July 4, Day 5
KarenZen
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Happy Hump Day!
Halfway through this 10-day challenge. I'm finding that my 3 goals aren't challenging me enough. I mean, it's good that I'm logging food and swimming every day, so yes, good habit building, but like Zac, I think I need a stronger incentive. I might try a dietbet next time. Or limit carb grams or calories, or even--GASP--weigh myself. I think I'll weigh in after the weekend and see what's what. I'm not eating what I should be (for example, for lunch I had saltines and cheese). Oh, argh, hahaha...I've just circled back to the reality that I NEED TO FOLLOW A MEAL PLAN!
Anyway, blah blah blah, tomorrow is the big party. I'll be up past midnight making fruit salad and frosting cakes, then up at dawn to fill water balloons. We also play a good solid 4 hours of Rock Band (our band is the Forest Fires) (of Forest Lake). Skippy plays a mean plastic guitar, and I'm a maniac on the fake drums!
I hope you all enjoy your celebrations too. Have fun, stay healthy, get as much exercise as you can, and remember to love the people and activities MORE than the food!
Xxoo
K.
Halfway through this 10-day challenge. I'm finding that my 3 goals aren't challenging me enough. I mean, it's good that I'm logging food and swimming every day, so yes, good habit building, but like Zac, I think I need a stronger incentive. I might try a dietbet next time. Or limit carb grams or calories, or even--GASP--weigh myself. I think I'll weigh in after the weekend and see what's what. I'm not eating what I should be (for example, for lunch I had saltines and cheese). Oh, argh, hahaha...I've just circled back to the reality that I NEED TO FOLLOW A MEAL PLAN!
Anyway, blah blah blah, tomorrow is the big party. I'll be up past midnight making fruit salad and frosting cakes, then up at dawn to fill water balloons. We also play a good solid 4 hours of Rock Band (our band is the Forest Fires) (of Forest Lake). Skippy plays a mean plastic guitar, and I'm a maniac on the fake drums!
I hope you all enjoy your celebrations too. Have fun, stay healthy, get as much exercise as you can, and remember to love the people and activities MORE than the food!
Xxoo
K.
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Have a wonderful day Karen!!! Yesterday was my 'rest' day off of the treadmill. I will hit it again today!! Did you see my post in FB?? I posted I am going HOME!!!!! Yeah!! Now it is official!! So my sorting/cleaning etc continues! Just saw that the local PAWs (Peoples Animal Welfare Society) here in ARAMCO is having a yard/garage sale in September...so...I have a ton of stuff I can donate to sell for the needs of the local animals!! (They trap and neuter, help those who can not afford to neuter cats, or if anyone wants to adopt they will neuter and pay for the injections). So I have another goal....donate, donate and donate....besides...sell to the staff some of my stuff!!
Happy 4th of July!!!!!
Catch up with ya all later!!
xoxox
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Occasionally cases at work suck. Full head today and glad to go sleep off my night. Catch you all properly soon0
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Well I am going to call it a day! Did OK with my food, did 45 minutes on the treadmill and tomorrow will be the start of my work week. I will start another TV series on the treadmill too. Not yet 6 pm but I don't seem to be having a problem eating after 6 pm anymore. Hope it continues to not be a problem!
I continued to clean and sort thru my 'stuff'...will it every end??? But at least I have til October to finish!!
So how did you all do today!! Karen...dying to hear about your healthy choices and the water ballon fights etc!
Carly....can understand your quiet evening/day with your significant other having PTSD, hope you had a lovely evening watching movies! Cari...I hope your dad is OK....as you mentioned, by Tuesday you should have some answers after his physicians appointment. Zac....how did you celebrate the 4th?? Linda..how did you do?? Lesi, sorry you had a bad shift....I hope you were able to get some sleep and wake up refreshed!!!!
Will check in tomorrow...which is day 6...OMG...these small challenges just fly by!! Yeah!!
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Nancy, how perfect that PAWS will be holding a yard sale just when you'll need one! Sounds like the universe is telling you this is the right move.
I'm lying in bed right now while all kinds of party prep is happening downstairs. Last night I had such bad back spasms that I shot right up off the bed, and this morning every time I tried to stand up, I literally saw stars. The weird part of having a high tolerance for pain is that by the time it gets "bad" for me, my body is already saying "enough!!!" and I'll either pass out or vomit or both! Seriously Inconvenient!!! Anyway, I've stretched and am waiting for meds to kick in so I can go join the fun. I'm glad I did all my cooking last night! I just need to make fruit salad today.
