(W)Eight » Injuries http://zippygirl.org A kilo a week in 2007! Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:44:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Frustrated http://zippygirl.org/2006/10/25/frustrated/ http://zippygirl.org/2006/10/25/frustrated/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:09:48 +0000 Jenne http://zippygirl.org/2006/10/25/frustrated/ I’m so frustrated.

Last week, I had two good runs.  One was a hilly run of about half an hour.  The other was on a track– I wanted to see whether I could run a mile without stopping and how long it would take me.  (Yes, 11 minutes.)  Then, my hip started to hurt.  My good hip (the left one.)  So I haven’t been able to run since– I can barely walk without pain.  I’m so tired of getting hurt any time I make any kind of progress whatsoever.  Considering I’ve been running since April and have been working up slowly, I definitely don’t think it’s too much too soon.
Then, my weight today was 5 kilos higher than yesterday.  I don’t even know how that could be possible, but my scale is usually dead accurate.  My jeans are tighter too.

I’m also frustrated because I can’t break my addictive behavior.  Whenever I manage to successfully break an unhealthy addiction, I immediately replace it with another.  I quit pop, but started drinking soy lattes.  Quit candy, but doubled up on coffee.  Why am I so self-destructive?

When am I going to get it together?

Plus, today, I saw pictures of myself.  I HATE seeing myself in pictures.  Why does seeing myself in pictures and mirrors make me want to cry?  How can I learn to take care of myself and love myself when I make myself sick?

]]> http://zippygirl.org/2006/10/25/frustrated/feed/ 0 Back from the Pool http://zippygirl.org/2006/03/05/back-from-the-pool/ http://zippygirl.org/2006/03/05/back-from-the-pool/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:50:31 +0000 Jenne http://zippygirl.org/2006/03/05/back-from-the-pool/ I’m back from the pool.  Spent about 45 minutes treading water– I can’t find my goggles.  I’ve ordered prescription goggles, though.  They’ll be here in about a week or so.  I was kind of disappointed.  I would have worn my flowered swim cap if I knew I wasn’t going to be doing laps.  After we got home, I did the exercises in this article to work on my IT Band.  I hope to get that strengthened and get strong enough to be able to start running in a couple of months.  Until then, I realized I can get to the pool for at least half an hour six days a week, so I’m going to try to do that.  Starting with about 10 laps a day, working up to about 45 minutes of swimming.  When my IT Band is better, I’ll start doing some time on the elliptical.

Weigh-in is tomorrow.  I suspect I won’t have a loss.

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I’m going to swim for a few weeks and try to work up to the elliptical.

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