Wk 15, D1 - SPASM!!! :-((

My back seemed ok this morning so up I got and started jogging my station run. I got a little over half way and suddenly had a thought that I didn't have the car keys with me. I looked and lo and behold I didn't have them! They may have dropped out of my bum bag (fannypack) on the way as the zip was undone. I walked all the way back home looking on the ground for my keys but no. Once I got home there they were on the kitchen table where I "thought" I put them in the bag. It was now dangerously near to 8am so I set off again trying to outrun the traffic wardens to the car. My lower back was starting to hurt with every footfall until suddenly a shooting pain manifested in the bottom of my spine and radiated in a wave like forked lightening spreading out to both hips. I had to stop and walk the rest of the way wincing and breathing deeply to try and alleviate the discomfort. I feel like an old lady!
I do hope I haven't scuppered my running for this week! The pain continues as I sit and write this, it seems the only relief I get is when I stand up. I have made an appointment with a physio for tomorrow morning.

On a lighter note, as a birthday present to myself, and my back, I arranged for people to come and clean my house and sort out my garden. They are Eastern European of some sort and none of them speak English so I am housebound until they finish, in case they need me, not that I will understand what it is they need. The house is done as I write this which is lovely and there are 3 people weeding, clearing, mowing, moving the pots, and generally tidying the garden in the beautiful sunshine we have today. The cats are comatosed in various rooms in the house - including one on the keyboard!

Exercise - up and down, then back up the road! Burning 324 calories
Food - 1322 calories
Breakfast
Banana
Tea
Lunch
2 slices granary bread and flora light
Rump steak
Tea
Dinner
2 glasses of wine (medicinal!)
cod and chips (oven baked at home)
Mini magnum ice cream

Wk 14, Results and Reflection

I haven't bothered with calorie counting so much this week. We ate out a few times, I had some chocolate left over from my tonsillitis week and I generally didn't feel up to it. I thought, with my back pain, that I didn't run very much either, but looking back I did manage 22km/ 13.67 miles!!!! I really thought I would have put on weight or at the very least stayed the same but NO!!!!

I  LOST  1lb 12oz!!!!!

That means I have reached my first stone! I am 1/3 of the way to my goal! Yippeeeee!!! I a few more lbs time I will have hit the lowest weight I have been in quite a number of years. Watch this space because it's going to happen soon. Its my Birthday at the end of the week so I am really pleased to have hit this goal before then. At the end of August is Hubby's 50th Birthday and I have a few surprises for him. I would really like to be at least 7lbs lighter by then. I have my eye on a particular dress that's been in my wardrobe for a number of years but I have never been able to do the zip up!

Wk 14, D 7. Attempted run

Weird that when I got up this morning my back was better. Not fully recovered, but at least I could stand up straight without wincing or having to breath deeply with each movement. In the early evening I intended to go for a 5k run. I say intended because it ended up being half walk, half jog. Two weeks of severely reduced exercise has taken it's toll. My lungs just weren't up for it. I felt sick, my chest hurt, my right hand and wrist throbbed (?!), so I had to keep stopping to walk. Each time I felt OK I started to run again. My back started to niggle after a while too. I will keep trying though. I am determined not to let this new found love slip away. I also think part of my problem was that I ran too late in the day. It was hot for a start and my body seems to perform at its best around mid morning. Anyway, I still burned some calories!

Exercise - run/walk 5.68 km or 3.52 miles = 433 calories (yay! :-))
Food
Breakfast
Banana
Tea
Lunch
Lamb tagine
Brocolli
Lemon cake
tea
Dinner
Peanut butter sandwich
Tea