Step Away From the Cake

I have a confession to make. I did not workout again this morning. But this time I have a really good reason. As soon as I got up at 6:30 I started in on my thesis proposal and I didn't stop until I was finished about half an hour ago. I am so thrilled and excited and relieved. It is finally done. Now I can relax a little. Last night my murdering-drug-dealing neighbors had a little puppy whining all night. These people can't take care of themselves let alone a puppy!! They are such idiots. They were out there early this morning doing yard work. I heard the kid come out with a weed whacker and show the dad. The dad didn't even know they had one!! What fools. That place is such a mess next door it wouldn't surprise me if they found Ferrari parts laying around. Not that any of them could ever afford a Ferrari - none of them work. Oh well!! I'm not going to think about my idiot neighbors, I'm too happy. I'm going to go play with the birds for a wh...

Yesterday, due to a complete oversight on my part, I did not workout. I did take the dogs for a walk so at least I did something. Then this morning I awoke in a panic. My thesis proposal was due on Wednesday night and it's not done yet (I have a reprieve until Monday so it's not that bad) and a literature review is due next Thursday. I awoke freaking out a little. But that actually turned out to be a good thing. I got up and sat down at the computer. I did a little bit of research because I was still looking for something and wouldn't you know I found exactly what I needed. I found some fabulous articles that got me rolling on my paper (I was still struggling to get started in the direction I wanted to go in). I printed a bunch of them out and took them to school with me. After my class I had to wait as a friend was arriving from the mainland, so I sat in my classroom and started to work on my paper. With what I found this morning the paper started to write itsel...

It's truly amazing how it works, and how quickly I can forget. I have now worked out 6 days in a row and I feel fabulous. I really look forward to my interval workout, I like to see if I can go faster then the last time. I say all the time that I'm not competitive but I am against myself. I love to see if I can go faster, further, harder, heavier, whatever. Anyway, the food has been good too. See if I workout I want to eat right and if I eat right I want to workout and it's a never ending loop. So yes, feeling fabulous, eating well, working out, life is good. I have been doing my intervals on my elliptical machine. I love my elliptical because I can simulate running with no damage to my body and that sprained ankle from 2 weeks ago just won't seem to heal, so the elliptical it is. I was doing my intervals this morning and the dog was chasing the pedal. I was thinking that I should get a treadmill and I could put him on it then he wouldn't go after me :) ...

I only have a couple of minutes before I work out but I wanted to post these thoughts. Everything is connected. How you feel, what you eat, your view of yourself, your view of your comptency, everything is tied together. I've been struggling with getting back on the exercise track and writing the proposal for my thesis, two seemingly unrelated things. Yet, once I kind of forced myself to workout everyday things started falling into place. I feel better, my mental state is better, I have more energy, and other areas of my life are falling into place. I finally figured out how to make my thesis work and I know it's only because I feel so much better in other areas of my life. My complete exhaustion seems to have passed. I did not even get tired yesterday afternoon but worked straight through until it was time to go to class. I've said it before but it bears repeating, we, our bodies, do not exist as separate systems. We can't treat one problem and expect other pa...

Last Thursday and Friday I was dead tired. By 2 pm I felt so incredibly drained that one day I actually laid down and took a little nap. That is unusual for me on a lot of different levels. First, as much as I love them, I don't take naps anymore. I will lie down on the couch with Sammy and watch a little TV, but after about 30 minutes I have to get up and do something. So napping is very strange for me. Second, getting that tired is bizarre. I mean I was bone tired. I felt like I could not move another step. I could not hold my head up. It was horrible. There are other reasons but you get the idea; very strange for me. Friday I got up and forced myself to work out even though I was just exhausted. Saturday I did the same thing. Yesterday I was actually looking forward to working out. I also felt pretty good yesterday and had my normal amount of energy. This morning I feel great. So, the moral of the story here is, between eating right and working out for a couple o...

My own dad has been dead for 38 years. He's been gone longer then I knew him. It's sad that I never got to know him as an adult, I understand from my brothers and sisters he was a pretty cool guy. But that's the way it goes sometimes. For all you Dad's out there, Happy Father's Day. I had an interesting thing happen last night. I did some strength training on Friday and yesterday afternoon I started to get some muscle soreness. The more I relaxed the more sore the muscles became, especially in the ab area. I didn't think too much about it, it was about 36 hours after I worked out and DOMS was setting in, no biggee. Then in the middle of the night I woke up because my ab muscles were in real pain. It was the weirdest thing. Once I woke up and relaxed the pain went away, but it was very strange. I've never had anything like that happen before. Weird. Anyway, I'm off to do my strength training again and some cardio. Then I have a list of chores...