The Ongoing Quest

So my weightloss had sort of stagnated for a while and I was just maintaining. I got a lot stronger when I was doing afterburn, and achieved a greater level of overall fitness. So I feel that I was successful with it, I just didn't "shrink".

Well, I posted a while back I was going to meet with the trainer. I've never had a trainer before. I *love* having a trainer. I don't have to plan workouts or obsess about what body part I'm working, or when the last time I did deadlifts was. All I do is show up and do what he tells me to do. Its fabulous.

So he asked me about my eating habits and also what I was doing for cardio. He seemed surprised that I had only been doing 20 minutes 3x a week and he told me I needed to increase the amount of cardio I was doing. So I did.

Now I've been going to him for a week and a half tomorrow, and I've increased the amount of cardio I'm doing. I've lost 3 lbs already. Which is really fantastic considering the guideline for safe weight loss is 2 lbs per week maximum. That puts me right on target!

Last time I trained I told him that I had already lost 2 lbs, and he just said it was really all me, and thats true, I did do the cardio work. However, he's the one that told me my eating was fine I just needed to do more cardio. And he was right.

I broke my blog

Apparently I'm more popular than I thought, or perhaps just less tech-savvy than I thought. Either way, I've managed to break all the pictures I posted this morning, so in an effort to be kind to imageox's bandwidth, thumbnails are now posted below and you will have to click on them to see the full-sized version of the picture.

What I did this weekend

K has tests today, so he had to study. My parents called to see if we wanted to go out on the boat since it was such a nice day, and I took the dog and left K at home in peace to study. We went out on the lake, and then up a couple of creeks that feed the lake.


















(no, I don't know that guy...)

Cha-Cha-Changes!

K and I are going through some decisions right now regarding some major things. I'm not going to say too much until the details are more concrete, but please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we make these decisions :)

Eye Appointment

I went for my annual eye exam yesterday, and they dilated me. Blech. I hate being dilated. Actually, I hate when they check the pressure in your eye. It really, really is uncomfortable.

Anyway, I've had glasses since I was four years old, so I can't remember a time when I had good vision. When they first started doing Lasik a lot, when I was in high school, I was interested in having it done. The doctor I had been going to before this year had told me because my vision was so bad, they wouldn't consider it unless I went to 5 years of checkups without having a change in my prescription.

I just thought, well, I'll ask and see what this new doctor has to say. So I talked to her about it and she said "No, 2 years is what we recommend, as long as you're over 21." But she said that the procedure was only approved to correct up to a certain point, and they wouldn't be able to fully correct my vision to 20/20, but it would be much better than it is now, and I would just need glasses for sharp distance vision (like driving or going to the movie theater). That was kind of disappointing but I told her I was still interested.

So she went out to get the machine to do a preliminary measurement of my eyes to see if I'm a candidate for the procedure, and she asked the doctor who does the actual surgery about it. He said that he agreed that due to my prescription being constant for the past couple of years and my age that they would do it, and he also said they had just gotten approved to correct more than they could before. So the new level they can correct to is even more than I need!

And then she measured me and she said I have enough corneal thickness to be able to do it!! I'm so excited (and a little nervous, lol).

K and I are going on vacation the second week in May, and I have to wear glasses for 2 weeks before my appointment to do a complete "pre-op", and then for 2 more weeks between the "pre-op" and the actual surgery. So, what I'm going to do, is make the appointment for 2 weeks after I get back from vacation. That way I don't have to deal with wearing glasses all the time while I'm on vacation.

Oh! And, the insurance I have offers a discounted rate on the surgery, and the doctor I go to is the only one approved by that agency in the town I live in. It just really seems like its coming together. Hopefully everything will go smoothly with the pre-op and they'll tell me with certainty they can do the surgery.

Trainer

So I had my first appointment with my trainer last night, and it went really well! He's a real personable kind of guy, and I enjoyed it. I went ahead and scheduled my next session for Tuesday.

The first superset we did was really challenging for me, and I think he kind of got scared that I was pushing myself too hard so he backed way off. I'm not sore today. I'm going to make sure I let him know that, but I also know that he's just trying to get a feel for what I'm capable of to begin with.

Ohyeah! And he's going to teach me how to beat a bag! YAY BOXING!! I'm so excited!

Erg, he also told me I'm not doing enough cardio. I guess 20 minutes 3x a week just isn't going to cut it anymore. LOL.

Cool Site

I was just browsing around the 'net for some stock photos, and found the coolest web page! It is NASA's astronomy picture of the day.

Enjoy!

New Ducky

Lilly got a new ducky this weekend. We have to buy her one every couple of months because after a few weeks, they start looking like this:

And then she won't play with it anymore. And it must be a ducky, I think its some instinctual spaniel thing, although I'm not really sure about that. Its just that we give her other types of toys, and she will play with them a bit, but she really rips into the duckies. They are by far her favorite.

K and I are planning a trip down to see my Dad and Stepmom in May and then we're also going to spend a couple of days at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Its been a few years since I went to Universal, and I've never been to Islands of Adventure, so I'm really looking forward to it. Its going to be a lot of fun! We're due for a vacation, we haven't gotten away since we went to Charlotte in December.

Afterburn is going well, all said and done I was able to get 2 out of 3 scheduled weight sessions and cardio sessions in my first week. Those weight sessions are so hard, that I'm happy with what I was able to do. Today is cardio and tomorrow is weights. We went out to lunch with some friends and one of them told me should could tell I was leaning out. Always nice to hear!