Alas, I have been off my workout for weeks. The high BP was not the cause of my feeling “off.” I feel dizzy and sometimes week. My heart rate is below 60 BPM.
Supposedly my blood test is all normal.
We are going to try to cut my BP meds. I think it is unlikely to help because the symptoms haven’t gotten better or worse since I started taking them…
If I get no better by next week we will try a heart monitor harness and then a cat scan on the brain…
Meanwhile I find a little relief if I take high potassium foods like bananas. So I will continue to eat something with them in.
Khadaji, you can also buy potassium supplements; I suggested them to my hubby when he was having random leg cramps. Since he started taking them (about 2 months), he hasn’t had a single leg cramp, and they used to be happening several times per week.
I believe we got his at Wal Mart (yes, yes, I know they’re evil; but this is Cumberland, our options are limited!)
Good luck, but in the meantime, be gentle with yourself!!
I’ve been kinda off too. Haven’t gotten any exercise since that rafting trip last weekend, and I’ve had perhaps one too many meatball subs and/or burgers. I’m totally hitting the gym tonight though.
Just remember, falling off the wagon (is there a wagon?) is OK as long as you dust yourself off and get back on.
Hey tdn thanks for recommending The Wendie Plan. I like the sound of it and think that maybe I’ll give that a shot after my own fashion since I’m not really following any specific program.
I had to re-image my laptop and when I tried to reload my Lifeform Software from the CD that I have it won’t run which is making me decidedly unhappy because that was my calorie/nutrition tracking software. I may have to call tech support.
I’ll have to find one of those free sites for nutritional analysis for now.
Norinew How’re your kidney’s? Hope you’re on the other side of your latest problem.
Sigh. I really thought I was down this week! Alas, I was down only 0.4 lbs. I guess it just goes to show that I really do need the exercise to get the results.
Goal: Exercise at least three times this week. Bonus points for 4-5 times.
Sigh. Would that it were true! Unfortunately, the continued aching in that region would imply to me that my latest round of antibiotics did zip. Unfortunately, because it’s only been two days since I finished them, it’s too soon to get another urine test. I’ll probably do that next Thursday, and see if he wants to put me on an extra-long course of Levaquin. For now, though, I’m grateful for docs who understand pain control, and for the fact that at this point, there’s nothing indicative of an active stone. I either passed it in a public bathroom or something (where I don’t strain), or it “rolled” back up into the kidney. Either way, it isn’t stabbing me right now, thank goodness!
Holy Crap! That’s some before and after action! I’m quite impressed.
I know you’ve been frustrated with me tdn and it’s probably for all the same reasons that I’ve been frustrated with myself…I haven’t really been trying. Not a lot of effort and thus not a lot of results. But I do like to hang around her and whine about it. Not really an attractive trait is it?
But this week has been different. This week I’ve been stronger in terms of not eating later at night, not eating dessert (my skinny husband is a dessert junkie) and not snacking.
And I’ve been rewarded with a trip to the 60s! No, I didn’t drop acid…I hit 169 on my scale this morning. That brings my average down to 171.08 so I guess it’s not really a trip to the 60s until I get the average down there. But I’m feeling a bit more determined, I guess that’s a good thing.
Immediate goal is 165 by the time we go to NY on 10/22.
I hope that she doesn’t mind that I sent those photos (labelled as a friend) to a friend of mine here at work. Her response? “oh my god that is crazy! Is she the girl on the left?” This is a bariatric nurse who has seen and tracked over 1000 bariatric patients. She’s not easy to impress.
Yes, but just so there’s no confusion, I’m frustrated with your progress, I am absolutely not disappointed with you. It’s not personal. It’s just a puzzle that we need to work on together and solve. It’s as important to me as it is to you.
I know you’re right, but I feel like I do have time constraints. I’m currently living away from home to go to school, and I have a much easier time losing weight out here in the land of crappy and far-away food and big kitchen. I always go home for the summers, and I’m hoping to move (at least, semi-)permanently back home after this year.
On the upside, my home scale is telling me that I am down, even further down than I was yesterday despite a “this isn’t working anyway” binge. And I did go for a jog/walk this morning.
I’ve had a crappy week because of the torn muscle in my calf. I’m about to go to the gym for the first time since last Saturday (before injury) I am going to do upper body only. My leg still hurts but it is improving every day. This sucks, I don’t do injured well at all.
My eating has suffered a LOT this week due to the stupid pity party I have been having. Enough is enough and that crap is done as of right now.
I swear I’m going to be back on later and try and post my pics one way or another.
Thank you. You are very sweet. I took it as a bit of a kick in the butt which I most certainly needed. It’s also nice to have your support.
The resistance bands are working out just fine. I’m starting slow as I’ve got this nagging issue with my left shoulder but I’ve been managing two sets of 10 on the five different exercies in the book right here at my desk this week. I’m going to try and do that twice a day next week. I need to google and see if I can find more exercises than the five in the booklet though they’re pretty much hitting all the upper body muscle groups.
My friend who organized the rafting trip ordered some pictures from a company that specializes in capturing images of people who don’t know what they’re getting into on the river. Here’s me in offensively orange shorts, waving at the photographer and completely oblivious to the raging torrent of water I’m about to experience. Here I’m in front, only just beginning to realize the trouble I’m about to get into, far too late to do anything about it. And here I’m eating it hard.
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