ladymorella

Congrats on the 3 place in your age group. Gift certificate for shoes is cool and free food is always nice. Looks like you are making great progress on your goals. Good job!

6/9/18 Diet: Starts Monday now. PT: Got my PT in "Run": Maybe Saturday or Sunday To-Do List: 25/100 - Got a couple things done on my list. Yesterday my sister and I took stuff out to the swap meet to sell. We didn't do great, but the weather was actually really nice only about 100 instead of the 110 that was expected with a cool breeze and it cooled off just before sunset. (Yeah, funny that was a nice day. I guess my body finally adjusted to the heat this year.) We did sell some stuff on behalf of another who actually did pretty good considering it was stuff that would have been thrown away anyway. It was still working so I said what the heck let us try it. I feel good that someone is gonna use the stuff instead of it going to trash. Today I was able to buy a door frame pull up bar for $5 from a guy locally. It is in great shape. Pretty excited about it since my work schedule may not be conducive to the gym schedule in the near future. Also the rings came today from Amazon. They are not Barbie sized at all. They seem great. The strap looks good, but I guess only time will tell on that. I guess I got them just in time too cause now Amazon has them listed as unavailable. I am really excited for both of these and am stoked I got both for a total of $12. Now if I don't use them ever again after a month I won't feel as bad about it. Now I will have to figure out how I want to integrate them.

Today was a pretty long day. The whole week has been. I feel like I have put a lot more effort into this week and gotten half the results. I feel so behind. Left for work at the normal time today and just now got back. I got a long break for dinner, but still very long day and not really all that productive. Diet: Starts Sunday with an exception for if I eat with friends that day. PT: I haven't done my PT and I think I am going to skip it today since it is midnight and I don't want to take a chance of waking myself up. IDK I may still do it. "Run": Maybe Saturday or Sunday To-Do List: 21/100 - Got a couple things done today on my list.

No them. I got it. Thanks. I guess I am lucky it doesn't make me groggy in the morning.

Side note: Did I use the word whom correctly? It has always confused me. I was sick when we went over sentence mapping at school and I have always felt inadequate as a result.

Good luck on your 100 mile walk tomorrow (err today now I guess.) Dig deep!

That is so strange. I think I have actually heard of that and did it one time now that you mention it. It sounds terrible. Maybe it was so terrible I blocked it out. Maybe your body awareness with the yoga will help. It is easier with a coach, but I'm sure you can figure it out.

Oi, these past couple weeks have been...um interesting. The clip that comes to mind the most today is below: (Spoiler if you are severely behind in Doctor Who and have haven't gone past David Tennant, the tenth doctor. Otherwise you are fine. (End of time is my most favorite story line. I think mostly due to this scene and Wilfred!! Oh how I wish Wilfred was my grandfather.)) This week has gone on too long. So today a significant part of my world was turned upside down with a comment that was tried to be play off as a passing comment. Haha. AHHHHHHH!!!! This week has mostly been a series of: Ok, I guess I am done with my cryptic nerdy references. Diet: I honestly haven't started this yet. I will start on Sunday. I want to finish up a few things I have at the house that aren't compliant and time to prep. I finished the Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but you know I have really bad things left now like Greek yogurt and a nectarine. And milk. You can't forget the terrible, terrible milk. Bhahahaha. Keto is so screwed up!!! PT: Got my PT in today. And I played with doing a handstand against a wall. I was able to get it a few times which was exciting. Today my leg felt a lot better actually. I hope it continues. Still some weirdness with things activating strangely, but definitely better. "Run": Maybe Saturday or Sunday To-Do List: 11/100 - No progress. Had work, gym, work today and soon sleep. In other news with the events of this week I have adjustments to my list to give more points to things that are higher priority and having to add a few things to the list. Hopefully I can sleep the next few days. I have been having trouble, oh how I envy the people whom Benadryl actually makes them drowsy. I could use the allergy help. My stupid brain just won't shut off and there really isn't anything I can do to solve problems at midnight to 3 am. Stop it stupid brain!!!

Maybe one of these days I can wake up early enough to run in only the 90's, but it is not this day, nor week. Haha. Happy to help on the mobility. I have been working on it for a while. I had a great teacher for a while there are a few things I wish I knew earlier.

That looks cool. I think I need to do an OCR at some point.

