LeanStrongSexy's 'NO MORE NEWSFEED' BLOG
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Picture day is done. My son has moved home. My house is practically empty now. Once it is listed on MLS I’ll post the link. The Realtor, Amy, said someone has called interested in the property already. So I am hoping for multiple offers.
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The best part of having the house done and the pictures taken and my son going back home, I will be able to restart my eating plan again. With David here we have probably had 6 to 8 pizzas including today while he has been here. I’ll get on the scale tomorrow and find out where I’m starting at.
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Well, as I said, several people are “going anyway”, & I will likely be one of ‘em unless Charles takes a turn for the worse…
Today was a long exhausting day for both of us, but more so for Charles as he has been so isolated - but he said he had people in & out all day, getting his oxygen tank** set up, bringing him a walker & so forth… He said he’s also getting an electric wheelchair. ** with tubing that will reach to his back porch, we’ll worry about getting him some sort of portable unit later. (I had looked into one for my mom, but she refused to spend the money. I finally gave up)
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I was so tired last night, I didn’t plug my iPad into its charge cord so I’m sitting here awkwardly this AM, leaning towards the L armrest of the recliner (the side towards the plug). What an idjit!!! I feel like even more of an idjit as my weight is up another 2 lbs - that equals Mickey D’s fries & McNuggets for lunch, failure to defrost some hamburger meat last night so once again I snacked on queso dip & tortilla chips for dinner…
So I get ya on “getting back on plan”. I was limping through my barn this morning, asking myself if this was “rock bottom” - the point where I’d finally wake up, get serious about eating right & exercising… No time like the present, amirite??
As always, the longest journey begins with a single step.
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Sleep sucked again.
I was doing so well until i decided I need to move.
My weight yesterday was 226. I was a very good girl with my first day back to eat right. Went shopping after my hair cut and didn’t buy any sweets.
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I’m so glad your friend is finally getting the help he needs. I hope the rest of his days goes smoother.
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I didn’t talk to Charles himself yesterday, but his neighbor called me - hospice tried to deliver an electric wheelchair, Charles refused to allow it into his house. He has a point because it would be really impractical in his beach house with the sunken living room & steps everywhere - he would really only be able to roll from his bedroom to the kitchen & dining room. Also a “use it or lose it” situation where he needs to maintain as much of his mobility as he can - I’m hoping with oxygen supplementation he will do better. (He had a footed cane & they just delivered him a walker also)
But let’s talk about MEEEE!!! I slept fairly well - stringing together about an hour of deep sleep seems to be key. I didn’t set an alarm but my eyelids popped open at 7:01. My weight back down to 191 after minor diuresis yesterday - I don’t even remember eating anything particularly high-sodium? But come to think of it, I snacked on about half a can of Pringles during the drive (pure crap, I know but it’s something to do as the miles roll by)
Zach called me last night, so far so good although he’s already bored with the nightlife of Tampa 😉. He’s off Friday & is going to drive across Florida to visit his aunt in Fort Lauderdale, which is good. They’ll go out on Cousin Derek’s boat if weather cooperates.
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Val, you got deep keep and REM sleep. Compared to my sleep that is awesome. The stress in my life is still keeping me from deep and REM sleep.
Pringles are terrible for salt. When I finally got on the scale this am I was down to 223. I didn’t like my dinner tonight. I tried some new frozen chicken wings. They were awful. I won’t buy them again. So I decided to have ice cream, but I can honestly say I didn’t eat as much as I usually do so that was good. My stomach felt awful afterwards. I’m not supposed to eat dairy. I took some digestive enzymes. That helped quite a bit, but I still feel a little bloated. Tomorrow is Friday and I’ll do better. Especially planning my meals. I have everything I need in my freezer and I’m gonna give the second box of chicken wings away.
I’m hoping tonight will be a better sleep we’ll see what happens.
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I might just give up on trying to sleep. Another lousy night
I haven’t gotten out of bed yet. I was hoping to go back to sleep.
