Month: March 2013

First, things are really going well. However, Sunday was just an all around bad day. I had some unexpected stress and by the end of the day, I ended up eating 36 PPV instead of my planned 26 PPV. It’s not like I devoured an entire pan of brownies, or a whole pizza, but I ate more than I had planned due to stress, which added to the stress. Funny how that works, huh? So Monday? I made Monday all about exercise and activity in an attempt to fix Sunday’s mistakes. My PT exercises are to be done 3 to 4 times a day. They suck. But that’s what I started the day with. After a good rest, I walked on the treadmill at my 3.0 mph at a 7% incline for 60 minutes, then I felt a spurt of energy and increased the speed to 3.2 mph and walked […]

Dad and I had planned on a Saturday morning coffee, but I slept like crap, until about 7:00 am, then I was sleeping deep, so I just kept sleeping, and he ran an errand that went until noon, so we had lunch. I was in the mood for a Saturday morning greasy spoon, but we ended up at my breakfast “safe” place, First Watch. I had planned to try something a little different, so I ordered my usual egg white, turkey, spinach, feta omelet and replaced the dry toast with a fruit cup! I’m really changing things up here, huh? We had a great chat, got caught up on the weeks news, then ran a few errands together. The man could talk for hours, and he always has a great story, so we put a few miles on the car and went all over town. Then, I was ready for […]

Well, that pretty much went as expected. Painful. I hope these people know what they’re doing!! I have really been trying to move my shoulder a lot over the last week to prepare myself for therapy. I am so glad I did, or that could have been a LOT worse! We scheduled my visits for three times a week for the next six weeks. I hope at the end of that to be able to lift light weights at Bootcamp! I forgot to ask specifically when I could do that. I got my three miles in on the treadmill at 7%, then went down to 0% and walked another mile. I really wasn’t going to have time on Friday to get any exercise in, and now I have somewhat made up for what I missed on Tuesday. I now have 36 miles logged! Here are Thursday’s Eats…. Friday morning I […]

I felt really weird missing my walk on Tuesday. Notice I didn’t use the word “guilty”. I have removed it from my vocabulary. But I did feel like my day was “missing” something. So I walked three miles on the treadmill, AND I walked two miles with a girlfriend outside late yesterday afternoon! Sure felt good to get outside and get some of that fresh air into these lungs! I haven’t posted any foodie pictures lately, but I made these last night for dinner, and wanted to share. Instead of potato skins? Zucchini boat skins!(Pictured with a turkey burger with caramelized red onions and reduced fat feta on a toasted bun with avocado slices.) This is the recipe from Hungry Girl for the Zucchini Boats Ingredients:2 slices center-cut bacon or turkey bacon2 medium-large zucchini, stem ends removed1/2 cup shredded reduced-fat Mexican-blend cheese1/4 cup chopped tomato1 tbsp. chopped scallionsOptional toppings: light […]

Tuesday was packed full, unexpectedly, but I loved it! It felt great to be gone and busy all day! I left my house late morning to meet my mom for coffee, then the plan was to head home to treadmill. I was make-up free and in my exercise clothes, my morning all planned out. Well, mom was a bit late, then we chatted til lunchtime. While having coffee with mom, a girlfriend called and we decided to see an afternoon movie. I ran a couple of errands before the movie and ran into an old friend while at Target. It was great to see her and catch up a bit. My morning flew and it was movie time! We ended up spending the rest of the afternoon together at a cozy little spot for a glass of wine and good girl chat. (I seem to be struggling a bit with […]

Well, kinda. I have now completed over 26.2 miles on my chart. 27 miles to be exact! It feels amazing to look at that silly thing and see how many miles I’ve walked! Yes, walked. Okay, so I didn’t run a marathon, but at the end of my goal of 200 miles, (I guess I need to now make my goal to 209.6 so I can say I walked 8 marathons!), it’s going feel awesome to look back and see all those charted miles!!! And so far, all uphill on the treadmill! I am looking forward to warmer weather so I can get outside and soak up some of that fresh air and sunshine! I agreed with my coach to weigh at home on Monday mornings and plot it on my graph. We agreed that Monday weigh in’s would keep me on track over the weekend. Monday mornings weight? 169.2 […]

Before I go into planning…….. ………. I was so excited to see 169 on the scale at home Saturday morning (which is not on my graph, only Friday and Monday weigh in’s will be plotted), that I completely forgot to mention “Life without my sling!” I haven’t worn it since I walked out of the Doc’s office on Thursday, (Mike and I dismantled it with a plan for sleeping in mind, but that failed), and while Thursday night was completely sleepless, Friday night and Saturday night were great! (Drugs can be really amazing! So can proper pillow placement.) The weight of my arm has certainly made it achy and kind of a burning feeling, but I am telling myself to push through it. I know when I start working next week with my Physical Therapist, today’s pain will mean nothing!! Saturday was my first treadmill experience without the sling, and […]

Stupid ScaleStupid Salt Stupid weightStupid €£¥#}~”&@$!!!!!! This post actually has a happy ending. Since I bought a new scale to use at home for a “middle of the week weigh in”, I have been stepping on it every morning, you know, out of curiosity? Well, what I was seeing on the scale wasn’t really jiving with the points I was eating. It’s funny, because as long as I have been at this weight loss, point counting, water drinking, treadmill walking journey, you would think I would be used to the scale going all over the place in between actual losses. But I’m not. When I met with my coach on Saturday afternoon, we talked about my week, and the salt that I ate, and the fact that I drank wine two nights in a row, and how THAT IS NOT MY PLAN! I agreed to drink only twice a month. […]

Sleepless in bed, sleepless in the recliner, sleepless on the couch. After getting the great news that I could do away with the arm/brace/sling thingamabob, Mike and I dismantled it (with approval from the Doc), so I could just use the sling part. I hadn’t really thought through sleeping without it, as excited as I was to NOT have to actually sleep in it. It’s a stability sling, for lack of a better term, (that’s the only thing I can think of to call it), and there is a lot of metal in it, and velcro, and straps. Well, we completely took it apart, so basically, now it is just a sling. I dream kinda crazy and jerk around a lot in the middle of the night, and I was concerned my arms might go flailing about in a dream, so we attempted to put it back together, but without […]

As the Doc entered the room with his great big smile (I really do like this guy), he said… “Well, how’s it going?” To which I replied…. “I am now 100% ambidextrous. Actually, I don’t even think I need the right arm anymore, it’s just in the way. Take it off. Oh……. why didn’t you warn me of all the difficulties a woman might have following this surgery? Styling my hair and putting on my bra are at the top of list of things I should have been warned about!” Doc…. “You would be surprised at how much I have learned about bra’s from my patients following this surgery.” 🙂 Then he did the whole physical exam, bending, turning and twisting my arm in positions it had forgotten about. “Yeeeewwwwouch Doc! Do you know what you’re doing???” Then he informed me that I no longer had to wear the arm/brace/sling […]