Feeling GREAT...sort of.

Ok so here is the scoop for the past week. I had 2 great workouts with Dan last week and then did cardio on my own the one day. I am really starting to like going to the gym again...and of course that is half the battle. However....

I wake up Sunday morning with my right Knee in total PAIN! It was weird...I have never had Knee trouble(i seem to be an ankle guy). The thing felt all swollen and I couldn't hardly walk. The weird thing is that I didn't do anything to it Saturday that should have caused a problem. Soooo I iced it all day on Sunday and yesterday... it is feeling much better today. I am gonna take today off from the gym as well and then hopefully I can get back there tomorrow.

I hate how everytime I start to like the gym or lose a bunch of weight something comes up that gives me an excuse to....take it easy for awhile....or quit all together. I was in the best shape in years about 6 years ago when I had been working with a trainer and had lost about 50 pounds....then boom I tear tendions in my ankle at a football game. I was out of action for 8 weeks and I never got back to it. It always seems to happen like that...I'm hoping this knee is just a small little speed bump in my progress. I certainly don't want to have to battle it all the time, although I will this time if I need to....giving up is not going to be an option.

Keep your fingers crossed that it will not be an issue and that I will be albe to report on a good rest of the week.

Thanks for checking out my blog. By the way I would love to hear from anyone out that is reading this...you can comment on the site or drop me an email kjames@radiospokane.com

Later
KJ

Just Cookin Chicken...waiting for Idol.

Last week at the gym was good. Did cardio on my own 30 minutes on treadmill each time. Didn't do anything else, but I know I need to ease back into it. My trainer Dan had knee surgery and wasn't available last week. We are on for tomorrow at Noon...I will let ya know how it goes.

Right now I am cookin chicken. I LOVE chicken....which really makes dieting a lot easier. I try to buy a big thing of chicken breasts and then just bake them all at once and freeze them for the week. It has really been my key to success when I'm eating right.

One other quick note that has a "little" to due with losing weight. I decided to finally try to watch Biggest Loser this year. I really like the first episode and it's a powerful show. However...it's now on at the same time as IDOL. I guess I will have to record it and try to watch it some other time....I just never seem to do that very well. Stupid TV people putting them on at the same time.

Talk to ya soon

Go to your "Happy Place"

So because I hadn't been to the gym for a month and I had been doing a bad job with the diet...The south hill location of OZ Fitness had some big dark symbolic cloud hanging over it in my mind. It was a fight against myself...I know I should go....but I feel stupid I haven't gone...I just don't want to go...etc. All this would go through my mind everytime I drove past or thought about the gym. So yesterday I just made it an appt. at 1:30 and said I HAD TO BE THERE! I told my tranier Dan(who wasn't available yesterday) I would be there and I knew he would check up on me. So bottom line...I was now accountable to be there.


So I show up to the OZ fitness and within minutes of beginning my workout I feel incredibly refreshed and positive. It was like my Happy Place...go to your Happy Place Kevin(little Happy Gilmore reference for ya)! First of all the trainers that work there all came by and said HI and "great to see you". I saw some of the people I hadn't seen for awhile as well and that was nice. One guy that I've known for years was there(we only really see each other at the gym) . He said "man I thought we lost ya...glad to see you back at it...GREAT JOB". Needless to say the place that I thought had a dark cloud over it(mainly because of my failure to stick with it), was really the complete opposite. Workout felt good and it was nice to sweat for awhile!

I'm looking forward to getting there again today.

Kevin

My name is Kevin and I'm a slacker!

They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. I just did that. Sooooooo lets move on to step 2. Getting back with the program.

So here is the skinny...I did well through the end of November, but the month of December was brutal. My workout and diet got lost under a pile of snow!!!! I guess I did get some excersize shoveling everyday!!! But I'm guess the ham and fudge probably added on more calories then the shoveling took off.

The good news is that I'm back on schedule now in the new year and looking forward to making some new goals and acheiving them.

We started our Resolution Reminder this week too and we have some great people who are working hard to loose weight as well. We will be talking to them on a regular basis to help keep them on track. Also this should help keep me in line as well. If you are working on it...let me know and lets keep trying to fight the fight together!!!!

Shape Up!
Kevin