Day 351

I didn't make it to the gym this morning as I had anticipated and I was really hoping that I would be able to make it.  My alarm went off at 7:30 and I wound up falling back asleep again until 8.  I jumped out of bed, came downstairs, ate my breakfast and quickly went upstairs to get ready for work.  I am very happy that I did most of my lunch preparation last night before I went to bed.  Again tomorrow I don't have to worry about the prep work so, I am going to hopefully be able to get to bed a little earlier and get up early tomorrow to get my workout in and then tomorrow evening I am going to try and go back to the gym for another one.  I am hoping that with 2 hour long workouts throughout the next couple weeks I should be able to lose that 15 lbs.

So tonight after work, I was thinking that I wouldn't be able to go to the gym.  All day while I was answering calls I kept getting really sharp pains just under the shoulder blades towards the centre of my back.  This has been happening since Saturday evening and I am not sure what triggered it but, it is very painful.

I had the car today and had to park over by belvedere because there was no parking at clareview and by the time I actually got over to the esso, I was even in more pain than I was when I was at work.  I went over to the gym parking lot and parked for a few minutes debating wether I should go inside or not.  I texted Cassandra on this matter and she said to do what my body feels is the right thing to do, and I chose instead to listen to my head.  I should've listened to my body.  LOL

I went upstairs to the ladies only room and was going to do the treadmill but figured I would start off on the eliptical instead.  I am not sure what possessed me to do that but, I probably should've done the treadmill.

I started off on a level 6 and started off at a fairly fast speed for about 10 min.  I don't think I went under a 5 speed and I was really feeling pretty good.  I increased the level up to an 8 and carried on for another 5 min and this time I don't think I went under a 4.5 speed.  In the duration of a 15 min span I wound up burning 166 calories.

At this point I decided that I had enough of the eliptical and wanted to do the treadmill for a little bit.  I started off at a 0 incline and 3.0 speed per normal and left it there for 5 min.  I then increased the speed to a 3.2 and increased the incline to a 2.5.  After about 2 min I increased the incline once more to a 4.5 and carried on until I hit 8 min.  I increased it one more time to a 6.5 incline and then at 10 min, lowered the incline back to a zero for 2 min.  I hit the cool down button and at the end of that 15 min I had burned 84 calories there for a total burn of 250 in half an hour.

Considering the fact that it is me, and considering the pain in the back right now, I was pretty impressed.  I did do everything that I said I was going to do last night before bed.  140 ab crunches, held the plank for 57 seconds, not quite a minute, and stretches.  Tonight I plan on doing roughly the same as well as trying the side plank and lower ab crunches as well.  It looks like I will be trying my hardest in the next few weeks to lose what I have hopes to lose.  I am hoping the cheerleaders are out there because I am really going to need the motivation in the next little while here to keep pushing through!