2017--This Year is Our Year!!!
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I'm having a Jenny Craig day today. There's been some SS on ebay lately which I snapped up!
Also have to go to feed the colonies and go to the grocery store and be home by 1 for a conference call.0 -
I'm attending a volunteer luncheon today. This week has been busy with all of my appointments, but I'm close to finishing those up now. Yesterday was hair day, so now I'm highlighted and trimmed and my hair looks so much better. Tuesday was the dentist, then a mani/pedi which took up most of the day because the woman doing my manicure didn't have much experience with dipping powder. She did great until the last step, then messed it up and had to file off a layer and redo it. They looked good in the end, but it took waaaayyyy longer than it should have. Tomorrow I have a PT appointment, then the rest of the day is free.
Saturday I may be helping a neighbor out. This is my neighbor whose husband was severely injured in a fall in Spain last year, spent weeks in a coma, and finally several weeks in the hospital back here once he came out of the coma. His wife had surgery on her foot earlier this year and still is not cleared to drive. Her husband is having a surgery on Friday to fill in the indentation in his skull that occurred due to his accident, so they may need assistance with driving for a few days. Or if someone else does the driving they may just need me to let their dogs out. Either way, I'm on call to help them. We also have a wedding to attend that evening.
I enjoy having activities and things to do, but I'd like it better if they weren't all happening in the same week, lol!0 -
I guess I forgot to report on our weekend in Houston. Our niece completed her first (and last) Ironman Triathlon! She was very proud of finishing, and deservedly so. Her time was 14 hours, 58 minutes, and some seconds. The first place finisher did it in a little less than half her time, for comparison sake, but there were many who either took longer than she did or failed to complete it in the maximum time allowed, which was 17 hours. There were people of all ages, shapes, and sizes competing. I found it surprising how many competed who were not in great shape. Quite a few were very obviously overweight, which surprised me. With all of the training that goes into preparing for the race, it's hard to imagine how anyone could be overweight. I think the oldest competitor was in his 70's, and there were 2 blind competitors.
Our niece is a nurse and she was formerly employed at the hospital that sponsored this race, so she had planned to see some of her friends who were volunteering in the medical tent after the race. That didn't turn out quite like she expected because as soon as she stopped by the tent they ran a quick electrolyte test on her and told her to go straight to the ER because her potassium level was dangerously low. As she was walking into the ER she passed out and was subsequently admitted overnight and given 4 bags of fluids, 3 doses of potassium, and had an echocardiogram before being released the next day. In the nod, the fluids helped her recover faster, and she did see many of her old friends as they stopped in to see her in her room, but that wasn't quite how she had planned to see them.
DH, SIL, and our nephew and I volunteered for 4 hours during the run part of the race. That was interesting. We were handing out cups of water, Gatorade, and Red Bull to the runners as they passed by our station. It was an interesting experience, but very tiring to be on our feet for so long. The bonus though was that we got to see our niece and her friend as they came by twice. The course was a loop that they had to run 3 times. We were still working the first time they ran through, but the second time we were just resting and waiting for them to come back past us. After that we went back to our car and ran back to the house to get warmer clothes. SIL and DH went back to be at the finish line, but I was just too tired and in pain from my back and feet to go back. After they left I took a long hot shower, put on my Jammie's, and enjoyed a quiet evening. I wanted to go with them, but I just didn't feel that I could manage any more walking that day since there was no guarantee we could find a close parking space. So that's the race report! She says "one and done", no need to do another one.
However, our nephew now feels that he has to do one since he can't have a wife who is more of a "badass" than he is, lol! He's registered to do one in August in France, but I'm pretty sure we won't be going to that one.0 -
Maryanne--Good job. Keep up the planning and execution of the plan.
Helene--Enjoy the mani/pedi. I had mine done yesterday and discovered it had been five weeks.
