Free day

Today is this weeks free day as I have poker tonight after work and I may be having a beverage or two, but I have not yet decided. I have cut my drinking down to pretty much once a month during cards. I am missing our local beer festival tommorrow as I don’t have a baby sitter and while this is a good thing challenge wise, bad thing for the old Shane, lol. I love my beer, and will never stop completely, but I figure the once a month indulging is not too bad, in some cases, saves my sanity! lol.

I have been dealing with some back spasms the last two days and actually had to take my back pills for the first time in two months yesterday. I hate taking pills and didn’t want to take them, but I felt very uncomfortable and I took them to try and settle down my back. Still not 100 percent today but better than yesterday.

My daughter called in a panic this am that she had forgotten her gym clothes so I had to sprint walk up to her school (couple km away) to get them to her in time. When ever I try to walk to fast on pave or sidewalks I get NASTY shin splints. Today was no different, not good times.

Anyway enough whining off to work. I did not do my scheduled legs yesterday because of my back and will be doing it tommorrow morning before picking up my daughter from my moms. My wife is away over night fri and sat with my youngest at a girl guides weekend, and my mom is keeping my daughter tonight cause i work til 10.

Have a good day to anyone that stumbles upon this!

Not a lot going on in my end of the world

I haven’t been posting because quite frankly not a whole lot going on. I am back off of work as my back is not getting any better. I went to the doctor this past Friday, and he took me off work and recommended to try Massage Therapy along with the Physio I am already doing twice a week. So I will give that a try.

I have been feeling so horrible of late I have done nothing. This only makes it worse, and I have been strongly encouraged to do all I can to get mobile even if it is only walking. So starting tommorrow morning, I will do just that, walk as much as I can, and make a solid effort to get to the gym as much as I can even if its just to do cardio, and light weights. I got to get mobile. I am getting healthy in 2008 at any cost, and no matter how hard I have to work, or how many tests I need to do (have already been thru MRI’s, CT scans, Xrays etc).

On a good note I have cleaned up the eating and I am down under 230 for the first time in a while. That is a good thing, as eating is such a big part of it. Now to add in some exercise, and clean up the eating even more.

Frustrated beyond words

I have been in bed most of the last few days with migraines. Staying in any position for any length of time be it, sitting, standing, or laying makes my back a very unhappy camper. Sooooooo, due to the ridiculous headaches, my back is also now super pissed at me, and has fought back by hurting like hell!! Good times.

So I have missed 3 more days of work. I am supposed to be off on my EDO on Friday, I am hoping to go in tommorrow for my half day, we’ll see how the back is. I am just so freaking frustrated. I hope to be back in buisness to get the first official body for life challenge in, and that means I have to start by Feb 11th. Am crossing my fingers.

Random, not so deep thoughts….

This is going to be a long process, getting my health back. I didn’t get out of shape, and my back didn’t get messed up over night. There was no one thing that messed my back up, such as a fall or an accident. It was a combination of putting on weight, 3 straight years of 60 hour weeks, and not enough consistant exercise.

This afternoon I did such back breaking labor as 30 min of dishes and about an hour in the basement carrying some books and stuff up two flights of stairs, that took me about an hour. Nothing tough, but I am wiped out. I have done nothing more strenuous than walking my dog in the last month, and this 90 min of not sitting on my butt has wiped me out. It’ll get better.

I am not perfect, nor do I strive to be. “Progress not perfection” is a common saying in the fitness world. I like fast food. I like beer. and Crown Royal. And Jack Daniels. It’s about moderation. I need to work my way back up to being able to exercise 3 times a week with weights, and learn to eat healthy. Minimize the booze (I am not the type that will ever quit drinking completely, don’t strive to, nor want to) and just make healthier choices. It’s going to be a long road but I want to get there. In one piece preferably.

I am back, Day 1

Day 1

So here I am on my 1013 th “day one”. Its not important how many times I have failed in my journey to get fit and healthy, but what matters is I am still trying. I need to get healthy. I owe it to my family and I owe it to myself.

I have been dealing for years with a bad back, and neck and shoulder problems. They are still very much an issue. I am currently off work and I am not due to go back until November 26th. I cannot do a whole lot more than walk for exercise right now. But if thats all I can do, well that is what I will do! The biggest part of this battle is the eating and regardless of any physical setbacks, I can still chose to make the right eating decisions.

I was going to just tread water until the new year, and then do a BFL challenge, but while cruising around on the net the other night I saw that Body for Life Tracker was having a contest starting this week and I jumped at it, even if I don’t know how much exercise I am going to be able to do over the next several weeks. I paid 25 dollars via paypal for extra accountability and took the befores (horrid) and today I start.

I fully realize that I have my work cut out for me. With the back issues and such, my eating is really going to have to be on point. However as the url of my fitness blog states, “Never Quit”. I will be back throughout the day with some more thoughts.

Still Alive

I am here and I am still alive. I am barely in one piece but I am here. Turns out that banged up shoulder I had in August was my rotator cuff. Soon to follow that fun little injury was reinjuring my often injured back. I have been off work for the last two weeks, and I have one more week off. I am certainly not on “vacation” though, as I have 3 physio appointments, and a doctors appointment coming up in the next week. Fun stuff.

I have not lifted weights in 6 weeks. My back is too messed up along with the wonky shoulder. I started going to chiro about 4 weeks ago, and this led to major migraine headaches, and my neck pain being unbearable. I discontinued the chiro for the time being and instead went to see a doctor then physio and this is what I will be doing for the time being to try and get this fixed.

I am so freaking sick and tired of back pain and the fact that I haven’t been able to string together 3 solid months of training without getting injured in what 6 years or more? Its so frustrating, and I am totally fed up with the whole thing. I have been on medication for the pain, including a ten day dosage of corti-steriods and I have been eating completely haphazardly. Somedays I can’t eat enough, some days I don’t eat. I just want to get healthy and feel good. That’s all I care about.

I hope to be able to lift weights again by the new year. I am pissed off quite frankly about not being able to finish the BFL challenge I started this summer. Between the shoulder and the back I just stopped everything. I have absolutely no idea what I weigh right now, but it certainly is not where I want to be. I just want to get all of this excess weight off, get this back taken care of and be and feel healthy. That is my only goal.

I can’t do a whole lot right now. I can walk, so this week I hope to do that. When I move around too much I get pretty achy and my head hurts, but I got to do something physical before I go out of my mind. The three physio sessions are going to be tough likely, but I need to start doing all I can to get this behind me and start back making progress.

Although I can’do much in the way of workouts right now, I am back to blogging my journey to health.