My Butt Hurts

It feels like I’ve done 1,000 squats and lunges. My glutes and my quads haven’t felt this sore in a long time!

The reason I am sore is because I stopped doing my Hip Strengthening exercise for almost 2 weeks. I was dealing with the “injuries” that put me in a boot and I stopped doing the exercises.

Since I was finally out of the boot on Tuesday I started the exercises back up. Wednesday I woke up with a sore butt! If I ever doubted if those strengthening exercises worked or not, I now have evidence that they do.

Check me out! No boot!

Plus, I gave the treadmill a try. After two weeks of no jogging or running I ran 1.5 miles on the treadmill with no incident.

That means today I’m also sore from that. But it’s a good sore. After my run I lifted weights focusing on my shoulders, chest and biceps. I took it easy on the back last night.

After I was done doing my weight lifting I spent some extra time stretching and using my Foam Roller. If you’ve never tried it, I really recommend getting one.

Gym Stats:

Time: 1:22

Calories: 512

It was a good workout and I was so happy when I got home. What a huge difference a run makes on my mood! It was like the bad stuff that had happened in the last few weeks were gone from my mind. Now if only I could REALLY run…

Michael picked up a pizza from Papa Murphy’s.  We got the deLite meat pizza and I had 3 slices at 190 calories each slice. I had worked up an appetite.

It was delicious and a good compromise because Michael gets his pizza and I don’t go nuts with my calories. 😉

Yesterday I received a bunch of comments and questions about the onion hamburger buns we use. Here is the brand:

Country Oven buns and they are only 190 calories each. I bought them at Fred Meyer (Kroger).

Now for the part I’ve been dreading…progress photos. I’ve been postponing sharing the “Before” photos but it’s time to just suck it up and do it.

This first photo was taken at the beginning of September when I decided to start my weight lifting challenge.

SEPTEMBER 2010

I cringe at the sight. I know I’ve made a lot of progress since I was 250 pounds but….it’s still hard to see how doughy I was.

Now for the update on how the weight training has been going. This photo was taken last night:

DECEMBER 2010

Some progress. Not a ton but there is definitely more muscle definition in my biceps. Triceps still need a lot of work!

QUESTION: Are you seeing visible progress from your weight loss efforts?

FYI: Check out my guest post on MizFit Online!