Almost A Month!

Company gone, wedding shower done, recovery from it all progressing!  Scheduled to go back to the gym tomorrow and Saturday.  New class on food journaling scheduled for then too!  I still need to share about the last class on setting goals.  Need to share my news which is good I think.  I'm so behind but I will write more today.  It will be lengthy.  First I have to have breakfast and head to the Dr for a urine test.  Blech!

Crazy Life!!!

I'm here!  Life has been nuts!  Suppose to go out of town and had to cancel.  Have company coming on Thursday and trying to get ready.  Tabitha has been sick and my friend Karen just got in town from Norway!  Hang in there for me!  Took a big step today!  Did not get to gym at all this week!  It has really been nuts!  I'll post asap!  I may have a window tomorrow.  It's 2:51 a.m.  I'm going to bed!

Root Canal!

I'm so sorry but I have just been to hell and back!  Recent crown went bad and yesterday I had a emergency root canal!  I will post tomorrow.  Thanks for understanding!

First Workout!

Running late today!  Another crazy day, exterminator late, wanted to go to the gym a hour earlier as I knew I wouldn't have to workout alone but that didn't work.  Had problems with the battery on my phone and had to spend time with T-Mobile working that out.  Worked out (more later), talked to gym manager, rushed home had 10 minute to get out of gym clothes into street clothes rush to lung Dr., met Mark for lunch rushed home tired.  Rested a little, paid bills, fed cats, took a shower finally

and flat ironed my frizzy, curly hair and we went out to eat.  Visited with Tabitha, finished watch Extreme Makeover and now I'm sitting here writing because I wasn't going to get any further behind and I wanted to tell you about my first workout at the gym.

Good news...I don't have to go back to see the lung Dr. till March 3, 2015!!!!!!  YEA!!!!!

Now to that first day...

I got up feeling very hesitant about going.  After all the bathroom accidents I have had, the severe colitis, I questioned if I was ready.  I thought getting ready for the gym would be a easy thing.  Hey, I use to do Zumba, went to 24 Hour Fitness so I knew the routine of getting gym clothes on until it came time...

To Put On The Shoes!!!!!

Well, let me tell you!  I got out my Asics running shoes, had my socks on and I stepped in and guess what happened?  The whole back rolled in under my foot.  I managed to twist and turn my foot to get it out, found a shoe horn tried again and I couldn't get my foot to budge a inch to get into that shoe.  I was shocked!  I'm only 20 lbs heavier than the last time I wore those shoes.  I tried the other shoe and this foot is my bad ankle.  It hurt.  I had a few bad words to say.  I threw them back into the closet and grabbed my Nike Musique shoes I used for Zumba.  They didn't have the high ridge on the heel and they are more like a tennis shoe with support.  I went and sat sideways on the bed and I pull and shoved and managed to get both shoes on.  By this time I was running really late!  I grabbed my towel, packed my cooler with a couple of water bottles and headed out the door crying from the pain coming from my feet, plus the bewilderment that my shoes did not fit!  How could 20 lbs make such a difference?  Once I got into the car, I called Mark and I got no answer.  I tried him a few times on my way to the gyms as I was crying my eyes out and driving like a bat out of hell trying to get there on time.  I ended up calling a old high school friend of mine Teresa and through tears told her what had happened and how I felt like a failure and how I wanted to just turn the car around and forget it and go home and just wait to die!  She said the sweetest, most supportive things to me plus reminded me how much I had been waiting for this day.  I knew she was right but I just felt so awful and low!!!!  We hung up and I called Mark and this time I got him and I lost it again and he talked to me the rest of the way to the gym encouraging me not to turn around and go home but to go.  He told me that we would get some shoes that would fit.  I can't even put into words the pain that I felt as I drove towards the gym.

Once there, I dried my eyes, grabbed my towel, purse and a water bottle and walked into the gym. Patti, one of the trainers greeting me and told me to come into the office to talk to her and Justin while we waited for 2 more people to show up.  Once I walked into the office, she asked me how my day was and I busted into tears.  My feet were killing me, I still felt like a failure and I still questioned why I was even there.  I wondered if there was any hope for me.  I admitted this to them and they assured me that it would get better and I was not a failure and I would be able to get my healthy back.

