That's So Last Year!!!

I'm feeling frustrated today so it's a great time to blog....bahaha!!!

I did it. I went at this diet with a vengence this week. No holds barred. Chicken breast and asparagus or green beans for lunch. Either chicken or turkey and a vege for dinner. Mixed in a few protein drinks. Started my day with oatmeal and blueberries. Denied myself lots of food and four days later I am the exact same weight. So here's how the conversation started tonight at the gym...

Mike: "How are you Tammy?"
Me: "I'm grouchy"
Mike: "Why?"
Me: "They're building onto our school and the construction moved inside the building today. They were cutting metal. Then they were building walls inside. It was noisy. And some of the adults were getting on my nerves."
Mike: "We're going to run sprints to warm up. 10"
Me: "And let me tell you what else. I've been on this diet for four days and I haven't lost a pound!"
Mike: "Tammy it's not easy. How long have I been on my diet? 6 months!"
Me: "But Mike you lost weight the first week."
Mike: "Tammy I'm a guy and you're a girl."
Truthfully, he might have said something else after that, but I just started running. I was even grouchier. If I could grow the piece of anatomy that makes it easier for a man to lose weight don't think I wouldn't try it.

New exercises like jumping jacks while holding weights. I ask...what's wrong with regular jumping jacks? Those were last year is the answer I get. Seriously. This phrase comes out of his mouth with more frequency the closer we get to our year anniversary of working out together. What worked last year doesn't work this year all of a sudden. The most challenging exercise for me tonight was to hit a pushup from a squatting position and then jump up toward the ceiling. It's kind of like a frog hopper with a pushup involved. After trying this a couple of times, Mike told me I could be on the special olympics. Gee...thanks!

I spent Tuesday night with my massage therapist. She does somatic massage. For those of you that have had a massage this is not the relaxing kind where you are passive and falling asleep. You are active in this massage. My knee was hurting and the last time I was there she had told me we needed to do some work on my legs. Perhaps this was one of the most painful experiences of my life. She wasn't even using full pressure. It was scary painful. She kept telling me to breathe so I wouldn't pass out. She said my IT bands were way too tight and that I needed to tell my trainer this and I needed to make sure I was stretching before and after the workouts. In case you are wondering the IT band runs from the outside of your hip to just below your knee where it connects with the Tibia. It is a tendon. When these get as tight as mine were it causes low back pain and butt pain, and leg pain, and knee pain. She told me to make sure my trainer knew this. I texted him immediately to let him know. So tonight we ended my workout by him stretching the IT band. Incredibly painful, but so incredibly relaxing at the same time. It was an amazing experience. Now I have to train my husband on this type of stretching. We also stretched my hamstrings and my quads. Same deal...painful, but wonderful at the same time.

What Trainer and I did decide is this...no more cheat meals. Those are finished. Have to treat the body like a machine until it responds to me. I have to add eggs to breakfast so I have protein. I'm mad enough at this point about not losing weight that I'm gonna give it a go and see what happens. Trainer Mike says this will work so I'm trusting him.