Wow

I have Ms. Florida's words echoing in my head this morning......"garbage in, gets you garbage out."

Yesterdays menu was a 6" sub with milk for lunch, supper was nachos and cheesecake for dessert and kids sized drink with a kids sized popcorn at the movies.  (BTW Life of Pi was good but take tissues) I would have eaten this as a regular day before Poon and I am finding that still was conscious about the carbs.  I picked at the bun for the sub an didn't eat all the nacho chips or eat all of the tortilla around my cheesecake.  I felt absolutely okay leaving it behind! 

After my day of "letting go" I am paying for it today.  I was up and down during the night in the bathroom, finally took some of the DH Imodium this morning and my head is killing me.  Not sure if it is because of the lack of sleep or the salt intake from yesterday.

Off to take some Aleve and back to bed for this one!  If I feel better after the nap I will definitely get on the treadmill!

EDIT: I did make it to the treadmill but for 18 minutes....better than nothing I guess........

Missing Puzzle Piece

I remember doing a puzzle with C&F camping last season and it was nothing but cats of course LOL....But I remember working on it and there was an area in the bottom left corner that was black and needed that one last piece that connected the large cat in the centre of the puzzle.  I remember the happiness both of us felt when we found that piece and put it in.

Thinking about it I think that my Dr. Poon and other aspects of my life are missing that last little black puzzle piece.  Believe that there are 3 aspects of a human and they are mind, body and spirit/soul and when one isn't there, the body fails.  I know that my body is failing and so is my spirit since my mind isn't it.  My body can be put through the motions of Poon (body) and I am happy with the results (spirit) but I why don't I care about the whole darn lot?

So next week is that start or restructuring my puzzle so the last piece of my puzzle will be on Tuesday with Coco so hopefully it will all go well.to complete my tri-bond of life.  So since all weeks start on a Sunday I have decided that today is going to be a "let down my hair" day since I have had a stressful week with DoxyLover being holidays with some help from Ohio but then there was help from Norman and well let say she just added to the stress.  The DH and I are off to dinner and movie with passes we got a Christmas tonight so hopefully that will help the spirit.

So less than 24 hrs from now I will focusing on the carb detox of phase 1 and getting on the treadmill.  So be forewarned there might posts of wanting foods and aches from the treadmill :D

Wow only 16 minutes.....

Well today was a NSV (non scale victory) for me today......

I stepped back on the treadmill after some serious persistence of the DH and decided that a good half hour would be great for me to start the week off.  I have a routine of changing, pulling up the hair, get my shoes on, turn on the DM video and then the treadmill.  Sounds like a plan right? But one important detail I forgot.....to stretch.  Now Ohio has warned me about this when we are chatting at work but I seemed to have left this detail out this afternoon.  

Well I was chugging along at a brisk walk of 4.0 mph WOHOO (the NSV) since I could do 3.8 in then past a 4% incline!!!!!!!!!!!!  And that is when it hit.  16 minutes into my brisk walk I had to stop because of shin splints.  I guess these are better than the cramped toes that Miss Poonpalooza gets when she runs.  She has been running for a year and this is what I get to look forward to?  I better stop now :D

For those of you that don't know, a shin splint is like a really bad muscle cramp in the front of your shin and I have posted a picture of where they hit on me.

So I guess I will need to remember to stretch before and after getting on the treadmill, but for the here and now I will limp a bit for the rest of the day with some ice on it.

Shortest month of the Year

I know it has been a month but at least I picked the shortest month of the year ha ha……..

Since the end of January I have been really feeling like I have only been going through the motions of everyday.  I was working Super Bowl weekend at the other job and it was really quiet.  I remember thinking that the Grey Cup had more action than the Super Bowl.  I guess that is what happens when you live in Canada.

There was a Poon Group meeting about mid-February and Ms. Poonpalooza herself was stopping in too!  It was a pot luck that we were to make our favorite dish, so I happily made my chicken pesto and it got rave reviews.  It was interesting to see how many of us will cook and how many rely on the store bought stuff from the store attached to the Clinic.  Leigh mentioned herself that she is more of a home cook and the store rarely got a visit from her. 

 

 

 

I had a brutal cold later in February too.  I ended up sleeping most of Family Day since I was wiped!  I had no interest in food and ended up working a short shift at the 2^nd job and just went home.  I went into the office on the Tuesday just because I knew that my biggest client had payrolls that needed to be processed and he only likes the fact that I do them.  So I go them done and as much as I could so that I could take Wednesday off and I just slept then too.  I did eventually haul myself out of bed to go visit Dr. Marchie to find I down 3 pounds but it was all water.  I think it was all my sneezing LOL

February was a pretty sullen month since I had lost all interest in eating right and the treadmill.  Sullen isn't the right word....more like "I don't give a Flying Fig Newton about anything" so  I decided that on my drive into the office that something had to be done.  So I thought it was time to see a counsellor called Sanka again, who I haven’t seen in many.  I would have to say at least 5 years so I gave her a call.  I found out that she was still at the same location but she had increased her fees and my office would only cover $300 or roughly 2 visits.  So the DH and I were talking and he has an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that sets you up with a counsellor and they pay for 12 visits.  So since I figured I was going to need to rehash everything to Sanka, I might was well do the same with this one and I will call her Coco.

Why do I need one?  Well I still am half-hearted about Poon, the treadmill is becoming more a walk/jaunt than a running tool and since I haven’t done the first 2, the diabetes thing is still in the back of mind and that is where it has stayed.  I haven’t had the “a-ha” moment yet to wake me up about it.  I have been just going from point A to point B and back again in auto pilot.  The DH has asked what he can do to make me happy again and I honestly don’t know.

I am starting to feel a little motivated, just for the fact that my list of friends are doing things that make me feel like that I have been “left behind” and I feel like showing them wrong.  What I mean by this, is that one has left Poon for WW, I have a good friend who is getting GBP in a few weeks, I found out another on has had the Lapband done and another who might not ever get well enough.  So I feel like I want to stay on Poon just to show that it can be done.  But I don’t have the get up and go to do anything about it.

That brings us to this week and I have my usual 3 shifts at the other job where food is going to be a temptation, 2 St. Patrick Day parties and I am finally going to get see Coco on the 26^th. I will post pics of all of us in green at the office……..