I was angry for gaining all this weight back.  I was angry for asking Mike to coach me and allowing him to control me to the point of messing me up so bad.  I truly think that when he was missing around with my points, taking them away from me, not letting me eat my activity points, constantly telling me I was lying about what I was eating, etc.  I truly believe he missed up my metabolism and the more the weight came back on from following exactly what he said I finally cratered, quit WW and headed on the journey I have been on to find out how to fix me.  Don't get me wrong.  I do take responsibility for some of the weight I put back on but not all of it!!!  I could write a book about it all!  I'm sure that is why it is so hard for me to even be friends with him!  Let's move on...enough about him.  He's not a part of this any more!!!!  Thank You Lord!

Two other ladies showed up and Patti introduced us to each other and we began our workout.  The first thing she had us do was to walk 2 laps around the gym.  24 laps equals a mile.  We worked out, we danced, we worked out some more, we walked some more.  We actually walked 6 laps around the gym which is 1/4 of a mile!!!!  With everything else we did, I would say that was a excellent workout wouldn't you?

At the end of our workout I knew that I couldn't not drive home with the shoes on.  I asked them if they would help me get the shoes off.  They couldn't believe how tight the shoes were and they had to tug them off my feet!  I drove home in my socks!

Once home I was so stiff and sore I barely could get out of my car and make it into the house to get undressed and to rest.  Luckily I didn't have anywhere else to go.  As the day wore on, I just kept getting more stiff and sore.  It was horrible!  I have to admit it was good too!  It felt good to feel my body respond to activity after spending the last 3 years sitting and doing nothing!!!!!  By the evening I could hardly get myself up and it hurt to take a drink of water or Diet Coke!  But I was going back!

Because of the shoe situation, I cancelled the classes that I reserved for Thursday and Friday.  I left the first Nutrition class for Saturday alone.  I knew that I could make it.  I knew I needed Mark's help to get me some new shoes!  I have the hardest time reaching my feet!

Tomorrow I will tell you about the class!!!  It was AMAZING!!!!!!

Let The New Journey Begin...

Finally!  I decided to keep the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and in fact I think it is pretty cool once I got Geek Squad to get things working the way I wanted them to with Google Chrome etc.  It was expensive but it is really cool!  One good thing is I tend to burn up keyboards and with this this thing if I do I just go and buy a new one.  Change the color too!  Right now I have purple!  LOL!

I'm doing a lot better with the Colitus and I saw the Dr. last Friday and he doubled one of the medicines and boy howdy did it ever make a difference!

Now on to the gym...There is so much to share and I know I can't do it all today so here we go at the beginning!

I went in for my first body assessment on August 22.  It was so nice to see the gym totally finished and up and running.  It really did excite me and I by the time I left I knew that I had made the right decision in joining.  It is an obese person's dream come true!  Trust me!   I wish that they had a Downsize Fitness on every street corner in America as it is so needed.  I hope soon there will be.

I met Justin the manager for the first time and when he pulled my file it had "Woo Hoo!" written in bright letters across the front of it.  Come to find out I was the first person in Houston to join.  For a minute I thought I was going to be known as the Woo Hoo Girl!  LOL!

Here is my gross assessment!  I had to fight tears but Justin assured me this is as bad as it gets:

Weight:  391.6 lbs (Gross!)

BMI:  61.3

Body Fat %:  55.7%  (OMG! Gross!)

Body Fat Range:  Obese

Fat Free Mass:  173.4 lbs

Visceral Fat Rating:  26 (Don't ask me what this means!  I need to find out!)

Body Water Percent: 33.5%

Body Water Mass:  131.2 lb (Now that is some major fluid!)

Muscle Mass:  164.8 (Justin says that is good.)

Bone Mass: 8.6 lb (Justin said that was good that usually a person my size it is around 6)

Basal Metabolic Rate: 2590 kcal

Metabolic Age:  73 years (I just want to cry when I think about this!!!!!)

Daily Calorie Intake: 4040 kcal (This is what it takes to maintain 391.6 lbs)

Impedence:  282 (pie symbol)  (I don't know what this means!)

My Target:

Ideal Body Weight: 140.4 lb (More on this later)

Degree of Obesity:  178.9%

The rest of the page just shows the above information in charts.  Half the page is blank because it is the first one.  I get this done twice a month with the membership that I signed up for.  I will have to ask when my next one will be.  It may be a month because I have had the dickens getting in there to work out with this Colitus!

So...Here is the beginning!  Tomorrow I will share about my first workout and my first Nutrition class!

How am I doing with my eating?  I have been all over the place.  Not sure what to do.  I'm still watching carbs and sugar but I'm anxious to see what Downsize has to say.  They really have their stuff together!

See you tomorrow!  Off to the gym!