massage

I am a huge (let me emphasize that... ) HUGE advocate of regular therapeutic massage for the maintenance of general health. Yesterday I had a WONDERFUL 30 minute massage from Jeremy Manalis whom I would hapily and heartily recommend to anyone needing a bit of relaxation, work on tight or painful joints, muscles or nerve pinches... or to anyone at all, really. He does a lot of cranio-sacral work too, which for me is fabulous because I hold so much of my stress in my neck.

In fact I hold SO much stress in my neck that I have had recurring bouts of torticolis over the last 10 years or so. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does... the pain is so severe that I have no choice but to take the vicodin given me and pop the muscle relaxers and hope it loosens up enough for my chiro to get things back in place. (I'm sure I've mentioned this before!).

In any case, massage helps keep me loose and relaxed and out of spasmodic danger (hooray!)

This morning was cardio and it went well, tho I didn't feel I pushed myself as hard as I could have. I felt fabulous... I still feel fabulous... and my arms are STILL all pumped up from yesterday (*grin*). In fact, today I did my hair in the locker room after workout without my shirt on (other girls do it too!) so I could check out my arms and shoulders.

My second line of abdominal muscles is starting to poke thru too. I will take pictures of all of this, I promise, but give me another couple of weeks to really feel like I'm making progress on this lean-out and the progress will be noticeable.

My calories were WAY WAY WAY too low yesterday because the hydroxycut completely killed my appetite in the afternoon (I take 2 in the am uppon waking and 2 after lunch), I plan to seriously go over the top today... pushing 1800 if I can, to attempt to disuade my body from thinking I need to horde fat right now. People have asked (Hi Laura) if the Hydroxycut makes me feel weird, and honestly its no different (for me) from a couple of cups of coffee. A lot of whats in most thermogenic supplements these days is caffeine, and since I refuse to take effedra products (especially now that they're illegal... but I had my own effedra experience way back when and don't care to repeat it) this is a good option for me. I like that my appetite is less, I like that I have more energy despite the low-carb diet... so I'll stick with it for now... and for anyone whose keeping track of all of my little data points... I'm already down 2lbs from my weekend re-feed high of 152.5... not bad for 1 day. :D

Posted by Lexy at May 11, 2004 09:37 AM