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Hey healthies,
Sucky news at the doctor today...evidently I get to choose between going back on Actos, which increases my risk of bladder cancer....doubling the drug I was hoping to get off of and which makes me feel sick...or....well, no...those are the choices at the moment. Oh...and losing a lot more weight and basically never eating any of the food that non-diabetic people eat without even thinking about it. Not a happy moment, especially after all of my work.
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It is so nice to come here and be with people who really know the struggles that trying to be healthy, can create.
Well my weight loss has slowed from the exercise but I can tell my body is changing. Things are starting to tighten up in certain areas and unfortunately sag in others :-( I can tell it is time to up my game and branch out to something besides the treadmill. Who knew that losing so much weight would be an emotional rollercoaster ride? Sometimes I look at myself as beautiful and...damn! Sometimes all I can see is how far I have yet to go...I am not young anymore and I am starting to become a bit worried of what I will look like when I am done... On a lighter note; I finally found a smoothie recipe I can live with. It is amazing and I am getting spinach in EVERY DAY! 1/2 cup coconut milk, 1/2 banana, giant handfull of spinach, scoop protein powder (vanilla, no sugar), chia seeds, and ice. YUM. On an even lighter note: There is a cute butch who works out the same time as me... She keeps very much to herself and hasn't "seen" me yet but it still makes it easier to go each day...LOL
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Congrats to all of you who have been successful this week. I am plateauing, likely because of my having to tone it down this week, but I am happy that I am relatively healthy. I have been walking all day at work. People make fun of me, but I do not care. I refer to the call center floor as our "indoor walking track". I downloaded an app to count my steps/pace. I am walking about 7 miles a day at 2.5 mph average. That is just in the call center. I am also walking two miles at lunch. It is keeping my blood sugar in check (no meds for me at this time), and that is what is most important to me right now. It is still disappointing to have to cut out the exercise that I love the most. Have a happy and healthy weekend. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms in here 
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Okay, posted in here yesterday morning.. Then, i deleted it.. i'm having issues, big food issues, and i'm working on them.. i'm super plateau'd still at 217 lbs.. i need to get moving.. i'm not faithful with exercising, other than getting out walking.. (to work, back home from work, to work again, back home again...) Trouble is, my body is used to *that* exercise.. So i need to get back at gym workouts, brisk walks at the lake, hiking, situps, etc.. i need motivation, i'm not always good with motivating myself.. What do ya's do to remotivate yourself ? Probably just going to have to be me kicking my own ass and pushing myself out and committing... Some people say maybe i just needed the rest/break.. Well, great but it's been about 2 months of a break LOL.. i get random workouts in, just not as faithful as i was!!
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I have a long list of things I use to motivate myself. Each day is different and that smaller pair of pants I am waiting to wear may not be a motivating factor on any given day. My list of motivations can be wanting to try out a new playlist to wanting to learn pole dancing...
When in a plateau, I have come to think that my body thinks I am starving it to death and starts holding on like crazy to it's "blankey". So I trick it by feeding myself a lot for a day or two (try to keep it healthy but I eat extra). My body then gives a sigh of relief that I am not starving it and the weight starts to come off again... Me and my body have trust issues...:-)
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Hi sylvie...I can't say that I am successful every day at motivating myself. The best motivator I have, and try to keep in perspective daily, is that my health is the most important thing in my world. I want to live the fullest, happiest, amazing life that I possibly can. If I don't get my ass moving on a daily basis, and control what goes into my body, I know that I won't be enjoying my life as much, and I won't be around as long to enjoy the life that I have. I definitely have my days where I am a complete lump, but I try to keep those to a minimum. |
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falling in that slump, it's a hard place to push oneself out of sometimes.. And the answers are so easy, just not easily found within.. So being reminded of those simple things is exactly what the doctor ordered. That's why i love this thread, thank you! ♥ (and those of you who repped ideas as well..)
