Health Blah-g
Oct. 18th, 2007 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threadwalkerIt has been an emotional roller coaster this week wrt fitness and health. So I was up far too late last night (2am?) sewing and percolating. I think I have some perspective and I even have a bench mark from winter of 2005/2006.
This week:
first - the body fat bomb on Sunday.
second - the blood sugar awesomeness on Monday (down approx 20 pts) with the good EKG and resting heart rate.
third - I look like a compressed marshmallow when I do leg presses and I really have a lot of chunk on my tummy and through my middle. When I am doing any incline leg press, the fat in my thighs slides down to fill out my shorts. It's scary.
fourth - I rallied and put on my "mean face". I registered for a triathalon, checked out Iron Works and have a tentative date w/hrj to take a climbing class after Halloween.
Yesterday:
I had my weigh-in yesterday (fully clothed, in jeans, after breakfast): 144.6 lb (new low)
at 9:30 pm I met with Sally the fitness trainer (still not convinced about this - need to kibitz w/![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sirst about what to expect from a typical intro-deal). But she mentioned something about me being a serious self-motivator (although I didn't actually say much, so not sure how she got that impression). But I put it in my mental grab bag for percolating.
Today:
Someone at work stepped outside the professional behaviour protocol and told me I looked lean. (My internal self: gasp! really? are you sure? Because, ya know, I'm almost 30% fat, which seems very NOT lean to me. And I look like a compressed marshmallow with arms and legs when I do the Leg Press at the gym. I masked my reaction and played it down with , "thank you. I guess I work out a lot and try to eat right. Eventually I was going to start looking like it." But internally, it's a total glee-fest. Note: I am NOT fishing for compliments on my appearance. But if you've ever done a major weight overall, you will understand that when it comes out of the blue, unsolicited, from someone who you KNOW hasn't been paying attention, and who has NOTHING to gain from it and who is, at best, peripherally aware of your fitness and nutrition efforts, it really has a deep impact.)
The realization that I'm not having the paniky urge to slit my wrists because I cut certain carbs out of my diet, which is a HUGE improvement over my mental space a week ago.
The realization I think I've cut back very nicely on soda AND caffeine over the last 2 weeks (1 soda a day; 1 cup of tea a day; water the rest of the time), so kudos to my health progress there, as well.
AND, not the least, I have been instrumental in getting some people around me to take a look at their nutrition and fitness. Just today a co-worker told me how he got serious about his blood sugar after I brought up the topic in June. He brought it back down below 100 and is pretty sure he would have ignored it if I hadn't discussed the dangers of diabetes and creeping blood count values. So I got thanked today. How freaking cool is that?!
so overall, yes, I have room for improvement and I'm in the process of improving on my health and fitness. I've also made a lot of good long term changes in my life and I am helping people around me. So... woot me.
Then I dug up an early blog where my doctor told me to lose 40 lb.
http://thread-walker.livejournal.com/28523.html#cutid1
This is when I was 185 lb. I laughed in her face at the time and renegotiated to 150lb while still being convinced it wouldn't happen at 150 lb. But here I am weighing in at less than 145 while fully clothed and after my routine breakfast. So I've already proven that I can climb my own "impossible" mountains. It's just up to me to find the next mountain and figure out how to scale it.
This week:
first - the body fat bomb on Sunday.
second - the blood sugar awesomeness on Monday (down approx 20 pts) with the good EKG and resting heart rate.
third - I look like a compressed marshmallow when I do leg presses and I really have a lot of chunk on my tummy and through my middle. When I am doing any incline leg press, the fat in my thighs slides down to fill out my shorts. It's scary.
fourth - I rallied and put on my "mean face". I registered for a triathalon, checked out Iron Works and have a tentative date w/
hrj to take a climbing class after Halloween.Yesterday:
I had my weigh-in yesterday (fully clothed, in jeans, after breakfast): 144.6 lb (new low)
at 9:30 pm I met with Sally the fitness trainer (still not convinced about this - need to kibitz w/
sirst about what to expect from a typical intro-deal). But she mentioned something about me being a serious self-motivator (although I didn't actually say much, so not sure how she got that impression). But I put it in my mental grab bag for percolating.Today:
Someone at work stepped outside the professional behaviour protocol and told me I looked lean. (My internal self: gasp! really? are you sure? Because, ya know, I'm almost 30% fat, which seems very NOT lean to me. And I look like a compressed marshmallow with arms and legs when I do the Leg Press at the gym. I masked my reaction and played it down with , "thank you. I guess I work out a lot and try to eat right. Eventually I was going to start looking like it." But internally, it's a total glee-fest. Note: I am NOT fishing for compliments on my appearance. But if you've ever done a major weight overall, you will understand that when it comes out of the blue, unsolicited, from someone who you KNOW hasn't been paying attention, and who has NOTHING to gain from it and who is, at best, peripherally aware of your fitness and nutrition efforts, it really has a deep impact.)
The realization that I'm not having the paniky urge to slit my wrists because I cut certain carbs out of my diet, which is a HUGE improvement over my mental space a week ago.
The realization I think I've cut back very nicely on soda AND caffeine over the last 2 weeks (1 soda a day; 1 cup of tea a day; water the rest of the time), so kudos to my health progress there, as well.
AND, not the least, I have been instrumental in getting some people around me to take a look at their nutrition and fitness. Just today a co-worker told me how he got serious about his blood sugar after I brought up the topic in June. He brought it back down below 100 and is pretty sure he would have ignored it if I hadn't discussed the dangers of diabetes and creeping blood count values. So I got thanked today. How freaking cool is that?!
so overall, yes, I have room for improvement and I'm in the process of improving on my health and fitness. I've also made a lot of good long term changes in my life and I am helping people around me. So... woot me.
Then I dug up an early blog where my doctor told me to lose 40 lb.
http://thread-walker.livejournal.com/28523.html#cutid1
This is when I was 185 lb. I laughed in her face at the time and renegotiated to 150lb while still being convinced it wouldn't happen at 150 lb. But here I am weighing in at less than 145 while fully clothed and after my routine breakfast. So I've already proven that I can climb my own "impossible" mountains. It's just up to me to find the next mountain and figure out how to scale it.
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Da-ham!
Date: 2007-10-18 09:23 pm (UTC)Someday *I'll* be 145...
Go you!
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Date: 2007-10-18 09:26 pm (UTC)There's always room for improvement, no matter how fit you are. There will always be a bit more diet control, or another muscle group to tone, or a bit more lifestyle tweaking to do.
It's an endless journey--and a good one to take. :-) I don't mean this at all condescendingly, but I'm so proud of you. You've done such a great job with this--it's wonderful to watch.
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Date: 2007-10-18 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 07:34 pm (UTC)