Friday, 26 November 2010
Super Stressed
I know I've been really stressed lately, but over the last few days my stomach has been feeling really clenched. The feeling has gone away on and off, but it keeps coming back. I don't want it to lead to any major problems (a friend of mine ended up getting an ulcer due to the stress of school last year), so I decided to get this really comprehensive dvd on Stress Relief. I'm really hoping that it will help. Unfortunately it won't get here until sometime next week at the earliest, so I'm going to try other exercises (and yoga dvds in particular) in the hopes that they will help me out in the meantime.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Time to Lose Weight
I really fell off the band wagon in regards to losing weight. School has been my major obstacle in this regard - I always feel like I don't have time to work out. But I also have major mental road blocks. I don't like having to set aside extra time to work out. Plus it seems to eat up a much larger chunk of my day than it should, what with having to get my glucose high enough to see me through exercising. And what if my glucose is way too low? Then I have to eat something and wait around for like a half hour so I don't get cramps while working out.
But I ran into a problem today that is kind of stupid, but requires my immediate attention: my thighs.
I've been feeling really sluggish lately (again thanks to school. I've been so busy with stuff that I honestly haven't had time to be active. For example, there were two days where I watched all of 24 season 4 for school. I wanted to get them out of the way as fast as possible, so I watched them all pretty much straight. But afterwards I felt so terrible because I was full of pent up energy, but had no real outlet for it because it was super late and I had to get up the next day). So today, I finally had time that I decided to devote to 20-30 minutes on the treadmill. I'm aware that I'm out of shape, so I wasn't too particular about the time frame for this first time.
About 15 minutes in, when I had upped the speed a bit, I found that my thighs were really starting to rub together. Now, this has been a bit of a problem for a number of years now, but only after swimming for some reason. But if this is a problem while exercising, then I really need to deal with it now. So I looked around the net a bit and decided to try out Fitness Magazine's Sleeker Thighs in One Month workout. I've tried a workout from Fitness before (The Lose 10 Pounds in 30 Days workout) and really liked it, so hopefully this one will be just as good. I'm just going to have to be careful that my knee doesn't start acting up again. I know I said I had a plan of attack for it, but that hasn't happened so far - I've just been so scared to hurt it. But like I said, I really have to do something now, so hopefully my knee will get a bit stronger from this!
I will try to provide updates on how things are going, but I can't promise anything right now. I don't do well with routine.
But I ran into a problem today that is kind of stupid, but requires my immediate attention: my thighs.
I've been feeling really sluggish lately (again thanks to school. I've been so busy with stuff that I honestly haven't had time to be active. For example, there were two days where I watched all of 24 season 4 for school. I wanted to get them out of the way as fast as possible, so I watched them all pretty much straight. But afterwards I felt so terrible because I was full of pent up energy, but had no real outlet for it because it was super late and I had to get up the next day). So today, I finally had time that I decided to devote to 20-30 minutes on the treadmill. I'm aware that I'm out of shape, so I wasn't too particular about the time frame for this first time.
About 15 minutes in, when I had upped the speed a bit, I found that my thighs were really starting to rub together. Now, this has been a bit of a problem for a number of years now, but only after swimming for some reason. But if this is a problem while exercising, then I really need to deal with it now. So I looked around the net a bit and decided to try out Fitness Magazine's Sleeker Thighs in One Month workout. I've tried a workout from Fitness before (The Lose 10 Pounds in 30 Days workout) and really liked it, so hopefully this one will be just as good. I'm just going to have to be careful that my knee doesn't start acting up again. I know I said I had a plan of attack for it, but that hasn't happened so far - I've just been so scared to hurt it. But like I said, I really have to do something now, so hopefully my knee will get a bit stronger from this!
I will try to provide updates on how things are going, but I can't promise anything right now. I don't do well with routine.
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