I decided to do a reality check... I started tracking yesterday.I had written everything down that I ate but hadn't figured out the points until now...
I figured them out on the new program
I am allowed 29 points in a day...
I USED 53!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know if you have white Spot out your way but I had a really nice lunch out with my neice and her husband... I had red clam chowder (I knew it would be high) a cup for 5 points.. but it was worth it. What GOT me was the Turkey wrap no sauce! It was 15 points!
I had a 20 point lunch!
and to top it off... I had a 24 point supper! (got a little carried away with the yorkshire pudding I made.)
Okay I really have to rethink here! This could be my wake up call - and HELLO M! Maybe I should track more often and stop blaming other things for my weight gain!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
WI Wednesday
I will fess up right away... I gained 1.2 lbs. Ugh! here's to another week. The crazy thing is I stepped on the scale this morning (Thursday) and I was down the 1.2 - my body likes to play tricks.
I am stilltrudging stepping away virtually walking across Canada. I am on my way to Sault St. Marie from Thunder Bay - boy is that a lot of steps! 531,250 to be exact! I thought Ontario had more towns in between LOL
I have also started a new challenge - walking to Mexico... apparently it is half the distance than walking across Canada.
My steps south has taken me across the Border, thru Bellingham and I am on my way to Mt. Vernon.
I have been fighting a sore throat and cough the last couple of days. I don't feel too bad but I am tired. I haven't been getting proper sleep and that is taking me down. My fault though as I haven't been going to bed very early. It seems I get more done between 8pm and midnight than I do all day!
Well, I better get showered up and get ready for an all day meeting. Sitting on my butt - story of my life LOL Won't be getting many steps in today... will have to make a point of getting up and walking around.
I am still
I have also started a new challenge - walking to Mexico... apparently it is half the distance than walking across Canada.
My steps south has taken me across the Border, thru Bellingham and I am on my way to Mt. Vernon.
I have been fighting a sore throat and cough the last couple of days. I don't feel too bad but I am tired. I haven't been getting proper sleep and that is taking me down. My fault though as I haven't been going to bed very early. It seems I get more done between 8pm and midnight than I do all day!
Well, I better get showered up and get ready for an all day meeting. Sitting on my butt - story of my life LOL Won't be getting many steps in today... will have to make a point of getting up and walking around.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Freedom
I awoke today feeling the best ever in 6 days. A good friend offered a hot tub... boy that sounds awesome right about now! Do you think my hubby would notice if I took a plane ride - sat in a hot tub and came home the same day? I would only be gone about 8 - 12 hours...that's like going to a shift at work... naaaaaah, he wouldn't even notice... I could park my car at the airport... he wouldn't even have to give me a ride to and from. LOL only one problem... I think he would notice the charge on our Visa. :-( It would be difficult to justify the trip when I only live about 5 minutes from the local recreation center that has a hot tub... Well it was worth the thought! I can be a bit impromptu at times too so don't put it passed me doing it (jumping on the plane)!
hmmm, maybe I should be wise and go to the local pool! I did buy some passes a long time ago. Gotta get these muscles working! I used to really enjoy water aerobics - I should check out the times - your allowed to drop in. Its just the initial getting wet part I don't like but once I am in I am fine.
I am also thinking, I don't take anything and I mean nothing other than an Advil once in a while. I have had a few people tell me I should take some vitamins - maybe its time - multivitamins can make me ill but I will try one thing at a time - just gradual, for example: start with Vitamin D then a week later, Calcium, then a week after that add, Vitamin C, eventually start taking some iron.. I noticed on my last blood test my ferritin was low. Ironically one of the symptoms of low ferritin is hair loss and fatigue - go figure eh?
Whoa! I just looked at the clock... I had been cleaning out a filing cabinet and decided to take a break and come on here... well time has flown. Sleep probably is a good thing for good health too! Actually I know it is, so I better go get some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's!