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Ugh, that’s rough! I’ve taken 25 mg of trazodone these past couple of nights which seems to be “just enough” to take the edge off without leaving me too groggy in the morning… Maybe you should try a titrated dose? I’m very sensitive to some medications - for years I took a progressively lower & lower dose of Unisom. I started out taking a full tablet (the label dose) but over time, I cut back to 1/4 tablets. I then weaned myself off of it because it does bad things to your long-term cognitive function. I want to hang on to as many of my marbles as I can!!!
I’ve got to hit the hay early tonight because we’re getting up before the crack of dawn to try to beat the heat & get a little riding in, so I’ll probably take half a tablet of trazodone. Hubby is at his “man meeting”, a monthly get-together with the neighbors. I hope to be fast asleep by the time he drags his tail home 🤞
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I took 25 mg of Traz for 3 days. No sleep. Then tried 50, then 100 then 150. That, according to google, is the highest mg given for sleep. Anything higher would be for depression.
I see my dr on the 27th. I’ll talk to her then. I apparently have a high tolerance for these sleep meds. And I still don’t get a deep sleep.Last night I had some chocolate with thc and some CBN and was asleep by midnight. But for only 5 hrs. My deep and REM sleep was better last night. Food yesterday not so much. Ate ice cream for brunch & supper.
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Only 21 min of deep sleep for me last night, thanks to Dear Leader! Maybe we’re heading into WWIII but not much “I” can do about it, just have to keep on keepin’ on…
We rode 7 miles yesterday in the heat & it just wiped me out. I called Charles this morning as he continues to struggle; supplemental oxygen isn’t helping him very much 😔 His friend Joe is coming down from New Braunfels so I’m thankful he’ll have someone with him. I fear the end is near, he just can’t go on like this!
Zach had a nice visit w/his Aunt Linda yesterday (she’s in Ft Lauderdale, he drove across from Tampa) - she had tried to call me last night but I had my phone on the charger. I called her back this morning & we had a nice chat - of course, she emphasizes that I’m always welcome to visit. I will probably take her up on that after we get the summer rush behind us. Z had to drive back to Tampa for one more week of training - Victoria is coming out for a couple of days since she couldn’t stand to go two weeks without him.
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Well, for the second time this week, I didn’t put my Fitbit back on after my evening shower so I have no sleep data. In any case, I can tell you it’s not so good - I probably subconsciously did not need confirmation of that!
I was listening to an NPR program last night - I was so tired after a Manic Monday, I had to come home to sit & watch Star Trek for a bit & put my feet up, but then I still needed to run into town & go by the feed store… anyway, this young man had written about how he wore multiple devices & it “ruined his life”. I’ll try to pull up a link, it was amusing!
Meanwhile, I’m trying to figure out how I tweaked my right knee; it has been killing me! I’ve tried two different braces, taking a lot of ibuprofen but if it doesn’t lighten up, I guess I’ll have to go to the sports medicine doctor. Ugh! So much for trying to boost things up to 10k steps per day; an average workday for me is about 5K…
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Wow. I know that all the moving around I did to pack my house my knee did t like too much. So to try to get a decent nights sleep, bc yesterday sucked. I got an Hour plus. I took 200 mg thc and some 4 ml of sleep oil and I got 10.5 hrs of sleep but almost 4 hrs of deep sleep although REM was just an hour I feel pretty good today.
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That’s great! I haven’t even looked at last night’s sleep data, but I know it was bad. I laid awake for almost 2 hours which is unusual for me - generally I can drop off to sleep alright but then wake up in the middle of the night…
Poor lil’ Tina Fea is confirmed to have what is probably a tumor in her gallbladder - the ultrasound technician who was there to scan a client’s dog yesterday put her probe on TF for me. I’ve already reached out to the surgery center because talk about tricky! While gallbladder surgery is pretty straightforward for humans, dogs tend to have more complications - not to mention Tina Fea is so tiny; talk about microsurgery!?!
