p90x

Eats and an oldish workout

Hey there. I feel like, besides Thanksgiving, I haven’t posted any delicious eats in a while. That needs to change. Now!

White bean chicken chili (The recipe is on my recipe page!) This is one of my big brother’s favorite soups. He likes to put an insane amount of red pepper flakes and ground red pepper in it. Then his sinuses drain. Very interesting.

Everything bagel + cream cheese. Great for the breath 😉

*Now that I look through my pictures, I though I had more photos of food, but I don’t… so that is all I have!*

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I do have other pictures to share though:

Lily sleeping on my bed on Thanksgiving. She looked so peaceful!

Jimmy and I on Thanksgiving, I love him <3333

Lovely notes in microbiology. I was learning about malaria!

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My sister was away with my parents in NY for five days and on Sunday I didn’t have anything to wear to church. So I borrowed one of Hannah’s dresses. What is funny is that she wore the dress last week at church and no one noticed that I re-wore it 😉 #winning. 

Now that I look at it.. the dress is kind of short on me :/. I’ll just have to look through her closet for other ones next time, muhahah! 

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Yesterday I did an old-ish workout. I have been doing a lot of the same workouts lately (running & swimming & some lifting) and I’m getting a little bored. So I decided to whip out an oldie but goodie: P90x! I did a lot of P90x after I “retired” from competitive swimming in March. It has helped tremendously with the amount of pull ups I can do!

As I am writing this blog post, it is still Monday night (the same day I did p90x), so I’ll let you know how sore I am next time I post :p. I’ve also been to a few spinning classes lately to switch things up!

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Well, I should probably get back to studying. Or eating pumpkin pie. Or both. In bed. With my heating blanket on.

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Have a great day!

Overdue injury update

Hello everyone! I am finally able to update you on my knee injury. I went to the doctor about a week ago and my appointment was at 8:20AM. I didn’t get home until 1:30PM. I was x-ray’d, poked, prodded, and had an MRI. It was a long day. Here are my x-ray pictures:

Initially, the doctor figured I had a stress fracture after looking at my x-ray’s. Crapski. He said if I did have one I was looking at 6 weeks of no running. But he wanted a second opinion so he immediately set up an appointment for an 30 minute MRI. I got the results in the mail today….

The results:

-No stress fracture or stress reaction

-There is some degeneration of the medial cartilage which goes with my degree of running

-The quad also has some inflammation and thickening (anybody know what the heck thickening is?!)

-Rest the knee and avoid pounding, I can get onto the elliptical and gradually get back into running as I gain comfort and confidence.

-See one of UPMC’s (UPMC = University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) athletic trainers to get me back to running and get me stretched so I can continue to run at a high level.

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I called the athletic trainer today and I have an appointment sent up for Wednesday. I won’t name names or say too much but apparently this guy is well known in the national sports industry … and his price is also an indication of that. (He doesn’t take insurance and the assessment alone is $150) This makes me skeptical because money can’t buy everything and I’m defiantly not made of it!

My knee is doing alright as we speak. I haven’t been doing any running at all. I know if I run it will hurt so i’m defiantly excited to see a trainer to help figure out how to fix my knee :). As far as emotions go i’m doing pretty good. Of course I am sad that I can’t run and haven’t been able to for 3 weeks now but I can’t change anything, so why stress? I’m enjoying weight training and swimming when I can!

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Other cool stuff

I did my nails 🙂

Vegetarian quesedillas are wonderful

My mom likes her p90x shirt

I love my boyfriend. And trampolines. And the sun.

How do you deal with injury?