Crystal’s Rants

The beginning of the week wasn’t good to say the least, however it is amazing how a few days change your outlook.  Friday I went to the Mavs Fan Jam and had a job offer which will make me probably the happiest girl in the world.  While I won’t know until Tuesday I have been jumping around like a crazy person ever since with excitement.  Then today I went with a good friend to the NKOTB (that’s New Kids On The Block, for the unhip) Concert.  It was probably one of the best concerts I have watched ever we didn’t leave Dallas for home until midnight so needless to say I am still pumped even though it is late.
Week is looking up from last week thank goodness.  Thanks for the encouragement I have received on here to get through the tough week!

I take Sundays off from my workout so it didn’t seem to kick off in such a bad way, then the Cowboys lost.  I know it sounds silly but it set the tone for my week apparently…hehe..

Monday the temperature dropped off and it began raining, I went about my daily functions with work and so on and went to the gym where things looked up as I met my new workout partner.  But afterwards on the way home some water on the road along with oil had me sideways and I rolled my pickup into a tree.

Don’t get me wrong it was scary and bad, but there wasn’t a lot of damage and I was fine so I passed it off as not a biggie.  I wasn’t really sore but from that point the rest of the week suffered.  I just have been kind of out of it all week dragging from a combination of tired and sleepy from the weather and just plain BLAH.

Yesterday I had to miss my workout because of some catch up at the office which had to be done, so today maybe I can make it have a turn for the better if I can get in a good workout instead of the rest of the week falling off the face of the world like the first part.

Today I began an official shoulder day!  I had been doing limited shoulder exercises but since I lost weight had not a lot of definition in my shoulders.  I don’t know about you but part of being balanced has to start with nice shoulders, so no longer did I want to have an ok frame and shoulders that just weren’t quite there.

One thing of concern, I noticed when I do some exercises my left shoulder pops, not painfully, just a cracking pop.  Kinda crazy!  When it started I lightened the weight and it still did it.  It is like when you crack your knuckles so I don’t know if that is going to be a good or bad thing, guess only time will tell.  No one else seemed to be concerned with it as it was not a painful experience. 

Anyway, I think with this new core of shoulder exercises it will begin to really make the upper half of me come together the bicep and tricep  exercises are already helping form shape to my upper body, so with this I think it will happen by December!

I thought I was going crazy, but I finally came to the understanding of why so many people say it isn’t about the number on the scale.  Today I stepped on the scale and weighed more than my previous weight.  However, I didn’t freak out, I was ok with it.

Facts of the matter are, my clothes fit better, I feel better and I am starting to see more results almost by the workout. 

I never thought I would feel that way, always pretty insecure about my weight when I was younger and focusing so much on the numbers, then again when I expanded my waistline to my heaviest.  The number and I were in a battle for a long time. But today we made peace and with that I think I have overcome a hurdle with myself.