I had an appointment with the cardiologist yesterday. Everything's good, just a pre-surgery check up and EKG. On Thursday, I'm going to have carpal tunnel surgery plus trigger finger release. Oy vey!!
That trigger finger business is the worst right now. It hurts to flip the bird. I keep painter's tape over the knuckle so the finger can't bend enough to lock. And arthritis kicked into that same knuckle. Ouch. Yes, I take the tape off during most of the day so I can flex that knuckle. Anyway, I'll be glad when this is a memory. Meanwhile, doing any knife or scissor work in the kitchen is painful.
What wasn't good about the appointment is that I weighed three pounds more according to their scale. But this morning, I weighed the same as I did a couple days ago. Again, my goal is to lose 55 pounds over the next year. The realization is that after I hit that mark, I'm still going to be overweight. And as I keep on shrinking, I'll have even MORE weight to lose. Daaaaaamn. I wish I would have started measuring myself right from the get-go. That's also a little bit of encouragement when nothing is changing with the scales.
I didn't exercise yesterday since we went to 'the city' (about 30 miles from here) for my doctor appointment and did a couple errands after that. We ate big salads at one of the Dillon's store (Kroger) that has an awesome salad bar and little dining area. Of course, there's nothing that would be my first choice for salad dressing, so I used a spoon of cottage cheese with a little blue cheese dressing on it, then stirred everything up in the bowl. It worked.
Today, I exercised for 30 minutes. I had to sit more than stand, march or walk as both hips and both knees were complaining. I always have something that I can do in a chair. I have learned a few tips along the way. My first chair exercise experience was from Silver Sneakers, 10-Minute Chair Workout for a Stronger Core. Easy peasy, so these are my fall back exercises to do when I can't do all of the chair workout with Curtis on A New Way 2 Move.
"I'm amazed by people who lose weight with exercise. When I exercise, nothing happens because my DNA still thinks I'm a European peasant. So it's like "Oh! Are we running from the English again, lass? Dinnae ye worry, we'll keep ye plump as a partridge to outlast the murderous bastards!"
(Jamie Kenney on twitter)
And while the quote still makes me laugh, this time I'm determined to shed these pounds so I'll feel better.
That trigger finger business is the worst right now. It hurts to flip the bird. I keep painter's tape over the knuckle so the finger can't bend enough to lock. And arthritis kicked into that same knuckle. Ouch. Yes, I take the tape off during most of the day so I can flex that knuckle. Anyway, I'll be glad when this is a memory. Meanwhile, doing any knife or scissor work in the kitchen is painful.
What wasn't good about the appointment is that I weighed three pounds more according to their scale. But this morning, I weighed the same as I did a couple days ago. Again, my goal is to lose 55 pounds over the next year. The realization is that after I hit that mark, I'm still going to be overweight. And as I keep on shrinking, I'll have even MORE weight to lose. Daaaaaamn. I wish I would have started measuring myself right from the get-go. That's also a little bit of encouragement when nothing is changing with the scales.
I didn't exercise yesterday since we went to 'the city' (about 30 miles from here) for my doctor appointment and did a couple errands after that. We ate big salads at one of the Dillon's store (Kroger) that has an awesome salad bar and little dining area. Of course, there's nothing that would be my first choice for salad dressing, so I used a spoon of cottage cheese with a little blue cheese dressing on it, then stirred everything up in the bowl. It worked.
Today, I exercised for 30 minutes. I had to sit more than stand, march or walk as both hips and both knees were complaining. I always have something that I can do in a chair. I have learned a few tips along the way. My first chair exercise experience was from Silver Sneakers, 10-Minute Chair Workout for a Stronger Core. Easy peasy, so these are my fall back exercises to do when I can't do all of the chair workout with Curtis on A New Way 2 Move.
"I'm amazed by people who lose weight with exercise. When I exercise, nothing happens because my DNA still thinks I'm a European peasant. So it's like "Oh! Are we running from the English again, lass? Dinnae ye worry, we'll keep ye plump as a partridge to outlast the murderous bastards!"
(Jamie Kenney on twitter)
And while the quote still makes me laugh, this time I'm determined to shed these pounds so I'll feel better.
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