VSG Maintenance Group
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Greetings Special People
Weight is 146.5 today. I am slowly but steadily regaining. I don't feel like my calories are all that bad except I guess I did indulge in peanuts yesterday. My protein has not been good and thats the issue. Did not have any gy because I was late for gallery duty. Also overdue for the world's biggest potty download.
DH has been religiously on Atkins for a week now and has lost 7 pounds. We had small ham slices last night and mashed cauliflower. A good dinner. Watched a move "The Hours" which was beautifully done but depressing. The night before we watched "Keeping Up with the Joneses" which was funny - a spy comedy. I think DH has figured out I am sick of Vikings.
Liz so sorry about the park incident. I am glad your DH was over it quickly. I have a friend who did not return to a certain grocery store for years because when she was last there, her companion used one of those motorized carts and repeatedly crashed it into displays and finally crashed it through a wall and got it stuck in the broken drywall!!
DH is out taking Chip for a walk on this sunny calm day so later I may do the same with Tesla. DH has really drawn a line in the sand about changing eating and getting exercise. Once he does, he follows everything exactly to the letter to almost a maddening degree but it works for him.
Not sure what I am doing today but there is always laundry, debris removal and recreational veggie shopping.
Hey Paula, are the eagle pictures on Facebook? I will go on there and try to friend you so I can see. I am a facebook dinosaur.
Well, time for this little triceratops (where is auto correct when you need it?) to get more coffee and take calcium pills. Thats probably why dinosaurs went extinct. Lack of coffee. Diane S
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Just returned a bit ago from the ER with my oldest daughter. She's been losing it at both ends and was dehydrated - needed an IV and some anti-nausea meds. They discovered she has a UTI, but she had none of the typical symptoms. She's finally keeping down some fluids and a little bland foods. The anti-biotics have kicked in for the younger one, and her strep seems to be going away. She and I plan to go to the movies in a few minutes, as she's bored and I don't think it's a good idea for a friend to come over with the big one sick. The younger one is into her shrugging "mmm" for everything today. Hopefully I can get her to leave to go to the movies, as I don't want to listen to "I'm bored" the rest of the day. I don't always try to entertain her, but we were going to go pick out a cat for her at the shelter, and they closed early, so she was very disappointed. We couldn't go when we'd planned as we had to go to the ER. Yawn...I'll stop now as even I'm getting bored as I write! :) Food has been good today. Hugs and have a good Saturday. Mary
HW (recorded) 323 Start of Journey 298.9 SW 263.6 CW 177.8 GW 180
on 1/13/18 3:11 pm
A few hike pictures from this morning...
Dripping Springs. Lots of ferns and orchids growing wild. It's one of the only year-round natural springs in Orange County.
Pretty picture from the trail...
One of the volunteers is a photographer and was taking photos of the group. A few candid ones of me were really surprising as I guess I never see myself from behind or the side.
Lastly, a terrible picture a friend sent me yesterday of a couple of Christmases ago. I wasn't even at my heaviest here. A good reminder of where I've been...
Late to the party today.
Slept beautifully last night. I woke up a few times feeling damp and was gleeful because to me that signifies getting better. It's the proverbial "fever broke" indicator. I was still slow to get going, but felt up to shaving and showering, which I have not done since Wednesday. I felt drained after the shower, and started to sweat again, but once that calmed I felt okay. As the day has gone on I have felt progressively better. Whether that is the DayQuil working (along with Vyvanse, which I opted not to take yesterday) I am not sure. Either way, I am happy to be feeling much, much better. My goal is to feel at least 90% by Tuesday when I must return to work.
Starve a cold, feed a fever. OR Starve a fever, feed a cold????? Which is it????? Doesn't really matter because when I get sick it is a trigger for COMFORT FOOD. Ron has been sick along with me (which in our entire 28 years together has never happened to this degree - both home from work and laid out flat!). As a "normy" he is so different. He loses his appetite. He feels the queasiness, balks at eating, etc... I, on the other hand, have to be super, super sick or super, super, deeply depressed to not want to eat. IF anything, when I am sick, but not at "death's door" I want to eat more than usual. It must be old tapes playing.
When I was young my mom would take me to the food court at the MacArthur Broadway center across the street from the Oakland Kaiser whenever I had to go to the doctor. It was sort of my reward for keeping it together when I would go to the doctor. I had an irrational fear of getting a shot... (again, another early childhood scar) and on teh way to the doctor my mom would have to calm me down. One of the ways I guess I got calmed was by the promise of going out for tacos at the food court. (I must not have been too sick on those occasions, right? I can't imagine taking a sick kiddo to the food court after the doctor.) Top Ramen is also "sick food". Easy to eat & digest - quick energy, helps with fluid intake, and has sodium. Still crave it when I'm sick.
Like Diane S.'s DH, when I really set my mind to it and make that final decision, I can go quite sometime following the rules. I am having to resist succumbing to a rule based plan, but at the same time have learned that if I want to get to the bottom of some things, I have to be in "recovery" mode, not actively abusing food. As always, I've got some thinking to do....
True confession: I cancelled one client today, but kept the afternoon client and groomed. I should have probably cancelled both, but.... At least I felt better when I was finished trimming.
Happy Saturday
