Another good run?

Nov 22, 2009

I lost another 2 pounds this week so I'm really hoping this is the beginning of another good few months of weight loss. The annual Christmas party @ work is on Dec 5th and I am leaving for a two-week trip overseas in mid Dec so I want to lose as much weight as possible by then! (Especially the party cuz I wanna be the HOTTEST chick there!!!). I went to Maurice's and bought new clothes for the first time since surgery!!! I had gotten a few things here and there, but now I'm finally getting into clothes and style and accessories and it's AWESOME! Before style had no bearing on whether or not I would buy something, I was lucky if it fit and if it did I had to get it out of necessity. But now I can be fashion forward and buy all the awesome, cute things everyone else buys and I love it!!!

In terms of eating and exercising I have not allowed myself nearly as many "treats," which I think helps A LOT, and I also limit the amount of trigger foods I have in my house. For instance, I love the little Russell Stover chocolate santas and I bought a couple packages yesterday. Then I made my way to the frozen foods section and saw those Mrs. Field's cookie dough bites and was like ooh I haven't had those in awhile...BUT I decided it was either the chocolate or the cookie dough--not both. So I only left with the chocolate. It works for me...I also realize now that I can eat things sparingly--that they're not gonna run away if I leave some for the next day, and the next day. So I don't feel like food has that control over me anymore.

I went to see a physical therapist last week about my knee and he gave me a whole laundry list of problems I have lol... 1)I have a high arche so when I do high impact sports like running my feet don't cushion the impact as much as they should 2) I have what he called "runner's knee" which basically means my knee caps move around too much and cause pain and irritation (explaining why I sometimes have pain on my knee caps) 3) When I stand and walk I hyperextend my knee causing added stress on the knee complex and 4) My thigh muscles are very weak and so they are not supporting the knee as much as they should be. The last one was the hardest to hear...I've been running 12 miles a week and I have weak leg muscles????!!!! WHAT??!!!!! But I started to look at it from another angle: How much worse it must have been BEFORE the weight loss! I wasn't having knee pain then but when I think back on it my feet and ankles would KILL me everyday. I could hardly stand without pain, so the running just brought my weak muscles to the forefront. I was very nervous that I wouldn't be able to do aerobic activity but I was told no running for at least 2 weeks, but I could use the elliptical, rowing machine, bike, and especially the leg press. I was also given strengthening exercises to do at home. I went back a second time and had a different guy and I LOVED him!!! No ring, SUPER cute, funny, and nice. I think I need to find out if he's single hahaha. But anyway, he was awesome...can't wait to go back! They have not yet ruled out the possibility of a stress fracture, but I'm not even going to entertain the idea until I give this a shot and really work on strengthening my legs.

So the exercising has also gone well despite my knee issues. I did the elliptical three times last week and it seems to work just fine. I almost feel like my knee started hurting on purpose because I had gotten into such a routine and was too stubborn to change it that my body forced me to change it and now I'm challenging it again and the scale is moving down again...Because truth be told the running was a great workout, but my body was very used to it. Now that I'm doing the elliptical and the rowing machine and the bike etc.. I'm confusing it and challenging it again. So far, it seems to be working.

At 187 this is the lightest I've been since the year 2000 when I dropped a good 60 pounds my senior year of high school. I want to be down to 185 by the party and HOPEFULLY closer to 180 by the time Germany rolls around. Mentally I am definitely on my game and I think that's half (if not more) the battle!

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