Trish’s BodyBlog

I eat a ton of fruit and mainly eat just that when I eat clean, and heard to lose weight its better if you skip it, or cut down since it has a lot of sugar, though its the good kind. Has anyone heard about this, agree with it? Think its silly? Should I cut down my fruit intake and eat more veggies instead? I’d like to lose as much fat as possible in my challenge and was wondering if it was worth cutting out some of fruit intake or don’t bother?

So today the youngest one had a spazz at the park and he went to throw himself (once again) and I went to catch him so he wouldn’t smash his head against the ground and taddda!! I felt this funny feeling in my lower back and as soon as I moved ,ouchie! The second time this week. I am really upset about this, can my back be that weak it can’t handle lifting this weight after a year of this? Well thankfully this job is moving to part time with school starting, but its kind of concerning that two areas are strained in less then a week. I just need a vacation!! Well thats my theory anyway. Then to strengthen my back apparently, since it can’t handle the stress of lifting 25lbs anymore. Weird.

lol, starts tuesday, and ends dec. 19th in time for the holiday. He claimed to be the king of comps so its good to have someone who won’t back out. Can I beat him? I hope so! Maybe it will be the extra push i need to push myself to the limits. I am quite the competitive one!

So, things are still going slow. All I can really do right now is go walking and that really pisses me off. I def. strained a muscle in my back this weekend, since, come wednesday it still hurts. And of course, as part of my job I am still lifting the kids and such so there goes my chances for a fast recovery. Doesnt help the one keeps being super fussy, so I am constantly picking him up and he keeps trying to fling himself. Not soo good for the back. So basically its been a week and half now of my little comp with myself now (kate still hasn’t done her mini test so I figure thats enough said…) and I haven’t really got anything to show for it because I have been ill and now this. I mean, my stomach might look a little flatter, but thats because I haven’t really been able to eat, so as soon as I do that will back.

I don’t know, its just really frustrating. I have my workout planned, my diet planned (and am almost fully eased into the clean eating, its always hard to get use to!). I just need to start and have been waiting too for all this time. Lol, well hopefully muscle strains don’t take tooo long to heal so I can start running or whatever. I want to make the most of my time left before the really crappy weather starts in November/December. Well, I want to be looking good by then! So hopefully I don’t have to wait too much longer. I don’t know how much longer I can take of seeing everyone else running outside while I have a hand to my back saying to my self, I use to do that all the time, why did I stop?

I heard these exact words this morning. I couldn’t help but laugh since its true. She saw me at my slimmest at the end of may so I can’t blame her for wondering why I have gained all this weight. But lol, it just kind of sucks that is shows that much already. But in a week and 3 days I will have more time to exercise since my securing of the extra hour ended up backfiring. Can’t wait!

because it was really starting to bother me (the area where I had my gallbladder removed), and so was the bad taste in my mouth, and spent 6 hours in Urgent Care and they couldn’t find anything in my tests. That is good, but sucks because he had no real advice. He told me to stay away from greasy food for a day or two (when I told him I’ve had to force myself to eat since the weekend), saying that was likely it, and thats it. So hopefully this isn’t going to become a regular thing, and I can get back at it asap.

Anyway just a small update, did some reading into it, since I like to have answers and apparently this happens to up to 40% of people who have there gallbladder removed, so I guess this is just something I have to live with. Joy!

things really don’t go as planned. It’s almost been a week since the comp started and Kate is showing no interest so I don’t think I am going to bother with her being in it, I can do it just with myself. The other problem is all the problems I am encountering already. Like getting sick, work hours and now my flare up. Once in awhile since my operation, I get a flare up where my gallbladder was and you get the same pain (lucky for me its less then the killer pain I got, and know what it should have felt like!). Anyway so that means no sleep and a nagging pain for like half a day. Its just slightly frustrating that every time I am ready to go, something is coming up and the such. Oh well, but just had to say how frustrating this can all be when you just want to do so well lol.

So I did the 5 things we need to do to test out fitness level before and after. Which were, burprees, pushups, situps, jumpsquats (how many you can do in a minute), and how long you can hold the plank. I figured I might as well get it out of the way while I was feeling a bit better.

So, burpees, I did 9, I did a few more but I slipped so they didn’t count. I couldn’t do the full minute either, they are tiring!

Pushups: 5 to a 90 degree angle. I can’t do those military ones with my nose almost touching the ground so I said we could do these instead. I am still surprised I could do any! After 5 my form got sloppy so I stopped and that also means I could not do them for the full minute.

Situps: 22, and really felt it in my stomach! And, I did the full minute for this one so I was happy with that.

Jump Squats: 20, I ducted a few from what I considered a bit sloppy form. And you can really feel these right away! I couldn’t quite complete the full minute but almost!

Plank: 1 minute and 4 seconds. I use to be able to hold it longer in highschool, when I weighed more but was training for track. Funnily enough I thought I was more in shape now then anytime then. lol I will get back to 3-4 minutes by the end lol

So thats it! Got a lot to do to get those levels higher lol.

at the same time I found out I have to find my place to live in two weeks before school starts (since my Aunt is selling everything before she heads back to FL) and I got a head cold, and of course I worked all weekend. Oh and my OSAP is all messed so how knows about school really! Though lol, that will work out too! So life is pretty stressful right now, but oh well. I haven’t done my test yet since my life is hectic right now I am feeling pretty sick and stressed right now. But I am not giving up! As soon as I feel a little better I will have everything up. Kate doesn’t seem very motivated to get going and she barely has half of whats going on with my life happening though she is working nights. I will try to get my before pictures up though asap, though I do have pretty recent ones up already. And again, do my fitness test as soon as my cold is out of my head and doesn’t…well I will skip on the details. Just hope it doesn’t get worse with all thats going on! But I am stilll very excited and can’t wait to see what I look like in 4 months. I am sure I just got sick to test to see if I would give up on the challenge haha. But I am not going to let anything stop me looking great by christmas! lol.

I think it helped that my Aunt commented on how much weight I have gained since being back here. But I just asked to start work at nine instead of eight so I can work out sometime between 6:30am and 8am. Lots of time now to workout, 7 days a week!!. And now I don’t have to get up at 5 which wasn’t working lol. So I am very happy, I feel like I have everything falling into place to rock it