Ms Elizabeth's Journal, 04 April 2013

Day 4 of Madness and I'm ready for my straight jacket. I didn't get a workout in like I hoped. I did panic and hyperventilate. I wonder how many calories that burned. Yesterday the sitter had a doctors appointment so hubby had to pick up little man at 1 instead of me picking him up at 5:30. Should have been easy. The 9 yr old was there to change diapers, make bottles, and she's pretty entertaining to little man. It would have worked.. If hubby hadn't been so stressed about everything, moved logs with the skid steer for an hour before picking up little man and hadn't doubled over from pain in the driveway on his way to his truck.

I can be pretty calm about this now but at the time.. I'm pretty sure every co-worker heard me on the phone threatening to call an ambulance. Last thing I want to hear is hubby calling me gasping and telling me he can't pick up little man because he can't even get in the truck. It's not the first time. The first time he was in the middle of a 100 acre field doubled over in a tractor. Who knew a Ford Escape could offroad so well! He's had scans, exrays, blood tests, etc. The doctors can't seem to figure out what it is that does it. I took him to three doctors still nothin. I suspect it's the crap food, soda, the extra weight he's carrying around, the stress, the lack of sleep, and treating his body like Craaaaaaap. He's in denial. He drinks 3-4 sodas a day.. he says he only has 2-3. He will have a sub for lunch then go back a half hour later and make another one but says he only had one. He refuses to eat anything green... You get the idea. Luckily the sitter's 15 yr old daughter was home on spring break so she watched little man till I got off work. Then hubby was saved by his field partners being at the house so he avoided the lecture.

Chores were late and slow, I found out he wasn't taking his meds for his joints which probably didn't help anything so off to the pharmacy we went at 8:30, then I wasn't cooking so next was mcdonalds, Like thats healthy! But.. it did give me a glimmer of hope. He ordered his usual meal, regular not large, skipped ordering extra nuggets like he had been doing. In the past it was a large #3 with 10 nuggets. Maybe not being able to take care of his own son woke him up a little?

My plan is to treat hubby like a toddler. He will get spinach. He just won't know about it. He will get veggies.. he just won't know about it. I will pureee, hide, substitute things into his food he never dreamed of putting in his mouth. It shouldn't be too tricky. I burn alot of meals so if anything tastes strange he will probably think I just messed up the recipe again. :) So any suggestions are more than welcome! Just think of hubby as a kid who hates his veggies.

Today.. its nice out so I'm walking on my lunch hour, going to the chiropractor again to get popped back into place.. again. If it doesn't take too long I may have time to go home and workout for a half hour before getting little man. Maybe.. if not then I will workout tonight even if I have to strap him to my back and use him for weight training. So far.. No soda! No candy yesterday. No oreos.. And I peaked at the scale to discover a 2 lb loss!