Checkin' in - 182.6

Up a bit from 2 weeks ago. Last week I was waaaaay up, not sure what was goin' on, so I just pushed through and kept on keepin' on. :-) Been getting some exercise in the pool, walked a LOT on Friday at Sea World. Hip and ankle have been bothering me. I think it's time to get rid of the Shape Ups. Wondering if that's what the issue is with my hips.

Checkin' in - 182.0

Totally shocked at this weight! After thoroughly enjoying a weekend at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs with lots of amazing food, I thought sure I'd be up several pounds. So I'm quite thrilled to see that number on the scale today. :-D We did do lots of walking, too so I guess that helped counter the great food.

The view from our room.

Our room at The Broadmoor.

The most wonderful thing I have EVER tasted in my 52 years! It's a Goat Cheese parfait with pistachio, golden beets, bowtie arugula. The goat cheese was the consistency of whipped cream. I was almost swooning! :-D

Checkin' in - 182.2

Up a bit. Forgot to check in because I had family visiting and then on Wed. left for my birthday trip to The Broadmoor in Colorado. Having an amazing time and dread the weigh-in next week! ;-) But having too much fun to care right now. It's sunny and gorgeous here and our room has a beautiful view of the lake and the mountains behind the Broadmoor. Today is our day to relax. Tomorrow we'll be driving up to Denver, visiting some friends there and then flying home late in the evening.

Checkin' in - 181.4

Down 1.6 since last week. Yay! And that's even with my cycle starting on Thursday. Really don't understand my body at all, but I will take the loss. I've had a headache a couple times, but they haven't been the severe migraines, so making progress. I think. Doctor called with blood results, everything normal, no allergies showed up from whatever they tested. Still need to do fasting bloodwork. Still need to get better with exercise. Walked on the treadmill a couple times.

Tuesday - ugh, ugh, ugh. Why does it have to get so warm and muggy so EARLY in the year????? Makes me feel so yuck and soooooo crabby. Time to break out the capris and tank tops!

Checkin' in - 183.0

And.......I'm back to where I started out the first week of February. :-P At least I didn't gain. Had a good massage on Thursday and a wonderful chiro adjustment yesterday. Will be getting another massage this Friday. It's been a week since my last migraine.

Checkin' in - 183.0

Down .4 from last week. Better than nothing. Had a bad migraine on Saturday. I've really had very little appetite lately, so I don't think I'm eating enough. Feeling all around cruddy is getting old. Blah blah blah.

Edit later in the day: have consumed an entire sleeve of Thin Mints over the hours of this day. Completely emotional eating. Sometimes, ya just can't stop yourself! And this is why I never PURCHASED any cookies. My husband brought them home. :-P

Edit on Wednesday - went to Bible study yesterday morning and while there, a stabbing pain behind my eyeball started. Did a quick grocery run for a few necessities (including a 100cal pack of cookies - crap food, but a better choice than a sleeve of TMs!) When I got home, I was completely WIPED and dozed on the couch all afternoon. Since there were fuzzy white things floating in the air when I was out and about, I'm thinking these headaches are allergy related.

Checkin' in - 183.4

Up from my low, but down from as high as it got over the weekend. Not sure what was going on, I wasn't THAT bad! :-) So yesterday I had a raw food day of fruits and veggies and lots of water. Today I walked for 30min as soon as I got up, had fruit for breakfast, then for lunch ate my leftover 1/2 sandwich from Luther's burger place. Made myself from Sassy water, too. (From the Flat Belly Diet.) Tonight I just had some cereal. Nothing else sounds good.

Shhhhhhhhh

We're just not going to talk about this past week. (Son had surgery on Friday, started my period. Ugh. At least the surgery went well with no complications!) Making a new start for this week. Did lots of dancing with my honey last night. My favorite kind of cardio! :-D

Today - 181.8

Doin' the happy dance! Oh, yeah! SIX days of activity last week and down 2lbs. Uh huh, uh huh!!

Here's a couple more of my quilt hangings, Cammy! :-D The bottom row is pockets on this wall hanging.

This one actually took me over 10 years to make throughout our many moves around the world.

Healthy You Update 183.8

Up a bit from last week. I feel the PMSing comin' on. Starting to crave all things salty (and mini powdered sugar donuts!) :-) Did get 5 days of exercise in last week, so I'm definitely happy about that. Need to get some more sleep! I've really felt wiped out lately. Might help if I didn't stay up so late. Will try to work on that this week.

Healthy You Check In - 183.4

Down 2.8lbs this week. Had four days of activity last week, much better than zero the week before! :-) Started the week out well with 30 minutes on the treadmill yesterday. Unfortunately, after the move, the display isn't working. It turns on, but just says zero so doesn't track time or speed. :-P

Checkin' in - 186.2

It's been a weird week. Weight was all over the place. Doin' the perimenopause thing. Had a couple of cycles that were 2 months apart, then 3 weeks after the last one, got it again. (So fun PMSing every two weeks.) :-P My cravings are for salty stuff, which I need for my low blood pressure. Woke up Sunday morning and the room was spinning. Hadn't been drinking the night before either! :-) Even laying down, everything was spinning. We had tile put in the master bath on Friday, so my husband wondered if it was the fumes.

Today's weight is finally down and I'll take it! :-) 4lbs since last week.

