I learned recently that my cousin has just been diagnosed with Stage 4 Liver Cancer. She's about 20 years older than me. Considering my son just turned 18, I can say that 20 years flies right by. The doctor said that she had fatty liver, and that it probably contributed to the cancer. It's hereditary, and her mother also had fatty liver, and I was also diagnosed with it a few years back.
So as I sit here with pain in my liver and my fourth day of diarrhea, I truly have a new outlook on weight loss and a REASON to lose weight. I was losing so well, and then after Dad died, I just didn't care. I self-pitied for months, and I've been trying to get back on track for weeks now. I just don't seem to have a lot of get-up-and-go. I guess a little bit of it is depression, grief... With some stress added in, considering I lost one business last year (and even worse, lost my business partner/sister in the process), and have spent this past one working so hard to get another business off the ground and stable....plus my son graduated and is now a college student! Yes, the baby is in college! It's all just a little overwhelming and my brain is all over the map. I really, really need to regroup my thoughts, and get my health in order. Top of the list is weight loss, lower fat, a good supplement regimen for a healthy liver, and exercise. I'm 43 and would like to live another 40-50-60 years!
Back to the liver pain I mentioned above - I don't automatically think that because I have liver pain that I have cancer. It's just a health reminder being sent to me ... maybe by Dad!?
Oh, I lost a pound last week.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Ok so I forgot about the blog
It's ok - nobody reads this anyway! Just a journal with slightly more motivation to continue it in case of the possibility of somebody reading it. Long story short, I quit going to Weight Watchers because I couldn't afford the meetings, and I was losing .2 pounds a week. So I was counting calories but I will confess that I've been eyeballing it lately, and have been eating the 'same meals' over and over a lot which made it seem like the easiest thing to do... and I have nothing to show for it. So yes, measuring every single bite out DOES make a difference. And so does exercise. I've got to quit nursing my tailbone injury and get back on the stick!
Ah yeah exercise news - we have a spare room in the basement that was just emptied out and is ready for me to make beautiful exercise in it! It's small - so I don't know if I'll move the elliptical in it or not. The elliptical is in the grungy side of the basement. Right between a cinder block wall and a water heater, and directly under saggy air conditioning vents. Nice and dungeon-y. But if I move it in to the shiny new exercise room, I might not have room to Zumba and Walk Away The Carpet. So I guess for now, it stays where it is.
I am down a couple of pounds since my last entry - but should be down about 10 pounds!
Lets see, what will I do to make that better. I need to clean out the fridge and make a salad bar in all my pyrex containers. That will make it more convenient. I also need to make some delicious yogurt baja sauce for fish tacos - fish tacos are light, and the baja sauce is great! And delicious on salads, and lower calorie than salad dressing. And I need to find a lower calorie replacement for dried cranberries. Oooh I love something chewy on a salad. No clue how to fix that one!
Next, I need to make more soup. The only thing nice about the end of summer is soup season!
And last, I need to go through cookbooks and get rid of what I'm seriously never going to eat from again, and put post it notes on good, low calorie recipes that I might eat from. And on a cold, rainy day, that sounds like fun!
Ah yeah exercise news - we have a spare room in the basement that was just emptied out and is ready for me to make beautiful exercise in it! It's small - so I don't know if I'll move the elliptical in it or not. The elliptical is in the grungy side of the basement. Right between a cinder block wall and a water heater, and directly under saggy air conditioning vents. Nice and dungeon-y. But if I move it in to the shiny new exercise room, I might not have room to Zumba and Walk Away The Carpet. So I guess for now, it stays where it is.
I am down a couple of pounds since my last entry - but should be down about 10 pounds!
Lets see, what will I do to make that better. I need to clean out the fridge and make a salad bar in all my pyrex containers. That will make it more convenient. I also need to make some delicious yogurt baja sauce for fish tacos - fish tacos are light, and the baja sauce is great! And delicious on salads, and lower calorie than salad dressing. And I need to find a lower calorie replacement for dried cranberries. Oooh I love something chewy on a salad. No clue how to fix that one!
Next, I need to make more soup. The only thing nice about the end of summer is soup season!
And last, I need to go through cookbooks and get rid of what I'm seriously never going to eat from again, and put post it notes on good, low calorie recipes that I might eat from. And on a cold, rainy day, that sounds like fun!
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