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Originally Posted by MuscleMom23
My garden is awaiting me LOL. The weather has been so beautiful it is nice to get out into the fresh air.
Good job. Your menus always look so good!
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I understand we're going to get a rainy cold snap next week (ie. back to seasonal). We've been so spoiled with the beautiful weather so far. The cherry trees started blooming yesterday so I'm hoping that the cold snap won't be so cold as to affect the bloom or the fruit. We have a pussy willow (well trimmed into a bush) in the yard to attract early bees. It's done its job so pollination shouldn't be a problem.
The good thing is that I like to cook, so I can change things around. The bad thing is that I batch cook and sometimes get tired of things before I'm out of them. With enough variety it's not too bad though. I've got some soups left for lunch which I need to use up, and then I'm going to work on better lunches. Right now I break down and buy cooked meats from Costco. They're not bad as lunch meats go, but they're just not that tasty. I just looked at my list, and yes, I've got 26 portions of soup, so I've got a month before I need to worry about it.
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Originally Posted by kfisherx
Make sure that you ice those sore parts as you get them. This is something my trainer makes me do and it always helps. About 20 min is all you need a night until it isn't sore anymore. The knee thing sounds almost like an IT Band being a bit tight. If it persists you may want to foam roll that sucker. It hurts like hell to do it but that is the only way I know to make the IT band be good.
Nice workouts btw and I see your cals are up a bit. Do you feel better now?
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Most of the soreness comes later, at which point I tend to use heat. I'll try ice though. I took a quick look online, and you're right, the pain behind my knee earlier was likely IT Band. It's gone though, now I'm just left with the usual nagging pain on the one knee. I make it sound worse than it is. I suspect it's more of a result of carrying around way too much weight for decades. It's actually better than it used to be, so I'm hoping that when the rest of the weight is gone that it will be better. It's the type of thing that bothers me at the end of the day, but is almost nonexistent in the morning.
I bought my mother a foam roller recently, so I might steal it back and try it. She's 80, and pretty active (although finally I can outwalk her speed-wise, but probably not endurance), but complains a lot about random pains. She's quite impressed by the roller (I called it an early Mother's Day gift), and uses it daily.
The energy levels are better, so for now I'll keep the food levels where they are. I'll have to balance it with the weight loss though, as I'm way to early in my weight loss to let it slow down too much. I'll give it another couple of weeks and see how it affects both energy and weight loss. Thanks.
Now... to the treadmill. I've pushed off the baking until tomorrow, but I still have a couple of things I'd like to do in the garden. It does look like rain isn't too far off, so I may end up cutting 30-mins out of the treadmill this morning. I can always do it tomorrow if I need to.