by Rian on September 27, 2008
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Well today is the last day of my 30th year of life… tomorrow I will be 31. I’m not doing much right now but puttering around the house. Speaking of which, I will soon post some before and after pictures of my bookshelves. I actually now have ALL of my books in bookshelves, which is amazing!
Yesterday I went to the Tulsa fair with my aunt, sister and niece. It was a LOT of fun and I walked around for 5.5 hours! Whew! My feet and legs were hurting SO bad last night. I’m glad to have gotten the exercise though.
Tomorrow for my birthday I will be going to the movies and out to dinner with my sister, aunt and niece. I feel so incredibly blessed to have family around these days. Going 5 years without family nearby really sucked.
I haven’t gotten on the scale in several days… it’s about PMS time, and I refuse to get on and see a higher number and get bummed out. So I’ll wait… I got a compliment yesterday from my aunt, who said I have lost some weight since she has last seen me (Which was a couple months ago).
Not much else to report. I’ve been in a bit of a funk the past several days, but it’s OK, I know it will pass. Life is like that and it’s very normal to feel down sometimes!
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Just a quick update… my stomach bloating has finally gone way down, seemingly overnight.
I am currently waiting for the furniture delivery guys to deliver me the two bookcases I bought last week. They are taking forever… and I have things to do! Grrr. They just called me and said they were in Kansas and won’t be here for another hour.
Today I have absolutely no appetite whatsoever and haven’t yet eaten anything yet. I did drink a vitamin drink though. If this keeps up I will see a doctor. The last time I suffered extensive appetite loss was during the height of my drinking career. That is definitely not the case this time. As I think back over the past 15 years of my life, I realize that every once in a while I will go days or weeks with very little appetite for no apparent reason. Perhaps it’s my body’s way of readjusting itself or something, who knows?
More later…
Well, my weight has kind of gotten stuck between the 7 and 8 pound loss mark. I guess it was to be expected… I’m also having a maddening lower tummy bloating issue, which is weird considering I’m eating plenty of fiber and drinking 3/4 of a gallon of water per day! Oh well. Patience and perseverance is the key here I suppose…
I’m keeping up on the exercise front and my body feels like it is getting fitter by the day.
Not much else to report… I’m going on my hour-long walk shortly. Unfortunately the tendons on the outer side of my ankles have started up their awful throbbing pain when I walk. They do that from time to time and have been doing that every time I have started a new walking regime for the past 8 years. It’s extremely painful and I don’t know what causes it, but usually it goes away after a while. For now, Advil helps! (If anyone knows what it could be, let me know. It’s a very bad burning pain on the outer side of both ankles and usually starts within 5-10 minutes of the walk).
For those of you who asked about my book collection, yes, 80% of it is chick lit. The rest are memoirs, non-fiction, general fiction and miscellaneous. It’s a collection I started 6 or 7 years ago and it has grown considerably over the past few years because of my (prior) chick lit reviewer status. Anyway, I can’t wait for the bookcases to be delivered tomorrow… Despite both bookcases being very large, I still have a feeling they won’t be enough. We shall see… I’ve been doing other odd little projects around my apartment and am pleased at how it is coming out. Photos to come!
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Yesterday I ate a bit more than usual (for these days) and I did about 30 minutes on the elliptical and some arm weights and stretches. Today is back to lighter eating and I plan to take my hour-long walk around 6:30pm.
I am noticing that I am definitely getting so much more fit… just little things really. Things are easier to lift and move. I now walk with a spring in my step. I actually picked up a box that I literally could barely move along the floor 2 or 3 weeks ago. (My back is paying for it now, though).
The guy I spent hours and hours with earlier this week turned out to be a total psycho, unfortunately. It was a bit disappointing, but I’m doing OK with it. Life goes on…
I went to a furniture store today and grabbed two more (very) large bookshelves which will be delivered Tuesday. This is what my living room/hallway wall looks like right now…
Yep, it’s safe to say my book collection is seriously out of control! My goodness. At least I got all the boxes unpacked.
Once the new bookcases get delivered, though, and I get things cleaned up more and organized, I’ll take some “after” pictures. I love my apartment and am working on doing little decorating ideas to make it feel like a true home.
As for the alcoholism thing, I made the decision to stop going to AA meetings and stop declaring myself as an alcoholic. It just never really clicked. I got a lot out of the program but for some reason the idea that I AM a real alcoholic never took root. I never believed it, and I still don’t. If I ever resume my previous binge-drinking I will go back. But for now… things are good. Every few nights or so I will have myself an expensive and delicious glass of wine or two with (or after) dinner. In my book there is nothing wrong with that! Just like with cheese and chocolate, if you totally deny yourself the pleasure, you will crave it and possibly eventually binge. (I’ve been known to binge on cheese but not chocolate, for the record!) But allowing yourself to enjoy these things in moderation keeps the cravings and binging at bay…
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OK, I know I’m supposed to be an alcoholic, but lately (for the past month or so) I’ve been allowing myself to have a glass or two of a good wine with dinner on some nights. Oddly enough it doesn’t make me want to binge drink and it doesn’t seem to be hampering my weight loss at all. This is one of the reasons I haven’t been attending AA meetings nearly as often, because frankly, I am questioning the fact if I’m really a true alcoholic or if I was just severely depressed for a while there in NH, which led to nightly binge drinking. I don’t know… I also feel slightly hypocritical attending meetings since the whole purpose of going is to want to stop drinking. I have no problem with sticking to just a glass or two these days and see no reason NOT to enjoy it in moderation. Real alcoholics could never do that, right?
