After an Injury

Remember 8 weeks ago when I posted about my fractured foot. I must have fractured my mind-set too, because I threw everything out the window.  A week after the injury I hopped on my exercise bike and it was a disaster! So what did I do? Stay vigilant with my food choices until I was released for exercise? Heck no! I ate everything is sight for six weeks.

I was released for physical activity two weeks ago. I have steadily gotten back into working out during the past two weeks, and tonight I ran for the first time since the injury. It wasn't pretty, but I got out there and did it. And for that I am proud of myself.

My plan is to get in 5 days of exercise during the week and work my way into a better diet. I CANNOT go into the holidays with a food free for all mind set.

Fracture

I went on in to the doctor's office yesterday for X-Rays on my foot. And unfortunately, I have a fracture. He told me I need to limit my activity for the next 3-6 weeks. I will admit I am mentally down because of this. I know that I can still lose weight with this injury, but it is going to be even harder. I will definitely be looking to your blogs to keep me motivated these next few weeks.

Humpty Dumpty has a Great Fall!

It has been a pretty wild work week. Several late night including tonight. Yesterday, I decided to take the afternoon off and head to Zumba since I had to miss all of my night classes this week. It was a mad rush to get there on time, but when I got there a few minutes late, they had waited on my to start the class. I was super excited to be getting my Zumba on...and then during the third song of the class it happened. I got a little too fast going from jumping jacks to side lunges, and rolled my ankle over and feel. Super embarrassed, and OUCH! I got up and walked a bit and decided to try to finish the class with LOTS of modifications.
When I got home and took off my shoe I had a lump, swelling, and bruising. It was too late to hit any of the express meds, and I didn't want to go to the ER knowing all they would really do is X-Ray it, telling me to take advil, and send me to the Bone and Joint the next day if needed. So I started icing. 20 mins on 20 mins off. A girl friend told me when she played sports in college that they would actually ice in a bucket of ice, so I did it that way.

This morning the swelling had almost completely gone away. I still have a lump and bruise, but I think it will be fine. Guess I will be on that bike for a couple of weeks so that the foot can completely heal.

WI Update

This week resulted in a half pound loss. I was hoping for a pound, but must remember every little ounce counts. Next week will be rough because I will be working 12 hour days for 3 of my 5 work days. That makes working out harder and dinners later than usual. I know I can still be successful this week.

Picture it...the most yummy salad ever!

I had the most delicious salad today. Seriously y'all, I wish I would have taken a picture it was so amazing, but I didn't, so I think I am going to have to describe it to you Sophia Patrillo style.


Picture it, mid-afternoon today. I had left work early for a dentist appointment and taken the rest of the day off. No same old, same old lunch for me today. I took advantage of the free afternoon to treat myself to lunch. I had thought about a smoothie from the local health food store. They are delicious, but so expensive, and I figured it would be hard to estimate the calories. So I decided to get a salad. I have had their salads before, but only the all veggie. Today, I decided I would get the hummus salad.
I love their stuff because everything is fresh and organic. My salad was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Are you still picturing it? Listen to this...mixed greens, diced tomatoes, onion, celery, shredded carrots, bell pepper, celery, and slivers of avocado, all topped with a dollop of home made hummus. I used the fork method and used a bit of the jalapeno ranch. YUM!

The salad was almost ten bucks, so not something I could afford on a regular basis, but what a treat!

Blogger Woes...

Anyone having trouble with blogger this week? For the past four days, mine has been acting crazy. When I click in to write a blog, it would say I was already logged in at a different location. Under that it would say log in at this location (or something like that), and when I clicked that it would refresh the page and say I was logged in at a different location. WEIRD. I only blog from two devices, so I don't know. Also, it wouldn't let me comment on any of your stuff. Today, everything seems fine. Weird.

Overall though, the week was good. I dropped another pound (Hooray). I missed a couple of workouts with all of my allergy issues, but I really feel resting was better for me. This week, daily workouts are a must! I did log all of my food in myfitnesspal this week.


Yesterday, I had planned to do a 5k. I found one online that was about half an hour from my house. But when we got there. Not a runner (or person) was there. We saw signs, but nothing. This has been my week. When it was past the start time, and we still hadn't found the run, we just headed on and had a great daytrip morning and made it home in time for football. When I got home, I looked at the sight again to see if the run had been cancelled or something...or if I possibly had the wrong date (maybe it was Sunday instead of Saturday), but nope. Weird. There wasn't any results listed though, so I just don't know. I guess I am glad that I didn't pre-register.

This week, my goals are-
Log all my food into myfitnesspal
5 workouts
2 days of weight training
and I hope all of this will earn me another pound loss.

UGH! Allergies and 9-7 and 9-8 Food Journals

It all started with a sneeze, then another, then another. On Saturday I woke up with runny, stuffy, itchy everything. I powered through and went to Zumba, lots of errands, and some much needed yard work. On Sunday, I was down for the count. I woke up around 8:30 and grabbed breakfast, and laid back down. Around 1, Tommy woke me up and gave me soup (he must have thought I was drying since he made me lunch.) After eating, I got up and messed around with cleaning the kitchen. That was enough for me, and I went back to bed knowing I just couldn't go to Zumba and that maybe I would do the bike later. At 3:30, I got up and went to the grocery. This had to be done or we would have had no food for dinner, breakfast, or lunch. I started to worry that with spending half the day in bed, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. But that was not a problem. Today, I am still not feeling 100% but much better. I work late tonight, so that means dinner and workout will both be at 7:30.

Saturday
Zumba

Breakfast-
Subway 6in flatbread- ham, egg, cheese, spinach, tomato, onions, bell pepper

Lunch-
Grill chicken salad w/Ken's light ranch

Dinner-
Smoked Pork tenderloud
frozen twice baked potato

After dinner snack
apple
1/4c quaker oats
coconut oil
truvia
cinnamon
(I popped all of this in the micro to make a little dessert. It was good)

Sunday
Breakfast
Quaker oatmeal
pb2
coconut oil
cinnamon
vanilla almond milk

snack
apple sauce pouch

Lunch
Progresso New England Clam Chowder


Snack
Fiber One Choc chip cookie and grapes

Dinner
Ground turkey w/ organic taco seasoning
lettuce
onion
bell pepper
salsa
plain greek yogurt
cheese 1/4 c