I'm glad to see some of you back on the Board. It has been a bit challenging for me; however, I am still plodding on.
I have noticed a smaller size pantyhose and my bra is getting looser. The routine is the same and I am blinded to the scale. As I said before, this is the first time I am focused on "the process" not the numbers on the scale. It's working for me.
I exercycle and do my abs each morning. Sip my Cambridge and drink my water. I try to walk three times per week, but lately it's been a difficult to fit all of that into the schedule of going back and forth to the rehab hospital to see my husband.
I turned off all news cable television and I don't listen to the radio anymore. I have a thermometer inside to let me know what the temperature is outdoors. I look at my weather app for the next day. I have started using Fitbit to record and log my activities, food and water intake. It's really great. I journal. I watch DVDs of my selected movies and then I go to bed at 10:30 p.m.
I have absolutely no use for the scale nowadays. I just keep trying to implement the "routine" and the "Cambridge plan" (sip, walk, sleep——repeat) until my clothes literally fall off!!! No one ever asks you how much you weigh. They only see how you LOOK.
This is true Yvonne. Numbers only mean something to the person looking at the scale. Thank goodness we don't walk around all day with it tattooed on our foreheads! lol!Yikes!!
Congratulations on the changes you are seeing and feeling. Your determination is admirable.
Today was the 1 year anniversary of Kim's final day of radiation. I can't believe it's been a year. It has flown by! It's been filled with constant Dr visits so there really has been no break, but it is an important day of reminder of how grateful we are that she got the care she needed to get the cancer handled no matter how challenging it was.
This detour that both of your lives have taken will pass too and you will look back and wonder how you got through it all. Things will start to get back to "normal", even if it's a new normal.
The fact that you are steadfastly pursuing your personal health goals through all this is inspiring.
Thank you! This year has been life-changing for me. I never knew it would be this difficult to be a caretaker and take care of everything else at the same time (and then some).
But, God has given me strength. I am so happy to hear of the one-year anniversary for your daughter, Kim. I just believe that if we are still alive, we can change and make a change.