Another day of feeling rather craptacular.
Today I went to the store to get some meds to see if I can find some relief from my cold and/or allergies...and since most of it is behind the pharmacy counter now...I wasn't able to get what I really wanted. All I wanted was some Robitussin-CF and Benadryl-D. That way I can cough easier, breathe easier, and have an anti-hystamine incase it's allergies. But noooo. The pharmacist was all "you need to take allergy pills before the allergic reaction happens" and "you don't want a cough supressant unless your cough is keeping you awake" and "there's no use taking a decongestant when your stuffed up in the nasal area." Well Jesus H Christ (pardon me), if I wanted advice I'd have gone to my doctor. All I wanted was to be in doped up cold medicine bliss! So now I have Alavert-D and Mucinex. Maybe they were just trying to get me to spend more money? As both are more expensive than what I wanted. Sadly both of them are 12 hour dosage too so it's not like I can even take more if the "symptoms persist."
So...I took what they let me buy and also a multi-vitamin and a calcium tablet (as I am trying to get back in that habit) and waited for it all to kick in. I wouldn't say I felt any better throughout the rest of the day...but at least I didn't feel any worse? I just took more of everything (except the vitamin and calcium) as this is as close as I can get to 12 hours from when I took it without staying up all night. And believe you me, I don't think I could stay up all night even if I wanted to. Ugh.
Today was the day I was supposed to do my second session of the Cto5K program. I didn't think it was a good idea since this cold and/or allergies seems to be moving into my chest. So...I wasn't going to do it. But....then I did. So here are my stats for this session:
1.10 miles
26:33 minutes:seconds
I decided I should keep the time the same so I can see if my distance improves. If I go changing the time it'll be much harder to figure out. So...I did an extra .2 miles over the last session. Any improvement is an improvement. Besides, I'm sick and don't really expect much improvement right away anyway. I really do think that I will repeat the week one invtervals of the program next week because I can tell I need much more conditioning before I go pushing myself to the next level.
Additionally...since technically I'm getting less than half an hour of exercise three days a week....I've decided that Tuesday and Thursday will be yoga days. I've never actually done yoga...except for once. But I figure this will give my body a rest from the jarring and strain of cardio and also strengthen and "tone" my muscles. I'm planning on doing yoga in the guest room as it has more room than my bedroom, less radon than the basement, and isn't over my parents' bedroom like my bedroom is. I just need to pick which DVD to do. I have two. In fact somewhere I have a Pilates video as well. I think we'll stick to yoga for now though.
So basically the schedule will be this:
Monday - Cto5k
Tuesday - Yoga
Wednesday - Cto5k
Thursday - Yoga
Friday - Cto5k
Saturday - Undetermined or day off
Sunday - Undetermined or day off
Usually on the weekends I get suckered into doing some kind of manual labor against my will anyway and it provides some exercise.
If my mother drags me out tomorrow I'd like to pick up a tape measure. I've been taking pictures on and off to try to see progress in my weight loss endevour, but I can't really see a difference. So I thought maybe if I can also start tracking inches lost I'd feel a bit more motivated. Granted....today the scale said I gained 2.5lbs. Entirely possible. I haven't been very careful about what I've been eating. Originally I wasn't going to weigh myself until Monday, so it would be a week after I started the Cto5k program. But...I couldn't resist. It was later in the day than I normally weigh myself...so who knows. I might try again tomorrow, but if the number is higher that might be bad.
I'm still debating joining Weight Watchers. I was so annoyed when LA Weightloss went out of business. It was like, so now what do I do? I did join SparkPeople.com today. I haven't had a chance to poke around on it too much, but it looks like it has similar programs to what I was doing and they're free. I'll definitely check it out more tomorrow when (hopefully) I'm feeling better. I'm lying, I'll most likely go look at it a little once I'm done this entry.
Speaking of which, I think I'm done for now. There's probably something I forgot to write about, but this journal isn't going anywhere. So, for now, adieu.
So...I took what they let me buy and also a multi-vitamin and a calcium tablet (as I am trying to get back in that habit) and waited for it all to kick in. I wouldn't say I felt any better throughout the rest of the day...but at least I didn't feel any worse? I just took more of everything (except the vitamin and calcium) as this is as close as I can get to 12 hours from when I took it without staying up all night. And believe you me, I don't think I could stay up all night even if I wanted to. Ugh.
Today was the day I was supposed to do my second session of the Cto5K program. I didn't think it was a good idea since this cold and/or allergies seems to be moving into my chest. So...I wasn't going to do it. But....then I did. So here are my stats for this session:
1.10 miles
26:33 minutes:seconds
I decided I should keep the time the same so I can see if my distance improves. If I go changing the time it'll be much harder to figure out. So...I did an extra .2 miles over the last session. Any improvement is an improvement. Besides, I'm sick and don't really expect much improvement right away anyway. I really do think that I will repeat the week one invtervals of the program next week because I can tell I need much more conditioning before I go pushing myself to the next level.
Additionally...since technically I'm getting less than half an hour of exercise three days a week....I've decided that Tuesday and Thursday will be yoga days. I've never actually done yoga...except for once. But I figure this will give my body a rest from the jarring and strain of cardio and also strengthen and "tone" my muscles. I'm planning on doing yoga in the guest room as it has more room than my bedroom, less radon than the basement, and isn't over my parents' bedroom like my bedroom is. I just need to pick which DVD to do. I have two. In fact somewhere I have a Pilates video as well. I think we'll stick to yoga for now though.
So basically the schedule will be this:
Monday - Cto5k
Tuesday - Yoga
Wednesday - Cto5k
Thursday - Yoga
Friday - Cto5k
Saturday - Undetermined or day off
Sunday - Undetermined or day off
Usually on the weekends I get suckered into doing some kind of manual labor against my will anyway and it provides some exercise.
If my mother drags me out tomorrow I'd like to pick up a tape measure. I've been taking pictures on and off to try to see progress in my weight loss endevour, but I can't really see a difference. So I thought maybe if I can also start tracking inches lost I'd feel a bit more motivated. Granted....today the scale said I gained 2.5lbs. Entirely possible. I haven't been very careful about what I've been eating. Originally I wasn't going to weigh myself until Monday, so it would be a week after I started the Cto5k program. But...I couldn't resist. It was later in the day than I normally weigh myself...so who knows. I might try again tomorrow, but if the number is higher that might be bad.
I'm still debating joining Weight Watchers. I was so annoyed when LA Weightloss went out of business. It was like, so now what do I do? I did join SparkPeople.com today. I haven't had a chance to poke around on it too much, but it looks like it has similar programs to what I was doing and they're free. I'll definitely check it out more tomorrow when (hopefully) I'm feeling better. I'm lying, I'll most likely go look at it a little once I'm done this entry.
Speaking of which, I think I'm done for now. There's probably something I forgot to write about, but this journal isn't going anywhere. So, for now, adieu.