8/7/2009 9:13 AM
Hello all. It's been a busy week and I am just now getting to my blog. (sorry) My workouts are going great! I believe that I have moved from uggh! to ahhhh! I really enjoy my workouts and am working on doing more. I was on the elliptical for 30 minutes and it started to feel easy. Maggie advised that instead of going to a higher workout level to stay at the same level just go longer and work at getting up to 45 minutes per session. I am up to 40 minutes which includes the 5 minute cool down. Our meals are going well. I have not been back to my old grocery store since I started this process and you know I really don’t miss it. I have lost 4lbs but this last week it seems that I am fighting my body. No matter what I do every day I'm up 6 oz down 8 oz and so on. I learned this week in the BetterU program that the food journal will help me to see when I am taking in high levels of fat and carbs. I have been using a very good online journal it's really cool it has a 3-d pie chart to show what my daily intake in is. I can track my weight and exercise. Again my barrier to being consistent with it is my timing. My goal for this week (what's left of it) and next week is to DAILY update my journal.
I am writing from my Mom's hospital room today. She started chemotherapy again this week and here we are back in the ICU again. She really has a hard time with chemo. Years ago when I found I had cancer I weighed 175 lbs and was wearing a size 14. During my chemo treatment I gained 51 lbs. I lost it got married and gained it all back. Last year I lost 23 lbs then I found out the cancer came back for a minute (I'm all clean again). The day I found out that it came back I stress ate those 23 lbs and then some right back. The 1st of this year my sister and I started again to loose weight. I lost 4 lbs then my mother was diagnosed with cancer in February and became very very ill. We spent practically from February to May in hospitals. You can imagine how I ate. So here I am back in the hospital my mother was rushed here by ambulance. This time I drank my shake before I left the house and brought all my healthy snacks. I refuse to stress eat! Being a person who had a dependency issue previously learning not to reach for something when I'm stressed is hard.
I'm not giving up! I am going to get healthy and my mom is going to beat this!
Pray for us.
Blessings PP