Weight: 183 lbs
Size: 12
Blood Pressure: 117/79
Feeling:
Pre-Cryo: Okay
Post-Cryo: Great!
It was a good weekend away. I enjoyed Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios with my family very much and the UCF Homecoming game - well...ouch. We suffered a heartbreaking loss by one point in the last one second of the game but it was a beautiful, cool autumn night under a full moon that was just made for football and while the outcome was brutal, the night was lovely.
Since I always subject you to the same picture of me in a robe in front of the cryotherapy chamber, I figured I would spice it up today and give you a t-shirt in front of the cryotherapy chamber!
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| With the husband at the UCF Homecoming football game |
While at Halloween Horror Nights on Friday night, I found myself a bit tired. Despite having done cryotherapy that morning, we had also packed in a 3 1/2 hour drive and then headed off to the park where we walked for miles. It was a warm night and I found myself wishing that they had a cryotherapy option that weary guests like me could pop into to (a) cool off and (b) get that burst off needed energy to last until the 2 am close time.
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| In line with the husband & kids at Halloween Horror Nights |
The weekend left me without any real healthy food options and a near desperate need for caffeine, so I ingested things I wasn't proud of. They were deep fried, they were sugary, they were in hot dog form and at times they were barely recognizable as food. I definitely ate, but nonetheless, the walking must have balanced it out for me because the scale was still favorable.
In a nod to my drama of the previous week, it still exists. Nothing has changed or magically been solved. If I think about it, I will crumble and turn into a big, slightly-less-fat crybaby, so I am not thinking about it and continuing to focus on other things...
I hate being caught up in other people's problems. I feel like I need to solve my own much faster...
Anyway. Moving on.
Pre-Cryo:
I was exhausted after the weekend and the traveling for a second weekend in a row. I slept like the dead last night and woke up still tired. I've been battling a minor sore throat with no other symptoms for a while now and made a doctor appointment for later in the day to see about it.
Cryotherapy was exceptionally cold today, despite it being the usual temperatures. I'm not sure why that was. My teeth actually were chattering. I thought it was just me, but another person with me had the same effect. Odd. Humidity, maybe? I'm not sure, but I felt it today. In any case, it's still only 3 minutes and being cold for 3 minutes is hardly the worst thing.
As a whole - well, cryotherapy is something I need today...
I'm tired and stressed. I'm feeling a bit like an emotional hostage in someone else's situation and isolated in not being able to talk about it. I'm frustrated and feel a bit caged...like I'm trapped in a small box with limited options for what I can do. All negative feelings that I need to shake.
Post-Cryo:
I really enjoy my sessions. I'm luckier than most, probably, to have a location with an amazing staff that I just adore. They never fail to leave me feeling like I just visited briefly with friends and lift my mood as much as the cryotherapy session does. However brief the interaction and the session, it's a much needed uplift in otherwise hectic times.
I left with the pop of energy that I needed and better spirits to carry on with my day. I carried out a few errands and headed off to the doctor's office. My weight loss was commented on, I was given a prescription for my throat.
It seems as though I may have been walking around with a minor form of strep throat for a couple of weeks without knowing it...cryotherapy has left me feeling so energized and good that I didn't feel the symptoms besides a minor sore throat that was becoming more annoying by the day. On the bright side, I am a fanatical hand-washer and I'm never without anti-bacterial hand-sanitizer - and somehow, I am pretty sure that I haven't infected anyone else. Apparently I'm not really contagious at this point, or at least my doctor didn't seem concerned in the least with me engaging with the world.
I suppose that's a weird "con" to cryotherapy...? Or is it a pro? I was actually sick at some point and didn't know it. I'm usually very attuned to my body, so this is pretty unusual for me. Weird.
On the emotional side, I am calm. I believe I am clear. Things are not the way that I would like them to be, but I am not able to change that right now. I'm figuring it out...and I can be okay with that much.
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