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365 Day Photo Challenge 324/365 “Day 19”

19 Thursday Nov 2015

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Today’s workout consisted of another 4 miles on the treadmill.  I am beginning to be plagued with foot pain in my right foot.  I’m not sure if it’s diabetic related or if I’ve actually done something to it. I’m going to double up on my neuropathy meds tonight and see if that helps.  Otherwise I may have to take a couple of days off the treadmill.

The scale god smiled on me this morning with a 1.2 pound loss. I’m hoping that this will continue over the next few days before the next plateau happens.

Tomorrow is Friday and I’m so looking forward to the weekend.  We are going to Tuscaloosa to see my son and to go to the Alabama game.  I’m hoping to get some good pictures of the band and even some pictures of the game.

“Life Goes On!”

 

365 Day Photo Challenge 323/365 “Day 18”

19 Thursday Nov 2015

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Today marks the eleventh consecutive day that I’ve been working out on the treadmill.  Out of the past eighteen days I’ve worked out sixteen days and I have lost a total of eight pounds as of today.  When I first started I did an average of 2.5 miles a day.  I have worked up to an average of 3 miles a day.  Tonight I walked 3.4 mph for 4 miles and when I got off and headed toward the shower my clothes felt like I had jumped into a pool.

I guess I’m at a plateau because I haven’t lost anything substantial since Sunday, in fact I’ve gained nearly 2.5 pounds back. I haven’t changed my diet and I’ve certainly haven’t changed my treadmill habits.  I’m going to keep up the fight and win this weight loss battle eventually.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 322/365 “Day 17”

17 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Have you ever have one of those days where you just wanted to go back to bed and crawl under the covers and hide from the world hoping that no one would find you?  Today was one of those days for me.

It started when I got on the scales this morning.  Another 2 pounds gained.  It’s tough seeing weight that you’ve already lost appear back on the scale.  Where’s the encouragement to keep going if all you do is see is weight added back to the scale even making sure that you’ve stuck to your exercise program and your diet.  Oh well, I’m going to keep going.  Don’t really have a choice but to keep going.

What really made me want to hide from the world was the phone call I got from my oncologist this morning.  If you’ve been following this blog long you will remember that I’ve got CML, a form of Leukemia.  When I was first diagnosed my blood levels were at 133%.  Six months ago at my last appointment my blood levels were down to .05%.  A very good report indeed.  Not today however, my levels went up to .65%.  I go back to my oncologist in two weeks for more blood work then after that blood work comes back the doctor will make his decision as to what my next step will be.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 319/365 “Day 14”

14 Saturday Nov 2015

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This is day 14 of my month long weight loss/exercise program.  This is my sixth consecutive day on my treadmill. I’ve started walking on my treadmill on November 1st and I have missed two days due to my feet hurting.  As of this morning I’m ten ounces from my first mini goal.  I walk on my treadmill doing anywhere between 3.2 and 3.4 mph.  I do not run, never been able to run much.  I’ve got a brother and sister that runs all the time but I’ve never been able to get my breathing right.  I always end up on my knees looking for quarters as my high school coach used to say.

I use an app on my IPhone called Mynetdiary.  It helps me to log not only my food on a daily basis but my blood glucose levels too. When I’m losing weight I like to look at the charts to check on my progress, not so much when I’m not losing weight.  I also use an app called Mapmyride.  I use this app to keep track of my bike riding as well as my exercise.  It too has a chart as well as a calendar to keep your daily log.

I weigh in every morning just as I’m stepping in the shower.  This morning I weighed in at 285.8 and on March of this year I weighed in at 305.  Most of the weight lost has been since November 1st.  There hasn’t been any dietary supplements, no shakes or diet pills.  Just daily exercise and watching what I eat.  That’s it.  If tomorrow or even the next day when I reach my goal, my next goal will be 275 pounds.

I know most of the weight that I’ve lost thus far is probably water weight.  That’s the reason that it’s coming off so quickly.  It is for this reason I’ll give myself eight weeks to lose the next ten pounds.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 313/365 “Day 8”

08 Sunday Nov 2015

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This morning, as usual on most Sunday mornings, I got up and cooked breakfast for my kids.  It’s a tradition that my mom did for us as kids and I want to keep that tradition going. This morning it just so happens that I cooked bacon and eggs. My wife cooks 99.9% of the time during the week and I try to cook at least one meal during the weekends.

After breakfast I cleaned up the kitchen, changed into my workout clothes and got on the treadmill for nearly an hour.  I did 2.75 miles at an average of 3.2 mph.  I have nothing planned this week so maybe I can keep this trend up.  Being that the time has changed it’s now too dark to do anything outside once I get home to do anything else.  Might as well get on the treadmill instead of just sitting in my recliner watching television.

365 Day Photo Challenge 309/365 “Day 4”

04 Wednesday Nov 2015

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Today was a wild ride.  I had to make a trip to Montgomery today to work on an AC unit that had frozen up.  I was instructed to work on several other items while I waited for the unit to thaw out.  I wished it was as simple as that.

Going out of town takes me out of my comfort zone as far as my dieting goes.  Normally I can do better if I stay within a routine but with me going out of town it threw my routine out the window.  For breakfast I normally have a bowl of cereal with fat free milk.  Today we stopped at Chick Fil A.  I ordered a number 4 which was a spicy chicken biscuit with hash rounds and a medium coke.  I wished I had done better.  For lunch I normally fix a salad at the salad bar in our dining center.  Today we went to Baumhowers.  I had one pound of of hot chicken wings with french fries.  I wished now I had done better.  It wasn’t until I got home when I got back on track.  I had a baked pork chop with mac and cheese.  As you can see and has been noted earlier that my willpower is no good.  The silver lining to this is I did get back on track and didn’t continue to spiral downhill.  Another plus for me is that I didn’t have any sweets and I did get to get on my treadmill tonight and I did 2.25 miles at 3.2 mph.

