I knew I was forgetting something! LOL!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Weds Already?
WOW! Week is half gone already! I seen my Oncologist today for follow-up! Great news--blood work was fantastic..EVERYTHING in range including glucose! And now I don;t have to see him for 6 months instead of 3 or 4 like I have been. I did find out something about my MRI last Summer that he didn't tell me--Not only did I have a degenerative disk but I had a less then 2cm fibroid tumor on my uterus. No biggie but I would have liked to have known!
Sorry I have not been adding the food journals lately. I DO write the foods down and am in calorie range most of the time. To be honest--I may be a bit ashamed of what I have been eating lately. It was that darn cake that put me on the wrong track! LOL! But I am getting better at sticking to the "real foods". Tomorrow I am going swimming with one of my BFFs Janet. I haven't seen her in awhile, not since she went swimming with me last time in January. I think she may be getting a swim pass too so maybe we can encourage each other more! Being February now...I finally had David take this month's pic. I have a darker sports bra on, that is the only difference. He HAD to include my sock feet in this one LOL! Looking so lovely! I decided I DO need a haircut or something too! Oh well! It's 9:00 now and David is in bed..an hour ago. Poor Baby has not been feeling well this week with a cold or sinus infection. Pray for him! In the meantime friends...stay warm and keep looking up!
Sorry I have not been adding the food journals lately. I DO write the foods down and am in calorie range most of the time. To be honest--I may be a bit ashamed of what I have been eating lately. It was that darn cake that put me on the wrong track! LOL! But I am getting better at sticking to the "real foods". Tomorrow I am going swimming with one of my BFFs Janet. I haven't seen her in awhile, not since she went swimming with me last time in January. I think she may be getting a swim pass too so maybe we can encourage each other more! Being February now...I finally had David take this month's pic. I have a darker sports bra on, that is the only difference. He HAD to include my sock feet in this one LOL! Looking so lovely! I decided I DO need a haircut or something too! Oh well! It's 9:00 now and David is in bed..an hour ago. Poor Baby has not been feeling well this week with a cold or sinus infection. Pray for him! In the meantime friends...stay warm and keep looking up!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Hot Stuff!
Hello friends and family!
Bet you are wondering what the "Hot Stuff" is! LOL! Well, I bought a piece of Ginger Root on Sunday and have been adding it to my tea sometimes. Also--chewing on a piece on occasion! WOW! It can be HOT but it is sooo good!
So..yesterday's workout was same as last Monday's. Today I walked! A couple times actually. First was when Dr. Oz was on and then after lunch I walked outside for a half hour. So far my pedometer for the day says 3.7 miles. I doubt I will do much more then that tonight! LOL!
Tomorrow I will be seeing my friendly neighborhood Oncologist for a follow-up. I don't know how much longer I have to see him every 3-4 months will be. I don't mind though, they are all so nice there! So far all my reports have been really good and no cancer!
Food wise I am still struggling with the weekend of bad choices. I am feeling better, probably from the ginger. But I am still craving sweets and junk and just would love to devour a bag of chips if it was in the house! A friend text me earlier to see if I would want to go swimming on Thursdays and I said YES! As much as I love to swim I have put off going this Winter..excuse being it was too cold to even drive to the pool! LOL! I love it once I am there!
Well, that is pretty much it for today. I have not had David take the February pic for the blog yet. Tomorrow I should have one up!
HUGS!
Bet you are wondering what the "Hot Stuff" is! LOL! Well, I bought a piece of Ginger Root on Sunday and have been adding it to my tea sometimes. Also--chewing on a piece on occasion! WOW! It can be HOT but it is sooo good!
So..yesterday's workout was same as last Monday's. Today I walked! A couple times actually. First was when Dr. Oz was on and then after lunch I walked outside for a half hour. So far my pedometer for the day says 3.7 miles. I doubt I will do much more then that tonight! LOL!
Tomorrow I will be seeing my friendly neighborhood Oncologist for a follow-up. I don't know how much longer I have to see him every 3-4 months will be. I don't mind though, they are all so nice there! So far all my reports have been really good and no cancer!
