The right toe is still hurting, although the bruising has cleared up. Sharp stabbing pains and numbness. Combined with my persistent achilles tendon problem, I’ve been walking lob-sided and with a limp, and now my back problems have flared up. No exercise for a week.
I can now understand better the dilemma of those who end up in accidents and take so long to recover.
I don’t like this Broken Toe Most broken toes obviously have an acute onset. What surprises most people is that the symptoms of a broken toe may last 8-10 weeks
On top of that, this toe has been broken at least once before, maybe twice.
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My toe injury is worse than I thought, I’ve probably broken or cracked the bone. It’s all blue and red, and I cannot walk any distance. Forget exercising.
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Injury
It’s been a rough week. After my hike last Monday, I stressed myself so much I could not work out on Tuesday. I seems I still have a problem, and might have overworked my semi-permanent problem with my left Achilles tendon.
I got on the treadmill and after a few minutes could not continue. That’s the first time this has happened. So I took a break for a while, did some leg stretches and then it was ok. I kept it down to twenty minutes at a medium pace, rather than a full half hour where I would increase to a high intensity.
Talked to my trainer, who said not to worry. He’s surprised that with carrying so much weight I haven’t had more problems.
Diet
I’m really getting frustrated with the lack of weight loss. After all this time, even allowing for weight gain from conversion from fat to muscle, I should be at least ten pounds lighter.
This week, I’m considering dropping the five meal a day whether I’m hungry or not, and switching to only eating when I’m hungry. The danger of course is that when I do get hungry, I might just grab the first thing in sight.
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As expected I’m in bad shape, I can hardly walk up and down stairs and don’t know whether I can do any workout today. I’ve I had had my trainer with me yesterday, then I would have got a better walm down stretch out and mini-massage, which probably would have helped.
OK, at least I lost two pounds.
I keep wondering why i’m not losing weight at anywhere near what I should be. But when I look at my kids and how they bounce around from one place to another, and keep slim despite the fact they live on sugar and junk it gives a clue. Conservation of energy. I sit at a computer most of the day. Other than my one hour work out, and making dinner and coffee, I’m sitting. Here is an article from the NY times on the subject [the link probably expires in a week]
New Weight-Loss Focus: The Lean and the Restless
By using special underwear to measure movement, they find that thin people move and fidget and walk around and fat people avoid any movement.
The heavier ones tended to sit, while the lean ones were more restless and spent two more hours a day on their feet - standing, pacing around and fidgeting. The difference translated into 350 calories a day, enough for the heavy people to take off 30 to 40 pounds a year, if they would get moving.
Here is another article on NEAT, for nonexercise activity thermogenesis
NONEXERCISE ACTIVITY THERMOGENESIS
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I’ve had minor problems with my left foot over the last few weeks, and it seems to be getting worse not better. I’m pretty sure it’s the Achilles tendon.
When I do anything there’s no real pain or inablity or limping, just minor discomfort. But if I do an ankle stretch it can be agonziing if I come out of it too fast. There’s a pronounced bump where the tendon meets the bone area.
See Achilles Tendon Injuries for diagrams and a couple of really good animations.
I have a really good massage guy, but he figures it’s not worth seeing him; although it doesn’t hurt a lot, direct pressure on the swelling is very painfull, and he couldn’t work on it for more than a minute or so. So the suggestion is to take heavy doses of ibuprofen (400mg) for a week and see if the swelling goes down.
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Well, I avoided the scales for a couple of days, but now I face the truth of what I little splurging can do.
I’ve put on another three pounds - that’s six pounds in a week.
Not only do I feel fatter, but my stomach feels like it’s full of acid. But I figure if I get back on track fast, I can recover faster.
Today: 301
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This week I’m eating at other people’s houses a lot. Up till now, 99% of what I eat I make for myself at home, and had established a nice pattern of eating that’s been easy to follow. Part of the trick is to make small portions, and eat only what’s out on the plate. When there’s lots of food on the table, I find it hard to stop nibbling.
Also meat has been a temptation. Normally I only eat meat once a week, that’s easy to keep to, since there’s never any meat around the house. Faced with four juicy burgers, my old eating habits are waiting to care of them. On top of that, chocolate, which I had not eaten for several weeks was waiting for me. The whole balance of carbs/protein/fats has also gone by the wayside.
The result of this - is three pounds up in three days. I’ve got to be firm for the next few dyas, and try and reverse this.
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I’m sick as a dog - came down with a major cold yesterday - and just have no energy to do anything. No stretches, no treadmill, zilch.
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Doing some stretches over an exercise ball, I lost my balance, slid over and my elbow hit the carpet - taking over some skin. It’s almost amusing that in several weeks of workouts that’s the only injury I’ve received. I would have expected to pull a tendon, stretch a ligament or have numerous aches and pains.
I’m pretty sure it’s my trainer - who knows enough to push me to my limit and not beyond.
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Twenty minutes warmup on the treadmill, fifty minutes strength training and stretches. But my weight is steadily going up, now I’m at 304, this does not make me happy.
The trainer says - ignore the weight, don’t use the scales. Right.
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