Tough time coping with not working out!!

[dalila]

Sara yeah I love liver too, but it has to be half cooked! Actually in all honesty I prefer all sorts of innards to the actual meet any time of the day! ( all my friends think I couldn't be more gross! LOL)

Premier how 'bout some nice stewed tripe and cow brains in batter? YUM!

I only speak English, my mother tongue which is slavic... some call it croatian/serbian/bosnian - we are so messed up! then I speak Malay ( still can't write), and write german ( can't speak anymore LOL)..... but you'd be surprised to hear in how many languages I can swear!

 

[PreMier]

Whats tripe? I am down to eat anything once.. as long as I see someone eat it before me.

 

[dalila]

Whats tripe? I am down to eat anything once.. as long as I see someone eat it before me.

Cool, I'll lead LOL! Tripe is the animal stomach lining ( usually cow, sheep or pig). Verrrrry nice in a stew sort of thing, with lots of spices and tomato puree....

I had a blast watching Fear Factor recently ( you know the one where contestants have to eat disgusting stuff and do dangerous things to win money?) and they had to eat pig's brains and Malaysian stinky fruit called Durian, and everyone was gagging and cryng and I was thinking OMG such lovley stuff going to waste!!

 

[greekblondechic]

I had a blast watching Fear Factor recently ( you know the one where contestants have to eat disgusting stuff and do dangerous things to win money?) and they had to eat pig's brains and Malaysian stinky fruit called Durian, and everyone was gagging and cryng and I was thinking OMG such lovley stuff going to waste!!

LMAO

 

[PreMier]

Aww.. tripe is kind of like Haggis then? That would probably make me sick lol

 

[sara]

Liver w/ Onions or garlic and blackpepper is so YUMMY!!!

 

[dalila]

Aww.. tripe is kind of like Haggis then? That would probably make me sick lol

Yeah but much nicer, spicyyyy. Haggis is stuffed tripe that is just boiled I think...

But back to gizzards, they are a part of chicken highest in protein and lowest in fat after chicken breast...so I am weird in a good way LOL!

 

[dalila]

Liver w/ Onions or garlic and blackpepper is so YUMMY!!!

which liver do you like sara? I try not to eat it too often it's loaded with cholesterol apparently..

 

[sara]

which liver do you like sara? I try not to eat it too often it's loaded with cholesterol apparently..

I like Chicken & Beef Liver
I don't eat it all the time.. But I don't worry about the cholesterol in the liver, since everything else I eat is clean

 

[dalila]

I was about to say good evening everyone, then realised I have no clue whats the time in North America. I assume that most people here are from either the US or Canada? Anyways, just greetings then!

Yay Friday, I am in a very good mood today. Fridays are so special, aren't they?

Yesterday I went to a new shopping mall in KL to help a friend choose a gift for his girfriend's birthday. This new place is abosolutely huge ( for our standards), I think it's like 1km from one end to the other!! I made him walk really fast so it would double as a cardio exercise for me!! Poor thing, I think that was the last time he went shopping with me.

I am lazy to post yesterday's diet as it was boring same old as yesterday, super clean. But I did start taking apple cider vinegar with water and a teaspoon of some freakshly expensive honey ( 100% pure organic honey with supposed manuka healing properties - I am such a sucker for stuff like that!! )

I am also excited and a little scared of tomorrow - will be doing an MRI for my back. Kept bugging the doc to sedate me then my boyfriend said, knowing my tendency to fall asleep the moment my head touches a pillow, I won't need a sedative, I'll just knock off on my own in the mRI machine!!!!

 

[PreMier]

Good luck with the MRI.
Its thursday night here in the US

 

[dalila]

thanks Premier!! for both I mean

I am really hoping they will tell me tomorrow "heck woman you are a hypochondriac, your back is perfectly fine, now march to the nearest gym!!"

 

[greekblondechic]

Dalila you are so cute and funny

 

[dalila]

Greekie thanks girl, so are you! Stay positive ok?

 

[sara]

Good luck dalila

 

[dalila]

thanks sara!! if my MRI comes clean I'll treat myself with a nice set of heavy chest/bis exercises on sunday!!

 

[atherjen]

liver??? weirdos!! lol

Good luck with the MRI today!

 

[sara]

Good treat Just be careful

 

[fantasma62]

thanks sara!! if my MRI comes clean I'll treat myself with a nice set of heavy chest/bis exercises on sunday!!

Hi Dalila,

I hope it all goes well....I'll say a little prayer for you

 

[dalila]

Good evening and good mornign to you who are on my side of the world!

I spent the whole SAturday doing medical tests! I was poked, made to run, confined into small spaces ( i.e. MRI), and the hospital managed to lose my clothes!! Ok I didn't think it was funny at the time, but now I do!! Ha ha, I was just sitting there in a hospital gown, freezing my ass off! Then they found them, in a different locker form the one I held a key to!!

