Injuries

Sadly, I'm getting to this later than I had hoped I would. I had originally planned to update the blog this morning, at least it is getting done today.

As some of you may know I battle injuries quite a bit, mainly because I push myself farther then I should. My most recent taste of pain came from torn muscles in my thigh, more specifically the satorious and the quadriceps in my right leg. I had been getting out of bed, and all of a sudden I could feel the muscles tear apart. Now, I wasn't weight lifting, I wasn't improperly carrying a couch, I was getting out of bed. Even though I am a large man, over 300lbs, I am young. The posibility of my leg being destroyed seemed unlikely, but it had to do with my diet. On average I consume around 500 calories, far below what I should be taking in just to be active. Essentially my body ate away at my muscles to the degree that by standing up they came apart like fresh made bread. The pain was excruciating, I screamed like a little girl, and had to take 2 months off from any type of exercise (aside from going to class, which is minimal walking). Now the two months is over, and ready to move past this stage of life.

Prior to getting injured I had trained consistently for a few weeks (a step in the right direction), and I had been committed to my weight loss. Even with the setback I was able to make a dent, losing 11lbs just by changing my eating habits.

Today was the first day I could get back to training, and I decided to wait a bit before getting back to the mats. I wanted to see where my body was at, so I went with something I had done quite regularly, yoga. Normally I would glide through the basic warm ups and movements, but in my current state my legs were killing me. After only 35 minutes of working out I was through. I had trouble walking, and was forced to rest myself before moving on to my next workout.

After 2 hours had passed I hit up p90x (something I hadn't used in a while). I went with the basic program, opting to work on my upper body. Things went well, I had problems doing push ups but I was able to lift what I wanted and complete the entire workout. While my shoulders were slightly sore, it was the core workout that killed me. My stomach, being so huge, was impending the bending. I was able to get through the entire thing but my abdomen was killing me.

The most important element of my weight loss happens to be the diet. I can force myself to eat all I want, but it's almost impossible for me to eat more then 1200 calories. I hit 1280 today, burning more then 5 times that amount, but it's barely enough to maintain my current muscle mass. I went through 110 grams of protein, and 130 grams of carbs. It was painful to ingest that much, which emphasizes my prior problems. If I can't hit 2000 calories it'll be impossible to obtain additional muscle, which will be an obstacle I'll have troufor ble overcoming.

I should mention that we've decided to document my journey to my goal weight, which is 240lbs. I hope to reach it by March, but we'll see how it goes.

Sorry for taking so long to update my blog, I was depressed and really just couldn't do anything. I'm happy I got to it today, they'll be another post next week. Have a good one all!