Discouraged this week by the slight uptick on the scale but this week was the week from hell. Unfortunately this whole month looks to be that way. This week, I fell down on the job of taking care of myself, and I let stress make choices for me that I wouldn’t have made otherwise.
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This week sees me doing the weight loss cha-cha yet again. The week was full of challenges stemming from the fact that we are currently a one vehicle household since my car decided last Monday that it had had enough and it was time for a permanent parking spot in the garage in the sky. I was also dehydrated from yesterday’s trip to the State Fair, which saw me not drinking nearly as much water as I normally do. But it also saw me walk nearly 6 miles without tiring, and most of that at a pretty good clip. I couldn’t have done that last year.
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We are slaves to cardio machines at the gym, when the weights are where we really should spend more time to get the biggest bang for our exercise buck. I’m just as guilty of this as anyone else–here’s my evening’s cardio. Not too terrible, but could be better.
In any attempt to lose weight and get healthy, exercise is a must. I know, biggest understatement of the year. I don’t claim to be a fitness expert but I do know that to be fit, one must reduce body fat percentage, increase lean muscle mass, increase stroke volume, and increase VO2 max. These are things the average bear doesn’t think about–hooray for having a biology background!
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I am nearly two weeks out from surgery and I’m starting to get antsy.
Daily, I fight the urge to step on the scale to see if it will move in the downward direction. Before surgery, I promised myself I’d only weigh every Sunday. I’ve already broken that promise to myself but I need to renew it. There is simply too much fluctuation in your weight on a day to day basis to weigh and not drive yourself mad when the scale doesn’t look as you want it to. But I know the scale has to be moving downward because when I look at my My Fitness Pal journal, I’m taking in just shy of 400 calories daily and expending way more than that. And yes, I’m really trying to get in at least 600 right now, but when you are simply NOT hungry, it is hard to force yourself to drink ONE MORE PROTEIN DRINK, especially if you’ve hit your protein goal for the day. Once I move to mushy foods, I’m setting my calorie goal slightly higher to account for the fact that I’ll be getting my calories and protein from food and not primarily protein drinks.
The Dermabond on my incisions is starting to peel off a little bit. I need to call my doctor’s office tomorrow to see if this is normal. I haven’t scratched at them or anything, but I noticed today after I got out of the shower that the Dermabond on a couple of the incisions is peeling up a little bit and I want to make sure this is supposed to happen, because some of the incisions are not quite fully closed up. They’re itchy though, so this is good. I just want the damn things to heal so I can go about the real business of exercising to accelerate this weight loss process a little bit. That, and I want to build a routine before school starts so that it will already be in place.
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