This IS Me.

ZooMT with Rhiannon, originally uploaded by elizabethwickland.

This is a picture from last weekend. This is what I look like. I'm not huge, but I would like to be smaller. It's true. The thought of trying to lose weight right now overwhelms me, though, so I'm not going to strive for it.

I did talk to my mom today, though, and we're going to encourage each other to walk 3 days a week. That's a start. I walked yesterday. I was going to walk today, but was running to and fro all day and then had company for dinner, so I missed the conference call I usually walk during.

3 times this week. That is my aim. One down, two to go.

This is not me.

Aerial Dance, originally uploaded by elizabethwickland.

But this IS what I learned how to do in Aerial Dance today!! This has been on my list of things I want to learn - and today I did!

I haven't been feeling my best again lately (like, the last few days) and today I really felt it. I just felt exhausted before we even started in Aerial Dance. It was a good class, but I definitely didn't push myself. It was kind of sad. Then I came home, ate a little lunch, and took a 3 hour nap. That is unlike me! I'm just hoping that when I go back on my progesterone in 2 days my energy levels will pick up again! The vitamins are definitely helping, and my energy levels didn't drop off for the whole two weeks this time, just a couple days, but it really stinks when they do drop off!

On a related note, our insurance decided that my doctor appointments to get this stuff figured out are not worthy of being covered by insurance, so I don't know where we'll go from here. I may just stick with vitamins. Really, there should be exercise involved, too, but I just can't seem to make myself do it. And I don't know how to make myself want to. It's frustrating.

So... I'll stick to Aerial Dance once a week for now and enjoy it. It turns out it really is helping, and I am developing strength I didn't have before! Plus, it's really fun, and I get to do things I never thought I could.

Treadmill Desk

I walked on my treadmill desk again tonight during the pacesetters call. It works very well!! I listen to the call on Skype and I can type notes as I walk. Tonight I managed to up my speed to 3mph and still be able to type just fine. Woohoo! I walked for a total of an hour and burned 270 calories. Not a bad way to get a workout!

Vitamin Regimen

I went to the Dr. today about my hormone imbalances and one of the things she did was put me on a vitamin regimen. I haven't been taking any vitamins lately, so I'm sure getting back on some will help with my energy levels! She suggested a B-Complex, plus additional B-12, D, Prenatal, and Calcium, and I used to take Omega-3, and that is fine. Because a couple of the vitamins overlap, I figured I should record somewhere what the amounts I'm getting are... The first value is from the prenatal multivitamin, the next is from another vitamin.

Vitamin A - 4,000 IU

Vitamin C - 100 mg + 150 mg + 6 mg = 256 mg

Vitamin D - 400 IU + 1000 IU + 200 IU = 1600 IU

Vitamin E - 11 IU + 1.5 IU = 12.5 IU

Thiamin - 1.5 mg + 100 mg = 101.5 mg

Riboflavin - 1.7 mg + 20 mg = 21.7 mg

Niacin - 18 mg + 25 mg = 43 mg

Vitamin B6 - 2.6 mg + 2 mg = 4.6 mg

Folic Acid - 800 mcg + 400 mcg = 1200 mcg

Vitamin B12 - 4 mcg + 15 mcg + 1000 mcg = 1019 mcg

Calcium - 200 mg + 200 mg = 400 mg

Iron - 27 mg

Zinc - 25 mg

Biotin - 30 mcg

Pantothenic Acid - 5.5 mg

Omega-3 - 200 mg

Phosphorus - 100 mg

Sodium - 10 mg

The vitamins that are tripled up on are C, D, and B12. B12 and C are water soluble, D is fat soluble, but the upper safe limit is 10,000 IU, so I think I'm safe there. =D Have to double check the doctors sometimes!!

Exercise

I did some exercise tonight, for the first time  in a LONG time, if you don't count aerial dance as exercise. 

You see, I set up a "desk" on my treadmill so I could put my computer and a notebook up here and I walked while listening to Meg's Pacesetters call. It was great! I got on the call a little early and we went a smidge long, so I ended up walking for a total of 80 minutes at 2 mph (any faster and I can't write or type well!) and burned 300 calories! It doesn't even put a dent in the comfort food spree from today, but at least it is exercise and is a start. Now if I only had a conference call every night! =D 

I'm hoping to make good use of my treadmill desk. 

Sore Back

Today I seem to be stuck in bed, suffering from an unusually sore back. I don't know what I did, but after only about an hour up and about (and not even active, at that!) I am back in bed, resting on a heating pad.

But really, I figured I would follow up with last week's post about Aerial Dance with something unusual that happened the day after class last week.

I wasn't sore.

Really.

Normally, I have a good class day, try new things, push myself because it's so fun, and then cannot move the next day. I am ALWAYS sore the day after, and for a couple days at least. Last week? Not sore. Not even a little. Crazy.

So we'll see what happens in 2 weeks when I am back for class. I'm excited that the fact that I wasn't sore means that maybe, just maybe, I am building muscle! Woohoo!

Now if only I could kick this new Chex Turtle "granola" bar habit that I have formed...

Giddy, Giddy, Giddy...

We had our last class of the series today in Aerial Dance. I am always SO GIDDY by the end of class! I start out all normal-like, and end up with a big ol' stupid grin plastered across my face! My endurance is building, as are my strength and flexibility, which just make class even more fun!

The best part is that the next session starts up in 2 weeks, so I don't even have to wait long in between sessions - I missed one last year, so the first was in January, the second was in May (?) and this was my third. Now I can just jump right into the 4th session and not even have to go through the first week of trying to remember how to do things!! I'm so excited!

Today, for the first time, I got myself up into a sitting position on the trapeze while "flying" (swinging back and forth) and did a series of poses while flying! It was so fun! I'm really looking forward to the next session and learning a lot more!

Now if I could only manage to do something during the week to continue to work on my flexibility and strength - that would be good, too. =D