Food wise I am still struggling with the weekend of bad choices. I am feeling better, probably from the ginger. But I am still craving sweets and junk and just would love to devour a bag of chips if it was in the house! A friend text me earlier to see if I would want to go swimming on Thursdays and I said YES! As much as I love to swim I have put off going this Winter..excuse being it was too cold to even drive to the pool! LOL! I love it once I am there!
Well, that is pretty much it for today. I have not had David take the February pic for the blog yet. Tomorrow I should have one up!
HUGS!
Monday, February 1, 2010
50 is Nifty or It's my party I'll eat cake if I wanna!
So, Friday was my 50th birthday! It went pretty well. I spent the day quietly except for some wonderful friends and neighbors who came and sang for me! Also a few family who called and sang. David made dinner, spaghetti and garlic cheesy bread..ohhh fattening! And oh so good! And I had ice cream and cake. Sigh! Needless to say I spent this past weekend recovering from a sugar buzz! But I am on track again today!
Friday I did a "Happy 50 Workout". This was 50 of each of the following:
stair steps
recliner leg pushes
wall push-ups
bicep curls with resistance band
toe touches
ball crunches
It was a lot of work I tell ya! I did break up some of them into sets!
Today I did the workout I did on Monday, January 25th. So I won't write it out again.
I may have missed Jan. 27th exercise on here too...I walked 3 miles during Dr. Oz that day! The 28th I did laundry and a little walking..about 20 minutes.
So turning 50....not bad at all. I feel better now then I did a few years back. In 2006 early in the year I was looking at 293 pounds staring back at me from the scales at work. I vowed I was NOT going to be 300 + and so started walking on my breaks with my friend Marilyn. In April that year I was diagnosed with diabetes. Now some in the diabetes group I am in would say "It isn't your fault, it's all genetic" well let me tell you..that is NOT always the case! I am the ONLY diabetic in my family! One uncle had it but not until he got in his 80's! And no one else to my knowledge has it or ever did. I did this to myself. I will not use genetics as an excuse! I also will not use my medications as a crutch to eat what I want! I know dear in-laws who DO use that excuse! "Oh--I am on meds, I'll eat this cake (ah hem!) ok--bad example LOL! But I ate the cake KNOWING I was only going to have it that one day and not everyday as in the case of my FIL who will drink regular pop on a daily basis! I am convinced if he cut that out he would not need meds! That is my ultimate goal! NO MEDS! Not for diabetes, not for blood pressure and not for cholesterol! Although I have doctors who sometimes will say the statins are inevitable and that they will be taking or DO take them themselves! So back to 2006...I weighed 279 at time of diagnosis. I lost weight to 250-ish and then came the cancer diagnosis, chemo and radiation. The weight got wayyyyy harder to drop since chemopause and that is where I am today. My surgeon's nurse Cheryl said I had lost 10 pounds since seeing him last year. That was with shoes and fully dressed though. In the mornings when I weigh myself au naturale (sp??) I have lost 15 pounds since May 28, 2009. medications have been lowered and I exercise. I have also dropped clothing sizes and waist size...which if you watch Dr. Oz is the most important part anyways! So reflecting back on the last year--I would say I am coming right along! Praise God! He is my help in all this! He gives me the grace I need each day to eat what is best for my body and the power to exercise!
So...50 down, 50 to go! :-)
Love ya!
Friday I did a "Happy 50 Workout". This was 50 of each of the following:
stair steps
recliner leg pushes
wall push-ups
bicep curls with resistance band
toe touches
ball crunches
It was a lot of work I tell ya! I did break up some of them into sets!
Today I did the workout I did on Monday, January 25th. So I won't write it out again.
I may have missed Jan. 27th exercise on here too...I walked 3 miles during Dr. Oz that day! The 28th I did laundry and a little walking..about 20 minutes.
