I love my resistance bands. You can do stuff sitting in a chair watching TV. And we all know how much women need to do something for our old shoulders!

I've got a ramble that kinda pertains to Dagmar's last post ... Long story about why she's now my friend and not my SIL omitted ... KB asked me to be her test client for her personal trainers exam. I was so worried about being good enough for her to look like she knew what she was doing ... by the time we got there I'd gained 10 lbs and hadn't lifted a darned thing in two weeks. She passed her exam but I still felt like a weinie little woman.

The phone woke me this morning and I still don't have my wits properly about me. I'm going to read some more 3FC and get motivated.

ack!! i'd have freaked out if i clogged the toilet at the house i dog-sat for... good idea to bring the plunger, cos how embarrassing if you had to call and ask where they keep theirs!!

anyway, good luck w/ the personal trainer!

allison, that 5k with your dog sounds fun! i'd love to take my parents' dog running but he gets so excited if you start that he'd be dragging me the whole way to the finish line!

i sort of went crazy with the food yesterday... i blame PMS, but that's just a good excuse.

Iris, I think it was a maintainer who once told me ... all you have to do is be good more often than you ... aren't.

As promised, I did 35 minutes of my dance stuff this morning. I had my HRM on and was surprised how much I was sweating by only getting my rate up to 110 or so. I've got flat! Ooooooo! My resting rate was almost 80!
Oh dear dear dear dear tsk tsk!
Can you believe how quickly that happens?

I got an hour in on the machine from **** yesterday (after another chocolate fix). I don't think I will be able to do it again today maybe just a quick walk with hubby after dinner. I swear I don't know what has gotten in to me this week - I cannot eat enough of anything. I am going to go home and make a bunch of veggies so I can just heat up for snacks instead of heading to the dreaded snack drawer.

Snack drawer? Is that someone who draws illustrations of various food items ?

Of course in our house it would be the snack armoire and my seasonal wardrobe could go into garbage bags instead

Dagmar (soon the owner of a stability ball)

Running always "encourages" things but when I was pregnant I had a couple of my running buddies offer their houses that were closer than me painfully running(waddling) home, but I just couldnt use someone else's toilet. I clogged mine about every other day at that point.

susan, quite true about being good the greater percent of the time... a few days a month is not the end of the world!

deb i'm in an eating frenzy this week too, although i suspect the cause of mine... TOM. get those veggies ready and stay away from the snacks! you'll feel so much better... i must take this advice also!

tomorrow will be better. right now i'm exhausted and stressed and slightly ill from the pint of ice cream that followed me home...

Hi ... I should be tired by now huh? I guess I am. Yes, yes I'm getting there.

I'm not that excited about this shift. I'm so wired up when I get home. Maybe I can sleep in in the morning.

Work was heavy. Literally I have a real live bariatric pt. I spent waaay too much time on the phone in the last two days getting him a special mattress. He's so sick and so uncomfortable. And we're just ... just women ... everybody from my coworkers to ambulance attendants think I'm strong but ... I can feel that I've moved this fellow a few times. And it's just so nasty for him.
The bed should come by Friday. I have a lift and I have a chair but he's just too sick ...
The bed manufacturer rep asked me if he hung out over the sides of our beds ... oh ... I just get teary thinking about the possibilities. What-whatever would I do with someone even heavier than this fellow?

I'm getting kinda maudlin .... thanks for being here. I'm not sure who else I coulda talked to about that. And it does feel better to have dumped that out

I should go to bed and let my head fill with dreamy plans for an exercise plan for April. It's coming you know ... April ... very soon.

SusanB I've known two male nurses. They both said all they ever did at work was lift, turn and move patients around. The female nurses were sooo glad to have them do that that they didn't do anything else.

I can just imagine how difficult it must be for you. My DH's father is well over 400 lbs. He had a hip replaced last year and I can't imagine how many people it took to get him in and out of bed etc.

All the more reason for all of us to stay OP!

Dagmar

SusanB
To me the nursing profession seems like the most mentally and physically exhausting....and pretty thankless most of the time. Kudos to you for being in your field. I don't think I could ever take it emotionally...you know?

I have a friend who just recently changed fields and became a nurse and she's running a personal crusade against Grey's Anatomy...she's all...that's not what life is like for nurses and doctors...

Dagmar
I'm waiting for your experience with that balance ball before I plunk down the cash for one!

Iriswhipers
Even a few days of overeating couldn't hurt that much...as long as it doesn't turn into a habit. I have had my days of grazing all day long too....

Deb
A designated snack anything would do me in every time!


As for me...TOM came....a week early. I wonder if it's the lifting?

When I was placing my dad in an assisted living facility, I hadnt seen him in 6 years and it was a cross country move. His med recs said morbidly obese, and we had to confirm his weight before they would take him. None of the top 3 choices would take someone 300+

Grey's Anatomy .... I never watch that schtit. I used to read those old Harlequin romances about young nurses who fall in love with tall, mysterious wonderful doctors ... until I met a coupla real doctors. <snort>

And please don't feel sorry for me ... I love my job and nowadays that's an all too rare blessing. But there's something about having a pt I can't help much.
The field is so diverse now ... you can be a nurse for years without ever dealing with a sick person. Which sounds odd but preventative medicine is finally finally becoming more important. Optimal health support rather than illness management.
Does Ilene's son graduate next year? Another Ontario nurse!

But I'm rambling ...

I did OK yesterday. According to what I've trained fitday to do for me, I'm in a calorie deficit situation but just.
I've got to find the right after 3-11 snack. Last night I had toast and grapes but went to bed feeling ripped off
Exercise was timid (wrt my hip), percentages not so gooot.

And by golly I haven't lost a thing since Tuesday!

Mudpie - I think that would be much easier to live with. Actually it is a cabinet, but the top shelf sides out and is full of all the good stuff so that became the family name for it. And don't even get my started on the contents of my freezer. Yes I would love to remove the snack items from the house however I have an underweight 11year old who needs all the extra calories I can get in him. So willpower is a must. My shopping cart is hilarious. 50% lowfat and low cal and 50% calorie loaded snacks and such. Usually I am pretty good at the out of site - out of mind, but I have been caving this week.

No exercise yesterday, but the only plans for this afternoon are the elliptical and maybe if our weather holds some yardwork. The scale was a slap of reality this morning, so I think my willpower has been reinforced.

Oh I hope I didn't come off as feeling sorry for you. I didn't mean to imply that there was anything about being a nurse that inspired that. I meant to convey something akin to awe...like that's something I couldn't be capable of doing y'know?

Anyway..just wanted to clarify.

Lekhika ... you worry too much. Not one bit of offense was taken. I was whining and I shouldn't have ... I love my job! See ... don't be in awe, we're a whining bunch

I came back because I realised I posted right over Ennay. Hi there ... I'm glad your dad was placed in an appropriate facility. It means sooo much to his care, health and comfort to have access to proper equipment.
The distance is heartbreaking but he's in much better physical circumstances.

Have to get to work ... you all be very good!