Patti - I wonder if we really are suffering some kind of travel/motion sickness after working out on the treadmill. It’s a horrible feeling and I make sure I don’t work out longer than 20 minutes on the thing now and definitely not with it elevated. It’s awful to be scared of a machine, but I really have a phobia about vomiting!
Sounds good to me that you have built up muscle weight, that’s a great reason to gain weight.
Sandy - The Sound of Music is my ALL TIME fave movie, that’s so cool that you and Abby watched it today. I introduced it to Beth the same age mum introduced it to me, at age 7, but sadly she didn’t love it like I do. I think a lot of it of course has to be because of her deafness, she can’t enjoy the music, and at age 7 she couldn’t really read the subtitles. I might just try her with it again soon
Sue - good for you for going for a walk despite it still being painful. You have always been an inspiration to me and you continue to be
Hi ladies. Just a quick update - I'll try to do some personals tomorrow if I feel up to it. I think my thyroid medication is finally doing some good. I haven't lost anything that I know of (weigh in tomorrow), but I've noticed the water retention is really down. My ankle isn't nearly as swollen as it has been for quite a while now. I've been sick with a bad cold, so I haven't eaten much of anything but I am keeping hydrated.
I talked to the wellness/lifestyle management coordinator and was advised to continue seeing my PCP instead, because my insurance *will* cover office visits. I will have to go in monthly to be weighed, but that's okay. I was also advised to not try a VLCD right now, but to wait and see if my medication is going to help. I have been doing some hand weights every day, and doing some kicks and stretches to move a bit. I think once I get rid of this blasted cold, I will probably start going to water aerobics at the YMCA as well. I am definitely in a better frame of mind. I still may have to have WLS, and I'm okay with that. But in the mean time, I'm not going to stop trying to get my weight under control. Even maintaining at this point would be a step in the right direction.
Just dropping in to say goodnight. I am fighting the muchie demon tonight so I think I will just take a piece of fruit upstairs and along with the telephone head to bed. I am too lazy to come downstairs to eat sometimes it is a blessing. Its only 8pm but there must be SOMETHING decent to watch on tv
Sharvanne-It isn’t just the length that is different, the widths are too. The first time I bought 3 meters when I usually just use 3 yards, and ended up having enough to make two because of the width difference on top of the extra 9 inches. She told me to just read the measurements off the French side of the pattern envelope. I had to explain that I cut my own patterns, and I didn’t come with French instructions. She found that weird.
Ammi-I know with my injuries that I’ll never play competitive basketball again, even in an old lady league, but the feeling of the ball sliding off my fingertips towards the basket was delightful none the less. I couldn’t play long because the wind picked up, and it got cold, but even just a few trips around the horn were amazing. As for my book, I’m not just worried about revealing myself, I kind of named names too. I was planning to wait until my mom passed away to publish, but I guess she’ll just have to get over it. She may have a heart attack and blame me for it. She blamed her last one on me, not a life time of smoking and eating fatty food.
My husband serves on the Premier’s council on the status of persons with disabilities with several deaf people. One was telling me that he got surround sound, and put the subwoofer right next to his chair where he can feel the vibrations from the explosions or the tempo of the music.
Sandy-When I was 22 years old, and in my first year of law school, I was given custody of my 15 year old nephew. My brother had remarried a woman with two small girls, and his new wife was concerned about them being in the house with him. He was an alcoholic and drug addict. He also was very lazy, sat around all day, didn’t want to go to school, hung out with the wrong kind of kids, and generally was my worst nightmare. I tried everything, being a parent, being a buddy, you name it, and nothing worked. He lived with me and my brothers off and on for 6 years, and finally died on the streets. We tried doing tough love, and treatment, but when it comes right down to it, they can choose the way the want to live their lives, and there is nothing we can do to change it. You have to protect yourself, and your other kids, and basically keep time until you can tell them to behave or get out. I think at his core, my nephew believed the world owed him something, and if he didn’t get it, he would take it. I definitely understand what you are going through, and I wish I could say something to make it easier.
