<p>Dad II, I tried to offer you support. I have over and over and over again. I’m sorry if you can’t see that. I’m not here to be your punching bag.</p>
<p>This [poor</a> guy](<a href=“http://eatingacademy.com/why-i-decided-to-lose-weight]poor”>http://eatingacademy.com/why-i-decided-to-lose-weight) gained weight while training 2 to 4 hours a day for marathon swimming:</p>
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<p>Good morning! You all sound like you had fab menus and good times yesterday. I stuck with steak, salad and corn on the cob.</p>
<p>I had a blast kayaking down the river to the fireworks downtown with my pals…it was awesome. But I sure needed to put on my big girl pants to make it five miles BACK UPRIVER in the dark against the current and despite my little kettlebells stuff and diving board pull-ups and overall illusion that I possessed something akin to arm strength, my arms and shoulders were so sore by the time we docked at 1:30 a.m. I thought I might cry 
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<p>I hot tubbed and used Australian dream and don’t feel too rough today, but we’ll see how I feel after a few hours of house painting. I got a fair amount of said house painting done early in the day yesterday, so if I find myself just needing some float terapy in the pool today I might do that instead :)</p>
<p>BTW – I want that sugar-free margarita recipe! </p>
<p>Sabaray, CHEERS to your “century” runs between holidays - it’s so awesome that you’re enjoying it! Isn’t it lovely to be able to do new things? Or at least to feel like it? For me, this -39 pounds have brought me a lot of joy unrelated to vanity and pant sizes…a lovely winter with the snowshoeing, such a feeling of connection to nature, that nice feeling of “flying” when riding a bike, the ability to at least keep up with my kayaking pals and watch the workings of river life from a different vantage. While I still love food - likely even more since I have to stay conscious of it, I think somehow I had let sin-food replace that “running-jumping-flying” kind of joy we all had as kids. It’s interesting to think about.
(If you’ve been a sedentary thinker type…you more active types maybe never lost that exhilaration feeling in the first place :)</p>
<p>DadII, sometimes the Internet does not to justice to affectionate fun, and sometimes this is exacerbated by cultural differences. Please understand that no one here was trying to hurt you in our “jesting” – and that such jesting is for many a type of bonding.
I laughed out loud at the “coincidence/I think not/spooky music” but I wasn’t laughing AT you…There’s a distinction that needs to me made in these things and I’m sorry that you missed it.</p>
<p>Dad II- We do have fun and tease but still support each other. You should see my running forums! There are a lot more strong opinions on what others should do in their training, but also some really funny teasing, too. It may be a cultural difference, but I’m not about to stop doing it! Our group here is not thin skinned!</p>
<p>Dad II -everyone here is very supportive. I do think that you are so anxious about losing weight that you may be overtraining (Insanity plus training for a marathon is a LOT) and I suspect you aren’t eating enough to fuel your workouts, which means paradoxically that your body will hang on to every calorie. I appreciate you are in a rush – I am too and those who know me personally will attest that I can be obsessive when I have a goal – but truly, slow and steady wins the race. Perhaps you would be better served not to weigh so often. Good luck.</p>
<p>Speaking of obsessive lol - did Pilates today and mastered a balance move I’d been working on. Off to run, do a yoga sculpt class (yoga w weights) and 2 hr bike ride w H this afternoon.</p>
<p>OK, ya’ll can stop giving me your extra weight now. I’m up two pounds this morning… It’s gotta be all muscle from hefting the smoker stuff on and off the fire all day, right? :)</p>
<p>OK–any of you experts know why my hip muscle hurts when I run? The one in front right in the fold where you sit down. It hurts a little when I walk but goes away, but running–no way. I don’t want to make it worse, so I haven’t been running. </p>
<p>I’m thinking there is some exercise I can do to strengthen that muscle (or its opposite?) and it’s not serious enough to see a PT (yet) like I did for my knees but you guys might have some suggestions.</p>
<p>Probably too much walking & not enough…other stuff.</p>
<p>Yesterday we (DH, son, and I) walked 4.6 miles! Up to see the fireworks and back. In the rain. :D</p>
<p>^I only got 2 miles round trip to our fireworks. Spent the earlier part of the day lazing around a friend’s pool. Lunch and dinner ended up being one midafternoon meal - one hotdog, one hamburger (on a flat whole wheat thing) and one chicken on a stick, one corn on the cob, too many chips and did I mention we brought baklava? Ack!</p>
<p>I’m up and ready to administer virtual bee venom therapy to any rodents who might need it this morning. :D</p>
<p>Porcupines rodents… Learn something new every day!</p>
<p>mommusic- Sounds like you might have strained it a little. Try a foam roller (or Nalgene bottle) to make sure it is stretched out. Ice might help, too. If there is some inflammation, I’m a believer in 3 Advil 3 times a day for about 5 days (that has been prescribed to me by docs and PTs).</p>
<p>4.2 very humid miles this morning- really awful outside (and gloomy). Tired from the race, and took it easy in preparation for 17 with daughter tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>kmc -great post, and it sounds like a great kayak workout. I find kayaking quite difficult. The position you have to assume is killer on tight hamstrings and even gently paddling, never mind actually going upstream, fighting a current etc., gets challenging after a while. The only way I enjoy doing it now is in a two person kayak and I lay the paddle in front of me, and treat it like it is there only in case of emergency. Seriously.</p>
<p>I enjoy kayaking but I’ve only done so on the relatively calm waters of Lake Erie (Canadian side). I too am a fan of the 2 person variety!</p>
<p>PG, was your Pilates class a mat one or do you use the Reformer?</p>
<p>I think kayaking is hard! I’ve done it in a calm lake in the Poconos (not too bad) but also off of St. John (USVI). The water near shore is so calm and it all seems easy and then you get out a little bit with the waves and current…)</p>
<p>Sabaray - I take privates - so I use the reformer, the Cadillac, the barrel, all the equipment.</p>
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<p>One of the highlights was side planks including rows w/Bodylastics. Cat was supervising carefully crawling under me during several exercises today.</p>
<p>Now off to get ready for volunteering at a special event, although I’m not sure what exactly I’m going to be doing!</p>
<p>My normal gym is our town’s park district, but they are often closed on holidays. I got a bunch of free one-day passes to both LA Fitness and X Sport Fitness (both within a few miles) from a local running store. No excuses!</p>
<p>3.4 mile walk today. My calves are sore from the other day, so it’s back to walking. I did throw in a few tiny spurts of running, just because I find the walking to be so boring. Daily planks, calf exercises & glute stuff. </p>
<p>Deborah, my cat has many little games he likes to play with me while I’m doing planks. He also likes to duck in and out between pushups. Lucky for him he’s cute.</p>
<p>If you’re looking at kettlebells, definitely check out Amazon. I just saw some CAP KBs on there relatively cheap AND free shipping! I like using the smaller 'bells for some little things. During my class, I’m almost always carrying around a 4KG 'bell for going around my waist with it…</p>
<p>Wednesday a bad run. Felt bad, my HR was maxed and I had to walk. Yesterday 18 mile bike ride, easy flat but still was 1 hr 50 minutes of biking (with a few stops lol!). Today, back to running, my legs were shot so it was verrrry slow but steady. Had to walk up one hill but other than that ran for my 28 minutes. Week 8 of C25k done! That is pretty much the end of C25k, next week is 30 minutes of running so I did it! It’s still hard but for some reason today felt the best I have felt. </p>
<p>I thought my eating was pretty good considering it was July 4 but weight up 1.5 pounds. Oh well, it goes up, it goes down. I wish it would stay down but I am feeling so much stronger than I did 8 weeks ago I’ll take it :)</p>