Weigh-in August 1-7

wiredkell

LW: 152.3
TW: 151.9

On the downward slope! Can't wait to be in the 140's. I feel really good. I'm on Week 2 of my Couch to 5k app, I'm doing body weigh exercises or lifting weights and I'm tracking my food.
I'm heading home tomorrow for some "days off" but actually have to work overtime from home. I always find it difficult to get steps in when I do that, as I'm at my computer from 6:30am to 6:30pm, but I'm vowing to do it! I will take my breaks and work out.

I hope everyone else has a great week!

GaGasheesh

Great loss Kelly!! Congrats . . you're doing so great! I'll be back here Wed for my weigh-in.

SarahMaxx

Kelly, I'm lagging so far behind now with mileage, that I still avoided adding mine up. It's a character defect (if I don't look, it won't matter) that I need to work on.

As I logged last night's dinner and bedtime milk, I got a reminder of how helpful it would be if I logged what I plan to eat ahead of time and then modify, if needed. We had what I thought would be about 500 calories max last night, and what to my sad surprise was more than 800! Yep, two Trader Joe's bratwursts cooked on the grill with peppers and onions and some baby red potatoes added up to that much. A lot was the olive oil on the vegetables and some butter on the potatoes, and I may have over-estimated that--but jiminy! Had I logged first, I would have limited myself to one brat and reduced the amounts of vegetables. I could also have cut out or cut down on my bedtime milk. But you can't undo. So lesson learned. While part of my brain says don't pre-log or else you may not go back and amend, I know that that's the lazy part of me.

Sheesh, I also believe in the power of the mind to help in the healing process. Perhaps part of that is stress reduction. I'm trying not to get stressed about the MRI which is scheduled for tomorrow morning. To get an appointment quickly, which I need to do in case my insurance changes at the end of the month, I'm doing the closed version. I hear it's mainly the noise that gets people, but I'm also a bit claustrophobic. My orthopedic doc is out of town until next week, so I won't be able to get the results until next Monday. I feel like I'm playing beat the clock with these appointments.

Kelly, your progress with logging and moving is inspiration to me. I see a new decade (the 140s) coming for you soon. I'm hoping to move far enough down in the 130s to actually BE there. I'm still bouncing from 139 something up to 142 something.

Lois, my Nats are playing the Diamondbacks now so I was thinking about you during the game last night. The game is undercover, but I hope the temps out there are going down a bit since I know you love to get outside to hike. We took a 30-minute walk outside around 9:30 and it was finally bearable here, though still muggy. At least when I'm putting on the down coat this winter, you'll be sailing along in the dry, warm breezes!

Lastchancelj

Kelly - AWESOME and inspiring!!! Keep up the great work

Sheesh - See you tomorrow. I will step on the beast on Friday.

Sarah - the closed MRI is a bit challenging for me as well. Keep your eyes closed at all times and you'll be fine. Pick a good music station and relax. I dont typically follow baseball...unless my son in law and daughter are raving about the dang Yankees!!! Then I'm a hard core Red Sox fan all the way (born and bred in beantown). And I argue their fanship as NEITHER of them are from NY. ppffffttt. Anyhow, the weather has been warm to put it mildly. I heard on the news that we are going to have a drop in temps to the low 100's with 80% humidity (it's our summer storm season - Monsoon as they call it). Absolutely miserable once I walked out of my air conditioned house until I got the AC going in the car. hahaha.

So this week I was to be back on my meal plan. Well, I'm not. We traveled to Cali Sat and Sun and had a MISERABLE trip to put it mildly. Couldn't get mom packed Friday night without some serious arguing with that woman. We left home at 930 vs 7 as I had hoped. Arrived at her house at 230, not noon and the house was HOT, Humid and full of dead and living little bugs everywhere. Apparently one of her rice containers was left open and the high humidity of the house caused a greenhouse effect and molded the rice. And, a set of cousins had said they were checking on the house...yeah - I don't think they'd been there the entire time. So cleaning we began - AGAIN! UGH! I clean that house more than I do my own. We cleaned until 930 that night and still hadn't quite finished. We had to pass on meeting our friends for dinner (which is always my highlight). Mom was annoying in that she did NOTHING to help with cleaning OR her general moving/walking. Sunday I met with the contractor and we finished the last of the cleaning. We needed to take her grocery shopping and she mumbled about being too tired, nor had she made a list. I said fine. We are leaving at noon and you can figure out what food you have here and feed yourself dinner and breakfast. The caregiver can take her on Monday. She asked me to go for her...and I said absolutely not. This is part of her independent living and she needs to figure out how to get out when someone is offering to take her, not when it pleases her or when she wants someone to do it for her. She needs to participate. Anyhow, we left 10 mins later (amazing how much energy she had to get dressed and make a list with the right motivation). She had to load all of her own food and unload her cart as well. It was rough for me...I really wanted to reach over and do it for her, but it would not be healthy for her. Anyhow...230 pm and after several more heated arguments, we left moms. almost halfway home and I get pulled over for speeding...I was in the middle of the pack going with the flow of traffic, but not paying attention to the speedometer. The office kindly and annoyingly advised me I was going 87 in a 70 mile zone. Ok...I was going with the flow of traffic and not watching the speedometer. Sorry...I will pay more attention to the speedometer. How many times is he going to tell me how fast he clocked me on his gun (FIVE before he wrote the ticket and TWICE while I was signing it) Yeah the butthead still wrote me a citation after his condescending tone I just wanted to get going and go home. I am fine with the citation, it was his stupid tone and comments that pissed me off. And then we saw him AGAIN getting someone else several miles ahead. I continued through the remainder of Cali at no higher than 76mph. Didn't arrive home until 9 and needed to fuel up the cars for work and get something for dinner. Hit the bed at 11+ to get to work on Monday.

