Slowly, my bloat is disappearing. I have been drinking a crazy amount of water over the past week (partly because we got a new fridge at home with a filtered water / crushed ice dispenser - yum!). Usually, once TOM starts, my bloat slowly fades away and by the time it's done, I'm back to normal. This month though, I'm guessing because of the move and all, the water never left me. I'm forcing it out though, all of this water has me running to the loo, a lot. My hands already feel MUCH better and my ankles are starting to look normal-ish again too. Boy, moving is hard on a body.
Our routine at home is slowly resuming. We had a great barbecue yesterday and I ate well under my allotted calories. My plan for now is to eat my usual breakfast and lunch (the same things I usually have when I'm working -- they are very filling, well-balanced and low fat meals) and then I'm not going to worry too much about dinner. As long as we're eating at home, things cannot get too far out of control. Last night, for example, we had a HUGE meal and when I counted everything up, I was still okay. That's the nice thing about pigging out on grilled veggies, isn't it?
Exercise wise, I'm not doing any other intentional exercise than unpacking and moving boxes around. Trust me, that's a workout in itself. Last night, I finally pulled my summer clothes out, packed the sweaters away and created (in the process) a massive pile of ironing for myself. I must have made 6 or 7 trips up and down the stairs, going back and forth from the laundry room (I still can't believe that I have a proper laundry room!!!) to our bedroom, within about 30 minutes. It didn't totally kill me so I mustn't be as bad off as I thought before.
I stepped on the scales again this morning and sure enough, I saw a downward progression. I know it's just water weight but that's okay. The number I saw yesterday was ridiculously high (up 23 pounds in 3 weeks!!) and I'm sure that I'll be showing a more reasonable gain from our pre-move-stress-related-eat-fest by the weekend. I mean, I figured I'd gained about 5 to 7 pounds but never 23!! That number has to be whacked. At least now, it's showing as 18 pounds up. To show a five pound loss over night, you know I'm losing a lot of fluid right now.
The long and the short of it is that I'm feeling better (still not as rested as I'd like but you can't have everything all at once) today. By the weekend I should be feeling like my old self again and I'll be able to face my bike again. Of course, I'll have to find it amongst the boxes in the basement but I have a good idea of where it is. For the moment, it's all good folks!
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Monday, May 30, 2005
didja miss me?
Yikes.
What a week. I guess it was actually about 10 days. We're all moved now and are starting to get settled. I have posted a bunch of photos of the new place on my flickr account if you would like to take a look.
This was the biggest move either of us had ever made and we're still feeling pretty beaten up at the moment. It was very physically demanding and emotionally draining. I had no idea how stressed out I had been over the past 6 weeks until Friday night. After dinner on Friday, my body felt like it was shutting down. I could hardly walk, I was doubled over with some weird cramps (TOM arrived in the middle of the move but there were distinctly not TOM cramps -- it was strange) and was barely coherent. We had to get up sort of early on Saturday because some young men we had hired to clear out our crawl space arrived at around 8 a.m. I let my hunny deal with that and I stayed in bed. My legs still felt like jello but the cramps were pretty much gone. I think I'd been running on adrenaline for several days and, once we got back from the lawyers on Friday (after closing in the sale of our old house), my body just decided to stop functioning properly.
I spent the morning in bed, watching a movie and being a veg. Eventually, I found my bath robe and wandered out into the kitchen but I still felt very weak. I had never felt like this before and hope to never feel that way again. We've both decided that we don't ever want to move again and honestly, we're so head-over-heels in love with the new house that I can't imagine why we'd want to.
On the health and fitness front, I didn't track anything at all but I am fairly sure that I burned far more calories than I took in. I still feel pretty disgusted with myself though. Both of us gained a chunk of weight over the past 6 weeks. My face feels really round, my ankles and fingers are a little swollen (I know that this is partly due to stress -- it feels like my blood pressure has been up a bit over the past week, wonder why huh??) and I was convinced that I had re-gained all of the weight I had lost. On Saturday, when I did finally get out bed and bathe, I found a pair of capri pants in my closet that I got when I dropped the first 50 pounds. I was afraid to even try to wear them because I was certain that I would not get into them and I didn't want to face it. Fortunately, I bitch-slapped myself and pulled them on. They fit, thankfully. I hadn't done as much damage as I thought I had.
I know that now that I'm back to work and we return to our normal routine, I'll start to feel better. The bloat will disappear, the blood pressure will drop, healthy eating will resume (we grocery shopped on the weekend and filled our new fridge with lots of veggies and lean meats -- we have no gas for our new stove yet so we'll be bbq'ing for a few weeks), we will sleep again.
