Cory's Quest for a Healthier Life

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Sorry I have been MIA from your journal the past few days. Been away due to illness. But Wow, you are really making some awesome progress!! That is so great that you have gotten to the point where your hard work is catching up with you in the best way possible. Great work!
 
Cory,

My father is a diabetic and I'm also trying to avoid that, seems like there's even more in common than first thought. It's really important to stay positive and ignore the days where you don't see a change after a tough work out. It makes you more eager to hit your target.
 
Ok, so I didn't do the hike today. My foot was really sore and I didn't want to push it. I did do pilates though, which was really hard tonight for some reason.

Unfortunately, it's supposed to snow tomorrow, so I probably won't do the hike tomorrow either. Maybe Friday, if the trail isn't too sloppy.
 
Cory, have you been exercising consistently enough that you can see (or feel?) how your energy levels and/or abilities cycle up and down? Some days I crank out 8 miles on my bike with no effort, others I struggle to do it. Great job getting the pilates in!
 
Don, I know exactly what you mean. I'm always really energetic towards the beginning of the week because Monday is my rest day, but towards Thursday or Friday I start doggin' it because I'm getting tired.

Had to pop in real quick. I just had my first 'bad' experience at the gym. I took a pilates class this morning on a whim and there was this girl there who was just....staring at me. Venomously. Now, I've been going long enough that I've gotten passed the 'everyone is looking at me' phase. This girl was seriously giving me the evil eye. I could practically read her mind as she sat there thinking, "Why is this fat whale even bothering to blubber herself off the ground?" Now, this has been one bad experience thrown in the middle of MANY good ones, but it kind of hit something home for me. I have a thick enough skin that I don't let stuff like that bother me much, but not everyone does. People wonder why fat people stay fat and that's part of the reason. It's already hard enough to get in shape in general, but to honestly feel like someone there is displaying blatant animosity towards you? That's why a lot of people quit. Every time I see soemthing like that, it takes everything in me not to say, "What the hell is wrong with you? I'm trying to make a positive change and you would judge me for that? &$@! off!"
 
Having a wife and 2 daughters, I must say... the way I've witnessed some ladies interact with each other sometimes blows me away! Some girls are just downright MEAN to each other! Maybe my view of the world is skewed, as a 6'2+ guy, I haven't had many other guys give me the "stink-eye" unless they wanted to actually throw down. My oldest daughter just graduated high school... some of the stories she told me about the "mean girls" just made me cringe. If people said/did things like that to me when I was 18, i would've been kicked out of school for fighting.

Sorry to hear about your incident... maybe she was just in a really bad mood, or thought you were someone else. Either way, good job ignoring her and getting in your workout.
 
Ugh Cory, so sorry to hear that. People can be so awful sometimes. I am really sassy and would probably just stare back at her. Nobody has the right to be that way to you, but unfortunately some people are just cruel. I agree with Don, feel proud of yourself that you did what you needed to do without letting someone else affect you. Resolve like that will take you very far.
 
Success is the best revenge. You'll be fit and lovelier and she'll still be a massive ahole. Very nice work in here!
 
Thanks for the positive words everyone.

Don, girls can be very mean. I never got it, even being a girl myself. I never really hung out with mean girls either (although most of my friends are dudes). I just don't get the point of intentionally being that catty towards someone. I guess to make yourself feel better about yourself, but I already feel good about myself.

Camilla, I did start back. Unabashedly.

Quercus, that's what I told myself. :D

On a different note, I am so sore today and just plain exhausted. I think it's from doing pilates two days in a row. It makes me think I should rearrange my work/school schedule a little bit so I can put a day or two between pilates sessions. Maybe I'll finally bite the bullet and rearrange work so I can do yoga on Thursdays. That would be really beneficial. My lack of flexibility actually hampers the things I can do in zumba and pilates. Luckily I work in an environment that is very flexible with schedules because they employ a lot of college kids. I'll just have to talk to my boss tomorrow.
 
I agree girls/ladies are mean and often very underhanded but most men will get it out in the open get it sorted and move on.

Cory, what are you currently doing as part of your recovery routine ?
 
I usually just do low impact stuff on the weekends and nothing on Monday. This is my schedule:

Monday: nothing
Tuesday: zumba (1 hr)
Wednesday: pilates (1 hr)
Thursday: pilates (1 hr)
Friday: zumba (1 hr)
Saturday: walk with mom (2 miles)
Sunday: walk with mom (2 miles)

I'm thinking of changing it to:

Monday: pilates (1 hr)
Tuesday: zumba (1 hr)
Wednesday: pilates (1 hr)
Thursday: yoga (1 hr)
Friday: zumba (1 hr)
Saturday: nothing
Sunday: yoga (1.5 hr)
 
As a girl myself I do know very well how mean girls can be. I was never mean to other people. I just don't see the need. It's sickening really how some people treat others. I'm glad that you didn't let her ruin your day Cory. :)
 
By recovery, I mean what do you do immediately after your workout ? because there are things you can do to minimise how sore you are after a workout and the following day.
 
I try to do a bit of stretching, but don't get to do it after every work out or as much as I should. Most days I have crammed the exercise in between other things I have to do and so I have to immediately leave as soon as the class is done and may not get an opportunity to stretch until a few hours later.
 
stretching is only part of recovery, in the first 20 minutes of finishing you need to have a small amount of high GI carbs to boost muscle glycogen for kickstarting the muscle repair process, the carbs help get protein to the muscles to begin the repair process. If your on a low carb diet you can have the carbs pre workout to give energy for the intensity needed but then it won't help much for improved recovery.

Contrast shower post workout is also excellent for recovery. Alternate 1 minute of cold with 1 minute of hot, 3 -4 times before self massage in warm helps to clear waste products out of the muscles. I like the combo of ice bath alternate with hot spa when I have the opertunity but a lot of people hate ice baths lol
 
Hey Cory - sorry to hear about your bad experience - I m glad you moved on. i totally agree with Quercus: success is the best revenge!! I usually super paranoid about people in the gym. But then I kind of believe in karma...: what you give is what you get.
Well done on the exercise!!!
 
Could really use some support today. It was a bad weigh in. I gained 9 pounds. Even allowing a generous 2 pounds for the rather large dinner I ate, that's still 7 pounds. Logically I know that given what I ate this week and the amount of exercise I got, it is physically IMPOSSIBLE that I legitimately gained 7 pounds of fat. It's still a little disheartening though. I'm most likely about to start my period (I know, I said that last week, but it should be along any time now). I'm not going to update my ticker just yet. If I haven't started my period in two or three days, I'll upload it; but I don't think I could stand to see my ticker at 272 (3 pound under what I started) for an entire week.
 
So sorry to hear your weigh in didn’t go well today. I too find it impossible to believe that you put that much weight back on. You’ve been amazing with exercise. I did read somewhere that women need to plan on a 5-8lb spike in weight when it’s nearing the TOM. If I had to guess, you’re probably spot on in thinking that’s what it is. I say just keep doing what you’re doing and your next weigh in will be a much better one. You know you’re doing awesome! Just keep at it!
 
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