Thanks girls for stopping by to cheer me on.
Sorry that I went MIA there for a day and a half. Apparently I caught a stomach bug from my dear little man. Lovely thing that he has learned how to share so well. Now if I could only get him to share the gameboy with his sister! LOL
I ended up losing 4 pounds between yesterday and this morning. Currently at this very moment I have no idea what I weigh. This morning I was down to 187.8, and I did say last week that I was going to change my ticker to whatever popped up on the scale on Wednesday. So I guess it was good timing to have a stomach bug. Because it surely put me back on track after my 2 week binge.
I still haven't gotten in enough water today, more from the fear of getting sick again rather from not wanting to. Had a bad case of dysentry about 5 years ago, yeah the 3rd world kind!, so I tend to get a but nervous everytime I get a stomach bug. The docs have always told me that since I went so long with it last time, 3 weeks, that I actually did damage to my body and it would be easier for me to catch it again. We had no health ins at the time and I just assumed that it would pass eventually. By the time I made it to the hospital I had lost 16 pounds, remember this was in 3 weeks!, and they had to pump in about 10 pounds of fluids just to get me back to proper hydration levels. They told my dh that had he not brought me to the hospital when he did that I would most likely would have been arriving there in an ambulance later that night. As I would have probably had a heart attack due to my body being so depleted of fluids. That is a very scary thing to be told when you are only 29. So like I said I get a bit leery of stomach bugs now. I actually kept the dumb virus alive last time because I kept "feeding" it. Go figure. It took some pretty pwerful drugs to knock it outta my system. And I don't ever want to go thru that again. Heck I wouldn't ever wish that on my worst enemy!
I didn't eat much of anything yesterday and barely anything at all today. i had to take my mom to a doctor's appt today that could not be rescheduled for any other time. So even though I felt like crap, literally, I had to drive her 40 minutes away at 8 this morning. And since we were going to the "Big City" as compared with the dinky town I live in I offered MIL to come along. Since I know how important it is to her psyche to get out of the house. So even though I felt like I could have fallen over at any given moment we spent the whole of the day shopping at various places. MIL was very sweet in that she bought me a very cute shoulder bag. You know the kind that you would use for stuffing lots of stuff into. I think that she felt bad that I was taking her out and about when I didn't feel so good. I did eat some soup and a salad at Chili's and a bit of rice here at home but other than that I have had nothing else today.
Turns out Kimberly that it was a Godsend that my mom had her appointment today. Because between your feet and my stomach/hinney-inney end we would never have made it today! LOL
Well I am starting to get the sweaty light headed thing again so I think that I am going to sign out for now.
I'll catch up with you all tomorrow.
At least I better be able to. At least I didn't get sick over the work weekend. I hate using up my sick time for petty things. I would much rather save it for a time that is really nescessary. Not for running to the loo every 20 minutes!

Well today was waaaaay better than yesterday.
I woke up feeling ever so much better. Was busy like a little bee going all around the house cleaning things, doing laundry and making cookies for my daughters function at school tonight.
Dd herself may not go to the function as she came home complaining her tummy was hurting. Sounds to me like the bug has made its way onto the next family member.
Got up and weighed in this morning at 186.0!!! Woohoo! I am back down to my almost original low weight. Lowest was 185.4. So for sure the bugs timing was good. Not that having a bug is ever a good thing. But getting me back to being motivated was going to be difficult at best if I couldn't get that scale to go down.
I did eat a few cookies, okay 4 to be exact LOL, but up to that point I had only had about 600-700 calories for the day. So if I just wolf down a nice salad for dinner tonight I should be okay on the over all calories for the day.
Was planning on taking a nice walk today. But inconveniantly I found a tick on my ds's head and had to basically rip it off of him this afternoon. Thankfully it wasn't in too deep but of course it traumatized him! LOL
Making him feel that it would be just too much to walk. So I went with it. LOL Better to have a happy camper walking with me rather than a grumpy bunny. LOL
So since dd has her thing tonight (which it is still to be seen if she will make it to it or not) I won't be able to make it to class tonight. Even if she doesn't go I still can't go to class. Hubby has a function tonight at the chuch and there is no way I would ever take a sick child to the daycare at the YMCA. I hate it when people do that. Having absolutely no concern for other peoples kids.
Well that is my update for the day. Not much else happened. Like I needed anything else to happen! haha
Hope everyone had a great day! I know I did. LOL

And you said your son didn't share with his sister...lol

Sorry to hear you've been down with the nasties. Glad you're feeling better, though.

That's great news that you're back down to nearly your lowest weight.

I could just see us at Shipshe yesterday--me hobbling along, and you racing to the bathroom every 20 min.

Racing's the right thing! Especially since the bathrooms are very few and far between! Ha!

