Home Alone

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Frank went to the racing meeting, the kids went to sacramento so the Pets and I are here alone. I am watching chick flix and researching rehab for the ankle. Sounds like tomorrow is the day to start doing some range of motion excercises (carefully).

I was thinking how nice and quiet it is and how I could do whatever I wanted (except I cant cause I have to sit here with my leg elevated) and that in the olden days, I would have ordered a pizza, all to myself!


Well that isnt gonna happen so I will eat a leftover lean burger from our anniversary dinner on Thursday and call it good. Boy things sure have changed.
I am sure happy they have. Still moving forward and downward. I will not be derailed! (she says strongly and truly beleives it with every good intention).

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I put weight on!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Well I put weight on my ankle this morning (see what I did there? scared ya, huh!). Looks like I am having the miraculous healing that I (and all of you) have been praying for! Really swollen still, pain is under control, (taking vicodin every 4 hours) but getting better. Before I could not even rest it on the floor without extreme pain and today, with crutches, I can put some weight on it.

I cannot tell you happy that makes me. I am going to continue to rest, ice and use my brace and pain meds. A friend sent me a recipe with vinegar and alcohol to soak my ankle in that I am going to try later too. Can't hurt, right?

I am limiting my activities until Monday am so I can be the best I can be for next week but am really happy with the progress.I am keeping my nutrition under control and Frank has been cooking (he made ground turkey tacos last night) which is really adorable how he has been taking care of me.

God is good. And so are you guys. Thank you so much for your prayers, sympathy, stories and support. It means the world to me.

Have a great weekend.

(Oh yeah, Kady had some friends over last night cause they were going bowling and she was showing them her ostomy bag and how it is going to look etc. I took that as a good sign of her acceptance and willingness to talk about it with people. I really do have peace about the surgery and her recovery. I KNOW she is going to be fine and I know that alot of this comes from God answering your prayers for me and my entire family, so thank you).

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And just like that, everything changes

Thursday, February 24, 2011

I wrote a blog this morning about my weight loss and anniversary. 10 minutes later, I stepped of my deck to go to my office, my ankle rolled and I fell. Dropped the phone and the rest of my diet pepsi (waaaaaa! cause I only get one a day!!). The pain was immediate in my ankle and I took my shoe and sock off. Uh oh. Big baseball on the side of the ankle. Stitchy was so worried and laid down by me. I fumbled for my phone (Frank was working on a roof right around the corner) and I burst into tears. I started thinking about everthing I have to do this week, how Kady is having surgery Monday and how I need to be there to help her through that. I can NOT afford an injury.

So I called Frank and he headed home, I texted the girls and they came and helped me up. Frank took me to E. R. and I got xrayed. Sprained, not broken. Have this brace thing and orders to keep it iced, elevated and no walking. For a week.
Started crying again... I told the dr. I could only do that for the next 4 days and I told him why. He was awesome and just told me to do the best I could until then.

Anyway, it hurts like hell to put pressure on it, I have crutches (which is easier now than when I was heavier) and I am trying to do what is best for me for a few days. That means the big dinner theater event is not gonna happen. Tix are not refundable so the girls are going with my 2 neices. They will have a blast but I am really sad we cant go.

Frank is going to cook dinner for us, my girls went and got the stuff and brought me a bunch of bouquets of flowers. I guess the bright spot is I had a meeting saturday at a pizza place so I cant go there either. Im sad about that too but it is probably best since I wont be walking for awhile.

I always say "life can change in the blink of an eye". Why do I always have to be right?

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229.4 BABY!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Yep! I made it! FINALLY out of the 230's! I have been there since October 20th!! That is a long time to lose 10 pounds! They were hardest 10 I have had to lose yet. I have left the 290's, 280's, 270's, 260's, 250's, 240's and 230's.

Even when my weight loss had slowed, even when it felt like I was making no progress, even when cake balls attacked my sensibilities during the holidays, I stayed with this program, I kept going. I did not give up.

Was it frustrating? Heck yea! But I never surrendered, I never gave up, I never thought I couldnt do it. It took longer that I wanted it to but I stuck it out. I had bad days of course, but overall, I just kept going.

I feel like now that I have broken that barrier, I will be able to more easily move forward and downward. But even if the next 10 takes that long too, I will keep going cause I'm not done yet. I originally set out to lose 110 pounds in 1 year. Well March 10th will be one year and as of today, I am down 62 pounds. I am ok with that. It is still huge progress and I have changed my life forever. I am not complaining. I reset my tracker to be done by December 10 of 2011. I will adjust as needed as I go along. I am past halfway there.

I am getting closer to one of my original goals which is to weigh less than Frank. He weighed in at 210 the other days and has strict orders to stay at that weight and wait for me. (I think I am safe since he just bought about 20 boxes of Girl Scout cookies from a friend). I am not going anywhere near those damn cookies!!

I also want to celebrate 21 years of Marriage today. In all the chaos of preparing for Kady's surgery Monday, we have barely had minute but tonight the we are taking the girls and going to a great dinner theater show and we are looking forward to it. We have been together for 25 years, married for 21, known each other for 34. There really are no words to tell you what he means to me or how lucky I feel to have such a wonderful man who loves me like he does. Is he perfect? Hell no. But he is perfect for me.

Today is a good day. I am blessed.

I just want to remind you to stick with this thing and do NOT give up. We are getting there, bit by bit.

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Yesterday

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Went to the baby shower and it was beautiful. Kady did so much of the decor and the cupcakes, food etc. (I made the cake balls) and I wanted to show you guys a picture. She really needs to be aparty planner. I sat near the table and listened to people talking about how amazing everything looked and who did the cupcakes etc. I was very proud of my girl.


I kept my eating under control at the shower. 1 bullet dodged!

Then I went to a crab feed (I dont eat crab but they had pasta). I ate salad (but this year they already has salad dressing on it-boo!) and french bread which I had figured into my calories for the day (but this year, they buttered and cooked it which pissed me off cause they always have cold bread with butter that you can put on yourself-boo!!) and Pasta (which is always Marinara but this year had meat sauce-BOO BOOO BOOOOOOOO!) which I ate.

SO I was over on everything I am quite sure but probably fat most of all. So bullet #2 hit me but it was just a flesh wound. AND, the good part was I won a huge raffle basket of wine, nuts, pasta and a beautiful olive oil set. So that was fun!

Today is the Daytona 500 party. I am going to try to get a walk in first and eat well before I go and be mindful of what is going in my mouth today. Then tomorrow, clear skies for the week which means walking and no bullets to dodge until Weds and Thursday! Woohoo!

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