Saturday, April 12, 2008

Total Frustration

I am frustrated. I am sad. I hate myself for not being able to lose weight. Every Friday I weight officially (although I weigh myself every day too) and I have now been the same damn weight for FOUR WEEKS!!!!!! My deltoid is always hurting me, I'm still lifting weights at the gym, I increased my cardio this past week, and I still didn't l ose anything. My food hasn't been bad, in fact it's been pretty good. If I "cheat" it's not even that bad.

I thinking of stopping my training for a while. Next month (May 20) it will be 3 years that I have trained. that's 36 months x 250 a month = $9,000. I'd really rather save the money right now to pay for painting, new carpet, and my stamp convention i'm going to in July.

I seriously think i'm doing too much weights. I used to 3 half-hour sessions a week. Now, because I join up with another lady twice a week and we go for an hour (which is really giving us double the time, even though we share, because we don't stand around waiting for the other person to finish) that it's now like i'm doing weights 5x a week instead of 3 ... and I should be doing cardio instead of this much weights. The only day I like is leg day becuase there is nothing to hurt my deltoids. I can't lift a lot. I get depressed when I see that I can't lift anything because it's too heavy. EVERYTHING is too heavy because EVERYTHING makes it hurt.

I'm just really pissed off at myself ... pissed off at the gym ... i hate everyone right now. I'm jealous of people who don't have to work to lose weight. I have to practially go into Ethiopian starvation mode to lose anything (and even then it's very slow going). It's just not fair.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Pushup Queen LOL

Yesterday I had an hour workout with my trainer and then I took the Kickboxing class. During my weight training I did 3 sets of 10 pushups (FULL STYLE, not on the knees!). I am so proud that I can do these because until I was 41 years old I couldn't even do ONE !!! At the end of kickboxing we had ab work on the floor and we had to do MORE pushups. 3 more sets of 10. So that meant that I did SIXTY, yes 60!, pushups yesterday!! Whoa. This morning my arms, chest, and back were really sore (but it felt good!).

New Workout Schedule

I desperately need to increase my cardio. I used to do cardio 5-6 times a week when I was at my lowest weight. For the past 5 months or so, I've decreased to 3 times a week mainly because I was getting bored and burned out.

Last week I started changing my workout schedule. I still work with my trainer 3 times a week, but I'm adding classes and lap swim now to my cardio. Here's what I hope to do every week:

Monday: Pilates class (or lap swim)
Tuesday: 1 hour w/trainer, then Kickboxing class
Wednesday: 30 mins w/trainer, then lap swim
Thursday: REST DAY
Friday: 1 hour w/trainer, then Club Boxing class
Saturday: Advanced Step ... or something at home.
Sunday: REST DAY

My Saturdays will depend on how my heels are feeling at the moment. I started suffering from plantar fasciitis 9 years ago when I first discovered step aerobics. I overdid it and my feet really paid the price. It took a couple years for them to feel better (I quit step completely) then I went several years without any pain at all. REcently my right heel has been really bothering me. It came back when I was starting to do more running on the treadmill, then running at my son's school for a FAmily Fun Run day. Guess I'm not meant to be a runner LOL. That's o.k., I don't really like it!

Today was my first day back in the pool. I did 40 lengths in just under 30 minutes. It felt good. I was also worried about my arms hurting (deltoid) because last time I tried to swim, each time I did a stroke my arm hurt and I only did maybe 10 lengths before giving up.

Friday was my first day back at Club Boxing. It's a great class. It combines boxing with circuit training and it's an AWESOME workout! We run, punch bags, do walking lunges, side step squats, pushups, crunches and more. I look forward to Friday's class.

Oh, and my weight has stayed the same for the past 3 weeks, which really irritates me, but it's better than gaining. I do yoyo up depending on what I've eaten, but any gain (fluid) always comes off with a good day of water intake.

Remodeled Fitness Journal

I am a rubber stamper and paper crafter. You can pretty much look in every room of our house and find SOMETHING that has been stamped LOL. I am a demonstrator for Stampin' Up! and love their products.

I have a fitness journal that the gym gave me. It was bound by those really cheesy flat plastic coils (vello comb?). My journal was falling apart because those coils just do not last.

Enter one of my crafty tools that I love ... the Zutter Bind-It-All. I took my journal, removed the plastic coil, trimmed off the hole punches, made a new cover for it, then re-coiled it using a much better wire coil.

Check it out ....... is this not just toooooooo cute? I also made some divider pages and included some blank pages where I keep my progress photos and notes.



Paper and punches used by Stampin' Up! Stamps by Hanna Stamps. Binding by Zutter Bind-It-All.

If you love the above OK Go video, check out this little guy LOL