Well the long weekend is over. Or I guess the short one depending on the view that you take of it.
Since I worked 3 of the 4 days and was only able to actually enjoy about 1/2 of today (the other 1/2 was spent catching up on sleep) I guess it could be said to be a short weekend.
The weekend actually started out fairly well.
MIL had never really been to a garage sale before. I guess in Puerto Rico the people there are very picky about their stuff. Brand new is the ONLY way to go. Unless of course someone wants to give it to you for free. Then whatever "it" is, is good enough. They don't like to pay for used things. Which is kinda odd in that there are so many people on the island who are so poor I would think they would be happy to have anything. No matter if it were used.
So MIL thought it was wonderful to see such "wonderous" things and at such cheap prices. She does not have a problem with getting used things. Though she is a bit stuck on name brand items. So given 1/2 a chance she will always go with the name.
She got a vaccuum for $5. And man let me tell you she was like a kid in a candy store over that one! LOL
I was pretty excited as I found 2 pair of jeans and 3 pair of shorts ~ALL SIZE 16!!!~ for a net cost of $6!!! And they all fit. Can't tell you how good it felt to try them all on at home and have one after the other fit. It was somewhat surreal.
Let's see what else happened this weekend..............hhhmmmmmmm......well Dh had gotten me a ride in a glider at our local airport. For those of you who may not know what that exactly means it is basically a small airplane with no engine or propellors. A pilot sits in a seat behind you controlling everything while you sit in the front seat, which by the way is the best spot for viewing everything. There is a small Cessna plane that pulls you up into the sky and when you are up high enough, high enough being determined by how much you spent LOL, they pop the rope that is holding the glider and plane together and from there on out you glide on the air currents.
Depending on the weather and the temp outside you could be up there for 2 hours!!! I have gone one other time when dh got it for me as a b-day present.
Of course that time I was considerably bigger and the flight didn't last nearly as long as I expect this one to. I was suppose to go up today but due to some stormy weather coming in I have to postpone it for later this week.
I will certainly be on here telling you guys all about it when it is over.
Okay what else....?
Oh yeah! I remember. I think it was about a week and a half ago that I was saying how I felt like I had lost most of my motivation blah, blah, blah.
Well today while I was at the store I needed to pick up some dogfood. Since I was in a hurry I reached down and grabbed up the biggest bag that they had. Barely noticing that the poundage on it was 44.1 pounds. Though it is funny. I mean .1 pounds......what is that like 3 extra kernals of food. Am I really getting that .1?
Anywho I digress. LOL
So I start walking back to the front of the store with the 44.1 pound bag of dogfood slung up and over my right shoulder. The more steps I take the heavier that stupid bag of food got. Then it suddenly hit me! That was very nearly the same amount of weight that I had lost!!!! AMAZING!
How can it be that when I weighed that much more that I couldn't notice it so much.
I felt like I should take every piece of dogfood out of that bag and glue it to my butt and gut and then I would have a really good feel for how much I use to weigh.
As it was I got home and told dh that I had a surpise for him. As he came around the car I handed him the bag of food. He nearly dropped it! When I told him that it weighed the same amount that I had lost he was very impressed.
Oh and the last thing.
Somehow or other I am not sure how but I did something to my left shoulder. It hurts soooo badly. It actually feels like the shoulder is not where it should be. If that makes any sense. For the most part it doesn't bother me to much. But given the right motion or movement and it brings a sharp cry of pain and tears to my eyes.
Dh is insisting that I go to see the doctor tomorrow. As the doc knows that I have re-occurring problems with my shoulders due to the nature of my old job. He has suggested that if it kept up he would give me some cortisone shots straight in to the shoulder.
The whole thought of that scares the dickens right out of me. I don't like needles at all!!!!
And I have heard that even though in the end it all works out for the good, that it hurts really badly when they are putting the needle in.
So I guess I will have to weigh the one pain against the other.
Especially since as it stands there is no way that I could do my classes at the YMCA. I don't even think that could swim if I had to. Especially since swimming involves a total rotation of the shoulder.
Well that is basically my weekend.
Not very exciting I know.
But that is my life.

Got up this morning back in the low 190's.
I can't be upset at the number as yesterday was a bad eating day.
I didn't even get up until 11am and then spent 3 hours! at the grocery store with MIL and the 2 brats I call children. About drove me crazy I tell ya! Okay so they really aren't brats but I can't stand to dawdle around in the store. Especially if I have my kids with me. I got me a list and I go in, get it done and head back out as fast as possible.
Not when MIL is with me. She shops for groceries like she shops for clothes. Has to touch everything! LOL And look it over like a dozen times.
So by the time I got outta the store my day was shot.
I was still tired from working the weekend and my shoulder was killing me.
Add into that the ice cream I ate along with the pita chips, cookies and whatever else I could lay my hands on and you can see how my day went.
*Sigh*
It happens everytime I get overly tired, so I should see it coming and be able to head it off at the pass.
But haven't quite got it all figured out yet.
Shoulder is killing me today. Called the doc to see if I could get in but of course the only appt they had available was tomorrow. Right in the middle of the afternoon when I will be out cavorting the Amish countryside with Kimberly aka Bikinibound.
I had to cancel last week due to my mom's doctor appt. So I am not cancelling this week.
The soonest they can get me in is next Monday. Hopefully my arm doesn't fall off before then! LOL
Right now I feel a bit like Buzz Lightyear.
You know when he is having tea and he is waving his arm around in the air telling Woody that he is Mrs. Nesbit?
Yeah that is me. I feel like my arm could just fall right outta it's socket.
It's pretty painful.
Wish I knew exactly what I did to deserve all this pain.
Catch ya'll later.

