Insomnia

Jun 21, 2010

It's been what seems like forever!

Today started out early (for me at least) at 11am. I made the Sugar Cookie Protein Shake recipe someone posted on here... it was interesting to say the least. If I make it again I'm definitely cutting down the almond extract. It was FAR too nutty tasting for me.

After that I went to get weighed in at my doctor's... 293! Down 5 pounds! I was sort of excited, but also kind of bummed... I went two weeks without good progress. The first week I GAINED a pound, and the second week I lost 0.2... I was expecting this week to be AWESOME. like 8 pounds+ to make up for the fact that I didn't lose the weeks before... But oh well, I'll take what I can get.

After that I went to the gym... I've been doing the 4:1 plan for about a week... the whole walk 4 minutes, run 1 minute thing. It's going pretty good, except for the LAST run minute... I always chicken out 10 seconds before it's over because I feel like I'm dieing. It definitely doesn't help that my pants are falling off and my shirt keeps riding up. No one wants to see my flab while I'm running on the treadmill! It'll get there though.

Then I went to go visit Daddy at work and talk to his secretary, who reassured me that playing Tennis is a great idea and that even though it is bad for your joints, it's only bad if you're playing SUPER competitively... like the pros do. I think I need to lose some more weight before I consider playing tennis for real though. Anyways, she always really helps me with new tricks for my workouts... so tomorrow I'm going to do 3:1 and see if I can handle it for the first 10 minutes, if not I'll just go back to 4:1 until I'm ready.

Next I showered, and went to the Support Group meeting with my parents. This months was A LOT better. Last month I felt weird because I was one week out of surgery, and the topics were all about things I couldn't really appreciate... this month they split us up so that people 3 months and under were in one room and veterans were in another. I got some answers to things like my insomnia and my questions about stages... Basically, I need to fix my sleep schedule (I promise I'm going to bed right after this!!) so that instead of going to bed at 7am and waking up at 2pm, I'll go to bed around 2 or 3 and wake up around 9am. I have my 6 week appointment with my surgeon on Wednesday, and hopefully he'll OK me to start taking melatonin before bed.

I think that this week I'm going to start putting together a binder of recipes that I find on here and on other sites. My friend is looking to lose some weight, but she doesn't know how to cook healthy meals... so I think that we're going to make healthy meals once a week to help her, and help me learn how to cook!


 

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