Monthly Archives: June 2018

by Nelia

20 days in

Still at it.  Staying with the program most of the time.  I did have a small chocolate lapse and I did eat a cookie which wasn’t all that good, fortunately.

I have no idea if I have lost any weight since I can’t step on the scale.

I keep telling myself that weight loss is not the primary goal; health is, but, of course, I do want to lose weight.  I don’t need to lose all my excess weight.  I know from past diets that I will feel better if I lose 50 pounds.  This time I want to lose 100 pounds.  I will still be fat even with a 100 pound loss, but I think I could manage so much better and that is enough.

I doubt if losing 100 pounds would make much difference in my ability to walk.  I can’t even straighten my left knee any more.  If I can’t straighten it after my weight loss, I can’t walk on it.  I am taking some joint supplements and maybe that and eating better will make that much of a difference.  Who knows.  My chiropractor thinks it is inflammation and when we get rid of the inflammation it will be ok, but I have a feeling it is bone damage due to arthritis and I don’t think that will go away so easily.  But if it is still this bad, I can, at that weight, have the knee replacement surgery.  It would be so nice not to have to, but I am resolved that if I still need it, I will do it.

There is a therapy pool here.  If I could get into it and, more importantly, out of it, I would join, or at least want to join.  But they don’t have a lift to get me in and out and there is no way I could take the stairs.  Maybe one day I can.  I think a pool would do me a lot of good, though the chlorine won’t.  That is the big drawback to pools – breathing and soaking in chlorine.

Ramona had me doing some upper body exercises…  very mild ones I am sure.  With nobody here to make me, I haven’t done any more.  I am so out of shape, I should.  I don’t think it would help me lose weight.  It might help speed up my metabolism a little, but the thing it would do for sure is make me stronger.

 

I am kind-of down this morning.  Does it show?  Still….  20 days in.  In another 10 days it will be a month.  That is a good thing.

by Nelia

back on

I fell off the wagon (again), but I am back on.  I started with Carrie on June 1 so it has been 10 days.  So far I am doing OK…  not fantastic, but OK.  The one day I ate too many blueberries, I got back on track the next day.

Ramona is encouraging me to exercise.  I need to, I know.  Even in a chair you can do upper body exercises and I could do thigh lifts, just not much to do with my knees…  though I guess a daily plan for moving my knees would be a good thing.  I can’t straighten my left knee any more and I know if I had kept moving it, even without weight bearing, I would probably still have full range of motion.

One of the things I have run across in youtube videos is the claim that you can actually turn arthritis around with your diet.  The main thing is no sugar or any empty carbs which I am doing.  I keep thinking I should start taking the Shaklee joint support pills again.  They have helped me in the past so I know they would do me good.  There are a lot of supplements I should be taking and hope to do so soon.  It’s going to take determination and right now I am concentrating on staying on my eating plan.