15
Jun
Pictures
legs look so chubby here… but it’s the only shot of the cute outfit (that doesn’t look so cute with a cell phone camera in the bathroom) I wore yesterday….
Here’s the family:
here’s my OH meeting from Sunday dinner:
Archive for June, 2010
NOT a baby… no no no… Today is my NINE MONTH SURGIVERSAY… yep 9 months ago today I was in surgery. It’s amazing how fast it goes. This is an idea of my day now:
ok here’s the daily report:
scale: 172.4 this is:
down 1.6 from yesterday
up .8 from last tuesday
down 5 pounds from a month ago ( my surgical monthly report shows that I’m LOW average this month)
down .6 for the entire MONTH of JUNE
down 80.4 from surgery date which is just under 9 pounds per month… ugh. I wish it was more.
oh and I’m down 113.4 from the heaviest on my home scale. wow that’s almost a whole person.
basically the TREND is good… and isn’t that what matters?
fashion: blue crop pants with the blue flowered top, diamond drop earrings (hair is up today so that’s an important point) white sandals. going to be mid 90s today… we are going to hit 100 on Thursday it appears…
exercise: after work… will ATTEMPT the first C25K podcast today IF the ankle settles down. it has been going out the last two days. the chip is moving and it hurts to dorsi-flex (toes to shin) the joint and sometimes when I step it locks which HURTS badly… when the chip is stationary the ankle is JUST fine… I don’t know if it’s PMS related or weather related or just random but I do know it’s a pain… the knees (thank FSM) are just fine today…. I will also do some weight work and my stretching today
food:
commute: click/milk/protein/coffee (this is the daily breakfast 99.9% of the time)
snack: yogurt
lunch: cottage cheese w/cucumber and tomato pita puffs (salty little puffs of air with minimal nutritional value)
snack: cheese and banana (pre-workout)
dinner: something cool…. it’s HOT….
LNS: fudge pop probably
this is a pretty typical day for me.
of course I wake up around 5 am (and loll in bed about 15 minutes with dogs and hubby)
i get up
I potty (and hope that the colace, magnesium oxide and benefiber of the day before worked)
I brush my teeth
I get on the scale NAKED…. while I may weigh more than ONCE I only count the first weigh. I would say 99% of the time. Occasionally it’s way to whacked out (too low or too high) to be accurate….so I reweigh to find something closer to the day before.
today is not a gym MORNING (it is however a gym DAY) so I shower and dress for the office and take the gym bag with the gear with me for after work. In fact, almost EVERY day is a gym day now… who would have ever thought I would love going to the gym. I wish my knees and ankle were happier with me about it… and I wish my butt/back/piraformis did not hurt so much… but I wonder how bad it would be if I didn’t go to the gym almost daily.
Yes I am in the gym pretty much everyday. I usually skip either Saturday or Sunday (usually Sunday) but this past week I skipped Saturday. AND if I don’t have plans and bri is racing I might go both days anyway. I am thinking of trying the Couch to 5k but I worry that I’m doing too much with my ankle and bad knees… Yes KNEES… the left knee has a torn meniscus and a misplaced Baker’s Cyst… the right knee.. arthritis. so not cool… so not happy about this. oh and my ankle is acting up again…
It does not stop me from hitting the gym. I love Yoga. I love the stretch, I like to lift, I even like to run but my body takes a pounding….
Food is a bit more complicated. I eat more fat and carbs and calories than you would think I should but less than the gowear fit thinks i should. Maybe that’s why I’m stalled this month.
Yes I lost 5 pounds during the surgical month of 5/22-6/22 but I’ve lost NOTHING for the month of June. and that makes me sad and frustrated. It’s not abnormal. It could be from eating too many carbs, it could be from not eating enough food. it could be from not drinking enough water, it could be from many things or nothing at all.. who knows.
all i can do is keep moving forward… can’t believe it’s been 9 months now… wow.
Tags: Exercise, gym, surgiversary, WLS
1. shopping for clothes burns more calories than the gym. nearly 2700 vs nearly 2300 hundred. so do the shimmies, walk the walk and carry the bags…. just living a full life seems to burn calories…
2. I eat very little food… i threw most of my yummy stuff out… so the girls bless them said next time I will just graze off their plates…
3. I really really like these friends.
4. the spa at the Hotel Hershey is wonderful. OMG to be rich and able to do it all the time… what a treat.
Folks often say I should write a book. I’m not sure why; I mean I’m only 50 what do I have to say? I’ve gained and lost weight; I’ve worried about my weight and ignored it. I’ve had children both mine that I did not raise and someone else’s that I did. I’ve loved, lost, loved again, run away, saved myself and loved yet a third time, well enough now I guess. I have pets, dogs and/or cats, a bird here or there. I’ve struggled with ADHD, I’ve ignored ADHD. I’ve had depression or so I thought. I’ve smoked, I quit, I smoked again and quit again. I’ve buried a parent. I’m lazy yet driven. I’m thin, yet fat, I’m fat yet thin. I’m stable yet insane. I’m neat yet messy. I’m neurotic and yet magically in touch with reality and right and wrong. I think that I’m amazing and boring all at the same time.
2
Jun
Musings…
I swear I need a tape recorder for the gym…I think of such wonderful things to write about while doing my walk on the track… and I am SURE I am going to remember them but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO they are GONE before I get to the locker room…
maybe a note pad… I don’t think i can listen to music and make voice recordings at the same time..
The scale was UP today. 2.2 pounds worth of UP…. that sucks ya know I only saw it once but I already liked 173. Oh well I guess 175.2 isn’t bad. just glad i never said I OWNED 175… just renting it… I just wonder if even though I say the scale does not affect me it does?
I mean yesterday I felt thin and light and fluffy and cute… today I feel fat. and I’m not it’s 2 pounds of water for god’s sake. it has to be water. I ate very little yesterday. I wonder about this food in food out stuff… I mean my gowear fit says I”m generating around an 850 calorie deficit on average… I guess I am that’s about 6 pounds lost and that’s about what I’ve lost….
why is this such a slow process? why do we go up 2 down one up 3 down 1 up 2 down 3? I hate it. I wish there was a rhyme or reason to it… there is not.
Tags: gowear fit, scale, weight