I know I missed another week, but I didn't get to go to weigh-in because I had to work. I'd initially thought about going on Monday since I knew ahead of time that I wouldn't be able to go on Tuesday, but then that silly little thing called "Hurricane Sandy" happened. I know, I know...I shouldn't let a little rain keep me from weighing in. Seriously, though, between the weather and work, it was not a great week. Even aside from not being able to weigh in, I knew that I was up a little. I didn't really have a bad food week, and I ran 4 miles AND did Just Dance with a friend for about 4 hours, but I was still showing a gain on my home scale.
Thankfully, Halloween wasn't too big of a deal for me. We don't have trick-or-treaters so I didn't have to buy loads of candy to pass out that would tempt me. I have been keeping some candy in my office for the students, but it's on the far side of my desk that is away from the computer so I don't see it regularly and it's not that tempting. I will admit that on occasion I will grab a few Reece's Pieces from it, but I have found that I simply can't eat that many sweets anymore. I eat a couple and I'm good - I eat more than a couple and they just don't taste good anymore.
I really only had two big challenges this week. 1. A campus retreat where I had little control over what I ate and 2. my hips went out of place again.
The school I work for is a big one that has several "branch" campuses throughout the commonwealth. We prefer to refer to them as "Commonwealth Campuses" and not "branches". Anyway, once a year all of my coworkers goes to one of the other campuses for a retreat to learn some new things and spend time with our colleagues from the other campuses. It's a great time, and I love seeing the other campuses, but they feed us and we have limited control. But, I prepared my best. This year we went to the campus in Erie - we left on a bus at 6:30am. We were told ahead of time that the would have muffins and bagels on the bus...so I took a bottle of water, a Fiber One bar, and a banana. They did, actually, bring fruit for us too, but I slept almost the entire way there. For lunch, I made some pretty good choices! I filled half my plate with salad, chose the small pieces of salmon on greens instead of the beef on bread, added some green beans to the plate, and while I allowed myself a roll, I skipped the butter. I even passed on the seriously delicious looking desserts. I was pleased with myself! Dinner was boxed sandwiches - again, I only took one and chose the turkey instead of the mayonnaise-y tuna. I even grabbed a fruit cup and went for pretzels instead of potato chips. Now, I did allow myself a dessert this time, because they were small lemon bars instead of big slices of cake/pie.
The other big problem was actually the much bigger problem. I, unfortunately, have a habit of putting my hips out of place. I'm not really quite sure how I do it - I think it might be from the way I sleep - but a couple times a year I manage to do it and it's not super fun. The hips themselves don't hurt, but my shoulder KILLS! I'm sure you're asking yourself how that works...your shoulder isn't exactly close to your hips. Well, one of my hips (I think the right one) has a tendency to slip too far forward, which then causes a small gap and my lower spine slips into it, causing my spine to go all wonky. Because of it being all wonky, the lower part tends to shift to the left, which cause the top of my spine to shift to the right...and into my shoulder. Now, I don't want to give you the wrong impression...it's not like you can see my spine sticking into my shoulder..it's very subtle, but makes the muscles in my shoulder really sore. The hip being out also makes my right leg feel like it's not attached correctly....well, cause it's not.
It's been a number of months since I last put it out, but when I woke up Thursday morning and went to the gym, I knew something was wrong. I didn't walk to the gym quite as quickly as normal, and once I got up on the treadmill and started running, I felt like my right knee wasn't really attached. My left shin started cramping because I was baby-ing the right knee, and I knew I was in trouble. For my "training" Tuesday and Thursdays I'm supposed to run/walk/jog for 30 minutes. I ran the first mile until I knew I shouldn't run any further, then I walked for the rest of the time. I figured I was good since I was still moving, but I wasn't putting the extra pressure of running on my knee or hip.
I have a FABULOUS chiropractor who fixes me right up, but I don't like to run to him as soon as I realize something is out. There is the occasion that I can get it to go back on its own, and I think we both would prefer it to be able to go back more naturally. So, I didn't jump to make an appointment on Thursday after I left the gym since I knew it was out. However, I paid the price for that this time. I woke up Friday with a major headache from the shoulder tension..and, of course, that was the day we went to the campus. So, I spent the whole day fairly miserable from my headache...and they are only open on the weekends for prearranged appointments, which I didn't have. You know your headache is bad when you're asleep and literally asking people in your dreams to rub your shoulders for you. I woke up on Saturday still with the headache, and the shoulder hurting even worse, so I decided to do the second-best thing to the chiropractor....a massage. I went to the little "Traditional Chinese Massage" place at the mall (it's the only massage place in town that I know) - and got one of the best massages I've ever had. I'm talking the lady was up on the table using her elbows and her knees, as well as her hands, to knead my sore muscles. While it, obviously, didn't fix the real problem, it at least made my shoulder feel quite a bit better and made the headache go away...along with some Excedrin Migraine (which I had to go to THREE stores to find...). Now that the work week has started again, Humpty Dumpty went to the doctor as soon as possible to get put back together again. I didn't want to do a whole lot of working out while it was out because I don't want to damage anything...so let's hope that my eating endless salads evened things out!
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 42: no weigh-in but it was some sort of gain
Week 43:-1.4
Total weight loss: -56.0
Current weight: 201.2
Well, the scale showed -1.4, which was even better than I expected, but all the more excellent because I'm sure I was up the week before! That elusive 200 is so close I can taste it!! Keep your fingers crossed for next week! Oh, yeah, and Weight Watcher cookbooks were half price at the meeting this week and I bought one called "Best Darn Food Ever" - and based on the pictures inside, I think it really may be and I'm super excited to try some recipes!
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