What muscles??

On Thursday I decided to go to a fitball class at the gym where I am a member. I asked the instructor to be kind to me and not put me through too much agony, I reckon I could have asked it in a different language and she still would have ignored me. I was put through an hour of the most interesting and difficult exercises I had ever undertaken and couldn't believe how much my body creaked and groaned. I swore I had the body of a 90 year old within that class. I managed to get through it all with a few extra rest stops than everyone else and I am sure I left a bucket of sweat behind but I did it.

However, in the process of undertaking that class I now have the sorest muscles on the planet and they hurt EVERYWHERE!!!! I have aching groin muscles, very sore abdominal muscles that hurt when I cough, laugh or even move in bed to sleep. I can't sleep on my side as it hurts too much, sleeping on my back is not preferred either but I managed to sleep on my stomach and got a few more winks than the night before.

After I came back from the gym hubby informed me that the air conditioner had broken. I was upset and shocked at the same time. It was an extremely hot day and we were to swelter in the nightly heat with only fans to help move the air around. It turned out we sweltered through the hottest night on record since January of 1982. I could not believe it. I slept on the floor with a couch cushion in the rumpus room with the fan and I was not comfortable having just strained all the muscles in the fitball class, it was an awful night.

Yesterday hubby and I made the executive decision not to send the kids to school, what a mistake that was! They were cranky, tired and hot too and didn't take too kindly to being cooped up. Luckily we were expecting the repairman to arrive at 6pm to fix the air conditioner. He didn't show until 10:20pm but he managed to semi-fix the issue so we would get through at least the next few days with a cooler house. However in the process he informed us we would be $700 poorer as we needed a new motor, I nearly cried. It is the last thing we need to break right now, particularly in the heatwave (it got to 46.7 degrees on Wednesday) and there is no relief until next Friday.

I have not felt like eating but have been drinking water like a fish. My bottle sits beside me as I type and I have now finished my second bottle of fluids. That takes today's total to 2.5L of water.

Today I went food shopping to restock the fridge and bought more of the Skinny Cow icecream sticks I have become addicted to. They feel like you are eating the most naughtiest icecream but have the equivalent food value of eating a medium banana. It is another way of having a serve of calcium in my diet but not one I have all the time.

I am doing small exercises to keep my muscles pliable, they still hurt but are becoming accustomed to doing things such as bending over to hang up washing, walking around long distances or putting dishes away.

Here's hoping tomorrow I will be in better shape to return to the gym and do more exercises. I definitely want a fitball for my birthday and a yoga mat to lie on so that I can do the exercises without lying directly on either my lawn which gives me hives or the carpet which also makes me itchy.

Until tomorrow,