5 June 2012

Weight: 174

On 4 June, I Woke up in a lot of pain : feet, knees, right wrist and middle finger and left thumb.
Ate some tylenol with a couple of grapes.

I had power supply meals for lunch and dinner... But had some leftover spaghetti squash with italian sausage after that.  The bad news is that I had 3 cookies and a sugary coffee drink to get me through morning briefings.

Went to bed at 8pm to try for a better tomorrow.

But... Pain was horrid on 5 jun as well.  Bad feet and my shoulders, some fingers and my right wrist were all very bad.  I am ending this day in the ER with yellow discharge from my eyes, a sore throat, and tinnitus, which also popped up last night.  I'm afraid I will need to take out my contact and not be able to drive home!  Just did that... Better dig up my glasses... I saw them the other day... Somewhere.

No workout today but dog walk with Clio and Adam to at least have some family time.  I ate power supply for breakfast, sushi (with the brown rice) for lunch, and pot roast for dinner.  I hope for better things tomorrow!

4 June 2012

Weight: 175.2

Meals and exercise for 3 June: am - out of the box choc chip cookie just to have something in my tummy to take my prenatals and tylenol

Pilates class: I need to work on my planks and teasers of all sorts

lunch: power supply pork w/cole slaw and last ootb cookie

snack: pb and honey on ootb bun and a few stolen bites of some future power supply meals.  Feeling very hungry and achy today :(

dinner: spaghetti squash w/italian sausage and tomatoe sauce - snacked on a few grapes here and there

Took Ruffy on a very painful walk around the block at night.

Today is the first day of my new job.  My pain level is very very high even though I did my 15 minutes of pre-bed yoga last night.  I am also really really bummed to be up almost 2 lbs since Saturday being as it seems to me like i have really been faithful with the diet and exercise and yep, nursing that growing baby like crazy.  Whatever.  I can give up in 27 days - not sure what the scale will do if i have to quit walking altogether though and I am really sad that I am up early enough to enjoy a morning walk with Ruffy - but can't walk.  I wish I could cut my feet off.  Maybe I will buy a wheel chair so at least Ruffy doesn't suffer with me.

3 June 2012

Weight: 174.4

Well, the scale is up today even though I know my calories in vs calories out equation should have yielded a weight loss.  I put my food into a calorie counter, roughtly, and it spit out 1200, so I'm going to say 1500 max... add an hour plus walk and 2 15 minute yoga sessions plus the baby and I should have at least a 1000 calorie deficit.  Oh well.  That is not how I'm handling this month, but it's an interesting and frustrating observation.  I do have to admit that I had a couple of small cheats from paleo and i do consider them quite small.  Yesterday I started the morning with an "out of the box bakery" chocolate chip cookie and coffee.  some sugar in the chocolate, but mostly paleo-type ingredients.  For lunch I had one of my power supply meals (chicken, cucumbers and tomaotes) - did not really like it, but oh well.  For dinner, I had a small bowl of the leftover potroast and I did eat a few more of the potatoes than I did the day before... and i had an out of the box cupcake for dessert and gave the last one to a friend so they wouldn't get "fridgy".  At that point, I was about where I was diet-wise the day before - if you substitute the apple for the cookie - but then we went to Mad Fox brewery.  I sampled each of the 8 craft brews - and I do mean "sample"... I just took a couple sips to share the tasting experience with Adam.  I also had 2 pieces (leaving what was left of the crust, but it was a very thin crust pizza) of this fig, bleu cheese, balsalmic glaze, bacon pizza.  I'm proud of myself for not eating a lot of the pizza - I know I wasn't going to cheat - but come on... that's a pretty impressive pizza and even though my experiment is paleo diet, I figured a cheat might be sort of kind of allowed when you're that far under your estimated calorie expenditure?  Oh well... the scale didn't like it.  A cheat's a cheat!  Better luck tomorrow - first day of the new job.  I got a really great almost new suit at the thrift shop yesterday that will fit great in 5-10 lbs, depending on how much of that weight is belly fat.  I'll take it to the tailor shop to be hemmed when and if the number at the top of this page is under 170!

2 June 2012

This morning I weighed 173.6.  That's a little better.  Today, Clio is 3 months old!  So, I guess it's taken me 3 months to lose 5 lbs... that's a long hard road.  I don't mean to sound like weight is all I think about... I think about Clio and Ruffy and all the wonderful things in life... but with all the prejudice and talk in society against "obesity", being fat and not feeling like myself and not being seen by the people around me the way I would like to be seen, is a very large and looming concern and also why I'm doing this 30 day blog, just to get a handle on this issue.

Yesterday, I ate pot roast for a late breakfast, an apple when I realized I was starving around 3 at the car dealership, one of my power supply meals for dinner and then had an "out of the box bakery" cupcake as a treat after crossfit.  As far as I can tell, I did a very good job staying "paleo" and it looks like that at least counted for something in the numbers on the scale.

Pain-wise, I made sure to do yoga last night right before bed and although I am stiffer than I was yesterday in the feet, probably because of the jumprope workout yesterday, it is soooo much better than when i wasn't stretching.  Just got done stretching this morning to work out the kinks and noticed some fluid buildup in my ankles.   I'm fighting a sore throat and felt a little yuck yesterday and today, so I think I'm fluidy in general.

Lots to do this weekend - wash the dog, steam and pick out all my new job outfits, return the shoes I bought that turned out to be too small :(, clean the house, maybe write some birth announcements (although I probably won't get to that since it's such old news by now)... should do crossfit and some yoga or pilates... even though I haven't lost much weight, at least I'm getting my old strength back and that makes me feel a little better.  Anyway - maybe I can lose another lb or two before my  new job starts and fit into those pants a little better.  I will seriously cry if the scale goes up again.

The next 30 days

Well, it's been awhile since my last post.  For those of you who've read my long windy posts before, the next 30 days won't be interesting, but I plan to write something everyday to document my fitness and weight loss efforts and track some challenges I've been having with joint pain.  Besides having an adorable baby, this post partum thing has been unneccessarily rough for me, health-wise, i think.

So - June 1, 2012 - 177.4/Plantar fasciatis pain minimal/bunion pain intense/other joints - low medium pain

I weighed in at 177.4.  This is frustrating because I had finally gotten down past 175 and even to 173 last week doing crossfit and eating "paleo".  I had been cheating the past couple of days with some wine and making some strong lemonades, eating some cheese, and yesterday I had some yummy pizza and gave in and ate the rice, beans and tortillas with my fajitas.  I haven't been working out since Monday because of the pains I've been having and just feeling kind of depressed at my lack of progress.  I was very excited to see 173 on the scale, but the next day I had eaten very well and just did a hard workout and had gone up to 175.6, which put me on my 3 day bender, which put me back here, about where I started.  The good news is that I was able to walk this morning.  I did 15 minutes of yoga... lots of downward dog, hero pose, failed attempts at some Bikram poses because the bunion makes "utkatasana" almost impossible... and my feet feel a lot better.

Here's hoping to a lighter and more pain free day tomorrow!  I'll let you know.