When I have some time this week, I'll write more about the actual move, probably over on my regular blog. I hope to be back into the swing of things over here. I plan to report on good eatin', lots of walks in our fabulous new tree-lined neighbourhood and other fun exercise news. I feel like an enormous weight has been lifted off of my shoulders, now, if I can just lift the enormous amount of weight I have on my ass and hips, I'll be a happy kid.
Have a good week folks!!
What a week. I guess it was actually about 10 days. We're all moved now and are starting to get settled. I have posted a bunch of photos of the new place on my flickr account if you would like to take a look.
This was the biggest move either of us had ever made and we're still feeling pretty beaten up at the moment. It was very physically demanding and emotionally draining. I had no idea how stressed out I had been over the past 6 weeks until Friday night. After dinner on Friday, my body felt like it was shutting down. I could hardly walk, I was doubled over with some weird cramps (TOM arrived in the middle of the move but there were distinctly not TOM cramps -- it was strange) and was barely coherent. We had to get up sort of early on Saturday because some young men we had hired to clear out our crawl space arrived at around 8 a.m. I let my hunny deal with that and I stayed in bed. My legs still felt like jello but the cramps were pretty much gone. I think I'd been running on adrenaline for several days and, once we got back from the lawyers on Friday (after closing in the sale of our old house), my body just decided to stop functioning properly.
I spent the morning in bed, watching a movie and being a veg. Eventually, I found my bath robe and wandered out into the kitchen but I still felt very weak. I had never felt like this before and hope to never feel that way again. We've both decided that we don't ever want to move again and honestly, we're so head-over-heels in love with the new house that I can't imagine why we'd want to.
On the health and fitness front, I didn't track anything at all but I am fairly sure that I burned far more calories than I took in. I still feel pretty disgusted with myself though. Both of us gained a chunk of weight over the past 6 weeks. My face feels really round, my ankles and fingers are a little swollen (I know that this is partly due to stress -- it feels like my blood pressure has been up a bit over the past week, wonder why huh??) and I was convinced that I had re-gained all of the weight I had lost. On Saturday, when I did finally get out bed and bathe, I found a pair of capri pants in my closet that I got when I dropped the first 50 pounds. I was afraid to even try to wear them because I was certain that I would not get into them and I didn't want to face it. Fortunately, I bitch-slapped myself and pulled them on. They fit, thankfully. I hadn't done as much damage as I thought I had.
I know that now that I'm back to work and we return to our normal routine, I'll start to feel better. The bloat will disappear, the blood pressure will drop, healthy eating will resume (we grocery shopped on the weekend and filled our new fridge with lots of veggies and lean meats -- we have no gas for our new stove yet so we'll be bbq'ing for a few weeks), we will sleep again.
When I have some time this week, I'll write more about the actual move, probably over on my regular blog. I hope to be back into the swing of things over here. I plan to report on good eatin', lots of walks in our fabulous new tree-lined neighbourhood and other fun exercise news. I feel like an enormous weight has been lifted off of my shoulders, now, if I can just lift the enormous amount of weight I have on my ass and hips, I'll be a happy kid.
Have a good week folks!!
Thursday, May 19, 2005
lower expectations
Posts are going to be increasingly sporadic over the next few days. We close on the new house tomorrow. We should have the keys by the time I leave work tomorrow.
Sadly, I don't have much good news to report about actual fitness and/or weight-loss. This morning, instead of working out, I packed five more boxes of kitchen (I almost typed "chicken") stuff. I plan to do the same thing tomorrow morning. Friday night, when we actually get into the house, I'm going to move the kitchen stuff myself. Hopefully, by the time the furniture and the rest of our stuff arrives at the new house on Wednesday, the kitchen will be fully functional, painted and cleaned. It may not work out like that but it might too.
I've been attempting to squash this nervous feeling by eating this week. Mostly I've been binging on toast. Something about toast is incredibly comforting for me and I can't stop it. In the mornings, instead of having my regular healthy breakfast (juice, fruit, cereal, organic soy milk), I've been having my juice with several pieces of bread and margarine. Not good.
This will change. Things will get better. We'll get moved and life will get back to normal. I can't wait for that. I keep trying to pull my head out of my ass and sort myself out but I can't seem to do it properly with everything else that is happening. I hate feeling like this, like I'm out of control. By this time next week, we will have moved and life will settle down a bit. I realize that I have used this move and all of the stress we've been experiencing as an excuse to just fall off of the wagon. I feel like a broken record but seriously, after the move is over...my head will get pulled out of my ass, regular workouts will return and all will be well.