Yes, that must be it! Yeah, I have a notebook for the gym stuff that I keep in my gym bag. The other stuff though is stuff I have to track as it happens pretty much. So it has to be with me all the time. The phone works for that, but organizing it became a bear. At first I tracked the headaches on google calendar as an event. Keeping track of food and water is easy with MyFitnessPal. But I can't find a good way to track energy, brain fog, leg pain, leg pain possible correlations, and any other issues. For a while I was using google docs, but I would forget what to write down. Tracking energy is hard as there are so many thing that can contribute, sleep, hydration, exertion, calories, nutrition, stress, supplements, etc. This is probably true to some extent at the least. This year I have adopted more of a lets just focus on the little I can do. By coincidence the gym has modified the way it has been programming things which agrees with me more (well on the things I can do.) Also the gym is sort of my place to unwind. Work has been kind of crazy so at the gym I just focus on dropping all the work stuff at least for a little while. The issues have also caused me to focus more on my nutrition, which of course helps the body.

Oh and last night on Amazon I found some gymnastics rings for cheap, like $7 with straps. I keep thinking I must have missed something. Like they are scaled version for a barbie playset, or something like that. I read it several times though and it looks like wood rings with decent looking straps. I suppose wood is probably an undesired material if left outside at most places, but here metal would be searing in the summer. For the money it is worth the risk though. So I will find out soon if I like them. Also looks like I might be able to get a door pull-up bar for $5 in town. I am hoping it works out. I don't even know if it will work in my house, but for $5 I can take that chance. I have been thinking of building something outside for pull-ups, but the task is overwhelming at this point.

Hopefully the garden is more of an active rest for you. No need to sit around on the couch. Sorry to hear you might be solo. Good thing you know ahead that might be the case though. Hopefully your dad will be able to do some of it with you. Seems like he has put in a lot of work too, even if it wasn't as much as he wanted it to be.

I have gone 3 or 4 days without a headache, which is great! However I am still dragging a bit. Diet: I honestly haven't started this yet. I will start on Sunday. I want to finish up a few things I have at the house that aren't compliant and time to prep. PT: I have been doing well on this. Still just doing it once a day. I forgot to ask the PT about the twice a day prescription. I started just doubling the workout. So its the same amount of reps, just all at once. I don't think I can do better than that right now. Run: I skipped this weekend. I will only be able to handle one time a week right now. To-Do List: 11/100 Didn't feel well enough to get much done this weekend since I was working all day Sunday. PT seems to be going ok. I got clearance to do leg work if it doesn't make things worse. The problem is the knee issues usually appears later. Also I have so many other things to try to track for the other health stuff. So I am thinking that I am not really going to do any leg stuff right now. Maybe next week or so. I'm sure the PT needs me to test it, but my brain just isn't working well enough to add something else in to track. I really need to figure out some sort of way to organize everything I am tracking. Last year I was taking a notebook with me that I would take notes in, but many times I wouldn't use it, because I would have to go get it from where it was. Also I am having cognitive issues and sometimes I have trouble remembering things long enough to write them down. Or I would forget what all I was trying to track. I'm not really sure how to fix that. Overall I feel pretty frustrated with things in general, work, home, health, falling behind on basic chores, and just seems to not be getting any better. Definitely been doing a lot of emotional eating in the last week or two which I haven't been doing for a year or so. And then strangely athletically this has been a big year for me despite all that.

Above the clavicle? That seems odd. You know sometimes certain things work better than others at different times. When I first started with lacrosse mobilizations the ball was too hard honestly. The rhomboid and trap stuff was really intense on a lacrosse ball on the floor. I see you already figured out doing stuff on the wall. I wish I had started the trap rhomboid stuff there. For the shoulder, peck, and delt stuff I got the advice to try a tennis ball or something like that. I went to Target and found a dog ball that was lacrosse ball sized, but softer, but didn't squish like the tennis ball. Man it worked so much better. Now a lacrosse ball is fine as long as I stay up with it, but when I started it was way too much. The banded stuff is difficult. Some of the stuff he has you do is pretty nuanced, then to add the band in makes you question everything you are doing even more. I had a teacher that use to do all that banded stuff with us and her help was invaluable. Small tweaks makes a world of difference. The banded stuff seemed to me to help me a lot more, but only if I did them right otherwise I saw little difference.

Awesome! Congrats on your deadlift! Steak seems like a fitting celebration for deadlifts.

Looks like you have the prep all down. Seems like a good plan and the idea to make a list of things you will stop for is a good one. For some reason I thought your race was this weekend. I thought I had missed my chance to wish you good luck before you were off on your adventure. Hope you can shake the anxiety. I have only done a bit of training for two things and on both at two and one week out I was still overly nervous. I started to calm down when I remembered that really there was no more strength to be gained in such a short time. I already had the skills and all that was left was nutrition, hydration, and sleep. So I focused on those and tried to allow myself to relax as stress would only affect my sleep. Somehow that really helped me. Which actually surprised me at how effective it was. I did all I could. Hopefully you can relax this week.

