Yo-Yo much?

Okay, I just don't get it.

I put on five pounds. I've been a good boy this week for the most part. I certainly haven't been a bad enough boy to earn five pounds!

I'm not going to let this discourage me. I've come a long way and I have a long way to go and this is merely a speed bump.

I'm really angry. I don't have anything else to say.

-9 in 7 days!

Would you call this a Yo-Yo Diet yet?

Losing more than a pound a day can't be good for me. But, I don't know what, if anything, I'm doing wrong. It seems like I'm constantly eating something. It's not like I'm exercising to death - I laid around all week with my feet up due to my ankle. Looks like I'll have more of that this week as my left ankle is now on the fritz.

But, none the less, here I am.

My stomach is grumbling. I should go find breakfast. This is all so weird.

Ah, Tendinitis!

Laura said...

You prolly already know this, but just in case- don't get the wii fit balance board thingie- it can only handle 250lbs. What a gyp, huh? "Get fit, but only if you're not TOOO fat."

Yeah, I looked into the Wii Fit because my friends have it and it comes with lots of cool games and neat features.

Nintendo claims that the board can handle up to a 600 pound person. However, it will only give weight up to 330 pounds. This is up from the original specs. They added 30 pounds before releasing it to the American market.

There is talk that the new Wii Fit Plus will include a balance board that can go higher. Talk is cheap. The balance board is being used for lots of games, so, hopefully, Nintendo will get over themselves and realize that fat people spend money, too. Maybe we should send Nintendo copies of Wall-E so that they can prepare for the future!

As for me, one of the purchases I made was a program called EA Sports Active. This is a fitness program. It can use the balance board, but it's not required. It has a lot of the same features as Wii Fit, but with a more "gym quality" feel to it. Whereas Wii Fit feels like a game aimed at kids - because it is. It's aimed at kids and families, trying to make exercise easy and fun.

Even the "Active" is a victim of this "mental weight limit" - the highest weight I can enter in a profile is 300 pounds. My treadmill only lets me enter 400. Someday these limits won't matter to me .........

My first work out really did bother my knees - too much running and jumping. And, I started hobbling around Tuesday as my right ankle started hurting (heavy grocery bags probably didn't help) and then kicked into full tendinitis by last night. I've stayed off it all day today. But, I've had to cancel plans for today because I can't drive. I will likely have to cancel for tomorrow and Sunday, too.

Tuesday, with my ankle starting to bother me, I did about 25 minutes of cardio boxing on the Wii with Active. That was fun! I built a little work out and it was pretty challenging - but not deadly. My biceps are still a little sore today. If I could stand for terribly long, I'd do more!

So, yeah, so far I like the Wii and EA Sports Active combo. I still need to figure out more ways to change and tailor the work outs and as I lose weight, that may not matter as much. (Currently, me running in place or jumping is sheer hilarity!) I think I still will use the treadmill here and there, maybe once or twice a week once I get all of this ramped up. The cool thing is that I can include those workouts in the Active software!

Great stuff! Once my ankle is better - more working out! Until then, I will be good on food! I've been good all week.

+11 pounds in 17 days

I just reread my last post. I was so excited. So, what did I do the night after I had all that great news? I celebrated. How does a fat guy celebrate? Ate a large pizza all by myself, including full sugar Coke plus an order of Tiramisu and my boat hasn't stopped rocking until today. I have since repeated that trick twice! That's how one puts on eleven pounds in seventeen days.

If there is any good news here, it's that I didn't get above 475. I lost ground, but it's not irrecoverable. I was good today. I need to hit the grocery store, but what remained in my fridge was good stuff, so I made it through. Tomorrow will be a challenge.

Then, Saturday - well, have you ever done something that was stupid and smart at the same time? I've been spending a ton of time on Facebook playing stupid little video games. The thought kept nagging me that if I spent as much time on the treadmill as I do on those games, I'd weigh 175 by now. Yes, there is plenty of exaggeration there, but that's certainly how I feel.

Friends of mine have a Wii and they love it. There are several active video games. Even the ones not devoted to fitness have you up and moving. I started thinking that if I was going to play a video game, I could at least be off the couch, right?

So, the unemployed guy spent $300+ on a Wii plus additional software.

I went out Saturday to buy a printer. I wondered around the store and a little kid said "Mommy! There's a man over there with a really fat belly!" I get this now and then. I'm a circus side show freak to these kids. "Mommy come look, his legs are fat, too!" I turned and looked at the kid at about the time the mother grabbed him by the face, covering his mouth, and pulled him around behind the shelf she was behind. Not the kid's fault. It's a real reminder that I have to do something.

And I did. I bought fried chicken. Then I went and bought burgers and fries and a big Coke at Wendy's. Then, after the addict had his fix, I went and bought the Wii.

Not only was I good with my diet today, but I did about 30 minutes of cardio with the Wii. I need to tweak the workouts to be kinder to my knees and the thing you are supposed to wear on your thigh doesn't fit my chubby leg, so I need to buy (or build) a bigger strap, but, it was kinda fun and I had a real sense of accomplishment.

There is no magic bullet. Maybe the trick is to fire as many bullets as you can until you hit something.

Bang!

Gushing

I was a little upset a couple of days ago.

