Been a few days!

 Or maybe a few months.  We put the chickens on the porch, and after we added the dust wallow, EVERYTHING was covered in dust.  

John got a sinus infection from running in it.  So, kinda scared to actually use the treadmill!

Just had my final (I hope) diabetic education class.  Educator is very pleased with my progress.  So am I, for that matter.  She said I was down 5 pounds since October.  Which might be true, dunno.  

I'm SOOOO close to going from 'obese' to 'overweight' as shown by my scale.  Very exciting.  

My current 'official' weight is 172.2.  :D

My 'got nothin in me' weight is 168.6.  (After my disastrous encounter with the zinger)

Obviously, I don't want a repeat of that.  

I might do some photos of me, to go with my before photos.  Kinda 'during' photos.

That's about it.  Live your life.  Do the things that make you happy, if it harms none. 

Luv ya!

"Recovery jog" - HA!

 Yesterday, I told you that I was scared of today's 'recovery jog'.

Well, yeah.

Five sets of 2 minutes push at 4mph followed by 2 minutes recovery at 2.5mph.  (my normal walking speed is somewhere between 2.8 and 3) I will say, that I was glad of the slow recovery part.  

That was... sweaty.  The porch is at about 57-58 degrees right now.  And I'm sweating.  

I'm gonna keep going.  I wanna be the fit me, not the slob me.  I know, I know.  Don't be mean to myself.  But, I see photos of me, and think, 'Is that what I look like?  I don't like it.'  So I'm changing it.  Not gonna quit.  

Still at it!

 Week 5 begins.  

Well, I guess it's week 6, but I took 'break' when we went to Las Vegas.  I only went to the gym to work out twice.  But I did do several walks.  I didn't skip the week.

So, this week is 3:1 work:rest ratio.  And tomorrow is a recovery JOG.  I don't know how I'll do with that.  I don't normally jog.  I either walk or run.  

I asked John to help me with 'during' photos. I have 'before' photos.  They might be worth putting up.  Not sure.  Is me in a bra and undies worth posting?  LOL

I am going to do the work to get healthier.  It's hard.  My legs ache and so do my arms.  

I'm trying very hard.  

I will say the ozempic has helped, by decreasing my appetite and making some foods taste icky.  

Kinda nervous about thanksgiving, since I don't really know what I'm doing with the chicken I'm cooking for dinner.  

Should be ok.  I'm a decent cook.  But that's a post for another day, so to speak.  

Do you, boo.

Back at it with the treadmill

I finished workout 7 of the second set of 10 in this series.  I believe there are 6 sets.
It was a 'recovery walk'.  I'm not sure how that works, but it seems to be a thing.  I have a 'body weight workout' on the schedule for saturday.  
I'm serious.  I want to be healthy.  See if I can come off a bit of my meds.  I don't know.  But I can only try, right?  

I know food shouldn't be a 'guilty' thing.  But I vaguely do feel guilty when I eat something like a tootsie pop.  Plus that sort of thing tastes less wonderful than I think it's going to.  

I do need to make a point of not drinking too much caffeinated stuff.  I couldn't sleep until about 1am this morning.  Much too late.  Screwed up the whole day.  

I didn't precisely take the Vegas trip 'off' as such.  I did go to the gym twice, and got a 4 mile walk in.  As well as MANY walks around the hotel.  

Day 10 of walking course on treadmill

 Oh man

this one beat my butt

I feel slightly queasy, but that could be the ozempic and covid and flu shot working together in an unholy combination.

Very innocent seeming.  Push for 5 minutes.

gonna go lie down, i think.

really don't feel well.

Day 3

 Did my third workout with the treadmill today.  

I like the big screen, so I can watch things.  The iFit training stuff is nice.  The trainer is taking us through some of the national parks in California.  

It learns how I need to go, as it goes.  The trainer said at one point, that I should have a 5-6 effort at that point.  My effort was closer to a 3.  So I increased the pace by .2 mph.  That worked perfectly.  My normal walking pace is pretty close to 3mph, and it seemed to think it was like 2.5 or 2.6.  So the increase helped it learn that I don't need to be THAT slow.  

I have discovered that potatoes spike my sugar HUGELY.  :(
But pumpkin bread does not.  :D

Treadmill & iFit

 John got a new treadmill.  It arrived last Thursday.

I started using it yesterday, started a walking (I think) series.

This is my first one.

My next one, today's, was a recovery walk.  Pretty easy, actually.  

This was today's set.  
Heart rate means nothing, to me, since my resting heart rate is like 100ish.  (103 right now, and I've been done for half an hour.)  So, I guess my rate increased about 20 bpm.  Not too bad, I suppose.  Dunno how much it's supposed to increase with exercise.  But I never see more than like 145, no matter how hard I push.  Too weird.

Anyway.  I've got tomorrow's walk queued up and ready to go.