That is crazy they don't make bigger sizes. The zero drop movement is kinda weird. I mean those shoes are pretty expensive even ones that don't have Vibram soles. I don't understand how shoes without much of anything can cost so much. Just cause they are in right now? I have basically been in zero drop shoes since my parents finally let me stop wearing high tops for my bad ankles at 16. Skater shoes were in during the 90's and I found they actually helped me somehow. Ever since I have usually ended up in low drop shoes. Now there are more options, but they are so expensive. You know what is funny? When I went for hiking shoes last year I had a guy that seemed really knowledgeable. He said there were four common width sizes for women and I was a B being the 2nd most narrow after A. I think he said C was "normal" (maybe it went to E?) Many women's shoes are too narrow for me. Girly shoes are ridiculously narrow. When will these manufacturers realize we are not all made the same?

Update: I was out in the sun most of the day on the 19th and boy did it knock me out. I drank 5 liters of water and took electrolytes twice that day. I felt alright on Sunday, but Tuesday after the gym I had a headache and didn't feel well. Since then I have had a headache every or every other day. I have been super nauseous a couple times and at the end of my work day it has been rough. That doesn't even mention the 4-5 hours afterwards. I never know if this stuff is Lyme or just dehydration. I have grown up here and feel it shouldn't be dehydration, but never feel sure enough that it isn't. Since there was nausea I feel like it is probably dehydration. Disappointed it has taken this long to shake if that is the case though. Today I felt a lot better, but still not headache free. So I have kind of gotten to a late start. Diet: I haven't started this yet. I was unsure of what to do. Two days ago I decided to go back on the keto for 4 weeks to see if I notice a difference. I am not excited about this, but I think it needs to be done. After that I can decide what to do. PT: I have been doing well on this. I have done my PT once a day. I wasn't paying attention though and the exercises I was given said to do them twice a day. That is really hard to do. I forgot to ask the PT about it. He had mentioned something about he put a prescribed frequency, but to do them as needed. I don't know how to gauge that. At the beginning once a day was leaving me pretty sore. Now I have adjusted though. Run: I really want to do this as I would like to cut more off my 5k time, but it is so hot. Thus I have not done this. I think this goal might be unrealistic since I have no access to a treadmill. I am going to switch this to a walk if I can tolerate it. If not I will try to do my running plan on the elliptical if I can tolerate it with my knee. Since I still had a headache today I am going to give myself an excused note this week. To-Do List: I decided to keep with the 100 point goal. I am going to give myself points for making progress on things. In particular the yard work, since doing large chucks are much more difficult right now. Also I will give myself 1 point for regular chores I have been having trouble keeping up with like laundry and dishes. This should make getting 100 hard, but not impossible. I will try to find a couple other things to add in as my goal for this is to make it attainable, not easy, but not hard. More of motivation to stay on track instead of getting behind. I may add a couple optional work things to it. Thus far I have 5 points. Kinda of bummed at the lack of progress last weekend since I always start this on week zero and I had a 3 day weekend. I had zero points until today.

You know the funny thing is I like to complain about dumb little things and rarely complain about the big things that really bother me. IDK I feel like when you complain about the little things it isn't negative cause it's not a big deal. The Keto was recommended for the health stuff. I sort of went off of it, because I needed a rest. Also though I wanted to see if some of the issues would come back or get worse. I think I am going to give keto another month. See if it is any different. The heat is pretty excessive now and the other big possible contributor. So I want to see how it compares. In general I agree with you though. Any diet where you have to actually worry about eating too much broccoli is absolutely ridiculous. I know people are trying it and I totally get why they would as I have struggled to lose weight for 10 years, but I think Keto for weight loss is overkill. I saw fat sick and nearly dead. It was interesting. I actually really like vegetables and feel that just eating veggies is probably better for you. I use to juice sometimes when I first started having stomach issues and I sort of felt it wasteful when I saw how much pulp I was throwing away. Now that there are blenders that can blend all that maybe it would be worth a try. Right now I am just eating them though. When I was on a macro diet last year that my coach gave me I was eating 1-1 1/2 pounds of veggies a day. Likely I will go back to my coach for help when I am done with keto. He was helping me lose weight and this keto thing hasn't done anything for that, which I think is interesting. I vividly remember hearing a guy talk about the stuff he endured when he was in a concentration camp as a kid. The emotion in his voice 50 years later about when he had to walk through acid and help a younger boy do so as well so they wouldn't die was heart wrenching. The things people do to other people is so unreal sometimes.

