Burnin Thru Augus(Closed Group)

So, I was the fly in the ointment yesterday. I am sorry.

I didn't get my water
I didn't do my ups downs
I went over

I am sorry guys....I had a ****ty day, I went to bed at 6:30

Today will be better..I swear, I don't normally have 2 bad days in the same week! Don't know what my problem is

Don't fret. It happens. There are some weeks I have more bad days then good. It's part of being human.

Ok, so here's another part of my story. 19 months ago, I developed this weird "groove" down my upper left arm. My shoulder and upper arm was killing me, like I had pulled all the muscles and then two days later this groove showed up. Long story short, over the last 19 months, 7 different doctors they have sent me to can't figure it out. I developed some other symptoms over the months. Extreme fatigue, headaches, chest pains, fevers, a cough, fever blisters that all come and go. The only constants have been the groove and arm/shoulder pain. The general consensus was I tore my bicep muscle. They have done MRI's of my shoulder, neck, upper arm, numerous blood tests, EKGs, Xrays, etc. You name it, I've had it. Can't figure it out. So finally, one of my blood tests threw out a positive ANA result which is consistant with an autoimmune disease. They tested for Lupus and some other autoimmune diseases. All negative. They put me on a couple of medications to help with the muscle and joint pain, but I didn't want narcotics, so I just tolerate most of the pain.

It's been a difficult journey. No one wants a disease, but at least when you know what it is, you can fight it and deal with it. Finally, I was at an event here in town and they had all these tents set up like a health fair. I walked by a Skin Cancer/Dermatology group and one of the Drs. knew my hubby from school. As we are standing there talking, he looks at my arm and yells, "Oh Wow! En Coupe de Sabre!" I'm shocked and was like, "Umm...what?" He goes on to explain that's the French term for it, it's more commonly know as linear morphea. A very rare autoimmune disease that strikes mostly children, but does have adult onset cases. He told me it had to be in a flare up and they could biopsy it to see for sure. First time someone actually said, "I have seen that." That was a couple of months ago. Last week, I started showing signs of a flare so I called and they got me in the next day. I had the biopsy (sporting 3 stitches now) and I am waiting on the results. I go back next Wednesday to get the stitches out and hopefully they will have the results back by then.

So bear with me. I am having to do some modifications on any of the exercises with weight bearing on the arms. My muscles are very weak in my left arm and shoulder. I am proud to say that I actually did the pushups today! It wasn't pretty by any means, and I had to do them slowly with breaks in between, but I did them!

A very rare autoimmune disease that strikes mostly children, but does have adult onset cases. He told me it had to be in a flare up and they could biopsy it to see for sure. First time someone actually said, "I have seen that." That was a couple of months ago. Last week, I started showing signs of a flare so I called and they got me in the next day. I had the biopsy (sporting 3 stitches now) and I am waiting on the results. I go back next Wednesday to get the stitches out and hopefully they will have the results back by then.

So bear with me. I am having to do some modifications on any of the exercises with weight bearing on the arms. My muscles are very weak in my left arm and shoulder. I am proud to say that I actually did the pushups today! It wasn't pretty by any means, and I had to do them slowly with breaks in between, but I did them!

Wow! What a weird & wonderful story :indifferent:
Truly - a super well done on those push ups :-) xxx

Hard day today.... Got everything in but very tired...
Velcropooh,
Thanks for your story, I hope they have found what this disease is for you so you can learn how to fight back!
Best of luck

you're amazing pooh! makes me feel like a big wussy for only being able to do 13 pushups. but i'm going to take the advice of my awesome boyfriend and start doing them regularly and work up to it. i even had to do them on my knees, my abdominal muscles aren't strong enough to hold me up in a pushup position for very long. it's been 3 months since i delivered i really figured i'd be in better shape than this by now. and i was super sore all over from the ups and downs, i was really surpised about that too.

Good Morning All.

Well I didn't finish last night out so well, ended up at Wedny's and didn't order anything resembling "low cal" so I was over on my calories Friday .... by a lot! Well if I added in my exercise calories, I'm probably even, but I'm not adding exercise calories, so I'm over.

Otherwise, I did really well yesterday, did 35 push ups because I did them the girl way, so hopefully the extra 10 make up for it. But Pooh is the push up winner!

BTW my body aches from my neck to my hips, not a pretty sight watching me try to get up from laying down or sitting.

Are we supposed to weigh in on a particular day?

Sorry I fell asleep before I could finish logging yesterday, but I did complete the pushups, ate under calories, and drank my water for Day 5!!

Pooh way to lose 3 pounds!!! THAT'S GREAT!!!

sorry i didnt check yesterday , i have been super busy .
but everything for yesterday was completed !

i'll be able to be back active next week !

We are heading out with friends tonight. I already have my water and exercise in, but I probably will not get to complete my diary until tomorrow and I am attempting to stay under, but not looking good with going out tonight! I am going to try on Saturdays to stay under since I started this challenge, but my normal one day off a week is Saturday instead of Sunday. It's the only day my DH and I have off together so it's the only time we get to go do something together with friends.