Rho's Diary

Hey guys - it's been so busy today I've been swamped off my feet! Thank goodness it's Friday. It's great to see my poor diary hasn't been left alone - you guys...

Hey Kim, I think you're right. It's not the first time I'm doing squats but this pain is whoa! It's 2 days later and I'm still feeling sore... I really wish I could indulge in a hot soak, but there's just so little time.. But I'm thinking I need to maybe pamper myself more (currently my idea of chilling out is the hot shower after a workout!) I do drink water during my workouts - I usually down a 500cl bottle of water during a cardio session. I'm just scared of drinking too much in case I get cramp or something. How much water is enough? And yes, I am seeing inches lost - halleluyah! They shall not return!!

Hey Christina, I'm real happy you're all nice and healed. I don't think you've been slacking at all - you've been walking and recovering, which is vital to your weight loss! You've even managed to break your plateau! You should be proud of yourself - I'm certainly proud of you! And all you need is one single gym session, and you'll be back into the swing of things, I'm sure..

Hey Sara, I'm definitely feeling a lot better, but I'm still not racing back to the gym. I decided to stop with the lemon and ginger and take some 'proper' medicine, so I went to Boots and got me some Day Nurse and Night Nurse. The night one totally knocked me out, which was great, because lord knows my body needed the rest. Rest is definitely vital to weight loss, so I'll try not to take that for granted again (there just seem to be so little time to do things in..) The weather's fantastic in London today - the nice kind of 'hot' - not the stifling heat that sucks all the oxygen and leaves you gasping for air...nah, the real nice one in which lovers stroll hand in hand and fall in love in the park...Oh stop fantasising, it's London! It could well be snowing tomorrow! Or at least raining heavily. I can't wait for my next weigh-in: I'm SO sure I'll have good news..:jump:

Hey cshani, it's great to have you back! You remembered about my 10K - that's so sweet. Thanks! If bike riding helps with slim thighs, then heck, that's going to be a bigger part of my workout. I'm not sure why I've never made the connection before - this forum opens your eyes to so many new things - it's great!

Thanks Juliette, it's definitely strange to learn to breathe online! But I DO get what you're saying - I just need to let things flow more naturally. As Kim said, I'll breathe through my nose with my mouth partway open maybe, but I'll definitely try to control my breathing a lot better. I won't be training before the 10K so I won't get a chance to try it out before my next training session (hopefully on Monday). When I do, I'll let you know how it turned out.

Thanks for all the good wishes guys. I'm leaving the office now (but will be back in a bit when I get home). Ciao.
 
How nice that you're having good weather! That makes such a difference in the sort of day I have. It's hot here as well, it feels wonderful. I don't know about the water I drink 1 liter of water when on the elliptical for an hour but during my spin class I am only able to drink 500 ml. I try to drink as much as possible during the cardio because I've been having trouble lately getting all the water in.

I hope you had a nice day at work and I'm so excited to see how your weigh-in goes! You're doing a fantastic job Rho!
 
I have a hard time drinking water while exercising. Although it depends on what I'm doing. If I'm cycling or using the treadmill I can drink more. If I'm on the elliptical or doing my CK then I don't drink much. For one, I don't want to slow down to drink water. For two, if I drink too much I'll feel sick cause my stomach is full of water, lol. In my CK there's just hardly any time, I usually sneak some water while they give instructions on the next thing we're gonna do, lol.

I think on your weight training day you should give yourself time to take a nice soak. You do need to pamper yourself and I know your muscles will appreciate it :D
 
Way to do some squats!! you go girl. Don't think my knees could handle squatting with my weight.

Keep at it, they will pay off.
 
Hey guys

Yes, Sara, London is really cooperating with me this weekend. The weather is simply glorious! I'm really excited too about the weigh-in - shame I can't do it until after tomorrow's Walk. Ah well, we'll see soon enough...

Hey Christina, I find that when I take a sip of water it takes me a few seconds to recover as I've used up a valuable breath in the meantime. I try to take a gulp of water every 5 minutes or so - somehow I think I need a little more water as my mouth can feel so dry during the workout. Hopefully I won't get cramp..

I'm feeling much better, I'm glad to say. I guess the drugs are working. I woke up nice and early this morning and felt well enough to go to the Borough food market - it's this wonderful market in the heart of London, in Southwark, near London Bridge, and all sorts of food are sold there. I got 2 lovely dips - a butternut squash & libyan-style harissa, which I intend to have in my sandwiches during the week. Then I found this muesli seller - all her stuff's totally organic, and her combinations are just like I'd do them, so I spent a while chatting to her so she told me what shops she'd be supplying - she's won the Organic food awards - that's how good her stuff is. So I got some muesli from her, and some granola, which is totally fab! She gave me a few breakfast suggestions with said grains, so great all round! I also got some apple & elderflower juice (I'm such a sucker for elderflower ANYTHING)

The weather was still great so I decided to go get a couple of books from this shop at Covent Garden. But on the way I stopped off at the Royal Albert Hall, and there was this full-blown festival to celebrate its relaunch after 2 years of refurbishment. It was soooo cool. I think I fell in love with London all over again - it's things like this that make me remember just why I moved here in the first place.. A weekend-long festival with thousands of performances stretching into the night. I'll be going back tomorrow after the Walk, if I feel well enough..

