Light at the end of the tunnel
As usual, life has been less than calm in our household. Our son had surgery last Thursday and it went very well. It was an outpatient procedure so we were home Thursday afternoon. Thursday evening, however, he had another seizure. We were in the hospital from Thursday until last Saturday. The doctors think he had another major seizure because of problems with his medication so hopefully now that they have modified his meds he should stop having the big seizures. He still has the little, spacing-out kind of seizures but they don’t put him in the hospital.
Sitting in the hospital I had a lot of time to think and I think we finally have a plan worked out that will allow me to be successful even with all of the chaos in our lives. I tried getting up early this week and that lasted for one day. The next night my son was up for 3 hours and I was not up for getting up and exercising when I was exhausted. I finally feel rested again after 3 nights of ok sleep but I had to accept that getting up early wasn’t going to cut it.
We have worked out a plan with our sitter (my sister-in-law) that she will keep the kids an extra hour every day so I can work out after school. I can be home by 3:00 and my husband and the kids won’t be home until 4:45 which will give me time to exercise every day. When I lost 70 pounds 2 years ago this was the set-up we had. I would come home directly after school and do a tape for 45 minutes and then hop on the treadmill for 45 minutes. Beyond burning the calories, this is my prime time for overeating so I’m hoping I’ll see results fairly quickly. If I gain any more weight I won’t have any clothes that fit and I will NOT buy bigger pants.
The plan starts Tuesday because my son has a follow-up appointment from his seizure on Monday. Since I won’t be able to exercise on Monday I’m going to make sure I get a workout in on Sunday evening; I don’t want to have an excuse to eat poorly just because I didn’t exercise.
I finally feel like I’m getting a handle on things. Wish me luck,
Brandie