Night all
hmmm, maybe I should be wise and go to the local pool! I did buy some passes a long time ago. Gotta get these muscles working! I used to really enjoy water aerobics - I should check out the times - your allowed to drop in. Its just the initial getting wet part I don't like but once I am in I am fine.
I am also thinking, I don't take anything and I mean nothing other than an Advil once in a while. I have had a few people tell me I should take some vitamins - maybe its time - multivitamins can make me ill but I will try one thing at a time - just gradual, for example: start with Vitamin D then a week later, Calcium, then a week after that add, Vitamin C, eventually start taking some iron.. I noticed on my last blood test my ferritin was low. Ironically one of the symptoms of low ferritin is hair loss and fatigue - go figure eh?
Whoa! I just looked at the clock... I had been cleaning out a filing cabinet and decided to take a break and come on here... well time has flown. Sleep probably is a good thing for good health too! Actually I know it is, so I better go get some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's!
Night all
Friday, January 14, 2011
Age?
I am really kind of at my whits end... I have always had difficulty with tight muscles, one of the reasons why I go to massage, sometimes physio and always reflexology. But lately, over the past few weeks my muscle stiffness and pain has been getting worse, a lot worse. I honestly can barely move. Not only do I have muscle stiffness but my joints are so painful in my hands, knees and hips... and today elbows. I can barely type. Advil alleviates the pain a little - bit will give me nose bleeds. This is so frustrating cause I have always been a very busy person - very active person... and I can't even lift a bale of hay to my fibre animals... I have to get my son to do it.
On top of all this, yesterday around noon my ears filled up. I lost some of my hearing a couple of years ago from a virus and now I seem to have the same symptoms again and can hear even less. I have tried to clear the buzzing or "drum like feeling" but to no avail.
Go to the Dr you say... *sigh* I have not had any luck at the Dr's - EVER. My GP has tried to pin depression on me, he refuses to look beyond that and I know for a fact I do not have it. I have actually quit seeing him and seeing another Dr in the same office but I have lost faith in the medical system and getting very tired of explaining myself all the time.
I did have my biopsy yesterday. All went well. Now I just have to deal with bruising and soreness for a few days.
I feel like I am 90 instead of 40 something. I should be having a lot of fun this time of my life but I can barely get out of bed I am in so much pain. Well, on the upside I am glad its not a migraine.
On top of all this, yesterday around noon my ears filled up. I lost some of my hearing a couple of years ago from a virus and now I seem to have the same symptoms again and can hear even less. I have tried to clear the buzzing or "drum like feeling" but to no avail.
Go to the Dr you say... *sigh* I have not had any luck at the Dr's - EVER. My GP has tried to pin depression on me, he refuses to look beyond that and I know for a fact I do not have it. I have actually quit seeing him and seeing another Dr in the same office but I have lost faith in the medical system and getting very tired of explaining myself all the time.
I did have my biopsy yesterday. All went well. Now I just have to deal with bruising and soreness for a few days.
I feel like I am 90 instead of 40 something. I should be having a lot of fun this time of my life but I can barely get out of bed I am in so much pain. Well, on the upside I am glad its not a migraine.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Pleasant Surprise
It was WI today. I lost 0.6 lbs. I was surprised to say the least. I don't feel like I have lost anything. I feel puffy and bloated and yuk but I will take it!
Tomorrow I go for a biopsy. It is a loooooooooooong story so I won't bore you with details but the short of it is I have a large cyst on my right thyroid (left side has already been removed) and standard procedure is to get a biopsy. Its not the most comfortable thing in the world but its fairly quick - at least the one I had on the left side was. I am getting this one done at a different hospital by a different person so who knows...
They say the cyst is 3 times larger than the one that they found on my left side before removing the lobe. I guess that is why I snore and my throat "clicks" when I swallow LOL the downside is it can sometimes make me choke on something. Doesn't stop me from eating though!
I am not worried and you shouldn't either.
my left lobe was not cancerous and even if it was thyroid cancer is the least deadliest cancer anyone can get. It has a 99% success rate. My SIL had pancreatic cancer which was completely opposite.. it has a 1% success rate. Needless to say she is no longer with us.
