It's a funny thing when you become a blogger. You begin with a purpose whether it be speaking your mind, updating those around with your current thoughts and activities, or maybe even just your opinions on a range of subjects. In my case it was to keep those I loved infomed, bring awareness to people about my dibilitating disease, and to put my progress into writing in order to hold myself accountable. Sometimes, however, magic happens and it turns into more than that. It is still all of that but so much more. My blog entries have now had over 2500 views combined (and no, they are not all from me)! Regulrly I run into friends, coworkers, aquaintances and family members who stop me and tell me to keep up the blog because they are reading it and folloing my journey. Every single time someone tells me that, I am inspired. But mostly, I feel blessed.
This weekend, here in Canada, was Thanksgiving. I spent a wonderful day on Saturday eating fabulous food with family. When I say I spent it with family, I mean I spent it with 50 of my closst family members each of whom I love dearly and would be lost without! There were some who could not make it, and their absence was noticed (yes, even in a crowd that big we notice whem someone is missing). I cannot help but feel so incredibly blessed for the amazing people in my life whom I have the privilege to call my family. There are many that live far away that I rarely get to see and I think of each of them often. Even those ones do not hesitate to reach out to me from afar to let me know they are supporting me and this journey that I am on. Because of this wonderful thing we call the internet, we are all able to remain connected even with oceans between us. I just want to take this moment to tell every one of you how much I love you and how thankful I am that you are a part of my life.
This weekend was a test for those of us trying to watch what we eat (as it has been my whole life, but usually I don't care if I fail that test)! Luckily and unfortunately my famly has several people who have sentivities to gluten, dairy, nuts, soy and are either vegan or vegetarian. Becase of this, I had so many options to choose from this year at our massive meal (I'm quite sure we could feed an army with the amount of food we always have) that would fit into my new way of life. I think about half (or more) of my meal remained gluten free and vegan. However, with the rest I allowed myself to enjoy a few items that love. I did not overindulge like I usually would have, but I did eat more than what I have been the past few months which left me feeling very full. I felt a bit ill at first but it settled much quicker than years and holidays past. I was very grateful for that because that just makes it more comfortable for sleeping (be honest, sleeping is what we all do after eating turkey)!
Now, I'm not sure if eating those few extra items I shouldn't have are the culprits, but I have been feeling very "off" for a few days now. I cannot seam to get myself back on track. I am not overindulging but rather undereating now. I have been overly tired to the point of exhaustion. I am sleeping close to 12 hours per night, getting up for a few hours and then needing a nap for an hour or more. It does not seem to matter how much I sleep. I am used to feeling like this during one of my many RA flares, but my joints don't feel like they are flaring right now. I also have no energy to even warm up the food I have frozen so I'd just rather not eat and go back to bed. It's a very strange way to feel specially since every time I eat something I just end up feeling very nauseous afterwards and it lasts for hours. I have been dealing with a lot of stress lately and today I had my MRI. Hopefully between the MRI results and trying to get rid some of the stress, things will sort themselves out and I'll be back to myself in no time. Well, enough about that...
Tonight officially marks the two-week point of Biggest Loser Ottawa 3. That means it was another weigh-in tonight. Being that it was Thanksgiving weekend and we were all given approval for a 1-hour cheat meal, I don't think many of us were expecting fantastic numbers tonight. But let's be honest, I'm NEVER expecting good numbers! Luckily I had a workout yesterday with Pedro and our regular class tonight with Kristy. That helped to burn off some of that meal before stepping on the scale. I am down to 259.8 lbs which means that even with Thanksgiving, I lost 4.4 lbs this week giving me a total of 9.8 lbs in only 2 weeks (3.64%)! For those who want to know what this means in total from where I began in June, I have now lost a grand total of 46.8 lbs (15.26%)!!!
With that good news delivered, I bid you goodnight and God bless!
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