Yabbyshmabby’s 52DC Blog

Well, Here I am at the beginning of the Summer 52DC.  I am 201.4 lbs as of this morning.  I am feeling optimistic about the challenge and think that I have set my goals at a nice level.  This is going to be a major challenge for me because I am involved in some serious relathionship issues.  Over the last few weeks I’ve learned a lot about myself and even more about what I don’t like about myself.  Unfortunately there is a lot that I don’t like about the person that I was.  Even though I’m going through this tough time, it has made me realize that life is worth living.  Hopefully I’ll be able to share the rest of it with my wife, but sadly it could be too late.  We’re giving it a go with therapy and seeing how things go.  I’m doing my best to stay on track with my clean eating, but if I need to sacrifice a RT or CT here or there to talk about my relationship with my wife, I’ll miss the workout, but try to make it up later.

It feels good to finsih this challenge.  I wish I would have done better than a silver, but hey, it’s the first one that I’ve finished.  In a small way I’m proud of myself for at least doing that.  I think I’m going to get up tomorrow morning and go running.  I’ve fallen into a little workout rut due to some rather serious issues involving my marriage.  At this point I’m really not sure what is going to happen.  It may be over.  We are going to start counseling on Weds. to try to get things sorted out.  What a crap situation.  Oh well, I guess all I can do is work my hardest to get through this.  I’m looking forward to the summer challenge.

207 this morning.  Pretty good news in considering what I’m currently dealing with.

Progress is wonderful isn’t it?  I have dropped from 216 down to 211 this week.  I understand that it is just the initial drop from starting TNT again, but still it’s improvement and serious motivation.  I have my eye on the prize this time, and will see abs before I’m finished.  I’m already feeling more confidence and more comfortable in my own skin.  I’m glad that I’ve finally got off my a$$ and started hitting it hard again.  The goal that I’m setting for myself is to be back down to 196 by the end of the summer.  That’s where I was when I suddenly became stupid and started eating garbage and quit working out.

I’m also working to boost my immune system.  I’ve been taking oil of oregano daily.  I’ve also started back visiting my chiropractor.  If anyone decides to comment on chiropractic care in a negative way…….save it.  I have had nothing but good experiences through chiropractic.  I see a holistic chiropractor that truly cares about my health.  You just have to find the right one.

I had a great RT session last night.  My first back since hurting my ankle.  Everything felt good.  I still won’t be running for a while.  I don’t want to run in the dark and possibly tweak my ankle again.  That would be horrible.  I’ve dropped 3 lbs since I started back into working out.  Down to 213 now.

I contracted a lovely stomach virus some time Thursday morning.  I found myself laying on the bathroom floor asking for someone to put me out of my misery right there. 

A strong part of me feels as though I brought it upon myself.  Last year around the end of the summer I was 20lbs lighter and approaching my ultimate goal.  Now I find myself with a screwed up ankle, 20lbs heavier, and to add insult to injury I have who knows what coming out of who knows where, and it won’t stop. 

Maybe this is the push I needed to get things on the right path again and stay focused.  I know that my goals are out of reach now with the challenge, but my clean eats are still moving along.  At least I’ll get one goal.  I think that I’ll try working out as soon as I get my strength back and test my ankle.

By the way………..while I was feverish and in between conversations with the porcelain gods on Saturday, I taght my son (6) how to ride is bike without training wheels.  YAY!  I’m so proud of him!

I sprained my ankle this saturday while edging out my flower beds in preparation of laying mulch on sunday.  I pushed through the pain and finished saturday as well as sunday so I could get it done.  I didn’t get to plant my veggie garden, but intend on doing that this coming weekend regardless of how my ankle is doing.  I can walk on it today.  There is a decent amount of swelling and it’s seriously bruised below my ankle.  Hopefully within a week or so I’ll be able to run on it as well as lift and do my circuit training.  I think that these challenges are a bad omen.  Everytime I start one something seems to happen that I don’t finish.  I’m going to finish this challenge with good clean eats due to TNT, but I know for sure that I won’t hit my other goals.  I’ll try my best though.

My goal was to run every day this week.  My alarm went off at 5:00 as usual and I hit snooze as usual.  Actually, I didn’t hit snooze, I hit the reset button.  When I opened my eyes again and looked at the clock it was 6:10.  So……..I didn’t run this morning.  Today is going to be my day off since the Pens play @ 7:00 tonight.  Maybe I’ll get a body weight RT workout in while watching the game…..that’s what I did Monday night.  Either way, I know I’ll be running in the morning.

I’ve been busy the last couple of days and haven’t been able to update.  I started back on TNT last Thursday.  It is truly amazing how I feel already.  More energy - More alert - Happier.  It is crazy how a way of eating can change you.  During this mornings run, I beat last Thursday’s time by over a minute, which in my opinion is pretty substantial for a 2.2 mile run.  It’s crazy that my muscles don’t ache like they did when I was consuming higher quantities of carbs.  Of course, they were complex carbs, but I’m thinking that my body is carb sensitive.  I just feel much better.

I can absolutely say, as a warning……..If you drop off of TNT, even after seeing amazing results, you will probably put the weight back on.  It happened to me.  My diet was horrible initially when I dropped off of TNT due to the holidays and my obvious lack of caring.  If I had anything to regret, I wish that I would have never stopped TNT, but it was a learning experience.  One that will take quite a long time to recover from.

I’ve decided that I’m back on TNT for good.  1-1/2 years on the plan and I felt great.  Had tons of energy and could never stop.  I was motivated to work out and actually enjoyed working out.  I dread it every day now and I want that to stop immediately.  I’m back TNT Man!