Day 12

Well it's day 12 and another day to go for a weigh in. Before I get to that, I'll go over how the week has gone. It's definitely been a better week than last week. I'm not as emotional and can even handle making some food items for the family while making my meals. I still pretty much refuse to do a whole lot because of how much I like food. My family doesn't really like anything that I don't like.

I was extremely excited after my weigh in Monday and started to take the consultant seriously about getting on my excercise equipment and working out. So Monday night I worked out for 20 minutes. I figured that was a good start, 20 minutes on the elliptical every night and building up to 30 minutes because Metabolic suggests not going over 30 minutes due to the calorie and liquid intake they have everyone on. Well Tuesday night we had our home study and I was planning on working out after the lady who completed it left, but I started feeling yucky again, and realized that I definitely have the sinus infection everyone else has had. So I started back up the antibiotics the doctor called out and started on ny-quil that night. I was so congested and felt awful all night long. The next morning I knew there was no way I could get up and go to work. So I called in, got breakfast and went back to bed. I slept until 10:45. I was feeling a bit better, sat up in bed and watched a little tv, then got myself some lunch. I decided at that point that I was feeling better enough to go to work. So I got ready and went in. Today I was still slow moving but was able to get going this morning enough to get to work. We have audits coming up and I have a lot of work to get done before they happen in a little over a week. So I feel guilty being sick and not being at work for a day and a half in the last week.

So today after work I went over to Metabolic, got the same consultant, still don't know her name. So I've decided Monday if I have her again, I'll just need to ask her name. She took my blood pressure again after we talked about the fact that I've been sick since Tuesday. I asked if my starting to get sick could have elevated my blood pressure on Monday night. She said it could have, especially since tonight it was down to 120/80. Still not as low as I'm used to, but much better than Monday nights. We talked about the medicines that I've been taking and she prepared me for a possibility of no weight loss or a weight gain. My body is in survival mode right now trying to fight off the germs in my body, so she said weight loss is the last thing it's thinking about. The other thing she told me was that the antibiotic I'm on can cause water retention and the day-quil and ny-quil have sugars and alcohol in them that go against what I'm trying to accomplish.

So I'm prepared and go in to weigh and I was happily surprised to have lost a 1/2 lb. That puts my weight loss at 10 lbs. now . I told the consultants at the front when we went out for me to order some items that my goal was 25 lbs. by Christmas. I said it might be unrealistic, but that's what I'd like to see gone. Tiffany the other consultant said that if I started excercising the chances are very likely that I could lose close to that by then. So as soon as I start feeling better (and maybe even if I'm not totally better, I'll still start on Saturday) Tomorrow night we are going to the Point of Grace concert so I'll be hurrying home to eat supper and get back out the door with everyone to see the concert. So please be praying that I'll get better and will be motivated to get on my elliptical or my Wii fit in order to get my excercise going and make this weight loss drop even better.