Mountain Pose - Continued

I went to a different doctor today for a second opinion on my blood pressure medications since I was having low blood pressure moments in during mountain pose in my yoga class. And I think she'll be my new doctor. The doctor understood my fitness level and the type of exercise that I do. She reduced my blood pressure medication to a quarter of what I had been taking (from 20 mg of Benicar down to 5 mg of Benicar), so that's a good thing.

In other updates, my calf muscles are much better. I have been using a foam roller for the last few days since I discovered on Friday night that there was knot after knot in my calf muscles.

Must go now since I have a training session at the gym tomorrow morning. Hope you have good workouts this week.

My Calf Muscles...

...are in pain this week. Well, since Tuesday. Don't know why. Can't really think of anything that I did that would cause it.

My planned "recovery walk" yesterday was a total fail. I ended up walking at a higher incline on the treadmill than I've ever walked before. So maybe that's why my calf muscles still hurt. Maybe. Don't know. But yay for the increased incline.

Mountain Pose

After having a low blood pressure moment while we were in Mountain Pose at yoga last week, I kind of shied away from going back for a little while. So then today I went to yoga and I was fine the whole time. Great yoga class. It's amazing how a good day at yoga can increase the confidence.

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

We All Fall Down

So today I was at my 6:00 AM training session at the gym and in a brilliant moment of coordination, fell on my left arm. No big deal, don't even think it really left a mark. First time I ever fell during a workout. I was doing push-ups with one hand on the ground and one hand on a medicine ball. With each push-up, you switch the medicine ball to the other hand. My left hand just didn't quite make it to the right spot on the medicine ball and it rolled right out from under my hand as I was going lower into the push-up. And that was the second push-up out of 3 sets of 12. Finished all of the push-ups.

Have a great long weekend and make sure to take some time for being active, whether it's outside, at the gym, in the yoga studio...

Kind of Awesome

Good news! Downward trend in weight loss is beginning again. My weigh in today was down 2.4 from last week. I've lost 65.6 pounds total, and 14.4 pounds to go until I get to my goal weight. Yay!

Funny thing...I was gaining weight on the plant-based diet. So this week I added eggs and lean meats back into my regular diet and I'm losing weight again. My calorie intake was lower this week, but not by much because I went over my calorie limit a few times, just almost to what it was last week. I was eating between 1400 and 1600 calories on the days that I went over, so nothing major.

And here's some really awesome news...

When I started out on this weight loss journey in December 2010, I was wearing size 22W clothes. Tonight I went to Old Navy just to see if jeans would fit in the next size down from my current size 14 jeans - and they FIT! I bought size 12 jeans! 12! I don't think I've ever owned anything in a size 12. If I did, it was for a very short time. I could be wrong about that, but I don't think so. Wahoo for size 12!!

Saturday - Day of Interesting Tasks

The majority of the florescent lights in my kitchen burned out this week.

Here is how the kitchen looked in stages:



First, I took down all the panels and discovered there were 4 lights out and not just 2.



Then I went to Home Depot and bought the right replacement lights. I couldn't really figure out how to put them back in, then I was watching a video from the Prescribing Yoga website, and had an epiphany about how to get the lights to work. And it worked.



Now the lights are working in the kitchen and all the panels are cleaned and put back in place. So not as easy as it looks to stand on a chair and put the panels back in place.

Glad I accomplished something today. Going to yoga later.

New Calorie Count

Since my weigh in yesterday didn't produce the results I had expected, my trainer and I sat down this morning and looked at what my calorie intake should be. I had been eating 1600 calories. Now my new calorie count is 1400 calories. 1400 calories! I've been mentally reevaluating everything I eat during the day and thinking of what to eat to get the most out of everything I eat. But I think I have a good menu in mind for the coming week, so we'll see how it goes.

On a lighter note, I was using the chin-up and dips machine this morning. I was standing on the step on the right side while my trainer was changing the weight on the machine. Then when I was getting back onto the bench that you kneel on to do chin-ups, I hit my head (not very hard) on the bar that my right hand was holding for the chin-ups. I just laughed. Funny way to start the morning.

2/2 Weigh In

Some weigh ins are better than others. Today was an other. I didn't gain much, just .2 pounds, very small amount. It's only frustrating because I did so well this week - had good workouts, only went over on my calories twice, and not by much.

Better luck next week.

For the bad idea file

Bad idea: Eating a brownie sundae the night before a weigh in. At least it was a brownie sundae that was shared among three people.