10thMay

Stalled in the slow lane…

No surprise, 188 has found me this morning. Damn!  I’ve been eating healthy but I haven’t exercised enough this week.  Several doctor’s have always said the same thing after running thyroid tests, “You have a really low metabolism but I’d rather not put you on thyroid medication.  It just means you have to work a little harder than most people to lose weight.” 

“A little harder”, my butt!  I can keep the calorie count low and nothing happens.  I know from a life of doing this that I have to exercise like crazy to get anywhere.  I just wish I didn’t have to hurt all the time.  If it’s not my ankles, it’s my back. I know, whine, whine, whine.

Okay, on with the show…I set a very reasonable goal of 185 by May 15 so I’m going to have to get serious about the exercise.  Looking over my journal, I can see that I only exercised three times this week.  I’ve had my morning coffee, guess I’ll go hit the treadmill.

10:30…
Pushed it a little.  Worked out an hour and 15 minutes, went 3 1/2 miles, burned 420 calories.  Interesting observation…it used to be about pushing past the heat and fatigue.  These days it’s about pushing past the pain.  I can deal with the heat and fatigue but the pain really hurts my morale.  I usually start out slow and level and try to work out at 3mph.  For a short little thing like me, that’s a fast pace (gimme a break, I’m only 5′1″).  Then I start increasing the incline at 4 minutes intervals until I hit 10% where I stay for 6 minutes and then start back down decreasing the speed and incline.  Usually my ankle starts hurting about 20 minutes in and about 5% on the incline and continues to be annoying until I finish.  It’s very depressing but I just keep pushing on.  Today, because I wanted to push it a little, I hung in there on the way down at 2.8 mph with the incline down at 4% and hit “the zone”.  My ankle stopped hurting and I could have gone forever.

Of course, the calories drop off pretty quickly at 3mph and 10% incline and they crawl at 2.8 and 4% but I’m wondering if I ought to quit pushing the incline.  Is it something I need to do to strenthen and increase flexibility in my ankles or is it something that’s destroying the “fun” of working out and should be stopped.  Any suggestions?

10:30…This has been a good day.  Good exercise, good food.  I spent most of the day doing laundry.  I told all the men around here to pick out ten pair of socks each.  The rest are hitting the trash.  At ten pair each, that’s 100 socks for all of us.  I must have washed 300 today.  I have better things to do than spend hours trying to match white socks.

Went out to the spa a few minutes ago and it zapped me.  I’m soooo sleepy. 

Night, gals!

7 Comments

findingjoy says 10th May @ 12:41

Hello,
I am sorry the way your body is rebelling against you both in metabolism and pain. The only thing that helped me (when I lived in the city) with pain from impact exersize was a combo of yoga, swimming, and pilates. I know, yoga? Yes I was sweating like a pig and could barely walk the next day it was so intense. Then my body got used to stretching in ways that I didnt think a body should. LOL The pain in my knees, back, and feet went to almost nothing.
(bye the way) thanks for leaving comments on my blog. I am never sure where to answer , so I just answer back on my comment sight. Have a fantastic weekend!
Joy
ps keep going strong! I think the fact that you worked through the pain when most would have quit is GREAT!

findingjoy says 10th May @ 12:43

ps
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10%?! You go woman! I thought I was doing well at 3% incline. LOL

momjoan says 10th May @ 14:50

when you “figure out” if this is helping or hurting, let me know also. I’m with your other comment about thinking I was doing good at 3/3inc. lol

patty says 10th May @ 16:07

Thanks for the input, Momjoan. I think I’m going to have to play with this for a while and try to figure out what I need to do. After the last surgery, the doctor said, “Your days of running, and even jogging, are over. This ankle is not going to like jogging. You’re going to have to recognize your limitations and learn to live within them but you should be able to walk and do most activities without too much trouble.” Because the bones have been fused, he said I would always have trouble with uneven surfaces but I don’t know if he meant laterally (which gives me trouble and makes me look like an idiot if I happen to step on the edge of something) or uphill and downhill.

kiki says 10th May @ 16:51

Hey Ms. Pat, have you tried the Michael Thurman Six Week Body Makeover? It is very healthy and you can lose lots of weight 10-30 pounds in just 6 weeks if you follow the program correctly. The beauty of it is, you start the “diet” by eating food. This works, which is why I can’t understand why I haven’t been disciplined enough to do it. But basically you are speeding up your metabolism by eating 5-6 small meals a day.

patty says 11th May @ 8:51

Hi, Kiki, Thanks for the suggestion. I’m trying to avoid any kind of formalized plan and learn to eat and cook with healthy low-fat, low-cal, low-carb items. In the past, I’ve found most plans to be too restrictive in terms of my moods or creativity. Nevertheless, I’m going to look up this plan on the internet and check it out.

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