staceinspace’s Focus BodyBlog

I had to walk and not run today for my knee’s sake.  Thanksgiving should prove a challenge tomorrow in staying in a decent caloric range.  I shall stick to the turkey and veggies and avoid bread, dessert and too much drinking.

I am looking forward to playing some goold old fashioned board games with my nieces and nephew and in laws.

I love to workout and miss it when my knee is all tore up.  Haveto baby it though.  I want to add a new stricter eatingpan for 2009 for me.  I have been eating way to much chocolate!

I feel thought that i have firmly implanted my new life choices and styles as healthy indicators of my success in changing from a couch potato who was sedentary who had given up to a driven healthy women who is aware of every calorie that goes into my body now.  I feel younger with every workout and hope to someday see a whole new me int he mirror so I can run and post it here in the community of my peers who understand how hard it is to lose weight and not eat poorly.

As a former emotional eater while typing my papers for school, I have now learned ot eat first and not eat and type!  I also unlearned poor college habits of eating and studying and make sure I am doing nothing but studying now.  Like some people smoke and drink and smoke only when they drink I was a typer and a snacker. No more.  I tried to substitute grapes for chips but eating too much calories is too easy while not paying attention.

A major change this former fattie has completed is to not eat without being aware of portion sizes.  Also, I have had to stay away from some binge eaters in the family who trigger my eating.  Although I never binged ate I snakced mindlessly.  Just as a smoker or drinker who is trying to quit must avoid other active users, i avoid people who eat poorly and try to surround myself with people who make healthier choices as it ieasier on me and my progress.

Well, off to bed to prepare for tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and good luck avoiding too much calories!  Sometimes and extra helping is great.  I plan to eat less in the morning to make up for a second helping of potatos and crnaberry dressing later on and to exercise hard the day after!  I also do not take home leftovers as it helps with the over eating.

3 sessions of 3-5 minutes on elliptical

1 mile on treadmill with HIIT

weights hand

100 crunches on ball

15-20 minutes of workout tape

step ups 30

good mornings 30

I need ot add new routines ot my workout.

My right knee is hurting me so bad I am going ot finally get it examined.  I loathe going to the doctor as I am already there enough but when it hurts for weeks..I guess I got to go.

My pants are getting loose again so i feel good about that.  I took another 4 day break to heal the knee from working out.  I have added Billy Blanks Tae Bo to my work out and man is he hard ot follow!  Especially with my knee.  Everything that guy does involves the knees.

I often want to give up and say..this is the best I can look, this is the best I got in me…but I know better.  I wanted to be a lot thinner by my birthday than I am but not quitting is more important than reaching a certain weight sometimes.

Thanks to all my friends here for their continued support especially knucklehead!  Your blogs keep me going!  It is nice to see so many other people like me not giving up either.

I will do what it is I do everyday..not give up and get up and keep moving.  sometimes keeping moving is all we have as people to keep us from going over the edge.

Thank you to everyone in this place who supported and encouraged me this last year!  I have lost weight, inches and depression with my pain!  I am so feeling it!  Feeling great and happy and loving working out all the time now!  What a change from couch potato!  I am 36 in two days and feel younger than ever!!!!
I even did Billy Blank’s Tae Bo today on top of my usual cardio and weights!  I am determined and dedicated to my family to lose all my weight and make 2009 the year of my new body!  Yeahhhhh!

Thank you to everyone in this place who supported and encouraged me this last year!  I have lost weight, inches and depression with my pain!  I am so feeling it!  Feeling great and happy and loving working out all the time now!  What a change from couch potato!

I even did Billy Blank’s Tae Bo today on top of my usual cardio and weights!  I am determined and dedicated to my family to lose all my weight and make 2009 the year of my new body!  Yeahhhhh!

Slowly but surely I am losing weight again and have come off of my horrible plateau!  Yeahhhh!

I wantto lose 12pounds in two weeks or so and I know I can do it!

My pain got so out of contril these past ten days I had to get a fentanyl patch to break the cycle.  One patch is good for 72 hours.  It was very scary administering it at first because there are so many lawsuits and untimely deaths from its misuse I was afraid.  But it took the pain away FINALLY!  I worked out today for the first time in 10 days and I went slow and cautiously with my still weak right knee.  It felt so good to be back in the saddle and to be able to workout pain free!  After I went off the patch I suffered withdrawl for abit and that was not fun!

I am so glad I have this wonderful community of fellow bodybuilders to talk with.  I love to read all of the personal stories here and how brave people are to post their feelings, pains, ups and downs and very personal pictures.  It gives me the strength and the extra boost to work out a little harder each session.

I am working out again and am glad.  I love that I miss working out when I don’t do it.  Like now after two years of making training and weight lifting a part of my life, it is as necessary to me now as grooming or showering.  It does take time to create good habits and to break poor ones.  I eat so much healthier than I used to and made changes I never thought possible such as drinking skim milk and coke zero.

I believe a strong body houses the most important element to a successful workout..a strong mind.  I agree with so many people in the fitness industry that the mental aspect of your training is the most important.  Believing in yourself and picturing your success.

I am glad to be back in the saddle and am looking forward to my workout tomorrow AM bright and early!

My knee is absolutely unstable and wobbly.  I have not been able to work out as a consequence in days. I do not understand what is going on with my knee but I thought or was hoping some rest would do the trick.  SO far it is not much better depsite my not using it much.

The weirdest thing is happening to me!  My left leg is giving out without pain for no reason when I am walking around.  I think I was training too hard so I took yesterday and today off.  I have never had anything like this happen to me before.  I was walking and bam!  The left knee gives out as if it is not there!

I have some pain in my knee but nothing to indicate a complete failure was coming my way!  <My daughter boxes and she had told me about this before and I thought she was joking but I was wrong!

I am afraid my knee will give out when I am on the treadmill or coming down my stairs!