Friday, November 16, 2012

Working, working, working...

Week 23 of maintenance

120.6 at meeting, with jacket on, phone in one pocket, keys in the other
118.2 at home before leaving and putting jacket on...drank water on the way
113.8 - clean weight...one more pound and I can be out of the "teens"  = )

What a week...Betsy is still not settled down completely. When I got the diagnosis of IC, I ordered 3 books for information. The first 2 came pretty quickly and I've been working my way through them. Lots of good medical info but I haven't gotten to the practical, day to day, "get me out of pain!!" info.

The third book came yesterday...THIS is the practical one! So now I've started on the super-restrictive diet...less than 10 things on the list to eat from. You're supposed to see improvement in 3 days and stick to the diet for a week. Then I can start adding other safe foods back in.

But I just realized that I've been taking my vitamins and I need to stop taking those since there might be something in them that is an irritant. I'm also going to search out a dietitian for help if I can't get a handle on this myself in the next several weeks.

It's not like I'm in constant, severe pain but except for a half day or day here and there, I've had some measure of discomfort and/or pain...including severe... all day, every day for several weeks. It's gettin' old, let me tell ya!

So I think that's contributed to the extra weight loss, along with eliminating lots of foods...just not eating normally.

On the running front, I've not been doing much because on top of the bladder troubles, I've also had a cold, which I thought was allergies for several days because I couldn't tell for sure. I didn't have the symptoms of a normal cold...never really did...but it reached a point where I didn't have the symptoms of normal allergies either.

I've had to suck on BUNCHES of Halls because of the tickle in my throat and I've started wondering whether those might also be irritating Betsy  = (

I've still been doing longer walks (4-5+ miles) in the mornings and then Piper's normal walks (2-3 miles) in the late afternoon. Used to be evening but now it's much earlier with the time change! 

Petey's come on my longer walks and that's been AWESOME!! Just the two of us listening to music on his iPhone, enjoying the beautiful park and each other's company! We even started incorporating running bits, which felt sooooo good  = )  And tonight Piper and I did 4 miles with a walking/running 1/4 mile pattern.

In other news...I got my ActiveLink from Weight Watchers and I'm on Day 1 of my Assessment period! I'm looking forward to taking it off and plugging it into the computer here in a bit to see how many activity points I've earned...if they tell me that. They said I'll only get a wee bit of info for each day during the assessment before I start getting lots and LOTS of info after that.

I did play 2 games of ping pong with Petey before we had to leave to take him to the airport... and then the 4 mile run/walk with Piper tonight. It'll be neat to see how those 2 activities compare in intensity  = )

I hope they at least tell me how many activity points I earned because that feature isn't showing up on my eTools tracker since I linked the ActiveLink to my account. I just figured that since that will be tracking my activity, it disabled the feature where I track my own activity. Not that it really matters since I don't "eat" my activity points...I'm just curious.

Well, time to throw the frisbee for Dingo and then put the dogs to bed and then put myself to bed too! Gonna try to do a regular shorter run in the morning...looking forward to it! Gotta see how it goes since I want to do the Sugar Land Turkey Trot (5 miles) on Thanksgiving morning!