Not Lost

I had begun to write this entry… then thought it was lost so I didn’t have the energy to try to rewrite… so here it is….
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From last Tuesday:
I’m officially on vacation now. We leave tomorrow as soon as we are finished with the gym. Yep, we are going to the gym tomorrow… we get one day off and then we’ll actually be going to the gym while on vacation… This is some serious ish my peeps! LOL I’m going to the gym on vacation. LOL

I’m so happy to be on vacation though. Actually, I worked from home today so I got a lot done to prepare for leaving tomorrow. I didn’t plan on staying home, but I locked up my SI joint again. We went Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUPing) on Saturday, which by the way was UNBELIEVABLY fun!!, and then after that we went to the gym. The first exercise was barbell squats and by the end of my first set, I felt the pain. All through the workout, I kept getting down on the floor, trying to loosen it up, but I kinda figured I was doomed. So, I decided to stay home today and get into the chiro that Mich works for right away instead of waiting 3 weeks like last time. He said it was good not to wait. He also suspects I have low-grade fibromyalgia. Great. Well, its actually something that’s I’ve suspected for a long time, but I’m not going to go to the doctor and have them put me on all kinds of medication, so I just deal with it… So, I’m back to taking lots of antioxidants and he actually said the best diet to be on is the one for your blood type which I did for like 3 weeks and had great success with, so I’ll go back on that as well. I also had him look at my foot… the one that’s been hurting for a year (do you sense a theme here?) and he said that I have a "dropped metatarsal" which is also pinching the nerve…
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So, this is me now, almost a week later. We didn’t actually got to the gym on vacation. We brought our clothes and had good intentions to go, but didn’t end up doing it… We did however, spend 6 hours at the spa!

It was a nice little get away.  A nice visit with my mom. We spent so much time in Lake Placid. I didn’t know how to keep Mich from wanting to go there on Wednesday without giving away that we would be there Thursday… so we went and watched the ski-jumping exhibitions and went to the top of the 120 ft ski jump and then did a tiny bit of window shopping in town. Thursday we went back and like I said spent 6 hours at the spa… We had a meh message and fantastic facials… then lounged until our lunch came. After which, we went into the sauna and then showered and got our bathing suites on… then we went to the pool and hot tubs and basically decided not to use the gym even though we were allowed to. After we wandered around the hotel and found free cookies and popcorn LOL we finally showered again and checked out… It was a very very relaxing day and Mich was surprised and very happy to soak up the luxuriousness of it all.

Friday was our only real day to spend with my mom… we opted to take a short walk to a waterfall instead of going to the gym and had lunch with my parents before heading back to the house for a super long nap. We had a light dinner and played yatzee and that was it. My mom had guests on Friday night so Saturday we actually got the full B&B breakfast and then we were off to head home. I’m glad we came home on Saturday because I really needed this day to relax.

So, we are back in full force after a little 3 day break from the gym. We are officially half way through our program and we’ve now started to count calories… so we’ll see how many changes occur over the next 6 weeks. And on a happy note… the chiropractor in addition to all the movement we did on vacation really has helped with my SI… I only feel little twinges of pain occasionally now. 🙂