Sadly, I don't have much good news to report about actual fitness and/or weight-loss. This morning, instead of working out, I packed five more boxes of kitchen (I almost typed "chicken") stuff. I plan to do the same thing tomorrow morning. Friday night, when we actually get into the house, I'm going to move the kitchen stuff myself. Hopefully, by the time the furniture and the rest of our stuff arrives at the new house on Wednesday, the kitchen will be fully functional, painted and cleaned. It may not work out like that but it might too.
I've been attempting to squash this nervous feeling by eating this week. Mostly I've been binging on toast. Something about toast is incredibly comforting for me and I can't stop it. In the mornings, instead of having my regular healthy breakfast (juice, fruit, cereal, organic soy milk), I've been having my juice with several pieces of bread and margarine. Not good.
This will change. Things will get better. We'll get moved and life will get back to normal. I can't wait for that. I keep trying to pull my head out of my ass and sort myself out but I can't seem to do it properly with everything else that is happening. I hate feeling like this, like I'm out of control. By this time next week, we will have moved and life will settle down a bit. I realize that I have used this move and all of the stress we've been experiencing as an excuse to just fall off of the wagon. I feel like a broken record but seriously, after the move is over...my head will get pulled out of my ass, regular workouts will return and all will be well.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
day 20 - blah blah blah
Today has been a very blah day. I'm having a hard time concentrating at work or on my fitness program, I just want to move and get it over with.
The move will be here soon enough but I'm at that antsy stage where I'm anxious about it and want it to start. Soon.
I know I'm stressing about this more than even I realized because this morning when I woke up my back was "twinge-y." When I got out of bed, I was sort of bent over and felt really angry with myself. My back trouble is stress related and so far, I've done really well with this move. My back should have "gone out" once or twice at least since this whole moving process started but it hasn't. Anyway, I took an aleve and kept moving around. By the time I was finished my bike ride, I felt good. I know that the exercise healed me. I don't want another morning like that tomorrow. Last night, I had a bunch of strange dreams so I know that's stress too.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll have more to report. Right now, I'm just happy that I have managed to do a small amount of intentional exercise, two days in a row and that it is seriously feeling good!!
The move will be here soon enough but I'm at that antsy stage where I'm anxious about it and want it to start. Soon.
I know I'm stressing about this more than even I realized because this morning when I woke up my back was "twinge-y." When I got out of bed, I was sort of bent over and felt really angry with myself. My back trouble is stress related and so far, I've done really well with this move. My back should have "gone out" once or twice at least since this whole moving process started but it hasn't. Anyway, I took an aleve and kept moving around. By the time I was finished my bike ride, I felt good. I know that the exercise healed me. I don't want another morning like that tomorrow. Last night, I had a bunch of strange dreams so I know that's stress too.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll have more to report. Right now, I'm just happy that I have managed to do a small amount of intentional exercise, two days in a row and that it is seriously feeling good!!
Monday, May 16, 2005
day 19 - week 2
Happiness is a cancelled meeting. When I got in this morning, I discovered that a meeting I was supposed to go to this morning had been cancelled. Sometimes, suddenly getting back 90 minutes can make a huge difference in a day. After being away on Friday, I've got lots of stuff to get caught up on so I'm not too upset about this!
Thank you for all of the happy birthday wishes. My weekend was a lot of fun although I ate way too much food. Honestly, I knew that this would happen and I'm not upset about it, nor will I apologize. It was my birthday and there was a lot of celebrating going on, food was eaten, cocktails were consumed, it was fun and it's over.
This morning I woke up at my normal time, got my hunny off to work and, instead of going back to bed for an extra 30 minutes, I hauled my ass out of bed and got on my recumbent bike. It had been 2 weeks since I had done that. Over the weekend, in the midst of the celebration, I felt really fat. My body was sluggish and easily tired and I know that this is primarily due to a lack of intentional exercise. I missed it and my body missed it. I'd like to say that I had a gung ho, hour long workout this morning but it didn't happen that way. I did do about 15 minutes of stretching and then rode the bike for 15 minutes, a total of 3.47 miles. Tomorrow I plan to do 20 minutes and to do some more stretching as well as some arms and abs exercises. Whatever exercise I do this week will help me get through the painting and moving that will follow this weekend and next week. I am sorry that I let myself slide as far as the exercise component goes but it feels good to be back into it today.
