Post T-Day

Well, that didn't go as badly as I had expected.

I expected to go to my grandmother's house this weekend and come back looking like someone fattened me up for slaughter. My grandmother is an AMAZING cook, and she is absolutely of the southern tradition that involves feeding people within an inch of their lives.

But...and believe me when I say that there is nobody more surprised by this than me...I actually managed to maintain my current weight!! Imagine that!! I was pretty good all weekend...I mean, there was a lot of dressing and casserole and sweet potatoes eaten...but I managed to eat very moderate and reasonable amounts of everything. Also, I only had 2 very small slices of pie all weekend...pumpkin and key lime. Nomnomnomnomnom.

So, I'm currently at 171, which is fine with me as far as progress goes. I did not start walking like I think I might have planned on doing as of my last entry, since I developed a massive reaction to my stitches and/or Neosporin and had to first get rid of the angry rash that was all over my abdomen. So, I will be starting again today. I'm not entirely certain what my workout will be today...it has been cloudy all day, and if it ends up raining I will get on the Wii Fit. If it remains cloudy, though, I would LOVE to walk in this. : )

I think that it will be entirely possible to get down to 165 by January 1. I'm really happy about the fact that I've managed to keep off the weight that I lost around the time of my appendectomy. I think that some of it was residual, just because my metabolism had been sped up so much by the exercise I had done to that point. But it makes me feel like it really is possible to lose weight after all, that everything I do isn't entirely futile. Even as much as I fight against it, and feel like nothing I do is good enough...it is! It IS good enough! : )

Ok, later.

One sixty WHAT?!

Man...this appendectomy diet ROCKS! Hahaha.

When I weighed myself yesterday, I was 169! I cannot express how nice it was to see that number. I haven't weighed myself today, but owing to the fact that I went to a wedding yesterday afternoon and perhaps ate more than I should have, I'm going to cut myself a break and not worry about today. But 169 is very exciting.

I do understand that, owing to my lack of exercise and my unusually reduced diet, this number is perhaps not really representative of my overall weight loss. But I'm going to try to keep my diet closer to what I'm eating now instead of going back to eating more. As it is right now, I really do fit into the Weight Watchers diet plan, so as long as I can continue to record my points and such I might be able to stick to it.

I'm going to start walking again tomorrow. Gingerly. I do NOT intend to jump right back into 4.5 miles. I need to make sure I take it easy...I'm still healing, and I need to resist the urge to push my limits until I'm all better. I think that walking 2 miles would be ok to start with. I'm not going to worry about timing or pace or anything...just walking 2 miles is fine for starters. I'll probably do this for at least 4 days this week. Next week, I'll bump it back up to 3 miles, and do that for a week or two. Since I think it was walking such a long distance that aggravated my appendix in the first place, I don't think it's bad to take a while getting back up to that point. Plus, I'll presumably be eating less in accordance with the Weight Watchers plan, so I should continue to lose weight. I have another 4-5 pounds to lose before the new year, and I think that I could even go beyond that. I'm excited. : )

Ok, off to clean house. Later!

Big Fat Roadblock

Well, it is going to be a little bit before I can work out again.

On Friday night, after my walk, I started to feel a general discomfort in my abdomen. Thinking it was...ahem...digestive troubles, I dismissed it. On Saturday morning it was still there, though, and as the morning progressed it became concentrated in my lower right abdomen. Around 2:00 I decided to go to Urgent Care, but when I called then they said that all abdominal pain needed to go directly to the ER. Two hours and an extremely uncomfortable cat scan later, I discovered that I had an inflamed appendix, and it needed to come out.

So, I had an emergency appendectomy around 7:00 last night, and was released from the hospital today around 2. I am extremely sore...my belly has 3 puncture wounds in it, each about the diameter of a pencil, and it's very distended. I'm pretty much laid up on my couch right now, with doc's orders to get up and move around for about 10 minutes every hour so as to prevent blood clots.

Soooooo...

Obviously, no working out for a while. Just when I was hitting a stride, too. Boooo. I think it might actually have been the 4.5 miles on Friday that partially aggravated it. I don't think it will be weeks or anything, but I at least want to wait until these steri-strip bandage things come off and the stitches dissolve. I'll start walking again in small doses...around the block at first, then go up from there. It will clearly take some time...it's difficult to imagine right now that all the pain will dissipate in a few days or so, but I know it will. I'll get back to walking when the pain is gone, I guess that's the best thing to say.

Ok, off to walk a little. Later. : )