Month: March 2013

Morning? Great. Afternoon? Well……. I met my dad for lunch at a place we had never been. I had no idea what the menu included. The options were few. I was hungry. I ordered 1/2 turkey sandwich on wheat, a cup of Roasted Red Pepper Bisque and a nonfat latte. The Bisque was wear it all went sour. No, the soup wasn’t sour, but I should have thought about this. Bisque means cream. It was good and I ate it all. After I ate my sandwich, I realized I would have probably been fine with just the soup. When I got home, I looked up the nutritional info. Yip, shoulda just had one or the other. Dinner? I hadn’t planned lunch OR dinner! I wasn’t cooking due to leftovers that needed to be eaten, but then I ended up eating a Protein bar that I thought was 5 PPV. I […]

Now that I am getting out and about more, I am finding Rotator Cuff surgery is REALLY common! Random people just look at my brace, then my face, give a little nod, as if they know, then say….. “Rotator Cuff?” I’m like…… “Yip.” One guy said…. “Look what I can do, and I had my surgery six months ago!” Then he preceded to put his hand up in the air over his head! I was amazed. Really! I have noticed lately that I have this ridiculous urge to go into a full body stretch! With moans and groans and the whole shabang! I just wanna stretch out, right arm included. Guess I’ll be waiting awhile to satisfy that urge. Treadmill workout for Tuesday, same as Monday. 2.5 mph50 minutes2.0 miles1.5 miles at 6%0.5 miles at 7% Wednesday I am getting a haircut. I’m going to have to do something a […]

I will be weighing on Monday’s at home now, along with my Friday weigh in at Weight Watchers, and plotting it on my graph. Today I drew my first line on my graph, and I must say, it did feel good. Monday’s Treadmill 6% incline for 1.5 miles7% incline for 0.5 miles (this was progress)2.5 mph50 minutes2.0 miles 🙂 169.3 lbs (I shed my brace for the photo) I am going to take a picture for the chart each week. Here is the first one.I should work on a lighter background. Kinda hard to really see how wide my hips are. Here’s my belly though…….. First time wearing jeans since surgery. This will not be happening again anytime soon! I almost wet my pants at the restaurant trying to get my pants down!! (my brace in nicely camouflaged under my shawl! Christmas present from Tess this year!) I had my […]

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I really do! Part of my new plan is to not only weigh on Friday mornings at my WW meeting, but also to weigh at home on Monday mornings. Last week I bought a new scale and weighed on it at home before I went to my meeting on Friday. My home scale said I weighed 170.0, but the WW scale (2 hours later and fully clothed with a cup of coffee in my belly) I weighed 170.8. Not a big deal, but I am just prepared for a little fluctuation there. I talked to my coach about this and she suggested I plot on my chart my WW weight AND my home weight on Fridays. I have been thinking, and I think I will just keep my Friday weight my WW weight, because in the end, that will be “The Official” weight anyhow. I am quite pleased to share […]

“GUILT” can be a heavy thing to carry around. I was lounging in the recliner Sunday evening after a long, busy, full, incredible weekend with Mike, when it dawned on me, I hadn’t walked on the treadmill today. I completely……and totally…..had simply forgot! I hopped up, went upstairs to put on my walking shoes, and got on the treadmill. I HAVE GOALS, PEOPLE!! I did 50 minutes yesterday, so I knew I could do no less. Yesterday I averaged between 2.0 and 2.5 mph with an incline of 6% and walked a distance of 1.5 miles. I want to improve just a tad each time, (and remain pain free in the shoulder) so tonight I kept a pace of 2.5 mph the entire 50 minutes at 6% incline, which allowed me to get in 2.0 miles! Yay me, right? I hopped in the shower and remembered I could still eat […]

Saturday, I walked on the treadmill and increased the incline to 6%, increased my time to 50 minutes, and kept the pace at 2.0 to 2.5 mph (that seems to keep any throbbing in my shoulder away) and earned myself another 1.5 miles, and 3 activity points! I drank wine. Friday AND Saturday. I confessed to my coach this morning. Her concern is that alcohol can cause carb cravings in the days that follow drinking, so I am going to pay attention to that today. I have already planned out my meals, so I feel in control, no matter what I might end up craving. On the UP side of things, I got in plenty of Power Foods on Saturday, and worked my wine into my allowed 30 PPV. So not a total failure of a day. 🙂 “love the life you live, live the life you love”

I haven’t called a Friday post, “Friday Reflection” in a really long time. It feels good to be able to type that and know that my post is going to be full of positive thoughts and reflections. First things first. I actually got to go to my WW meeting this morning and join my long lost support group! It had been four weeks! I got in the shower at 7:15 am, had a cup of Joe, let the dogs out, discovered my diffuser for my hair dryer is a great tool for a one handed styling job, figured out which layers of clothing would be the warmest, yet the easiest to disrobe of at the scale, applied make-up (I know!) and slipped on my Costco fake Uggs, which I adore. It was now 9:15 am! I loaded up the car, then opened the garage door. It was freakin snowing again! […]

Just ask these guys….. What? Us? Can we pleeeaaassseeeeeee go outside and play in the snow some more? We’re sorry about the floors…..really. Well, at least give us another treat!!!! You think YOU’RE bored??? Silly and ridiculous? Picture this. Wait. No, don’t. I got on the treadmill in my pj’s and my walking shoes. The sports bra ain’t gonna happen anytime soon, (a regular bra is difficult enough) and dressing still proves to be a bit of a process and somewhat exhausting, so I just added shoes to my pj’s and hopped on the treadmill. Silly and ridiculous? Maybe. But I was able to increase my speed to 2.8 mph and I went from a zero incline to a 4% without a tremendous amount of throbbing in my shoulder. Yay! Another mile and a half closer to my goal of 200 miles. Only 195.5 to go! After tracking the activity […]