Thank you for the birthday wishes ladies! 
It was quite the interesting birthday. I have been miserable the past week with abdominal pain/digestive issues and what I thought was another UTI. However, I found out two things this week. First, with the "chronic UTI's"...it's actually something called interstitial cystitis which is a chronic inflammatory condition, not infection. Remember how I said every time I went they would check my urine and it was always sterile? So, that is something I have to deal with. First and foremost, I have to totally stop drinking coffee and alcohol. I started this week going cold turkey on coffee and the caffeine withdrawal was not pretty. For my abdominal pain, I decided to go to the doctor where I was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer . She thinks I've had it over a year since when my first issues came up and I eliminated dairy. She said that stopping dairy will often help some with the symptoms but it doesn't resolve the underlying issue so things never get completely better and can wax and wane (which is exactly what I've been experiencing!). She was in agreement with my self diagnosis of interstitial cystitis, too. She sort of chuckled and was like "yep, your coffee days are over" The ironic thing this week was because I was going through caffeine withdrawal I was using ibuprofen and Excedrin Migraine to cope...which is REALLY bad for stomach ulcers! She is also testing me for Helicobacter pylori (the ulcer causing bacterium) so if I have that the treatment will be pretty straightforward, thank goodness!!
So despite my tale of woe I did get my workout in yesterday. LOL I wasn't feeling great, but I was determined to get that Cathe lower body in! First I did Lean Legs premix: w/u, compound legs and chair/firewalker then went to Great Glutes all except the disappointing chair/fw bonus section. I wasn't initially going to do the floor work but I decided at the last minute to go for it. My knees held up okay being on all fours, but I'm still leery of it based on the past flare ups I had. With that in mind, during the Lean Legs I subbed the part where she is on her knees and leans back with clamshells. Perfect!
I loved the lower body workouts SO much more than I thought I would! I made sure to up the challenge where ever I could, though. I wore my 8lb weight vest and usually used heavier dumbells then Cathe (except where she used them with upper/lower combined). I also used the green band instead of the pink one. I loved the firewalker stuff in Lean Legs! Skaters with the band and the zig zag walk were awesome!
Dang, just got a file...Be back in a bit for personals!
It was quite the interesting birthday. I have been miserable the past week with abdominal pain/digestive issues and what I thought was another UTI. However, I found out two things this week. First, with the "chronic UTI's"...it's actually something called interstitial cystitis which is a chronic inflammatory condition, not infection. Remember how I said every time I went they would check my urine and it was always sterile? So, that is something I have to deal with. First and foremost, I have to totally stop drinking coffee and alcohol.
I started this week going cold turkey on coffee and the caffeine withdrawal was not pretty. For my abdominal pain, I decided to go to the doctor where I was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer . She thinks I've had it over a year since when my first issues came up and I eliminated dairy. She said that stopping dairy will often help some with the symptoms but it doesn't resolve the underlying issue so things never get completely better and can wax and wane (which is exactly what I've been experiencing!). She was in agreement with my self diagnosis of interstitial cystitis, too. She sort of chuckled and was like "yep, your coffee days are over" The ironic thing this week was because I was going through caffeine withdrawal I was using ibuprofen and Excedrin Migraine to cope...which is REALLY bad for stomach ulcers! She is also testing me for Helicobacter pylori (the ulcer causing bacterium) so if I have that the treatment will be pretty straightforward, thank goodness!!So despite my tale of woe I did get my workout in yesterday. LOL I wasn't feeling great, but I was determined to get that Cathe lower body in! First I did Lean Legs premix: w/u, compound legs and chair/firewalker then went to Great Glutes all except the disappointing chair/fw bonus section. I wasn't initially going to do the floor work but I decided at the last minute to go for it. My knees held up okay being on all fours, but I'm still leery of it based on the past flare ups I had. With that in mind, during the Lean Legs I subbed the part where she is on her knees and leans back with clamshells. Perfect!
I loved the lower body workouts SO much more than I thought I would! I made sure to up the challenge where ever I could, though. I wore my 8lb weight vest and usually used heavier dumbells then Cathe (except where she used them with upper/lower combined). I also used the green band instead of the pink one. I loved the firewalker stuff in Lean Legs! Skaters with the band and the zig zag walk were awesome!
Dang, just got a file...Be back in a bit for personals!
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