Not only did I gain an eighth of a pound, I had a low step count for the past week. Which really sucked cause it was beyond my control.
Last Tuesday I took as my rest day so I only got 2736 steps. Then Thursday I was out of town for Music Man's doctor's appointment and got only 2073 steps. Okay, no problem I knew I could come back strong. Friday I had a great day with 4959 steps only to wake up on Saturday morning unable to put weight on my left heel. So I took it really easy on Saturday. Sunday it was still tender but not like it had been so I felt like I could do more.
Oh and yesterday morning, I woke up to find the bargain laundry soap I bought makes me break out. So, I'm itchy today and really just want it to stop, which means I'm not getting 4500 steps today mainly cause I don't want to get sweaty. It makes the itching worse.
I also need to be drinking way more water. That would actually probably help with the itching.
Okay, I'm off to drink some water and put on more Benadryl cream and hope the itching stops soon.
Have a great week!
Monday, May 30, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
Upping My Step Count
I'm upping my step count to 4500 steps a day today. That's going to hurt, just FYI. I'm pretty confident it's going to hurt cause it already does.
I did lose 2 pounds this week though so I'm pretty happy about that.
This is a terrible picture of my new Fitbit Alta. I love it. It shows me the time, my step count, active minutes, distance walked, calories burned, the battery level, and what time I have my alarm set for. I love the alarm. It doesn't make noise it vibrates. That is a nice feature if your husband wants to get up at 5 and you think he's insane and plan to sleep till noon. Or vice versa. You know, whatever works.
I had been using a Fitbit One. I loved my One. It was awesome. I had noticed though that I would be way more tired than my step count would indicate. After actually counting steps and comparing my count with my One, I had no option but to conclude it wasn't accurate anymore.
Which is kind of funny cause it was consistently 25% off. Which I guess is sort of accurate but I didn't want to add 25% to my total everyday. So, we got a new tracker for me. It seems to be much more accurate.
Music Man watched me walk from our SUV to the house today and noticed my body is moving differently. He said my butt is getting more toned, which made my giggle cause it means I am quite literally walking my ass off, as well as my posture is improving. That's partly all the walking but also me being very conscious of my posture the last few weeks. Kind of nice to have it noticed.
Speaking of Music Man, he rubbed my hamstrings and calves for a bit this afternoon. Heaven! Oh it felt so wonderful. After it quite hurting, that is.
My legs get exceptionally tight and just touching them can be quite painful. They've been like that since I was about 8 years old and I was roller skating for hours a day. Having him massage those tight muscles hurt so bad at first. Then it felt so good. I actually cried while he was doing it. Not from the pain but a deeper emotional release. So glad he did it. I can feel them tightening up again and know I'm going to have to ask him to do it again this evening.
A friend of mine, okay technically she was my sister's best friend in junior high and into high school, I'm going to call her The Sweetheart, cause she's such a sweetie, did a 5K run over the weekend. It was a black-light run, so it took place at night. They have different zones and they douse you in black-light powder, then they have black-lights all over the place. The whole thing is for charity and it looks like so much fun.
She mentioned another one was coming up in August. I asked her to send me information on it and she did first thing the next morning. So now I have a goal. I'm going to do this 5K in August. I'm hoping to get some friends and family to do it with me, I'll do it alone if I have to. I've never done anything like this before but I know I can do this. And I am looking forward to it.
Okay, here is this week's inspiration:
It reads: SORE. THE MOST SATISFYING PAIN.
My feet really hurt today so I'm using this to keep me going and to meet my step goal for the day.
Oh and this week's inspiration is not from the wall at my gym but from Pinterest. There are a lot of inspirational quotes on there. I've saved a bunch of them but thought this one was most appropriate for me today.
Have a great week and go do something!
I did lose 2 pounds this week though so I'm pretty happy about that.
I had been using a Fitbit One. I loved my One. It was awesome. I had noticed though that I would be way more tired than my step count would indicate. After actually counting steps and comparing my count with my One, I had no option but to conclude it wasn't accurate anymore.
Which is kind of funny cause it was consistently 25% off. Which I guess is sort of accurate but I didn't want to add 25% to my total everyday. So, we got a new tracker for me. It seems to be much more accurate.
Music Man watched me walk from our SUV to the house today and noticed my body is moving differently. He said my butt is getting more toned, which made my giggle cause it means I am quite literally walking my ass off, as well as my posture is improving. That's partly all the walking but also me being very conscious of my posture the last few weeks. Kind of nice to have it noticed.
Speaking of Music Man, he rubbed my hamstrings and calves for a bit this afternoon. Heaven! Oh it felt so wonderful. After it quite hurting, that is.
My legs get exceptionally tight and just touching them can be quite painful. They've been like that since I was about 8 years old and I was roller skating for hours a day. Having him massage those tight muscles hurt so bad at first. Then it felt so good. I actually cried while he was doing it. Not from the pain but a deeper emotional release. So glad he did it. I can feel them tightening up again and know I'm going to have to ask him to do it again this evening.
