It's official. I am suffering from a torn Plantar Fascia. In other words Plantar Fasciitis. My foot is feeling much better than it was when I arrived at the podiatrist's office a month ago. I was happy to hear the diagnosis. My doctor made me promise that I would continue icing, tensing, rolling, exercising, picking up marbles, picking up towels, working with elastic bands and stretching every day. It's like a full time job but I'm not going to complain because it's working. I even got the OK to start walking again. I'm to start out walking 15 minutes and work up to longer and longer walks. I'm going to put my orthotics in my shoes and take Rigby for a 15 minute walk as soon as I find out whether or not Tiger Woods makes the cut in the British Open.
On another note I am starting a new exercise class tomorrow. I am going to try Pilates. The Yoga Source gives a class on Saturday mornings and I've been looking for something new to kick start my program. I'm hoping this will be it. I hear it's a tough but rewarding class. I need some rewards.
My eating has been horrid. I'm afraid to get on the scale. I don't want to know what the bad news is. I know that Richard would tell me to just do it and face the music but I just can't do it. I want to try to get back on track and get in a little exercise before I face the bad news. I know it's going to be very, very bad. I don't really know why I'm eating so badly. Is it boredom? Maybe. Is it frustration? Maybe. Is it being out of work? Maybe? Is it all of the above? Maybe. I don't know but I do know that I've got to get a grip before I'm back at 225 pounds again.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
The First Day Of The Rest Of My Unemployed Life
Today is my first real day of being unemployed. I gotta tell you I am lovin' it. LOL I've decided that my new job will be taking care of me so for my first day of work I am going to report into my new office (my living room) and I am going to TRY to do one of Richard's videos. I say try because I am still dealing with heel pain due to my Plantar Fasciitis and Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome. I'm going to put in my orthodics and see what I can do. I'm thinking that I'll do Sweatin' To The Oldies 2. It is probably the easiest of Richard's videos but it also has some weight training and ab work at the end. Yep, I'm gonna start there.
I'm planning my meals today (thanks to Ang's summer challenge) so they will be as follows:
Breakfast-1/2 cup of eggbeaters with scallions and green onions, one piece of whole wheat toast and an orange.
Lunch-1 cup of veggie chili (lot of beans) with carrots, green peppers and one tbsp of low fat dressing.
Dinner-1 Morningstar Farms Chick Pattie, one cup of pasta with tomato sauce and cauliflower with ICBINBL spray.
Snacks-10 almonds and dried cranberries, an apple and string cheese.
Oh, this is good. A healthy plan for food and exercise will be done too (I hope). I may even throw some yoga in there for good measure.
What's the best part, you may ask? Well, there are two best parts. Best part number one is that I lost 2 pounds participating in Ang's Summer Challenge and best part number two and a really close second is that I don't have to go to work tonight. I'll be in Richard's chat. It's been a really long time since I've been able to make chat. Oh man, life is good.
On another note, I want to take a minute to congratulate Roger Federer for winning the French Open Tennis Tournament. I'm very happy for him. He's offically the best that ever lived and I am a fan. I also want to congratulate Tiger Woods for winning Jack's Tournament at Memorial Golf Course yesterday. He seems to be better than ever. Roger and Tiger are two of my guys and I'm happy to see them both win. I'm winning too!
I'm planning my meals today (thanks to Ang's summer challenge) so they will be as follows:
Breakfast-1/2 cup of eggbeaters with scallions and green onions, one piece of whole wheat toast and an orange.
Lunch-1 cup of veggie chili (lot of beans) with carrots, green peppers and one tbsp of low fat dressing.
Dinner-1 Morningstar Farms Chick Pattie, one cup of pasta with tomato sauce and cauliflower with ICBINBL spray.
Snacks-10 almonds and dried cranberries, an apple and string cheese.
Oh, this is good. A healthy plan for food and exercise will be done too (I hope). I may even throw some yoga in there for good measure.
