The Wedding Post

Many, many things have changed in my life this past week.  First, I am now married to a beautiful, smart woman. She has always been there for me, and I am amazingly lucky to have her in my life in any respect, let alone spend the rest of my life with her.  The wedding/reception was awesome; only wish that I had more time to spend with everyone, it simply felt too short.  

Happy Day.

On a nutrition note, this past week has been horrible.  Family was in town and they were on vacation so I was constantly surrounded by cookies and cake and pizza and chips and all kinds of things that I don’t normally eat.  Not only that, but there has been so much of it.  I have gone from feeling slightly hungry all the time to feeling slightly/really full all the time, and it hasn’t been a pleasant experience.  And yet, I kept eating.  Hopefully soon I can get back to eating healthier foods. Like now.

Also, with this past week trying to fit in time for work and wedding and family stuff there was not a lot of room for the gym.  In fact last week I only worked out once.  Haven’t been too happy about that but it is what it is.  I got to work out today, and I plan to workout tomorrow.  As long as that keeps happening I’m fine.

Third, I am moving again.  The wife (eek!) is enrolling in Duke law this fall and so we are moving down to Durham in like a week.  I’ve never been one for change but I am excited for her and the new experiences that await us.  This weekend we drove down to Durham and picked out an apartment.  Again, with the drive down and nothing to do but eat out the diet has been nothing like it has been.  Although I will say the food scene in Durham is unreal.  Every restaurant we visited had amazing food.  Especially Dame’s chicken and waffles.  Delicious.

Concerning food, I've found an NC paleo food delivery service, Custom Fit Meals, which seems like it's a lot like power supply up in DC.  Glad people are realizing there is a demand for this.  I'm going to have to test it out and see what it's like, they seem to have a lot more options then power supply, which I'm meh about.  Just put it in front of me and I'll eat it.

I am unsure what to do workout/rehab wise once we get down there.  Optimally I will have like six more weeks of rehab until I can start doing some type of Oly lifts.  I am unsure about my desire to rejoin a crossfit gym like Crossfit Durham, as I seem to respond better to a progression plan with weight lifting.  It seems that after two years most people burn out on crossfit and move on to something else.  I seem to be no different.  However, if the one of the gyms there offer a 5/3/1 plan or some Oly-only programming I’m all about it. …I also know that I will be very lonely working from home with Kristin gone all day with school, so I will definitely need the community support of something like a box.  …I have also noticed that the student gym center offers bumper plates for oly lifting, so perhaps I’ll do digital coaching with Angie my coach from Crossfit Rise. Time will tell.

Kristin also found a candidate for Bobby’s replacement, Ellen at active edgefit.  Hopefully I won’t need to see a massage therapist like I have in the past because my hip/shoulder will be in better shape.

Speaking of, Tuesday I will see Dr. Hauser for the last time, at least last time this year.  If I end up needing to see him again, it will be next year when my FSA is replenished.  I hope that he will say I’ve completely healed, but I have a feeling he will suggest I have another treatment.  As always, hopefully this will be the last time I see him.  Currently if I do not use ANY external or internal rotation I can squat to full depth and not have my hip click.  However, if I had any rotation for things like putting on my pants I get a click still.  ...I seem to be ok if I bring my hips down to my feet, but if I bring my feet to my hips it's a completely different story.  For example, I can squat to full Oly depth and there is no click, but in the roman chair if I bring my knees up higher than 90 degrees then there is a click.  It’s nice that I’m seeing progress, but it is a little disheartening that I seem to still have a ways to go.  If I don't get up to 100% (aka no clicking or pain) after this then I guess I will hold off on the Oly lifting until sometime next year.  I'm not sure about this, but since it was Oly lifting that worsened the situation in my hip I'm hesitant to get back into it.