I had a cardiologist appointment yesterday. I will need another stress test so I will be notified once the insurance company approves. I was down a few pounds on their scales.0 -
Jean..How nice when a doctor's scale reads lower than expected. I did my last mani/pedi here yesterday. Like Pam, I do the dipping powder but my manicurist is very skilled at it. By now, she knows I like sparkles so she puts a layer of glitter powder as the top layer. I let her pick my color after I tell her a color range. I had my toes done a rosy pink so she picked out a pale melon color for my finger nails. With the sparkly final coat, it looks like a frosty melon shade. she told me she didn't like the effect of sparkles until she started doing my nails, So far, we did green baby blue and now the melon color and each has looked fabulous. She suggested waxing my brows and face so I went for that too. I'm a now a more polished version of myself. With menopause, I notice coarse hairs growing places on my face that drive me crazy. Thanks to Amy, they're gone for the next month or so.
We have a volunteer cocktail party tonight at our church. Quite a few members of the choir are going so we decided to go as well.
Maryanne, I presume you get a good bargain buying JC off Ebay. Did you get a good variety of items? I was in Walmart yesterday and checked out the NS boxes. They only had a 5 day meal plan. If it had been just muffins, I would have been interested by I didn't want the snacks and most of the lunches were soups. I didn't consider it an appealing assortment.0 -
Pam - that's great that your neighbor's husband is generally driving. I wouldn't have guessed that. That's great that your niece finished her race. But I'm with you on not understanding it. 14 hours? 3 loops around the same roads? I'd fall down from boredom.
Helene - you can't just buy JC food. You have to sign up, pay their fees, and endure their counselors. Maybe someday. But for now, I just want to buy what food I can get my hands on.0 -
I realized you were getting your JC from resellers on EBAY. I gathered that you didn't want to go through the whole JC program. My question was did you find much variety of food being offered. Back in the NS days, I bought food from a couple of sellers who either stopped doing NS and had extra food or they were part of a family plan and had too much stuff. They would post lists of what they had and you could contact them to arrange the purchase. The few times i did it I was able to buy items I wanted. By that time, I was mixing NS with regular meals and didn't want to ourchse a whole month's food. If I'd ordered from NS, I would have had more food on hand than I wanted. I had pretty much given up on desserts and snacks and was using mostly breakfast and lunch items.
I agree with you on the triathalon. I can't iamgine wanting to do one. I was watching Rachel Ray today and Bob Harper was her guest for the whole hour. He said much more about the details of what happened when he had the heart attack. He doesn't remember most of what happened but people who saved his life at the gym talked about what actions they took that saved his life.He's still doing rehab so it doesn't sound like he'll be going back to work anytime soon. The talked a lot about his diet before and after. For some reason, I thought Bob was a vegetarian.. He's not and used to eat a lot of red meat, not realizing his cholesterol was high. He's mostly vegetarian now but eats fish as well. I'm sure you can find the episode online. It was very interesting.0 -
I think triathletes must thrive on challenge as their motivation. I know my niece did it for the challenge and to prove to herself that she could do it. Now that she has, she has no desire to do another one. As for boredom, I think the runners find motivation in the cheers and support from the crowd. At the aid station where we worked, a big part of what we were doing, in addition to handing out refreshments, was encouraging the runners. Our niece was running with a friend, so they were able to motivate and encourage each other, and they crossed the finish line together crying tears of joy (and exhaustion, lol!). She said that there was only one stretch of the loop that was hard to motivate themselves to get through, and it was a part that was fairly isolated without any aid station or place for people to watch and cheer. The aid stations were placed every one to two miles. Except for about one mile that they "grandma shuffled" as she called it, they ran the entire distance. The overall distances were a 2.2 mile swim, a 120 mile bike ride, and a 26.4 mile run. I personally think it's insane, but to each his/her own. I admire her determination and dedication, but I'd never consider it.0
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There isn't a lot of JC food on ebay, generally. Just about none for about a year. I was thinking maybe JC was putting their foot down (a company can do that under ebay's VERO program). But it may also just be that it's a much smaller company and the food is expensive enough people don't sell a lot of it. If I will eat most of what a seller is selling I'll buy. I have a couple friends that will take the few pieces I don't want and if all else fails, I'll donate to our flea market table. I really like the lentils with beef for example. Just different from what's available out there. One of JC's new meals is almost exactly like the beef with wedged potatoes that NS used to have and which I liked.0
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I think one of the reasons I stopped NS was that they kept discontinuing things I liked and reformulating other items. I don't think a single reformulated items was as good as the old version. I liked the old meatloaf with the tomato based sauce. The new one in beef gravy was very disappointing. I wasn't impressed with the new items either. They seemed way too much sauce for me. I need to re-motivate myself so I think I might look into WW when I get back home. There are no convenient meetings down here. I'd have to drive 20 miles to find a meeting and it's not even a good time of day for me. At home, I probably have 10 meetings nearby including one that's local.0
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My 600-lb life must be popular. I have been saving on the DVR for treadmill time. Looks like they have over 2 dozen episodes this year. Since those take a year, they must have been contracted for that many a year ago. And I see it's been renewed for season 6 (2018).
