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A terrifying and sobering crisis
My mother, as some of you who followed my posts in the past already know, did not take care of herself. She ate very poorly, she never exercised at all, for years. She just recently started to take short walks to try to lose a little weight. Years of this mistreatment of her body- and not so many years as we "indistructable" people would like to think it takes- came to a life-threatening, soul-chilling and thoroughly soberin...Checking in
WHOOOOLE lotta drama going on in my life right now. I steadily lose weight, though I don't always eat quite right and miss workouts. I'm leaning on Right Light Shakes at least twice a day, Lean Cuisine and single-serving frozen veggies. It works out, though I'm a little concerned I might be getting too little protein.I could just be overthinking again, though, and concentrate on the fact that I'm getting exercise and am not goin...Challenger's Log, T-Date 2.1.1 (redux) - Monday
What did I do? Namaste Yoga in the morning Upper Body Weight Training after work – started big muscles @ 20 pounds & got no 10’s. Started small muscles at 10 pounds & got 10’s on all. What did I eat? Liters of water: 10 Meal 1: Right Light Vanilla – My Egg Nog Approximation recipe + 1 T Benefiber. NOM NOM NOM!! Meal 2: Oatmeal w/1T Benefiber, 1 sco...What's up with Sebine??
People have been wondering if I'm ok and stuff since in my last post I had mentioned a heart murmer type thing going on and then I vanished.I'm fine. I just got super sick. So sick my entire chest hurt if I moved too much. This happens to me every once in a while. I think it's dehydration, others think it's my valley fever coming back. Could be both.In any case I was out for a week and then had another fun health th...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.2.3 - Wednesday
What did I do? 25MAS (Treadmill: L5 = 3.7 MPH, L10 = 4.2 MPH)– I had to end this early, walking slowly about halfway through minute 17 or 18 (can’t remember which) due to an arrhythmia. The workout seemed extra hard today and I was sweating in the first few minutes. I thought it very odd. About wave 3 I could feel my heart skip a beat. This was in a level 6 or 7 minute. I thought I should be cogni...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.2.2 - Tuesday
What did I do? No morning run – Got about a quarter of the way down there when my stomach decided it was not havin’ it. Out of politeness, I won’t elaborate. Lots of makeup work CHEST 12 reps Decline Chest Press @ 40# - Intensity 5 10 reps Decline Chest Press @ 50# - Intensity 6 8 reps Decline Chest Press @ 60# - Intensity 7 &nb...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.2.1 - Monday
What did I do? No morning run – RDC (Ridiculously Skinny Chick) brought friends so I couldn’t get to the equipment. Was just as well, though, because my stomach was killing me and I felt feverish. When I got home I retched into the kitchen sink. Called out of work. I had a few workouts I could have made up when I started to feel better in the late evening. Although the regularly-scheduled item w...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.1.5 & 6 - Saturday & Sunday
I can't even remember Saturday, except that I should have worked out and made up some of my missed things, at LEAST doing my Glute work. But no, the TV won me over most of the day. We didn't do much at all that day. I know we had Jack in the Box twice (I think I only had two meals that day), like NO water and no veggies other than burger lettuce.I received a rock polisher from The BF's dad and had some fun setting that up. Took ...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.1.4 - Friday
What did I do? WORKOUT FREE DAY!! Although I used it to make up my missed LBWO. I did the weights part of it during my normal 25MAS time. Didn’t do too bad. QUADS 12 reps Seated Extension @ 40# - Intensity 6 10 reps Seated Extension @ 50# - Intensity 6 8 reps Seated Extension @ 60# - Intensity 7 6 reps Seated Extension @...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.1.4 - Thursday
What did I do? Morning treadmill. 25MAS on treadmill. Level 5 = 3.7 MPH, Level 10 = 4.2 MPH. Instead of using 2 minutes at the end for cooldown, I did two minutes at 4.2 MPH. Somehow the treadmill still said 1.63 miles just like yesterday. I must’ve done something wrong yesterday (wrong speed in the wrong minutes or something like that). Heart rate at end of Level 10 minutes was ...Challenger's log, T Date 2.1.3 - Wednesday
