Weight loss efforts are still going strong (they better be I’m only a few days in, right?!?!). Gym – yes, 10k steps – yes, food journal – yes.
Now that I’m being careful about food I had to think hard about what I wanted in my wrap yesterday. I made four wraps (yes I eat a lot) and started with tofu for my protein. Of course I added a bunch of fresh veggies like cucumbers, lettuce, green onion, avocado. I needed a bit of sauce so I went with a small squirt of mustard on each wrap. Now the piece de resistance of my sandwiches, wraps, or subs is ….
PICKLES!!!
Pickles are awesome. They pack so much flavour 
I’m also working on hydration. My campus classrooms are always freezing so I grabbed a hot peppermint tea to kill two birds with one stone.
In all of this weight loss talk I realized that I haven’t updated you on my physical therapy this week.
First, is a bit of a bummer – a new injury 
. It’s on the inside of my left knee. For the life of me I can’t remember what the injury is called (my doctor always tells me the names and then shows me diagrams of the body parts, etc.) but basically I have a fluid build up in that area.
The injury is from over training. I didn’t take enough rest time between workouts last week. On Saturday Brad and I trained pretty hard on our lower bodies and then went to the pool on Sunday. I’m not a great swimmer so I can only do breast stroke which involves the whip kick. It was doing laps with the whip kick that really over stressed the knee.
It doesn’t really set me back any. This week’s training plan is just a little lighter on the legs. (More cardio, abs, and upper body!)
Second, is much more exciting. I’m in my second week of run training. We spent most of the time doing drills for proper foot striking. Man, I had no idea how technical running can be. I guess that’s why it’s so easy to get injured with bad form.
Pickles for you?
Ever done running drills?
HUGE believer in good running form and drills for that are the best. Do them in your bare feet–trust me, it will carry over much better to your actual running.
I hope the knee feels better soon.
Yum on those wraps!
I haven’t been doing my actual running drills in bare feet but my doctor is huge into giving me exercises in bare feet – in fact he says if I work out at home to do everything like that … it’s really helped my form
love pickles…maybe not as much as you do! I don’t think about putting them in my wraps, but love them on the side. Keep up that strength! You go girl!
Love pickles but I’m super picky about which ones!
picky about pickles, I had a little giggle at that
what are you picky about?
hubs likes pickles but they don’t really do it for me. I eat them once in awhile.
Running drills bore me…as though that is an excuse…so I try to focus on different aspects of form while running and I do my PT exercises while watching tv
I just thought “running drills bore me daaahhhhhling” … that’s how I’ve felt about physical therapy EVERY time I did it in the past – I’m so grateful to my doctor this time around, he’s really been able to create a program that interests and challenges me
what kind of injury are you recovering?
I love running drills, though I mostly make my cross country team do them while I watch.
EVIL ^^^^^^^
Pickles? Huge huge yes. Every sandwich or burger must include pickles
I love PICKLES of all kinds and I was happy to find that they help with hydration and salt depletion after long runs… pickles and pickle juice stop a cramp RIGHT NOW! I have tried this a couple of times and it works… I used dill pickles/juice.
I draw the line at pickle juice
checking back in on you—-did you sleeep this weekend?!
YES was at the cottage so I slept and did homework and went to the beach, I even slept AT the beach