What's the best part, you may ask? Well, there are two best parts. Best part number one is that I lost 2 pounds participating in Ang's Summer Challenge and best part number two and a really close second is that I don't have to go to work tonight. I'll be in Richard's chat. It's been a really long time since I've been able to make chat. Oh man, life is good.
On another note, I want to take a minute to congratulate Roger Federer for winning the French Open Tennis Tournament. I'm very happy for him. He's offically the best that ever lived and I am a fan. I also want to congratulate Tiger Woods for winning Jack's Tournament at Memorial Golf Course yesterday. He seems to be better than ever. Roger and Tiger are two of my guys and I'm happy to see them both win. I'm winning too!
Monday, December 8, 2008
GO GATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Kerry got accepted to the University of Florida we had no choice but to become Gators parents. Anytime I wear a UF shirt someone that I don't know in a mall or at a gas station passes me by and says "go gators". It's what you do when you are a gator or a gator parent. One time I was walking through the Luxor casino in Las Vegas wearing my screaming orange Gator shirt and someone from the top of the pyramid yelled "go gators" at me. I, of course, yelled back. Like I said, it's what you do when you are part of the gator nation.
Saturday night was the SEC championship football game to decide who was going to go to the national championship game. It was between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Florida Gators. It was a HUGE game especially around here in South Florida. One reason for this is that so many of our local kids are up at UF. It's the premier college in Florida and if you can get in you go. The kids all work their asses off all during high school trying to get into UF. If they have great grades, great SATs, great extra circulars, great essays, great letters of recommendations and happen to play a mean clarinet they get in. If not, if's FSU or UCF for them. All Kerry wanted was to go to UF and I am proud to say that she made it, not an easy task these days.
The other reason that this was such a huge game was we wanted, we needed, we had to kick Nick Saban's butt. Nick Saban is the coach for Alabama and a few years ago the Miami Dolphins lured him away from college football and hired him as our coach. He sucked as many college coaches do when they come to the NFL. That in itself wasn't so bad but as the media was giving him a hard time for being a sucky coach a rumor started that he was going to leave the Dolphins and go back to college. Even that wasn't so bad. We would have understood that but the corker was when the newspapers and TV people asked him outright "Hey Nick, are you leaving the Dolphins and going back to college?" he said "No, I'm here and you can count on me." Well, needless to say, the next day he was gone. He not only proved himself to be a crappy coach but he was also a liar. This was the real reason that we all wanted the Gators to beat the Crimson Tide. To kick their asses all over the field. To humiliate them.
The game started at 4:00 and I was ready. I was wearing my UF shirt in front of my big screen HDTV with Rigby dressed in two bandanas. One blue and one orange. He is, after all, a Gator dog. I don't remember being this excited about a sporting event since Jimmy Connors played his last US Open or maybe Tiger Woods playing his last US Open. No, this was more important. We HAD to win.
It was a very exciting game. Tim Tebow, our superman quarterback, played his ass off as all of our Gator kids did. The lead changed 4 or 5 times. I sat on the bed yelling and screaming and finally the game was over and the Gators poured a huge vat of Gatorade and ice over Coach Urban Meyer's head. We had won. It was not the ass kicking that we all had hoped for but just winning was good enough. Nick Saban had been sent packing with his head down low and us Gators? We are going to the national championship game in Miami of all places. We will be playing the Oklahoma Sooners on January 8.
By the way, the Dolphins won yesterday without Nick Saban and are now leading the division so yeah, GO Dolphins and GO GATORS!!!!!!!
Saturday night was the SEC championship football game to decide who was going to go to the national championship game. It was between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Florida Gators. It was a HUGE game especially around here in South Florida. One reason for this is that so many of our local kids are up at UF. It's the premier college in Florida and if you can get in you go. The kids all work their asses off all during high school trying to get into UF. If they have great grades, great SATs, great extra circulars, great essays, great letters of recommendations and happen to play a mean clarinet they get in. If not, if's FSU or UCF for them. All Kerry wanted was to go to UF and I am proud to say that she made it, not an easy task these days.
