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<\/p>\nI was going to post about the polynesian feast today.\u00a0 I lied.\u00a0 Tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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Today, I have to tell a tale.\u00a0 I’m not nearly as good at this as Jack Sh*t<\/a>, but lemme give it a try…<\/p>\n Once upon a time, there was this incredibly neurotic girl named, uh, Quin.\u00a0 Quin had decided that she was going to finally make some progress with her weight, and decided to shake it up a bit by trying a video called Jillybean Mackrel’s 30 day shred.\u00a0 Even though she had been taught that it was bad to use weights two days in a row, she figured that Jillybean, being a famous trainer, knew best.<\/p>\n She put on the DVD and the first week, she got through 5 days.\u00a0 Her legs stung and her arms throbbed but in a good way.\u00a0 The second week, it was more of the same, but it felt as if she was getting less sore.\u00a0 This was awesome!\u00a0 The third week, she started to fall apart and hurt.\u00a0 It wasn’t so bad, so she kept going.\u00a0 The fourth week, she just couldn’t do it anymore.\u00a0 Her heels revolted and screamed at her.\u00a0 Her knee kept threatening to pop out of place.\u00a0 Her left wrist could barely give a hi-five.<\/p>\n At the end of this adventure, she decided to take the weekend off of Jillybean’s torture, but apparently forgot about her pretty pretty princess back.\u00a0 PPPB was trying to be tolerant of everything going on, and felt bad that Quin had to endure knee pain and wrist pain and screaming heels, and was THRILLED to hear there would be a rest.\u00a0 But then she realized the rest wasn’t for her.<\/p>\n PPPB was tortured even further.\u00a0 At least moving helped keep her limber.\u00a0 Friday, she was subjected to playing a game on the laptop, sitting on a plastic chair, and barely getting up for about 5 hours straight.\u00a0 Both Saturday and Sunday, she had to stay very stationary while Quin intently wrote.\u00a0 Saturday afternoon, she was granted a reprieve – or so she thought.\u00a0 It was time to get up… and stand in the kitchen for a few hours preparing food.\u00a0 Then, during party time, she was forced to deal with high heeled boots and a lot more standing and running around.<\/p>\n By Monday, she had enough.\u00a0 PPPB enjoyed the sleeping in, but then at lunch when Quin went to grab her gym bag (seriously, folks…this is what set it off, I even lifted from the knees), she said, “uh UH girlfriend” and decided to pull the ol’ tailbone hurty sports injury trick.\u00a0 At first it wasn’t so bad, but then an afternoon sitting at the office made Quin walk like a grandma.\u00a0 She was even having trouble pushing the grocery cart.\u00a0 There was no running to be had.\u00a0 Quin even relented and gave up all forms of exercise for the night – there is just nothing that can be done with a hurty back.\u00a0 She took some pain killers and got a nice icy hot massage from her wonderful…uh…Zoltan.\u00a0 Yes, apparently she is married to a fortune teller, don’t judge.<\/p>\n She woke up the next morning, and was feeling better, thank you very much, but not all-the-way better, so she decided another day off was in order.\u00a0 She had been very frightened of the scale but got up all of her courage and put her tippie toe on it slowly, then another, then another, and it finally registered a weight:<\/p>\n 153.0.<\/p>\n She could not believe it.\u00a0 She stepped on it again.<\/p>\n 153.0<\/p>\n Not the lowest she has ever weighed, but definitely lower than normal.\u00a0 And this was after a weekend lacking formal activity, increased eating, no tracking, and eating super late the night before.\u00a0 Certainly not what she expected to start the week at – oh no.<\/p>\n The moral of this story is that sometimes the body just needs what it needs.\u00a0 And it will tell you any way it can.\u00a0 If it whispers, and you don’t listen, sometime it will shout.<\/p>\n No more weight training on consecutive days for a while, and if I do in the future, try to make it focused on different body parts on different days.\u00a0 More yoga.\u00a0 Taking standing breaks at work\/writing\/while playing even if I’m really in the flow of something.\u00a0 Trying to get my words in every day so I don’t have to do marathon sessions.\u00a0 And maybe it will make week 1 of half training a little more jarring, but I think ol’ body needed more than just a weekend rest.\u00a0 And that, it shall have.<\/p>\n Some days, do you need a smack on the head?\u00a0 Does life sometimes try to whisper and you don’t listen?\u00a0 Hey, at least I hear shouting (I had halfway considered the ol’ painkiller and pushthrough technique, even though it’s specifically what I told Charlotte<\/a> in a comment not to do!\u00a0 Bad me.\u00a0 At least I didn’t actually do it!)…<\/p>\n