating much here lately, I am going to eat the same thing I fix for DH which rarely happens. But while I feel like I can eat I am going to. It will be a true southern supper. I found this recipe for onion ring fried chicken in the Food Network Mag and it looks so good. So it will be the chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans with bacon and sliced tomatoes and probably some broccoli for me. Maybe biscuits. We will see how I feel. I know this is not a clean meal at all but I am going to cut my self some slack since I haven't really for a long time.

Cendrine-Please keep filling me in on the rotation though. I am going to keep my eye on how I feel and maybe by Friday I can start up again. I hate taking any kind of meds for any reason so I bet it is a relief that you do not have to take the thyroid medication any longer. Cancer is the #1 killer in my mom's side of the family so it is hard to not let your mind wonder to the dark side sometimes, esp. when you just feel so crappy. I am normally not like that but constantly feeling bad for a whole week esp. the loss of appetite had me worried. I am sure I will be looking back at this in a month when I am back eating everything in sight, wishing for a little loss

I hope you have had a great day. I have done absolutely nothing and I think I will continue that trend!

See you tomorrow!
Rachel

 

[cab0899]

Went for a 4.5 mile run with two friends this morning. DH came and ran at the same park but he did 6 miles while we did our 4.5 miles I think I'm getting a bit of plantar fascitis, in all my years of running I've never had an injury so will have to watch it over the next few weeks.

DH and I worked at putting the new shed up in the light rain but once it started to pour we gave it up and are just having a lazy afternoon. Got to take ds to hockey practice this evening though.

Rachael, I'm so glad that you're feeling better today. Why don't you try taking a recovery week and not working out for a week??

Hope everyone is having a good day. Kim

 

[cendrine]

I think taking a recovery week would be a good idea, too. I'm glad you have an appointment so soon, will your doc do complete bloodwork for you? That would be nice if you could do a one stop visit.
Enjoy your southern meal today! sounds yummy! I'm glad you went back and slept some more too! Great job doing what your body is asking for!

Kim, sorry that your shed building plans are getting rained out! I get rather frustrated when i had planned something and then the weather doesn't play along... Here in southern california we are pretty spoiled, so you kind of start taking cooperative weather for granted and then when it doesn't cooperate you get reminded that you are really blessed...LOL!

Good job on the run, but sorry to hear about PF, I hope you can nurse it back to health without much trouble!

As far as STS weights go, I had adjusted the weights on my first run through, so they are all a bit heavier than I started out with in the beginning, I think the ones that were off were just a computer glitch of some kind, because it was so way off, it wasn't ever like that the first printout...
Next week, I noticed, is almost all sts free, except for some plyo legs...