Yep Yep Yep it’s time for one of THOSE posts… not all about WLS or health or what you normally have come to expect…
no todays topics will be Skin, clothing, knee pain (again), arms and shoulders and GARMINS.
So first let’s talk about my GARMIN… Why in the world do I want to talk about a GPS. Because mine is more than a GPS and it’s a smart cookie too..
We now have two Garmins. Brian went to Bristol TN for a NASCAR race and took the Garmin with him. This made sense… the only problem was that Andrea and Beth were visiting Baltimore that weekend and Nik and I were going downtown to see them.. I DO NOT go downtown without my Garmin so I had to go and buy a new one.
Well this new one is very interesting. It has bluetooth so I talk on the phone through it… which is really quite helpful especially since Maryland is going Hands Free in October by law. It has 3-d photos of the intersections to show me which way to go, it speaks the street names, it has traffic so it tells me how delayed I am. AND yesterday it figured out ALL by itself that going to work my normal way would take me longer than the back way. So it automatically adjusted. Now I don’t NEED the garmin to get to work but it does the bluetooth and now that I know it tells me if the beltway is too backed up to use it will be part of the morning routine…
Let me tell you about Baltimore Traffic… We are some of the WORST traffic in the COUNTRY… I live NINE miles from work. NINE MILES… this is 3 beltway exits (actually 2.5 since one is right as soon as I get on and I could take instead of the one I take before it) NON-RUSH on the beltway I can be there in under 15 minutes… RUSH hour… well depending on the traffic I’m 15 minutes to FORTY FIVE minutes. to go NINE MILES… yesterday would have been an HOUR on the beltway to go THREE exits. The back way takes about 25 minutes but I’m MOVING the whole time… on the beltway we are SITTING A LOT…. and you have to be hyper vigilant. There are lots of TRUCKS (18 wheelers) and tons of morons….. I am very thankful that i have so many OPTIONS to get to work. I can get off at the exit before if it’s really bad….or tough it out… UGH.. I HATE driving to work.
Today I came in early I was at work before 7 there was still traffic. Oh well summer is coming and once schools are out it’s a bit easier…
On Clothing:
I have a closet full of clothes… lots of cute summer dresses… some stuff that’s too big.. NOTHING that’s too small. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG THERE IS NOTHING IN MY CLOSET THAT IS TOO SMALL. Yes there is stuff that does not fit but that’s cause it’s TOO BIG! OMG! I am able to wear 14s. they fit snug. but not TOO snug… at least not according to everyone else… according to me they feel TIGHT… but they look as ok as a chick with skin is going to look…
I can’t figure out sizes. I wore 14s on Friday I wore 18s yesterday I am wearing 16s today… all jeans… granted these are a teeny tiny bit baggy in the thigh (and maybe the butt I don’t know I never look at the butt I’m all tummy and if I can get it to fit there I”m happy.
This morning I was a good girl and I put one pair of jeans and 2 tops in the donate pile…I tried on a purple top and in my heart i knew it was big.. but not too big… so I kept it… the two tops I put in the pile are fairly new and not TOO big but big enough. the hard part’s going to be doing the sweaters from this past winter… Jeans are easy… tops are hard…
today I have my shirt tucked in. but i felt weird so i put a cardigan over it.. at least as I get less fat I get better style.
Of course one of the reasons clothes are fitting better is I’m working out…. sadly that leads to pain along with the glory
My knee is bothering me. It started Saturday after working out… It’s NOT the meniscus which had a cortisone shot a week ago it’s the Baker’s Cyst… I’m going to have to have that sucker removed… it really is limiting me. it ACHES… I can do all the yoga poses and all the weights and stuff but the constant ACHE is wearing on me….
I guess this is a good transition to my arms and shoulders (which ill then be a good transition to our FINAL topic of the day SKIN…)
I noticed on Sunday that my SHOULDERS are very defined. my biceps are large but not bulging. the batwings stink but what can I do? My quads are like rocks… I’ve got some serious definition showing up. and I LIKE IT… I really LIKE IT…. I like working out… I don’t like the knee pain. I recorded my workout with Tammie and that might help me. I’m going to do a few more… get an idea of what I want to do… write it all down then record all the machines and settings on the itouch and it will be most helpful!
Too bad exercise is not going to fix the skin…. it’s getting bad….
ON SKIN:
(just posted this on OH)
IMO EXERCISE has NOTHING to do with skin…. only muscle.
let me tell you I am lifting weights twice a week with a trainer and doing yoga three times a week (along with 3-5 30 minute bouts of cardio weekly) and I have SKIN like you would not believe…. and I’m not even done losing.
I look like a sharpei puppy….
my arms have wings which looks weird because i have large biceps and great shoulders….
my boobs… well there is no hope for them… NONE….
my belly when I sit looks like a tushie because it creases in the center… the panni hangs so low you can’t even see if i’m a boy or a girl….
my back folds onto itself like a puzzle
my inner thighs I can’t even begin to describe them…. but suffice it to say it’s so bad you can see it below the pannus…
my husband bless his heart loves me no matter what but his refrain when he sees me now is “you’re going to need plastics”…..
Thankfully right now my rashes are pretty much under control… god bless Nystatin powder. But it involves daily wash and dry and powder… and sometimes twice a day and as the warmer weather comes it will be even worse. I wonder if the constant ache in my neck is the weight of the boobs pulling down on my shoulders… I wish I was brave enough to post pictures of this skin….
the inner thighs are so ugly and horrible empty sacks of skin….almost two inches can be pulled out of each upper thigh… I can see a mons lift in my future as well…
I am not looking forward to plastics it’s a horrible recovery and if I didn’t have the rashes I’d not think about it….
