Still was dizzy as can be on wednesday when I thought I’d try and go back to work.  Was a serious joke and was very dangerous that I was on the road.  I then took thursday off as well just to be sure I was over it.

Today I am feeling somewhat better.  It’s going to be a slow process and the new cough I have is overly annoying, but I’ll survive.  Each day I feel better.  Still get tired, but such is life huh.  Oh and this cough has brought back my rib pain on one side so that’s just super fantastic isn’t it?  lol

I told hubby if I didn’t drop 5 pounds from this I was going to lose it.  I’ve had the stomach flu and not lost a pound so I tried not to get my hopes up.  But my eating is totally in check after being sick, caffeine is out of my diet and so is the alcohol.  My portions are so much better since my stomach shrunk while being sick.

I’m happy to report that with my big sweatshirt on today I was 167.  Yes, I did drop back down and now I am working to keep it that way.

I HAVE to be at 145 by the end of July.  I’m taking my daughter on a surprise bday trip down to Cali to stay with my Aunt and I want to be HOT, HOT, HOT in my swimsuit tanning.  22 pounds is nothin’!  I’ll get on some cardio again this weekend and get two of those gone by next friday.

165 by 2/20.

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So I worked out with the one client and then I also lubed up all the machines.  It is too much and I knew it, but working out alone was too much so I figured I’d just go for it.  Needless to say, my ribs are killing me.  I’m sure I will be going into the docs office on monday.  I am really hurting.

I did get a lazy 20 minutes in on the elliptical and another 20 minutes of lazy circuit training.  It was much more movement than I’ve been getting.  I’m happy about that.  Oh and I weighed in at 172 since I didn’t have all my heavy clothes on.  I can’t weigh in when I’m wearing so many different outfits. lol

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After my evening appointments I decided I’d better do what I told myself I would do and head to the clinic before it closes.

Just like I knew, there is nothing they can do except give me some pain pills so I can sleep.  BUT, it will be 4-6 weeks for recovery and no physical exertion or it will not heal.  OMG, are you kidding?  How am I going to do that?  I have weight to take off!  I have clients to train.  I have a senior’s fitness class to teach 3 times  a week.

But I know this is why I am hurting so bad today.  I overdid.  Even though I was very careful, the ribs are so delicate that it doesn’t take much.  I can’t even take deep breaths without pain.

So I’ll figure this out.  I will do the elliptical without using the arms and get cardio in that way, but not make my breathing too heavy of course.  lol  But no weights of any kind for at least 2 weeks then I’ll re-evaluate.

Needless to say my snowboarding is done.  I’m totally paranoid of falling now.  We were planning on my taking ski lessons the beginning of Feb and we’ll have to see about that now as well.  I may go up still and sit in the lodge because I’m sad the family wouldn’t still be able to go.  Again, that’s a few weeks so we’ll see.

But otherwise, my diet has to be spot on.  With how much I hurt last week between the two days of crashing, I put on another couple of pounds.  No real workouts happened cause I hurt and my food was out of control because I was comforting myself I guess.  I’m at 175 right now again.

So no more climbing up the weight ladder, it has to stop right there.  Diet is my only thing I can really control at this time, so diet it will have to be.  I must journal my food so I can keep track.

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I’ve hit cardio a minimum of 4 days a week since and I’ve been hitting it hard at least 2 days a week.  By hard I mean an hour or 600 calories or so.  I’ve hit some weights here and there, but nothing dramatic.  I did a great ab routine on Wednesday obviously because my abs are super sore right now.  It feels awesome.  lol

We were supposed to go up to the mountains today for the first board trip of the season, but now we have record flooding so the hiway was closed.  Can’t get to boarding and they are still closed tomorrow.  Bummed about that as I was looking forward to burning a ton of calories on the slopes.

Our eating is doing quite well and I’m happy about that.  Lots of fish and poultry.  More veggies again and eating regular meals.

