Semi-back amongst the living. Tomorrow is last day of antibiotics. Today was second day of chiropractor adjustments. I feel another tiny bit better. Yesterday was adjustment 1. I was able to setup clean bedding, cleanup after my dog, and take out trash. Today I was able to not take a muscle relaxer to get out of bed, drive there and back, clean up a little. Huge compared to where I started on saturday.
Progress as of today: 98.5 lbs lost so far, only 58.5 lbs to go!
Crashed and burned this first week of January due to a staff infection and muscle cramping. Bound my shoulder with a heat wrap so I can clean today. Chiro tomorrow.
Progress as of today: 98.5 lbs lost so far, only 58.5 lbs to go!
i hope you feel better.
muscle cramps suck too...ugh!
what happened!?
Happy New Year!!!!
I hope everyone is doing well! I look forward to catching up on everyone's logs.
I am doing a lot better. Lunesta is still working it's way out of my system, but my REM sleep is finally starting to come back together.
My plan for the new year:
Where I am at right now...
NYE I saw my guy. NYD, I gave myself the day to rest and drink Emergen-C and watch Netflix.
Tonight I stayed up till 2:30AM because our neighbors were blasting mariachi music. I finally went out there and asked them to turn it off. I was wearing ear plugs and noise cancelling headphones to stick it out till 1 am... it's New Years Day. No reason to be uptight... plus I felt too crap to go to bed till I was "done" anyway... but at 2:30am I was just over it. I'm the new year's party pooper.
Tomorrow when I wake up, I will make keto blueberry pancakes and maybe some keto brownies. I will do my 10 min neck stretch video. I might even break out that Groupon. I will rise and conquer.
Hugs all.
Progress as of today: 98.5 lbs lost so far, only 58.5 lbs to go!
I love your sleep goal. honestly, after not working for 9 months and sleeping so much, i do realize how important sleep is. i may also try to get more of it, but, i realize that living in NYC or any city...and commuting...is going to prob take a couple hours out of the time i'd rather be sleeping! ah well!!
i assume the weather in Cali is nice year-round for you to enjoy the beauties of a botanical garden year round? our gardens are open year-round...but nothing is growing for half the year when it's cold!! great place for you to live near to? i am also blessed with LOTS of parks within driving distance, thankfully!
Had a migraine day before and yesterday. Slept pretty much all yesterday. Still had it when I woke up. It's day 3... so I took benadryl. Surprisingly it helped. No adhd meds today though... can't take it with the benadryl.
Weight dropped to 222 a couple of days ago. I am sure that was wiped out by eating an entire keto cheesecake in 2 days. It was the only thing I could get down with a sore head.
Source of migraine was, of course, my dad. I was a little bit back up, so he pulled the rug out from under me. Everytime. This time it was a radical change to the caregiver hours. I am using them 6h a week to clean out the financial papers in the garage so I can do other things.. He decided to cancel them and moved it to two 3 hour shifts so he can go grocery shopping. Why? Because I have had him on a lower carb diet so his bedsores will heal and he wants ice cream, potato salad, and rolls. It'll be back to moaning, groaning and running around the house without pants in a couple of days.
Out. I need out.
One step at a time. Goal for this week is to just get out for a walk every day and stick to low carb diet.
Progress as of today: 93.8 lbs lost so far, only 63.2 lbs to go!
on another note, you are doing REALLY well and getting very close to the 100's!!!!!!!!! wooohoooo! "ONEDERLAND"
Haven't logged in a couple of weeks. Detoxing off the Lunesta got hairy and I had terrible migraines with blurred vision. No reading or typing for me.
Still detoxing off the Lunesta. Today is day 38. Sleep is more effective. A higher proportion of my sleep is REM, but still too short overall. The lack of yoga has really screwed me up and I am waking up with circulation cut off to my fingers. It hurts like hell. I get about 5.40 min of sleep total. I need to do the yoga to get my neck in shape and get more sleep. the major barrier to yoga is my poor old dog in her hospice fort directly over my yoga space. I can't bring myself to put her outside. It is too cold. I did book a euthanasia appointment for Monday the 23rd, but mostly so that if she suddenly gets really bad, she doesn't have to wait till after Thanksgiving weekend. If she looks alright I'll move it to before Christmas. Tonight I will set up a yoga space in the dining room and work on figuring out why our thermostat isn't working.
