Could be worse. Considering by the end of last week I thought I was doomed to a very high weigh-in weight. So - not HORRIBLE. In fact - this weight is lower than any of my September weights last year... but not by enough. I ended last September at 210-ish - with my lowest weight at 209.2. I guess with THAT idea in mind I can approach my weight loss as starting right here. Depressing if you think I have been at it for over a year.
Here is what I will do differently. First - I will not allowe 30 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in my house. I am giving out yucky candy and little toys for Halloween. I am meeting with the endocrinologist on November 1st - so maybe something will come to light. I don't know what is wrong - which is why I am not a specialist - but I doubt that they will say it is PCOS. Other than my irregular period I don't have other symptoms. My blood sugar is normal, my testosterone is normal, I have no evidence of cysts. One symption does not make a syndrom. However, my friend Bunnie was telling me about a friend of hers who was also weight loss resistant and a specialist DID help her. So I guess we shall see in a little over a month.
I was doing the math last night and between Sarah's wedding and my 30th birthday I gained 30 pounds. That was after losing 20 pounds the year before her wedding - so you could argue that I was just making up for that loss. Then I went on Jenny Craig and lost about 10 pounds. Then by the time I started at TESSCO in 1999 I was up a total of 40 pounds since Sarah's wedding (I was 145 at Sarah's wedding - my low point). Since starting at TESSCO (seven years ago) I have gained a total of 30 ADDITIONAL pounds. This is after I went into panic mode about 3 years ago - where I started really watching what I ate. I remember this because Katie and I started carefully planning and packing our lunches using the Glucerna menu planner when I was over in TAB after the flood in October 2002 - so that was around April of 2003. So - in the past 11 years I have gained about 70 pounds. That is a whole half of a person. If I had had a baby 11 years ago it would probably weight about 70 pounds now. It is ALL of Emily's children put together. Hummmmmm. That is a scary thought.
I scheduled a meeting with my trainer to plan a work out that I can do at home. He was trying to convince me to freeze my membership (where I only have to pay 1/3 the cost) and can start up again in 1 to 3 months. I told him I couldn't afford $50 or $60 a month for me to do nothing but feel guilty for not going to the gym. I do know that if I WERE to go back to a gym it would be that one because I really like it - as gyms go - but it is still too expensive.
Last night Katie and I had spinach ravioli and acorn squash. Katie made the squash and the directions say use as much butter and sugar as your conscience allows. Katie's allows much more than mine would have. 8-) It was very yummy. I want the same thing for dinner tonight!!!
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If it's any consolation, that's just Mary and Alexander, and really a bit less than even that. I'm sure that's not much consolation, but I wish we could reassign weight gain -- Mary could use about ten pounds more!
I tracked my weight loss in terms of my kids -- I lost a Cecilia, then an Alexander, and then a Mary, only now I'm back to only having lost an Alexander, and just barely.
Your gym is too expensive -- our gym was a little less than that for Daniel and me both, and it was a nice gym. But if you're not using it then you need to find something you WILL use! And you need to find somebody to browbeat you into doing it. Katie's not doing her job -- she's the one that's there!
I don't think you're doing the math right. If you weighed 145 at my wedding, then in the past 12 years you've gained a total of 63 or 64 pounds. Which, btw, is just about exactly what Claire weighs (63.3 this weekend). So you've gained a Claire. But you still can't have her.
No - I was doing the math 215.4 (starting weight - high point) minus 145 (low point around the time of your wedding). That is 70.4. So I gained Claire AND most of Cecilia! That means I get them both!!!!!
Ah, ok, I was just going from your low point to your current point.
Surely Cecilia weighs more than seven pounds?????? I mean, she's gained at least a little bit since birth!
Cecila was nearly 9 pounds at birth! She's probably around 20 now -- so you haven't even earned half of her. (And you can't have her anyway. You should just visit her more often.) Mary is 40ish pounds, and Alexander is about 34, so you're closest to having gained the two of them.
What a silly discussion!
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