The rest of the results will be ready on Friday, but the MRI image showed a bulging of L5 disk without any encroachment on the adjacent nervs. Haven't got an opinion of my doc yet ( seeing him today), but from everythign I read about back injuries, it's not that bad, thank God it wasn't worse!

But I was somewhat disappointed, said to myself, what the heck, and went to a cake shop straight from the hospital! I won't tell you what sort of damage I did there!!

The only good thing that transpired from it all, was that after my stress test which meant I was running for 20 min on the exponentially increasing inclination, I had no back pain! So today I am going back to gym, and will stay away from exercises that involve weight bearing on/above shoulders.

Having said that, I have no clue, what back exercises and shoulder exercises could I do that circumvent this? Guys any recommendations?

 

[atherjen]

YAY! :bounce: I am glad to hear that the MRI went ok and that your able to get back into the gym, at least for a run or something along those lines. Perhaps I didnt understand, you cant lift any weight, right? or just chest and arms?

MMmmmmmmm do tell what you had at the cake shop After a hard day like that at the hospital, its totally acceptable!

Have a great week!

 

[dalila]

Hi Jen! I had a pear and ginger cake on saturday and it was so mmmm! And it was so HUGE!!

I can't jog/run for the time being Jen, only cycling and swimming. Weights, well hmmmm the opinions differ, but I've been told it's ok to lift lighter, as long as I don't carry any wegihts on my shoulders or lift above them ( i.e. no barbell lunges, squats, shoulder presses, etc..)

Yesterday I decided to try my luck in the gym. No specific program or anything just really trying out what feels comfortable and what doesn't. So I did:

Cardio ; Cycling ( resistance and speed intervals) 45 min
Legs: :
Quad Extensions 5X12 at 40lbs
Hamstrign curls 5X12 at 40lbs
Hip Adduction ( inner tigh) 5X12 at 30lbs

Don't feel the work otu much in my legs today but at least there's no pain!

Diet:

9.30am coffee with LF milk, no sugar
10.00 apple + 1/2 cupo cottage cheese
12.30 stir fried ostrich meat ( 200gm) + spinach
4.00 1/2 cup cottage cheese + 1 pear
7.30 PW whey + slice of WW bread ( home made)
9.30pm chicken breast with wine sauce ( wine, 1 tsp honey, mushroom, and seasoning)

 

[PreMier]

Congrats on getting back in the gym

Do you have to wait untill Fri for treatment options?

 

[dalila]

Congrats on getting back in the gym

Do you have to wait untill Fri for treatment options?

thanks premier!! I am happy to do at least something in the gym!
I am seeing my doc tomorrow to discuss the MRI scans. He has already told me though, that if the MRI shows only bluging disk it won't be necessary to come for daily rehab sessions, but to do these stretching exercises at home, ( I am already doing them) and have hot baths.....

 

[dalila]

I've decided to go to the gym every other day for 2 weeks and if I feel fine then do the 4 days split. I've noticed that I've become paranoid, kept "feeling" my back yesterday to see if the previous day of exercises hurt in any way. I felt a little stiff, but that was in the upper back, nowhere near the injured area, I think coz I was doing lots of back stregthening stretches ( supermans, cat and camel and cobra pose).

Today will be doing chest and bis.

Yesterday's diet:

9.30am coffee with LF milk no sugar
10.00 1/2 cup cottage cheese + 1 apple
1.00 200gm steamed fish+ spinach+ brocoli
4.30 1/2 cup cottage cheese + nectarine+ green tea
8.00 5 large shrimp in curry ( no coconut milk) + 1/2 cup chicken +2/3 cup brown rice+ 2 TBS ice cream

I am off on Friday ( coz I need a break), and I am off on monday ( doing some silly shoot), and I am off on tuesday ( it's the day of independance here), and I am sooooo happy!

 

[sara]

I'm so glad you working out!!!
Keep up the good work

 

[dalila]

Thanks Sara, so am I!! Though I miss lifting as heavy as I could, but hey beggars cant be choosers! I am reading a really good book now by Dr. Ron Kennedy " The Thinking Person's guide to Perfect Health" really useful stuff!

You tummy any better?

 

[PreMier]

Yea, thats awesome your back! Just be caredul

 

[dalila]

Thanks Premy! What are you doing up this late??

I've just read something that makes sense to me - i.e. that with a back injury one should never go by the rule" Well I'll train what I can", i.e. everythign but the back and the legs as that causes muscle imbalance and puts one at even greater risk of reinjury. One should start training the whole body with very light weights, in a balanced way as soon as one stops being in pain......

I have a feeling my journal will in the end turn into a collection of tips for people with bad backs LOL!!

 

[PreMier]

I know, I am up really late Just finished watching Rulon Gardner wrestle. Oh, and eating icecream

Sounds like you got a good plan. If this turns out to help people, then thats great