I've been sick this week. It all started on Monday night with a scratchy throat. By Wednesday I had lost my voice. This morning it’s turned into a sore throat, no voice, and an ear ache. I've run a fever almost every night, and I've also had a bad case of the body aches. I ‘m not a very happy camper at the moment. Put this on top of the already crappy week I've had and I would really rather be at some beach sipping on piña coladas than here. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen anytime soon.
But in my attempt to get rid of this nasty, whatever it is that I have, I attempted a run and weight lifting this week. You know, to burn off the fever and what not. Well, I made it to one mile before the hacking started. I’m pretty sure I coughed up a lot of phlegm, and it just made my throat feel like it was on fire. Still, no pain no gain. So I pushed myself all the way through to four miles. Some say that would be a decent run, but I fell short of my personal goal of five miles so that kind of sucked. Since I’m not feeling to great, I’ll let this one slide though.
Now just because I didn't accomplish my goal this week doesn't mean that I haven’t gotten to it at all yet. Last week I did a five mile run and I felt fantastic! I was definitely sore for the two days following, but it was such a wonderful ache. I was so proud of myself. I am now at 160 lbs. and I’m capable of running five miles without stopping! Go me! My next goals are to reach 6 miles by the beginning of January and lose another 5 lbs. by the end of it. Now that this semester is coming to an end, I’ll have to figure out another way to get in my strength training because I won’t have access to the gym till next semester. Fingers crossed that I don’t gain weight during this time. I think I might just do some free weights with my dad when I can, and maybe use a free week trial pass to one of our local gyms. If that doesn't work, there’s always the old fashion, gallon jugs an floor exercises. Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do right?
So far, I’m not exactly where I’d like to be weight wise. I feel like this past month I didn't push as hard as I should have, and with our budget I haven’t been able to eat as healthy as I should. It’s been nothing but Ramen noodles, and Chef Boyardee for this lady. But, I’m using this winter break to reset myself. No excuses. I’ll be enforcing a better schedule for myself and hopefully with some help I’ll be able to commit to it 100%. Being a mom, a full time student, and full time employee I know that things come up and changes will have to be made but for the most part I’m hoping this new schedule will be flexible enough.
So that’s my progress so far. I’m going to attempt another run tomorrow morning and hopefully by then I'll be somewhat back to normal. Then again, I might be doing more harm than good by not resting? Who knows? I guess we'll just see how I feel. All of my finals are next week so I have a lot of studying to do this weekend. After that I'm free for a month and things around this blog should change back to normal. Until the next post, hope you guys have a wonderful weekend!!
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