Ok - so I'm back home now reading Persuasion and watching the food channel - I can hear the train rumbling in the distance and children playing outside, and the sky is..well, not so blue, but still quite scenic. The perfect Saturday..

Ok, enough of all this mushiness - I need to get packed for this Walk tomorrow. I've exceeded my target so I'm well chuffed - even my boss (the DG of the company I work for) made a donation, which I totally didn't expect! I'm going to wear the bottoms I use at the gym for the walk - I thought it'd be too expensive to buy a whole new pair of walking trousers. I don't like wearing jogging or training bottoms anywhere but the gym, but I guess I have no choice. It's just the fruit I need to sort out - wouldn't want to have to visit the bathroom during the walk...shucks - going to get packed..

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

PS: Just saw your message MissJellyBelly - cheers! I want a nice butt and nice thighs like JLo, Beyonce, Amerie so I'll work my butt off (pun intended he he) to get it.. At first my knees couldn't take it either, but my personal trainer showed me a way of taking excess pressure off them so I'm able to do them. I'm sure you can do them too, but I'd say ask a professional to show you how, cos apparently if you do it wrongly, you can damage your posture (that's what I heard, honestly)
 
Sounds like a beautiful day in your neck of the woods, and I loved the way you described the scene, thanks for sharing that with us. :jump: Keep up the good work, your doing a great job. I hope your day tomorrow is just as nice!
Kim
 
I agree, that was a beautiful description, thanks for my mini daydream! That market sounds perfect, I desperately wish I had a farmers market or something like that available near me. The closest I have to that is Joe Patti's (haha COUNTRY!), where you can buy local fresh fish. It is definitely not as cool as organic muesli or fruits. The natural foods store around here is so expensive and out of my way at that.

Your walk is tomorrow,that's awesome! I'm so happy you're feeling better, it was a fantastic idea to take some time off before the 10k (it is 10k right?) I hope you have fun and that the weather cooperates...can't wait to hear about it! Have a nice night Rho :)
 
Thanks guys - the weather's been very good this weekend. Today was especially hot!

You're right Sara - the markets here are quite something.. I guess I'm pretty used to them by now, but there's just so much you can get from them.

I just got back from the walk. Man, I'm so bushed I can hardly keep my eyes open! I'm really tired after that walk. To be honest it went great! I didn't even feel the strain. I'm pretty sure I could have done twice the distance... My friend was keen to burn some fat, so we both finished the 10K in little over 2 hours.

The scenery was pretty cool - we walked past Buckingham Palace, Whitehall, the London Eye, Westminster Bridge, St James Park, the list goes on and on.. When we returned we were given medals and I was interviewed by the MC of the event about what my favourite part of the Walk was. I don't know if the event was televised - either way I had a lot of fun. A dance singer and a comedian performed on stage, but I left not too long after - the sun was killing me, even with sunscreen (which my friend thoughfully brought along - I foolishly thought I wouldn't need it with my dark skin...how stupid is that)

So I'm pretty tired now and with a lot of work to do on my project...I think I'll take a little nap before carrying on with my work.

So that's it - the 10K is under my belt. It's not half as stressful as I thought it'd be - my legs don't even ache! Ok - to bed now..
 
Rho that is fantastic! Congrats! You guys kept up the 3.0 mph throughout the city, which is great, and it sounds like it was really fun. Good for you! I hope you get some good rest tonight :)
 
I'm so glad you don't have to worry about the 10k walk! Good job!

About the whole water thing, I think it's true that it takes a few secs to recover from taking the sip because it takes away from the breathing. I think that once we get more fit, that won't happen, lol.

I've never heard about elderflower before... it sounds like something from a fantasy novel or something, lol.

Anyways, keep up the awesome work with your walk!
 
Congratulations on the walk!
I'm sure you could have done (and will do in the future) twice that distance. I'm glad that you found this experience easier than expected. Half of it is hard work you did preparing for this and the other half is that you have more in you than you ever gave yourself credit for. So ENJOY the feeling! :)
Julie
 
Oh you guys! Thanks!!