Misti-My feet certainly let me know when I haven’t been walking enough too. It is so hard to get back into things when I take even a couple of days off.
Brandnewme-Maintaining is always good. Even if you have to have weight loss surgery, they will still want you to lose some before hand. It helps loosen up the skin so it doesn’t get stretched as much by the laparoscopic instruments. Loose skin means less pain in the short term anyway.
Catherine, thanks for such kind words. Not many experience a child who is just disrespectful, mean and selfish. And you and DJCJ are right, we just have to do our best til she moves out. It's the emotional part of it that wears us out. And she sets such a horrid example for Abby. Time will tell, won't it.
Today was a good day food wise. I haven't a clue what we're having tomorrow. Probably something with chicken and a salad. I have great recipe for meditarrian chicken I might make. It's easy, tasty and low cal too. But am totally up for suggestions.
Til tomorrow my friends,
Thanks for the encouragement everyone. LOL Ammi I sure don't feel like any kind of inspiration to anyone!
The strange part about this injury is that my doctor said I was a "puzzle." I should not have had something this serious unless I had had some type of injury. In fact she x-rayed it for bone damage, ultrasound for hernia, felt for lumps, etc. and did not find anything more. But oh well at least is IS getting better after about three months. I am kind of wondering if maybe I worked too hard on the Gazelle as I was really cranking that thing. I want to try to get back on it soon for just a bit and go really easy.
Sandy-My nephew had a brother who was 3 years younger, and turned out the exact opposite. He saw what his brother was like, and wanted no of it. He is married, has a new baby, and runs his own carpet laying business. Sometimes the example you set is one of what not to do. I'm sure it will be the same for your younger daughter.
It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon here and I have done all my ironing so now can sit here guilt free catching up.
Daren and I went to the shops this morning. We’ve decided to make Sunday morning ‘our’ time when we leave the girls at home and stroll to the shop to get a paper and milk or just have a browse around. Oh and in case some of you don’t know, the girls are 15 and nearly 16 so they are quite OK at home alone Anyway we had a lovely walk this morning and I bought myself a new tower fan. That kind take up far less space than the normal kind and it’s going to be a godsend to me when I work out in the warmer weather. So now I have a fan that I can leave in place rather than one that I have to bring up and down stairs for every work out.
I am actually quite pleased with myself today because all the way to the shops I was thinking about whether I should use this time of diet struggling as a time to learn to maintain, and I was trying to convince myself that I could buy some chocolate if I was just maintaining because after all what harm can one small bar do me. By the time I got to the shops though I caught a glimpse of myself in the window and although much happier with my reflection these days, I realised that this is not the time to maintain, this is the time to carry on losing weight. OK so I might be having a struggle, but moments of clarity like I had this morning make it that much less of a struggle to keep on going, and I never bought that chocolate
Brandnewme - what absolutely wonderful news that your thyroid meds are quite possibly at the right levels now and that although you haven’t lost weight you know you aren’t holding as much water and that your ankle is far less swollen than it has been.
You DO sound in a much better frame of mind, and I hope that once your cold lifts you will indeed join up to do the water aerobics that you mentioned.
Patti - are you doing anything differently on the treadmill now, perhaps staying on there longer now that your leg has improved? Maybe our bodies can only take so much of the artificial motion before they start feeling queasy?
Brenda - I hope you found something decent to watch on TV and that you managed to stay upstairs away from all the food you might have otherwise been munching on. Saturday night always has good viewing over here, too much, I end up staying up really late and the later I am up the more I want to munch. Good job I have a load of low fat snacks in stock
Catherine - that’s wonderful that you enjoyed your session with the basket ball, it’s wonderful to reap the rewards of weight loss isn’t it
Thanks for telling me about the deaf guy you know, Beth is quite the opposite to him, she really hates the vibrations she gets when music etc is played loudly. It makes her feel sick! Now she is older she can read much quicker so at least with regards to the TV she can watch a lot now and read the subtitles.