Not sure what my specialist has in store for me and I won't find out until February. He has gone overseas to do free surgeries with Dr's beyond borders.
Tomorrow I go for a biopsy. It is a loooooooooooong story so I won't bore you with details but the short of it is I have a large cyst on my right thyroid (left side has already been removed) and standard procedure is to get a biopsy. Its not the most comfortable thing in the world but its fairly quick - at least the one I had on the left side was. I am getting this one done at a different hospital by a different person so who knows...
They say the cyst is 3 times larger than the one that they found on my left side before removing the lobe. I guess that is why I snore and my throat "clicks" when I swallow LOL the downside is it can sometimes make me choke on something. Doesn't stop me from eating though!
I am not worried and you shouldn't either.
my left lobe was not cancerous and even if it was thyroid cancer is the least deadliest cancer anyone can get. It has a 99% success rate. My SIL had pancreatic cancer which was completely opposite.. it has a 1% success rate. Needless to say she is no longer with us.
Not sure what my specialist has in store for me and I won't find out until February. He has gone overseas to do free surgeries with Dr's beyond borders.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
What would you do?
have a question for all you people working away at weight loss, healthy eating and moving more.
A little history first...
My mom has recently moved in with my brother and his wife and his MIL. My mom a couple of years ago was very very sick and no Dr seemed to be able to help her so she went to a naturepathic physician. This NP did wonders with my moms health - BUT a lot of it had to do with food allergies. She was put on a strict diet which has now become more lenient as she can tolerate a lot more foods again.
Now, my brothers wife and MIL like to cook full fat everything (they put whip cream in their coffee, use a whole large full fat sour cream at one meal, always have hi fat/sugar desserts on hand) - they are German and can they cook mmmm! But the fat/calories can be out of this world. They also do the grocery shopping. My mom does request her things and they may get it but my brother is baulking at it HUGE.
He says there is cheaper alternatives...and he asks... who says you have to be a certain weight - who says you have to eat that or can't eat that? If it was an allergy then if you ate it we would be taking you to the hospital cause it would kill you. (My mom gets respiratory distress but not to emergency levels). He's even complained that her "food" is filling up the fridge and has to go. Her "food" usually is low fat/sugar or natural products that need refrigerating.
I don't know what to tell him and I don't know what to tell her.
I did tell her to not put her things on the communal grocery list - just buy it herself - as for the space in the fridge? I just thought of telling her to get her own mini fridge for her area of the house (she has a private bed/bath & sitting room) BUT then he may complain about the electricity! yikes... he says that his electricity bill has doubled since she moved in but I reminded him of the many things have happened since she moved which would cause a higher bill such as: fans and heaters put in his boat for days after it was brought in under cover and needed to be dried out... his basement flooded and fans and heaters were needed to dry that out along with sucking up all the water with a wet vac (got 40 canisters!).... The weather dropped to below -12 for a week...
My mother is 72 years old, nearly 73. She needs to be warm - my bro will go to work during the day and has the heat programmed in the house to drop to 15 degrees... that is too cold for Mom and his MIL too! They were wearing coats, wool socks and slippers to stay warm! My brother is burnt out and frustrated (at many things) but not necessarily ready to listen about this... he thinks its nonsense. Especially when one day Mom will be regiment about her "diet" and other days not so much so he says its hard to take her seriously. I think he has been getting pressure from others in the house...its work and a big change... they are tired when they get home. He just wants everyone to eat the same thing and be happy about it. Also, I do not believe they know a whole lot about nutrition.
One of my bro's comments were - who made up all these rules anyway? I said the Canadian food and exercise guide... he said yeah but WHO? Some whipper snapper fresh out of University? I then told him he was being ridiculous...
On one hand I am sure my mom could look at other options. My bro was saying he could get a loaf of bread that is the same calories/fat/fibre etc as another type my mom likes and it costs less and everyone will eat it. But my mom comes back with "but I get 2 slices of mine and only one slice from the loaf you want." His comment to that was cut "my" bread in half and you will have 2. He has a point! but then again so does she.
