Getting better

My chiro has been a saviour this week. She's magical! I'm feeling a lot better now and I got the go-ahead from her to run if I feel OK, so I'm going to head to the treadmill this afternoon. Yay! I still have lower back pain, and bending over is still hard and painful, but it's coming along.

I also met with a dietician last week to see if I can drop these last 20 pounds. We're going to try for 10 pounds between now and when I leave for Italy in mid-April. This is a weird week to start because my activity level has been so low, but we're starting me at 1800 calories and will adjust from there. I'm still hovering around 170, though I'm not seeing spikes up to 173 like I had been before, so that's good. I'm fine as long as I can prepare my own food, but I was on a course for two days this week and went out for dinner on Thursday, so it's been hard to gauge my caloric intake (let alone control what's in my food).

I've also started communicating with a couple of guys on-line, so might have a pre-date with one of them this weekend. They are both triathletes, but they don't live in my city, so that could be a problem. We'll see.

I had applied for a new job at my company and had an interview a couple of weeks ago. Well, I got the call on Thursday that I didn't get the job. No biggie, I'm just bored in my current job, that's all. But then I had a meeting with my director yesterday afternoon and it looks like I'll be getting to work on some more interesting projects, so things are looking up.

Time to clean my bathroom...

laid up

argh. i'm flat on my back - and unable to use caps, sorry - from a freak dressing incident. i had just done a 2-hour bike ride and was taking off my shorts when... pop. aaargh.

i've been hobbling around since saturday. i'm trying to get in to see my physio guy today. i hate it when my body doesn't do what i want it to do.

i just have to remind myself that it's 2 months to italy and i have to do whatever required to be healthy for that trip.

argh.