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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

I Feel Awesome!

I had a great day yesterday. Ended up with 5-32oz glasses of water. I've never peed so much. But, know what? I feel really good. My energy is coming back and I feel really good. The scale is starting to budge. I have my official weigh in tomorrow. Of course for the DDDY challenge, we weigh on Sunday.  Seems like things are working.

Today I returned to Tae Kwon Do. I remembered that I really really really like it. I remembered most of the moves.  I also was reminded about how hard it is. I am certainly the fattest person in the room, by far. But I kept up and did everything. Yeah me!  For warm up we: jog in place, jumping jacks, lots and lots of hard stretching in various positions, 60 sit ups, 40 leg lifts, 20 push ups, kicking, lots more stretches.

The leg lifts are hardest for me for sure. You remember this torture well known to PE teachers world wide. I remember having to do these in gym class and practically crying because I couldn't do them and when I did it hurt so bad. In TKD, we do 20 straight leg up and down and then 20 where you raise, lower half way, hold and then back up in the air without touching the ground. I did it. I had to put my legs down only once which I feel is a HUGE victory considering how long I've been out.

I was sweating like a beast. Thank God for good deodorant.  Turns out the other people in my class have moved up in belts since I was there so it was just me and one other white belt. She didn't know much of the material yet, so I actually ended up helping to teach her. We did our breaking holds and kicking drills. And our basic form. I found out I know pretty much all the material I need to test for yellow belt. GREAT news since getting my yellow belt is one of my Hot 100 goals. The test is on the 19th of November, so I'll be practicing. The kids will find it hilarious to see their Mommy test for a change.

I had forgotten how good it feels to punch and kick something really hard. (Yes. I do have anger issues.) It's really great stress relief. I was so happy when class was over. Mainly because I was tired, but also because I was proud of myself for going back. It would have been so easy to not go back, to let it go. It would have been easy to let them all think I was too fat for the class. BUT, that's not me. Not anymore. The fact that that's what people might be thinking about why I wasn't in class anymore just chapped my ass. I pranced in there today like I owned the place and believe me, there were some surprised faces.  The skinny chick next to me couldn't do all the push-ups. She had to convert to "girlie" ones after about 5. I did ALL TWENTY. Ha ha.  One small victory for fat chicks everywhere!

My diet has been great today. I had yogurt and a banana for breakfast. Lunch was a lean cuisine ravioli meal and another banana-potassium for the muscles.  For snack I've had an apple and an orange. Dinner will be salad and veggies and I'm not sure what but Nanny's cooking. I've got plenty of calories left. I've had 5-32oz glasses of water today already. And it still tastes good. I'm definitely changing. Today I noticed that I can almost get my wedding rings on my middle finger now. I'll be measuring tomorrow.

So what have you done lately that you thought you couldn't do? What have you done that OTHERS thought you couldn't do? What are you doing to take your active lifestyle "out of the box" of the walk, run,  bike, gym, norm?

18 comments:

  1. Way to go, Dr. F. I'm happy to hear that you're back on track and working hard. If you can exercise like you have been, you're baaack!

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  2. Good evening dear Dr. Just wanted to stop by and tell you I'm from Allan's Double Dog Dare Challenge. I have been enjoying reading your blog and am very impressed to see all the great work you're doing. There's more I'm going to read so I'll get going.
    Take care and have a great and blessed evening. By the way, you go girl!!

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  3. Congrats on a great day!!!! Happy to read this post!

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  4. What an inspiring post..Way to go gf, and awesome job on the push ups! Can't wait to hear you got your yellow belt..

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  5. I got my black belt it TKD- it is a serious stress reliver- glad to year you're back at it!! And all that kicking will give you a great booty!!! I miss my TKD booty ;-)

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  6. How cool! I didn't know they had TKD for adults. I see TKD places all over our area. When I get down to a more reasonable obeseness or overweight even, I will look into this. It sounds fun. And yes, I remember those PE leg lifts. Good for you! Have fun.

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  7. that last paragraph freaked me out! I was literally just thinking, two minutes before I came to check blogs and post mine that I wanted to go find a dvd workout at Wal Mart just to change the pace once or twice a week! Weird!

    Great job chick!! I loved this post from beginning to end! DOC IS BACK!!

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  8. Feeling good about punching and kicking stuff, now that is something I can see myself getting into. Keep peeing and punching; I think in that order.

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  9. You're down a few pounds, but enough about the Cowboys coaching change! Seriously, looks like you're again pushing ahead. Keep it going. Thought of you as I'm giving Sam Bradford his first start in my fantasy league.

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  10. That's awesome that you are taking TKD.

    My son takes Kung Fu and I've often thought about trying a trial class once I've gotten to a happier, healthier weight.

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  11. Your food today sounds spot-on! Great job with it! And the Tae Kwon Do sounds great...I'm so glad that you're back at it! I was worried that you'd give it up because of the lull after surgery. It really sounds like a great stress reliever for you. I really admire the way that you get your exercise in during the middle of the day. That's so hard to do for most working people, but you pull it off seemingly effortlessly.
    Christine
    www.phoenixrevolution.net

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  12. That is totally awesome! I took TKD as a teen and I loved it! Maybe I'll start back up; it really was a good/hard work out. The kiddos have been bugging me to start. I'm sure I'll get alot of snickers, but who cares.

    Good for you for showing that skinny chick up. Did you scream Boo-yah after you finished?

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  13. You are tough! I don't think I could do 20 push-ups. But you also recently advised me to get past my own negative thinking, which I am working on.

    So, to answer your final question above? I'm going to do a 10k in January. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  14. I'm dusting off the weight bench, Doc. Got to firm up all this loose skin around my boobs. ;-)

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  15. One of the tangible ways that I felt the difference was in the last day when I was traveling. You know how you schlep stuff through airports and terminals. Well, I had my laptop, a roller bag, and a small backpack. As I walked to different places at the airports, I was amazed at how easy it was to schlep the stuff around. I never felt tried or winded. Once I got to my destination, I had to drag all the stuff with me up a hill for about a kilometer. Yes, I was winded here, but still was overall very easy to navigate. I could feel the difference in my own stamina. Plus, the airplane seatbelt was way loser and I just felt like I had much more room in my seat. It was a great feeling to be able to do these things that I never looked forward to before.

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  16. I was just talking to my coworker yesterday about wanting to do something like this! I think I may look into finding something similar to boxing or tkd for the kinext! Thanks for the inspiration!

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