*sigh*
I am the middle person. I see both sides for the most part... This shouldn't be a problem... but its becoming a mountain.
A little history first...
My mom has recently moved in with my brother and his wife and his MIL. My mom a couple of years ago was very very sick and no Dr seemed to be able to help her so she went to a naturepathic physician. This NP did wonders with my moms health - BUT a lot of it had to do with food allergies. She was put on a strict diet which has now become more lenient as she can tolerate a lot more foods again.
Now, my brothers wife and MIL like to cook full fat everything (they put whip cream in their coffee, use a whole large full fat sour cream at one meal, always have hi fat/sugar desserts on hand) - they are German and can they cook mmmm! But the fat/calories can be out of this world. They also do the grocery shopping. My mom does request her things and they may get it but my brother is baulking at it HUGE.
He says there is cheaper alternatives...and he asks... who says you have to be a certain weight - who says you have to eat that or can't eat that? If it was an allergy then if you ate it we would be taking you to the hospital cause it would kill you. (My mom gets respiratory distress but not to emergency levels). He's even complained that her "food" is filling up the fridge and has to go. Her "food" usually is low fat/sugar or natural products that need refrigerating.
I don't know what to tell him and I don't know what to tell her.
I did tell her to not put her things on the communal grocery list - just buy it herself - as for the space in the fridge? I just thought of telling her to get her own mini fridge for her area of the house (she has a private bed/bath & sitting room) BUT then he may complain about the electricity! yikes... he says that his electricity bill has doubled since she moved in but I reminded him of the many things have happened since she moved which would cause a higher bill such as: fans and heaters put in his boat for days after it was brought in under cover and needed to be dried out... his basement flooded and fans and heaters were needed to dry that out along with sucking up all the water with a wet vac (got 40 canisters!).... The weather dropped to below -12 for a week...
My mother is 72 years old, nearly 73. She needs to be warm - my bro will go to work during the day and has the heat programmed in the house to drop to 15 degrees... that is too cold for Mom and his MIL too! They were wearing coats, wool socks and slippers to stay warm! My brother is burnt out and frustrated (at many things) but not necessarily ready to listen about this... he thinks its nonsense. Especially when one day Mom will be regiment about her "diet" and other days not so much so he says its hard to take her seriously. I think he has been getting pressure from others in the house...its work and a big change... they are tired when they get home. He just wants everyone to eat the same thing and be happy about it. Also, I do not believe they know a whole lot about nutrition.
One of my bro's comments were - who made up all these rules anyway? I said the Canadian food and exercise guide... he said yeah but WHO? Some whipper snapper fresh out of University? I then told him he was being ridiculous...
On one hand I am sure my mom could look at other options. My bro was saying he could get a loaf of bread that is the same calories/fat/fibre etc as another type my mom likes and it costs less and everyone will eat it. But my mom comes back with "but I get 2 slices of mine and only one slice from the loaf you want." His comment to that was cut "my" bread in half and you will have 2. He has a point! but then again so does she.
*sigh*
I am the middle person. I see both sides for the most part... This shouldn't be a problem... but its becoming a mountain.
Armed and dangerous
Water bottle (check)
water IN water bottle (check)
grocery list (check)
filling foods on grocery list (check)
tracker (check)
breakfast written IN tracker (check)
I was up again - not much but up - 0.4... its creeping and right back where I started 4 years ago. - actually that's not totally true - I am 5 lbs less than when I started 4 years ago. BUT if I keep going in the direction I am it won't be a pretty sight.
I need to get this show on the road and time to completely focus on this. Knitting aside, its meal planning time. I have started to read thru the new WW program literature (no I hadn't done that yet and I have had it for several weeks)
I have my step challenge out and organized - noticed on average my daily steps are around 4500/day and they should be at least 10,000.
