Insult to Injury

You know how my SS post was about how I have been slacking in the workout department?  You know how I made my goal to work out nearly every day for almost two weeks?  You know how sometimes you should listen to your body more than your mind and say this might be a little bit too much?  You say, maybe you should slow down you might be overdoing it?

Well, I had been doing pretty well with this goal until Tuesday night when after my Soul Grooves class I grabbed a bunch of stuff out of my car (more than anyone should carry in one trip) and I slipped (on one of the hundrend patches of ice that is beneath the snow) and I sprained my ankle.  Shoot!  I spent almost all day yesterday at the doctor getting it looked at, but since it was so swollen they couldn't properly determine if it was broken.  Good news is it is not nearly as swollen as it was and it is not broken.  Bad news is it is still sprained, hurts like crazy and means that I need to stay off of it until next Tuesday when I have to go back and get it checked out.

So, what I have I learned you may ask?  Well, I have learned that I need to be careful on the ice, that I need to take more than one trip of neccesary, that I need to relax and most importantly that I need to try to stop doing everything all at once and burning myself and my body out.  In all honesty, I feel like since October I have been go, go go and it seems like I am trying to do too much at once.  I used to be a complete and total couch potato.  I never went to the gym and I ate poorly.  I don't want to retreat to my old ways by any means.  I also don't want to feel like a chicken with my head cut off.  I want to lose this weight and feel healthy more than anything.  I need to find a balance.  I need to remind myself that this is a lifestyle change, not a race to the finish line.  I know my body is different now than it was 3 months ago.  I know that it will be even more different than it is now in 3 months. 

So, my fellow bloggers my question is... How do you find the right balance?  How often do people work out each week?  Do you listen to your body more than anything?  I would love some advice, because right now I am feeling like I have overdone it and I need to re-think my plan.

Also, my sister asked me the other day how much weight I have lost and I realized that I haven't shared it with anyone in awhile.  Three weeks ago I came 1.5 pounds shy of 50 pounds lost.  The next week at my weigh in I didn't lose anything.  On Sunday when I weighed myself I had officially hit the 50 pound mark.  I have lost 51.3 pounds.  I am ecstatic.  I think the excitement from hitting this milestone is another reason why I pushed myself too hard. I need to keep reminding myself that I am doing great and to take it down a notch.