One thing I have learned over the years of “dieting” is never to give up.  You may have bad days occasionally but don’t let it continue.  In the past I have made the statement after a meal that I have just botched that I might as well continue and start back on my “diet” again tomorrow.  The beauty of this is that you don’t have to wait until the next day, you can get back on track your very next meal.  Another fault that I have is that sometimes I think that it’s ok to eat whatever I want to eat as long as I do some exercise later that evening.  I know it’s wrong to think that and I’ve got to stop letting that thought enter my head.

There are other things I’ve learned over the years when it comes to my diabetes but I’ll save that for another story.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 308/365 “Day 3”

03 Tuesday Nov 2015

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I got into an argument today with one of my cousins about the best way to lose weight.  At first it was a discussion and then it turned a little heated.

She is several years younger than I am and she is obese just as I am.  At one time she had gotten up to around 350 lbs. I nearly got there at 345 lbs.   She tried losing weight by taking pills, drinking shakes and these weird diets and she lost weight but she quickly gained it all back once she quit her diet.  About two years ago she had Gastric Bypass Surgery and for a while afterwards she did great.  So much so that I was even thinking about having it done.  I’ve known four people that have had the surgery.  Out of those four, one has kept the weight off.  The other three has gained all the weight back plus an extra twenty or thirty pounds.  My point is this.  Losing weight is not a diet, it’s a lifestyle change.  My cousin has yet to understand this.  She’s gained not all but a lot of her weight back only because she does not exercise, she does not eat right; she’s convinced that all she needs to eat are weight loss shakes.

I am in no way a diet expert but I have been doing it long enough to know what will for my body.  I have found that if I don’t eat right ALL THE TIME and exercise ALL THE TiME I will gain all the weight back that I had previously lost.  The fact is that you have to find a “lifestyle” that is right for you.  It just so happens that shakes and diet pills do not work for me.

My cousin is back on these diet shakes which I think is only a money making scheme.  Sort of like those pyramids that were popular back a few years ago.  She’s got my brother hooked and is trying to get me hooked but I refuse to listen to her sales pitch in which this is where this whole argument got started.

I know I can loose the weight by doing exactly what I’m doing now.  By eating right and exercising on a regular basis I had lost down to 265 two years ago.  But, like I said, once I quit eating right and exercising I gained a lot of the weight back.  This morning I weighed in at 294, down six pounds from last week, so I know I can do this.  Just a little will power and a little help from the good Lord.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 307/365 “Day Two”

02 Monday Nov 2015

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Day two consisted of two miles at 3.2 mph and about 40 minutes on the treadmill.  That was this morning and I had every intention of doing it again when I returned home but I had other things that needed to get done.  What I’d like to do is get up around 4:30 in the morning and do about an hour before I have to start getting ready for work but I like to stay up too late to be able to get up that early.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 306/365 “Day 1?

01 Sunday Nov 2015

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Today is the first day of thirty days of a treadmill exercise program.  This evening I just did a little over thirty minutes and 1.56 miles.  I know it’s not much but each day I will try to increase both the time and the milage.  Two years ago I had gotten up to an hour and a half and up to a little over five miles before I got burnt out and quit.  Maybe I can work up to that again before the month is over with.

The above picture is of the chicken pot pie that I made yesterday. It went over very well and was loved by everyone that had some.  I’ll post some pictures tomorrow of some of the mayhem that went on during the trick or treating.  It was crazy.

Other than doing the treadmill this evening I haven’t done much of anything but edit a few pictures and watch some football with my son before he had to leave for college. Tomorrow I continue with my hellish job at least for another 34 more months.  I can only hope and pray that it gets better.

“Life Goes On”

365 Day Photo Challenge 176/365 “Do it Now!”

24 Wednesday Jun 2015

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Pay attention to your health NOW! Don’t wait until you get to be an adult, don’t wait until after you’re out of shape and don’t wait until you’re so big you can’t do anything about it. Do something now, even if it’s just 30 minutes a day, do something to get your heart rate up and burn some calories.

In the last two years, I have had eye surgery, 25 doctor appointments and 6 days off from work mostly due to my diabetes. I have hardly any vacation built up and my sick time is non existent. The diagnosis of my CML hasn’t helped matters none but there’s nothing I could’ve done to prevent this cancer but the diabetes is another story.

I’m not telling you this to gain sympathy or to draw attention to myself. I’m doing this so that you won’t have to go through what I’m going through. I want you to be my friend for a long time.

Trust me when I say that it is MUCH HARDER to lose weight as an adult than it is while you are younger. I’ll be 52 in a couple of months and I honestly think I”ll never get to where I want to be because my metabolism just doesn’t function like it used to. Either that or I still eat more calories than I burn. I do exercise more and I feel that it’s still not enough. I love to ride my bike for hours at a time but it takes too much time away from my family.

My son will graduate college in the first week of December.of this year. I have a goal that I want to get down to and it’s going to be really hard for me to get there. It’s not an unrealistic goal but it’s just going to be a challenge to get there.

Again, pay attention to your health now. No one knows better than you if you need to do something or not. I know I need to work on my weight and I’m trying to do better.

There’s no need respond or reply unless you just feel the need too. If you know someone who is having health issues due to diabetes and you know they’re having difficulties with their dieting, say a word of encouragement. A little encouragement goes a long way.

Thanks for reading this and thanks for being there for me.