Triple Digits, Baby!

It has been a couple weeks since I blogged. Too many weeks. After my last post, I had to focus on getting myself back on track. I'm not saying I didn't slip up. I'm not saying I was perfect. I wasn't. But, I did improve.

On Saturday, August 24th, I weighed myself. I was still a little down emotionally, after all,....I had still had about 7 pounds to go to reach 100 pounds. And, I had 7 days to do it if I was going to meet my goal. So I just determined that I was going to stay at the gym as long as I could physically muster it on Saturday. Five Hours. Four Thousand Calorie Workout. I. Did. It. I was so exhausted, I'm not going to lie. My friend Cynthia and I did our training sessions together on Saturday morning, so we met Danny at the gym at 6:30 a.m. There, he proceeded to give us one heck of a workout....wanna know what it was? Okay, I'll tell you. Fifty Chest Presses. One Hundred Lat Pulldowns. One Hundred Fifty Squats...while holding a 25 pound plate. It took us literally 45 minutes to complete that craziness. Man, we were sore, too! After that, we took a half-mile stroll/jog around the shopping center. The goal was to come in under 8 minutes (a record for me - my fastest is around 11). We made it in 9. So, then, we had to do sit-ups, since we didn't make it back in time. Oh well...we did 40 sit-ups, and then I continued to keep going to finish out my ab challenge. After that was complete, I worked out with another girl at the gym, Ally. That was a crazy workout. It was more of the chest and back (I think....it's all kinda blurry, honestly) with cardio intervals in between. But, we finished it. After that was over, I still had to do some cardio, so off to the elliptical I went. Grudgingly. I'm really not a fan of that machine. At. All. But, it gets the job done. When I was officially done with my cardio time, I was at 3,970 calories. That's just a weird number. I needed to finish out 4,000 calories as a personal best for me. So, I did. And you know what, I lived to tell the story. I could hardly walk on Sunday, but I lived.

Sunday was definitely a rest day for me. Sort of. I had my 3 year old nephew, so however much of a rest that turns out to be, well, you understand. I did not go to the gym.

Monday was supposed to be Small Group Training (SGT). We had to cancel last night, but I just searched online to find a workout that did not involve cardio (since the girls I did it with did the Spartan race on Saturday and messed up their feet). It consisted of (we only made it through 2 rounds before it was time for my training session):

Sounds fairly simple, right? NOPE. At any rate, long story short, I went on to training. For training, Danny had us do the lovely stairmaster, bicep curls with 20 lb. dumbbells, elliptical, 15 lb. preacher curls, repeat. After that, we finished up the remainder of my cardio. After that, we headed to the scale. I simply couldn't believe it. The scale showed I had lost not just 100 pounds, but 105! I was so shocked I think I literally almost sunk through the floor. 

So since I started this post on Tuesday at lunch, I've been admitted as a patient at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center. I got bitten by a mosquito or other insect and my cellulitis flared up. I started feeling achy around 3:00ish Tuesday afternoon, and by the time I got home around 6:00, I was shivering from head to toe. At one point, I was laying in my bed in sweatpants, a tshirt, track jacket, bathrobe and had a comforter pulled up over my head. After not being able to be warm, I decided to go to the hospital and see if they'd give me a prescription since in times past, the cellulitis spread rapidly. Well, that turned into IV antibiotics. And a hospital admission. Not exactly what I was planning to do with my week. Anyway, they gave me Vancomyacin, which is a very strong antibiotic. It caused me to develop Red Man's Syndrome...basically, your face turns blood red and gets really hot. Then, you start to itch. For at least an hour. It finally subsided. Thankfully, the doctor switched my antibiotic and I've had my first dose since then with no reaction. 

Had lots of visitors today...thank you to all who came. It really does get lonesome in here and a girl can only watch so much HGTV!