What's on your Tuesday Menu?

Your sons are very lucky to have all the support and help you give them going back and forth to school. Hopefully they appreciate it (if not now, when they are fully grown adults!)

Good luck cramming that all gym. Prioritize if need be.

You are over-scheduled my friend!! One task at a time, deep breathing, and pray for serenity (and the week to be over quickly). Hopefully, the following week with your plan for just the gym will work out in your favor.

I am tired just reading your post!

Sounds like you are constantly in action and hustling to the next item on the week's itinerary. With your trip's Friday start, I'm reminded of the song, 'Everybody's working for the weekend.'

Someone please hold Jim's beer

Mornin' All!

the photo of the kitty in the sink made me laugh. We used to have a sink sitter, but never at the vet's office - that's hilarious! Ours usually hide under one of the chairs - or occasionally stay in the hated carrier until someone drags them out. They really hate being at the vet clinic!

I actually did super well yesterday with food. It's much easier to reign myself in after a day of "bad eating" than it is a week of it - and this past "birthday week" was a disaster. I was at the doctor's office yesterday for yet another plantar wart treatment, and the medical assistant wanted to weigh me. For only the second time in my life (the first when I weighed well over 300 lbs), I refused. First of all, why on earth do I need to be weighed when I'm having a wart removed? Plus I just don't want to know. I'll weigh myself in a couple of days now that my eating is back under control.

I mentioned to my doctor yesterday that I'm having some pretty irritating shoulder and upper arm pain - both sides. I have no idea where this is coming from, but I told her it could be that my new walking sticks may need to be adjusted. I read that can happen when you've got them set too high for your height (if too low - back pain. If too high - shoulder and/or arm pain). She said that's possible - although she had me do some different things with my arms (ouch!) and said it almost seems like a rotator cuff issue. So I'm starting physical therapy on Friday. I hope this works.

QOTD: no. I went to two different undergraduate schools (transferred after my first year - first place wasn't a good "fit" for me). I don't think the first place (a small college) even had fraternal organizations. The second one (a mid-sized state university) did, but Greek life wasn't really a "thing" there.

B: Danish bread with butter and lingonberry jam, L&F yogurt, coffee with half & half

MS: protein shake

L: Thai-style salad

AS: protein muffin

D: vegetables - and maybe that 1/2 fake chicken sandwich I keep putting on there (and have yet to eat)

Ex: water aerobics or biking (looks like a good day for the latter, as long as it's not too humid...)

have a great day, everyone!

Yeah, I am also reining myself back in from birthday week. Boo. Life was more fun with tacos every day.

Hope it's not a rotator cuff injury. I'm glad they got you into PT right away.

Did you fall while you were traveling? I'm not a doctor but how would you injure both rotator cuffs the same way/same time without some type of traumatic event? Good luck with the PT, it doesn't always work for everyone but be diligent in case it can work for you. When I was rehabbing my shoulder he said one of the things that makes it so hard to determine if PT will work is so many people don't do their homework...he said with the people that do their homework, they can tell pretty quickly if PT will help or if they will need different intervention. My PT was a private, doesn't deal with insurance guy, and it felt like he was able to be a little more honest than one in a medical practice/insurance industry cycle.

that's why I'm thinking it might be the walking sticks. It's on both sides. I'm going to lay off them for a couple of days, and then adjust them to be a little lower (I'll also take them to the PT appt on Friday and see what she thinks). I have no idea what it could besides that. When I first got back from my trip I thought I might be due to lugging my bags around - maybe I picked something up too quickly or incorrectly - but then, it's been a month since I got back. It would have resolved by now, I would think, if it was that. But I'm still using the walking sticks (or was until about three days ago). It's because I bought new, collapsible ones to take to Scandinavia, and one of them broke near the end of my trip. So I exchanged them - and I wanted to use these replacements pretty often during the refund/exchange period in case this pair met the same fate, so I could return/exchange them again. So suffice it to say, I've been using them every couple of days until now (or three days ago, anyway) - so the timing on that makes more sense.