Blog’s been quiet, but I’ve been working!

I haven’t had much to say this week blog wise, but the beat goes on and I have been working it!

Yesterday had a bit of a setback when I was having really nasty back pain, so much so that I had to leave work as I couldn’t concentrate through the back spasms.  I had to take muscle relaxants and pain killers for the first time since early April.  Then it was night night for 4 hours in bed.  When I got up I did some very light stretching and some light shoulders with the bands and dumbells.  Today I was feeling much better and was back to regular P90x, with no limitations.  I worked very hard, and pushed hard.

Tomorrow morning I have my weigh in at weight watchers haven’t been on the scale since Monday, when I had to weigh in for a weight loss contest I joined on Facebook that runs 6 weeks.  I am hoping for a great week, as I really worked hard.  Again however I re-iterate, all I can do is eat right and do the exercise.  The results have no choice but to come if i do that.

I will be back in the morning with weigh in results and progress pics.

Excited about the possibilities

So been quiet for a couple days, and not for the reason you may think. I woke up Thursday morning in huge pain. I am talking, sitting on the toilet sick to my stomach with a bucket on my knees because i thought I was going to toss my cookies pain. Nice huh?

I had woken up to huge muscle spasms in my back. They lasted roughly 2.5 days. So frustrating. So I made a decision. Though these latest spasms happened in my sleep Wednesday night/Thursday morning and were not due to something I did directly, they do really solidify one thing. I need to get my shit together and lose this unhealthy weight /fat and get my back/core muscles in order.

I have decided to join a fantastic group that I found through the rtp-blog.com. I have been following Adam’s writing for a long time and finally decided to join in the fun. I will be in the contest that he is running jointly with Tom Venuto of Burnthefat.com but more importantly I will be getting serious about getting this done once and for all.

Now all that being said, I have not fallen off the wagon. The last few days I didn’t get much exercise because quite frankly, I have been flat on my back for much of it in a painkiller/muscle relaxant haze. However I did at the minimum get a walk in Friday and Saturday and two long walks today. My back is feeling much better today and I have not had to take any medication. I take medication very minimally, and the fact that I too 4 percocet/muscle relaxants over the past 3 days says a lot to me, considering that is more than I have taken than the last 6 months combined. I ate ok over the last couple days and the damage was minimal.

I am going over the materials included with the RTP stuff and I am gonna be at the gym in the morning before work tommorrow. I will be back tommorrow.

Excited about the possibilities

So been quiet for a couple days, and not for the reason you may think. I woke up Thursday morning in huge pain. I am talking, sitting on the toilet sick to my stomach with a bucket on my knees because i thought I was going to toss my cookies pain. Nice huh?

I had woken up to huge muscle spasms in my back. They lasted roughly 2.5 days. So frustrating. So I made a decision. Though these latest spasms happened in my sleep Wednesday night/Thursday morning and were not due to something I did directly, they do really solidify one thing. I need to get my shit together and lose this unhealthy weight /fat and get my back/core muscles in order.

I have decided to join a fantastic group that I found through the rtp-blog.com. I have been following Adam’s writing for a long time and finally decided to join in the fun. I will be in the contest that he is running jointly with Tom Venuto of Burnthefat.com but more importantly I will be getting serious about getting this done once and for all.

Now all that being said, I have not fallen off the wagon. The last few days I didn’t get much exercise because quite frankly, I have been flat on my back for much of it in a painkiller/muscle relaxant haze. However I did at the minimum get a walk in Friday and Saturday and two long walks today. My back is feeling much better today and I have not had to take any medication. I take medication very minimally, and the fact that I too 4 percocet/muscle relaxants over the past 3 days says a lot to me, considering that is more than I have taken than the last 6 months combined. I ate ok over the last couple days and the damage was minimal.

I am going over the materials included with the RTP stuff and I am gonna be at the gym in the morning before work tommorrow. I will be back tommorrow.

MRI test, back stuff and my plans

I just returned from the hospital from having an MRI test. If anyone has not had one of these, its pretty intense. I am not claustrophobic but if you were, wow this test would suck. Mostly this was done for my neck, and the test requires you hold your neck in a very uncomfortable position. I am in agony right now, and sitting with an ice pack. I have been having muscle spasms for the last two days, and have been pretty uncomfortable.

I am going forward and doing the two bfl tracker contests. I will be taking pictures tomorrow, posting the pics on tracker at least, and maybe here as well. We will see. The pics may well be my worst pre challenge pics yet. But this is where I am, I am focusing on where I want to go.

