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My back is killing me. I have never been in this much pain in my entire being - and I'm not just being dramatic. I have given birth to three children - my youngest with no pain meds - and child birth doesn't hold a candle to the pain I'm feeling in my back. I've had my toe broken - twice; a broken hand; and still - this back pain is by far the worst pain of them all.

I'm fairly certain that I know how I hurt it - I failed to lift heavy boxes correctly. Now before you go and roll your eyes and think to yourself, "You're back cannot hurt that bad from lifting boxes," hear me out. Remember how the movers delivered our household goods on the 11th? Well, being the busybody that I am, I zipped through those boxes as if my life depended on it, and the hubby and I had our entire house done (and I mean D.O.N.E.) in a day and a half (and we had 7000 pounds worth of belongings according to our paperwork)!

Let me begin by saying that I don't wait on my man - if I wanted to get to a box labeled "Pots and Pans" and yet there was a 400 pound box on top, preventing me from getting to my pots and pans, you best believe that I huffed and puffed until I got that 400 pound box outta my way. Hence, my injured back.

So I wake up the day after all of my heavy lifting and my back is stiff, it takes me a while to get out of the bed and I'm a bit sore, but it's nothing I can't handle so I go about the day, and the next day and the next day and I gradually start to feel better.

Fast forward two weeks and I go to the gym, just like most days before, except I change up my workout - I think this may be where I made a mistake. Typically I stick to interval training - which is phenomenal for fat loss, and with graduation and the move and all I haven't hit the gym consistently and have gained about fifteen pounds over the last few months so fat loss is what I need. Ha! But seriously, do interval training religiously for a few weeks and you won't have an ounce of fat on you. Just don't stop the interval training and simultaneously start eating peanut butter blossoms for breakfast, lunch and dinner or you'll gain it all back like I did.

Anyhow, this particular day I decided to spend my entire gym time spinning. Now, when I spin, I.Spin. I go and go and go and sweat and go and sweat and go and if you know a thing or two about spinning you know you're leaning forward one second, then sitting upright the next. After my workout I felt amazing and tired and I went home and was in no pain. But then I woke up crazy early the next morning and I couldn't get back to sleep because no matter how I would lay in the bed, I couldn't get comfy. I had to literally sliiiiiiide outta the bed and it took me about five minutes to stand up straight. My legs are weak and I can't even hold my body weight when first getting up from a sitting or standing position. When I move my legs (especially my left leg) a certain way, I get this horrendous pinching feeling that shoots down my back. So I think maybe I reinjured myself - I didn't think beforehand about how hard spinning is on your back if it's already injured but I'm guessing it's the up, down, up, down you do as you increase and decrease the resistance that'll hurt an already hurt back.

The morale of the story is - if you pull a muscle, etc, leave the gym alone - it'll be there in a month once you've allowed yourself to fully heal.

As I lay here on my bed, belly down with a heating pad on my lower back I could just shrug my shoulders and chalk it up to my susceptibility to bad luck or I could simply thank my lucky stars that this happened before the kids got home. I mean, come on, could you imagine me having to run after my three munchkins while in this sort of pain? So yeah, I'll go with the latter and thank my lucky stars, then I'll go make some more peanut butter blossoms continue to rest my back.