OTOH Extreme Weight Loss was apparently cancelled.
Biggest Loser? I guess cancelled also? Although listed as "sure thing" for renewal on tvline.com. Another site says "Season 18 will premiere mid-season".0 -
I wonder if Bob's heart attack made a difference with TBL coming back this year. He's been a part of the show from the start. And taking over as host last season probably put more stress on him. It sounds like he'll be recovering for quite some time. DH needed 12 weeks to recover from his surgery and his stamina was still not back to normal by then. I wonder if he'd ever be able to do the extreme style of coaching with the screaming and yelling again. That seems pretty stressful. Maybe hosting would be less stress but the long hours would be tiring.
I've been watching My 600 Pound Life. A few of the episodes are the where are they now variety. They look at a 2 year journey including skin surgery on the person. Some of the people just don't put the effort to change in. I enjoy the episodes where the person gets it and makes major changes to regain their health. There's a 2 part episode about the Assante Brothers. They must be the most disfunctional patients Dr. Now has ever dealt with.0 -
Now that I'm about caught up - rewatching Designated Survivor - I need to start watching some of the 600-lb shows. My DVR is 65% full! Of course with summer coming - and a potential TV writer's strike - the need to DVR should slow down.
I suspect the issue with The Biggest Loser coming back is the drug scandal and the class action suit against the show by former contestants. I'm not sure about the status - whether they've actually filed suit yet or just threatened it so far. It's probably all out there - I just haven't spent the time to read up.
Today is the end of my first week back on plan. At some point I need to figure out why I can't do a one day cheat day - why such attempts always turn into cheat months - and what I can do instead - but for now I just am going to stick to plan and ponder that big question.
Today I need to feed the colonies, hit a few grocery stores and the CROM storage unit, prepare the extension for CROM's tax return and work on my speech on mortality tables. Yep, just living the dream. LOL!
Indy is still living on her chair in the dining room and in the kitchen. This morning Jack got on her chair. GASP! Whenever I go to the kitchen she twines around my legs. My late mother used to complain about cats that do that which was strange because they only ever had one house cat and he was not cuddler. It is a little disconcerting but she's SO cute and now that she has the run of the place her attacking has pretty much ended. She still gets startled easily and afraid. I think she was probably abused at some point.0 -
Today I'm doing laundry and trying to figure out what clothes to take on our trip. It's so hard to predict what kind of weather to expect, especially toward the end of the trip, since we will be gone nearly two weeks. I don't really want to bring everything I own, lol, but I also don't want to be uncomfortable because I don't have clothes that are warm enough or cool enough for whatever conditions we encounter. I guess I'll pack a little bit of everything and plan to layer as needed.
