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If you can part with your furniture it is so much easier to do that!
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Liz I think 8 miles while gaining altitude is very impressive! Only 16 days to your DD's wedding!!! Wow, the time is flying.
Like CC, we are having the best weeks of summer right now. 86 today, low humidity, lovely breeze. I'm loving it.
Today is the same as yesterday. Work is satisfying, everything is very steady right now. I am reminding myself to cherish these days. I love novelty, and adventure and excitement. But there is room in a happy life to string together some no drama days with comforting routine. And I do have a trip on the horizon in one month when we go to Galveston.
So good to hear a small boost in calories is giving you some more energy. Year round kayaking? What a treat!!!
Good luck with the moving planning! We still need to go through and get rid of lots of stuff but are still thinking of having an estate sale and either buying new or buying a home that is already furnished.
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Yes!! Would you Willy nilly inject other medications that impact your hormone levels? Insulin? Estrogen? Testosterone?
I hope this dose increase gives you more restriction. Once you are more in charge of your food environment, I think you'll return to a quicker pace of losing. You've done so well this summer, and now you can build on that.
No weight today as the day started at my Mom?s. We are now back in Appleton. Drive there and back was good. Weather is picture perfect.
Today is injection day. First time I saw blood with the poke but it was barely a drop. Still didn?t hurt but burned just a bit after. It has been easy getting in my 1000 calories and I could have eaten more but didn?t feel denied at that level of calories either. Maybe a few belly rumbles at bedtime but I can live with that. At least I feel in the land of the living again and have some energy!
Will do dinner out with grandma and then tomorrow will need to do some meal planning and grocery shopping and start with picking up items on her list. She wants to do some clothes shopping too which is always a pain because she can?t ever decide what she wants and she is ultra picky!
Liz, the bike trip sounds fun but difficult. I cannot do hills! I like the idea of e bikes, especially for the hills. We walk and hike much more than bike but that may change once we move. We?ll take our bikes and then based on use decide if e bikes are in our future. One of the communities we are considering living in has a river with kayaking available.
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
When Covid showed up in spring of 2020, we were told it was especially dangerous for "elderly". Oh those poor old people I thought. Then I read that the old people they were talking about were 60 years +. I was coming up on 59. Suddenly those poor old people were me!
Stupid azz woman. It's not a recreational weight loss drug. It's a high power drug with pretty intense physical ramifications.
on 9/12/24 6:45 am
Age is so interesting. If you have a strong hold on your marbles and good mobility, that feels youthful no matter the date on your birth certificate. My dad at 83 falls in that category despite his cancer and periodic stent clogs. He would not get lost in the woods. While some is bad luck, how much marble retention is in our power through behavioral habits is an interesting subject that I'm not sure science has a clear grasp on yet. I do think food, particularly sugar, holds a significant role. Instead of what we were told about sugar rotting your teeth, the focus should be on sugar contributing to rotting your brain. Ironically, even knowing that connection I eat too much of it. Similar to eating too many calories, it's the fight between the pleasure of immediate reward versus long term health, which feels like a problem for a later date.
After the fire department, the gas company, and the irrigation company came (they also cut through a sprinkler pipe), we might get a gate today. It looks great. My shower before we went to dinner was lukewarm with the gas shut off, so my lifelong training as a native Californian and recent Arizonan to take very short showers was put to good use.
Sometimes September here is freezing with endless winds from the north and sometimes it's like this - warm and beautiful. 6 days until I return home and it's becoming unseasonably cool in AZ (which means 70s this time of year).
After bumping up my dose to 12.5, I had bad reflux yesterday. I ended up taking 2 Prevacids and chewing several Tums. Today feels better. I'm happy to be on 12.5 as that was 10 weeks on 10 and the effectiveness was really waning. A super responder I am not.
I was reading a ridiculous story about Kate Moss's sister who weighs in the 120s and her "overdose" on Ozempic and her message to everyone about how dangerous it is. She had seizures from dehydration and ended up in the hospital. A) she is a waif and shouldn't have been taking it, B) she got it from a friend who bought it "under the counter" so zero doctor involvement, C) she took a huge dose. It's not a dangerous drug, it's just dangerous to idiots!
Anyway, enough rambling, I should go get dressed! Take care all...
