wallstcutie’s BodyBlog

he does piss tests to see if you have been bingeing on sugar, showers are co-ed, and you can’t get into the hot tub room unless you have 15% BF.  the owner will throw cupcakes at you if you are giving a half-assed, lazy workout.  wow, that is motivation.

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Yesterday I went to get a massage.  It was the most painful massage I have ever had in my life.  It was definitely therapeutic, but not just some fluffy, soothing massage, which is kindof what I wanted.  Instead, I got what I needed.

I told him my IT bands are tight, especially around my knees, and of course my neck and upper back have a lot of tension from sitting in front of a computer all day.  So, he proceeded to give me the most high-pressure massage I have ever had.  I didn’t want to be a wuss and tell him to go more gently, but there were times I was in so much torturous pain that I wanted to die. 

An hour later, and he still wasn’t able to work all of the knots out.  What are those knots made of anyway?  Are they muscle?  Fibrous globs of pure stress?  It isn’t like you can see the knots, but you can feel them when he digs his thumbs in and tries to work them out. 

He used a variety of techniques, combining shiatsu, deep tissue, sports massage, and stretching.  He even massaged under my ribs and my liver, even though I didn’t tell him it has been bothering me for months.  I wonder if he could tell it is enlarged…

Well, I am quite pleased to have "truly" met my goal of having glutes of steel.  Evidence of this:   I hit legs so hard today that I could hardly pull my suit pants over my legs post-workout.  Then, I flexed my glutes and tore the butt of my pant lining!  True story!!! lololol.

I’ve got a nice short-term goal to get supertoned.  My sister and I just booked a cruise to the Bahamas Feb. 7-10.  Yessssssss….. I need this break!

I’m feeling so much better, I edited my goals to eliminate the part about "short term health problems."  I still notice that after eating badly, my upper right quadrant goes numb/tingly and starts to hurt, radiating from there to my right side as food digests.

I am so glad that the Holidays are over.  Most of the items that tempt me are out of the house and out of the office lounge.  Vendors always send so much junk food around the holidays, that this year I had to devise a plan to keep away from all of the Ferrrero Rocher balls, brownies, cakes, muffins, chocolates, chocolate covered pretzels, and other junk.  So, an office coworker (who used to scoff at my healthy eating habits but now has jumped on board with eating healthy and working out) and I made a bet NOT to touch the junk, and whoever touched the junk had to buy a protein smoothie for the other one.

HE, being the newbie to healthy eating, was all charged up about eating healthy and did not touch any of the junk.  But he also admitted he treats himself to huge Cold Stone Creamery milkshakes every week, whereas I don’t give myself access to any junk at home (with the exception of my mother in law’s shortbread cookies and my mom’s apple pie!!!  Argh!).

So, long story short, I owe him THREE protein smoothies!!!!!!!  In retrospect, none of the goodies were worth the calories or the 3 smoothies I now have to pay up in 2008, but I am glad I had the punishment - otherwise I would have eaten more of those goodies.  Those same goodies that (along with the bagel cart guy) caused my weight gain last winter!!!