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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Weight Last Entry:  240.0    Weight Today:  240.0
Change today::  +-0.0 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   -45.2 lbs.    
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Hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s Day!

I have several announcements.

   - I’m still holding steady at 240. 
   - My bi-monthly TOM is due around the 20th.  Six days from now.
   - When I woke up this morning, both knees were swollen. 
   - I’m still happy that I ran though.
   - I did a bunch of shopping/walking today and my knees became very sore. 
   - I still don’t regret the running.  I don’t. 
   - I know to “baby” my knees when they’re swollen.
   - I want to run again.
   - I’ve started logging my food again. 

I checked out SparkPeople and though it is a VERY cool site, it is not set up for folks who choose a low-carb diet.  At all.  I can’t use it.  Oh well, back to FitDay. 

I really really liked the freedom of not logging every bite - but I can’t say I’ve been really successful while not logging, so… I need to put back that particular layer of effort.  Put it back and leave it there probably forever.  I can be pissed at that notion or I can just accept it.  *Sigh*  This is me accepting it.

My hubby sent me flowers for V-day yesterday — at my work.  Woohooo he did good!  I’d take a picture but I lost the cord to my camera again.  Anyway they kinda look like this:

I don’t much care for roses and he knows that, so these were perfect!

Okay, back to my knees.  All the world revolves around my knees, LOL.  They are just on my mind today I can’t help it!!  So to tell this other knee-related story I need to back up a bit.  Okay a lot.  I need to go back about, ummm, nine months.  NO I’m not pregnant!  LOL.  Heavens.  Bite thy tongue.  Anyway, about nine months ago, I bought one of these: 

I thought it would be great exercise, and after all, I loved it when I was a kid so it’d be kinda fun, right?  Well, I couldn’t do it.  I couldn’t jump.  I’d injured both knees, one of them twice, and I was physically unable to jump.  At all.  Not even once.  I tried - and just stood there and cried.  I had had no clue, no idea that I could not jump.  I hadn’t tried it for so long that it just hadn’t occurred to me.

So fast forward a couple months.  I got the DDR.  Remember I was so excited because I loved that DDR?  And it was working, I was doing an hour a day and I was losing weight steadily.  And guess what DDR requires the participant to do.  Yes.  Jump.  I did it.  I jumped.  And at first it was hard, but I got better at it.  To the point where it wasn’t a big deal anymore.  I cranked up the DDR to the next level.  It was fun!

Then I twisted my knee.  Did a DDR jump and landed funky.  Injured the same knee that I injured in the car accident the December before.  I ended up on my butt, most of the time with ice on my knee, not able to walk without a cane.  It took quite a while to heal.  I tried to do the DDR while skipping all the jump moves, but it just wasn’t fun anymore.  I was scared.

Okay fast forward again to about a week ago.  I put my time in on the elliptical and I was feeling great - strong, no pain, no discomfort.  I did my awkward weight-lifting moves and then got an idea.  I was feeling so strong that I decided to try the jump rope.  I knew exactly where it was.  I got it, took it outside, and … for the first time in over 20 years, I jump-roped.  (Or is that jumped-rope?  Eh, pick one, that’s what I did, hehe)

Granted, I didn’t last for long (omg it’s a helluva workout!) but I did it.  It didn’t hurt!  I did, however, feel that it was still a little high-impact for my previously-injured knees, so I put it up.  Another twenty or thirty pounds, I told myself.  It’s interesting that when I ran last night, again, it didn’t hurt.  Today, yeah, I’m a little swollen and a little sore, but it’s not that I’m incapacitated.  I’m gonna baby it, let the swelling go down. 

And then I’m going to try again. 

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