I suppose it doesnt help that I was woken up numerous times during my sleep last night with cramps in my legs from bowling on Friday. Bowling is great fun and a tremendous amount of exercise when youre doing it for two hours straight but the toll it took on me over the weekend was pretty severe. Ive had leg cramps in my sleep, my thighs were burning and Ive even gotten a couple of muscle spasms in my back. Today is really the first day that Ive felt like I could go up and down a flight of stairs without my thighs burning & locking up from the muscle tension.
Maybe I need a massage. I have a $25 SpaFinder.com gift card that I have yet to use... its very tempting! The real problem with that is that my normal LMTs are not on the SpaFinder.com list. I have three massage therapists that I have seen regularly (2-3x/year) for the past 5 or 6 years; Andrea from East Side Massage Therapy in Providence, an older Korean woman who has a massage therapy practice in North Providence on Mineral Spring Avenue, and my cousin Clothilde who just got her license last year and has an impressive deep tissue technique. I tried Massage Envy in Cranston once and will never go back. They attempted to up sell me after my massage with a package to get a massage every month. Not exactly relaxing to hear a sales pitch after your massage. So, if anyone can suggest any other LMTs in Rhode Island or Southeastern Massachusetts that I might find on that list, Id greatly appreciate it.
So other than lingering muscle aches and pains, my weekend went well! I made homemade Alfredo sauce for whole wheat penne when company was over for dinner Saturday night and I didnt even taste test it! I let them have at it and figured Id base whether the recipe was a keeper or not on their reactions. I may be on a diet but I still LOVE to cook! Thats been one of the biggest challenges for me with being on this diet... not cooking my favorite foods on a regular basis... or my favorite recipes for that matter. I have three ripe bananas in my freezer just waiting to make a banana bread but Im TERRIFIED of making it because I would either need to get it out of the house or freeze the bread itself for later use in order to not swallow it whole as soon as it came out of the oven. Maybe I can make it and donate it to my grandmothers church for their coffee hour.
Im still in ketosis, still drinking a gallon of water a day, still eating 600-700 calories of protein each day, and still attempting to exercise on a regular basis. I havent done much in the way of exercise since Fridays bowling but Im thinking that today after work will be a good time to get on my Wii Fit and try out the step aerobics with my new platform (making the step a full 4 inches). Im thinking maybe 15-20 minutes to start but I may need to switch off to something less leg-oriented if my muscles are still frozen up from bowling. Heres hoping for another 2+ lbs lost after this week. Im over 10% of the way to my goal already!
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