This past week has truly been the week from hell. Starting with last Wednesday and that freaking nine pound weight gain and the tizzy it sent me into. Just the not knowing what caused it was rather traumatizing.
So with as much GUSTO <insert jazz hands here> as I could muster I worked through this week. Of course I stayed on plan because I was a big fat loser *cue music and fanfare* yet it somehow doesn't seem so exciting knowing that I was already here once before and it wasn't all that long ago.
Still, getting to lose 4.5 pounds, shedding half of that initial nine pound weight gain IS a nice way to start this week and a great way to start my re-boot. I go to the doctor this afternoon to review if or why there would be a medical cause to what has been going on with my weight gain/sluggishness as of late.
As I explained before, with regard to the re-boot (hey if Hollywood can do it, so can I!) how that'll work is just a matter of looking at each meal as if it were my first one ever on Weight Watchers and planning my meals accordingly. Then going from there. Hopefully it'll help me see where I can make some improvements and see where it is I wasn't seeing the weight loss like the Wonder One, who as of today has lost 48 pounds! I'm so flippin' proud of him! He looks awesome too (*drool* hubba hubba)
So this week is a week of new beginnings, so to speak, (re)begin Weight Watchers, begin the training for my 5k walk/run with the Darby one and a few other things on the horizon to be named at a later date as yet, not ready to mention.
Wish me luck!
Hugs & Toodles
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Blasting in my ears right now...
Recently picked up the not quite so new CD from Lady Gaga and I have to say I've been inspired! What I have blasting in my ears on the iPod and making it work overtime right now...
For every blast there has to be a cool down....
Such a beautiful lyrical voice...
For every blast there has to be a cool down....
Such a beautiful lyrical voice...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
So I've been trying to sort a few things out...
As you well know, I've been under the weather.
No surprise the 9 pound gain is enough to make anyone trying to lose weight sick as a dog.
The Darby One announced that much to her chagrin she has decided to train to walk/run a 5k. The details as of yet I'm not privy to. When I am, you my dear friends will be as well.
Why you may be wondering?
I'll share with you.
In an effort to sort out why it is things have run amok, I'm going back to basics as it were. I'm going back to week one of Weight Watchers. I mean that to say, I'm going to treat it all as if it were brand new to me and put my nose to every label and my nose to the program as if I'd never seen it before. As well, I'll be starting anew on my fitness plan. As well, while the Darby One trains for her 5k I will be as well in solidarity to show my support of her efforts. I may not run it, it very well may be a walk, but complete it I will.
We'll see how we get across that finish line won't we?
In 6 weeks time I've got the training program mapped out.
Come hell or high water, I'll get there.
Let's see where this takes us.
Ice pack anyone?
No surprise the 9 pound gain is enough to make anyone trying to lose weight sick as a dog.
The Darby One announced that much to her chagrin she has decided to train to walk/run a 5k. The details as of yet I'm not privy to. When I am, you my dear friends will be as well.
Why you may be wondering?
I'll share with you.
In an effort to sort out why it is things have run amok, I'm going back to basics as it were. I'm going back to week one of Weight Watchers. I mean that to say, I'm going to treat it all as if it were brand new to me and put my nose to every label and my nose to the program as if I'd never seen it before. As well, I'll be starting anew on my fitness plan. As well, while the Darby One trains for her 5k I will be as well in solidarity to show my support of her efforts. I may not run it, it very well may be a walk, but complete it I will.
We'll see how we get across that finish line won't we?
In 6 weeks time I've got the training program mapped out.
Come hell or high water, I'll get there.
Let's see where this takes us.
Ice pack anyone?
Beyond frustrated...
With having lost the weight that I have and making the necessary adjustments that I have to my insulin that I have, the one thing that I wasn't expecting this past week was a gain. Especially a significant gain like I got.
A 9 pound gain.
Pick your chin up.
I know I had to.
I was stunned too.
This has been a week that has put the Wonder One to the test that's for certain. Twice my sugar has bottomed out on me. Once I had to go to the Emergency Room because of it. No, they didn't do anything for me except feed me. Asshats. I'm not so much amused with them at the moment. The normally stellar service that they normally provide just wasn't there. That's a rant for another day.
Today it's about that 9 pound reversal.
The past few weeks I've been weak, not feeling well, haven't been able to get to the gym and just all around feeling blah. The Wonder One and Queenie (one of my biggest cheerleaders by far) are both in agreement, that it's most likely water weight. I go next week to follow up with the doc regarding taking the water pills he had me on. But holy cow (no pun intended there) NINE pounds worth of water weight?!
Both Queenie and the Wonder One assure me not to worry, I'll get back to the gym soon enough. I'm still eating according to plan, just not working out like I want. Once I get to doing that, it'll all jive soon enough.