Keto meals on Factor75 broke my sugar/hunger cycle. I am no longer a bottomless pit of hunger, ravenously going from snack to snack. I am only hungry at meal times. I have to push myself to eat enough overall.
Nutrisense paid off big time. I dropped 5.6 lbs and got my blood sugar to dip into the green zone.
Actually getting to see the Exish. It turns out when I have had enough sleep, he isn't impossible and aggravating at all.
Progress as of today: 93.8 lbs lost so far, only 63.2 lbs to go!
I'm so happy to hear that you found success with your food approach. THAT is really good to hear.
I haven't been doing any yoga since the studio closed. This must change. I feel your pain.
So sorry that your dog is sick too and must go under :(
Congrats on your weight loss you keep getting better and better at this !!!!!!!!!
59 min REM, and I feel it. Masive migraine. PMS. Sticking to low carb anyway. Keto cheesecake has the most bizarre effect of turning off hunger in my brain.
Living room is still a mess. Friend from church is coming over. Hopefully I can pick up the cake and clean before then.
Learned from Nutrisense coach that Vitamin C and melatonin disrupt blood sugar.
Worth it.
Tomorrrow I will rise and be a better, stronger faster, fitter version of myself.
Progress as of today: 93.8 lbs lost so far, only 63.2 lbs to go!
i am sooo craving keto cheesecake. the fat, i'm sure, is very satisfying and is what helps to curb your hunger.
do you eat the cheesecake with a coffee?
REM sleep: 42
Progress as of today: 93.8 lbs lost so far, only 63.2 lbs to go!
I want to begin monitoring my glucose levels. What would be the best way?
Have you taken a sleep study? I'm wondering if you might have sleep apnea.
52 min REM
Broke my weight plateau of 225.9 to 225.7. May not be much but it's that first crack in the wall.
Major claim to fame: grocery run. I actually left the house.
Major frustration was dad getting a visit from the case manager from home health. I got lectured again about his blood sugar. Yes it is terrifying. Yes, I know all about diet and blood sugar. Here, let me show you my Nutrisense app. It's new. It shows me Garmin, ketomojo, and libre in one and a nutritionist reviews it. I take my health seriously. I can't do anything about it. He has to be willing to give up bread and cupcakes. Yes I know all his health issues and ailments are part of atrocious sugar. Yes I take it seriously. He agreed to log what he eats for 3 days so we can send it to a nutritionist. Then he didn't do it. When he asked me tonight about doing something for my actual birthday, I said look... I really miss mom. Last year the fight we had set us up to fight each other tooth and nail all year. I just want to keep my head down and put one foot in front of the other. I can't even think what that would even look like. But if you want to do something for my birthday, write down what you eat for 3 days so that when we do the follow up call on Thursday, You at least have something to show the doctor. I hate all the Kaiser professionals taking me to task because you won't give up Lean Cuisines and cupcakes. So do that for my birthday. I'd rather move forward and not dread anything than get an iPad or eat cake.
Then I ate 3 servings of keto pumpkin cheesecake and set up the carpets for deep scrubbing tomorrow. Wash away the aggravation.
I have done the best that I can for today. I did not sit or slack. I will give it up to God and hope he helps me weather the storm and come out the other side.
One foot in front of the other.
Progress as of today: 91.3 lbs lost so far, only 65.7 lbs to go!
And your 2nd to last sentence says it best too. Your best is enough. Dad's blood sugar is something that may very well have to be given up to God. You can't do this FOR dad.
does dad take medicine for his blood sugar?
1:25 of REM. Probably REM rebound from all the rotten nights of sleep I have had the past two weeks.
