Keeping my promise - this time
Ok - First I have to start by saying: I feel super guilty about a Vit. K binge last night - Ugh im so not looking forward to getting my INR checked on Monday. ( maybee if I have a few drinks it will even out by then ) My last INR was 1.9 which isnt horrible but still not "theraputic" so I had no right to have a binge on veggie sushi - spring rolls - salad - tempura veggies - and green tea ice cream.... oh Im going to pay for this on monday I know it... I guess Im really bad at maintaining my K - I just binge out on it and that why my inr is haywire but im going to do my best to drink some wine over the weekend and stuff lets hope that monday its not below 1.9 at least or Ill get yelled at for my sushi sins. Does anyone find it like rediculous that we are more worried about eating leafy greens then shoving a candy bar down our throat? I feel quilty eating a freakin salad not a cookie isnt that ass-backwards??? Anyways - done venting and guilt-tripping! So as I have promised myself many times - many many many many many times - I am going to get in shape and loose weight. But this time its for health reasons not appearance. I started using my treadmill on monday. I was a little impressed with myself bc I was feeling dead at work and somehow my promise held strong and though i was rather zombified i hopped on the treatmill for 15 minutes and managed to run for about 2 min. My legs ached and felt like they were gunna fall off but it almost was a good feeling. Yesterday after work I walk/ran ( for a few min ) a 20 min mile, and though thats not something to be bragging about I find it very exiting that i can do a 20 min mile with everything that ive been through! Im hoping to build up the time rather then the speed though bc I usted to do 4 miles in 45 minutes and I was happy with that and i was loosing weight so Im hoping to get to that point. Thinking of purchasing some 1-2 lbs dumbells for my arms while im walking, I never much focused on my arms but for some reason my arms and shoulders got hit the worse with atrophy so they get sore really easy. I feel good being on my treadmill again - I felt nice to exhert myself without pain!!! Well let me elebarate - my legs were killing me but hey my chest didnt hurt woohoo. I feel determined I havnt felt like this in soo long. I have made myself this promise so many times - so many resolutions passed - but I think this time Im gunna do it. You know when your dying to order that huge hunk of chocolate cake at a restaraunt and then the person your with says " go ahead you only live once" I am applying this to my health instead - I think yes I only live once, so wouldnt I want to be healthy and happy. I am unhappy with my body the way it is now - I feel like clothing hugs my fat and I feel gross - now granted Ive always had crappy self esteem when I was thin I liked myself much better I was tons more confident and much more happy! So now more then ever I want to stop wasting years not doing something bc I have nothing to wear, or feeling self concious in social situation. Jeez, I forget what its like to put on a pair of pants and actually like how they fit me 8(! Anyways - Im here and im gunna do something about it bc "I only have 1 life to live" - well this of course depends on your spiritual beliefs bc hey maybee someday I'll come back as a squirel or a pencil eraser but hey whatever. So i monitored my heart rate with my new handy-dandy watch my gf got me for xmas: Fast paced walking puts me at: 125-140Running puts me at: 160-175 Pretty normal according to my research. I looked up how to get your target "fat burning" heart rate which is determined by your max heartrate which is 220 minus your age: 220 - 21 = 199 so at 199 is my optimum fat burning heartrate which makes me feel much better bc when I jump rope it goes up to about 175-185 which kinda scared me, I thought it might crap out on me but come to find out people aspire to get their heart rate that high in order to efficiently burn fat. Jeez, just goes to show I really didnt pay attention to anything much about my body before this, bc even though I usted to work out prior to my pe, I never payed any attention to my heartrate resting or active or any of that lol. So I have opened the door to this weight loose project and theres no closing it now -
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Go you for exercising like that!! Yippee! Feel free to brag about a 20 minute mile- that\'s fabulous post-PE! You rock!
And don\'t beat yourself up too badly for the binge. I had some green tea ice cream recently too and was wondering about the vitamin K content. But it was my one-year wedding anniversary (new year\'s eve) and we were at the restaurant where we had our first date and we had green tea ice cream on our first date... You can\'t suck all the joy our of life!
I bet ya didn\'t do too badly on the vit. K. The salad at Japanese restaurants is usually iceburg, which is low. The tempura veggies include a lot of onion and sweet potato (at least at the restaurant where I go), which are fine. I guess the seaweed is pretty high! I wonder if the ginger (a natural blood thinner) balances it out? I know they told me to quit drinking ginger tea... Who knows?
Keep taking good care of yourself. I\'m looking forward to more exercise updates!
I\'ve never heard of green tea ice-cream...I\'ll have to give it a try. Your comment about coming back as a pencil eraser made me laugh...you would be a very entertaining pencil eraser :) Good luck with your exercise journey...I am also working on pushing myself beyond walking...trying to get comfortable getting my heart rate high again.
It\'s nice to hear you so excited about your exercise. I wish I could get that excited about anything at all, to tell you the truth! Keep at it, I\'m sure you\'ll be happier for it. Good work!
lol i like the whole cookie salad ratio , i feel that way too ... im sure ull be fine .. drink something good for me !!!!
Hey look at you, wow, you are doing so great! That is really terrific that you are working out on the treadmill. Especially after your first week back to work full time. Good for you!!! :)
Ashley... I\'m so happy for you and I soooo understand your cravings! I was a vitamin K junkie before my PE.... love sushi, edamame, spinich, avocado, you name it.... if it was green- I loved it.
Now that I am supposed to monitor my vitamin K levels and eat a consistent amount each day- it\'s been such a challenge. I was doing pretty good and feel off the wagon around the holidays. Plus, I ate out a few times and that\'s tough because you don\'t know what sort of stuff they are cooking with. Keep it up with your exercise.... if you were my client I would have to say that you\'re doing it the right way.
Keep track of your heart rate and start slow.... each day add on. Now that my INR is up and my period has ended for this month.... it\'s my time to get back on the nordic track or stationary bike at home. It always makes me feel better.... I can\'t exercise outside because our pollution levels are too high right now in AZ. Keep it up girl! Lori
oh man we are so much alike!! good luck girly im here for ya!
YAY!!! good for you keep us posted on your progress!!
I\'ve never heard of that way to calculate your HR before...that seems Really high. When I run (around 5mph now), mine gets to 165ish, which is what my trainer said was about max for my age and fitness. I\'ve been working out consistently at my gym for about 4 months and feel better than I have the last few years - I\'m finally not restrained by my DVT! Just don\'t push it too hard in the beginning, since your body is rebuilding. Good luck!