"Injury" is My Middle Name

I'll start off with last night. I heard from a fitness acquaintance who also has sleeping issues that take some 5-HTP 30 minutes or so before bed helped her sleep. So I bought some at Dierbergs yesterday and loaded up before bed. I felt more relaxed but thought maybe it'd make me feel tired like Melatonin does so I didn't lay down. Bad idea. I was up til 3am wide awake. And given my last meal was sf jell-o pudding with pp at 10pm, I was getting hungry! At this point I was so ticked off about being up so late that I wasn't going to try and surpress my hunger with just a protein shake. So I settled for a sandwich of Healthy Life bread, Hormel natural turkey meat, ff slice of cheese, and some soy crisps. I was proud of myself for not saying, "To hell with it!", and letting myself eat chips, cookies, or whatever I could get my paws on at 3am without make much noise.

I finally fell asleep after much tossing and turning due to my awful back pain and my planter fasciitis bothering me again. I then was awkoen at 8:30am by my father calling my cell phone (on his attmept to work despite the horrible roads), telling me to go get Mom up and have her call him. He didn't want to call the house in fear of waking my little brother---who was already up anyways!!!! I tried to lay down and go back to bed but had no luck. My spine hurt so bad I couldn't lay down and my foot hurt anytime I flexed it. So then and there I decided that Tae Bo was off for the day and I'd settle with weights.

I was diagnosed with planter fasciitis last September and was told to stay away from any cardio besides swimming and the eliptical until I had zero pain. Well I did--but it still came and went up until this point. I had tried Tae Bo with no shoes on last week (which did help improve my balance) but aggravated my foot. Yesterday it became worse than it's been in quite some time so I put the special wrap on that my podiatrist gave me and have been *trying* not to go barefoot around the house. I HATE wearing shoes minus when I'm outside or working out so this is quite a challenge for me. I also had insoles custom made for my shoes this past fall and I was told to put them in every pair of shoes I wear--which I do! That's supposed to help with my foot too. I think someone dropped the ball on that because I wear them religiously and I'm still having pain.

So that leaves me with doing weights today. I was going to double up and do upper and lower body sets but now that I realize I probably won't be doing much, if any, cardio this week, I may as well spread the sets out so I'm not just sitting on my butt all day. So today will be upper body weights so I can do my planned lower body set tomorrow, followed by one more full body set on Friday. Thursday will be my rest day because my BFF and I are going to see Legally Blonde at the Fox.

Meals for the day are as follows:

1/27/09: Training; HIGH
PreWO: Essen. Nutr. Whey/tea/ Glut.; BCAAs; EW, ff slice cheese, Thomas Light Eng Muffin; Bethany Frankle’s LF Fudge Muffin
TRAINING
PWO: Essen. Nutr. Whey, stevia, coffee, Glut.; sweet potato; BCAAs
M1: BSN LD, EW, almonds
M2: (Chix Lettuce Wraps) chix, hoisin sauce, peanuts, romaine lettuce; Nonni’s Turtle Pecan biscotti w/ tea
M3: BSN LD, instant oats, stevia