That's my sob story...horrible weekend in all counts. No food prep at all. Still very tired last night when I left work so went home and laid down. I feel a bit better this morning. Stay focused ladies. I'm getting there...I promise...

SarahMaxx

SW: 156
LW: 140.2
TW: 139.6

Still doing that little dance in a 3-pound range. But I'm relieved that the amount is not higher because we went out to dinner last night. Hubby's work has been busy and so he hasn't had time to go to the supermarket during the day, and I never stay offline long enough during a business day to shop. So after running over to Lowe's to pick up some flowers, Hubby felt his blood sugar drop, and we decided to just dash into a seafood house for some mussels, oysters and shrimp. Great meal, but the calorie price was high. Because I had a salad for lunch, it only pushed me over a little at the end of the day, but to lose, I need to be under--not over or equaling out.

I had my MRI this morning and all went well. I won't know the results for a few days, but I'm glad to have that behind me. I followed many people's suggestions and accepted both the blindfold and the noise cancelling headphones. It was not bad at all. Hope I get some kind of encouraging news when I go for results next Monday.

Have a good day, everyone!

GaGasheesh

Well, here I am . . a day late for weigh-in. Spent the day in Park City yesterday shopping and going to lunch with my daughter (who works in Park City). It's a lovely drive of about 30 (and about 10 degrees less ) minutes from my house.

SW: 156
LW: 128
TW: 128

I'm not surprised . . eating out and drinking wine always does me in. Maybe I'll be lower tomorrow.

Sarah, I'm happy you did well with the MRI. They're pretty awful, but it's good to finally be able to get more information about your injury. Keep us posted. Also, it looks like the Nationals and Giants are in first place in NL east and NL west, and they play again tomorrow in your neck of the woods! I'll see if I can find that game on TV. By the way, did they win that game your hubby attended in SF? Wow, I really love that ball park!! I hope we can go again someday when we visit our son. He lived in a condo high rise so close that we just walked to the ball park. . but now that he had 2 kiddos, they have a house in suburbia south of SF in Los Altos. But, we still venture into the city for fun when we visit. If the Giants get into the playoffs, I would really love to get tickets again.

Lois, I swear I felt like crying when I read your post. It brought back so many difficult memories. You're in a time of life that is so hard being a caregiver, and doing it from a distance . . working, commuting, and taking care of yourself and your family! I just don't know how you're coping as well as you are. Taking it one day at a time, sometimes one minute at a time, was all that helped me. And, things do change. Sarah doesn't like change, but looking back over my life, I have to say that at times I was grateful for the changes. Even though we get older, some things DO get better.

Lastchancelj

Sarah - Congrats on the MRI survival. I forgot about the blindfold option!! I recall just squeezing my eyes real tight for those 45 minutes and staying calm. Please keep us posted on the results.

Sheesh - FYI - I DID CRY! many times on the drive home. It has been such a struggle getting my crap together. Hubby and I chatted last night and we're working on me not being such a controller...mom is going to do what mom wants to do. Well, I told him last night...I have decided I'm NOT going to go pick her up next weekend, she can stay until Labor Day weekend. I really need a break and another 13 hours of driving next weekend just will do me in and hubby can't do it as he has to work all day saturday. After speaking with Mom last night, she let the caregiver go without having her help her make food. I'm done. Really and truly I am going to break. hubby reminded me that we left her with microwavable rice and quinoa, eggs and bacon and cereal. She will figure out something...or she can always drink her boost. Good Grief.