Sara, it feels great to have completed it in less time than I expected, and yes, it was a whole heap of fun. Everyone sorta got into the spirit of things, and there were a few other charity events so we ended up intersecting at times and we'd all wave our arm bands at one another, which was funny.. I didn't get as much rest as I wanted last night, unfortunately. A friend of mine came in from out of town and it was my only chance to see him, so I ended up getting to bed quite late..Ah well, there's always tonight.. It's funny how 3mph in the gym seems so stressful compared to 3mph out on the road...

Christina, thanks! I wonder how fit one has to be before being able to recover easily from taking a sip! I wonder how those long distance marathon runners do it. Their lungs must be well exercised - it's a good goal to work towards though.. I hadn't heard of elderflower before England either.. But you're right - it sure sounds like something from a fantasy novel, along with fields of poppies and picking blueberries and stuff..

Hey Juliette, it is totally my intention to do twice that distance in the near future. I told my walking companion about you and the distances that you do, and she was just as wowed. She wants to do more walks too, so I guess you've made a convert.
When I woke up yesterday my knee was playing up, but I decided to ignore it and hope the pain would go away. Thankfully we had a warm up session before setting off (this Gladiator guy called Waininga, I think his name is) so the pain disappeared...or maybe I just forgot about it in all the excitement. It's pretty obvious I can't do the 100K next month - I'm just not fit enough. But I will be fit enough for it next year.
 
Today is not a good day. From the moment I woke up I knew it was going to be terrible.

I feel blue.. not even trying to rid myself of the negative feelings cos I know they'll only flow back. Crud.
 
Congrats Rho on completing the 10K. That's awesome!

I do a 10K every spring in Charleston, SC and would love to do them more often. My goal for myself is to do a triathalon next year. Not an iron woman or anything like that!

I hope your day gets better!
 
Hey Rho, I'm really sorry you're feeling terrible. Hopefully it'll pass quickly, but I know it sucks. :hug2: Think about what you accomplished yesterday, you completed a seriously impressive goal. I'm hoping you feel better soon.
 
Hey Rho! Yeah, I always wondered how fit you have to be too for the water thing and even though I've lost 50 some pounds, I'm not fit, lol. So my goal is to get fit, life just gets in the way of that sometimes, lol.

It would be awesome to see you do the 100k next year, that would be like the ultimate goal! It's definately a good idea to train on it for a while, you don't want to do something that huge when the body isn't ready for it.

I'm sorry you're having a bad day. I had a similar day too. I hate those days that turn out horrible esp when you knew it would. Sometimes I think maybe it turns out that way because we think it will, but I had a lot of crappy things happen that I couldn't help which made it horrible... so I know it's not my negative thinking, lol.

I hope you're feeling better tomorrow!
 
Thanks guys.

I know I should feel proud of having done the walk. But I feel a sense of anticlimax. I don't know - maybe it's because most of my friends forgot (even though I kept sending reminders), and I barely got any calls afterwards to find out how it went (but the friend I did the walk with kept getting encouraging text messages during and after). Plus work sucks so much right now - my contract expires in August but I'm thinking of quitting right from now to get away from horrible people and so I can focus on myself - my health, my exercise, and my disseration, which just doesn't want to end!!

I guess I just feel really empty and extra sensitive. People's words seem to hurt so much. I probably need to get back to the gym. But my back hurts.. result of not having got much sleep both last night and the night of the Walk plus being on my feet all day at work yesterday). Been feeling this way for a while, but feeling became more pronounced when my best friend left... ah well.. off to meeting now
 
Rho I'm sorry your friends didn't check up on you after! Most of the time people are just wrapped up in their own world and it sucks. I'm sorry that they didn't lend support. I still can't talk to my best friends in the world about getting healthy and exercise and such because I think they feel like I'm trying to convert them or something. Some people just don't like hearing about the healthy endeavors of their friends or family, I'm not saying that's what is happening in your situation but it's something that I've come to realize. Once your back feels better you should absolutely get to the gym to raise up your own morale. I sort of understand why people say they need to go to the gym now, because I do feel like I need to get there, and once I'm done, I feel proud. Everyday! It's hard because I'm sensitive too so I do understand...I wish your friend was still there! Okay I'll stop rambling, I hope that today turns out better for you :hug2:
 
I hope the sad funk has passed on by Rho... :hug2: If not, ride it out and you'll be back feeling good soon I know it! Hope you had a nice day today!
 
Where are you, Rho?
I hope the sadness will pass. I know the empty feeling. It comes always when you really prepare and look forward to something, and it seldom lives up to the huge expectations. At least the feeling afterwards doesn't. It takes some time to really understand what you've done and how far you've gotten.
I also know how stupid it feels, when no one is commenting on this huge thing you've achieved. But the most important thing is for YOU to appreciate what you've done YOURSELF! It will come, just try and see!
Hope to see you soon! :)
Julie
 
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