Yesterday I finally noticed some progress in my “A Month Without Booze” health kick.  I’ve been eating very well over the last three weeks and hitting the gym very hard and running a bit, but I was starting to get a bit frustrated because I wasn’t losing any weight or fat and I was actually up 5 lbs.  I know I had mentioned last week that “muscle weighs more than fat, blah, blah, blah…” and that you shouldn’t let not losing weight get you down when weight training, but it was actually really starting to get to me.  I wasn’t noticing any more toning, I wasn’t losing any fat (from what I could notice visually) and I was up 5 lbs, so yeah, it was frustrating.  BUT I was trying to stay positive and I weighed in yesterday and FINALLY I saw some progress. I was back down to my starting weight and also out of nowhere; I could see two abs… TWO ABS!!!  It was like overnight all the hard work I was doing finally decided to show itself at once.

I was feelin’ FANTASTIC (wow, I’m using a lot of caps to while writing this…THAT’S how excited I was) after that and decided that I wanted to go for a run to celebrate (I remember a point in time where I’d have a double cheeseburger or some pizza to celebrate weight loss, smart right?).  So, I threw on my short shorts (not really) and laced up my shoes, grabbed Coco and started my run.  My cardio has improved a lot over the last 3 weeks and I was really looking forward to this run but about 0.5 km into the run, my right hip decided it didn’t’ like what was going on and that it was going to cause me stabbing pain in my back, hip and leg for the next 3 km.  I’ve been training my cardio (doing the Spartacus Workout) and looking forward to doing the goal I set to do the Blue Nose half marathon for the past three weeks, but I’ve now realized, and I’m going to admit out loud, that this is one goal on my list that I’m not going to be able to do.  There’s just no way that my hips and back can handle it.  I thought I was going to be able to push through it and train my body to deal with the pain that I still have every day from my motorcycle accident, and that may eventually be the case, but not in this short amount of time.  I’m very, very disappointed that I’m not going to attain this goal, but I also know that my body just isn’t there yet and I’ve got to realize that.

So yesterday was a big day for me; Feelin’ great emotionally and on a big high due to the weight loss and how I’m looking and feeling, but unfortunately I’m not quite there yet physically with my injuries.  I’m not going to let that get me down emotionally and I’m going to use it to help me train harder and smarter and try to get my injuries to heal and get stronger.  It’s been almost 3 years since my bike accident and my idiot doctor has told me that I’m not going to get any better, but I think he’s wrong and I’m going to prove it to him and I’m motivated to do so.

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