Day Five

Woot woot, almost through a full week. Five days down, two more to go. Then we'll be 1/3 of the way done! But I'm tired, so I'm just gonna make this a short post. Finished the day on a great note. Woke up with no snooze, and got up at 6:30. Got my cardio workout in and a 2 mile jog and run. Then went to work 10-6. Brought my food with me. Kinda repeating meals from the last few days. I tend to eat the same thing all week. While it can get boring, it's easy and I know it's healthy and easier to track. I don't really get bored with it as long as it tastes good. When you get really good tasting food, how can you resist.

Also I did run last night, woot me. One of my better runs in a while. Still on the slow side, but I'm running longer without breaks and it's better then just sitting on the couch.  this was me last night, worked up a big sweat.

Didn't help that while it's cool in the basement, theres no air circulation. But on to the pictures that sum up today....

  cardio day makes for very unflattering photos.  but a strong half hour workout. I started it a couple minutes early, reason it says 38 min. The video was only 32 min today. And it worked my but. Burpees suck, and I am not good at them, but I did them! Next week I'll do better.

Then I had to go take my car to our mechanic to fix my air conditioner, of course it goes out when were getting 90 degree weather. While he worked on it, I did my two mile run before it got to hot out.



Now, on doctors orders, I'm icing my calf 20 min before my workouts and 20 min after my workouts along with an additional icing 1-3 more times during the day. I have what looks like a localized edema, which is in the side of my calf. The really confusing part about it, is theres no pain at the site of swelling or around it. And usually if theres no pain that means there should be numbness but I don't have that either. It's been there for 7-8 weeks now. I just now could get into the doctor for a couple of reasons. It happened only a week to a week and a half before I left for Scotland. Went to my chiropractor for an adjusting and she thought it was because of my running and turning out my foot. So I had orders of fluid, elevation and just walking. I kept to that, after a two weeks in Scotland it still didn't disappear so I scheduled an app for when I got back. I'm taking 800 mg of Ibuprofen 3 times a day with meals to help the swelling and am getting a compression sleeve for the calf to use as well. If it persists for 2 weeks I have to go in for an X-ray to see if we can figure out whats exactly going on. I mentioned to my doctor that I was doing this workout, and while she at first wasn't for sure if I should still do it, I did mentioned doing nothing for the 6 weeks did nothing to take down the swelling and I really was itching to stay active. She gave me the orders of icing it, as well as to stop immediately if it gets worse or becomes painful and to come in if that happens as well. I will stick to those orders, I'm not stupid. Messing up my leg could set my progress back a lot. So bodily health comes first, but I've not had any additional swelling the last two days nor any pain. I didn't have any the first 3 days or during any runs, so I think I'll be fine. The swelling hasn't gotten larger, but it hasn't gotten smaller either since I started working out. I'm only on day two of the ibuprofen so we need to wait a little longer to see if that starts helping and tomorrow is when I'll get a compression sleeve for my calf. Okay now that that info is out of the way, back to how the run went!


 Pretty successful addition to the cardio workout I thought.

Once I got back, before showering I made my shakeology. 

Yet another day of the yummy snickerdoodle. I really need to find some more vanilla recipes but I keep forgetting to look, and a lot of the ones I've come across want you to add matcha powder to them. Mines in the mail. So overall I believe the day has been a great success and week one has been a great beginning and will give me some great results. I'm already noticing I'm feeling much better then I had at the beginning of the summer. I'm more refreshed, sleep is deeper, I'm more energized, able to wake up easier and the workouts are building my strength. I feel a difference in how I hold myself and how I feel my stomach is no longer bloating out when I'm relaxed. It feels it's laying flatter and I may have lost an inch or so. But I won't take measurements early, while I weigh myself daily I don't wanna spoil the measurement surprise.



There are my end of the pictures, woot woot burned 1000 calories today. That's always a great feeling. Now I'm off to bed. Another 6:30 am roll call. I really enjoy waking up early and getting the workout done before work. It leaves me no excuses but to get it done, and then leaves after work to either relax and rest or do other things I need to do. Monday I'll get some more food prepping done for the coming weeks. Night all!