This week in Shane’s world.

Jul 09, 2016

NSV moment at the water park. I went up and down the big 5 story slide 47 times and was still able to walk the next day, no back issues at all. I was able to fully participate with my 8 and 11 yr old kids. Just a couple of years ago I would have weighed way too much to go down the slides and even if I could have my back would have been wrecked for weeks afterward. I came to  a truce with my perfectionist side and didn’t lose it when I didn’t get to work out for 3 days. I was careful with what I ate while we traveled and stayed on plan, then when we returned home I picked right back up where I left off with my exercise. I hopped on my bike and fired up a good fiction audio book and away I went right back into my routine. Something has awakened in me that I have not felt in a very long time. It’s not weight related and I can’t get it out of my head, exercising to the point of exhaustion helps to push it to the back of my mind most days. I can’t even talk to anyone about it which is super ironic the one person I would want to talk to about it I can’t. I’ll come to a conclusion on what I should do eventually. In other news, I’m starting to really like lifting weights, even though there are some Grand Ma’s that can lift more weight them me at some of t
he stations. I had really let myself go to point that I have to start building back up the muscles to just do basic things like oh pushups. I used to be able to bench press 210 now I’m lucky if I can get 70 up for 12 reps. It’s just like everything else it will take some time to get stronger. Does this help me lose weight faster..meh maybe a little, but it’s mostly diet. water lots of water, and a healthy dose of patience grasshopper. I do the cardio and the weights because it’s important to me that I am physically capable of pulling my own weight. I don’t want to have to depend on the charity of others do things I should be capable of doing myself, like moving heavy things or even just getting myself up off the floor, that’s how bad off I was. I’ve come a long way, but I’m not quite there yet I’ll get there, though. I also use the exercise in the place of food to deal with emotional issues we all have our own way of dealing with those I gravitated to this.

A teenage problem of mine has returned in a big way recently. I wake up in the middle of the night or early morning with calf muscle cramps. To me it feels like my whole calf just popped out and totally tightened up. I’ll lay there waiting for it to go back in or slowly reach down and try and massage it back in hurts like the dickens at the time. It’s not something I enjoy so I’ll look into taking some potassium and also spending a bit more time rolling out my legs after coming back from a long ride or walk. I don’t think it’s dehydration I’ve had that before and besides that I’m drinking over a 100 oz of water a day.

Here's a nonweight loss related story, that happened while we are at the water park arcade , my youngest Addy was trying desperately to win a Max doll from the movie Secrete lives of Pets by playing the claw machine. She had dropped about $50 into the machine. I know what you are thinking and Yes we did try and talk her out of spending all her money on it but when she gets focused there’s no stopping her. The other thing about Addy is she has a bit of an Addytude problem if she loses think Mt. Vesuvius lol. Anyways she’s down to her last 2 tokens, now I’m am not a religious person, I don’t go to church I wasn’t brought up that way. It’s not that I don’t believe in a higher power I’ve just never gone and I don’t really know how to talk to God. That said there I stand in this arcade behind my little red headed daughter preparing for the onslaught of unstable anger and frustration that was about to head my way. I close my eyes and drops the last 2 tokens in I hear the claw start to move and I find myself thinking these thoughts. Dear heavenly father, we don’t talk much I know, but please oh please let her win this damn doll, then I hear her squeal of joy I didn’t I did it. I open my eyes and sure enough, she has the Max stuffed animal in her hands. Who says there isn’t a higher power and with that, I end this installed of life in Shane’s world.

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