I will likely be doing BFL style, but thats not set in stone yet. I am leaning that way though. Goals and pics to come.

Back Spasms…not good times

Well it is 5:30 pm and I have been up for 2 whole hours today. I slept horribly for the second straight night and have been having back spasms for the second straight day. Rather than discourage me (while it is frustrating) more than anything else this reinforces that I need to put health first in my life, and nip this once and for all! I will be taking before’s today or tommorrow and will be starting my challenge.

I will have days like today that are written off, but thats the way it goes. My simple choice is to make the best decisions with what I have every single day, and one day at a time get my health back. Whatever the situation, just make the right, healthy decisions. If I do that, I will get where I want to go. Will be back.

Live From Physio Table

I am writing today on my cell phone laying flat on my back from the physio table. I am hooked up to a tenz machine (4 electrodes sending little shock things thru me) and I am just waiting for this to end and then have my physio therapist terrorize me, haha.

Yesterday I went for a nice two hour walk and was no worse for the wear. I won’t be able to go for a walk today til later, as I have my youngest home sick with the stomach flu, and then my wife is busy this evening. I will try and fit a walk in when I can, in between stuff.

I also need to fire up the Wii again, and get moving on that again. As I have been saying all along movement for me is key. I need to move all I can, be it treadmill, hiking, other forms of cardio whatever.

Well the Tenz machine just stopped, so I will sign off for now.

Still alive

Well I haven’t posted much here of late, but I will try and go back to posting regularly starting today.  This blog is titled Fitness day by day, but I guess it should really be called "Health and Fitness" because you should strive to have both.

 

I have been doing what I can to not be sitting at a computer alot, (or sitting anywhere for long periods quite frankly) so I have been doing a lot of reading.  I have started physio and will be going twice this week and twice next week, and we’ll take it a week at a time after that.   He along with doctors etc have stressed, and I know myself, the key for me is movement!  I have to do the things I can do as much as possible even if its just walking, so thats what I will be doing.

 

I have a pretty good trail system here in my home town which I love to use, but now its time to use it even more extensively.  Sitting on my ass and not doing stuff got me to where I am today.  Moving will get me back to where I wanna be.  As soon as I can I am going to get back to the three days a week weight lifting, of course avoiding anything that hurts (which in the gym I have gotten much better about and less stubborn) and daily cardio, as advised by the physiotherapist, even if its little walks broken up is in order.  I am not giving up, and I am not going to live in pain the rest of my life.   No way.

 

With that said, I am off for a walk!

Not much to report

Well I am off work until October 15th. I have been having all kinds of muscle spasms in my back, the kind that hit out of no where and nearly put me on my knees. I am taking a few medications, an anti-inflamatory and a muscle relaxant, and it seems to be helping but the muscle relaxant makes me sleepy.

I have been trying to walk as much as I can and I have been doing two and three small elastic band/physio exersise sessions a day but thats all I have been doing for exercise. Just trying to rest, take my medicine and get better. I have spent less time on the computer in the past 6 days than I have of any 6 day stretch in ten years. Pathetic how much of an internet junkie I have become. I have been reading like a fiend, am on my 5th James Patterson book since two week ago yesterday.

Anyway all I have for now.

Frustation

Well…..to sum it up without a sob story. I have been thrown another curve ball, in the form of a messed up back. My back problems go back 7 years ish, but I seem to be right back to square one.

A few hours after my last post on Thursday I was sitting at work, when I had a severe pain on the right side of my back. I have had 3-4 pinched nerves going back 14 years in the same spot, and this felt just like those. I am talking take your breath away pain. Shortly after this happened, started getting little what best can be described as little shocks going all over my back. Within an hour my right hand was losing sensation, accept for the severe pain in my index finger.

I ended up spending 10 hours that day in the hospital, had another round of head to toe xrays, and ended up being sent home with some inflamatories and a scheduled MRI. Sigh. So frustrated.

Since Thursday I have had random sharp stabbing like pains in my back. I have slept alot and sat with some ice to try to bring down the inflammation. I dunno what this means for activity over the next little bit. I am doing my physio exercises that were given to me the last round of physio (I start back at physio this coming week) and I will be attempting to get into my doctor tomorrow. So frustrated.

Anyway, not alot else to say. This just reiterates the need for me to get healthy. Am tired of living with the day to day pain, and the occasional flareups of severe pain like this past couple days. So tired.