Nutrisense sensor arrived today. I needed it to use the 14 day trial of the app. After my first scan I was able to use the feature that hooked me... a chart where if you scroll to the right or the left you can see at a specific time what your glucose is, so you can actually measure the impact of your hot mess and drama. This is a feature that is missing from Libre... and apparently you have to use the European Libre sensors and pay Nutrisense for it. Highway robbery.
https://help.nutrisense.io/en/articles/3920712-increase-the-readability-of-your-data
What does appear to be worth paying for is the ability to isolate events in relationship to your glucose. It isn't as all the way there yet as the tutorial articles make it look. You can't track activities or notes.
https://help.nutrisense.io/en/articles/3793724-1-beginning-glucose-experiments
However, I think if you also look at your calendar, Garmin charts and Cronometer at the same time, you can see what actually is messing with all your internal cycles. I'll dive into this this week. Might be interesting in terms of biohacking cortisol.
https://help.nutrisense.io/en/articles/3944059-managing-stress-biohacking-your-cortisol-response-in-three-steps
There is an awful lot in the help tutorials that isn't in the app... I'm kind of confused about how they are managing the app feature developments... Like they added walkthroughs, A BIG effort... but the experiments don't incude activities and the meal logging is super weird... I can't figure out how to log nutritional information and the database that gets searched isn't anything I recognize.
Ugh.
Did have tremendous success with the virtual coworking session. I got through all my mail and one fat task I have been procrastinating on for a year.
Progress as of today: 91.6 lbs lost so far, only 65.4 lbs to go!
Glad you caught up on the REM!
Garmin only tracked 3h of sleep and 1 min of REM, but I know I got at least 6. Time to clean the sensor.
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H&M night bras came and they are perfect. A little weird at first because they are from the "Divided" line for teenagers... the way they are cut is just a little more modern than what I am used to... but they are perfect and WAY BETTER to sleep in than stretched out sports bras.
Back on my feet yesterday. Second day up today. Whatever the cat and I caught it was awful. Spent today with the caregiver deep-cleaning rooms dad is in so he doesn't catch whatever this is. Ended up in the ER Saturday getting checked for meningitis because I told the doctor on follow up that I had a "cement in my brain" feeling for a couple of weeks and the antibiotics hadn't helped. Turned out I had had a non-stop migraine (that's what a migraine is???). The compazine and benadryl were a revelation. I had no idea it was migraines until, well, it magically went away. This is going to be $$$,$$$,$$$ when I see the bill.
Beats dying of meningitis.
Midnight. Checked calories and even though I ate about 2500 calories, I am still 2600 calories short because I burned 5600 cleaning today and I only want to be -500.
So what do I eat? I could seriously eat a whole moose right now, antlers to hooves. Possibly also a squirrel.
Any other Rocky and Bulwinkle fans?
Progress as of today: 91.6 lbs lost so far, only 65.4 lbs to go!
I've heard about migraines from people who get them frequently. They sound like torture. My husband never gets headaches but when we were in Uganda he felt ill and had blinding headaches. Another volunteer who is a doctor worried that he might have meningitis - so we drove him to his house and he checked him out. Decided it wasn't meningitis and wasn't sure what it was. He got better after a couple of days.
Very interesting on the sleep bras. I agree with Annie, but I'm very flat. However, my daughter might benefit from this.
I've never had a migraine like that, I feel for you.
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Hope you continue to feel better!
bearcountrygg on 01/10/2021:
Good for you Hap......sounds like you are doing a lot better.
Donkey on 01/10/2021:
Isn't that a wonderful feeling? I'm glad you are feeling better, and I hope you continue to heal.
Horn_of_plenty on 01/10/2021:
I speak for the whole DD community here and say that we are all very glad to hear from you, hear you are recovering, and read your entries. Sending you hugs, like you always send to us.
Jacky82020 on 01/10/2021:
Glad you’re doing well! Them thar antibiotics can kick in fast. Yay!
Maria7 on 01/10/2021:
Glad you are feeling better.
Donkey on 01/11/2021:
Horn is 110% correct! :-)
legcramps on 01/11/2021:
Have a great week :)