G's Weigh-in: 78kg

I hyperventilated a little when I saw that number yesterday. Then I did the conversion to pounds and I hyperventilated a little more.

I'm going to use this blog a lot in the next few weeks as I suspect there are many upcoming situations, both celebratory and stressful, during and after which I will want to eat. I'm glad we're in this together (which is not to say I'm glad everyone wants to lose bunch of weight. Body acceptance, blah blah blah. You know what I mean).

PS: Despite the abundance of cheap and delicious Malbec in these parts, I'm on the wagon for now. As Sparkly D observed almost 2 years ago, "one glass of wine and my hands become calorie shovels." Word.

C's weigh-in: 142.4

I'm eating well. I'm hitting my points targets, getting lots of fruits and vegetables, and limiting sugar and flour.

I'm sucking at exercise. I planned to do a Turbulence Training workout yesterday and I put it off until yesterday evening. I only got in half a workout before it was time to put Griffin to sleep. I am so out of shape! Seriously, I'm having trouble with kneeling push-ups. I guess it can only get better from here, but in the short term this really sucks.

Pants

When we arrived in Buenos Aires in December I bought a pair of less-backpackery pants to wear out in the city.

Last night I could barely get into them. Motivation? Yes. My big thing has been, oh, when I get back to Canada I'll start the project. But if I stick with that I'll probably have yet another 5 pounds to lose by then, which will make the project a month longer.

So it starts now.

I'm in

I was in a groove. Exercising regularly, eating mostly healthy food, staying between 130 and 134 pounds without tracking what I ate. Then there were excuses and I stopped exercising and my weight crept up to 136. Then I freaked out and decided to try this and then this. Then more excuses and I've spent the last three months eating everything in sight "while I still can!" This morning I weighed 143 pounds and I only have two pairs of pants that fit me.

I'm going back to what works for me. Tracking food with weight watchers, less carbs, turbulence training. And this blog. Hello again!

Mystery Solved

Today I was jiggling my thigh and mused (aloud, but really to myself), "How did this happen?"

Ken quietly picked up the (empty) Reeses peanut butter egg wrapper on the table.

No regrets

I do not regret having the best BBQ of my life at the The Pig in Memphis. I don't regret all the beignets at the Café du Monde. I don't regret the mufuletta or the red beans and rice. I don't regret ordering iced tea so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it every day for a week. I don't regret the chips and candy road food. Furthermore, I don't regret not getting up to exercise because I've been staying up late with my husband watching True Blood, drinking red wine, and eating brown sugar ice cream.

So, I guess I can't regret that this morning I weighed 134.6 pounds.

Knee trouble

My knees have been bothering me for over a year. Writing that down it seems crazy that I waited so long to see a doctor. I spent a lot of time thinking it'd get better when I lost a little more weight. Then I thought I was just getting old. Gillian helped me get good shoes for running and told me how to stretch properly, but still my knees hurt. At first only when I was running, but then more and more often going up stairs, and then most recently my left knee started hurting whenever I use the clutch in my car and sometimes when I'm not doing anything at all. I thought taking a whole month off exercise might fix the problem, but no.

I finally went to see my doctor, who diagnosed it as Patella Femoral Syndrome. This is a pretty vague "knee pain" diagnosis, she referred me to a physical therapist to get a better idea of what's going on.

I saw the physical therapist yesterday and the problem seems to be that my hips are both too tight and too weak. My knees can go out of alignment because the hip muscles aren't holding them in place securely enough, and also the tight IT band across my left hip is pulling on my left kneecap. I have stretches and exercises to do twice a day and physical therapy for six weeks. The therapist seemed to really know what she was doing, so I'm hopeful that this is going to work.