Week from……
25 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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This week has basically been a complete write-off. Last Wednesday I developed some sort of angry throat monster, and have been battling it for the last 7 days. Within that period of time my nose went on strike, I went swimming in phlegm, coughed up a lung, and lost my voice. Even today I still have a painful throat, semi-stuffed nose, and a weird cough.
Basically I haven’t worked out at all since last Wendesday, so I feel like a flabby mess. The diet has gone awry, because when I do feel like eating, my brain is very particular about what it wants, and what I have the patience to pant (couldn’t nose breathe) around. It kind of feels like it is on its way out, so here’s hoping so that I can get back to eating right and working out. It’s crazy how much your mind exaggerates your body image when you aren’t really doing anything…I’ve felt like a bloated mess the entire week. 
I had a presentation today in my Criminal Code class, which was interesting seeing as how I basically was speaking in a manish sick voice the whole time lol. Sickness always comes at just the right time, doesn’t it? I just don’t have time for these shanannigans!
I have my 12 hour day tomorrow, so hopefully tomorrow I wake up feeling good enough to tackle a long day, as well as a french quiz.
~Je suis malade.~
And that’s all she wrote folks. Now for an annoyingly broken and sniffley sleep.
Post-Weekend
16 Jan 2012 1 Comment
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Well, I ended up abandoning bootcamp on Friday. Turns out my family is having a really awesome time passing around an awful flu bug. Good times.
I worked all weekend, and was dying for some sleep, which I caught up on this morning!
I had Eleni’s class today, which wasn’t a complete disaster I suppose. We “played” the card game…in which each suit represents a certain exercise, and the card number tells you how many of each exercise to do. By the end of the deck you generally feel like death…it’s an awesome workout! 
Diet has still been a struggle, but it is definitely looking up since the week before last!!! Working hard to get myself on track!
Not much else to say right now….
Looong Day
12 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Well, I am about to begin a short coma after my 12-hour day at school today…but thought I’d update.
I carted around at least 5 pounds of food today in the form of my 5 meals! he he! It was a good work out at least right? I actually did very well and didn’t cave and have anything TOO anti-diet today! I DID however need 2 coffee pick-me-ups inbetween classes, but I am trying to lessen the amount of crap I put in my coffee so it isn’t SO bad when I do decide to have a cup. Thankfully I am not a huge coffee person, but I think that these 12-hour Thursdays might change that…gotta figure something out!
I am suprisingly not sore from my workout last night, which was pretty hardcore compared to the last few I have done. If you are reading this Eleni please forget you read that and read this: oww, my body hurts everywhere, I don’t think I could ever work out harder than I did last night….:|…in all honesty though, I pretty much only feel any aches when I walk up stairs, so thats pretty good. I am finding that my body is getting used to working out so much that it just doesn’t bother to hurt afterwards anymore…it still DEFINITELY hurts during…but not so much after. Totally not complaining on that one!
So basic day recap: didn’t abandon diet, didn’t die of bordom in my research methods class, had a long but decent day, and now am going to bed…hopefully not to wake up any time before 11am tomorrow. And at that time I will have to prep myself for another royal butt-kicking via Get Fit Bootcamp Guelph.
My first week of classes is finally over! Yayy! Bedtime!! 
Ha.
11 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Just thought I’d include something today that makes me laugh, even if it’s laughing at myself.
Second Day of School
11 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Second day of school and I severely resent the amount of planning it takes to bring four meals to school! And it’s not even Thursday yet! Tomorrow I have to bring literally 5 meals. *face palm*! Class from 9am – 9pm also is severely awful considering that I cannot just go home. If I was dedicated and smart I would bring some workout clothes and hit up the college gym for an hour during one of my breaks…turns out I’m not that dedicated this week. Maybe next week.
I saw a physiotherapist yesterday, that was fun. Essentially my chest pain is my cartilage/sternum joints being angry at me…and my knees are overcompensating for the fact that my legs go in at the knee and out at the ankle a bit. So…pretty much some very important parts of my body required for walking…and breathing…are on strike! So not I must attempt to reduce chest inflamation, and build inner knee (obvs. thats not what they’re called, I never claimed to know anything about anything 
) muscles so that my knee caps aren’t so strained! Thankfully physiotherapist man will be helping along the way. I see him again on Friday, so I had better do my exercises, or heads might roll.
