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Cough, Hack

Eat very poorly……..check Very little exercise……….check Feel like crap………..check As you can see, I have all the makings of a fairly significant gain this week.  I can’t find it within myself to care too too much right now, though.  As I was telling Ron earlier, I don’t think that I’ve done much other than sleep, cough, and eat this weekend. I sometimes feel better, and then I don’t anymore.  My cold is in no way as bad as ones that I’ve had before, but I am exhausted, my throat is still scratchy, my nose is still runny, and I’m still coughing.  Luckily, [ ... ]
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Spirits

Unfortunately, I’m still feeling pretty pitiful so I don’t mean the liquid kind.  The unfortunate part is that I actually look pretty pitiful (according to the restroom mirror I just looked in), too.  I’m determined to fight off this cold, however.  Too bad it looks like it’s going to give me a run for my money. I did want to share a very interesting (weird, odd) thing that happened yesterday.  I told you all that my mom went for a massage yesterday afternoon.  What I didn’t tell you about was that her massage therapist believes she can see and talk to [ ... ]

I need smacked

Now before you all get too excited and volunteer to be the one to smack me, I first want to say thank you to all of you for your heartfelt, caring comments on my last post.  I had a really good day, filled with happy memories and I think that was partly because of you guys.  I also wanted to say that my thoughts go out to all of you who have also lost loved ones.  I know it’s not easy, but I believe that it helps us to share those experiences. Congratulations, also, to Perry for posting my [ ... ]
Category: Exercise, Health  6 Comments

Six Years

Six years ago today, my world came crashing to a halt.  Or at least it felt that way.  I was in New York City visiting my gypsy friends  and was excited because I had been snowed in and my trip home had been delayed by two days.  I was supposed to fly out on Monday, but they were not able to get me a flight out of the city until Wednesday afternoon because of all of the snow. Late on Tuesday night, I woke up at about 1:00 a.m. gasping for air.  At the time, I didn’t know if I’d [ ... ]

Weigh-In 2/17/09

Today’s weigh-in is a full-blown miracle.  Somehow, I lost 3.1 pounds and made it back into the 180s!  As I mentioned, I did fairly great on the exercise front, but food-wise, I lost my mind.  This is hard to admit, but over the course of Saturday alone, I ate an entire medium deep dish, extra pepperoni (with banana peppers and grated parmesan cheese) Domino’s pizza by myself.  Minus one slice that my dad snatched.  It was extremely delicious and I didn’t eat it all at once (I probably could have, but made it two meals and a snack), but still!  When [ ... ]

I’m so proud

As far as food goes, my weekend BLEW with a capital blew.  But exercise-wise, I’m pretty damn proud of myself.  Friday night, I took a break at work to climb some of the stairs like I used to.  It’s been a really long time since I’ve done that and was only able to make it about 14 floors (28 flights) this time.  Of course, I was winded after about three floors and thought I was going to die by the time I was done.  Here’s me about to pass out (which in hindsight really isn’t that funny considering my recent [ ... ]
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Love Is In The Air

Okay….not really for me, since I’m very single, but I wanted to wish you all an absolutely fantastic and happy Valentine’s day tomorrow! In honor of this important occasion, I wanted to pass on a link that my good friend, Shawna, passed on to me recently.  Sixteen free romance novel e-books from eHarlequin for all of my fellow smut-lovers  out there.  I admit it.  I am not a snob where my books are concerned.  As long as a book catches my attention, keeps me enthralled, makes me care about the characters, and makes me laugh and/or cry (the best books [ ... ]

“And you’re OUT!”

Er….they’re out!  The stitches are gone!  You guys were right.  It was a piece of cake.  It only hurt at the beginning when she accidentally stabbed me with the scissors.  )  She did say that it looks a bit puffy, so I have to keep it covered with neosporin for a few more days, but I can handle that. The day after the incident (Feb. 2nd) On Thursday: (Feb. 6th) Stitch free tonight: Notice the presence of the lovely bruise that won’t go away.  And keep in mind that the slice looked like a big round circle before he stitched [ ... ]
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My Honeymoon Phase

You may have all heard about a “honeymoon phase” in regards to a diet or weight loss.  Many of us who have been there know that it can definitely be a real thing.  I’m one of those and this is my experience. I didn’t start blogging until after I had already lost well over 140 pounds.  I had already been on Weight Watchers for a year and a half.  That is also about how long my honeymoon phase lasted. As I mentioned the other day, I was hyper-vigilant during that period of time.  I was so strict with myself and what I [ ... ]

A bit of humor in my day

I forgot to mention a couple of things in my post earlier.  I just called my dad and he’s really so cute sometimes.  Like the time he made a cake for my mom for her birthday.  But when I asked how he was doing, he said he was bored.  It’s obvious that he really misses my mom. But I did see something happen on the way into work today that had me laughing, and believe me when I say that laughing is something that usually doesn’t happen on the way into work. I was stopped at an intersection and a group [ ... ]

Weigh-In 2/10/09

As I suspected, I was up 6.6 pounds on the scale today.  Craziness!  That’s what?  Something like 23,000 extra calories this week if I actually did gain that much?  I do think some of it at least was water retention, but it’s still crazy.  Oh well, it’s a new day and a new week! My finger is still on the mend.  It aches a bit, but very few sharp stabbing pains anymore, and I usually have to whack it on something (not intentionally, of course) or press on it accidentally for it to really hurt.  I am concerned about getting the [ ... ]
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The Ravenous Feed Me Monster Strikes Again

I have securely destroyed the almost five pound loss that I had last week.  In fact, if my peek at the scale today has any validity, then I can expect to gain about 8 pounds this week.  My little incident with my cut finger the previous Sunday sent me into “I don’t care” mode.  Then on Thursday and Friday, I barely ate anything since I was feeling so crappy, but then over the weekend, I more than made up for it. I’ve been considering a name change.  Perhaps my middle name should be changed to “Pizza” or “Kit-Kat.”  Or maybe even [ ... ]
Category: Psychology  7 Comments

Healing

As you can see from the pics below, my finger looks much, much better already.  It must have been all the healing vibes you guys have sent.  The stitches don’t come out until next Wed. or Thurs., though. On Monday: Today: Isn’t the human body’s ability to heal an amazing thing?  Now if I could only get over this nasty stomach bug I’ve picked up from somewhere….
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Weigh-In 2/3/09 & “Stitches” Story

Thank you all for the well wishes and the interest in my story!  Sorry it took me so long to let you know what happened, but things actually got a bit more interesting after I posted that picture. First, my weekend was fairly great.  I went hiking twice with my mom and we had fun.  Got a lot of my errands done, got flirted with by the creepy Wal-Mart checkout guy, made my soynuts.  The soynuts turned out great, but I need to cook them a bit longer on the next batch.  I was afraid of burning them, so they’re still [ ... ]
Category: Health, Weigh-Ins  8 Comments

Stitches

I had a fairly decent weekend, but since I have to be up early tomorrow to have my permanent crowns put back on, and am currently sleepy from hydrocodone, I will leave you with this image to show how my weekend ended.  Hope they don’t expect me to type too fast tomorrow at work!  And of course I’m right-handed.  I’ll hopefully be able to post the details tomorrow.
Category: Health  11 Comments
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