So I have not given up this journey to better health just seemed to give up blogging. I should be updating it more with my thoughts- whether negative or positive. So here is an update: Still haven't lost much weight but have to be losing inches as my scrubs are fitting looser. My co-worker in our satellite office has seen my for the first time in a month and even commented that I am getting smaller. That is great! It is discouraging the numbers are not going down but I can't let it get me down. One co-worker told me I am gaining muscle and I may not shred the weight off for another year. You know I am actually okay with that. I am starting to get more at peace with progress. My husband of course is making a lot more progress he too is at a stand still at actually losing weight but is gaining much muscle he can dead lift more than his weight. I don't do dead lifts currently but I know it wouldn't be much. As negative as that sounds I am still making much progress. Back when I started working out if exercises were done on the floor I had to use something to get back up on my feet I could not get up on my own. Well I can get back up. Also if I was laying on my back on a bench I couldn't lift my upper body up to stand back up. Well I am proud to announce I am getting up off the floor on my own with my own two feet. The bench is still hard but I can do it about 50% of the time that is better than 0% of the time. My balance has also gotten incredibly better. I can stand on one leg at a time and balance fairly well without holding on to anything. Still need to improve but standing on one leg without holding anything a couple of months ago was impossible. My kicks have gotten higher. I could barely kick and now I am starting to be able to kick almost to the height of my waist. I think I was way more out of shape than what I thought. It is fairly crazy.
Eating well still needs to be improved. I am not a planner but need to be in this area or we have a tendency of eating out.
My health may be on the mends of getting better still suffering a lot from IBS BUT I am having less pain as I believe I had kidney stones. I am doing much better in that area. A constant pain in my back and abdomen was quite annoying. Actually the first day without pain was a little shocking. We are going to try to do Paleo (of course we have tried to do Paleo for almost a year now) to help out my IBS of course with all cooked vegetables as I really cannot eat raw veggies. There are so many good recipes for Paleo food that why not try it? It's basically all natural no gluten and very little if any dairy. I have been hearing of people giving up gluten, even though they may not have had an intolerance, and it has made them have so much more energy.
Hopefully I will be updating more sooner than later....In fact once Chris and I plan our meals I will update that with recipes (well after we try them at least).
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