Feeling strong with the start of 2009.  I’m not setting any resolutions, but I do have a goal.  In March I am going shopping for a size 8 dress to wear for New Year’s Eve this year.  So the goal will be to look hot in this new hot dress.  lol

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Here’s the really bad thing.  I lost a lot of muscle.    I hit the scales at 165.5.  That is half a pound from goal.  That is not right.  I lost muscle.  But I did lose fat as well.  I did BF and it was down to 30.9% I think.  Down a lot.  So honestly I may have been better than I thought.  I just feel like I’ve been constantly eating.  I may have, but it was spread out far enough and the portions are small.

We all know I can’t eat the really bad foods I want.  lol  No nacho’s, no pizza right from delivery or freezer even, I can’t even eat most chips I loved.  So I guess that may be helping?

So seeing what the weight was.  I got a hard 20 minutes of cardio on elliptical in and then stability weights.  I hit my abs hard.  I’m used to hitting abs with my clients now so it was really boring. 

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My next incentive was my big lower back piece.  Hubby has decided to get his tattoo and he said we will both go in for them!  WOOHOO, I am so damn excited to see ink on him and get more ink on myself!  But that was my incentive for hitting 155.  That means that I need to lose 13 pounds.

He is on weightloss goals now as well so I know we can get only healthy stuff in the house and more workouts.  But 13 pounds for girls is much more.  Especially since he has more to lose than I do.  But that is sounding like excuses and it is.  If I stuck to it, I could hit it in no time.  I’m committed to keeping it off forever and not the quick fix this time.

But I do want that tatt!  I have wanted this tatt for over 3 years now.  I can’t wait to get it.  After that, the sky will be the limit.  I’d honestly have no problem tatting my whole body up.  I LOVE IT!

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But then we realized that the scale is off and it upped my weight to 167.    RATS!  Ok, I’ll still take it, but I liked 1 pound much better.

I do have to say it’s exciting to see the scale jump around the 167-169 weight range when I move around on the scale.  Such a big difference mentally.

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I’m still going to focus on the cardio and the jogging in particular.  We are doing the sound to narrows 12k on June 14th.  Plenty of time to get there.  I’m going to ease into my cardio today with hubby thankfully.  Do some light weights and lots of them and then hard on the abs.  I’ll hit abs again with my evening client.  The scale said 178.5 this afternoon. 

PS-quick update:  I wrote this post while at work with no internet access.  lol  I burned 450 calories on the elliptical and jogging.  We also did push ups on the bosu ball, dips on the bench and then leg lifts into hip raises and a set on the ab bench machine.  Just the basics today and it felt pretty good.

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I didn’t get any more cardio in yesterday.  I will probably get on the bike today a lot.  This needs to clear up soon because I have a 12k to start
training for.  A client/friend and I are going to run it on June 14th.  The longest I’ve ever done is a 10k (6.2 miles) so this 12k (7.4 miles) is going
to be a serious challenge.  But we have time to get ready for it.  It’s going to get us outside running and it’s going to be awesome to have a running/training partner!  That will surely get the extra weight off of me.  I’ll be focusing on losing weight and hitting bench marks on the running.  No more heavy weights.

Now to just get these allergies out of the way so I can start the training!  Weigh in is supposed to be once a week, but I felt the need to get on there.  It’s 175.5.  That’s the highest I want it.  No more going back up and down from this point to 178.  I just have to get my butt up out of this chair and get it done.  No matter how I feel.

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I’ve been doing so much better.  I have my food mostly in check.  I have cut my portions down and I am working on burning 500 calories a day.  It’s working because even when I’m putting on a couple of water pounds or a bad eating day, I’m still only weighing in at 178.  Not going back over that 180 again, that’s for sure.  WOOHOOO

Weigh in today is…176 and it’s the end of the day for me, I’m leaving the gym in just a minute.  So that means this morning I would have been on target with only 10 more pounds left to my goal!  This weigh in puts me at 11 pounds to my first goal.  Last time I was at 165 I was very happy there.  I plan on hitting there again and seeing if I want to go down from there or not.  11 pounds is so close!  And the awesome thing is, I did not do it by starving myself.  I have not deprived myself of anything at all, just cut my portions down to human size and getting my 4-5 meals back in a day.  Eating 2 times a day is so bad for the metabolism.

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