Starting Fresh..

Yeah, sure, you’ve heard that one before right?

So where have I been?

Let’s see. About a month ago my son Austin fell and broke his arm in our driveway. It was an ugly affair, that resulted in surgery on the arm to insert two rods and 8 screws to put it all back together. We just went today to have the stitches out and get the “real” cast. He will stay in that for about 4-6 weeks and then we’ll see how it’s healing.

About a week ago I got a wicked bladder and kidney infection. Stupid me, I waited too long to go to the doctor(as usual, because, you know, that’s what happens when you have kids and you have no insurance.) By the time I finally went to the doctor they told me that if I had waited another day I would have ended up in the hospital. During the visit I had a lovely ultrasound on my right kidney as it was causing me GREAT discomfort. Lo and behold; there were two tiny kidney stones floating around in there causing all kinds of trouble.  I was placed on massive doses of  Cipro, told to drink a gallon of water a day and a half a gallon of cranberry juice and sent home to pee into a coffee filter contraption and  suffer. It took about 3-4 days but I finally passed both of the kidney stones. That was an experience I NEVER want to endure again. Ever.

Needless to say with all the sickness, drama and doctor appointments my eating has not been the best nor has my exercise program.

Now that I’m finally feeling better again I plan to start fresh on Monday.   I’ll do a Power 90 Sculpting Routine Monday followed by HIIT on Tuesday and repeat that routine for about 2 weeks with Sundays off to just take a leisurely walk.

After two weeks I plan on starting the Chalean Extreme program that has been sitting on my shelf collecting dust for the past month.

To be quite honest, I can’t WAIT to get back to my good eating again. Fortunately I’ve not gained much weight(about 5#) during my hiatus but I sure feel a lot fluffier than I want to. Where did my abs go? Biceps anyone?

I actually MISS doing my training. There is something so powerful about lifting weights. For me it gave me strength in areas where I least expected it. Not to mention a whole lot of self confidence. It’s going to feel so good to get back on the wagon.

Summer isn’t far away! Gotta get ready for that bathing suit!

~ by catwmn on March 5, 2009.