I am doing 2 step challenges now. I am completing the one across Canada and the new one started January 1st, 2011 is to walk to Mexico. Apparently its half the distance - more stops - and a whole lot warmer! LOL
I am liking the new WW pedometer. I went thru 4 of the old ones and a couple of freebies. This one seems more secure, doesn't fall off nearly as much and appears to be more sensitive to my steps. I swear the other one didn't count them all. I have some proof as I was part of a walking group last year and at the end of our walk we would look at our pedometers and mine always showed less steps and yet we all walked the same distance. (whoa! run on sentence!)
Well, I am going to get off my duff - go feed my animals - then come back and do an hour of paperwork - then go for a walk - then paperwork - then walk... you get the drift - gotta move more!
water IN water bottle (check)
grocery list (check)
filling foods on grocery list (check)
tracker (check)
breakfast written IN tracker (check)
I was up again - not much but up - 0.4... its creeping and right back where I started 4 years ago. - actually that's not totally true - I am 5 lbs less than when I started 4 years ago. BUT if I keep going in the direction I am it won't be a pretty sight.
I need to get this show on the road and time to completely focus on this. Knitting aside, its meal planning time. I have started to read thru the new WW program literature (no I hadn't done that yet and I have had it for several weeks)
I have my step challenge out and organized - noticed on average my daily steps are around 4500/day and they should be at least 10,000.
I am doing 2 step challenges now. I am completing the one across Canada and the new one started January 1st, 2011 is to walk to Mexico. Apparently its half the distance - more stops - and a whole lot warmer! LOL
I am liking the new WW pedometer. I went thru 4 of the old ones and a couple of freebies. This one seems more secure, doesn't fall off nearly as much and appears to be more sensitive to my steps. I swear the other one didn't count them all. I have some proof as I was part of a walking group last year and at the end of our walk we would look at our pedometers and mine always showed less steps and yet we all walked the same distance. (whoa! run on sentence!)
Well, I am going to get off my duff - go feed my animals - then come back and do an hour of paperwork - then go for a walk - then paperwork - then walk... you get the drift - gotta move more!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Informed - Formal
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I have just been informed that the attire for the wedding we are to attend on April 2, 2011 - in Luxembourg... is FORMAL.
The reception is taking place at Chateau de Preisch (France) or in English "Castle of Preisch".
You can see the place for yourself by clicking this link
Chateau of Preisch
OH MY - I do have a beautiful formal dress... but I can not fit into it. I would have to be 30 or more pounds lighter. There is no way I can lose 30 or more lbs in 3 months even if I was majorly strict with myself!
I don't like buying new clothes at my weight either - OH what to do!
Well, if this isn't incentive I don't know what is...
I have just been informed that the attire for the wedding we are to attend on April 2, 2011 - in Luxembourg... is FORMAL.
The reception is taking place at Chateau de Preisch (France) or in English "Castle of Preisch".
You can see the place for yourself by clicking this link
Chateau of Preisch
OH MY - I do have a beautiful formal dress... but I can not fit into it. I would have to be 30 or more pounds lighter. There is no way I can lose 30 or more lbs in 3 months even if I was majorly strict with myself!
I don't like buying new clothes at my weight either - OH what to do!
Well, if this isn't incentive I don't know what is...
First Day of the next 12 months
Welllllllllllllllllllllllll, I can't say that I have been on track today.
I have been so tired and it took every ounce of energy in my body to go outside and feed my animals. I had a lazy day today although I did work several hours on a Newsletter that I was supposed to have had emailed out yesterday.
I just finished it a half hour ago and hit the send button. Then decided to come on here.
I did track for 2 days in a row - but not today. Tomorrow is another day... the tracker is sitting on my kitchen table glaring at me. Reminding me.
hahaha the chocolates are nearly all gone in the house - I have figured out that a toblerone chunk is 4 points - the icy chocolate squares are 2 points - m&m's for 1/4 cup is 5 points - and Ferrero Rocher! AH! my favorite! for 3 of them it is 6 points.
