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I'm heading up to PA today for the first cycle of chemo for my dad's recent cancer reappearance.  It's going to be a challenging week - my dad's cognitive function has declined quite a bit since his brain tumor removal and radiation.  Thankfully I'm he

I'll be in PA with my parents this week since my dad is starting chemo again this week.  I've got a punch pass for their gym, so I'm hoping to get a random fitness class in on Wednesday.  In addition, I saw the orthopedist on Friday and got a cortisone

I don't really know what I'm doing this week because a) I'm in PA until Wednesday with my parents and b) my hip still hurts too much to run.  (Orthopedist on Friday, yay!!)  

Monday - yoga
Tuesday - yoga
Wednesday - yoga
Thursday

I'm going to Bonefish with my mom and a group of her high school classmates on Monday.  What would you order?  

http://bonefishgrill.blob.core.windows.net/menu/BM10.pdf

Well I went ahead and took the picture.  I needed a pick me up after having a drive home where I hated all of the songs I normally love.  

Two Legs, One Hole

It's hard to

No.. I'm not posting one.  

But for those of you who have gotten to this point, what sort of size change were you at before it worked?  I'm a size 12 now and I've got my largest size (28) in the closet but I'm afraid to try to put two legs into

With everything that's going on with my dad's cancer, I started weighing myself again.  Not weighing myself is what got me to my high weight, I need the accountability of the scale.  

High weight - 319
Last week - 184.3
This week - 18

My life is completely off the rails right now due to my dad's cancer.  I've also managed to do something to my right hip and running is exacerbating it, so I'm taking a break from running (and Aikido) until it feels better.  I'm seeing my orthopedist o

This week has been one of the worst weeks in my life.  My dad's cancer is back with a vengeance.  The long version is on my blog, I'll spare you all the copy paste here!  

I got h

I haven't been posting much due to bad news regarding my dad's cancer - I'm sort of in "bare minimum to keep going" mode right now.  But life goes on and goals must still be kept in mind, so here's my goal progress/update for May.  (I'll be heading up

Tuesday!  And I've finished my run which means I get to relax, sort of, until Aikido this evening.  

1: frankenshake
2: no idea
3: chicken stir fry - spicy szechuan stir-fry sauce

liquid and vites: on track
exercise: 1:07

Another week and I have a game plan.  I'm going to skip weighing for two weeks and see what happens. I need to break this cycle of panic eating once I get close to 180.  

High weight: 319
Last week: 182.7
This week: 181.8
Next go

A few weeks ago, right before my 20th high school reunion, I made it to 180.  From the start, this has been my primary goal.  It was my weight at age 180, my lowest adult weight, the weight that I would be happy to reach and that would make me feel tha

Yay Sunday!  And tomorrow is a holiday here in the US which means it's a three day weekend!  Mondays are always a light day for me, but my partner is off work which means it'll be a movie day.  Plus we had a movie day today!  Four movie weekend - yahoo

Today is Saturday!  Yay weekend!  I ran in the morning and also got to go to the farmers market.  I'm going to need to be stern with myself in the future and limit myself to one amazing pastry from the pastry chef that comes...

1: frankenshake<

Since not everyone can afford the time or financial commitment of therapy, here's a great article with lots of interesting options!  

http://greatist.com/grow/resource

http://www.silverdiner.com/sites/default/files/site_files/CSD.Menu_DC_Spring_2015.pdf

I'm going here for lunch with my partner today!  Yay!  Wha

This topic has come up a few times recently, and I wanted to share my thoughts.  

I've got a pretty intensive exercise schedule.  I don't work, so I consider Health Recovery to be my full time job right now.  My weekly schedule looks like this:

Happy Wednesday!  I signed up for my first 10k today!  It's got a time limit, so I've got a lot of hard work in the next 158 days... 

1: frankenshake
2: smoked trout
3: I can't remember.. I'll update in a few

liquids and vites

http://paleoleap.com/paleo-and-weight-loss-surgery/

I thought this was a nice little article - and relevant to my interests!

Time for more accountability.  I feel like I'm mostly back on track with my eating now, but my weight is still trending upward due to the past many weeks of bad habits.  I've got to get trending in the right direction again.  I understand why people fe

So.. I started Aikido last week and it was very challenging both mind and body.  Mind because I, as with every new class, felt completely uncoordinated and pathetic.  Body because OW OW OW.  I fool myself into thinking that I'm exercising every muscle

Today is my voice recital.  Yikes.  I don't know how I feel about it - resigned, I guess.  No use worrying at this point, eh?  My eating schedule will be a bit weird as a result, since we'll be eating dinner with my parents after the recital around 3pm

I woke up super early for a weekend and the weather was gorgeous for my run!  I'm starting to experiment with fueling during runs, now that I'm training for a 10k, and today I tried out Clif Bloks.  My stomach did cramp up on me after the first 2 miles

Today is a big day for me - I started my 10k training plan this morning and I'm starting Aikido this evening.  I've been having the realization that, eventually, my body is probably going to say, "okay, that's enough." with all of this exercise stuff.