Plateau

I'm actually surprised I have managed to maintain my weight this month.

Stress.

Injury.

Illness.

I haven't worked out in what seems like weeks.

I have been paying some attention to what I put in my body, but with this past week's bout of illness, all I want is comfort foods. A lot of comfort foods. This is after stress eating candy. And not working out to save my back. And any number of excuses.

And I have maintained (plus or minus 2 pounds) the 170 pounds that I achieved back in July. I just have to keep maintaining until I can reach the point where I have enough balance to make the changes needed.

GABF will be a difficult time to maintain, but it's Denver. I will walk miles every day. And those miles will keep me in check from the pints that I will consume.

Hopefully.

~Katie

Rest

Last night, I really only did some high & slow stepping to get my heart going a tiny bit. My back was still in a fair amount of pain, so no impact or twisting was needed.

I iced it that evening & slept with an ice pack under my back for most of the night. I kept my knees elevated on a pillow & a very small pillow under my neck. I woke up much relieved. I was still a bit stiff, but I could move fluidly. 

By the end of the work day, I had no pain! I could even roll my hips. Yes, I roll my hips to the songs in my head. 

I decided to do a TurboFire Fire workout to get my heart rate up. I miss it! Anyways, I got 20 minutes in and realized the cross cuts were not doing my healing any good. So I stopped and did some jumping jacks, running in place, bicep curls, and whatever I could think of to make it longer.

So now, back to ice, after I eat something. 

But first, YAY! My back isn't screaming at me!

~Katie

Back Pain

Over the past 2 weeks, I've developed some very uncomfortable lower back pain.

Today is the worst.

It started on a weekend that I was rather lazy and stayed in bed way longer than I needed to. But I was reading and was loving it. However, that began the back pain. All of a sudden, I could not bend over very far without feeling as slight twinge in my lower back.

Then I let it rest, but not lying down. I have lessened the intensity of my workouts, which I had already done with my tweaked shoulder.  And it was going fine. It was feeling better.

And then last night, I did a move, standing up, but twisting my trunk, that made my lower back go *ouch*. And so I lowered the intensity and focused on just doing things that were not trunk twisting. And then I took a bath to relax the muscles, and then went to bed.

I think that this was a bad move.

I don't think my posture in the very shallow bath helped matters.

I don't think that my bed helped matters. It's rather soft, and I fear that I'm having a hammock effect.

I hate that! I just bought the mattress 4 months ago! It was a big purchase, I'm not going to throw it out, or donate it, but if it's hurting my back, I don't see how I can stick with it.

So I had really bad sleep last night.
My back hurts more than it ever has.
And I just don't quite know how to focus on things.
I'm in a fog of pain.

Boo.
~Katie