Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day everyone! Today is the day to tell Mom just how much you love her. My mother is one of the best people I know and I don’t tell her often enough just how much I appreciate her. You’re always there for me. Thank you.
These are my favorite health, weight loss, fitness, and exercise posts from this week. I hope you enjoy them as well.
- Get Fit Slowly’s Quest for Better Sleep provides a list of things to think about to change your sleep cycle with warm dairy products and carbohydrates before dinner on this list. Sounds to me like that would make milk and cookies the perfect bedtime snack.
- It always sounds delicious but you have to ask yourself Is Your Food Worth its Weight in Exercise? Fat Man Unleashed provides a table of just what you have to do to get rid of the additional calories.
- So while sugars are carbohydrates, there are better ways to snack. Lazy Man and Health lists Five Healthy Snacks with low calorie counts that still sound delicious.
- But if that doesn’t do it for you, Starling Fitness wrote about how Cinnamon Reduces Insulin Resistance. It will supposedly reduce your desire for sugars and the need to snack every few hours.
- Now I have a new question for you. Do you like NCN Eat Before Getting Hungry? NCN is trying to eat before hunger pains hit so as to eat less. Have you done this? Does it work for you?
- But with all this talk about food Nutrition Fitness Life says, There’s More to Losing Weight Than the Numbers on Your Scale. Muscle weighs more than fat, so while your scale weight might not change you’re in fact healthier.
- And muscles as we know burn lots of calories for us, so use them! The Journal of Healthy Living says exercising is a great way to Improve Circulation.
- Blogging Away Fat prefers doing a job or task that involves physical exertion to going to the gym. In Yard Work: 1 - Tricia: 0 BAF talks about the pleasure and joy found in seeing something get done.
Volleyball Take 2
To say that my dehydration event earlier in the week was scary is an understatement… The further away from the event the more I realize I should have stopped earlier than I did. None the less, if it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger, right?
So today I headed back to the open gym for more volleyball. This time however I came prepared.
I bought a gallon of bottled water and brought it with me… That takes care of the water, but the doctor suspected that I also was out of salt… So I ate 5 almonds right before entering the gym and I ate 5 more almonds half way through…
I drank my fill of water in between each game and in total I finished a little less than half the bottle.
Properly hydrated with plenty of sodium I had no trouble playing the full 2 hours… Yes I am tired and yes I am a little sore, but I did not have a single dizzy spell and I feel fine and am having no trouble working this afternoon…
I still think I am a little ways away from playing basketball, but volleyball is very manageable and an excellent workout…
Stokes my competitive fire… Tomorrow is my 3rd weigh in and I have high hopes of losing 5+ lbs this week.
Importance of Maintaining Adequate Hydration
Today I had a scary and interesting event… I went to the local rec center to see when the open gym occurred… It turns out that I timed it well and that there was an open gym for volleyball. My thought was that this was fortuitous… I played on a competitive intramural volleyball squad in college (think decent high school level) after I stopped playing D1 basketball. I need to exercise. I found out when the future open gyms will occur. Win Win Win…
The problem is that I was not prepared for the lack of a working water fountain at the gym. They had a water fountain, but the pressure made it very difficult to consume enough… I have been drinking copious amounts of water as part of my current diet… Internally, I acknowledged that I should be careful and listen to my body…
We played for about 2 hours… I was fine (very out of shape but fine) and played decently for the first hour. Then after a particularly long and grueling point I felt light headed… Being on the 1200 calorie diet I have felt light headed before and the doctor said it was a possible side effect of the diet and the medications. Being a former athlete I didn’t think too much of it… Yes I am tired at this point. Tired is good. I pushed on. Getting water in between the matches, but never enough…
Through the next hour I got more and more light headed with less and less physical effort on my part. Eventually I decided that my body was telling me something and stopped playing… I should stress that while tired I didn’t fell spent.
I sat down and the lightheadedness didn’t dissipate… I eventually worked up the energy to stand up and walk to my car. When I went outside my eyes were extremely sensitive to the light… driving home I felt distant. I probably shouldn’t have driven…
Once home I had 5 almonds drank a 16oz bottle of water and a diet fresca… I had another 5 almonds and another bottle of water and took a shower… The whole time my eyes were sensitive to light, I was light headed, and my arms and legs felt week.
After the shower I laid down and had another bottle of water. When my wife got home I was still feeling pretty shitty and I called my doctor from Jumpstart Medcine, Dr. Sean Bourke. Talking to me over the phone I answered a series of questions and he concluded that it wasn’t a heart arrhythmia or something worse. He conclusion, dehydrated and possible low of salt and potassium. His prognosis, drink a large mug of chicken borough, half a banana and eat my next meal sooner rather than later.
Having followed doctors orders I am feeling well enough to write this blog post. I will continue to play volleyball (after today I don’t think my body is up for basketball just yet…), but in the future I will bring LOTS of water to the gym with me. Also, I will try to be more aware of my body so that I don’t push myself to that point again.
It was a scary event… If you take one thing away from this post… take this… Always drink lots of water prior, during, and post exercise. Listen to your body.
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