I'm just so tired.
And sick, and sick of being sick and tired.
I thought that was what doing all this was about? And now to put back on a third of what I've taken off?
Very discouraging indeed.
A 9 pound gain.
Pick your chin up.
I know I had to.
I was stunned too.
This has been a week that has put the Wonder One to the test that's for certain. Twice my sugar has bottomed out on me. Once I had to go to the Emergency Room because of it. No, they didn't do anything for me except feed me. Asshats. I'm not so much amused with them at the moment. The normally stellar service that they normally provide just wasn't there. That's a rant for another day.
Today it's about that 9 pound reversal.
The past few weeks I've been weak, not feeling well, haven't been able to get to the gym and just all around feeling blah. The Wonder One and Queenie (one of my biggest cheerleaders by far) are both in agreement, that it's most likely water weight. I go next week to follow up with the doc regarding taking the water pills he had me on. But holy cow (no pun intended there) NINE pounds worth of water weight?!
Both Queenie and the Wonder One assure me not to worry, I'll get back to the gym soon enough. I'm still eating according to plan, just not working out like I want. Once I get to doing that, it'll all jive soon enough.
I'm just so tired.
And sick, and sick of being sick and tired.
I thought that was what doing all this was about? And now to put back on a third of what I've taken off?
Very discouraging indeed.
Monday, August 22, 2011
While taking a leap forward...
As you can guess and have heard, after all, it's been on the news, being so overweight has its drawbacks. As a matter of fact can you seriously think of a benefit to being overweight? Not just overweight, but obese? Yeah, me neither.
Matter of fact, what it will cost you to be over weight I've found out is poor health. So much so you, or in my case, I have ended up hospitalized. A higher cost of living as evidenced with multiple prescriptions to name a few: Lantus (insulin), Actos, Glucophage I could go on, however these three drugs are the ones directly related to the one disease I am personally intimately dealing with on a daily basis and that is Diabetes.
Diabetes, in case you didn't know it, can take your vision, your circulation, your limbs and for you men out there, your willies. Yeah, it can kill your libido. In addition to having diabetes, you run the risk of having hypertension when you have diabetes. That affects your kidneys and your heart.
Pretty much your life as you know it.
Sucks don't it?
Sounds like a good reason to get off your ass doesn't it?
Sounds like an even better reason to move it if you have a family with these issues.
These things do run in families. Look at your parents. Look at their parents. Now look in a mirror.
I wish I had done it years ago.
I'm just glad that I finally did.
My doctor had me on my highest dose ever of my insulin. 80 units a day. Granted it was split up over the course of the day. Prior dosages weren't working, so for some reason doing a loading dose at night and then a sustaining dose during the day seemed to be working well to bring my sugar levels under control.
However, now that I'm getting close to 10% of my body weight being gone, which the professionals will tell you is all you need to do to bring these life changing diseases under control, my sugars are starting to drop on me. So much more so that my insulin has been decreased! YaY me!
This is probably just as good of news to me as seeing the scale move if you want the truth. So instead of 80 units a day it's 70, and that's a pretty good number.
For now.
I'll be happy when the doctor tells me I won't need any.
Matter of fact, what it will cost you to be over weight I've found out is poor health. So much so you, or in my case, I have ended up hospitalized. A higher cost of living as evidenced with multiple prescriptions to name a few: Lantus (insulin), Actos, Glucophage I could go on, however these three drugs are the ones directly related to the one disease I am personally intimately dealing with on a daily basis and that is Diabetes.
Diabetes, in case you didn't know it, can take your vision, your circulation, your limbs and for you men out there, your willies. Yeah, it can kill your libido. In addition to having diabetes, you run the risk of having hypertension when you have diabetes. That affects your kidneys and your heart.
Pretty much your life as you know it.
Sucks don't it?
Sounds like a good reason to get off your ass doesn't it?
Sounds like an even better reason to move it if you have a family with these issues.
These things do run in families. Look at your parents. Look at their parents. Now look in a mirror.
I wish I had done it years ago.
I'm just glad that I finally did.
My doctor had me on my highest dose ever of my insulin. 80 units a day. Granted it was split up over the course of the day. Prior dosages weren't working, so for some reason doing a loading dose at night and then a sustaining dose during the day seemed to be working well to bring my sugar levels under control.
However, now that I'm getting close to 10% of my body weight being gone, which the professionals will tell you is all you need to do to bring these life changing diseases under control, my sugars are starting to drop on me. So much more so that my insulin has been decreased! YaY me!
This is probably just as good of news to me as seeing the scale move if you want the truth. So instead of 80 units a day it's 70, and that's a pretty good number.
For now.
I'll be happy when the doctor tells me I won't need any.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Blasting in my ears right now...