Oh and I woke up this am thinking it was FRIDAY...so on the scale I jumped...and then I cried again. 217.4. DANG IT. I can't seem to get focused AT ALL. Honestly I'm not even trying. I don't want to drag you ladies down with my sob story and excuses. I need to dig deep to get back on track and I don't know if I have it in me right now.

Positive silver lining...I DID make it to my workout last night and I got my butt KICKED. Got a charley horse doing pretend jump rope, but I kept moving and survived!!! It felt so good when I was done to accomplish the class. Saturday morning is next class. another few weeks and I should be able to hike again...temps are still ridiculous to START hiking...so patience.

Lastchancelj

Happy Monday Morning ladies! Hoping everyone had a spectacular weeekend!

I guess I was tired as I slept through my Saturday morning TRX class, not waking up until 9:30. Hubby said I didn't even flinch when he kissed me goodbye before he left for work. Oh well, don't feel bad, I was able to get some shoe shopping in, a trip to Costco and then a phone call from my trainer. Where we coordinated for me to bring back one of my fans that I loan to the studio so I can have air flow (we needed for our party). Anyhoo, while I was there she shared she was painting...long story short, we painted two full gallons of paint on the walls to freshen the place and prepare for some artwork...so though I may have missed TRX, I did get steps, squats and lots and lots of arm movement in. BTW we only had six inch weenie rollers to paint with (she forgot the regular rollers at her house and that's all I had available at home).

Hubby and I had our Sunday date at the movies (Suicide Squad - despite what the critics say, we really enjoyed it....very comic book style filming). After getting home, I was very successful in preparing food for the week!! WOOT WOOT. Chicken breasts, salad, avocado and mango all ready to go. Oh and eggs and bacon too for my breakfast (no more starbucks sandwiches).

On Saturday I decided to quit caffeine cold turkey. Sunday morning I had such a migraine that to Starbucks I went on the way to the movies...damn that stuff is addicting and I'm working on getting off of it again. Ordering decaf with one espresso shot (can't order half calf mobile and they take too long to order on-site). I'll let you know how I'm doing tomorrow...

Silver lining - my gym bag is also packed for class tonight and Wednesday!! Have a great day!

SarahMaxx

Hi, Ladies. This morning I had my consult with the Orthopedic doc about my MRI. I have some minor herniation throughout my neck, as do most people as they age, and there's more at one spot, which the radiologist noted as a herniated disc. The doc said it is not severe and certainly doesn’t warrant surgery at this time (which is good), but he thinks I've gotten about as much improvement as I will from the PT. He said the only thing left is to try a steroid shot in the neck. He thinks that may help some since it would alleviate more inflammation, and he said it can't hurt to try. BUT--I'm having some issues with my insurance company and don’t want to schedule an expensive procedure until I can find out what is going on. On the other hand, even though he says it's no rush, since I may have a change in insurance on September 1, I can’t put it off too long.

In the meantime, here's what has been going on with me related to intake and activity. Last week I had about three days where I was much hungrier than usual, and I'm not sure why. I was eating pretty much the same as always, and although my activity has not been as high as it was before this accident, it was not much different on those days. This morning, I was up a pound, and I’m not sure if that’s the result of those three days, or just part of the normal fluctuations.

My steps over the weekend do look abysmal, however, because we spent hours each day at the pool and I don't wear my fitbit there. Yesterday, I took it off about noon and for some reason, I put it in the guest room. So when I showered around 7 p.m., I didn't see it and didn't think about putting it on. I realized that I wasn't wearing it about 10 p.m. last night and just decided to give my arm a breather because it has been a little red and itchy under the band recently.

Sheesh, to answer your question about the Giants and the Nationals, we've played seven games. In the first series of four games, we each won two. One of those games was the one hubby got to attend while out that way for business. In the last series of three games, which just ended, we won two and the Giants won one. Both teams are very strong this year.

I'm also having a little problem with one knee. I can't believe I went from having no aches and pains at all to feeling like a chronic complainer. It's not pain really. It's just a “not-normal feeling” in my left knee, which has also had a numb spot on it. I mentioned it to the doc this morning, and he kind of shrugged and said, "You took a terrible fall." Well duh! So my plan is to walk tonight and see how the knee fares.

Lois, I think it's a good idea that you got that extra rest. You have certainly had more than your share of stress lately.

GaGasheesh

Sarah, I watched all three baseball games over the weekend. The Nats have a really great team this year! I'm sure they'll be in the playoffs, and maybe go all the way. The Giants have been losing quite a bit of late, and were fortunate to get the one win on Sat. However, I thought they had a good chance with Bumgarner pitching yesterday, but there was a coaching error (in my opinion) that kept them from scoring the one run they might have scored. I also noticed that the Nats swept the Diamondbacks!