Right?!? Man some of those early studies were terrible. At least that one was low intensity shocks. There was another, Milgram's experiment, where a person was told they were controlling the power level of shocks of a person in another room. They were told to push a button to administer shock when other person got an answer wrong. And they could hear the pain, taperecorder. At the beginning they were told what a fatal level was. Each time after a shock they were told to increase the intensity. The person could stop the experiment at any time, but most got to a fatal level and still pushed the button. The button went nowhere, but the person didn't know it. It was a really screwed up experiment. I don't think the people were told afterwards the button was a dummy. I think there is/was a documentary on Netflix. A lot of those early experiments were really messed up. Later the test was determined to be unethical. Man if westerners did this crap can you imagine the crap the Nazis did?

Hope the surgery goes well. Sounds like an awesome challenge. Deadlifts, Supple Leopard, and Ready to Run?! I love deadlifts. I have been trying to regain my 200# DL, but can't seem to do it and now I'm not allowed to do it for a few weeks. Good luck to you. How close are you? Supple Leopard and Ready to Run in one challenge? I have skimmed through these books so many times, but never read either. I started Ready to Run, but stopped at some point a year and half ago and probably need to start over. Also Indian food as some great vegetarian options. I have never had interest in vegetarianism, but if I had to I would probably have to learn how to cook Indian food.

I was also wondering on this. Do you mention the floor sitting thing in your last challenge? I ended up really behind on reading posts last challenge and never finished up most of what I wanted to track. I have been familiar with Kelly Starrett for a few years and his books and free youTube stuff has helped a lot. I never looked at the deskbound book as I was afraid it would be a little preachy. A weird thing I found on my own last year was that sleeping on the floor helped me a lot. During that time I sat on the floor a lot too, for really no reason at all.

My last challenge didn't go so well. I have been having health issues for a few years. Ranging from pretty mild to only feeling ok 2-3 days out of 4 weeks. I am doing much better, but I still have issues and no real path on how to get better. Have you ever read about the psychology study were they put a person in a room with buttons then hook the person up to electrodes and then they shock the person randomly? By the end of the experiment most people come out swearing they found some complicated elaborate combo to stop/slow the electric shocks. Though really the shocks are just random. I sort of feel like that is what is happening to me. I do somethings that seem to help me feel better, but then later it seems to have no effect at all. Haha. Diet: This isn't exactly planned out. I think I will aim to hit low carb macro. I'm not really sure what to do. I have been doing keto, but it is driving me crazy and it seems like that isn't necessary. However I do feel the need to get back on for at least 6 weeks. PT: I went to my first PT appointment last week. My plan is to do exactly what the PT says. He wants me to stop lower body exercises so we can make progress. Right now I have 4 exercises to do daily. Next week I will most likely get more. Run: I was told I was allowed to run provided it didn't make things worse. My goal is to run once a week. I am hoping for twice a week, but that might be too much right now. To-Do List: I have been trying to catch up on things around the house. I will have to think about the point goal. I have run out of things which fit the old scheme I have been using. So I need to find other things I can throw on the list, change the points per item, or drop it to a 75 point goal. Really I have so much to do I don't know how there aren't more items on my list. PT is the core of the fitness part of this challenge. I was told to stop leg stuff for now, so it will be interesting. I was told I could run though. I don't really like running, but I guess I need some sort of cardio. Right now at my gym we have been doing arm stuff once a week so I think I need to figure out some other arm or core stuff another day of the week. Or maybe the PT will be enough down the road?

Well the challenge is over and I did terrible. I actually didn't feel very good for most of the challenge and since I wasn't prepping more than a day at a time the food was hard to stick to. Also since I was feeling quite exhausted it was hard to get the mobility and supplemental exercises. However despite the fatigue and sleeping too much I did still manage to get 90/100 of my to-do list points, which is pretty good considering how I felt. I think I might have forgot to track a couple things so I might have made it, but documentation or is didn't happen right? I feel better now. Let's see how long that lasts. Anyone want to take bets? I think the odds are on 6 days total. I did however clear all the paperwork off my to-do list which is huge. It has been piling up for a couple years. So it is a huge accomplishment. I have started PT which I have also been putting off for a very long time. Which is also good. These challenges are nice to gain some perspective. The paperwork feels so long ago, but it is nice to look at the list and realize that despite not feeling well I actually got a lot accomplished. Also I got my first pull up. I completed two in this challenge from a hang. It's true what they say progress isn't linear. Also thus far despite going off keto I don't seem to be having worse symptoms. Which is interesting.