Yep, I have motivation and I am back tracking and getting lots of water in.
You would think with my getting on and off the wagon so much it would count for activity points and my weight would have gone down! LOL
I have decided I am tired of seeing my weight go on the rise again wiping away all my hard work over the past few years...
Its work, I have/had to face that. It is not going to come off magically. I am very educated on what is right and wrong with eating and nutrition... and it is absolutely amazing how tracking all my food actually causes me to lose weight! It works!
So where did my motivation come from? Well, part of it came from a little blood test that my husband got done... his colesterol is too high. I feel that I am to blame for that cause I have either not been cooking (eating out a lot) or when I do cook it hasn't been all that super healthy all the time. A little bit is okay but a lot is NOT!
Another motivater is my Mom is around the same weight as me now. She has lost 35 lbs and I should be totally at goal but no... I fussed and frolicked and gained and now we approximately the same. So I have to kick it in gear before I have a skinny mom and I am left in the dust!
A third motivater is a friend... whom also needs motivation. Together we are motivating each other and keeping each accountable. When you are forced to think about it and fess up one tends to do a little better. :)
4th.. I have attended WW meetings whether I have gained or lost weight. I have gotten to know many regulars at "my" meeting and they know when things aren't good or I have gone sideways. They are always trying to cheer me up.. or kick me in the butt! We "kick" each other. LOL A bonus is I have found a good meeting with good people and a good leader. Thats gotta motivate someone!
So here I am again. I have been tracking for nearly one week and my home scale is showing promising numbers. I have to admit being at work has been a challenge ( I cook, serve and eat at work). The menu can have high carb, high fat items... I have been trying to call ahead and find out what I will be making and either bring something from home to substitute or try to scale it down when making it or take much smaller portions... there are many things I can do - sometimes I just save some extra points for the occasion.
Here's to another boost - weight 175 ... goal 145. Preferably by February 27th, 2011 doable?
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Breaking silence
I guess its about time I got on here again. Been neglecting my "duties" :)
Anyone hear about the WW/running room 5 km challenge on getting active? Well, I participated in that then went to Ontario for 2.5 weeks. WW was giving out 5 Km charms and I was worried I wouldn't get one cause i was going to miss the meeting - well as it went - my leader knew I had participated and she saved one for me. yay! So I now have my "lucky" charm
I haven't been making WL a goal this summer - but I have been making good choices being a goal. I did gain weight on my trip but since I have got back I have lost 4.6 lbs. I am very close to being in the 160's AGAIN.
Since this blog is also about my health I will share some struggles that I have been going thru.
Last tuesday, July 19, in the middle of the night I had what is considered stroke like symptoms they lasted at least 2 hours long and when I woke in the morning (after a terrible night sleep) and morning meant 5 am I still felt crappy but got up and got to it anyway. You see I had a tour coming to the dairy and I had to finish getting ready. I had heart flutters throughout the tour but later put it all down to not enough sleep and worrying about my hubby and son who was about to venture out overnight on a hiking trip up a local mountain.
One problem, not all my symptoms went away even after they came back from the hike. My heart kept doing flips and I would get the shakes, feel faint, numb face, aching arm and then my blood pressure would start to rise. Now I am one that always has low BP. it is usually around 90/40 or 100/60. Over the past week it has been 135/93.
I ended up at emergency on monday night ( a week after the original symptoms appeared) - I decided I had better get checked out. From emergency I got referred to a heart/stroke specialist.
Today, thursday, I went to that appt. I saw a resident dr and breifly saw the specialist. Long and short of it all they think that my "episode(s)" are caused from my migraines. (I am hugely doubting this) so I said if its from my migraines then what is causing them... answer: hormones... I said then how do I balance my hormones so that I don't get these symptoms... he couldn't answer that.. oh wait - he did answer that - he said go thru menopause and most women no longer get migraines after that.