We went to a lovely wedding last night for the daughter of one of my grad school friends. I typed my friend's thesis for her while she was pregnant with the bride. The weather forecast had been for heavy rains and wind and the potential for tornados and softball-sized or larger hail. On Friday night they were giving these dire predictions as almost 100% certain to happen in our area at about the time the wedding was scheduled to begin. Luckily, the storms all moved to the east and completely bypassed our area. The temperature did drop dramatically during the day, but no rain at all. The wedding ceremony was held outside and the cocktail hour and reception were inside. If it had rained there was a plan B to move the wedding inside to the ballroom then convert the ballroom back to the dinner service, but fortunately that was unnecessary.0 -
Pam - I can't imagine packing for 2 weeks. Good luck! Of course Helene has to pack for longer than that (Helene - or do you keep stuff in Florida like my office mate does?)0
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I pack for a couple of weeks and then do laundry at my brother's house coming and going. I have a larger suitcase that stays in the car while traveling. It holds the lighter weight clothes I'll need in FL while the small suitcase has heavier clothes suitable for January. Going back, the small suitcase has capri pants and tops and the heavy stuff is packed in the big suitcase. I tend to leave a couple of air of shoes in FL so that I have options while I'm here. I took a chance and skipped bringing boots and a heavy winter coat. I wore a raincoat down with a sweater underneath was was warm enough.Today I'm doing laundry and trying to figure out what clothes to take on our trip. It's so hard to predict what kind of weather to expect, especially toward the end of the trip, since we will be gone nearly two weeks. I don't really want to bring everything I own, lol, but I also don't want to be uncomfortable because I don't have clothes that are warm enough or cool enough for whatever conditions we encounter. I guess I'll pack a little bit of everything and plan to layer as needed.
We went to a lovely wedding last night for the daughter of one of my grad school friends. I typed my friend's thesis for her while she was pregnant with the bride. The weather forecast had been for heavy rains and wind and the potential for tornados and softball-sized or larger hail. On Friday night they were giving these dire predictions as almost 100% certain to happen in our area at about the time the wedding was scheduled to begin. Luckily, the storms all moved to the east and completely bypassed our area. The temperature did drop dramatically during the day, but no rain at all. The wedding ceremony was held outside and the cocktail hour and reception were inside. If it had rained there was a plan B to move the wedding inside to the ballroom then convert the ballroom back to the dinner service, but fortunately that was unnecessary.
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Maryanne, I was thinking of your comment about cheat days not working. Rachael Ray had Dr. Ian Smith on last week. He has a new book called Blast the Sugar Out. He said it should be a cheat meal not a cheat day. He stays on track 5 days a week and then has 1 cheat meal the other two days if he wants it. But he also uses portion control for the cheats. I haven't tried it but it seems like one meal is less likely to derail you than 3 meals a day. I'm going to take a look at the book when I get home. I like that he includes recipes in his books and it's all real food.0
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Last week I did 120 minutes on the treadmill and stuck to my spreadsheet plan, which is basically around 1300 -1400 calories Mon-Fri and 1500-1600 calories on the weekend. Lost 3 1/2 pounds. Gotta love week one results! LOL!
This week I'm going to aim for 150 minutes on the treadmill. We also have a craft show Saturday (Friday set up) and I'm the only physical labor for it (small enough deal that I think my right hand volunteer and I can do it but she's disabled and not the physical labor) so that will be some extra exercise. I bought some lunchable kind of things to take to eat and am taking her to Applebee's Friday so that may be a few extra calories although I picked Applebee's because it has nutritional info online. I did pretty good the last time I was there.
I've got a TON of stuff to do today so it will be busy!
I realized I was getting low on WS pancake mix - and I've been totally unable to find whole wheat pancakes in the stores - so I quickly did a diet direct order.0 -
I'm off to another week of working every day. I was hoping when I got home tonight that I would find a message that my stress test had been scheduled. It won't be the treadmill version as they don't think I can now handle it plus they want to really stress my heart.
I see that my Omaha Steak order is in the process of being shipped. It will be something different. Good quality meat is hard to find locally and now that Summer is coming, I am not keen on transporting meat over an hour from the city supermarket.