Cari, let us know how "the big talk" with Reggie went. Seriously, training a man is HARD WORK!!! Sometimes I want to kill Jim, but then I think about starting from scratch with a new one, and I just don't have the patience or stamina, LOL!!! Seriously, seriously, all you can do is express your needs clearly; you can't "make" him change.
Alrighty then, I need to move this crippled body and go chop up some cantaloupe! Happy 4th, everybody! Woohooo for Liberty!
Xxoo
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Day 5 has arrived quickly. Im not perfectly on plan today but still within an acceptable calorie range for me. Post nights I struggle so badly with food. Reckon I ended up on about 2000 for the day though.
Last night we had a young boy in, I say young he was 26 and very morbidly obese maybe nearly 400lb. He was paralysed after an accident and had really REALLY awful infected wounds on his legs. He came in from a fall but the fall was caused because hes got a raging infection. Its been a long time since I saw wounds that bad. Despite everything we were doing he was getting worse and worse and when I left he was being rushed to theatre in an attempt to try and save his life as nothing was working and we were losing him. I have to say Im not convinced he would have made it through surgery. My colleague is going to get an update tonight and let me know. Its one of those odd ones. We see people die all the time but some of them hit harder than others and the entire department was worried sick about him. And I cant help thinking 'there but for the grace of god'. I never made it past 270 but it shows how easy it is for obesity to creep up on you and how its not as simple as having some willpower as many naturally slim people seem to think. You just dont know what happens in peoples lives. I was so proud of my colleagues, not one of them were judging him for his size, they all saw past that and saw what a nice kid he was and everyone was worried and upset for him. Im possibly not explaining this very well.
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Wow, Lise, what a sad and touching story. I'll say a prayer here for that young man and hope he pulls through.
Here in the states, we have a few reality series that deal with morbidly obese people, mostly shows that follow their lives before and after weight loss surgery, or "the biggest loser" type weight loss competitions. The shows have helped, I think, to break down the stereotype of the fat person who has no self control and who sits around eating bonbons all day. Personally, I've been overweight since childhood, but the 200 pounds that put me at 494 came on over ten years of steroids (prednisone) and a disease that took away a lot of my mobility. Strangers on the street don't know that, and who are they to judge me anyway. No one gets to 400+ pounds without a back story, whether physical or psychological, or both.
I've got a yard full of guests but have snuck away to my bedroom for a half hour rest. I'd JUST taken my prednisone dose when my father-in-law-ish arrived (Jim's stepdad), and I cannot STAND the man, so I figured now was a good time to take a break before I lit into him with my 'roid rage. Too long a story to share here, but I'm pretty easy going, can get along with just about anyone, always happy to help, but this man pisses me off completely...frigging selfish, narcissistic, myopic, whiny man-child asswipe!!!!
Okay, taking a 20 minute nap now. Jim has been firing the cannon (haha...Yes, we have a cannon!) every hour on the hour. He loves this stuff!
I'm doing great on food.
Hugs to all.
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Lise, Sorry about the stress of your work night. What a great group of folks to work with though, non-judgmental and giving 100% to help the young man.
There are individuals that really grab at your heart strings. The one that will always stand out in my mind was a simpleton....not sure that is a word, but he was homeless and mentally challenged, about 32 years old. He rode his bicycle everywhere and was a frequent visitor to our ER (when I worked in the US). Several of us fell in love with this young person...he was the happiest sole. We would feed him, give him clothes and just overall really cared about him. We just got so attached to him. I can't even remember why he frequented the ER. One day we got a phone call from another ER....he had been struck by a car and killed while riding his bike. We were all crushed.
We found out when his funeral was and where. We attended his funeral and we were the only ones there. He was laid to rest in the 'homeless' area of the county cemetery. It was terribly sad. Most folks don't know how attached or how we 'feel' about our patients especially working the ER.
I do hope the young man pulled through.
Folks, I am starting Day 6. Catch you on Day 6 thread!
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Didn't get our movies watched. Stubborn fiance dragged me out to look at fireworks from the lawn on our apartments. We turned around twice just walking the 1/2 a city block to the front...
Lise, my heart always breaks for folks in situations like that young man's. Looking forward to hopeful outcome...0 -
He's holding his own so far after.two surgeries. Long way to go though. One of us has rung in every night so far to check on him0
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Lise, saying a prayer for your patient. Such a heartbraking story.
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