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I've been avoiding weighing in because I gained. At the doctor's office I had gone back up to 312 lbs. I know that I weigh differently there because it's a different scale, I wear different clothes, and I have my shoes on, but over the last few visits I had shown a loss regardless. I know that part of it is because I've stopped being active as far as walking once a week. I had done so during the spring, summer, and fall. I had vowed to replace it with yoga that I can do at work, for free. Unfortunately the last two classes I have skipped and the one before that was cancelled. Skipping was from my lack of motivation. This morning I skipped because it was "too cold." Yes, it was cold, but the effort would have been worth it. I did, however, get a yoga DVD today. So, my plan is to at least do a session at home on every day off and eventually transition into everyday. I have also made some progress with substituting good food choices from my bad ones. I'm sure, for those of you that have read, you know my previous diet was all fast food, then it was all frozen food that I could make at home, and recently I had started incorporating more water and less soda, more salad and veggies, but I still had a lot of frozen and unhealthy food choices. I went grocery shopping today (which, FYI, I saved $52 using coupons and deals) I substituted yogurt for pudding for my packed lunches and to have every morning for breakfast in addition to whatever it is I eat for breakfast. Which, at this point, is still a mix between off brand eggos and sausage wrapped pancakes on a stick. Not healthy, but so very good. I think my next goal will be to transition into a more meal like breakfast instead of frozen things. I found a great (and easy to change) recipe for a biscuit filled with eggs, cheese, and sausage. I want to adapt that to eggs with veggies, turkey sausage, and cheese. I will not be giving up cheese anytime soon lol! Then eventually modify it to egg whites. I am not a huge egg white fan, but I figure that the veggies, sausage, and cheese will help drown out the taste. To be perfectly honest, I'm not much of an egg person anyways. I never really make eggs at home. Hell, I don't have any eggs in the house! I will, from time to time, get scrambled eggs or a breakfast burrito at work, but other than that, unless I am at a restaurant, I don't get eggs. I actually like eggs over easy. I know they are easy to cook, but I just can't get it. Which is probably a good thing. Either way, I've had egg whites before, just as a scrambled egg, and it was not great. So, hopefully the added items will make it more tolerable. Plus the recipe says that the breakfast biscuit is easy to store and reheat, so I may even add it to my packed lunch. Currently I've been just taking cereal, and even more recently, bread and peanut butter for toast. So, it would be a nice change. As for other meals. I still have frozen food items incorporated into it, but I have substituted an actual homemade meal for one meal on the days I'm off. This time around will be slow cooked buffalo chicken. I've made this before and it's amazing. Yes, I'm aware not necessarily a healthy meal, but I'm looking at money costs and the fact that there will be a bunch less sodium compared to the frozen food products. I use just some boneless, skinless chicken, some buffalo sauce, and a packet of ranch mix. Then, when the chicken is done, I shred it. I will probably make a sandwich out of it and have a salad as a side. My goal is to up my salad intake as well. I am typically eating salad on the days I work. I'll have a salad and baked potato for dinner after I get off work. I am using store bought salad, but have plans of using produce to make my own salad. It should be more cost effective, but currently, I don't eat enough to salad to make sure that I'd eat a home made one before it went bad. I'm trying to balance cost and health. So, I have some goals for the next couple weeks. Eating my meal plan, doing yoga at home, and I am currently participating in this challenge at work called 100 miles before St. Patty's day. It started on the 1st and I currently have done 11 miles. I've been wearing a pedometer at work. I am a nurse in a hospital, so I walk a lot anyways. I didn't realize that in a 12 hour shift I'm probably clocking between 3-4 miles. I did an 8 hour shift the other day and got 6504 steps. So I'd say another 4 hours I would definitely get in another 2,000 steps. I looked up that the typical standard is 2,000 steps for every miles. I'm hoping this is right! They have also done a chart of equivalents for other activities like swimming, biking, high, moderate, and low intensity exercise. Yoga is low intensity and they have 20 minutes equaling out to a mile. My typical classes at work are 45 minutes, and my DVD is an hour. So, I hope to knock out a few miles with those as well. Something I'm worried about: My shoulder. I'm in the process of getting it diagnosed. My doctor feels like it's a torn rotator cuff. I had seen an orthopedic surgeon that told me "I was too young" to have hurt it. He prescribed physical therapy (which only improved my range of motion a couple degrees) and said if it still hurt after to come back and we'd do an MRI. I'm at the "time to get an MRI" stage. Now, it doesn't hurt all the time. I can use it to do pretty much anything. It hurts a lot after repetitive activities. Being a neonatal nurse, a lot of what I do are repetitive actions. I change diapers, bottle feed and hold, and chart on a computer every 3 hours for 2-3 babies. Even when I have the little 2 or 3 lb babies, my shoulder can get pretty sore after a couple of 12 hours shifts in a row. I do have some pain medication on board, but try to limit it to night time to help me sleep. The pain keeps me up or wakes me up pretty frequently. My worry lies more in the recovery. I know with yoga I can use it to the best of my ability and not push it. The recovery of a surgery (which I'm not sure that will happen, need the MRI first) will limit me significantly to what I can do. Driving will be difficult and, most likely, for the first few weeks after, impossible. Yoga will definitely be out until I've healed and done physical therapy. So, I will literally only be able to do walking. I'm not sure how a treadmill will do for me. I like to be able to hold on to the bars. Definitely at first I may not have enough range of motion or even strength to hold on. So, I've thought about mall walking (since I live in Ohio and it stays cold pretty much until June). I'll feel like such an old person, but I need to get over that. Just to note, the neighborhood I live in is pretty sketchy and isn't really safe to just "take a walk" in. I do, however, have a metro park about a 10 minute drive away. Once it gets a bit warmer (like consistently in the high 30's, low 40's) I can go back to walking outside. I just get worried that all I'll be able to really do is sit around, watch tv, and try to heal....leading to a significant increase in weight. Plus the fact that I'll have to do meal prep before surgery and live off of whatever I have made and frozen for a few weeks. I believe the first week or two they have you keep your shoulder/arm bound or in a sling to prevent moving and damaging the repair. Of course, this is all up in the air. I'm just trying to get some good weight loss in now, just in case I do gain. I have hope and I am encouraged.
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306.6 lb
Lost so far: 0.4 lb.
Still to go: 26.6 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 0.2 lb a week
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