This will be short and sweet as I am very tired. I am also very content but tired nonetheless. I hope eveyrone had a great Thanksgiving!

My hubby and I are researching what method/plan we want to use to kick start healthy living after the New Year. No, that doesn’t mean we’re going to pig out until then!  :)  We are working right now on making better choices and starting back walking. But, it’s obvious we can’t do it by ourselves. We’re considering WW or the Dr’s RX weight loss. I lost 42 pounds on WW a few years ago. However, I wasn’t doing the meetings or anything. I definitely need accountability beyond my sister’s who say “oh, it’s okay baby; you had a bad day”.  :)  

The dr’s RX involves a prescription weight loss pill, monthly visits to the doc for vitals, weigh in and talking with the doc. I think my hubby is a little reluctant to do this because of the pill. He already takes two meds on a regular basis and he’s not crazy about adding another one. I figure; what’s one more but that’s his decision. This program also includes a high protein diet and recommended exercise plans.

I will be content with either one of these plans. I don’t like plans where you have to eat only their food. I like plans like these that are flexible, doable and livable. We’re going to talk about it more in depth as the year comes to an end b/c it’s something we want to do together.

Any advice on these or other programs that work for you would be appreciated. Mostly, a big part of it for us is going to be outside the family accountability.

Hope all is well. Have a great rest of the weekend!

I went to the hospital today for my ultrasound. It went well; as well as something like that can go!  :)  The tech was really nice and did a great job and from all the clicking he did, I’d say there’s definitely something going on. I go to the doctor tomorrow for the results and to come up with a plan. I feel better just knowing that.

Had a serious talk with oldest DD tonight. She’s really concerned about mine and my DH’s weight. I told her that I’d already been kicking myself for gaining back the 42 pounds I lost a few years ago and my plan is to start making better food choices now and exercising asap when we get all this physical stuff figured out.

Gotta go. I’m hurting some from all the poking and prodding they did to me today so I think I’ll take a tylenol and go to bed. Have a great day!

First, thanks to everyone for their concern. It’s greatly appreciated. Second, today has been a pretty good day. I went to the doc this morning and my blood pressure was 146/88, which is prehypertension. So, they put me on a low grade blood pressure med, 10 mg a day, to try to help get it down. They told me that I’d need to lose 10% of my body weight before they would consider taking me off the meds. So, 25.5 lbs is the goal.

I went to work for a little while to play catch up since I was off all week. Part of the system was down so I didn’t get to work on what I wanted to work on but I did get some stuff accomplished. The rest of the day will be laundry, menu, grocery list and maybe grocery shopping. I don’t know; it’s a wet, cold day here so I may just stay in and shop tomorrow.

Thanks again for your friendship, encouragement and concern. Have a great day!

That’s way too long. Hope all is well with everyone. I wanted to update everyone on what’s been going on here.

I have been having intense pain and excessive bleeding with my period. I went to the ER on Saturday and the doctor there who was rude and condescending, gave me some meds for the pain and to thin my blood a little. It had been clotty and gloppy. ( I know that’s not a medical term but it’s a good description). His whole attitude was “you’re having trouble with your period; big deal”) I stopped taking them both on Sunday b/c they were making me extremely sick. Monday, I felt better and waited arounduntil 2:20 p.m. to try to get into my OBGYN. I gave up, said phooey on it and left town with DH for our previously scheduled time away for our anniversary. I had two good days; minimal pain and very little bleeding. Intense pain and bleeding started again on Weds. morning. 

Yesterday I went to my NEW OBGYN adn they squeezed me in. I really, really liked the doctor. He came in before the exam and just sat and talked to me for a while and listened to what I said. Then he examined me and asked if I’d ever had fibroid tumors in my uterus. I said, nope; cysts on my ovaries and endometriosis but no fibroids. After the exam, he said he doesn’t think that what’s going on is menopause or anything life altering. He does think my endometriosis is flaring up-I agree- and he does think I have fibroid tumors in my uterus. He’s sending me to the hospital on 11/19 for a pelvic ultraround. then back to his office 11/20 to read the ultrasound and decide what the next step will be. I fully expect him to recommend some kind of hysterectomy if I have fibroids due to the fact that I also deal with endometriosis and cysts. If that’s what he recommends, then that’s what I’ll be doing a.s.ap. 

