A Case of the Mondays

WARNING - Long post. I have a lot to unload.

I won't say that today was the worst Monday I've ever had...I'm sure there was one somewhere in my past that was worse...but today was pretty bad.

To start things off, last week I got a sinus infection that floored me. My doc said it wasn't a necessarily bad infection, but that my body was seriously drained from how hard I have been pushing my workouts. He basically told me that I need to loose weight in order to really loose weight. This blows. I have been doing really well with the workouts. I've actually begun to enjoy my workouts (something that is very new for me). My doc suggested I focus more on the diet side of loosing weight and lighten up on the intensity (and preferrably frequency) of my workouts. Food is my weakness. Not so much so in the amounts of the food (I really don't eat that much during the day), as it is the quality of the food I do eat. He suggested I bump up on the veggies. Blah. But the thing that sucks most about it is that I've known I need to change the way I eat for a looooooooong time. I was hoping to avoid that change with serious workouts. Guess not. :(

I digress...because my body couldn't handle a little sinus infection, before this morning I hadn't been able to work out since last Tuesday. When I stepped on the scale this morning...I had lost a WHOPPING 0 (yes, that is ZERO) pounds. The only marked improvement at all was -1" on my chest. Whoopdie freakin doo. Strike one for today.

I decided to start working on pushups with the one hundred pushups plan. I actually made it through day one and maxed out at 5 (girly pushups for now). Although, I'm sure my form was all screwed up because my damn stomach is too f-ing big. Good lord, this sucks. Strike two.

I managed 17 sit-ups. Better than I thought, but a lot of the work came from my legs and neck instead of the abs, where they're supposed to. Oh well. Strike three.

By the time I finished some serious stretching and some weight training, I was exhausted, but felt good since it was the first time in almost a week I had worked out. Except that on my way to work I realized that what I had mistaken for soreness in my abs was the beginnings of an ulcer. It is a very familiar feeling, so I know this is what it is, and I'm not happy. Strike four.

When I got to work, my boss pissed me off more than I have ever been in the last year and a half that I've been working there. She is a micro-managing control freak, and normally it doesn't bother me, because I'm a little bit like that. I have put up with a lot without bitching about it, but DAMN I wanted to just leave today. Strikes five and six. (This counts as two because I really cannot describe how PISSED OFF I was and how badly it made my ulcer flare up.)

The only reason I didn't blow up at work was I only worked a half day. The fall semester started today. One class - easy, one class - okay, third class - really really really time consuming and tedious. On any other day it probably wouldn't have been so bad, but I had had enough already. Strike seven.

After dinner (of which I ate very little because my ulcer was killing me), I decided to fix my fantasy football league. I am the commissioner and we had our draft yesterday. It went alright, but I'm new to the site we're using, so I wasn't quite sure how to make the changes I needed to. I ended up having to just delete everything and start over. What should have taken 15 mins took me an hour. And I'm still not 100% sure it's all fixed. Strike eight for this spectacular Monday.

Now...I am feeling a migraine coming on. It's either becaue today was the day from hell or because of "girly" things. Either way...strike NINE.

I really hope my headache is gone when I get up in the morning...I really NEED a good workout.