Baby It's Cold Outside!!!

Thursday, January 12, 2012 Today is the first real snow of the season. I have nothing to report, big or small. Happy Birthday to Phil Perry, who has one of the most beautiful voices ever!

Milestone Moment

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 I reached my first milestone!!! I'm glad I decided to weigh again after the extra fluid was removed. I'm so encouraged! Really Weight Watcher's makes it easy! I hated the old program with all the weighing and measuring!

I Survived the Weekend!!!

Monday, January 09, 2012 I thought the weekend would be hard since I had all day to think about food. Turns out Saturday night I had to eat a dessert and a fruit to get all my points in. Sunday, because I sleep later, and actually slept right through the breakfast hour, I still ended up with 11 points at the end of the day. To that I say, things will get better. I can feel a lot of fluid on me, which is probably a result of the Smart Ones meals. It's challenge enough dieting, but when you have to factor in the kidney diet, it get crazy. Somehow I lost my phosphorous binders, so I have to order some more. Phosphorus is in almost everything we eat. It isn't bad for the normal consumer because your kidneys filter it out of your body. When your kidneys don't work, it stays in your body until you dialyze. When there's an overload of phosphorus in your body, it can calcify your arteries. I'm usually pretty good at doing what I should kidney diet-wise, but all the Smart Ones I've consumed the past couple of days, I noticed the whites of my eyes are yellowish. I need to go back to making fresh meals and not the frozen ones. This is just temporary, to get into the groove of things. I weighed in this morning and was more than my starting weight, but then I realized that I have a whole weekend of fluid on me, so it will be more accurate after dialysis tonight. So many challenges, but with God, nothing is impossible and I have faith that I will meet my goals and I can't wait! Two main things I want to be able to do again is wear heels without feeling like my body has broken down at the end of the day and I want to run. Not the little fast shuffle scoot that I do now, but I want to take off running maybe to the end of the block, with no pain. Maybe race my kids and challenge them on the basketball court like I did when they were little. I'd venture to say that I'd even like my youngest to teach me how to ollie and flip kick (<------those are skateboarding terms). Psyche on that last one! LOL

Another Day

Thursday, January 05, 2012 This is day two. We're doing a weight challenge amongst local government employees and I'm on the police department team. Yesterday was fairly easy. I was almost too full, but when I got to treatment, I was hungry. I'll have to save a snack for that time. My challenge will be getting in exercise. Right now I feel like I have too much fluid on me and I already don't like to exercise, so I have to find something I can bear. I wish the workout fairy would grant me a membership at Curves, LOL.

A New Day

Original post January 4, 2012 I'm an overweight dialysis patient. They do not give overweight dialysis patients kidneys. Not even if they are young, single parents. So I thought I'd get a quick fix. I had the lapband surgery back in 2009. I dropped 20 lbs in the preliminary time period for that. They want you to lose weight on your own, in the beginning, to prove that you're serious about losing weight. Surprisingly, that was the easiest weight loss I've ever experienced. So the surgery was performed and the next thing I knew (a year later), I weighed 84 lbs lighter. The lowest I weighed in my adult life. With that great weight loss, came a drop in my blood pressure. Dizziness when I stood up. The day I figured out that was a problem, I'd passed out and hit my head either on the bathtub or toilet. I had a traveling hematoma that left me looking like Kung Fu Panda for a few weeks. That weight loss was beautiful, except by the following November, I hit a plateau.

Decisions...

I have decided that instead of letting this blog sit with the memories of the past, that I would start to post my Weight Watchers posts here also, especially to make it easier for my Here's To Our Health members to read it. Hope you enjoy and hope even more to inspire (myself included).

A Friendly Reminder to No One and Everyone at the same time

Something made of glass can easily break; it is vulnerable; and we are all vulnerable in different ways. Sometimes we forget our own vulnerability and "throw stones" at other people in the form of criticism.

A person might remind us that we too have our own faults and weakenesses by saying "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones".

Check that.