Women 200lb+, Let's Have An UnBOOlievable October!!!

Thank you all again for the good vibes. Hubs has a consultation next Friday morning, which is good, that feels like progress. Also, apparently, according to the radiologist that reviewed his MRI with him, if you have to have a spinal tumor this is the kind you want to have - it is benign and relatively easy to treat surgically, and once he gets it removed he'll be right as rain and pain-free. So, now it's fingers crossed that they're able to get him in soon. He spoke with his program director as well; he's built up a lot of goodwill with his instructors and fellow techs by being an excellent student and overall human being, so they're willing to work with him and support him while he handles this. I knew they would (see above: excellent human being), but he, like me, has a lot of anxiety around basically having needs out loud where people can see, and also asking for anything, ever.

I've been doing pretty well with sticking to the plan and staying on-target, so I'm proud of me for that. They also recently unveiled a fitness trail on campus at work, so today my coworkers and I went to go check it out. First of all, there's no actual trail, it's just six signs put up around campus that basically you need to already know where they are in order to find your way to them. They need to put down some mulch or sand or something. But, now that I do know where they are, I could see maybe bringing a change of clothes and doing the thing once a week maybe. Probably on Thursdays - I take my lunch later in the day since I work the later shift, and it's rare for me to really see anyone after 4 PM so I wouldn't really worry as much about getting sweaty or dirty doing situps in the grass, LMAO. I'll just keep a pack of baby wipes and a comb in my desk or something.

10/14/21-187.8 lbs today, started at 255 lbs 9/14/20, started low carb 5/14/21-240.5 lbs, down 67.2 lbs, so more than halfway to my goal of 122 lbs, 65.8 lbs to go!!!! Increased my elliptical today from 130 to 140 minutes. Got to 11 miles.

Haven't had access to a scale all week. Been going on 4 mile walks every morning with my dad while visiting, but have also been eating a lot more calories (still under 2400 most days). Will be interesting to see what the scale says when I get home.