A Smidjin at a time

It has been a little while since I last posted anything. And that isn't good. See I have noticed that I do better with the food/workout thing when I am blogging more. Or is it that I am better at the blogging thing when I am "on plan"? So here are a few important updates and some plans. I had more lab work done. It is starting to be a relatively regular thing in my life. And man oh man did they come back different from the last ones. I think the only thing that came back good was that my vitamin d level came back finally to normal. My testosterone is up higher than it was when I was first diagnosed. So we are upping the metformin to try to combat that. And my cholesterol...wowza's. Needless to say the drug combo I was on was not working. So we changed meds. From the bottom of the pyramid lowest dose to the top of the pyramid highest dose. Last weekend I got to spend the entire weekend away with my amazing small group. 13 adults and 11 children all in the same beac...

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little depressed and frustrated right now. I got my last set of lab work back and pretty much the only good news on it was that my Vitamin D is at a normal level. For starters, my Cholesterol levels, still aren't good. In fact my Triglycerides are higher than they were even before I started meds. As are my LDL's. For those who can't remember their LDL's from their HDL's let me help. The LDL's are the LOUSY ones and the HDL's are the helpful ones.  Partially I think it's cause I have been really lazy with the eating right thing lately, and partially cause we had backed off on one of the meds that had originally worked to lower it. So hopefully it's just a matter of going back up to the original dose of that med. And getting way more diligent with the eating thing. I am looking at several options on that in addition to the weight watches. Secondly, and the one that is most confusing is my testosterone level. The nor...

Well I did it! I survived 6 weeks of bootcamp! Minus the 3 days I missed due to being extremely exhausted coming back from women's retreat and then when my wrist acted up. But I did it. I pushed myself a lot harder than I thought my body would go. Guess what, I can do a full push-up now. Not a lot of them, but I can do them! And I actually started making plans to continue working out with my friend Jess. As much as I seriously don't like getting up really really early, I kinda liked getting up early to work out, it was nice to know that I already had that taken care of for the day. And there were even parts I really liked, parts that Jessica and I might do later. So now on to other important things. Like finding the perfect reward!

I have been putting off a new blog entry for a while. I keep saying to myself "Tomorrow I will have time to sit down and have it sound nice". Well tomorrow keeps becoming the day before yesterday. So I guess I just need to put my excuses behind me and write something that maybe isn't as perfect as I would like. I have been stuck, and it sucks. I am not sure why. I still want to lose the weight. But the day to day motivation is so totally not there. When I signed up for the boot-camp class I thought it would maybe be a good kick-start. But I gotta tell you, the scale hasn't really budged in the last 4.5 weeks. I am hoping it is from the "muscle weighs more than fat" concept, but I am so not sure. And now my wrist is acting up so I am not sure how tomorrow's class is gonna go, though I am gonna go prepared to workout as hard as it will let me. I just need to figure out whatever the roadblock has been this whole year really. I am sticking with weight wa...

Now I am not sure if I will be posting after every workout yet or not. Maybe the novelty of that will wear off. But for now I gotta share these thoughts: We only did 40 pushups. Push-ups. That doesn't mean we didn't make up the difference in Burpees, and plank jacks, and this thing that you start in plank and just hop you feet up and back but never stand up...and if at any point you couldn't do the motion "just" hold plank. And I am curious... when doing a movement for time not reps, does anyone else have a hard time not counting the actual reps while the instructor watches the clock. I know we only have a "minute" to do, though sometimes i think she takes a long blink and it becomes a long minute, but I keep finding myself counting the number of reps. I am not sure if i wanna embrace this habit as a way to distract myself from pain or break it so as not to torture myself with numbers. She had us actually skipping across the aerobics room...skippin...

I would love to tell you what Friday was like in boot-camp. But I can't remember what all we did. So here are the highlights that I do remember. We did 160 push-ups this time. First 50 were 5 sets of 10 reps alternating with some other move. Same with the second 50 (except it was a different extra move). Last 60 were 3 sets of 20, normal push-ups, wide arm push-ups and then tricep push-ups. Now saying we did 160 doesn't mean I actually did 160, there might have been a few sets that I had to stop early and go into child's pose (one of my favorites in yoga, I mean how can one not like child's pose). But I still probably got 130-140 in. I suck at jump rope. Like big time. And that was the first thing we did when my legs were fresh even. We were supposed to do 100, i kept tripping after 10, sometimes I'd only get one done. I don't really recall jumping rope much as a kid, maybe that is my problem. I think I need to practice. To that end I have bought my own ju...

Jumping jacks, and squat jumps, and burpees, and pushups, and up-downs, and crunches, and burpees, and bicep curl/shoulder presses, and swings, and bycicles, and stair running, and alphabet planks, and wobbly planks, and push-ups, and push-ups,and push-ups,and push-ups,and push-ups,and push-ups,and push-ups,and push-ups,and push-ups,and push-ups, oh my.  Well it has come. The day I actually had to sweat in class. I came in water bottle full, shoes tied tight. And half the class forgot to bring in their written down goals so Olivia promised us a punishment. Nice little warm up full of marching and running in place, and jumping jacks, and butt kicks, and high knees. Then we got to our punishment. 5 jump squats + 5 burpees x 5 sets. For those who don't know: Jump Squats: Burpees:  And then we moved on to the Fit Test. 4 moves, each done for a minute to see how many we can do. Push-ups, Crunches, Up-downs and you guessed it MORE burpees. My numbers were act...