We had an extra long weekend at the lake. I started getting cluster headaches Sunday and have been dealing with them since. Was in bed dead asleep early last night and had a hard time moving today, but I am struggling through the work day. We are off to look at 7 houses (or so tonight) I am looking forward to my bed. More to come soon, I will hopefully be back tomorrow.
One would think after getting migraines for years on end that a little cluster headache wouldn't bother me, I think these are worse!
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Working Out
I started Physical Therapy this week for my shoulder, ow. . . I knew that it was going to be tough, but boy is it painful. Today is my second day, and it has been two days since my last appointment. I really felt it this morning. In my day to day job, I am all about setting expectations, with my client, with my project team and with my manager. I set expectations, and then when issues come up and things shift, I re-set expectations based on the deliverable. When I met with my surgeon a couple of months ago, he was very frank with me, another 4 to 6 months before I wasn't feeling pain and another 6 to 8 months beyond that before I have full mobility back. I am not a very patient person, it is just something I am not very good at. I know this, and I try to work on it, but it is just one of those things.
Anything physical is nearly impossible, no tennis, no yoga, but now that the weather is getting nicer, I can go for my walks which I enjoy. I am going to give the Wii a try at some point and see how that goes, but my biggest problem? Time. I don't know where people squeeze in the time or make the time to work out. I don't think I could get up any earlier if I tried. The alarm goes off at 5:30 am, snooze once, the boy in the shower, me right after. He is out the door by 6:25, me fifteen minutes later. Most evenings I get home, drop my bags in the house and then we head out again or I go straight from work to JLM or we have a project going on. I know that I could probably sacrifice movies or get togethers with friends to work out, but that is hard too. The boy is done with work at 3:45 and usually gets a workout in then, he goes to the gym. I usually do not get done with my day until 5:00 at least, so it is a little different.
If I do get home, and we don't have anything going on, then it is up to me to make dinner, the boy doesn't cook and I would rather make dinner than ordering in. I know there has to be time in here somewhere. And I listen to Jillian Michaels and Bob on The Biggest Loser and they say you need to make it a priority, but ugh, it is so hard! After being so sedentary the past few months I really need to do something. . . .
Where do you find the time to workout?
Anything physical is nearly impossible, no tennis, no yoga, but now that the weather is getting nicer, I can go for my walks which I enjoy. I am going to give the Wii a try at some point and see how that goes, but my biggest problem? Time. I don't know where people squeeze in the time or make the time to work out. I don't think I could get up any earlier if I tried. The alarm goes off at 5:30 am, snooze once, the boy in the shower, me right after. He is out the door by 6:25, me fifteen minutes later. Most evenings I get home, drop my bags in the house and then we head out again or I go straight from work to JLM or we have a project going on. I know that I could probably sacrifice movies or get togethers with friends to work out, but that is hard too. The boy is done with work at 3:45 and usually gets a workout in then, he goes to the gym. I usually do not get done with my day until 5:00 at least, so it is a little different.
If I do get home, and we don't have anything going on, then it is up to me to make dinner, the boy doesn't cook and I would rather make dinner than ordering in. I know there has to be time in here somewhere. And I listen to Jillian Michaels and Bob on The Biggest Loser and they say you need to make it a priority, but ugh, it is so hard! After being so sedentary the past few months I really need to do something. . . .
Where do you find the time to workout?
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Pluses and Minuses
The past couple of months have been interesting to say the least. But along with interesting, things in my life have added to my stress levels. This in turn has caused me to drop a significant amount of weight without really noticing. Not this couldn'tbe a good thing, yes, right before the holiday's shedding a few extra pounds, not a bad thing. But this is also a bad thing. My clothes have started to hang, buckle and gap in places where they normally used to fit.
The weight coming off, while I am sure maybe was slower than I am realizing at the moment, has come off none the less and it is enough to the point where I have probably dropped two sizes. Unfortunately my clothes have not kept up with this loss and the items that I purchased for my Fall/Winter wardrobe are the size I have been wearing for the last three years or so. I used to be pretty tiny until I got sick, while I was sick I maintained this size for the most part, but I had to give up my regular exercising and my tennis while I was sick and then the drugs they put me on made me gain weight and rapidly and over the past three years while I have been comfortable with my weight, it just sort of maintained itself and was harder to lose. Now I don't know what has happened but every morning when I go to get ready for work, I have a hard time finding anything to put on. I am not about to go out and buy all new clothes, I like what I have in my closet. I think it is safer to wait to have everything altered, I need to wait to find out my results yet (**which are one day late at the moment and I am very aware of this as is my doctors office seeing as I have been calling them about twice a day now**). I suppose struggling through the next couple of weeks is not a bad thing. I know that my yoga pants and things like that still fit, but I can't wear those things to work. My jeans, pants and skirts are all kind of hanging funny and even with a belt I feel like I am constantly hiking my jeans up. I will never be model thin, I am just not built for it, at 5'1" I have always been considered "petite" and anyone who thinks that word is a compliment should go shopping with me for "cool" jeans sometime. Guess what, they don't make them. Although there was a cool link on PC a while back. I may have to go and hunt that down. In the mean time I guess I will wait before buying anything new to see where my weight stabilizes once again. You would think at my age these things would stop.
