My Journey With Health And Fitness – Back After A Break

Well everyone, I am back posting after a long break. It really wasn’t’ intentional, it was more circumstances. I had some technical issues while at the condo leading me to be behind in not just volunteer work but client work. It did look like it got resolved but then went south once I got home (more on that later). I did manage to do a fairly good job of working out a couple hours each day (with the exception of the week off due to the coati chase) and until the last week we were pretty good about not eating out more than twice per week. Of course at the end all sorts of places and people came up and so we kind of got sidetracked.

We arrived home late Thursday Feb 5th. The next day we picked up an 8 month old kitty that we have adopted from an owner who is not able to care for it. We know how to intigrate a new cat into the home so set Willie (full name William Wallace MacGregor) in our bedroom where he could feel safe. It did not go as planned. 2 things happened last Saturday. Firstly, my home laptop died and wouldn’t reboot (picture the fact it is year end for my clients so this is a bit of an issue). Secondly, I was in the bedroom holding Willie when there was an incredibly loud noise happened (the chihuahua was playing dance, dance, dance which also means she screeches at the top of her lungs) scaring the cat who lashed out and bit my hand. Things were about to go really south at this point.

I got up Sunday morning and I was in such incredible pain I almost passed out. My hand was starting to swell and I spent all day icing it every 20 minutes. On Monday that hand was nearly double in size and was red (note the redness was actually heading up my arm). I managed to get an appointment with my doctor who immediately sent me to the emergency. Eventually the wounds were cleaned (trust me I had cleaned them and applied antibiotic cream) and I was put on strong antibiotics. The doctor warned me it would likely get worse before it improved in approximately 48 hours. He was right and I was maxing out on Tylenol just to be able to function. Because of this I did nothing in terms of workouts for the entire week though I did manage to traumatize the new cat but I will leave that for another day.

But now I am back. Tomorrow I plan on doing at least a 5km run and a 5km walk (even though it will be below freezing). Monday I am starting a higher protein lower carb meal plan which I hopes helps kick start me getting back into better shape. We have been staying away from alcohol (2 drinks yesterday which was the 1st of the week) and plan to do so until March 17th (note, not to celebrate St Patrick’s but to toast the anniversary of the passing of my father in law). I’m back at the gym on Monday though if the hand is bothering me then I will work with either lighter weights or none at all. As for the laptop, well it made it out of the computer hospital for about an hour before I took it back because it still wouldn’t boot up.

So yeah, I’m back from my break. The one good thing about that break was I found a bunch of runners on social media and have started following them. It has been very inspirational and I can’t wait to get out there tomorrow.