But if none of my colleagues wants to tackle it, I will Do It Myself - just like dear Clarice’s pancreatic tumor, I can do hard things! All kinds of challenging procedures, but obviously the only thing I haven’t been able to conquer is my own weight loss - I seem to be stuck right here around 190.
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This is the mls link for the sale of my house.
For sale: 837 LONGWOODS ROAD, Southwest Middlesex, Ontario N0L1Z0 - X12243987 | REALTOR.ca
Sleep last night sucked again.
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Last night’s sleep didn’t even register
No REM deep or light sleep measured.
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Ugh, I’m so sorry for your stress… I’ve been tinkering around all week to find my “optimal” dose of trazodone, but last night I omitted everything except my magnesium & CBD and actually got the best night’s sleep I’ve had for a while. What was unusual was the fact that I got an extra 5 AM dose of deep sleep, right before my bladder woke me up…
Charles‘s friend will be able to stay for two weeks, then his wife will come spell him out - they are planning to rotate duties because we all agree that poor Charles can’t last long like this. Even with supplemental oxygen, he is gasping with every breath. Zach will be coming home from Tampa today, but I’m not gonna burden him with this until I hear about his new schedule… Hopefully we can go down there over the July of 4th weekend. There’s also a deep vein of selfishness within me as my friends & I have made plans to ride this weekend. There’s really nothing to be accomplished by me racing down there except some form of virtue signaling. I also got news that my poor cousin has a tumor behind her left eye - she’ll be seeing a specialist for biopsy/treatment plans. We had both noticed that her left eyelid was drooping which I was blaming on stress & maybe Bell’s palsy.
I have lazed around too long this morning; gotta finish my coffee & get moving!
That last “blip” of deep sleep was a new one for me; I usually get most of my deep sleep early on
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my sleep was better than last nights
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I sold my house. Not for the miracle amount I wanted but over asking. Now I have a budget to find something for me to live in. I’m going to be really disappointed. Nothing I’m looking for is within my budget. Or within the town I want to live in.
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I’m going to give up trying to get any sleep
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Whelp, congrats on a quick sale - I’m glad you didn’t have a lot of stressful back-and-forth or dragging things out! The video was lovely, I can understand your heartbreak…
Thank goodness I recognized about mid-morning on Friday that it was Peran’s birthday! I hope I salvaged things somewhat by asking him to come to town so I could at least buy him lunch. Yesterday evening, Zach dropped in for a few minutes when I took Peran to the pub so he could get his slightly belated birthday dinner** of fish & chips - Z was wearing Lululemon yoga pants which actually looked quite nice on him! He didn’t have time to eat with us because he’s trying to lose weight, he also had to go back & pick up Victoria at the nail salon.
** I ran away for a quick weekend of riding with my friends down at Parrie Haynes… I find it quite ironic that this controversy has blown up over them potentially selling the ranch, & yet only 7 of us showed up last weekend to support ongoing equestrian use of their facilities?!? Yeah, it was hot - but still?? Obviously talk is cheap, as it’s easy to sit behind a keyboard… I worry that, just like Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz”, this may already be a done deal. (although I see a lawsuit has been filed to try to stop this pointless, reckless development in the Everglades)
https://m.facebook.com/groups/338327592915100/?ref=share
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My sleep was finally better
if I didn’t have things to do I might just go back to bed. But unfortunately I have to go look at houses.
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For whatever reason, I came wide awake at 3 AM. My subconscious is already fretting over the complicated logistics of collecting Catie** & getting the trailer organized for our little mini-expedition to New Mexico in only one short week…
I’ve been making this pilgrimage each summer for a quarter of a century now, with only a couple of interruptions. I want to show Catie a good time while hitting the highlights: of course the equestrian trails, but also the Smokey Bear Museum in Capitan, plus driving out to Ruidoso & through some of the neighboring towns to admire the scenery.
