Monday, August 31, 2009

Burning the Bridge Behind Me...233

Well, I didn't gain and I didn't lose. So I'm good with that. I did one workout last week. One. I feel so sluggish now. Ugh. This week is going to be pretty busy too. I hope to squeeze in at least four workouts.

I still didn't get my lab results. My doctor's computers were down. She's supposed to call me with all the results. Umm, I'm thinking I got pushed to the back burner.

OK...till next week.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Burning the Bridge Behind Me...233

Well, I did really good last week as far as doing my workouts. I did all my cardio workouts but only one strength training. I'll get it. I will. I think I did OK on the nutrition side. But the scale says I gained a pound. I'm not gonna stress over that though. Especially since I noticed I keep having to pull my pants up. Emily and I might have to hit up the thrift stores pretty soon. Also, I'm feeling an increase in energy, which has kept me awake for the last few nights.

I get all my lab results this Friday. I still haven't heard from Ortho yet.

Till next week...

Friday, August 21, 2009

I May Be A Teeny Bit Obsessed...

DON'T...get me upset...



Shuddup Emily

Monday, August 17, 2009

Burning the Bridge Behind Me...232

Well, another week another pound. Yay. I did pretty good on the nutrition side, but not a single workout. I keep thinking how much better the I'd do if I'd do my workouts.

I got my ultrasound on my leg done on Thursday. They were looking for blood clots. As far as I know, they found nothing. Which is what I thought in the first place. I also got a ton of lab work done. When I see my doctor again next week, I'll find out about all of that. I'm curious to know my blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Last time I had it done, I was prediabetic.

Chris has decided to jump on this journey with me. Well, he was already on the journey, he just seems a little more into it now. We are supposed to get up at 5 in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and go to the base gym. It opens at 5:30 and he has to be there by then in order to get a decent workout and then be at work, showered and in uniform at 6:15. We got everything ready to go last night so we wouldn't have any excuses this morning. Unfortunately, Gabriel had trouble sleeping, so we had trouble sleeping. I know I woke up four times with him. I don't know how many times Chris woke up for him. Needless to say, we were pretty tired this morning and when the alarm went off, we both agreed to go back to sleep and if we don't go this afternoon, then we will go in the morning.

Well, that's were I am on my journey for now. Another report next week.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Oh, Come On! Seriously?


I like the Twilight Series. Me and my daughters sat outside the movie theater on the cold hard concrete for hours for the midnight release of Twilight last November. We'll probably do the same for New Moon, even though the Twilight movie was a let down. We'll do it just because we are caught up in it and it's fun to sit there and be silly and giddy and yap with other Twilighters around us. But come on. Twilight Barbie dolls? That's just too far.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Fish

OK, I'm posting again today. You can't get enough of me, I know.

Emily's fish died today. His name was...Fish. He's been around for a while now. Two years. He was a very good fish. He liked to play around and joke with us. There were a couple of times when he would play hide and we would seek. Usually he'd be on the floor somewhere. Apparently he could hold his breath for a while, or maybe he could just breathe when he was out of water. I dunno, but he liked messing with us like that. He used to follow our fingers as we would drag them on the outside of his bowl. And he joked with us a few times about being dead. He would float on his side and we would gasp and say, "Oh no, Fish is dead." But then he would start moving his fins and swimming around. Surely he was laughing at us. "Ha ha ha! Gotcha again!"

Oh, he was a hoot. Bye bye Fish.

I Can't Find Anything

Nobody puts anything away in this house. It drives me insane. If there is a flat surface around here, then you can be sure it is cluttered with crap that needs to be put away. This morning before I got out of bed, I thought to myself, "I'm gonna clear off the top of the entertainment center today." I just keep seeing more and more DVD cases up there every day. So here's what I got: DVDs in their proper cases: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Baby Mozart, Baby da Vinci, Baby Van Gogh and Baby Shakespeare. The season Five, 10 disc set of Xena has all 10 disc in there. That's a true shocker. Empty DVD cases: Cars, Spiderman 2 and Baby Einstein Numbers. Holes is in the Stitch case, Stitch is in the Little Mermaid case. The season One, 7 disc Xena case has 2 discs from season 1 and one disc from season 3, and 4 empty spaces. Now discs floating around getting scratched to bits are: Spiderman, 9 Xena discs, Cars, Monster House, The Rescuers(oh, I'm gonna commit murder--Rescuers?! one of my favs-I remember my mom taking me and my siblings to the movies when we were little to see this) Little Mermaid (in the Disney Vault--can't be purchased for a reasonable price until approx. 2014) Nice! Now where's Spiderman 2, and Einstein Numbers?