Figured I would add a photo of my newly painted bedroom (will get stuff up on walls this week.) We had a water leak in the master closet over Christmas. The plumbers put 4 holes in the walls looking for it and getting it fixed. So insurance paid for repair, painting and flooring. WOOHOO!



I was thrilled to get the carpet out of the bathroom and replaced with tile. I hate having carpet around the toilet! We have enough tile leftover to take out the carpet in the bathroom on the kids' side of the house, too.

Another New Year - 190.2

We celebrated my daughter's 24th bday at The Magic Time Machine. She wanted us all to dress in costume, so I borrowed one of her Renaissance costumes. We had such a great time! This restaurant has servers dressed in costumes and they all loved it that we were, too. Kisa was Vash the Stampede from Trigun - a Japanese anime series. Our server, Zorro, recognized her, but most of the others asked her who she was, one asking if she was Michael Jackson! We did the Roman Orgy from the menu. Brisket, chicken, potatoes, carrots, various fruits and bread. It was actually pretty healthy food with no heavy sauces.

I've been pretty much maintaining my weight since Thanksgiving. I was sick the week between Christmas and New Year's and basically spent the whole week in bed, eating very little. I lost 4lbs, but gained it back when I started eating normally again. Trying to get back into the exercise habit. My sister started a group on Facebook for making healthy choices and honoring God. So I've enjoyed that group for encouragement and accountability.

September Update

We've sold the house in CO. Will close on Sept 30, then rent it back for a month since the buyers need to give 2 months notice on their apartment. Works out perfectly all around. I'm not ready to go to Texas until it cools off a little. My son wants to be here for the first Avs hockey game in Oct, so he's happy, too.

Weight has been fluctuating. It doesn't help when I have 2 periods in less than 14 days. Ugh. It's been staying under 190, though. Severe headache today, bordering on migraine. Have taken every medication possible.

WHAT???

I haven't posted since April? Holy crap! Yeah, that hospital stay for my son was 8 days. That was soooo not fun. He did recover and has been doing rinses ever since, says he can't tell much difference from the surgery. The good part to come out of that was seeing a different hematologist at the adult hospital who questioned the treatment by Children's Hospital docs. He retested Kendall's blood and sent it to 3 different labs and they were all negative for the clotting disorder, so Kendall is no longer taking coumadin! HOORAY!

Traveling back and forth to Texas to spend time with hubby (and now my daughter is living there, too) has been a little stressful. I got up to over 197 and stayed there for quite a while, so I decided to take really shake things up and did the calorie shifting fomr the FatLoss4Idiots website. Lost 9lbs in the 11 days, so I need to do it again.

We have made the decision to make the move down to Texas. People are getting laid off at the office here in CO, but my husband's job has plenty of billable work in Texas. The house went on the market, has been shown several times and we have two young couples very interested. One took a second look today and our agents are talking. Hopefully will find out more tomorrow. I'm getting a gorgeous house in Texas - with a pool. That was a requirement for me moving down there. :-D

Another detour

No idea what my weight is today. My son is in the hospital after sinus surgery yesterday that went quite badly! In recovery, he started bleeding A LOT and didn't stop for several hours. It was 4 hours before they let us go back to see him. Blood was coming from his nose and being coughed out from coming down the back of the throat. Packing the sinuses did no good, so they went back to the operating room. Poor kid was scared out of his mind. As were mom & dad! It took them a while to find the source of the bleed, and it wasn't just one big one, it was oozing all over the place. They repacked it and cauterized a couple spots and he came out from that one MUCH better.

Needless to say, the outpatient surgery turned into an inpatient stay. Fortunately, he and I both packed bags because we knew with his clotting problems, the results were not necessarily gonna be typical. You can say that again! He lost 4 units of blood. He's doing much better now and we'll be spending a few days here in the hospital so they can monitor his resumption of coumadin, taken for his clotting issues.

Soooooo, couldn't care less what I weigh today. Hubby and I did take a 30 minute walk during the first surgery. And I just took a short one by myself for lunch. Drinking lots of water and I had packed healthy snacks, so keepin' it as real as I can.

HYC check in - 193.8

I'm up a bit this week, but I've been PMSing pretty badly and craving salty stuff. I've been getting some walks in, need to get the weight-lifting done.

Tuesday weigh-in - 191

Down another pound today after two days of the cleanse. I figure eating normally may put some right back on, but we'll see. Loss since last Tuesday is 1.4lb.

Breakfast: Cheerios with fresh strawberries and sugar, 1/3c granola, V-8 Fusion

Lunch: chili with ground turkey, a few Ritz crackers, yogurt with choc chips.

Need to go to the store and get some apples and bananas.

End of Isagenix 9 day cleanse 192.0

My laptop died, so I'll have limited access to internet for a bit. Weight this morning was 192.0. Will take measurements tomorrow morning. Glad to be done with the cleanse. The smell of the liquid made me a little nauseous yesterday and today. :-)

A new beginning - 199.4

So many of us have a lot of these. My damage since the last measurement in May of 09 is:

20 pounds gained
1.5" gained on each upper arm
2" gained on chest
4" gained on upper abs
5" gained on waist
3.5" gained on lower abs
3" gained on hips
2.5" on each thigh

It's all about HEALTH and HEALTHY ACTIVITY!
Starting today with Isagenix shakes and at least 20 minutes of exercise. I'm going to try to post at the end of each day listing my success. Failure is NOT an option! ;-)