Winter Of West And Wepair

Had my Dr.'s appointment on Monday about my shoulder. X-rays were taken and of course they came back fine because X-rays show BONES. This is a TENDON issue...I honestly don't even know why they bothered with even taking X-rays but whateve. I was then referred to an Orthopedic surgeon and have an appointment with him on December 2nd. So we will go from there.

I have decided this winter is going to be about rest and repair. I have my shoulder injury and my whole knee and hamstring thing going on...my body needs fixing if I want to continue doing the things I love. I'm getting my shoulder taken care of and I'm going to lay off the long runs till it gets warm and sunny out again. 7 milers cripple me the most BUT only if I run outside on the road. If I run it on a treadmill, I feel fine...my knee anyway, my hamstring still bothers me some. But running anything over 3.5 miles on the treadmill BORES ME TO TEARS. It is not fun and I'm just not doing it. I like looking forward to my workouts and when that doesn't happen then scratch that. So my Nike mini is just going to have to be happy with these little interval runs that I have planned for awhile...speaking of that I actually had two runs I didn't get to log because each time I went to press my band to start tracking, it wouldn't track and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why. After trying again last night during cardio I finally said 'F' it and stopped messing with it and was going to chalk it up as broke. This morning when I was putting on my shoes I felt the little pouch that holds the tracking pod and it was EMPTY(wtf). Then I remembered I had slipped it into my Nike's some time ago for whatever reason I don't know, cause I prefer to run in my Asics. So yeah, I am a silly wabbit dumbass.

I have my workouts planned for the rest of this month till I see the Dr. next and yowza the one I did yesterday left me sorer then I have been in quite some time. Love it, but I did wake up last night with my shoulder hurting...annoying. Probably did a little too many push ups and shoulder presses...it's so hard to take it easy, SO HARD!

Wish I had something more exciting to blog about for ya's, but yeah, I got nothin.


P.S. I am ditching Haloscan for comments and just going to use the blogger ones because Haloscan is not showing up on my new Blackberry Tour...and yes, it really is all about the phone :)

P.P.S. Or I just won't have comments because now I can't get them to work...F*#@!

P.P.P.S. Fixed it :)

Pumpkin Spice Obsession

I am loving everything pumpkin spice right now...it's so comforting to me this time of year.

But since Pumpkin Spice Latte's from Starbucks(or homemade) every day do nothing for your ass I decided to give Genie's Pumpkin Spice Meringues

a try.

Cute huh? (Disclaimer: Those are a picture of Genie's NOT MINE.)

So when I got home last night from the gym I whipped up a batch. Not wanting to get out my frosting bags and tips I just used a plastic sandwich bag and cut off the tip.




Note To Self: Meringue piping fail.








I know, right? LOL!


They didn't look any better after I cooked them either...



WTF.



Plate 'O shit Pathetic





I still ate them...mmmmmm, pumpkin spice cow pies. :)


They were really delicious...although I definitely like them better while they're warm. When they started to get cold the texture kinda grossed me out(as if they way they looked didn't already), but I am weird that way. Also the next batch I attempt to make I think I will cut the Splenda in half so they are not SO sweet. I doubt my piping skills get much better so I'll chalk the appearance up as a lost cause.


Did another killer full body circuit this morning, but ran out of time for my run so I will do that tonight when I get off work. I find it SO much easier to workout in the morning versus evening. In the morning I am excited and ready to go...by the time evening hits I am like "F" it and basically have to make myself and that is so not fun.

And The Brussel Said Sprout

Stepped on the scale this morning and went directly to the gym...did not pass go or collect 200 dollars.

You know that number you have in your head that when you see it on the scale you say uh oh, that's it, time to seriously get my head out of my ass, or at least the pizza? Yeah well, I passed that like 5lbs ago. Not.cool.

I am not a numbers person. I HATE counting calories and keeping track of my nutritional stats...but it works people. Every.time.

I am going to take a different approach this time around though and NOT, let me repeat that, NOT going to leave out food groups. When I want to drop weight, my first instinct is to drop my carbs...but that just messes my body up (read like this... makes me want to kill animals and punch babies)! I don't want to drop carbs for life and I won't. I really do believe balance is the key. You leave out carbs and your not balanced anymore. I left out carbs for three shows and yes it got me lean...or maybe it was the 3+ hours of workouts a day :) *ahem* but I digress...no need to get all crazy, I just want to drop 10 lbs and feel more comfortable with myself. All I really have to do is drop the crap I eat all weekend long. It really is that simple. I eat great thru the week...take today's lunch for example...

A salmon burger topped with smooshed black beans and fat free cheddar cheese in between a sandwich thin and some roasted brussel sprouts on the side...omg that has to be my favorite roasted veggie yet!...DELICIOUS.



That and I need to be more consistent with my workouts. They've been haphazard lately cause I've just been feeling...meh. This whole "shoulder debacle of '07" has me in a sort of exercise depression. I don't like not being able to do what I want to do, when I want to do it. And for the time I've been pissing around I could have been fixed and on the road to recovery or what have you. So, no more messing around...Dr.'s appointment for my shoulder is Monday, Nov. 3rd.(Originally it was for yesterday but I was sick and not in the mood for crap news...(so much for "no more messing around" lol...oh shut up!)

In the meantime I am just going to keep my workouts in bodyweight circuits and some light weights. I had an awesome one this morning! Took me a full hour with a 10 minute run at the end.

Here's to pulling the pizza my head out of my behind! Just because I am injured does not mean I should just lay down and give up everything I have worked my ass off for, and am known for.

Word.


P.S. I WANT TO GO TO THIS.....Fit Bloggin’ 2010



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