Yesterday I was at work just plugging along and my mother called about 10 a.m.. She had a nosebleed and it wouldn't stop and she needed me to go see about her. She NEVER calls me at work so I knew it was serious. I got to the house and it had stopped. So I stuck around and cleaned her bathroom where it started.. it look like someone had be shot in there there was sooo much blood. But it didn't last and it started going again and I called the paramedics. They had her in an ambulance within about 3 minutes. So off to the ER we go.. they stopped it up with a bunch of packing and were going to admit her but they had to wait on an open bed. They finally said she was well enough to go home and made her an appointment with an ENT. So the this morning we went to the ENT and sat in his 65 degree or colder waiting room. She has to go again on monday to take the packing out. With all this going on I still managed to stay someone focused on eating healthy even though I ate fast food. I stayed away from cheese and fries.
After taking mom home and getting her settled I went to work. I have a huge meeting to get ready for Tuesday with a review on Monday afternoon of the charts. My computer has been acting a little odd all week and now it's crashed with all my data. My geek thinks he can fix it and will come into work on a saturday to help me out. I hope he can do it. I had planned to work all weekend to get them done. I probably could have finished most of them today now I'll have to rush to get them done. Grrrrrrrr......
Oh well.. this too shall pass..... And I'm truly blessed and thing could have been much worse with my mom, much worse with my job.
My blood pressure was extremely normal today.. like 120 over 70. Pretty cool.
Still keeping in good form, except for the exercise. I'm only getting in short walks because of working so much. But the eating is pretty good. I went to Applebee's yesterday for lunchand had a WW grilled chicken spinach salad and scrapped off most of the dressing and cheese. To celebrate a birthday we had the dessert shots. I put the lunch I made in the work fridge and had that today, got a good load of fruit and veggies all day. I miss salt but it's getting much easier.
Tomorrow we are having our Thanksgiving dinner at work and it will be catered. I'm very scared about that. I will plan to drink a lot of water before and after. i work late again tonight but I'm hoping to get to the gym. We been praying for rain in Georgia and we are suppose to have some tonight. Sure hope so!
A friend from another office is having a mastectomy tomorrow. She has always been very heavy.. like me. Just another reason for me to stay eating healthy and get my weight off.
Did well with the eating all day... all 12 hours of work day. I wasn't planning a long day but I had to babysit the janitor because he doesn't have a clearance and the rest of the night crew is way in the back of the office. He got there late and did some extra stuff. Normally I would just go into work late but he thought he would be early. But I did get a lot of work done.
I ate pretty good for supper but just now had some oatmeal. Made a bowlfull but only ate half. I just went outside my usually extremely quiet neighborhood and tonight noises and voices are carrying. Someone is having a party and someone is on the phone outside.... it was kinda spooky I could hear voices but couldn't see.
The scale is starting to move downward again. thank you Lord. I'm almost to my start weight.. which is soooo sad but I'm glad to be here and glad to be back on track.
Yesterday was great on my new extremely low sodium diet. I cooked ground turkey breast for the first time and it was ok. I sauted onion, peppers, garlic and musrooms in a little bit of olive oil and added some bround rice and mrs. dash. It wasn't my super ultrafat yummo lasgana but it will do. I did my blood pressure on the machine at work where I did it late friday and it was down a bit and that made me feel really good. it was 155 over 80 on friday and today it was 139/75. I need to continue to see it drop and I know exercising and lowering my sodium and fat intake will help.
I drank all my water, ate healthy, walked a couple of miles and went to the gym. This morning I was down a couple of pounds. I was going to go out for lunch to celebrate someones birthday but decided against it. I want to be perfectly on plan for a couple of weeks.
Tonight is more ground turkey but I added tomatoes this time and chili powder and cumin to give it flavor.
I want to drop 4 pounds this week. To do that I will have to plan well and execute my plan!
I feel more energetic this afternoon than I have in a few days. I'm excited about getting back in a healthy groove.
So far so good..... made a very healthy spinach salad, with pear, almonds, and a small piece of salmon. The only sodium I had was a little spinach salad dressing and a dab of mayo.
I've just about made my goal with the water and will drink more tonight. The plan now is to go to the gym after I make a healthy dinner
Pictures don't lie!!!! I saw pictures of myself taken at a birthday party last week and I looked huge. Especially when I was standing in a group of people. My size 4 petite mother didn't help with that but I was larger than anyone there. EGADDDDSSSSS What happened to me. But that's all behind me now (literally) and I'm on my way to a healthier me!
I'm recommitting myself to a healthy diet and exercise. Last night I got in two miles of walking, today I plan to do that plus pick up pecans and some good old fashion housecleaning.
I saw Seven Goals in Seven Weeks on Brownbabes blog and she got it from tatumsmom. If I was smart enought I'd figure out to link those. Both are great and inspirational.
1. Drink at least 80 ozs of water. I should drink more but I don't think I've been drinking half that much lately. Unless you count soda and coffee.
2. Will not use a car ride down to the conveniece store for junk food to appease my dog that wants to go for a walk.... I've gotten lazy some days! Replace with actual walking the dog!
