Daily Maintenance Weigh In - TGIF 3/29

LOL, Slim. I love you. I have a feeling that if we ever met in real life, we'd cause some serious damage.

163.0 - back down 2, who knows - I miss 159.2 LOL. With the hydrocodone in my system, I just randomly fall asleep and half the time have to look at my diary to see if I ate anything. My back and hips feel SO swollen from the pain. I just kind of want to lay down somewhere and die.

Should get MRI results today. I hope everything is clear, but at the same time... what the **** is wrong then? Sigh.

Just trying to be kind to myself today.

If your back and hips are swollen, then that's where the pounds are. Just focus on your eating (hard to do when you're in pain) and let the scale be what it is until you get this figured out.

Either way, I hope they figure this out.

I do have arthritis in one knee; walking favoring that gave me arthritis in the hip and favoring that sometimes makes the back hurt. I get shots in the knee (due again soon) and when it's good the hip and back are usually (but not always) OK. Getting old is not for cowards.

 

So, the good news is that it's not a rupture like my neck was. I have a "mild impingement" which basically means a herniated disc. I'm pretty upset. I spent last Easter in the hospital with the neck issues and it was really traumatic. I know people think it's no big deal, but three months of recovery really shook me up. Now this. It's not horrible though. I go visit the neurosurgeon's NP on Wednesday. She'll hook me up with drugs and get me in to see him. Then we'll decide to do injections and/or surgery.

Part of me is just like "do the surgery and get it over with". Sigh. I dunno. I'm okay, just sick of hydrocodone again. I'm not taking it like I should and it shows in my pain levels. I just downed a reese's peanut butter egg feeling sorry for myself. Stupid, but **** it. I had my fit for the day, time to pull myself up and be a big girl. At this point, I'm going to be kind to myself and say "maintain" for the next few weeks. If I can stay between 160-165, I will be okay. I know myself enough to know I'm going to have some bad days ahead.

I have two herniated discs in my back . I got those shot thingies for inflammation and it helped so, so much. Cortisone shots I think. I did them in 3 rounds (because that's the most I was told I could do) then waited 2 years and did another 2 rounds, then waited and did another 2 rounds. Sounds crazy, but the 2nd and 3rd rounds were more just kinds of topping me off.

Oh, and you get the BEST ******g drugs. They make you happy and carefree. I asked if I could take a bag of that **** home just keep the slow drip going for a month or two, but they said no. *****es.

I know they don't help everyone, but wow, they were awesome for me.

*hugs* I hope you feel better, soon.

Morning everyone:

Today is a PH because it is Good Friday.   All civil servants get this stat and some even get the Mon, which is Easter Monday.    The weather is bright and cold so am going to hang laundry out on the line.

Up a whole pound which is as it should be when you eat a midnight snack ( actually 1am )  of a banana and meat.  I wasn't even hungry but terribly bored and not able to sleep.

It is very hard when you eat clean and mean and drink a river to have the scale betray you.  Hopefully tomorrow will show the result of your hard work.

Have a good day everyone.

 

121.6
Typical water retention, time of month gain.
Thankful for Friday but in a funky mood.
Think I'll only post my weight on Sundays.
Taking a break from the main board.

You are welcome to join me on the grumpy butt couch anytime. Lots of room.

LOL! I think it's just a bad mood day!

Don't scare off the newbies !

100.8 lbs today.

Have a good one all!

Fiona

133. 

Weekend with the family, I have tons of stuff I want and need to do, but trying to keep it as simple as I can. Still recovering some from last weeks surgery and I felt really good until today. MIL coming on Sunday for a combo Easter dinner/ Birthday party for my youngest daughter, who turns 3 on Monday.