After some deliberation between resident dr and specialist... they decided to put my mind at rest and do a list of blood tests, a CT scan of my head to upper chest, and a 24 hour heart monitor. I know 3 of the blood tests they did 1. colesterol 2. blood sugar 3. Lupus but the others listed I have no idea what they stood for. As for the CT scan I tried to get them to order a scan from head to abdomin but they wouldn't - they didn't feel that the pain I was having under my ribs to my back over the last 3 years had any connection to what I came to see them for. I was told to go to my GP and discuss that with him.
Oh and my Blood pressure? After my 1 1/2 hour discussion I hopped up on the "bed" and the dr took my BP... it was 100/60. He joked and said he has a calming affect on patients.
Karl didn't help one bit- his only comment throughout the whole meeting was that I had horrible PMS lasting 1-2 weeks thru a month and that he could easily raise my BP by mentioning it.
Even the dr told him he was walking on dangerous ground :-P
Has anything been resolved? Won't know until my test results come back... then it will be time to regroup and figure out where I go from there.
Anyone hear about the WW/running room 5 km challenge on getting active? Well, I participated in that then went to Ontario for 2.5 weeks. WW was giving out 5 Km charms and I was worried I wouldn't get one cause i was going to miss the meeting - well as it went - my leader knew I had participated and she saved one for me. yay! So I now have my "lucky" charm
It has now been added to my worn WW key chain (its a before pic) - the star stands for 10% of my weight lost - key stands for lifetime and the hand stands for 16 weeks sluggin' it thru - LOL I have been with them way longer than 16 weeks - I have been Lifetime since 1997
I haven't been making WL a goal this summer - but I have been making good choices being a goal. I did gain weight on my trip but since I have got back I have lost 4.6 lbs. I am very close to being in the 160's AGAIN.
Since this blog is also about my health I will share some struggles that I have been going thru.
Last tuesday, July 19, in the middle of the night I had what is considered stroke like symptoms they lasted at least 2 hours long and when I woke in the morning (after a terrible night sleep) and morning meant 5 am I still felt crappy but got up and got to it anyway. You see I had a tour coming to the dairy and I had to finish getting ready. I had heart flutters throughout the tour but later put it all down to not enough sleep and worrying about my hubby and son who was about to venture out overnight on a hiking trip up a local mountain.
One problem, not all my symptoms went away even after they came back from the hike. My heart kept doing flips and I would get the shakes, feel faint, numb face, aching arm and then my blood pressure would start to rise. Now I am one that always has low BP. it is usually around 90/40 or 100/60. Over the past week it has been 135/93.
I ended up at emergency on monday night ( a week after the original symptoms appeared) - I decided I had better get checked out. From emergency I got referred to a heart/stroke specialist.
Today, thursday, I went to that appt. I saw a resident dr and breifly saw the specialist. Long and short of it all they think that my "episode(s)" are caused from my migraines. (I am hugely doubting this) so I said if its from my migraines then what is causing them... answer: hormones... I said then how do I balance my hormones so that I don't get these symptoms... he couldn't answer that.. oh wait - he did answer that - he said go thru menopause and most women no longer get migraines after that.
After some deliberation between resident dr and specialist... they decided to put my mind at rest and do a list of blood tests, a CT scan of my head to upper chest, and a 24 hour heart monitor. I know 3 of the blood tests they did 1. colesterol 2. blood sugar 3. Lupus but the others listed I have no idea what they stood for. As for the CT scan I tried to get them to order a scan from head to abdomin but they wouldn't - they didn't feel that the pain I was having under my ribs to my back over the last 3 years had any connection to what I came to see them for. I was told to go to my GP and discuss that with him.
Oh and my Blood pressure? After my 1 1/2 hour discussion I hopped up on the "bed" and the dr took my BP... it was 100/60. He joked and said he has a calming affect on patients.
Karl didn't help one bit- his only comment throughout the whole meeting was that I had horrible PMS lasting 1-2 weeks thru a month and that he could easily raise my BP by mentioning it.
Even the dr told him he was walking on dangerous ground :-P
Has anything been resolved? Won't know until my test results come back... then it will be time to regroup and figure out where I go from there.
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