Yikes, you could say. No updates on a weight-loss blog usually doesn’t bode well, right?
Okay, so for the latest news of the front on my personal battlefield…
I’m slowly getting the bingeing part in check. It’s not perfect yet, and I must admit that so far, I’ve been gaining and losing the same old 5 pounds so often that it’s not even a matter to laugh about anymore. But I’m getting there. Maybe I sort of ‘needed’ to go through that to experience what ‘real’ food problems are at least once in my life? (Yeah, right, denial much, huh.)
It’s a little sad that December had to be here for me to finally start to manage, although, as the saying goes, “better late than never”. The Christmas challenge will be something else to tackle. I’ll very likely be the one cooking this year, otherwise I’m afraid we’ll have to face a ‘traditional’ (read: very very heavy and fattening meal) for lunch on the 25th, followed by a… raclette in the evening. In the “hello, I am fattening and very heavy and I’m here to force your gall bladder to commit suicide” meal series, you couldn’t do better.
Anyway. That’s for the food part.
The family part is going better than I dreaded, and I’m not complaining about that. My mother’s been out of the hospital for a solid week, and so far there haven’t been any more problems. However, I’m still uneasy about it. Her physician wants her to see a cardiologist, because he finds her heart rhythm “a little too fast compared to the norm”. I’m not sure what norms he’s talking about: the regular norm for everyone (in which case, it’d be normal, since being very overweight tends to make one’s heart rhythm faster, right?) or HER norm, which would be more worrying IMHO. However, no results are available as of yet, so I don’t know more.
No matter what, I am definitely bringing my Walk Away The Pounds DVDs at my parents’, with a nice copy for my mother, and will do my best to preach the good word. I don’t care that “yeah but the person has to be willing to do it” and all that shiz; willing or not, I want my mom to still be around in 5, 10, 20 years (she’s not even 60 yet!). I just can’t sit around on my bum looking at things unfold this way. If I have a chance, even a slight one, to bring some improvement in all of that, then I must do it.
Oh yeah. I gave my blood again last Monday. It had been so long that I had forgotten how ravenous this tends to make me! I literally devoured the protein-laden foods they gave me at the donation center (oddly enough, carbs didn’t seem very appealing at that time). I plan on going again as soon as I can go back. The only thing that bummed me is that they told me “no exercising in the next 24h”; next time, I’ll be cramming my exercise in before donating.
With that, I must be off to work and classes. I’ll be back later on for another update… and not only in three weeks, I hope.
December 7th, 2007 at 23:21
It can be really daunting when that 5 pounds keeps bouncing around. Hard to stay motivated and focused. Adding in the exercise will help if you can stay at it. I love to walk and it really burns calories. Once you get over that same 5 pounds you will feel motivated to keep trying. Good Luck!
Jillian
December 10th, 2007 at 16:14
Hah, yes, you bet I’m dead set on making those go for good.
What’s sort of funny is that a few years ago, 5 pounds would have been nothing. Now, they feel like 15 pounds or so. Maybe because I’m closer to my body, accepting it for what it is, listening to it? Every little variation suddenly feels like it’s… much more. Well, at least I’m not living in denial anymore about it, so it’s probably a positive change.