Alleria's diary: Trying again

Alleria

Alleria

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I'm back! I pretty much disappeared after the first week in December, gym trips stopped, stopped playing hockey as well, and also had to turn down what was my goal for May trip to California to play hockey.

The best thing about all of this, is that I've hovered around the 195lb mark - which is basically where I left off with exercise!

I ran into a handful of work, financial and life issues that I had to deal with in December and January. My work life has improved a fair amount, which I'm happy about and it may get better soon.

I've pretty much called it a season for hockey and stopped playing. I don't know what it was, when I was younger hockey use to bring out such a competitive aspect of myself that I had really fed off of and that competitiveness had pretty much gone away by the time I had stopped playing in December. Maybe I'll play in the summer season for something to do - the door is still open to me to return to winter season but I don't know, I'm currently contemplating it.

Oh, another thing - I've quit playing World of Warcraft - tremendous time sink :( I realized it was time to quit, and haven't played for 3 weeks exactly now.

Also, since mid January I've been combating a mysterious allergy which I think maybe be something in bread, or related products as its occurred when eating pancakes, pasta, ketchup chips. So far, I'm just getting very mild/annoying little itchy hives. I am currently on antihistamines almost daily but really should go to the doctor soon to get this identified properly, so I can work on a proper diet.

My goal is to lose 20lbs - and once I reach that point - I will re-evaluate and set another. I think this time I will try to ease into it a bit more slowly and not dive into it with around 6 gym trips a week - that may have caused me to fail last time.

190lbs: shirts!
185lbs: shoes
180lbs: jacket
175lbs: new mp3 player upgrade (512mb ipod shuffle is showing its age)
 
Ahh, a fellow former Warcrafter. lol.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that game came prepackaged with a black hole that relentlessly sucks time into oblivion. I haven't played in about 4-5 months and good riddance!

I like the goals you’ve set for yourself, and the rewards too for that matter! I look forward to seeing you achieve them. :)
 
ahhh... i did exactly the same thing... i joined the forum, tried to change tooo much at once and disappeared for a few months... =T unfortunately i also gained.... but on january 12th i deleted my online game... lol i had been addicted since may... and something lit up inside me... i came back to the forum and got to work... and ive lost about 15-17 pounds depending on the fluctuation... lol...
 
wow, Angelica that is a great loss for a month! Congrats, its nice to read about other stories and pretty motivating.

As for me - I've been trying to figure out my allergy, and this is what I have it narrowed down to causes - although they are a good reason to stay away from those foods now:

white bread
pepsi
plain ruffles chips
lays ketchup chips
taco time burrito (something in the tortilla or beef?)

The strange thing is though, I ate a subway roast beef on wheat with lettuce & pepper, apple juice and a small ice cream around 7pm, and had no reaction until around 11pm. It wasn't nearly as bad/itchy as its gotten before so, a slight improvement. I scheduled a doctor's appointment for Wednesday and hopefully, maybe learn a bit more. I'm just frustrated at never having symptoms before ever and now this :(

So tonight, I am starting the weight lifting program in The New Rules of Lifting for Women - supposedly it takes awhile to complete. But, I gotta try taking it one day at a time and not get ahead of myself.
 
Good luck getting your alergy sorted out, I am alergic to anything that contains or is derived from wheat which causes a V itchy blistering rash all over.
 
So .. I didn't make it to the gym until Saturday and just ended up doing some light cardio - I followed my brother to his gym and wasn't a fan of it.. I went back to Golds this morning and liked it much better.

I was at the gym 5:30 am this morning even though I went to bed relatively late and didn't fall asleep until almost 12:30..I'll probably pay for that at work.

Did my workout A from the book this morning, and I am feeling it!

15 squats x 2 sets
15 push ups x 2 sets
15 bent over rows x 2 sets
15 step ups x 2 sets
8 prone jacknifes x 2 sets

Wednesday is workout B.. I haven't looked at that one yet. Last time around I only did 2 days a week of weights, and I'll be aiming for three this time. I gotta re-read a portion of my book to find out what will best compliment the program cardio wise. I'll definitely have to go to the gym in the mornings as I can't stand losing time in the evenings after a long day at work. I'm so selfish! :(
 
Well, I did workout B this morning- and it felt harder than workout A. Ah, well. I was at the gym again at 5:30am. This seems to work a bit better for me, because I LOVE having my evenings and being able to spend them with my boyfriend.

I didn't sleep as long or as well as I would've liked the past two nights - so I'm really tired before I head to work today. Big rest night for me tonight!!

Doctors appointment this afternoon - my allergies have really toned down since I cut out the pepsi and the chips! They've been to a minimum actually. At first I thought it was bread products but, it doesn't seem to be now. Strange!
 
I'm still alive! :)

I've still been eating relatively well, and was able to get in 3 hockey games on Saturday. My weight hasn't really budged. The weight training I'm doing is definitely helping strength wise, but I still feel like I should be upping my cardio as I haven't done much of it. I'm still trying to ease back into the whole 3-6 gym trips a week.