A friend of mine, okay technically she was my sister's best friend in junior high and into high school, I'm going to call her The Sweetheart, cause she's such a sweetie, did a 5K run over the weekend. It was a black-light run, so it took place at night. They have different zones and they douse you in black-light powder, then they have black-lights all over the place. The whole thing is for charity and it looks like so much fun.
She mentioned another one was coming up in August. I asked her to send me information on it and she did first thing the next morning. So now I have a goal. I'm going to do this 5K in August. I'm hoping to get some friends and family to do it with me, I'll do it alone if I have to. I've never done anything like this before but I know I can do this. And I am looking forward to it.
Okay, here is this week's inspiration:
My feet really hurt today so I'm using this to keep me going and to meet my step goal for the day.
Oh and this week's inspiration is not from the wall at my gym but from Pinterest. There are a lot of inspirational quotes on there. I've saved a bunch of them but thought this one was most appropriate for me today.
Have a great week and go do something!
Monday, May 16, 2016
Changing Things Up
I've changed my update day for this blog to Mondays. The reason is both simple and convoluted. I change my step count goal for the week on Mondays. I change it on Mondays cause that's the first day in my weekly planner. Since I change my step count on Mondays, I thought it would be easier to have my weekly weigh-in on the same day. So I changed my weigh in day.
Then I remembered I update my blog on Fridays. Rather than go through the hassle of trying to remember to change my step count on Fridays and do a weigh in, I decided it was easier to change the day I update my blog.
We'll see how that works.
Inspiration for this week:
It reads: Turn a setback into a comeback.
Go for a walk!
Then I remembered I update my blog on Fridays. Rather than go through the hassle of trying to remember to change my step count on Fridays and do a weigh in, I decided it was easier to change the day I update my blog.
We'll see how that works.
Inspiration for this week:
It reads: Turn a setback into a comeback.
Go for a walk!
Friday, May 13, 2016
Where Do I Begin?
Part of this week I've been super active, part of it I've been super lazy.
Today Music Man had an MRI for his knee. That was a fun trip.
I managed to lose 2.5 lbs since my last weigh in, so that made me happy.
That said, so far this year I have walked over 300,000 steps. I'm sure a lot of people have walked way more steps than that. But for me, that's huge. I'm quite proud of myself.
So I have been upping my step count on Mondays, cause that's when my planner starts a new week. I'm thinking maybe I should go back to upping it on Fridays cause that's my weigh-in day.
I know I had something to write about but for the life of me I can't remember.
Oh, don't put your Fitbit on a fan. Trust me, you'll get a crazy high step count and have a really difficult time fixing it. And you'll feel completely inadequate.
Inspiration for the week:
It reads: Complaining won't burn calories.
Go for a walk, enjoy the feel of your muscles working.
Today Music Man had an MRI for his knee. That was a fun trip.
I managed to lose 2.5 lbs since my last weigh in, so that made me happy.
That said, so far this year I have walked over 300,000 steps. I'm sure a lot of people have walked way more steps than that. But for me, that's huge. I'm quite proud of myself.
So I have been upping my step count on Mondays, cause that's when my planner starts a new week. I'm thinking maybe I should go back to upping it on Fridays cause that's my weigh-in day.
I know I had something to write about but for the life of me I can't remember.
Oh, don't put your Fitbit on a fan. Trust me, you'll get a crazy high step count and have a really difficult time fixing it. And you'll feel completely inadequate.
Inspiration for the week:
It reads: Complaining won't burn calories.
Go for a walk, enjoy the feel of your muscles working.
Friday, May 6, 2016
Out of Town
Music Man took me out of town for my birthday. We had a lovely time, even went and played mini golf on my birthday.
We also drove around a lot. Looked around the Ventura area, and found some really cool stuff.
We stayed in Camarillo which was really nice. It's slightly further inland than Ventura, though still near the beach and we had overcast conditions all three days we were there. It was heavenly to me.
I've been working to meet my step count everyday this week, only missing on Monday.
I decided that I had been trying to increase my count too quickly so this week I've set my goal as 3500 steps a day.
Monday I only had 2286 but I was busy studying for my test most of the day, so I think I did good on that one even though I missed my goal.
This week's inspiration:
It reads: The most critical decision is made when you feel like giving up.
I'm not giving up.
We also drove around a lot. Looked around the Ventura area, and found some really cool stuff.
We stayed in Camarillo which was really nice. It's slightly further inland than Ventura, though still near the beach and we had overcast conditions all three days we were there. It was heavenly to me.
I've been working to meet my step count everyday this week, only missing on Monday.
I decided that I had been trying to increase my count too quickly so this week I've set my goal as 3500 steps a day.
Monday I only had 2286 but I was busy studying for my test most of the day, so I think I did good on that one even though I missed my goal.
This week's inspiration:
It reads: The most critical decision is made when you feel like giving up.
I'm not giving up.
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