With losing my job, this set off a line of dominoes that ended my insurance and that messed up my meds. I ran out of my Glyburide/Metformin. Luckily, I had given some of my older, lower dose pills to Steph who still had them. I knew I ran a big risk lowering my dose, but some was better than none, right? So, I was worried about my blood sugar - my testing was panning out, though.

I have recently gotten COBRA up and going and so I ordered a refill on my meds. When they arrived, instead of a 90 day supply, I had a ten day supply. Well, I was ready to call up MEDCO, the mail order company my insurer insists on using, and letting them have it with both barrels. But, something tugged at the back of my head and I decided to call my doctor first, just in case the mistake had been there. If they had approved the 90 day supply, I'd REALLY let MEDCO have it!

The doctor asked for the 10 day supply - I was due for my physical. My doctor can be quite sneaky and underhanded in her way! I wanted to be angry - but, dammit, I admire sneaky and underhanded!

So, this morning I fasted for my A1C, might have been a mistake, I got up at 7 and my appointment wasn't until 10:30 - yikes! Starving! I checked my weight, 464 - nothing wrong with losing three pounds since Monday! My sugga was 99 - also not bad.

I drove in, guzzling water to prep myself for my ... um ... s-a-m-p-l-e ... and the blood test. 32 ounces of water in and I walked around the mall for an hour to pump the blood a bit. They got me in a few minutes early. My blood pressure was really good! The nurse mentioned it was at a teen-ager's level. Okay! She struck blood on the first try (hydrate before a blood test!!) then it was time to give the s-a-m-p-l-e and then get naked for the doc! That woman has seen me naked more times than my ex-wife!

All the numbers came back excellent! My cholesterol was down, really down. (I have no hard proof, but lots of anecdotal evidence that low-carb dieting lowers cholesterol - word to the wise - nothing like eating bacon and eggs three or four times a week, losing weight and lowering one's cholesterol!) My sugga, by her count, was 91. (Below 100 - good!) My A1C came back 5.7. The doc likes seeing people below a 7 - so I'm well below, also very good!

The doc was congratulating me and telling me how proud she was of me. She was gushing about my results. I didn't get the dour "you can do better" look even once!

I'm not saying Januvia is a diet in pill form. However, it has been a kick in my pants. I don't think I'd be doing this well without it. (Talk to your doctors, folks!) If I can keep my sugga controlled and do what I've been doing for the last couple of months for the next year or so, I'll be in SO much better shape.

I went and had beef and broccoli with salad (no dressing, didn't look good) for, well, it was breakfast with the emphasis on "fast" at that point. I then went and saw UP, and all I had was a Coke Zero. The movie was funny and sad in a good way and since I don't do much caffeine these days, the Coke Zero is wheeeeeee! :)

Just thought I'd share the good news. How are the rest of you doing. Hmmmm???

Still bored.

The diet continues, as does my unemployment. Pretty boring around here.

The big excitement is the diet. Four pounds off, down to 467, not bad at all! Sure, it's not as impressive as the ten pound shocker from last week, but it's also not as freekin' scary! I'll take four pounds a week every week from now on, thank you! That puts me at 400 pounds before the end of the year and that would be just fine!

However, I'm trying not to think about the long term goals. The immediate goals are what I need right now I think. 450 is right around the corner and I'm looking forward to it. As much as I would rather not concentrate on numbers, they are all I have. I really don't feel much better, my clothes are not fitting better and I can't tell I've lost an ounce looking in the mirror. Thirty pounds off 500 just isn't enough to give any of those effects. So, numbers are all I have.

Speaking of numbers, I like that my sugga has been somewhere between 100 and 140. You may not like those numbers, but I'm kinda stuck with them. With losing the job, I've run out of my meds and had to switch to lower doses I (luckily) kept when my dose was moved up. My insurance is back together and I should have meds this week and just in time, I was nearly out of the Januvia and I have no back up on those!

I got on the treadmill for a half hour today. I've been kicking up the incline just for a change. Nothing drastic, just a little more each time. I also did three reps of 30 wall-ups. I think I'll stick at the 30 mark for a while, let my arms catch up.

I've been good with food today and I have a steak waiting for me for dinner.

All in all, a good day on top of a good week last week. Here's hoping I can keep rolling!

Odd little day.

Today has just been an odd little day.

Nothing particularly interesting to report. I just hung out at home. About 4 PM I got bored and took a four hour nap - strange for me, and now kinda bad because I'm very awake and did not cure the boredom.

Breakfast was some bacon & eggs. "Lunch" was some fruit. Dinner was steak & salad. I should have gotten on the treadmill. But, I was on the treadmill Monday, Tuesday and Thursday - no need to push my body. Tomorrow or Monday will be soon enough to get back on. Thursday I did more Wall-ups, three sets of 25 reps. My arms screamed at me at the time but quieted down nearly immediately. That could mean anything I guess.

I'm just sitting here bored, trying to decide if I should just pack it in and go back to bed. However, I had a weird little thing enter my head. I wasn't hungry. True, dinner was a lot of protein and only three hours ago. But, usually if I'm bored, I start scouting for food and thinking about what's at the store if I go get in the car. However, this time, I didn't. And, it some ways, that makes me even more bored! *Sigh!*