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05-16-2012, 06:52 PM
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She blogs too, so if you want some inspiration, let me know and I will point the way. I also read things that support the path I am on, with tons of suggestions. Particularly inspiring for me is The Spark from the fellow that started Spark People. I can not impress on you enough, how much his attitude and approach to change has helped me. Emmensely is an understatement. From making a Vision Board, that you see each and everyday... one of my favourite suggestions he makes... to nutrition tracking, exercise tracking. All very helpful for me. Helps me identify what I am working towards and patterns of my own behaviour. Helps me, for a whole host of reasons. And I like getting points everyday there. Strange but true. It works, not sure why. I compete with my own self. There are folks there that have checked in everyday for years now. I am no where near that perfect. I know I do better when I can just do it, tracking really is helpful. Helps me to be accountable there to my own self. The Spark is what worked for him. Spread that spark. Join a team, read some of those incredible blogs there. Not everything do you have to do, but everything I have tried, I have enjoyed. *sorry my grammar sucks today~ somedays I really hate English - today nothing I say looks exactly right. May just be semantics, I do not know, but I think you get my drift, no?* Like the 10 minutes of exercise each and everyday, come hell or high water. That is one of the more active teams I am over at spark people, the 10 min a day exercise group. Everything over that 10 min is Extra Credit, which always feels good. I know I know... silly, but it works on the way my brain works. Gives me positive reinforcement, instead of beating myself up all the time for not doing an hour or two everyday. For me that is exceptional. *though not in the pool, which is hard to get me out of - and just check out how many calories are burned just treading water, oh my goodness me!!!* Anyhows, I like going the extra mile, getting extra credit. It psyches my head out somehow, not sure exactly why. He goes into it a bit in his book there. Even on my worstest days ever, I can usually pull of a mere 10 minutes of something or nuther. I also finds it helps to shake things up and do things that are simply fun for that 10 min. I love to walk in the outdoor sculpture gardens here. Fast brisk walks, or long and leisurely, all of it counts, imo. Better than being stuck behind a computer screen or the telllie. Or like bouncing a ball against the garage. A bit of tennis anyone?? Or hitting a batting cage, whatever. Heck, bowling might even work if you keep moving. It surprized me a while back that bowling could make me sore. In a good way, it was a challenge at that weight. Now my only concern is if there is any twisting pressure on my knees. I will protect these brand new knees with my life. I just found out today from a friend that has several horses that her nieghbor also still rides just fine and she had her knees done, as have several others she knows that have horses. For me hearing that was like Nirvana. Something you can do at any weight is play in the water, be it the laps, or PT or what I fondly like to call Yogalates. Which combines yoga and pilates in the water. It is fun, the hour is usually up and stay in for more on my own. Exercises my PT gave me at the pool, just plain fun. anyhows, I am just meandering with you here. If you were close by I would invite you to the water aerobics I do with the Silver Sneaker folks, most of whom are on Medicare. They get free memberships to most gyms in the country. I have met some really great folks there, who never miss a day. Totally non judgemental too. Which is a big deal if you are self conscious as I have been in the past. My mentor gave me the suggestion way back when to just get out there and smile at everyone I know and say hello to at least 10 strangers/people a day. You never know what sort of doors that might open up. Might turn you on to stuff that is going on in your own community that might be fun for you. Mud races are big here, not sure what is big where you are at. I can't risk it with my new knees, but it does sound like fun. But that is one of the reasons this is the nations' worst dressed folks. Fittest, but worst dressed. Most folks dress for comfort and for the activity they might engage in. I love this area. But Madison Avenue we are not. Happy to not feel judged by anyone. Even in the shape I am, compared to most here... I still have a long way to go. Though when I engage with people, turns out they are super happy for me and suportive. More supportive than my own partner ever was! Sad but true. I am so happy to be free and single today. No plans for a relationship on the horizon, too. Though I do know sex is a great physically demanding sort of thing, or can be... might be something you also might consider. Anything that can elevate your heart rate is a good thing. Definite perks... So have a little fun, get a little clean sweat in your life. Enjoy it hon! 
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I take Iron, Calcium, Vit c, Vit D, B Complex, St John's Wort...I do not feel good without them now. I would like to add Magnesium and I should do some research on iodine. Chewables are my favorite!!!
Thanks Lady_Di, I am going to check out that link. Any motivation is good motivation. I actually use my pinterest boards a lot as "dream" boards. I also find exercises and recipes like crazy... I too will be having surgery when I am done. I ain't gonna loose all this weight so I can be flappin in the wind. No. I want to be able to move with nothing jiggling...lol.
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I don't mind flapping, per se. I do love birds. lol... Birds of a Feather, a queer retirement community in Santa Fe, NM... but I digress yet again. I want the surgery as imo and the doctors is it medically necessary as it is a health hazard. Have had more than one patient with terrible skin underneath those folds. They keep it as clean as they can, and yet still yeast and what not can and do grow in dark moist areas. Not even gonna tell you some of the stuff I have seen growing on some folks! Another even bigger issue, imnsho... is that there is real danger especially for people over menopausal age, whatever that may be. Our skin as we age gets thinner, that is pretty much part of everyone's aging process. As part of that, one of the problems often encountered is skin tears. I am not a diabetic or anything, have beautiful labs, as I mentioned earlier today. But... a skin tear allows bacterias and viruses to get past our biggest defense system. Skin integrity is a big big huge issue imo. Thus to prevent the possibility of a skin tear, or at least lessen the possibility... getting rid of the flapping is just simple physics, it tears easier when it is flapping about all over the place. Want to know an accident I had many many years ago? My long breast flapping away as they do when I run... well... no easy way to say it, but as I was running past our bedroom door one day, high up on our mountain top... I was running full speed ahead because I heard someone coming up my private road, turns out it was just my dad. BUT.... I was naked at the time and the bloody tit got hung up on the door handle of the bedroom. One of those french door handles... it speared me thru my tit. Quite literally I had to unhook my breast off the handle. I screamed bloody murder. Though I was not in pain, as I have a really really high pain tolerance, just probably was in shock when it happened. My dad got me to the emergency room and all the lovely interns got to come see the freak accident of the flying breast, lol... the nurse sewed me up with no anesthetic, didn't bother me one bit. Left me with virtually no scar tissue. Though it does show up on a mamogram if you really look for it. Amazing what the body can do, how it has such a great capacity for healing. I adore homeostasis, turns me on. Anyhows... Was actually pretty cool to see the inside of my breast tissue. The nerdie science nut in me was fascinated. It was better than cadaver lab, since I could feel what the patient might experience. It was very cool indeed to see the inside of my body like that. AND I had at that time some really big fat cells. You could see them quite clearly, each one individually was simply huge! Seeee..... skin flapping around can be really bad for your health. The other lesson I learned... aside from not sitting around naked sewing all day up on my mountain top cabin, was to not panic. I am sure my dad has seen a naked woman before. It really was not a big deal. I would not run today if someone suddenly shows up and I am nekkid. I would cover up, calmly and rationally.... oh the things we learn as we grow up, no? d'silly grrrrl of the Rocky Mountains |
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