Diana 1234's Journal, 22 August 2023

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Last month you were getting medically cleared to take creatinine and begin your bulk. Just curious if you are in the headspace for this yet (you were pretty excited about it a month ago). Support you either way— bigger or leaner.💚🤗  

I had a feeling you'd use those extra calories & burn off the bread 😊 

Jb, Dr did not want me to start creatine. He said my liver level was a bit elevated and I'm still having trouble regulating my ferritin levels.☹️ 

Sherrye, Yes! I did feel more energized!😀 Honeybuns 👍😀 

It’s funny how, after controlling our eating for a while, a small portion of additional carbs/calories can produce an energy boost. I hope you get some stress relief soon, Diana! 

Diana, these past 30 days I’ve had to up my caloric intake by between 500 and 700 calories a day in efforts to hit the protein numbers doc wanted. He told me repetitively this was not the time to be concerned with calories i needed protein to heal. I followed his advice tho i was and am scared to see what scale holds. We will be home late tonight. On the other hand, hubs and i were just talking and my multiple episodes a day of dizziness and lightheadedness have gone way down. Granted Ive been resting a lot but we went to a place called fashion island in Newport Beach yesterday and i walked for 90 minutes with zero dizzy spells. I was thinking it was the California climate? He said, nope think about it. You are giving yourself more calories, more energy. So best to listen to doc Diana. Especially at our age. Sad as that last sentence was still true!!!! Much love to you sis. So sorry we missed each other. Ps. Did you see my post about trying to send pm? If you have an iPad or computer log in that way and see if you can send and then I can respond? Think may have something to do with using phone to log into account? 

I'm so happy you are able to go home! I'll bet you are soooi excited to see your fur babies!!! And just to be in your own house, your own bed etc! Wonderful! I'm sorry we couldn't get together either... turns out our plans have changed again! My sister is doing renovations in her new house and they keep moving the finish date back..now we are going mid September! We are going to Colorado in Oct to see our son so I hope it gets done B4 that.. I did get your message about PMing and thought I did respond..sorry about that. I did check out my iPad and couldn't find where I can send pm.. I don't have a computer anymore. The only way I can think of to contact me is maybe they my email or other social media sites .How are you feeling btw?  

Tom, Ya, I think I needed a boost!👍 

Im feeling fabulous in loads of ways. Went on first 2 mile walk with hubs and furry boys today. Took them to the school and i went to the far end (think farther than a football field) and hubs held them and they raced to me!! We do this on most of our walks during the summertime. It’s the funnest thing!!! Hubs has to let our big golden get a little over 1/2 the field before releasing the beast that is our little black boy. (Otherwise he would smoke him and i dont want him to get a complex😂). They race at top speed to me. For some reason my golden wont race to my hubs only to me. So fun!!! Walked 2 miles. Started limping at one. I dont know how you feel but im not comfortable putting my personal email on this forum. Loads of awesome people on here and then there is always that one that shows up here and there with a mean agenda. We’ll figure it out. Im sorry you are having family drama. Im guessing mommy got worse? Im so sorry Diana. It’s such a tough time in anyone’s life and we are never prepared for these things. Even when we think we are. Sending you support and hugs thru here🥰 

YOH, I am so glad you are getting back to "normal" I'm sure the dogs were so excited that see you guys. I thought nk your rehab will be so much better now that you are home. I think you are right about putting emails on social media. I just couldn't think of anything else. We will figure it out. Yes mom is not doing well at all plus sister and son drama. And my granddaughter who I'm very close to, is moving to Maine on Sat. She is going to school there. I'm proud of her but extremely sad she is moving so far...🩷🩷 

Totally get it. Will give you an excuse to travel to Maine. What a camping trip that will be!!! So sorry about sis/son drama. I had literal decades of that stuff but was mom/brother/child drama and now finally im in a place of relative serenity. I wish that for you so much. Stress is aging and toxic!!! For sure next time we go to Vegas (maybe next year?) we will most definitely meet up. You are either in Vegas or really close right?  

YOH, Yes stress is the enemy! It's gonna send me to my aesthetician sooner than I want to ...😘😘 I do live in Las Vegas. We are in the Southwest part. 🩷🩷🩷 

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Diana, body fortress protein shakes are at an all time low price on amazon at $27 for 12 if you like chocholate. Vanilla is $37 for 12 Walmart is back to over $40 Just fyi. I bough 7 cases so now i can do two a day for 80 grams then just have to find 40 grams more somewhere in the day for next couple weeks. Just an fyi and xoxo to ya. Sending prayers for peaceful resolution to fam issues. This can be heart wrenching and maddening depending on the issue.