Wednesday Weigh In
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It's been a struggle but I'm down a half-pound from last Weds.
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I have to make myself on loseit.com. I eat well for a few days & then sabotage myself again.
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Up 2 pounds! YIKES!! Excercise is wonderful, but I tend to eat back the calories burned! I've been sabotaging myself also!
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Yay for those who lost weight!
I need to get back to exercising! The weather has been rainy and gloomy and I haven't been able to force myself to take advantage of limited exercise opportunities. Tomorrow I will go for a 3-mile walk despite plantar fasciitis! I will, I will.
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Forgot Wednesday again. Serves me right for being away so long. I was keeping track however and on Weds I was down 2.4 to 184.8 lbs, mainly because of fasting on fruit and veggies. Broke fast today and had pizza but getting right back on and hope to continue the downward trend. Fast goes until 1/26.
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Having a (routine) colonscopy Monday....so will be on the 'Really Yucky Weight Loss Plan' this weekend.
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I'd be willing to drink the yucky stuff again if it had, the last time, made me drop some lbs! It didn't.
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Ruth, a friend just had a colonoscopy and got some good advice from her nurse. Start tapering toward a liquid diet a day early then it's not such a shock to your system when it gets flushed out from the prep. She said it helped her feel less yucky. Good luck!
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Thanks, Badger. Of course, I ate everything possible all day yesterday. Today the 'day before the prep day', there's not much to eat on the 'prescribed list' anyway. So far I've had two glasses of water, some applesauce & a giant cup of coffee. Bluck!
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My friend had her colonoscopy recently, and in the Prep instructions were a list of foods to avoid a few days before the procedure.
Without going into graphic detail, let's just say she had to tell her doctor to add BLACK LICORICE to the "forbidden" list!!!!
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No black licorice for me!!!!
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It's not easy but make sure you finish it ALL. I think I had left like half an inch or it in the jug, just could not get any more down and, believe it or not even after the hours I spent on the throne, my colon was not squeaky clean when doctor showed me the pictures.
Good luck.
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I will try to choke it all down.
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OK, I survived. Badger, I followed your nurse's advice & did mostly a liquid diet Saturday too & I think that helped.....made Sunday more of a nusance than anything else.
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Take my advice. Do NOT celebrate your weight loss by eating. Just saying.
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Wren44, are you speaking from experience?
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Ruth, I see you're the "prune lady", so you should be clean as a whistle! My sister just had her colonoscopy, and had a crazy routine where she had to drink some of the potion in the evening, and then get up at 3 am, six hours prior to the procedure, and drink more. Don't know how she did it. Mine was just to choke down in the evening, I was not able to finish the junk and was still clean.
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Glad I was not the only one not able to finish. Now even thinking I probably got down more than lots of others. It was 2 or 3 years ago and I still want to puke just thinking about it. Next time will find a doc who doesn't mind using the pills, even if I do the pills and only have to drink half the puky stuff. Okay, I know, enough.
Night all.
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Wren, great advice. That's the first thing most of us think about doing to celebrate--eat!
I'm a bit frustrated because I can't seem to lose more weight. I'm at goal weight because I set that goal higher than my "secret" goal weight. I want to lose 6 to 8 lbs more but I seem stuck. Will keep trying.
Good luck to all.
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I'm with you Blessings!
I've got two more pounds to lose to be back at my pre-holiday weight and I'm dragging my feet, and rear, all of me, in fact, as I attempt to get myself out the door and exercise! Gains come SO QUICKLY and losses seem to take forever. I feel the tummy pooch too. Since Femera any weight gain goes right to my tummy where as before weight gain was more evenly distributed all over my body. Also notice my "jiggly tummy" appears quickly if I fail to exercise.
Saw my MO yesterday and she wants me to lose this extra weight pronto. She usually doesn't say much because I'm going in the right direction, down
most of my visits. But yesterday she told me to increase my cardio and improve my diet. I felt like a naughty child.
But, of course, I will do as she says. I want to lose the extra weight as well to lower my chances of recurrence as much as I possibly can. It's just that there are days when I feel like I might as well just stop eating! It takes so much more to lose weight since cancer treatment and being on meds like Femara!!! I already eat so many veggies, whole grains, fruits and the like that I have dihrerea some days.
Sorry - I just had to get my feelings out. OK, Enough ranting and whining! Now onward to moving more and accounting for every morsel that goes into my mouth again.