Anyway, once again, its Monday so here is my latest weekly wrap-up:
summary - week 2
Thank you for all of the happy birthday wishes. My weekend was a lot of fun although I ate way too much food. Honestly, I knew that this would happen and I'm not upset about it, nor will I apologize. It was my birthday and there was a lot of celebrating going on, food was eaten, cocktails were consumed, it was fun and it's over.
This morning I woke up at my normal time, got my hunny off to work and, instead of going back to bed for an extra 30 minutes, I hauled my ass out of bed and got on my recumbent bike. It had been 2 weeks since I had done that. Over the weekend, in the midst of the celebration, I felt really fat. My body was sluggish and easily tired and I know that this is primarily due to a lack of intentional exercise. I missed it and my body missed it. I'd like to say that I had a gung ho, hour long workout this morning but it didn't happen that way. I did do about 15 minutes of stretching and then rode the bike for 15 minutes, a total of 3.47 miles. Tomorrow I plan to do 20 minutes and to do some more stretching as well as some arms and abs exercises. Whatever exercise I do this week will help me get through the painting and moving that will follow this weekend and next week. I am sorry that I let myself slide as far as the exercise component goes but it feels good to be back into it today.
Anyway, once again, its Monday so here is my latest weekly wrap-up:
summary - week 2
- Other than a small amount of walking and some packing (and moving some boxes around), did not get any intentional exercise in last week.
- I took my vitamins 7 out of 7 days this week
- exceeded daily water intake goal 7 out of 7 days
- I totally forgot to weigh-in over the weekend. By the time I remembered, it was later in the day and I'd already eaten something so I didn't bother. I'm sure that it would just have been upsetting anyway so I'm guessing I did not miss much. This week should be better.
Friday, May 13, 2005
happy birthday to me
I can't believe that yesterday flew by so quickly. I never had a chance to post, not that there was much to talk about but yanno, I'm a five-day-a-week poster on this blog, boring or not!
Today is my birthday and I've taken the day off from work. My hunny took today off too. Originally we had a whole bunch of moving related stuff planned but one of the big things we'd hoped to do (get to the lawyers) can't happen until next week. We will be seeing the bank and signing all of our mortgage papers. We've got a really good rate and we're doing a home equity line of credit mortgage so we'll be able to pay off some of our bills and have everything consolidated at the MUCH lower interest rate. I'm quite excited about this and pleased at how well everything has turned out.
This morning, my hunny installed a wireless router here at home so I'm actually posting from my bed right now (I have a bunch of work to do this weekend so I brought my laptop home from the office with me), how cool is that?? We knew that our old, regular router was wonky (our connection at home has been pretty shitty recently) but really, seriously, it was pooched.
Other than a few errands and an appointment this afternoon though, I don't have much to do. Today already, I slept in, watched a movie and am now getting ready to go out for lunch. The LOG is taking us out for dinner too. Except for the getting older part, Birthdays are great!!
Today is my birthday and I've taken the day off from work. My hunny took today off too. Originally we had a whole bunch of moving related stuff planned but one of the big things we'd hoped to do (get to the lawyers) can't happen until next week. We will be seeing the bank and signing all of our mortgage papers. We've got a really good rate and we're doing a home equity line of credit mortgage so we'll be able to pay off some of our bills and have everything consolidated at the MUCH lower interest rate. I'm quite excited about this and pleased at how well everything has turned out.
This morning, my hunny installed a wireless router here at home so I'm actually posting from my bed right now (I have a bunch of work to do this weekend so I brought my laptop home from the office with me), how cool is that?? We knew that our old, regular router was wonky (our connection at home has been pretty shitty recently) but really, seriously, it was pooched.
Other than a few errands and an appointment this afternoon though, I don't have much to do. Today already, I slept in, watched a movie and am now getting ready to go out for lunch. The LOG is taking us out for dinner too. Except for the getting older part, Birthdays are great!!
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
day 14 - trying hard to care
Concentrating on anything this week has been tough. I'm distracted by the whole moving business. Every night after work, we're on the road running errands and getting stuff crossed off from our "to-do" lists. It's exhausting and I don't feel like either of us is getting enough sleep. I've kept up with my opting for an extra 30 minutes of sleep each morning instead of 30 minutes of exercise thing this week. Not good I know. I figure that the running around and other stuff we're doing is burning some calories, not enough I know but some. aarrgghhh...I'll be so glad when this is behind us and we've moved and I can feel like a normal person again.
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