lorelei729’s BodyBlog

Well, yesterday during my run I apparently did something to aggravate my knee.  I’ve never had knee pain but I’ve always had a light crunch in my right knee.  That knee is the one that isn’t completely happy today.  Usually it feels fine, but if I turn wrong or step too high it gives me a little twinge… 

I still worked out this morning, chest/tricep/shoulders, here’s what I did:

pushups

dual axis chest press

Dips

overhead tricep press

Overhead dumbell press

Front raises

Lateral raises

I took it a tiny bit easy today because I took last week off (d/t mom in hospital)  I did however do 20 minutes on the elliptical so as to still get cardio and not aggravate my knee, which worked fine.  I also did an after dinner 40 minute walk which also did not aggravate my knee.

My eating was okay.  I was great through the morning and made a couple of not-so-clean choices in the evening.

Breakfast: 1 egg plus 3 egg whites with 1/3 cup rolled oats and seasoning

After workout: chocolate protein powder mixed with 1 tsp instant coffee (pick me up!)

Lunch: 1/2 cup whole grain quinoa pasta, shrimp, veggies

small snack: half a hand of raw cashews to tide me over to dinner 

Dinner: 1 small baked potato and 4 oz. baked salmon, apple with peanut butter

evening snack: (non-clean choices) skim milk with a little sugar free chocolate syrup and a slice of cheese on crackers.

Goals for tomorrow:

1. AM walk with my sister

2. Eat clean all day

3. See my mom after work 

4. 1-hour yoga class

5. keep up on my H2O intake

Throughout the last week I’ve had a lot of time to reflect…  on Monday my mom had a small heart attack and while there may be no lasting damage to her heart, the fact still remains that she has a small blockage in her heart as well as a ventricular regurgitation that they are concerned about.  On top of it all… an ulcer!  Now I’ve known for a long time that my family is quite unhealthy and it has been a constant struggle for me to overcome the bad habits and bad eating  and lifestyle that I grew up with.  This shows me how much more important it is for me to be healthy, eat clean and keep a fit body to fend off yet another disease from my family history.  Tomorrow I am jumping back into my routine (sunday’s are always active rest days, though I might go for a nice, long run…) and I can’t wait to have a really good workout session.  I am going to start posting daily so that I can keep a good, true progress and see what is working for my body and what is not.  Here’s to a healthy, long life; free from disease as long as possible.