I did weigh less at the cardiologist appointment than at the last one. I guess that is progress, although small. I catch My 600 Lb life at times. The enablers in the family need to be put on a program themselves to eat more properly, etc.0 -
I think I'm done packing. I tried not to pack everything I owned, but DH tells me I was not successful, lol! I'm sure I won't use everything I'm taking but I'd rather have extra items than not have something I really wish I had taken. Since we are driving, we have the room so he'll just have to deal with it. He has not yet started packing his suitcase, so we will see how he does.0
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Pam, I agree it's better to have too much and have what you need than to pack less and be kicking yourself later.
Jean, I've noticed too that the family members in 600 pound life are often very heavy themselves, although maybe half what the main person weighs. It's surprising Dr Now doesn't say anything about their weight.0 -
I'm still watching season 4 of 600-lb life. The one I'm currently on Dr. Now did admonish the husband as both enabler and overweight himself, not that it did any good. This woman hadn't been to a grocery store in over a year (although she did ride along but stayed in the vehicle) so it was obvious who was buying the bad food. Even after her surgery the husband continued to eat badly and the woman wished for more support. I think most of these couples need therapy but don't get it. Amazing how many of the "main characters" were abused as children and how many of the enablers seem to have this deep need to enable and are very threatened by the possibility of the partner becoming independent.0
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I noticed the same thing about the abuse history. In several episodes, the couples divorced when the wife started to eat healthy and lose weight and started doing more for things for herself. That's not always true but it happened in enough cases to wonder about those husbands' mental health. I don't remember any episodes where a wife has left her husband for getting healthy. I really feel for those people who develope lymphadema and have those huge tumors hanging off thier hips and thighs. It must make it almost impossible to walk around for exercise in that condition. I like the extended version shows they've included this season. Many of the patients take 6 months to really get with the program so we only see a few months of progress. The extended version shows another year so you can really see their progress. When Dr Now tells a patient he's proud of them, I can't help but think he's one of the few people that ever told them that. And he's made them earn it.0
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Helene - I mean to ask - Are the Assante brothers worse than Penny?
Jean - you really are a sub they rely on! Hopefully the week won't be too tiring.
This morning I fed the colonies, went to the vet to pick up the newsletter that volunteers assembled, went to the storage unit and unloaded the feeding supplies in preparation for loading for the craft show, and went to the grocery store. Ate lunch and started to work!!
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I would say yes. The younger brother Justin is weak and moody but Steven was so bad, Dr Now threw him out of the hospital. He was so abusive to all the staff. He has to be Dr Now's most difficult patient. And the dad is a huge enabler. He actually called a TX pizza place to deliver a pizza to Stephen after a tantrum and the dad was in RI!0
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Wow! I'll be interested in watching that one!0
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I think I need to get back to watching "My 600 Lb. Life" more regularly. I've been on a Netflix and Hulu original series kick. If you have Hulu, you really should watch "The Handmaid's Tale." It is critically acclaimed and it leaves you not taking current women's rights for granted.
I saw an offer for a month of NS Weekends Off for $139 on a Living Social email. You can even choose your own foods. The fine print is that it automatically enrolled you in future shipments for $249.
I'm still waiting to discover when the stress test appointment will be. I checked the insurance website and did not see an approval posted but sometimes that doesn't go on until after the doctor gets the approval.0 -
We start the trip north today. We'll be spending time in SC on the way home to visit my family. I may be out of touch during parts of the trip. Rest assured, I'm alive and well even if I don't post every day during the trip. I recently subscribed to Amazon Prime. I've been watching Bosch and Sneaky Pete. They've condensed several of the books into each season. I thought they did a pretty good job of staying true to the character. And Titus Welliver seems true to the picture in my head of what Harry looks like, unlike Tom Cruise and Jack Reacher (poor casting).0
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Helene - have a good trip north and a great family visit.
I've thought about watching Bosch (LOVE those books) but I realized the likelihood I'd actually sit at the computer and watch is slim.0
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