I think I am going to have withdrawals when I finally tell myself no more or better yet there is no more in the house. You see I won't buy them but if someone else does I will eat them.
This could be TMI... but I had spoken about my hubby not being very supportive. He tries in his own way and for the most part he does mean well... like when he sees me eat a chocolate and tells me that he will have to work it off me later. hehehe. Again not exactly the support I want but it comes from his man heart. LOL
Well, I guess the first step to healthy eating is getting some groceries in this house.
WW used to have menu plans (bare with me here.. I haven't actually read much of the literature to the new plan so... if they have menu plans now...I am unaware).
I used to live off the menu plans. I could swap in and out the foods I liked or what I had on hand. The planning was all done for me and I could easily go shopping - little time spent. I have spent hours talking about and actually starting some menu plans but never complete it and don't follow through. Not a good thing for success.
I had some comments on my last post (end of 2010) - thank you for your support! Please by all means comment. This is what I mean by the "friends" support. I also have a wonderful, fabulous WW meeting leader and the people that go to the meeting are great too. That is my "me" time. I refuse to miss it.
I sometimes wonder who reads this blog...I have so few "followers". If what I say or do helps anyone else I am thankful. I would rather be an inspiration than someone who drags others down. But in saying that, I too have my down days. Sometimes far too many that I care to admit. That was negative again.. gotta quit that.
Well, I do have a goal - I want to have lost weight by March 20th. We have a wedding to attend. I don't want to give some unrealistic number but as long as the scale is going in the down direction and I feel good that is all I will ask of myself.
I have surely rambled on in this post but sometimes I have to do that to get everything straight in my head.
To a clean slate with no mistakes in it....
I have been so tired and it took every ounce of energy in my body to go outside and feed my animals. I had a lazy day today although I did work several hours on a Newsletter that I was supposed to have had emailed out yesterday.
I just finished it a half hour ago and hit the send button. Then decided to come on here.
I did track for 2 days in a row - but not today. Tomorrow is another day... the tracker is sitting on my kitchen table glaring at me. Reminding me.
hahaha the chocolates are nearly all gone in the house - I have figured out that a toblerone chunk is 4 points - the icy chocolate squares are 2 points - m&m's for 1/4 cup is 5 points - and Ferrero Rocher! AH! my favorite! for 3 of them it is 6 points.
I think I am going to have withdrawals when I finally tell myself no more or better yet there is no more in the house. You see I won't buy them but if someone else does I will eat them.
This could be TMI... but I had spoken about my hubby not being very supportive. He tries in his own way and for the most part he does mean well... like when he sees me eat a chocolate and tells me that he will have to work it off me later. hehehe. Again not exactly the support I want but it comes from his man heart. LOL
Well, I guess the first step to healthy eating is getting some groceries in this house.
WW used to have menu plans (bare with me here.. I haven't actually read much of the literature to the new plan so... if they have menu plans now...I am unaware).
I used to live off the menu plans. I could swap in and out the foods I liked or what I had on hand. The planning was all done for me and I could easily go shopping - little time spent. I have spent hours talking about and actually starting some menu plans but never complete it and don't follow through. Not a good thing for success.
I had some comments on my last post (end of 2010) - thank you for your support! Please by all means comment. This is what I mean by the "friends" support. I also have a wonderful, fabulous WW meeting leader and the people that go to the meeting are great too. That is my "me" time. I refuse to miss it.
I sometimes wonder who reads this blog...I have so few "followers". If what I say or do helps anyone else I am thankful. I would rather be an inspiration than someone who drags others down. But in saying that, I too have my down days. Sometimes far too many that I care to admit. That was negative again.. gotta quit that.
Well, I do have a goal - I want to have lost weight by March 20th. We have a wedding to attend. I don't want to give some unrealistic number but as long as the scale is going in the down direction and I feel good that is all I will ask of myself.
I have surely rambled on in this post but sometimes I have to do that to get everything straight in my head.
To a clean slate with no mistakes in it....
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