Reminder to self: I've lost 46 pounds, so I can lose the remainder of my excess pounds too by moving more and eating within my limits.
Thanks for Listening, Charlotte
P.S. I think I was generally somewhat discouraged by my MO visit yesterday because my CT scan showed radiation lung scarring has not improved and a second area has shown up. Also showed a bone spur on my spine. Breast Cancer and Femara...the gifts that keep on giving! Oh well, at least it's not cancer
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The prep is alot easier now than it was even 5 years ago. I just had to drink Gatoraid with the laxative mixed into it....which just tasted like Gatoraid. And I think Badger's advice about starting the liquid diet the day before helped too. Nothing much to get rid of if you do that. We'll see if the enforced diet will have dropped me down a bit tomorrow!
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I've had 2 colonoscopies and 2 sigmoidoscopies in the last year. The prep doesn't phase me anymore. I first went the year I turned 50 and they found stage 1 cancer on a polyp. This last time there were no polyps and all 6 biopsies were benign. Whew. Back again in 6 months ~ that's going to be standard for the next few years.
Ladies, don't let the prep scare you...make sure you get your colonoscopy!
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Yay, sheryls and badger!
Ruth - I have both LoseIt and MyFitnessPal on my iPhone, and I have YET to input a full day's info into either one. Just too lazy, I guess...
fmakj - you can do it! Like Scarlett O'Hara said, "Tomorrow's another day!!!" (Or something like that....)
carolehalston - do you have orthotics for your plantar fasciitis? I used to use Superfeet, but now I use Powersteps and I like them much better.
Congratulations to all who have completed colonoscopies. I know I'm due for one, but just sent in a "Fecal Occult Blood" kit back to Kaiser and the results were negative. Maybe I'll be in the mood for my regular colonoscopy one of these days. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
CharlotteMe - how awesome that you have already lost 46 pounds!!!! Even when I was on a medically-supervised liquid fast, sometimes I lost only a pound or less per week. Our bodies are SO unpredictable. Wishing you good results on your other issues.....
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I was so proud of myself for finally getting back to the pool last Thursday, and this afternoon! But I'm soooo flabby after 5 months of no exercise. We were doing the "scissors" exercise (for legs) underwater, and I was laughing like a hyena. Finally one of the ladies asked what was so funny. I made her come over and look at my upper thigh, which looked exactly like a big old jellyfish as I moved it back and forth!!!
Then to add insult to injury, I stepped on the scale at Kaiser tonight, and the numbers just kept going up the longer I stood there. I yelled "Stop!" and "Make it stop!" and "Unplug this thing!!!" but the instructor just wrote down the highest weight. How rude.
I'm at 152 - up from the low of 144 a few weeks before Christmas. *sigh*
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Blessings, LOL on your pool and scale adventures! I think pool exercises are great for weight loss. I would do more of them if it were more convenient to get to a pool.
I'm due for a colonoscopy, too, but I'm wondering if I need it at all, with all the PET/CTs one gets at Stage IV. Hmmmmm.
Down 400 grams! Just a kilo more down and I'll be happy.
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Down 2.6 from last week. Now to keep on in a downward direction!!
I've yelled "stop" a few times already when I weigh in on the Wii board!! Don't enjoy my Mii becoming pudgier as the scale goes up!
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fmakj - does the mii really change size with your weight?? I think that's hysterical. I have a wii, but just one game for it, and I have never looked into the fitness aspect of it. congrats on your big loss this week!
165 this am - up .5 since last week - a weekend of partying, but back on SBD for a while to bring it back down to a manageable level.
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Yep, my little Mii got pudgier this morning as well - how RUDE of her. Up .4. Sigh.
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We have a Wii that we just dusted off and started playing again. When DS (15) weighed in, he had gained 50 lbs. in the 3 or so years since we played last. Yes, his Mii seriously plumped out with the funniest noise! We both cracked up. His Mii slimmed up agian when he changed his height from 5' to 5' 10".
As for weighing in, I'm a complete failure this week. I think I'm a slug from the cold weather. Working out with Jillian though.
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Down 1.4, no doubt thanks to 'the prep'. Now, if I can spring board it into moderating my eating. If I just eat simple meals & fruit for snacks...then I know I will lose the weight. Lets all be 'losers' next Wednesday!
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Up 2.5 from last week. I saw my MO yesterday and I'm up only 6oz from before Christmas. Still, I need to lose. My BP was through the roof yesterday.
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