3. Eat at least 6 full servings of fruits and vegatables. Add no salt to any food. This will be hard!
4. Prepare a healthy lunch for work 4 days a week. Cook a healthy dinner for just one serving at least 4 nights a week. I tend to think I'm cooking for a large family and portion control goes out the door.
5. Walk 3 miles a day, ride my bike 3 times a week, go to the gym 3 times a week. Two of those items haven't been touched in over a month.
6. Be grateful for the health I have and the opportunity to make it better.
7. Declutter something everyday! Time to go through closets and find donations.
8. Remember these goals
This morning I started actually counting points again..
Breakfast I had 2 points of creamer in my coffee, an omelet with 2 eggs, spinach and green pepper and mrs. dash. 1 cup of orange juice and piece of toast with a very small amount of butter. I only ate half the toast. I had 10 points of breakfast but I feel very satisfied. Lunch I plan a spinach salad with grilled salmon.
My black lab has his chin on my leg so I guess it is time to start that goal of walking..
I went to the doctor today with nothing wrong with me. I had to get a referral for another doctor who did an endoscopy a while back. It was a followup visit just to keep checking on me. I was annoyed I had to get a referral when they already referred me and he requested the follow up. I'm already under his care.. why do I need to be referred... grrrrrrrr. So I can't just get them to send a referral I have to go into the doctors office (with germs all around) when I feel perfectly fine. Well turns out it may be a blessing in disguise.. funny how the Lord works sometimes. Well they weighed me.... gasp and I was 245 with heavy clothes and shoes. Then they took my blood pressure.. it was high. The last time I was in it was elevated but I was there with a arm broken in two pieces... to get a referral to the orthopedic doctor. ... the emergency room already told me to go the surgeon...but I still have to go to the primary care to get them to send the piece of paper. I digress..... So my PA says she wants to put me on medicine for the high blood pressure.... I was in shock up until this time I have dodged all the obesity bullets. She also wants me to go get a diabetes screening, and cholesterol check.. which I'll do in a couple of weeks. She shows me this chart on the wall about my risks for heart attack and other things.... So she put a good scaring into me but I have convinced her to let me go to serious diet rehab (if only that were really true to go to food rehab) and see if I can get some weight off and get off the salt. She gave me a low sodium diet paper. So I had a little pity party and went to chick-fil-a and got a combo. But then sat down and worked out a mini plan. I went to the grocery and stocked up on veggies I would eat and several flavors of Mrs. Dash. Tomorrow I will clean out the panty of all high sodium foods. I will clean my spice cabinet which has needed it for a long time of all the salt filled mixes. I will toss my marinades. I love salt.. there is a salt shaker on my coffee table... I've been thinking of all the things i ADD salt too... it's horrible. Anyway tonight I grilled a small piece of salmon with mrs dash, steamed broccoli and carrots, and had a sweet potato with a tiny bit of butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it. And you know what .. it was good. It was healthy. I need to be healthy, I need to get his weight off.. it's about health now and not vanity!
Well I finally had the courage to get on the scale and it is as bad as I suspected. I weighed 242.6 this morning. When I was posting in July, I was 225.6. That's a big gain. I really would like to weigh less at the end of the year than when I started and that is going to take some work in these last two months. I've been able to exercise a little more this weekend and plan to step it up and get out the WATP DVD this week. I need to sweat, I need to eat right, I need to stop raiding the halloween candy.
I need to blog again. I read blogs, I'm inspired by blogs... but I've been too lazy to blog myself.... I've been putting it off.. not wanting to address what's been going on....I've gain weight... I usually lose or at least stay steady when I'm blogging and accountable... I've gain double digits I think since my last blog... I feel like a blob... I will blog more tomorrow....I will weigh tomorrow morning first thing... I've been scared to get on the scale, which I'm a scale junky I shouldn't be scared of it..... It's time to blog again, it's time to connect with my EP friends again.. it's TIME to get this blob of fat that keeps me from breathing when I bend over off of me. It's time.. well it's well past time!
This morning I weighed in at 225.4. That is down 3.6 from the previous week and I'm very happy. We had a BBQ dinner at church today and I brought home some leftovers and now i feel like a blob..... this morning I felt thin. Well as thin as you can at 5'1" and 225 pounds. Now I feel like I loaded bricks in my belly. All those things I've been avoiding the past few weeks are in me, sugar, bread, fats. Tomorrow I'll go back to spinach blueberries and grilled chicken.
My friend Virginia comes to my house (she has no scale which I don't understand but that's another story). She is not doing so well she has a little more to lose than I do but has many more weight related health issues than I do. We are doing this together and trying to encourage one another. She is discouraged. And I tried giving her pep talks but I don't know if it is helping. I've also been tough loving her too when she confesses to really blowing it. Part of me gets annoyed because she is the one that usually talks me into doing things with her and then she peters out a few weeks into it and then my support is gone and she goes to the dark side.
I tried kayaking for the first time yesterday and it was very fun. I borrowed a friends and went to a small lake near me. It's nice to know I can get my butt in and out of one without any help. I'm hoping I can do that again soon
My trip to Baltimore is coming up at the end of the week. I can't wait.... I'm also going to Lancaster, PA which I'm excited about. Anyone have any favorite places to go in either of those locations I would be glad to get some good hints, guidence etc.
