Now U See Me, Now U Don't is Right

What happened to over a year of my blogging! ?  It all disappeared!   I want my posts back.  It is my renewal time as a Gold member, is it worth renewing?

of  Gee

Finally.....!!!!!

Down 1 pound LOL, an awful lot of  work for one lousy pound.

Gee

Just checking in

I am still doing it, no weight change.

I will check in next week.

Gee

52 Days On-Track

Kinda at a standstill having lost one 1 pounds in the last three weeks. At that rate I should pull into goal in about 2 years. I have 52 more pounds to go so I guess you could say that I am about 4/5th of the way through my program. I have gotta believe this will change.  I have been down this road before. As a long as I am true to my program and think positive it will change.  I have really put my body through the mill in the last 2 years.  I do believe that periodically the body needs to take a time out and just catch up and repair the damage.  This makes is easier to take, when I know I am healing after years of abuse.

On the good side I am pretty content with my program.  For the most part I enjoy my food and I am not feeling deprived or hungry.  This is awesome since the holidays are coming and I am in this for the long run. I find it very managable.

I am much happier knowing that I am doing something about it than when I am off porgram struggling to find motivation to begin again.

Gee

One more time!

Make up your mind it needs to be done and "just do it!"  No more excuses, we can always think of one.  No more putting it off until tomorrow, because there is always one more tomorrow.   Start now, don't wait for the number one on the calendar.  Just how many first of the months have come and gone since you made yourself that promise.

Start now!  And take it one day at a time.

Try it one more time starting now!

Gee

Just Do It

I am!

Now celebrating 40 consecutive days on-track!  No back-slidding. No yo-yoing!

Cheer me on to goal.

Gee

Celebrating 30 days On-track

and hitting onederland @ 198 pounds.

Gee

Going Down?

I am here I made it and with a new weight to share with you.  I am pleased.  August was a good month I lost 7.6 pounds.

This last week was another rough one.  I had an adverse reaction to one of my new medications.  After 6 days of being on Lisinopril I was almost an invalid.  I couldn't only walk about 20 ft without sitting down.  My body hurt all over and it felt as if my hips were grinding bone on bone.  As it progressed I felt back pain, shoulder pain and even had pain in both jaws when trying to chew raw broccoli.  I called my MD, stopped my medication and was switched to Apresoline!  YEA a week later I am walking the campus, and shopping again and my blood pressure is about 100/54 and pulse 54 which is a great place for me to be at.  I am only 5'1" tall.

My Paps Smear is normal, My muscle enzyme test is normal,  other labs are improving so I will keep you posted.

As for my plan I have had almost a month without going off.  It is now second nature and I not longer feel hungry or preoccupied with meals.  I have set my goals and so far I am 1.5 ahead of my plan.  I should be 135 pounds by January 2009.

Well today is my Grandson's 1st birthday celebration.  So I am off!

Major Decision

Today would have been the day I started back to college.  BUT I am taking a semester off.  I decided that I need to get healthy and take care of myself. I don't need the pressure.  As it is work is often stressful enough and I return to my teaching position on Thursday.

I am committed to myself.

ALSO people have asked me about the background picture on my BLOG.  This is a photo I took of the palm trees in my backyard.

Talk to you soon, Gee

WOW it has been ROUGH!

Good Evening;

Here I am checking in way past when I should have.  Sorry but this has been a rough couple of weeks.  The bad lab values has resulted in some major soul searching.

I can't do this to myself anymore.  I have long known that my health has been deteriorating over the past year.  Being a nurse I tried to justify the way I felt, thinking if I just diet things will get better. NOT SO, SO NOT SO.  I almost ignored the symptoms to the point of having a stroke.

After my labs I started developing a migraine headache that continued for 5 days.  I new my blood pressure was up, but the wrist cuff was only giving me a glimpse of how bad it was.

Even though I had an MD appointment on the 20th I just couldn't deal with the headaches.

I went into the clinic for a Glucose Tolerance Test for my presumed diabetic condition.  While there I had the treatment nurse monitor my blood pressure.  Well it was 182/96 and my O2 saturation was 93%.  She got me into the MD that day and I was given additional blood pressure medication.

I WAS LUCKY, MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE SYMPTOMS OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.

Well today I was back to the MD.  I took this as a real wake-up call.  The last one I need.  My Glucose test came back normal.  Reprieve I don't have diabetis, well not yet.  My headache is gone and my Blood Pressure is normal. I am now taking 6 perscription medication.

Good news is I lost 7 pounds in the 5 days between doctors appointments.

Anyhow it isn't a matter of choice anymore.

Hugs, Gee