Groovybabe

The internet seems to have died now that it is the weekend so I will make it my job to fill the void, lol.

I am just back from a workout at the gym and, frankly, I feel fantastic! It feels like the first workout in a while that has brushed the cobwebs away. I think the last few workouts I have gone the day after I took a sleeping pill and my muscles were not fully active. Yesterday I purposefully didn’t take a sleeping pill so that I could get the most out of my workout, even if it did mean The Worst Sleep Ever and being awake until 4am.

But today was fabulous. I was able to work much harder on the cross trainer today. The last few times I have been struggle to maintain 60 but today 60 was the minimum and I was doing 65 (the target my instructor has given me) for the most part, at one point I even hit 70, which I have never done before.

When I started exercising, probably five months ago now I took the fit test on the treadmill and it resulted in telling me that my VO2 was “very low”. VO2 is the “maximum capacity to transport and utilize oxygen during” exercise (see link). As someone who at the time was suffering from extreme panic attacks and was extremely worried about her failing health, this was a very conscious concern. Well today I re-took the VO2 test after 5 months of rigiorous exercise and weight management and I was hoping it had at least gone up from “very low” to “low” but low-and-behold it came back at me as “average” or 32.5 (I think). How fantastic is that? That has given me a spring in my strep ever since.

Then I did some jogging again. For a few sessions I have avoided it as my left knee plays up sometimes when I jog. But today I went for it and did 4 minutes spaced over a 20 minute workout and the endorphins I was so desperately seeking found my brain again! I’ve been really down in the dumps for days and feel much much better now, I cannot tell you. Although I think my slump has been hormone-led, as I should come on in a week or so, I am also certain the fact that I have reduced my workouts in the past week have played a part. Since I have been working out my moods have been much more even, not so many dips and peaks, and this past week I have been lower than I have since I started losing weight. It has got to be my seretonin levels reducing from less aerobic working out (due to all the walking, which I have found out is 4 miles per day, I have reduced the workouts to make the exercise managable). I have now decided my workout days will be Monday, Thursday and Saturday, just because that is easier to manage than Mon, Wed, Fri.

I decided to watch The Break Up last night to indulge in my bad mood and help me to get to sleep but the film was so stressful! I ended up worrying more than before I turned it on! I have been invited out tonight but am staying in as I have a blood test on Tuesday and I want something other than alcohol showing up in my blood, lol! This will be my third weekend in! Gosh, I am such a martyr!

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