** I’m hoping Christina will meet me somewhere roughly halfway so I don’t have to drive all the way to Clarksville, but of course I will if need be. Catie is already riding in some pre-Fourth celebrations (she’s in front on the grey mare)
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Wow. How nice. I hope you July 4th goes well. Today is Canada Day July 1st and I have no plans really. I slept better last night. At is 2 in a row.
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Yurgggggh! Another restless night, but I fell back into REM sleep right before my alarm went off - making it so hard to get moving!!! But I forced myself onto my yoga mat for a few life-giving stretches & I’m starting to “defrost” a little bit…
189.4 this morning, hopefully by paying attention I can ease on down solidly into the 180’s (that’s not bad at all considering our pharmaceutical rep took us out for Tex-Mex yesterday). I made myself a Caprese salad with homegrown tomatoes last night & then had two links of sausage for my protein.
I need to touch base with Joe to see how Charles is doing; Zach has to go to Midland/Odessa next week, so our potential return trip to the coast is delayed for a couple more weeks at bare minimum. I’ll be starting to fidget around to pack the trailer for New Mexico next week.
And I took Tulip in for her summer cut because we were tired of the snowdrifts of white dog hair floating around - she looks very nice but the little dogs keep barking at her because they don’t recognize her anymore!
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Both of my dogs rolled in coyote poop and smell to high heaven. They both have an appointment to the groomer for Monday.
3rd day in a row I got over 8 hrs of sleep. I have an hour or better of deep and REM sleep. New drug dr. gave me and THC chocolate bars. Tonight will be the last of my THC chocolate I wonder how sleep will go tomorrow night
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So is THC chocolate a prescription item?? I’m confused… Several people in my thyroid group take THC tinctures to aid sleep as well as its anti-cancer properties, but I will have to do some more investigation.
Very bleary-eyed this morning, since Joe texted me last night to let me know that Charles seems to be in rapid decline… Unfortunately I’m all booked up for 4th of July weekend - I looked at flights just “because” but it would basically cost me $1000 to fly down to Corpus Christi. Gotta get at least 2 wks out for the prices to drop back down to that $500 level. I am supposed to go to New Mexico next week, Zach has several trips scheduled for work to Midland & Odessa. I certainly hope Charles can hang on for a couple more weeks but this may not come to pass…
Zach was very bummed out when I told him… I certainly didn’t want to depress him, but he has to get used to some of these cold hard realities of adult life. (He is also having what sounds like a conflict of values with Victoria, but I guess they’ll either work it out or they won’t, all I can do is be a semi-neutral Mom sounding board)
I was amazed that my weight held steady at 189.0 since I had sushi with my friend yesterday.
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I had 2 sleep sessions
I had 2 sleep sessions but not much deep sleep.
No my thc is not by prescription. My sister gets it by prescription. My dr doesn’t believe in subscription weed. So I am trying something else in prescription plus the thc chocolate. I slept last night but it wasn’t as good as other nights.
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We had a nice but very busy Fourth of July. I had to go pick up Tony for the parade - fortunately, he decided to come ride Twoie so I didn’t have to schlep the horse trailer back-and-forth. JR brought his niece Marina over to ride Silas & I told him I would take her home afterwards. Baraq was “aight” as the kids say & didn’t jackhammer my back too badly…
I made us hotdogs & store-bought potato salad for lunch, then I had to take Marina home - Tony asked to go back to his house to take a shower, although he wanted to come back for our neighbor’s big Fourth of July shindig last night. So that meant one more trip to take Tony home after our little neighborhood fireworks show - I was tired & ready for bed!
It should come as no surprise whatsoever that my weight is up 3 lbs after all my indulgences, as well as inflammation from all the exertion/exercise -
AAAAAAAAAND… Joe just called me to let me know that Charles passed away last night around 11:30. I had an ominous feeling when he texted me Wednesday night. I’m sad that I didn’t get down to see him one more time, heartbroken for Zach but I am relieved that his ordeal was not prolonged any further. Charles did not want any kind of a memorial service, but Joe says he will plan some sort of open house which of course is truly for us, the living survivors’ benefits…
The Three Amigos 😉
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