Now how much you wanna bet that if I go to the garage to get the drill because I wanna install some tot locks in some kitchen drawers, that I will find the drill, but no bits or even a chuck key? What about a screwdriver?

I should just keep everything under lock and key.

Burning the Bridge Behind Me...233

I cannot believe I lost another pound. I think my scale is broken. I did not do a single workout last week and I drank so much soda I can't even count how many. It will probably all show up on the scale next week. It's weird I tell ya.

Last Saturday I discovered my military ID expired in June. I don't know why mine expired then and everyone elses expires October 2010. We all went in at the same time and did our IDs, it's not like mine was older than theirs or anything. But whatever. I couldn't get on the base and use the gym without Chris as my escort, and he had to be at work at 4:30 in the morning a couple of times last week, and had to stay late every day. So, no gym. I got my ID renewed on Thursday so now I can go with or without Chris. I'm gonna try to go with though because he needs to be active too. We need to push each other. It's just getting out of bed in time to be there at 5:30 in the morning that's the problem.

I had my appointment for my leg last Tuesday. My doctor has ordered a ton 'o labs. And this Thursday I go in for a Deep Vein Thrombosis Ultrasound. Whatever that means. I guess I can google it, but I don't really care. I know I'm gonna end up in surgery in a couple or few months no matter what. Let's stop stalling and get it over with so I can get on with the recovery. There's some events I wanna do before I leave San Diego, ya know. Get outta my way! Sheesh!

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Amazing Grace

My aunt Carole passed away this past week. Obituary here. Every time I hear Amazing Grace, I think of her. She loved Christ and she made sure everyone knew it. She also loved to sing. This is for her.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Burning the Bridge Behind Me...234

Two more pounds gone. Whoop! I didn't get to do too much this past week due to my leg. I have an appointment tomorrow with my Family Practice doctor to hopefully get a referral to Orthopedics. I can't believe I lost any weight at all this past week. I practically inhaled a ton of chocolate on Friday and Saturday. CVS was having a pretty good sale on movie theater boxes of candy and if you bought $15 worth, you got $5 back in CVS bucks. So you know I bought $15 worth. The intention was to have it on hand when we have our Avatar marathon, in which we veg out in front of the TV for a full weekend until we finish the last season (book 3) of Avatar that we have on DVR. Well, the candy is gone and we haven't even started the last season. Hey, I didn't eat it all myself. I'll do better this week though as far as food goes; we've stocked the fridge with lots of fruits and veggies to snack on. I'm gonna do my best to only eat junk food on one day this week. Probably Saturday.

I emailed Jonathan Roche about my leg. I really like this guy allot. I joined his program in October 2007. At the time the wildfires were blazing. He saw that I signed up from San Diego and emailed me and said he was praying for me and my family and hoped that we were safe. I sat back in my computer chair with my jaw hanging. I was thinking, I'm just another customer for this guy, he's never met me, never spoken to me, and here he is writing me a very sweet email. I knew then that he was going to do good things. Anyway, I emailed him to ask him about me not getting up to my heart rate by just walking, that I had to jog to get there because otherwise my leg hurt. He emailed me back and told me to see my doctor about my leg, stop jogging, start using an elliptical machine if I can, and start nailing my nutrition. So, that's what I'm doing. I went Saturday with Chris to the base gym and used the elliptical machine. After 30 minutes, I still had no serious pain in my leg, and I felt like I got a really good workout. So, I think this is going to work. Yay!