So turning 50....not bad at all. I feel better now then I did a few years back. In 2006 early in the year I was looking at 293 pounds staring back at me from the scales at work. I vowed I was NOT going to be 300 + and so started walking on my breaks with my friend Marilyn. In April that year I was diagnosed with diabetes. Now some in the diabetes group I am in would say "It isn't your fault, it's all genetic" well let me tell you..that is NOT always the case! I am the ONLY diabetic in my family! One uncle had it but not until he got in his 80's! And no one else to my knowledge has it or ever did. I did this to myself. I will not use genetics as an excuse! I also will not use my medications as a crutch to eat what I want! I know dear in-laws who DO use that excuse! "Oh--I am on meds, I'll eat this cake (ah hem!) ok--bad example LOL! But I ate the cake KNOWING I was only going to have it that one day and not everyday as in the case of my FIL who will drink regular pop on a daily basis! I am convinced if he cut that out he would not need meds! That is my ultimate goal! NO MEDS! Not for diabetes, not for blood pressure and not for cholesterol! Although I have doctors who sometimes will say the statins are inevitable and that they will be taking or DO take them themselves! So back to 2006...I weighed 279 at time of diagnosis. I lost weight to 250-ish and then came the cancer diagnosis, chemo and radiation. The weight got wayyyyy harder to drop since chemopause and that is where I am today. My surgeon's nurse Cheryl said I had lost 10 pounds since seeing him last year. That was with shoes and fully dressed though. In the mornings when I weigh myself au naturale (sp??) I have lost 15 pounds since May 28, 2009. medications have been lowered and I exercise. I have also dropped clothing sizes and waist size...which if you watch Dr. Oz is the most important part anyways! So reflecting back on the last year--I would say I am coming right along! Praise God! He is my help in all this! He gives me the grace I need each day to eat what is best for my body and the power to exercise!
So...50 down, 50 to go! :-)
Love ya!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday exercise
I forgot to post my workout for the day! This may sound funny to some of you but often I will walk around the room or standing in place the whole time Dr. Oz is on. That is what I did today and I got in 2 miles! Can you believe that? LOL! Also I did 3 sets, 15 reps each of "counter top push ups". I can't do regular push ups so I usually do them by placing my hands on the edge of the kitchen counter, arms length away and doing push ups.Not as hard as the others but still a challenge! Wall push ups are another way to do these as well as using your stairs...be careful! Then I did 3 sets of 15 reps of what I call "recliner leg pushes". Now, now, hear me out! When I sit on our recliner sofa I push the foot rest down with my legs, not letting it latch at the bottom or the top, my own body weight gives resistance or weight and recently I have started doing this using one leg at a time to make it harder! Anyone who says this is not an exercise can come here and try it! LOL! So that was my one hour workout today! walking and a couple strength building exercises!
The last Tuesday of January 2010
Hello again! Can you believe this is the LAST Tuesday of January 2010 already? WOW! And that also means David will have to take another pic of me this weekend for the blog! Today was kinda snowy and cloudy and just blah here. A few flakes are falling now but it is sporadic! It is Biggest Loser night again too! I must talk about why I don't buy some food items anymore--or not often anyways. Sunday I got low fat ice cream (half gallon) and today I looked and it was half gone already! And I confess--it was ALL ME! I was piecing at it little by little until it was half gone! And most of that was gone from TODAY! So to make it harder for me to get at--I put it in the deep freezer we have downstairs. This way at least I have to walk all the way down there and all the way back up to get any. SO far I have not touched it again since noon. As far as ice creams go it wasn't that bad but it is the point that I allowed myself to go overboard with it like I did. Potato chips is another weakness of mine that we do not buy anymore. If I get a huge craving for some I may go out and buy a small snack size bag and eat it. I will eat the whole bag no matter what the size is so a snack bag is all I need! I still struggle with emotional eating some days and I was mad about something. I need to confront that next time instead of eating.
