It's coming...

Apr 24, 2012

Yep, my one year surgiversay is coming up on May 11th.

Let me get a little bit of a bitch session out of the way so that I can celebrate appropriately when the time comes.

I've been stuck bouncing between 188 and 194 pounds for about the past two months and the 188 was about a month ago; haven't seen it since. Today I'm at 191.6. I haven't really given it too much attention because my body is definitely changing and shrinking and muscle-ing up here and there. BTW...who knew there could actually be muscles in my ass cheeks!?! Amazing. Anyways, the running and extra sports I've picked up are definitely paying off body-wise but COME ON WITH THE SCALE ALREADY!!!!

Also, my son got pretty sick with pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and kindly passed it on to me. It'll be two weeks today since I've done any running other than a feable 6 minutes last Friday which sent me into a two hour coughing fit and off to the clinic the next morning to get some antibiotics. I've missed my learn to run group the past two Sundays and the two workout repeats that I'm supposed to do between Sundays. So I'm out of practice and have been left in the dust at 6 minutes running/2 minutes walking while they've moved on to 7/2 and 8/2. Truth be told, the 6/2 was a serious struggle the one and only time I was able to do it so I'm freaking out a bit about it. One of my pre-surgery goals was to run the 5K at the Ottawa Race Weekend and that's what I intend to do. I'm just going to have to accept that I need to work hard to get there over the next four weeks and that there's a possibility that I may have to walk some of it. BUT I WILL NOT QUIT!!! I'M DOING THE 5K IF IT KILLS ME. Speaking of killing me; it kills me that I struggle so hard for every minute that gets added to my runs and a girl in my office who's only run three times since last summer can just head out and run 14 KMs. WTF!?! I guess I have some ground to make up for all those years that the longest distance I ever ran was the 40 meters between softball bases.

Segway indeed.

Softball starts again on May 1st and although there's no arrangements for me to play yet, I am the head umpire for a non-profit youth association in my area. It's an extremely stressful couple of weeks and between that, a fundraising event that I was helping with last Saturday and being sick, I've been eating like crap. My protein has dropped considerably and my carbs have gone way up. I even messed up my vitamins a few times and that's something I never do. I can't wait until about May 5th when things should be running ticketty-boo and it'll be one more load off my mind. In the meantime, I think some food journalling may be a good idea. Accountability is a powerful motivator of change.

OK; bitch session over. Glad I got that off my chest. Hoping to do some pictures to post for my one year and to have some great news and less bitching too. I really do love my RNY.

Hope you're having a peaceful, healthy and successful journey.
C

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