I am sorry that your mum blamed you for her last heart attack, but hey if you got blamed once and god forbid she does have another heart attack, then if she wants to blame that on your book then so be it. You know it won’t be your fault, and that wonderful book will be out there helping so many people.
Sue - you may not feel like an inspiration right now, but take it from me, you are The huge long plateau you were on, perhaps still are on would have broken a lot of people, I think me included. You have carried on exercising, you haven’t let it beat you, and that to me is very very inspiring
I think I am going to go make my lunch now, today it’s going to be Wonton Soup with some WW bread, mmmm, yummy. By the way has anybody had Miso Soup, if so, is it nice?
LOL thanks Ammi... but no I have NOT carried on exercising. Truthfully there was honestly a lot I could not do since I could barely hobble along in walking. But there are arm exercises, etc. that I could have done -- and managed the pool on Saturday mornings, etc., and I haven't been doing it. But I will! As much as I dislike summer weather, I am looking forward to our pool opening again the end of May... that was the best and most effective exercise ever for me when I could go out there and do HARD water aerobics several days a week!
Glad to see you still here and doing well. How is your president's challenge going? I haven't even been reporting my exercise to the site so haven't earned the second medal...guess I had best get over there, huh? I also never ordered the first one I earned.
It's for her own good. Then she'll be able to do the french thingy with the pattern whatnots like the fabric store lady said. Problem solved. Or something.
Hi from Vermont- I'm totally new to this (never posted anywhere, ever!) but saw about this web site in a magazine and as I'm desperate to lose weight and get healthy, I'm trying it out! I posted my start weight at 350 (maybe a bit less, but I haven't gotten on a scale unless I had to in the last 6 months!) and I have quite a ways to go. My mind is ready, but the weather is not! I want to start walking without having to join an expensive gym, but in VT it's still winter- - and today it starts snowing again for another 24 hours- and where there is not heavy, slippery snow, it's MUD! (I live in the Northeast part of the state- very little pavement around here and NO on the sidewalks, malls, etc!).
Anyway, I hope I've done this correctly and I think the best thing I've seen on the threads I've seen is that other people are honest and have the same issues I do out there in the world. Does painting walls in your house count as exercise? Cause that's what I have to go do right now (sigh)
I am currently wrapped up in a little project to rebuild my iTunes library. One of the things I had to do in preparation to move was to take my music off of the house server (yes – my ex is a complete computer geek) and put them on my own machine. In the process, my local version of iTunes lost all the references to where the files are kept and I have rebuild everything – including my playlists that I use for working out. Needless to say I won’t be charging my iPod on my computer until I have this sorted out. Besides that, for this weekend I really need to get out and do some shopping today, but it is rainy and dreary.
I totally overate last night to. We went to a sushi buffet, which actually has pretty decent quality stuff (I know – at first I wouldn’t have thought sushi and buffet should be in the same sentence together). But, as much as sushi is the one type of buffet that is possibly ok, I still overate. I think I need to avoid this place for awhile, but that will be much easier when I move out since I won’t have my ex to go out with. It is down in NJ and far away from where I will be living when I move.
sometimes it is a blessing. Its only 8pm but there must be SOMETHING decent to watch on tv
I should not have had something this serious unless I had had some type of injury. In fact she x-rayed it for bone damage, ultrasound for hernia, felt for lumps, etc. and did not find anything more. But oh well at least is IS getting better after about three months. I am kind of wondering if maybe I worked too hard on the Gazelle as I was really cranking that thing. 
Anyway we had a lovely walk this morning and I bought myself a new tower fan. That kind take up far less space than the normal kind and it’s going to be a godsend to me when I work out in the warmer weather. So now I have a fan that I can leave in place rather than one that I have to bring up and down stairs for every work out. 
- and today it starts snowing again for another 24 hours- and where there is not heavy, slippery snow, it's MUD! (I live in the Northeast part of the state- very little pavement around here and NO on the sidewalks, malls, etc!).
