The Good and the Bad

The Bad (I always like to get the bad over with first!) is that I've been so sick this weekend! I went to the ER and got a neb treatment to help my breathing on Wednesday night, but felt better on Thursday so I thought I was getting over it. Its gone downhill over the day, and my Dad (an MD) looked at my throat with a flashlight and said its about 2/3 closed. Its the nurses battle of do I go in and risk looking like I'm overreacting and freaking out --or-- do I wait until I can't breathe and have to get intubated when I walk in the door. Hmm. I know I'm totally overthinking it, but still. I'm going to be up for a few more hours yet, and Will is going to look at my throat again (after 600mg ibuprofen) and see if I'm getting better or worse.

The Good: I'm losing weight pretty quickly during all this! lol I weighed in today at 228.0 and I'm loving it. Although I did look in the mirror today and think damn, my face looks puffier even with weight loss, what the hell. Yeah RN, you have lymph nodes. Don't worry everyone, I'm safely confined in an office and don't actually take care of patients.

Just for icing on the cake? We don't have a working shower. I love our 95 year old house, but when the plumbing explodes (and we only have one bathroom) so you have to order parts from god knows where. We went to my Mom's for showers today, then Marmot brought me home and tucked me back into the couch. Valentine's Day is a sweet holiday, but true love is when you have a husband who will still kiss you when he tucks you in, even when you're hacking and disgusting. I'm a lucky woman. :-)

Exhaustion...but a Victory!

So I ended up with a nasty cold, which is thankfully running through its course quickly- but quickly enough that I came home from work around 3 yesterday, and was getting a neb treatment in the ER by 7. I work so closely with the ER staff, the experience of being a patient was doubly miserable- but they were all very good to me, and they thankfully let me go home by 11! And as quickly as I got sick, I've been getting better- I still have a cough and headache, but I can take a deep breath without gasping!

But....a victory! I'm in a new decade! I don't know why I call it a decade, but I know I'm not the only one....but I weigh 228.8! The 230's are gone, and never to be seen again! Ok I realize that it probably has something to do with dehydration by not eating or drinking hardly anything in the last 24 hours, but still! I'm taking the victory and running with it. lol

The giveaway is going for a few more days, and I'm so excited to see who will win the 30 Day Shred DVD! The winner will be drawn on Saturday, so two more days to enter if you haven't- good luck everyone!

Yay for Weekends!

Its the weekend!!

I'm so ready for a weekend. Its been an amazingly stressful week at work, and although there was ZERO stress eating, I'm so glad that the workweek is done.

Today was the first day of my Monday-Friday day job, which is such a switch after years of rotating shifts and weekends. I'm home so early! This is the first time I've ever been home from work before my husband.

I logged in 230.5 today, which is another pound lost. It is amazing to me that this works. lol Ridiculous, I know! But some level of calorie restriction and regular exercise is apparently the trick, and I'm thrilled.

So yay for sticking with it....and now I'm off to a purse party, wish me luck for sticking to the budget!

Someday

I have a time management function on my iPhone called Things. If any of you have Macs, I've heard the desktop version is even better, which makes me even more excited to get a Mac when my Dell finally kicks it. So Things has a Someday box where you can put things that you are going to do Someday, but don't have a definite timeframe. I've come to the realization that I put alot of things in the Someday box, both on my iPhone and mentally.

I've had a list going in my head for a long time-
*someday I'll get married and have kids.
*someday I'll reach and maintain my goal weight.
*someday I'll run regularly again.
*someday I'll go back to school.
*someday I'll finish my book proposal and submit it.
*someday I'll become fluent in Spanish.
*someday I'll have my scrapbooking caught up to the past year.

Guess what? I'm married. I'm back in school. My book proposal is in process. I'm working on Rosetta Stone Spanish every week. And my scrapbooking is caught up to January 2008.

What's left? Reaching my goal weight and running. I was writing about where I've come from and where I'm at on the BLBE Forum, and started talking about my someday list. The realization hit me- someday is now! Whatever it is that I'm waiting for has passed. I'm in someday and if I don't do something about my weight, it's just another day wasted being unhappy with how I look and feel.

I refuse to put things under Someday anymore. If I want something, I'm going to actively plan a timeframe for accomplishing it, instead of letting it languish on my Someday list without any progress.

And progress is what I'm having! I'm down to 231.5 today, which is such an amazing reward. I'm soo close to being out of the 230's that I can hardly stand it! I've also discovered a trigger for awesome workouts, which is watching Biggest Loser while I'm on the treadmill. So I'm going to put the Season 6 Finale on my iPhone again and watch it while I work out tonight. I'm right on with my calories today, and I have a mental plan for tonight's dinner.

I am making this happen.

Oh Yeah Baby!

I have a loss. My scale showed 233.0 this morning!

That is:

* down 4lbs from where I was when I started BLBE.
* down 6lbs from my weigh-in last Sunday!

It's also a huge boost for me as I've been wondering when my almost daily workouts were ever going to show up on the scale!!

Its on to the treadmill, I'm so excited I might see if I can do an extra 15 minutes to celebrate! :-)

Rising Numbers for the US, Dropping for Me

Watching NBC tonight, they reported that there are not more obese people than just plain overweight people. Wow.

But better news for me, I was down to 236 today. Not exactly impressive, but yesterday I hit 239 so I'll take a loss as a loss. lol

I gave myself a few days break from the treadmill with the changing of shifts, and I'm glad I did since I still feel like crap. I did 30 minutes today of incline work today, which felt good. I was inspired by Carlos shoveling the white stuff yesterday, so after the treadmill I went outside with my husband and shoveled snow for another 30 minutes!

Now its time to sit down for dinner. My husband prevailed and is picking up Outback. I ordered a small prime rib, with steamed veggies for one side. The other side is the garlic mashed potatoes, but my plan is to take two bites and put the rest into a container to go to work with me tomorrow. Wish me luck on carrying through!

Quick question. Someone on one of the blogs I've read does something with Apple Cider Vinegar. I vaguely remember someone else (from a weight loss past) who used that too. Curious what the benefits are, how much, etc?

Hope you all are having a phenomenal Monday, Go Team Lynn! :-)