What did I do? Morning treadmill. At the suggestion of one of my Accountability Partners, I added an additional wave to this along with an additional minute of cooldown. This turned my TMAS (Twenty Minute Aerobic Solution) into a 25MAS (25 minute aerobic solution) Level 5 = 3.7 MPH, Level 10 = 4.2 MPH for a total of 1.63 miles. Heart rate at end of Level 10 minute was 85% of max again, despite the...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.1.2 - Tuesday
What did I do? Morning TMAS on treadmill. Level 5 = 3.7 MPH, Level 10 = 4.2 MPH. Heart rate at end of Level 10 minute was 85% of max again, despite the increase in intensity over yesterday’s TMAS. Seems like another case of heart stronger than body. Fat Burn Cardio session didn’t get done. Was out too late taking care of banking baloney. Will have to make ...Challenger's Log, T Date 2.1.1 (aka Monday, 3/30/09)
What did I do? Morning TMAS on treadmill. Level 5 = 3.6 MPH, Level 10 = 4.1 MPH. Heart rate at end of Level 10 minute was 85% of max. Not bad. Challenging, but felt good. Got sweat rolling down my temples. Can do better tomorrow, though. Upper Body Weight Training CHEST 12 reps Decline Chest Press @ 40# - Intensity 4 or 5 (not su...A lesson to remember...
This seemed to me to be something very pertinent to our journey of transformation and something I need to remember. So I'm posting it here:Live As Though You Are Dead By Os Hillman March 30 "In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus" (Rom 6:11-12). "How will I know when I am going to come out of my adversity pit?" said the woman sitting across from me. "When it doesn't...Recap of the first 18 weeks. Thank you all. I love you.
Recap of the first 18 weeks Introduction I don't think I'll be doing a packet for my first 18 weeks. You see, I could have accomplished so much more. I know it's in me. I have shown myself that I have the strength and the spirit to soar higher than I have allowed myself to do thus far. However, in looking back at this first 18 weeks I realized that I accomplished much more...Blog catcup and..OMG!! My first 18 weeks is OVER!
Today I'm continuing to work on getting back on track. It feels alot like my first few weeks! Just goes to show you're betting off keeping a thing going than trying to restart it. I have to confess that I did something I didn't think I had in me the other day, something I couldn't figure out how others could do (I had done this a few times in the past, but none since I started to get serious, even slightly, about getting in shape) but ...I'm BAAAACK!!
Hi everybody. I'm back from a fantastic vacation where I ran all over the desert in a jeep and went rockhounding and...heh...ate whatever I wanted and ignored the scale. Pretty much every meal was at a restaurant and it was all good quality stuff. Amazing stuff. Don't regret any of it (well... I might, a little, when I get back on the scale again). I spent 11 days with one of the treasures of the human race, treating him t...3/4 Exercise
Morning: TMAS on treadmill. Taking it back up a notch from yesterday's post-illness step back. Level 5 was 3.7 MPH iand Level 10 was 4.2MPH. Total mileage: 1.30I really felt the difference between exercise and training today, in light of yesterday's workout. When you exercise it feels good, wakes you up. When you train, you push it, you make your body whine like a little baby. Sometimes you feel like you either can't or ne...3/4 Fuel
On waking: 1 Five Hour energy shot, some sips off a 1 liter water bottle. Post-AM workout: Finished off the water bottle Meal 1, 8:45 AM: 3 hard boiled eggs (minus 2 yolks), small apple, about 4 oz organic V8 juice. 1 liter of water. Emergency snack, 11:25 AM: 1 packet Special K protein water in 1 liter of water. My lunch date was running late and I got soul-crushingly hungry. Took the protein water so I could both soot...3/3 Exercise (UBWO scheduled for today)
Morning: TMAS on treadmill. Taking it down a notch because of just coming off being sick. Level 5 was 3.6 MPH instead of 3.7 as was my recent norm and Level 10 was 4.1MPH instead of 4.2. Total mileage: 1.27Surprisingly, I found that my max walking speed has gone up a level following my convalescence. I now don't have to run until 4.0 MPH. Nice. The slower-speed workout was great. It just felt good, ...Sebine