I am excited for my holiday cards to arrive this week, and cannot wait to get them addressed, I am sure moving this weekend will get in the way of that but I am hoping to have them out by next week or so. Had a fabulous dinner with the boy last night, I made two nice dinners for us in a row and he said that both dishes were his two favorite things that I have made for him. Go figure, chicken soup and pasta (tortellini) with chicken sausage, green pepper and tomatoes, both recipes from the Kraft Foods web site. He, has very simple taste where I like to try new things and like more eclectic foods. We had a really nice evening though, but I still have to get him to stop gulping his wine. I like the fact that he is trying by having a glass of wine with me at dinner. But he took one drink after we sat down, made a face and pushed the glass towards me a bit. This was not a great wine, don't get me wrong, Monkey Bay, Sauvingon Blanc, but still. So after I finished mine, I would have drank the rest of his while watching Prison Break, but as we were cleaning up, he picks up his glass and just slams the rest. Oh help. I have wine club tomorrow night and we are doing a wine dinner. The boy is coming with me for the first time, someone help me! Although I did start the wine club so that people who did not know a ton about wine would have the opportunity to learn and discover more about wine through others. There is one individual who did tell me up front though, please do not judge me because I only drink White Zin. . . .more on that Thursday! Hope everyone is well and has a great Tuesday!
**I finally made the switch over to the new blogger beta last night. Not sure what I think yet, but I did notice I lost all of my links that I will have to re-do. I guess I must not have learned to save first and then copy and change. . .**
The weight coming off, while I am sure maybe was slower than I am realizing at the moment, has come off none the less and it is enough to the point where I have probably dropped two sizes. Unfortunately my clothes have not kept up with this loss and the items that I purchased for my Fall/Winter wardrobe are the size I have been wearing for the last three years or so. I used to be pretty tiny until I got sick, while I was sick I maintained this size for the most part, but I had to give up my regular exercising and my tennis while I was sick and then the drugs they put me on made me gain weight and rapidly and over the past three years while I have been comfortable with my weight, it just sort of maintained itself and was harder to lose. Now I don't know what has happened but every morning when I go to get ready for work, I have a hard time finding anything to put on. I am not about to go out and buy all new clothes, I like what I have in my closet. I think it is safer to wait to have everything altered, I need to wait to find out my results yet (**which are one day late at the moment and I am very aware of this as is my doctors office seeing as I have been calling them about twice a day now**). I suppose struggling through the next couple of weeks is not a bad thing. I know that my yoga pants and things like that still fit, but I can't wear those things to work. My jeans, pants and skirts are all kind of hanging funny and even with a belt I feel like I am constantly hiking my jeans up. I will never be model thin, I am just not built for it, at 5'1" I have always been considered "petite" and anyone who thinks that word is a compliment should go shopping with me for "cool" jeans sometime. Guess what, they don't make them. Although there was a cool link on PC a while back. I may have to go and hunt that down. In the mean time I guess I will wait before buying anything new to see where my weight stabilizes once again. You would think at my age these things would stop.
I am excited for my holiday cards to arrive this week, and cannot wait to get them addressed, I am sure moving this weekend will get in the way of that but I am hoping to have them out by next week or so. Had a fabulous dinner with the boy last night, I made two nice dinners for us in a row and he said that both dishes were his two favorite things that I have made for him. Go figure, chicken soup and pasta (tortellini) with chicken sausage, green pepper and tomatoes, both recipes from the Kraft Foods web site. He, has very simple taste where I like to try new things and like more eclectic foods. We had a really nice evening though, but I still have to get him to stop gulping his wine. I like the fact that he is trying by having a glass of wine with me at dinner. But he took one drink after we sat down, made a face and pushed the glass towards me a bit. This was not a great wine, don't get me wrong, Monkey Bay, Sauvingon Blanc, but still. So after I finished mine, I would have drank the rest of his while watching Prison Break, but as we were cleaning up, he picks up his glass and just slams the rest. Oh help. I have wine club tomorrow night and we are doing a wine dinner. The boy is coming with me for the first time, someone help me! Although I did start the wine club so that people who did not know a ton about wine would have the opportunity to learn and discover more about wine through others. There is one individual who did tell me up front though, please do not judge me because I only drink White Zin. . . .more on that Thursday! Hope everyone is well and has a great Tuesday!
**I finally made the switch over to the new blogger beta last night. Not sure what I think yet, but I did notice I lost all of my links that I will have to re-do. I guess I must not have learned to save first and then copy and change. . .**
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