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Out of shape

Oops, just realized I missed last week, must be all the packing I'm doing.  So here are the quick stats for the past 2 weeks to get caught up

Week of: 8/6/2012-8/12/2012
Exercise Walking - 3 sessions / 8.64 miles
General Walking - 7 days / 12.61 miles
Week of: 8/13/2012-8/19/2012
Exercise Walking - 4 sessions / 12.54 miles
General Walking - 7 days / 22.91 miles
Last week I had my 6 week follow-up appointment with the neurosurgeon and the good news was that I do not need to have additional follow-up appointments unless I start having problems.  I was also given the ok to start easing into biking and running "jogging".  I was so excited to hear that news that I thought I would start short jogging intervals into my daily walks this week.  Then I got to thinking that maybe it would be better to start out with biking instead, since that is less impact.  So today was my first stationary bike day.  I'm starting out with 10 minute sessions.  WOW, I'm out of shape, so sad to make that statement.  But don't be fooled, all the walking I have been doing has been nothing to keep me in shape.  The 10 minute session was not as easy as I thought it would be.

But as I've said before, while I'm not ok with that I'm ok with that.  Yes that makes sense to me.  I have VERY high expectations particularly of myself.  I originally had all these thoughts that when I quit my job in prep for moving that I would have so much time to train - swim, bike and run.  Well then this little thing of back surgery happened and changed all that.  But again, I think it was a blessing in disguise.  I have learned to appreciate the little things that I do every day.  I recognize that healing is a process and nobody can tell you exactly when you are ready to push yourself to the next step.  Your body decides that and lets you know when it's ready and when it's not.  My body didn't reject the bike ride this morning but did let me know that I have a long road ahead of me. 

I also need to get focused on the weight loss again.  Another one of those things when I quit my job I thought because I would be training so much that I would be losing weight easily.  HA HA..... well when you can only lay around for a week and then start walking and do no other exercise and still eat the way you have been then the scale is going to go in the opposite direction than you want it to.  The good news for me is the scale showed that today I weigh the same as I did the day I went in for surgery, 7/5/2012.  The bad news for me is that I weight the same as I did the day I went in for surgery.  Again, life is a long journey.  So I'll start working on that as well.

Happy Tuesday!!

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