Anyway, I did not get a chance to exercise yesterday. Today I did 15 minutes on the elliptical and plan to do my hour-long river walk around 7pm. For some odd reason I have had very little of an appetite. Usually when I exercise a lot it increases my appetite the next day. But not this time. This time I’m just not really hungry. When I do eat, I find myself eating small portions (which is good!) I’m also having vitamin drinks every day.
I see and feel definite difference and some of my pants are beginning to get very loose (again).
The most important thing right now is for me to continue on and not lose any momentum. Often times when I start seeing serious results I relax on the exercise and healthy eating. But this time… it is not the case.
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What an exhausting and stressful day… it all started at about 11am when I awoke a bit later than usual with aches and pains in places I didn’t know existed. After a small but healthy breakfast and several Advils I shot off to an AA meeting with a super-cute guy friend of mine. Then I came home to get some website work done but was immediately inundated with my sister’s car problems. My sister’s car had refused to start ever since sometime last week, and I’ve been giving her rides on and off. I offered to let her use my AAA card to tow her car to a local place that would find out what the problem was, and she finally took me up on the offer yesterday.
So, the place called her with an outrageous estimate today – about $650, for a new fuel pump and some other stuff. She has no money to pay for it. (I offered to help her out with a few hundred, but not the full amount!) Anyway, to make a VERY long story short, we decided to have the car towed (via my AAA membership, again) to another place, a local Midas which we have both been going to for a while and have had good results with. So they went and got her car and towed it. Then I get a phone call from the tow driver (since it’s MY membership) saying that the tow guy accidentally dented her car door. “Just a tiny dent” according to the driver.
Several phone calls later we determine that it’s not a small dent after all… they will need to replace the entire car door! And since I’m the one with the membership, it’s all on me to take care of. AND to make matters worse, my sister doesn’t have insurance on her car.
!!!
So several phone calls and lots of stress later, it’s only half-way worked out. I need to make a few phone calls tomorrow. Plus, my own car is having some issues and I plan to take it in to the same place my sister’s car is at…
Not to mention there were other things going on today that demanded my attention.
So needless to say, I did not work out today. I ate very little due to lack of time and lack of appetite.
I am noticing a definite difference in the mirror and in the way my clothing fits. I think it’s pretty astounding how fast the fitness and weight changes are occurring this time around. Many of my long-time readers will remember that it took forever to see any significant changes back in the early winter/spring of this year when I was working out frequently. Why is it taking effect so quickly THIS time, I wonder?
Anyway, tomorrow I plan to get back to my fitness routine. I have a GREAT walking path which takes about an hour or so to complete. It takes me across the Arkansas River twice (on two different bridges). The weather out here since the hurricane has been so fantastic that it’s unbelievable.
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I’m down another pound which equals out to 8 pounds lost now!
I did however wake up in a fair amount of pain from my exercise yesterday. But that’s OK.
I’ll update more later!
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I exercised for 1 hour 35 minutes today! The first 35 minutes were spent on the elliptical. Then I had a little complex carb/protein meal and went on a hour-long walk, probably around 3.5 miles or so. Whew!
Now I’m going to meet a guy friend (same one I hung out with last night) at a restaurant then possibly an AA meeting, although I’m debating on whether or not to go. Haven’t really been into AA nearly as much these days and have been OK on the alcohol front.
Anyway, I burned roughly 535 calories or so, give or take. Not bad…. I’ve eaten about 1100 already today and plan to have one more small meal of 200-300.
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I got this ever-so-kind email yesterday:
Cathy McDonald (catjmcd@yahoo.com) wrote:
> You’re a fatty who wishes she was skinny aren’t you?
My answer to her:
Sorry to disappoint, but no! I was a (mostly) lifelong generally slim & healthy person who only recently gained some extra weight due to excessive alcohol consumption. Now I’m taking it off the healthy way.
I simply enjoy keeping track of celebrity weight, diets and exercise as a hobby. Also, I don’t use childish and ignorant terms such as “fatty”. Life is good and there is no reason to wish ill on anyone else!
All the best,
Rian
There are just so many unhappy and miserable people out there!
by Rian on September 15, 2008
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I just got on the scale and it’s official… I am down 7 pounds since Friday Sept 5th.
The most amazing thing is that I’ve been exercising a lot with a lot of resistance every day. Usually that makes me GAIN weight (temporarily, at least).
Once I lose another 5 pounds I will have another middle-digit rollover.
Yesterday I did four small, healthy meals. I actually had only 900 calories (give or take) yesterday because I ended up spending 6 hours with a friend last night, which was unexpected (and fun!)
Anyway, my next goal is that I can be down another 2.5 by Sunday morning. We shall see…
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