Did Not Want to Get Out of Bed

Once in a while, I fight restless legs syndrome. It's actually really painful. What happens is my legs feel like they have to move. There is no other option. If I don't move them the urge continues until they move really without my doing anything. It's not fun.

That's what happened last night. My legs were horribly restless. It was nearly 3 in the morning before they settled down enough I could get some sleep. Which really sucked cause when the alarm went off at 7 I could barely move.

I got up to use the restroom just before 8 and realized the time. When I came back to bed, Music Man asked me if was ready to get up and go to the gym. I said something along the lines of, "Sure". I think I was still asleep.

I drug my sleepy butt up, went to the gym, went to the grocery store and was still back home in time for Miss Goofy to go to work at 10:30.

That said, I need a nap.

I did finish putting together my fitness journal but it's hot so I have the house closed up, the lights off, which means it's dark in my bedroom and I can't take pictures right now. You might be asking why I don't turn on the light and take the pictures. To those who ask, I say, "Cause it's hot!" Then I probably call you something naughty and go back to pretending it's not nearly 80 in my bedroom.

So, that's why I'm cranky today, just in case you're wondering.

Go for a walk, but wait till it's not 100.

Hormones

I had planned to show my fitness journal this week. Then I remembered I don't have it in a binder yet. So I'm working on stuff without one for now. As soon as I get a binder I'll take pictures and post them.

In the meantime, my hormones have me bloated and I've gained back another pound. Sort of annoying but also something I can work on.

I've changed my step goal a little too. My Fitbit has a feature where it will remind you to walk for 250 steps. So I have mine set to nag me from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon. Oh and I have an alarm set for every hour in there so I check my step count, make a note of it, then I do 500 steps. I was able to meet the challenge for today. We'll see how it goes for the rest of the week.

I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday for my yearly physical. We'll see how that goes. I'm gonna guess they say I need to lose weight.

Have a great week! Go take a walk, the weather is gorgeous.

Itchy Fever

I have had sensitive skin my entire life. I have known I have sensitive skin my entire life. I have fought sensitive skin my entire life. (I swear I have a point.) My mother used to buy baby laundry detergent for me. That's how bad it was.

I finally found a detergent (that's wasn't designed for infants) that doesn't bother my skin. I've used it fairly religiously most of my adult life. It's the only one that doesn't irritate my skin and make me break out in a rash.

When I was in Oklahoma, I could use another brand but I had to be careful. The water there was different. It's something about the water and the soap that gets to me.

Recently, I was shopping at my local discount mart and they didn't have the laundry detergent I normally buy. I was very low on detergent and really needed to get some.  So, the brand I buy but with an additional ingredient was available. I thought to myself, "It's been years. I'm sure it will be fine. You need detergent, this is the same brand. Just get it."

I should have ignored that voice and bought it somewhere else. Or gone back on another day.

It started off simply enough. I felt a little itchy. I live in a very dry climate so that's not unusual. I really need to drink more water and figured it was just dry skin. After a couple of days, I started seeing a rash. Just on my arms at first. Then my legs, my chest, a little on my stomach. Oh and my back. It's been awful.

I realized what had happened and quit using that soap. I've switched back to my regular one. I'm still a little itchy at times though, cause the thing is, once I've broken out, it takes a while to get it out of my system. So here's hoping drinking a ton of water helps cause sweating from a workout, makes the itch neigh on unbearable. Even after I shower.

All of that to say, I gained another .8 of a pound and I haven't been walking or wearing my Fitbit, cause it sits right on a particularly itchy spot and irritates it even more.

So, I'm updating my step count, but it's not going to be very high and that's the reason why. I'm hoping this week to be able to walk more. We'll see.

Have a great week and drink plenty of water!

Well, This Week Sucked

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!

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!