My Weight Loss Journey #2
Just over two months ago, I had a lower back injury (lumbar strain) from doing cardio intervals on the treadmill. I had been doing cardio for a while and decided it was time to up the amount of times I was running on the treadmill so I started doing intervals of running for one minute then walking for one minute. After doing this for a couple of weeks, I noticed that my lower back was getting a bit sore so I lessened the amount of times per week that I was doing my cardio intervals and started doing lower impact cardio as well as the stairs at the gym to supplement my higher impact cardio until my back was feeling better.
About a week or so into changing up my cardio to a lower impact routine due to my lower back pain, I was at the grocery store doing some shopping when I bent down to pick something up off the bottom shelf when I felt an extremely painful shooting pain going up my spine and into my sciatica. I immediately had to leave the store, and in tears struggled to get into my car because of the extremely amount of pain that was effecting my lower back. I could barely sit without being in horrible pain and I didn't even think about bending over or twisting my body in any way. The only relief I felt was standing up or laying down on my back.
As soon as I could I went to see my primary care doctor who told me to that I had a lumbar strain and that I should put some heat on it as well as taking some pain medication to subside the pain until it went away on its own. I was also given some at home exercises to try to loosen up the muscles that were tight due to the strain. Unfortunately, this didn't help the situation as much as I would have liked. Over the last two months, I have still had lower back pain although the sharp pain went away so I had normal movement back but I still had dull pains all the time so I couldn't do much intense exercise like I wanted to.
Fast forward to yesterday while I was at work, I bent over to grab something off of the floor that I had dropped off my desk, and I had the same shooting pain that I had at the grocery store going up my spine and into my sciatica. I work at a doctor's office so I immediately clocked out and went to see one of the doctor's where I was told that I again had strained my lower back (lumbar strain). I am now taking a steroid to try to repair my back as soon as possible as well as I just started physical therapy today in the hopes that this will once and for all heal my back from this injury so I can get back to my workout routine.
This whole experience has been very disheartening because nothing is worse than wanting to reach a fitness or health goal and then injuring yourself which puts a pause on the whole situation. I am hoping beyond hope that the medication as well as the physical therapy will help me to get back into good enough shape to start my regular exercise. I will keep you updated on my progress as well as the exercises that I am going to be doing that is prescribed by my physical therapist. If anyone has dealt with any kind of injury during a fitness journey before, you will know how hard and discouraging it can be on you. Prayers for a fast recovery are appreciated and I will pray for those who are also suffering from any time of injury.
God Bless!
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
My Weight Loss Journey
My Weight Loss Journey
With one of my best friend's wedding looming in the beginning of 2O17 in Mexico, I decided I had some weight loss and toning up to do. Over the last eight months I have lost about thirty pounds of the seventy pounds I hoped to lose in a year's time. This was a great accomplishment thus far and I am proud with how far I have come in my weight loss journey. Aside from the fact that I have lost almost half the amount of weight I projected to lose in a year's time, my weight loss has seemed to slow down significantly since hitting about six months in, and I think I know why.
The first few months I was super dedicated to eating clean and working out constantly then I started to slip up here and there which I believe slowed down the amount of weight I was losing per week. Till this day (and over the last eight months), I have eaten pretty clean during the day for the most part including breakfast, lunch, and snacks. However in the beginning of my journey, eating clean was a lot less of a challenge and in the recent months I have found that eating healthy when I get home from work in the evening as well as on the weekends has been more of a challenge than I would like to admit. As well as, after suffering from an unfortunate lower back strain, my fitness has been less than great recently which has really made my weight loss journey suffer even more.
I am hoping from posting my weight loss journey, my ups and downs, my struggles and successes, and my real take on how it feels to try to become a healthier version of myself failures and all, that this will help me to meet my goals as well as, helping anyone else who is struggling to become a healthier or better version of themselves. And just maybe we can share tips, tricks, and support for each other along the way. This is all about keeping myself accountable to my actions and keeping things real because when it comes down to it, this has to be a lifestyle. Fads don't last and results are best attained when you are kept accountable so here is my first step in trying to create a better and more healthy life for myself.
God bless!
With one of my best friend's wedding looming in the beginning of 2O17 in Mexico, I decided I had some weight loss and toning up to do. Over the last eight months I have lost about thirty pounds of the seventy pounds I hoped to lose in a year's time. This was a great accomplishment thus far and I am proud with how far I have come in my weight loss journey. Aside from the fact that I have lost almost half the amount of weight I projected to lose in a year's time, my weight loss has seemed to slow down significantly since hitting about six months in, and I think I know why.
The first few months I was super dedicated to eating clean and working out constantly then I started to slip up here and there which I believe slowed down the amount of weight I was losing per week. Till this day (and over the last eight months), I have eaten pretty clean during the day for the most part including breakfast, lunch, and snacks. However in the beginning of my journey, eating clean was a lot less of a challenge and in the recent months I have found that eating healthy when I get home from work in the evening as well as on the weekends has been more of a challenge than I would like to admit. As well as, after suffering from an unfortunate lower back strain, my fitness has been less than great recently which has really made my weight loss journey suffer even more.
I am hoping from posting my weight loss journey, my ups and downs, my struggles and successes, and my real take on how it feels to try to become a healthier version of myself failures and all, that this will help me to meet my goals as well as, helping anyone else who is struggling to become a healthier or better version of themselves. And just maybe we can share tips, tricks, and support for each other along the way. This is all about keeping myself accountable to my actions and keeping things real because when it comes down to it, this has to be a lifestyle. Fads don't last and results are best attained when you are kept accountable so here is my first step in trying to create a better and more healthy life for myself.
God bless!
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