So here is where I stand tonight on food:
1 banana
2 eggs
2 slices low sodium bacon
1 homemade whole wheat Eng. Muffin
1 pear
1 C. homemade onion soup
1 oz. cheese
low fat ice cream, ice cream, ice cream LOL! (1/2 cup is 130 calories)
1.5 cup homemade chicken noodle soup (whole wheat noodles homemade too)
6 soda crackers
Total calories for day approx. 1400-1600 Hard to say since I did not enter the recipe into Spark Recipes calculator yet on my soups. So I am still in range for the day BUT fat content is up
So here is where I stand tonight on food:
1 banana
2 eggs
2 slices low sodium bacon
1 homemade whole wheat Eng. Muffin
1 pear
1 C. homemade onion soup
1 oz. cheese
low fat ice cream, ice cream, ice cream LOL! (1/2 cup is 130 calories)
1.5 cup homemade chicken noodle soup (whole wheat noodles homemade too)
6 soda crackers
Total calories for day approx. 1400-1600 Hard to say since I did not enter the recipe into Spark Recipes calculator yet on my soups. So I am still in range for the day BUT fat content is up
Monday, January 25, 2010
Gloomy Monday
Hello people!
Today was a gloomy and sometimes a little snowy Monday here in Central Ohio. I was getting used to somewhat warmer weather and here the cold and snow is back! I didn't really expect it to last anyways, still being January! We have gotten blizzards in April before! LOL! So why should this year be different? Maybe I need one of those light boxes? But I am actually in a pretty good mood today! Yesterday when I got on the scales I had lost weight! YAY! Maybe the plateau of the last several months is finally at an end! This Friday is my birthday...my 50th birthday! Because of taking care of myself the last year as I have been, I feel better then I have in years. So 50 is going to be a GREAT age to be! I can see the light at the far end of the tunnel the past 4 years have been! God is soooo good! Ok, now for the journals!
Exercise:
10 minute warm-up on bike
3 sets of the following:
15 reps wall squats with ball and a 5 lb weight
20 reps standing rows with resistance band
15 reps ball crunches with 5 lb weight
7 minutes on Gazelle
3 sets of each of the following:
15 reps chest press with 10 lb weights
20 reps of Bridges
15 reps standing bicept curls 8 lb weights
15 minutes on bike and cool down.
Stretches
Food:
cooked multi-grain cereal
walnuts
2 TBS low fat plain yogurt
2 c. red leaf lettuce
1 medium carrot
4 oz chicken breast (no skin)
7 tortilla chips
8 olives
1 TBS Ranch dressing
1/4 C. salsa
1 TBS low fat cheese
1/2 C. low fat chocolate ice cream
3 oz. Haddock
1 TBS seasoned bread crumbs
Medium carrot
Small baked potato
Olivio spray
Total for the day: 1323
Today was a gloomy and sometimes a little snowy Monday here in Central Ohio. I was getting used to somewhat warmer weather and here the cold and snow is back! I didn't really expect it to last anyways, still being January! We have gotten blizzards in April before! LOL! So why should this year be different? Maybe I need one of those light boxes? But I am actually in a pretty good mood today! Yesterday when I got on the scales I had lost weight! YAY! Maybe the plateau of the last several months is finally at an end! This Friday is my birthday...my 50th birthday! Because of taking care of myself the last year as I have been, I feel better then I have in years. So 50 is going to be a GREAT age to be! I can see the light at the far end of the tunnel the past 4 years have been! God is soooo good! Ok, now for the journals!
Exercise:
10 minute warm-up on bike
3 sets of the following:
15 reps wall squats with ball and a 5 lb weight
20 reps standing rows with resistance band
15 reps ball crunches with 5 lb weight
7 minutes on Gazelle
3 sets of each of the following:
15 reps chest press with 10 lb weights
20 reps of Bridges
15 reps standing bicept curls 8 lb weights
15 minutes on bike and cool down.
Stretches
Food:
cooked multi-grain cereal
walnuts
2 TBS low fat plain yogurt
2 c. red leaf lettuce
1 medium carrot
4 oz chicken breast (no skin)
7 tortilla chips
8 olives
1 TBS Ranch dressing
1/4 C. salsa
1 TBS low fat cheese
1/2 C. low fat chocolate ice cream
3 oz. Haddock
1 TBS seasoned bread crumbs
Medium carrot
Small baked potato
Olivio spray
Total for the day: 1323
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