Racquetball + Weight

I went to my racquetball class for the first time in two-and-a-half weeks. (I hadn't been feeling well, so I didn't go.) I told my teacher that I had been sick and that my immune system sucks, and he told me I should look into taking Vitamin D3 supplements. Have any of you taken them?

Also, I weighed myself at the gym for the first time in over a month. 140.5 pounds. Pretty normal. Need to get back on track if I want to lose that 20.5 pounds to hit my first goal weight.

On Being Sick, the Full Story

This might get long; we'll see how it goes.

Last Saturday, I started having horrible muscle cramps in my stomach. My arms and legs felt bruised. The cramping was so bad I spent Saturday and Sunday on my couch. Even just walking down the hall to the elevator left me winded and doubled over in pain. I was also in the bathroom constantly, if you know what I mean. Eating was almost impossible, as my stomach hurt horribly whenever I ate anything or drank something cold. So that was my weekend.

Enter Monday. Since I hadn't been able to do anything all weekend, I told myself I'd do something this day. I went to my Jazz dance class and forced myself through it. I went to my work-study (and got to see my two teachers rehearse again). And I went to work, though I had to leave early because I felt sicker and sicker as time went on.

Tuesday. Still sick. Sat out on my ballet class, which was sad since it would've been a fun class.

Wednesday morning I went into the university clinic to make a doctor's appointment. That afternoon, I met with a nurse and found out that I was down to 138 pounds. 138! Yikes! As much as that number is deliciously low, I'd like to get there by my own wishes, not because of a virus. Yup, the doctor said I most likely have a virus causing the inflammation of my gastrointestinal lining. Basically, I have the flu, but with the added bonus of it being horribly painful when I eat.

So now I'm forcing myself to eat. Still not as much as a healthy person should, but I'm trying to keep from having my weight drop any more until I get better. Losing weight isn't good for recovering.

There we are. I'm working on recovering. Once I'm feeling better, I'll be posting more often.

Exercise + Food + Faire

I went to the gym again today. When I weighed myself before the work-out, I was down to 141.5 pounds! I'm certainly over that now, since I went out to eat with Boyfriend and a friend afterwards, but I spent 40 minutes straight on the elliptical without feeling tired. It was wonderful.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to the Renaissance Faire (like Boyfriend and I do every year with friends) but I don't really feel like it this year. I have nothing to wear and I'm feeling sick. And after going for so many years straight, there's nothing new to see. And I have hundreds (thousands?) of pictures from the faire, so even that isn't a reason to go. I'm thinking I might skip out to do stuff around the apartment and spend some more time at the gym. Now, to think of a way to tell Boyfriend that I don't want to go.

Sorry, again.

It's been almost a month since I've posted. Yikes! So sorry!

Anyways, classes started two days ago, and I'm still sore. My ballet teacher is super nice and the other classes I had that day were enjoyable too. And I've hardly eaten anything. The nice thing about a busy schedule is that you can just say, "Oh, no time to eat now!" or "I'll grab something after my next class" and no one questions it.

I just got back from the university gym. The first thing I did was slip off my shoes and sweater and make my way to the big scale at the back of the locker room.

142 pounds.

Hells yes.

Sure, it's not nearly as much as I was hoping, but I was worried that all my summer bingeing would leave me over what I was when summer started. But that's not the case. And with 5 hours of dance and 2 hours of racquetball a week, as well as whatever dance classes I can make it to at the studio I work at and whatever various classes I can make it to at the gym on weekends, I should be burning calories like it's going out of style this semester.

We can do it!

More Weight Loss

I am, as of last night, at 145.6 pounds.

Weight Loss!

I'm down another 1/3 pound! 146, baby! And the gym's open until 10 tonight, so I'm going to head back up there later today. I was just feeling dizzy without food, so I came home to grab a slice of pizza and a bottle of water.

Stay skinny!

Down Some More!

I went back up to the gym for about another hour, and when I weighted myself before leaving, I was down to 146.3! Another 1/3 pound gone! And I tried a new stair-stepping machine that I like a lot. I wish I had this much time to work out every day. I'd be in shape so quickly.

Gym + Finally Down!

I just got back from the gym! And when I weighed myself, I nearly cried in joy. 146.6! It's not great, but it's a start. I'm finally down! And I'm planning on going back up there later, as I forgot my racquetball equipment before.

Also, I forgot that the dance auditions were today. I wasn't auditioning at these ones (I'm going in June), but it was weird to see so many people on campus on the weekend. Especially when you add in the mess of young kids at the gym for a kids' track meet.