I'm always looking for music for my workouts to help motivate me to keep moving. Also to help me see that this whole process is worthwhile. Yanno that whole "fake it till ya make it" mantra...
So this is what I blast to keep me moving because I know in the end, it's going to be awesome...
This is another song blasting in my ears, I'll save the story as to why for a later post, but the song itself is one I use for cool downs.
So this is what I blast to keep me moving because I know in the end, it's going to be awesome...
This is another song blasting in my ears, I'll save the story as to why for a later post, but the song itself is one I use for cool downs.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
I did what?
I'm very proud of myself. Sort of.
I'll tell you why.
I know you're wondering....(just in case you aren't, I'm going to tell you anyway)...I thought I'd have some coffee today.
What's the big deal in that you say?
Well, I've cut wayyyyyyyy down in my soda consumption. I've talked about that here. It wasn't so much my soda consumption per se that I personally had an issue with (well, beyond the cost of course), but the fact that I was looking at the chemicals of the artificial sweeteners. Because I've found for me personally that artificial sweeteners have a tendency to stimulate my sweet tooth. When I don't drink so much diet soda, I don't eat so much in the way of sweets. But oh how I miss my caffeine. So, I thought, I'd have a cuppa joe this morning to help me rev up my morning.
So, I toddle off to the computer to calculate what the latest addition to my breakfast is.
Now that I'm finally getting the scale to go down, my points on Weight Watchers are going down too. (dammit) So I'm at 37 points for the day. Like the good Weight Watcher that I am, I calculated the points for my breakfast (seven) and then I calculated the points for my newest addition to breakfast...my coffee. Bearing in mind that coffee is not something that I normally drink, I have to add creamer and sweetener to my coffee. I know, I cut back on the soda (remember, it was diet soda!) to keep from injesting so much artificial sweetener, but I just can't drink coffee without all the extras. I have to laugh when I think of this because my dad the Marine always used to say "If you have to add all that crap to good coffee, you don't like coffee!" I like coffee! I swear!! Bear in mind though, he drank his black. straight from the pot practically as it was brewing!
!!!!!
Good thing there is a seat belt on my chair! I darn near fell out of my seat! It was with a deep sigh that I clicked the mouse button and picked up my coffee to continue drinking.
5 points more out of 37 for a total of 12 for breakfast?!.
That's figuring in the 7 already. My fingers are ticking off the points, one, two three....whaaaa... So there's 25 remaining for lunch, dinner and a snack. Crap! I don't like cutting it so close for meals for the day. I feel like I'm getting cheated somewhere along the way if I go to high on points early in the day.
I better make sure this one cuppa joe counts.
This is one coffee I'm going to enjoy!
I'll tell you why.
I know you're wondering....(just in case you aren't, I'm going to tell you anyway)...I thought I'd have some coffee today.
What's the big deal in that you say?
Well, I've cut wayyyyyyyy down in my soda consumption. I've talked about that here. It wasn't so much my soda consumption per se that I personally had an issue with (well, beyond the cost of course), but the fact that I was looking at the chemicals of the artificial sweeteners. Because I've found for me personally that artificial sweeteners have a tendency to stimulate my sweet tooth. When I don't drink so much diet soda, I don't eat so much in the way of sweets. But oh how I miss my caffeine. So, I thought, I'd have a cuppa joe this morning to help me rev up my morning.
So, I toddle off to the computer to calculate what the latest addition to my breakfast is.
Now that I'm finally getting the scale to go down, my points on Weight Watchers are going down too. (dammit) So I'm at 37 points for the day. Like the good Weight Watcher that I am, I calculated the points for my breakfast (seven) and then I calculated the points for my newest addition to breakfast...my coffee. Bearing in mind that coffee is not something that I normally drink, I have to add creamer and sweetener to my coffee. I know, I cut back on the soda (remember, it was diet soda!) to keep from injesting so much artificial sweetener, but I just can't drink coffee without all the extras. I have to laugh when I think of this because my dad the Marine always used to say "If you have to add all that crap to good coffee, you don't like coffee!" I like coffee! I swear!! Bear in mind though, he drank his black. straight from the pot practically as it was brewing!
!!!!!
Good thing there is a seat belt on my chair! I darn near fell out of my seat! It was with a deep sigh that I clicked the mouse button and picked up my coffee to continue drinking.
5 points more out of 37 for a total of 12 for breakfast?!.
That's figuring in the 7 already. My fingers are ticking off the points, one, two three....whaaaa... So there's 25 remaining for lunch, dinner and a snack. Crap! I don't like cutting it so close for meals for the day. I feel like I'm getting cheated somewhere along the way if I go to high on points early in the day.
I better make sure this one cuppa joe counts.
This is one coffee I'm going to enjoy!
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