On an even less happy note, I have bootcamp again tonight, and can count on a good butt-kicking I’m sure. May/may not update after that. I am tired and cranky already, so I imagine I will be at my best after getting the snot kicked out of me at bootcamp.
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Post Work-Out
09 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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As I had imagined, I kind of hurt after a core workout with Michael. I think he likes hurting people. A lot.
I made it through the day without breaking the diet, woo-hoo! My feelings on this are pure excitement!
I don’t have a tonne to say right now, but I kind of promised I’d update, so there it is.
Day 1
09 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Well, the diet officially started today. I definitely meant to do a veggie detox over the weekend…I abandoned that pretty quickly. Anyways, the diet is a TONNE of food! I slept in today and missed breakfast, which I am okay with, because I have had two of five meals I’m supposed to have and am already stuffed!
I have a core class tonight and depending how I am feeling might stay for the one I am supposed to be doing as well (Level 2 Transformation)…we’ll see! I feel better than I was simply knowing that I am going to be working out again, my mind had turned on me and started to over analyze every slight feeling of fatness or discomfort. What an awful thing to do to myself. BUT I am en route to making that psychological warfare disappear!
I feel like I am struggling less with the diet today than I thought I would be, which is nice. I kind of expected to cave immediately because that is what I have been doing over the holidays! I have a really awful time with refraining from junk food! I also managed to get re-addicted to Pepsi — I had weaned myself off of it during the first six weeks, but somehow it crept back in…I don’t know…it’s a can full of fizzy goodness. AND! I discovered Mocha Lattes at Tim Hortons. So delicious…but I will have to get myself back onto apple cinnamon tea, it fills the void of basically any warm, calorie filled drink.
School starts again tomorrow (I have Mondays off – woo-hoo!) … and I fear having to pack my 4 meals into my backpack…it was really interesting last semester trying to find space for all of it! Thankfully tomorrow is a short day and shouldn’t have to bring a whole day’s worth! That’ll be on Thursdays, I have classes from 9am to 9pm…I might as well bring a cooler full of the ingredients needed to feed myself for the entire day! It’s gonna be a challenge, that’s for sure!
Well, sorry if any of that was scattered or incoherent, I am coming off three weeks of brain degeneration from not being in school, so hopefully when I get back to it I can make a little more sense!
Will review the work-out tonight…if I can still move…*face palm*…
Hello!
08 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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So Basically…………….
Last summer (2011) I started working out twice a week with Get Fit Bootcamp in Guelph, ON. At that time we were doing it outside, rain or shine at Riverside Park. Those first few weeks nearly killed me. I have to admit that at least once every time we worked out I cried or felt like hurling because I was so out of shape. Needless to say though, after sticking with it I began to enjoy the workouts and feel the benefits of staying fit!
Upon starting school that September, I was basically broke and couldn’t afford to do it anymore! So I took a few months off, and ended up back there again when the owner opened up a studio. She was offering a 6-week transformation and needed some people to help her advertise it, so she was running it for free. As soon as I had secured a spot on that offer I was really excited to get back to it, and ended up losing around twelve pounds (yay!). I genuinely felt better about myself, felt fit, and really enjoyed the benefits that came from working out!
Unfortunately, about a month ago I started to notice that my knees were beginning to hurt doing squats, lunges, and anything else that required bending. They had always bugged me, but now they were actually hindering my workouts. In an attempt to slow down on my knees, I ended up hurting something (not sure if it’s a rib or cartilage) in my chest…and basically became useless during workouts! I was incredibly frustrated that I had to put everything on hold to try to get better!! My diet began to slip away from me, and my confidence soon followed.
Long story short, I have just started working out again, with the help of Eleni (Get Fit owner) to help me find some alternatives for the things I cannot do. I have completed one work out so far, and feel SO MUCH better that I am back at it.
So today is the perfect day to start this blog, because tomorrow I jump back on the diet we are on for the next level of the transformation program. The rollercoaster of emotions and thoughts that will follow will be entertaining for an outsider to read, I’m sure.