I’m pretty tough but these past two weeks just about took me under. I’m still really tired due to the blood loss. doc gave me some medicine to stop this period and iron pills as well as my iron level was 11; 19 is normal and 10 and under is aenemic. I’ve been eating iron rich foods and have, at least temporarily, given up my beloved sweet tea.

Through all this, my blood pressure has been sky high so I’m going to my family doctor tomorrow to see if I need to start taking some meds. I certainly don’t want to go through surgery with high blood pressure. However, I am going to tell doc to do what he wants with a caveat that after I lose some weight we will re-evalute my need for the meds. Usually, if people lose weight, their blood pressure goes down. 

 So, that’s what’s going on here. Needless to say, I haven’t felt like exercising, even walking, lately. I’m just so stinking tired from the blood loss and low iron. But, I hope to get back to that a.s.a.p. If I’ve learned anything through all this it’s the fact that my weight needs come DOWN. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. It’s greatly appreciated.

Have a great day!

I’m out of town right now. Eating is going okay but not exercise. I have some physical issues going on that I’m figuring out how to deal with and I’m just not concerned with the exercise right this second. When I get my physical stuff figured out I’ll let you know. Hope all is well. Have a great day!

P. S. It actually snowed here for about 5 minutes yesterday. I was so happy!

Exclamations:
“Well knock me down and steal muh teeth!”
“Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.”

Threats:
“I’ll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outtastyle.”
“This’ll jar your preserves.”
“Don’t you be makin’ me open a can o’ whoop-ass on ya!”

Good Things/Compliments:
“Cute as a sack full of puppies.”
“If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it.”
“Gooder than grits.”

The Weather:
“It’s so dry, the trees are bribing the dogs.”
“It’s been hotter’n a goat’s butt in a pepper patch.”
Wintry roads are said to be “slicker than otter snot.”

Descriptions:
A bothersome person is “like a booger that you can’t thump off.”
When something is bad then you say, “that ain’t no count.”
If something is hard to do, it’s “like trying to herd cats.”
“He ran like his feet was on fire and his ass was catchin.”
A hectic schedule keeps you “Busier than a cat covering crap on a
marble floor.”

Insults:
“She’s uglier than homemade soap.”
“Your momma’s so fat, when she stepped up on the scale to be weighed, it said ‘To be continued.’”
“He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.”
“Uglier than a lard bucket full of armpits.”
“The wheels still turning, but the hamsters dead”
Any insulting statement is always followed by “bless his/her heart.”
Example: “She’s dumber than a door knob, bless her heart.”

I need everyone to weigh in with their opinion about something. (You thought I was reporting on my weight, didntchya?) 

How often do you weigh in? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? My DH weighs in everyday b/c he says it keeps him motivated. It just depresses me b/c weight varies so much from day to day. So, thoughts are appreciated.

I went to yoga yesterday and she worked me hard. But it felt good. I set the alarm to go to the Y this morning but I neglected to put the clothes I needed in the dryer. So, we’re going tonight as a family.

Hope all is well. Have a great day!!

Okay, I was up 2.4 pounds this morning and I’m trying to decide if I’m going to be depressed or motivated. I know why I’m up: PMS, lack of exercise and not eating properly. So, I can beat myself up (which I do quite well) or dust myself off and start over again. Flipping the coin……

And, it’s start over. No beating myself up. Today is a brand new day; I’m going to treat it as such. Hope all is well. Have a great day!

First, I was down a pound on Friday, 10/10/08!Yay. 4.1 pounds to reach my first short term goal of getting under 240. Yay! Did I say yay yet? 

I had a a great weekend with my sisters. We went to a wine tasting at a local winery and I bought a bottle for mine and hubby’s anniversary next month. We walked through downtown which had a lot of antique shops which we love. I found some antique biscuit cutters for my oldest DD and a really funky, artsy scarf for my youngest DD. Other than that, we just hung around the B&B and enjoyed being together.

Training got cancelled b/c my friend who was supposed to go with me has an abcessed tooth. Ouch! Our boss wants us to go at the same time so I get to be at home for the week instead of gone again. I hope my friend feels better but I’m actually glad we’re not going this week.

Well, short and sweet; my youngest DD is still in bed. I may have to resort to using my frozen marbles.

Have a great day!