Kerry playing at her junior recital.
The other reason that this was such a huge game was we wanted, we needed, we had to kick Nick Saban's butt. Nick Saban is the coach for Alabama and a few years ago the Miami Dolphins lured him away from college football and hired him as our coach. He sucked as many college coaches do when they come to the NFL. That in itself wasn't so bad but as the media was giving him a hard time for being a sucky coach a rumor started that he was going to leave the Dolphins and go back to college. Even that wasn't so bad. We would have understood that but the corker was when the newspapers and TV people asked him outright "Hey Nick, are you leaving the Dolphins and going back to college?" he said "No, I'm here and you can count on me." Well, needless to say, the next day he was gone. He not only proved himself to be a crappy coach but he was also a liar. This was the real reason that we all wanted the Gators to beat the Crimson Tide. To kick their asses all over the field. To humiliate them.
The game started at 4:00 and I was ready. I was wearing my UF shirt in front of my big screen HDTV with Rigby dressed in two bandanas. One blue and one orange. He is, after all, a Gator dog. I don't remember being this excited about a sporting event since Jimmy Connors played his last US Open or maybe Tiger Woods playing his last US Open. No, this was more important. We HAD to win.
Gator Rigby
It was a very exciting game. Tim Tebow, our superman quarterback, played his ass off as all of our Gator kids did. The lead changed 4 or 5 times. I sat on the bed yelling and screaming and finally the game was over and the Gators poured a huge vat of Gatorade and ice over Coach Urban Meyer's head. We had won. It was not the ass kicking that we all had hoped for but just winning was good enough. Nick Saban had been sent packing with his head down low and us Gators? We are going to the national championship game in Miami of all places. We will be playing the Oklahoma Sooners on January 8.
By the way, the Dolphins won yesterday without Nick Saban and are now leading the division so yeah, GO Dolphins and GO GATORS!!!!!!!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Hurt shoulders and burned hands
I had a really strange dream on Saturday night. I was in the middle of a riot. Why were the people rioting you might ask? They were rioting because Tiger Woods had decided to quit playing golf forever. Now I can understand rioting about that. After all what fun is golf without Tiger prowling around the course being all winning and hot? It's enough to make anyone riot. The problem came when the rioting people stole Kerry's car. This really upset me in my dream. I started to make noise and move around in my sleep. I woke Pat out of a dead sleep. He tried to wake me but I was completely into this dream and couldn't seem to come out of it.
I sleep on my side/stomach with my arm underneath my head. I remember waking up but hearing a really strange noise coming from my left shoulder as I was coming to consciousness. Now I can't seem to move it much. Not a good thing. I was injured in the Tiger Woods riots.
Yesterday I was cooking chicken Parmesan for Pat and when I was reaching into the oven my hand touched one of the oven racks. I hit the ceiling. I spent the whole night with ice on my hand. My right hand.
So what does this mean? First of all, I hope my dream doesn't come true. I would miss Tiger Woods and I might have to riot. Second, I have a bum left shoulder and a burned right hand. At least I'm balanced being hurt on both right and left sides. Work should be lots of fun tonight.
The Tiger Woods Fist Pump
I sleep on my side/stomach with my arm underneath my head. I remember waking up but hearing a really strange noise coming from my left shoulder as I was coming to consciousness. Now I can't seem to move it much. Not a good thing. I was injured in the Tiger Woods riots.
Yesterday I was cooking chicken Parmesan for Pat and when I was reaching into the oven my hand touched one of the oven racks. I hit the ceiling. I spent the whole night with ice on my hand. My right hand.
So what does this mean? First of all, I hope my dream doesn't come true. I would miss Tiger Woods and I might have to riot. Second, I have a bum left shoulder and a burned right hand. At least I'm balanced being hurt on both right and left sides. Work should be lots of fun tonight.
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