Went to the gym this morning for weight training and look to get in at least I hope 4 sessions of cardio this week.

As for the allergies, I'm going to be referred to an allergy specialist and should get a call within the next two weeks for an appointment.
 
Hey Alleria,

Welcome to the forum! Your exercise routine sounds fabulous!! I defintely need to kick mine back into gear haha. I am also a fellow WoWer, and I can definetely relate that is a time sucker lol! If you ever need someone to talk to Im around the forums :) Also I hope you get your allergies figured out-I wonder if it has something to do with a certain food dye or sugar?

-Mariah
 
I'm still alive! I've been playing hockey, and still eating relatively decent. I'm still at 195 though, its okay - I hope to get going again this week.

Today is the end of a five and a half year live-in relationship with someone who was my best friend prior to dating. It sucks and its disappointing. We're going to try handle it as positively as we can, and try to move on.

I just sort of feel lost. Its tough to think about moving on, but what else is there to do - I try to be a productive person, so I can't dwell on the end of it.
 
I'm sorry to hear about your relationship ending, that is always hard.

Your username attracted me to your diary, to see if you were a fellow WoW player, and I was correct! Good for you for escaping from its clutches, especially with the expansion still being relatively new. I played too much last term and my grades suffered a bit for it, although I had other issues as well which contributed to the problem. This term I've done pretty well, and it doesn't impact my exercising. I only play about 2-5 hours a week right now.

Keep your chin up and stay motivated, you can do it!
 
Hi! I actually renewed last weekend but only played about a total of maybe an hour since last Sunday. I just needed a different approach to it, so my goal is to do something productive for the day prior to allowing myself to play. Say for example, exercising an hour or doing laundry, or doing dishes or vacuuming.

Since I've taken a break I find it much easier to just log out rather than think, "ok i gotta do this and that before I log out - OH, then this" etc etc

It sucks lives - I'm a fiend for the game lore though - the new Arthas novel is out in a month!:willy_nilly:

As for the relationship thing, yes its going to be tough to get into the groove of not being with someone. I just have to learn to re-depend on myself and spend more time with friends and family to keep my mind off it. We just had different priorities and that became a bigger problem the more time passed - thats it.

I should have no problems getting back into the thick of exercising.
 
Yeah, I have a bad habit of taking way too long to log out once I've stopped questing for the night. I've got 4 toons, and so I want to check the mail of all 4 of them, and then put up auctions/level tradeskills, etc. Sometimes it takes me an extra hour to log off if I'm not careful. >.> I really enjoy the lore too! I'm taking my time leveling and reading all the quest logs. I'm really enjoying the lore in Wrath as opposed to the BC lore, which made very little sense most of the time once you got to Outlands. My highest character right now is a Blood Elf mage, 76. My guild's core members are comprised mostly of old friends from a previous MMO and an ex fiance and his friends that I'm still cool with, and they're all pestering me to level faster, lol. None of them are in college though, so it's easy for them to say that! They just work and play WoW, where as I try and balance school, social life, boyfriend, work, and WoW.
 
Weigh in yesterday, was down to 193! I want to bust through to 189 very soon - I'm so impatient. Its been a roller coaster week, and have only made it to the gym once and my weekly hockey game.
 
I made it to the gym this morning for cardio. Go me!

Lately I've been down about my on/off weight loss goals and me being lazy to try achieve them. A month ago I bought Leigh Peele's Fat Loss Troubleshoot manual and still haven't given it a full read.

The big problem I have is committing the time, I feel so selfish and lazy and end up not wanting to go to the gym. So, I gave it a lot of thought yesterday -- if I were truly a lost cause, I wouldn't care about my weight. And if I really do consider myself to be a lazy, selfish person... wouldn't it be a selfish in a productive type of way to lose all the weight I wanted to?

The main thing is, I want to do this for myself - not anyone else. I want to be healthy as I get closer to 30 years old.

After a long talk, boyfriend and I have gotten back together and we're going to try work it out in a productive manner. We've come so far since we started dating, it would be a complete waste if we didn't give it another shot. We're different personalities, so we could always use a little improvement.
 
happy to hear that you are working things out with your boyfriend^^
relationships require work... lol falling in love is the easy part =P
its using that love and working together to make a life thats hard. LOL
me and my lack of experience know all about it =P
 
I'm back - I've been going to the gym only twice a week since my last post. I've been eating a bit better since then, and two weeks ago I was at 193 - I am now at 187 today.

I've done about 6 cardios since Thursday, I played 5 hockey games in two days at a tournament and talked to some old hockey friends who came to play (they live about 5-6 hours away) and they want me to rejoin them in the fall when they play in travel tournaments. I haven't really played with them in about 3-4 years, and we had a great team when we were all in good hockey shape.

So that is my goal and ideally I can be around 150-160 by November- its probably doable - tournament season doesn't start until January. I can't believe I'm less than 30lbs to 160!!

I'm off to the gym, my rest day will be on Tuesday
 
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