Monday, December 5, 2016

A Back Injury and Getting Seriously Sidelined

Apparently I haven't been back to my blog since September. This is one of those cases of not realizing how fast time has passed. My plan is to blog a bit more regularly rather than space my posts out two and a half months apart.

In the time between postings, I managed to lose some weight which made me quite happy. I was working out two to three days a week. I was doing mostly elliptical workouts although I was also doing yoga every few days as well.

Then I fell off track. It didn't happen all at once, mind you. It happened bit by bit. I had a couple of Tim Horton's treats and some tea with extra cream in it. I work in a retail store that was located near a food court and a couple of times I visited A&W for meals. That stuff is tasty but it's hard to lose weight even when you're exercising.

Then, even that ended. I ended up feeling like I pulled one of the muscles in my ass and it hurt a lot. So, I stopped using the elliptical and about two weeks later the muscles in my back decided that they really, really hated me. I was pretty much confined to the couch for a couple of days and wasn't able to do much other than work, take medication and sleep.

It also made me hungry. Very, very hungry and so I ended up snacking quite a bit. That ended up leaving me weighing about 4 pounds heavier than I was when I started this blog. So, that means I just have to get back to it. I still have to take it easy so that I can build my back up again and avoid hurting it again. I'm also recommitting to the idea of eating in a healthier way and cutting back on my calorie intake.

Today, I was on the elliptical for about twenty minutes. I was careful not to use a program I had been that was very strenuous but I did crank up the resistance a bit. I also did some planks. Here was my workout:

  • Elliptical: 20 minutes, incline 0, resistance level 2, burned 200 calories
  • Plank position, 2x30 second planks, spaced 30 seconds apart, 4x15 second planks, spaced 15 seconds apart
It may not be much but it's something. Here's to getting back on track and NOT ending up with a sore back again. 

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