Anyway, I'm glad you got the answers as to why you're still having pain and numbness. Please delay ANY surgery. It's way too soon for that. I've read a lot of information on bulging and herniated discs (due to my hubby and my sisters issues), and it's thought that they will heal with time . . quite a long time. It may take even a year or more. My hubby has had the shots in the neck. They put a HUGE needle in at the front of your throat. I asked him today if he thought any of those (I believe he had three) worked. He said "maybe a little." His opinion is that you stay with PT. Doctors never think PT is all that worthwhile, but it's our opinion that it's the best option. Slow, but the best. Oh, and hubby says alternating ice and heat helps too. Hang in there. And don't forget to take the Osteo Bi Flex Triple Strength for your knee. I swear, it's like magic for me.

Lois, I'm glad to hear you say "no", and that you need a break. Good for you. I think you're right that your MIL is capable of figuring things out a bit on her own. The last thing you and your hubby need now is for YOU to break down. You're got a good week started for yourself, and you need it. Stay strong. By the way, I have a TRX thing that my trainer gave me, and she works in about three moves with it every time we train. It is tough!

As far as me, I had my trainer today (love that girl). I've been walking and jogging a lot (love the challenges), trying to get 5-6 miles per day (what I need to do to get 2016 in 2016). Today, after lifting, I went to a luncheon at a friend's business, and the lady next to me told me I had great arms!! (I wore sleeveless, and they were a bit pumped, lol!) It made me SO HAPPY!! Totally worth all the sweat and soreness Now, if only I had great abs and a waistline, ha ha ha!

Lastchancelj

Sheesh - thanks for adding "I also noticed that the Nats swept the Diamondbacks!" Awesome that I don't follow BB and just give my kids grief about being Yankee fans. Closest I come is supporting the Red Sox because I was born and bred there. If any other team would have been my "team" it could have been the LA Dodgers since I grew up in LA area...who was that super cute guy when we were in school? I don't remember but my classmates all had major crushes on him.

and I LOVE LOVE LOVE my TRX! It is tough, but it is so fulfilling for some reason. Awesome job on the compliment....great arms are wonderful. And, um, I've seen pics of you...your abs and waistline are awesome as well!!! You're in much better shape than you give yourself credit! OWN IT WOMAN!! You're EARNED IT!!!

Sarah - I agree with Sheesh - continue with the PT. I despise needles so I'm not a fan. Most docs don't push PT enough.

TRX Class tonight - WOOT WOOT!!

Lastchancelj

Steve Garvey - yeah that was him...i think.

SarahMaxx

Sheesh, I am soooo envious. I would kill for nice arms! I never wear sleeveless tops--no matter how hot. I inherited not so great limbs--the type that don't age well. But I'm happy to say that I have finally reached that point in my life where I can genuinely feel good about someone else having something I'd love to have myself. So enjoy the compliments!

After I read your post last night, I asked hubby if he thought working with a trainer would give me great arms. (Note, I said great--not better.) And he answered, "probably not--it's your genes." Don't you sometimes hate honesty? LOL

But when I get down on myself, hubby also often reminds me that we all have some good things--and some we'd like to change--and he reminds me that I'm the envy of a lot of my friends because I'm 64 years old and still do not have to color my hair. It faded from red, to strawberry blond, to blond, and I believe I'll eventually go white from here. (But I'd still take the great arms! LOL)

And thanks for the reminder about the Osteo Bi Flex. Although the doc was happy about my aversion to pills when they had to give me those high-powered pain relievers for a short time, I need to get over my tendency to not even take things that would help me. I truly don't know where that comes from. I've worked in public health for 30 years for goodness sakes!

Lois, as I try to manage all my new aches and pains, I remember all the injuries you've worked through, and I'm grateful for your sharing about your challenges because it helps me keep going. I walked my hilly neighborhood route last night with hubby after it cooled down some since my walking buddy wasn't available. The knee was "talking to me" by the time we got home, but I made the full route and it doesn't seem the worse for wear.

Kelly, hope you're just "good busy," but since you usually weigh in on Monday's, you're on my mind. Looking forward to getting your update.

GaGasheesh

Lois, I remember Steve Garvey! I believe he played first base on the Dodgers. He owned a condo unit at Stein Erickson Lodge in Park City. Once hubby and I rented it for a weekend. . We had a romantic bath in his huge bathtub, LOL!!

Good job with the hills walking, Sarah. And, I'm positive your arms are already great. Husbands. I immediately texted my trainer to thank her. I would NEVER lift the weights that heavy without her in my face. Weights work miracles. And, as far as the Osteo Bi Flex, I don't take it every day, but when I feel anything in knees, elbows, etc. I take two after dinner, and the next day it's better. Try it. I think the dosage is three per day, but I only take two because I think for my height that's plenty.