I was not a fan of that song.\u00a0 It did make me feel insane.\u00a0 And that is exactly what this week has felt like!\u00a0 Sheesh!\u00a0 I thought I was going for the payout of, “After Jude’s birthday we’ll have some downtime…”\u00a0 But I had open house last night and after Tuesday’s festivities, I just had to pick up my skirts and get ready for the next event!\u00a0 Phew!\u00a0 After this Saturday, life should return to normal…<\/p>\n
This morning we had a two hour late start because of snow.\u00a0 I think we were just excited about it really, since we’ve really had no snow to speak of this year.\u00a0 So I came into work and tried to sit down and get some procrastinated grading done.\u00a0 So there I am, sitting at my desk practically vibrating around my chair.\u00a0 WTH??\u00a0 It occurred to me that I have not been exercising.\u00a0 AT ALL.\u00a0 And my body is probably a little used to burning off the energy.\u00a0 so….\u00a0 I went into my childhood hyper ADHD mode where focus was a joke and I couldn’t stop moving.\u00a0 Eventually I sat with pen in hand, lots of techno and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack and my legs literally running in place under my desk while I graded tests.<\/p>\n
I’m going batty.\u00a0 As soon as I stopped exercising it’s like I took the whole dieting thing down four or five gears.\u00a0 I got tired.\u00a0 I got sleepy. \u00a0 I also got busy and integrated lots of crap into our house for the party. \u00a0 The good news is that it seems like any hip swelling is going down.\u00a0 The bad news is that as the swelling is going down I am starting to feel how deep my injury seemed to go.\u00a0 I think I got a really interesting bone bruise, truth be told.\u00a0 As I am healing, little twists and jumps seem to aggravate it, and forget about sleeping on it.\u00a0 anyhow, this is not a blog to act all old and I’m not planning to deeply ponder my health, but it is an interesting game, this whole changing the body thing.<\/p>\n
Stepping away from being so hardcore has offered me some perspective, though.\u00a0 I do think I put my body into shock.\u00a0 I went from being fairly inactive to exercising an hour or more per night and eating a net of 900-1200 calories per day (that is my after exercise number).\u00a0 SO hopefully this little vacation from the program will reset my body a bit and have the desired effect.<\/p>\n
***Weekend Goals:<\/p>\n
This weekend I am hoping to start getting some stretching and strengthening exercises in.\u00a0 I found a workout that was made by people who run and it is designed specifically to focus on strengthening the hips of people like me – new fat runners.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I’ll give it\u00a0 a try, keep chugging and I am bound to see change.\u00a0 I want to stay within my calories, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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