Day 4/100 Health Challenge
Injury. More fails. Some water retention. Basically today I’m relearning old lessons, which is frustrating, disheartening and literally painful😑. But today is a new day. What CAN I do?
Weight 238.6 yup. Up a little more. That’s just about enough of that. But my ramped up workout out goal, sadly, isn’t going to work.
I’m writing this today flat on my back with ice under my lower spine. A Few years back when I was starting my first successful health push (dropped 45 pounds) I felt something give when I was planking. I felt it again when I was doing sit-ups. Sharp pain in my back. Very localized. Over that week it got to the point where I could no longer sit for more than 10 minutes without raging burning pain exploding out of my back. Anything that has me pivoting at the lower back joint and adding any pressure at all would set it off. After an MRI the doctors just told me I have parts of my spine that look degraded. Age basically, as far as they were concerned.
Deeply unhelpful lol.
So I stretched a lot. Which made it worse. And tried to workout, which made it much worse.
The advice I finally got from my wife’s brother (super smart PA w the airforce) was that I need to lay down. For 2-3 weeks.
Yikes.
So I did. For the most part. I did my Goals & Gratitude show at a stand up desk, I even did Coffeeonthedock laying down. On my dock. It was rough. But it forced me to cement my patterns around food without wiggle room because I simply wasn’t going to be able to work my way out of it.
If you haven’t read Day 3/100 of the health challenge it might be a good idea to go back and do it now for a laugh. I was fresh off an unplanned cheat day and wanting to quickly whip my personal story back into shape. So instead of my usual 9 minutes of boxing that was already waking my back injury up a tiny bit (its the dodges and the high speed squats that did it) I did an hour. At the time I loved it! It would be awesome to know I could just grind out 2 hours a day of boxing and be in total control of creating a massive daily calorie deficit.
But nope. Today will be about icing 10+ times flat on my back like I am as I tap this out slowly on my phone, and will probably include pain killers. Its *gasp a lot* level bad.
So whats the lesson here?
For me diet has to be most of the plan. Like 95% of it. Its still not super safe to walk around in Miami since we are a covid19 hotspot, but I’ll add that when I can. Walking really worked to grind out calories during my best weight drop month ever. Couldn’t do anything else.
I can do workouts that are slow and very controlled when the pain in my back goes away completely.
And I need more consistent water intake.
Today will be better. Tomorrow will be much better.
96 days left.
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