Well I am no longer working in the pool. Just got to waterlogged I guess. So now I am up in the Fitness Center. Except for occasionally I will be helping out in the ladies circuit room aka the curves room. You know where you go from one station to another.
I went up today and learned how to run the ropes. Seems easy enough. Of course they don't want us calling it Curves so I will have to be careful with that.
Shoulder is feeling a bit better. Still sore but not nearly like it was this morning.
About around 12:30-1:00 I felt my shoulder give a pop. Heck I even heard it. Suddenly I was able to rotate it again. Without the pain to end all pains! Though it does still hurt.
I still am not sure what was wrong with it. I have to guess that maybe it was like a dislocation or something. Kinda like when you jam your thumb and the only thing that will help is to have someone pull on it. But at least now it does not feel like it is going to fall out of the socket.
Unfortunately Kimberly and I won't be able to get together tomorrow. Due to the holiday here all her work for the week was shoved back one day. Effectively making tomorrow a work day.
So we are going to shoot for next Wednesday.
Hopefully it will all workout.
Well that is about it for the night so I am going to sign off.
Catch ya later.

I feel bad about cancelling, and having to get off the phone so abruptly. I actually wasn't even meant to answer the phones, but the guy who was supposed to, was yakking on his cell the whole time, so I told him I'd get it (as his call was business related..lol). I hope that now we're not meeting up tomorrow that you can get in to the doc tomorrow instead of waiting. That shoulder sounds painful and should be looked at asap. Cortizone shots might be painful, but a short burst of pain is better than constant pain, imo. My dad had those injections in his knee, and he said it didn't really hurt.

Hi ya Dawn.

So sorry things have been difficult.

I hope your shoulder will feel better quickly!

lol re: water logged..

Hope you like working in your new area.

I hope you have a Goal Reachin' Thursday!

Thanks Kimberly and Stacey for swinging on by and dropping me words of encouragement!
The shoulder is feeling a bit better though it would seem that I am somehow reinjurying it in some of the movements that I am making.
I spoke with Kelly last night at the Y and she said that she thinks it may be my Rotator Cuff.
Of course being the net-nerd that I am I came home and looked up rotator cuff injuries, symptoms of and causes.
And I think that she is right.
Even though Kimberly and I didn't get together yesterday I still couldn't get into the doctor's office. Grrrr
Usually I can get right in with no problems.
As long as I don't put alot of weight on to it, it seems to be okay. But then there are those moments when for no apparent reason my shoulder will "pop" and oh baby does that hurt!
Actually got "stuck" in the tub the other night as I couldn't put any weight at all on it without it feeling like it was gonna rip outta the socket. After some fancy finaggling I was able to get out but by that time it was hurting so badly I could barely dry off. Ended up taking a pill for muscle spasms just so I could sleep. *sigh*
So needless to say I haven't been doing much of anything as far as excerise goes. Heck yesterday it popped while I was on my cell phone in the car. ?????
My only real concern I have right now is trying to make it thru the weekend at work w/o it hurting to badly.
Since the nature of my job requires me to constantly be moving that arm in a rotating circular pattern I fear that it will be hurting.
Last night was my first night "working" (if that is really what you can call it LOL) in the Ladies only Fitness Center. Talk about BORING!!! All I did for 3hours was read a book. A good book at that. But still it's not like I was all cuddled up in my favorite chair. That and I had to listen to this oldies CD that was playing for most of the whole time. Blah. I don't mind oldies music but not 3 hours worth! LOL
In that whole period of time I think like only maybe 7-8 women came up there.
Oh well it pays for my membership. And I was told that if I wanted to I could run thru the circuit while I was up there. So at least there will be that after my shoulder is better.
Weighed in this morning at 190.2~
Not proud of that but at least it wasn't a surprise. Here lately it seems that I have been really struggling with my eating. Can't seem to figure it out. Everyday I tell myself that I am going to stick to it and everyday I blow it.
And then you add in no exerise right now and it is no wonder that I am up a bit more than normal.
I know that it would come off fast enough if I just could buckle down.
It's getting to the buckle down part that seems to be hard!
Well I need to pick up my kids from school. And get things around for supper.
So I will try to check back in tomorrow before I head off to work. Can't tonight..........it's the big LOST Finale! So I will be effectively rooted to my sofa for 2-3 hours getting in my last big tv fix for the season. LOL
At least after tonight there won't be anything else on TV that I want to watch all summer.
Ciao

Oh yeah! I'm excited about the Lost finale, too.

I was thinking it could be your rotator cuff. My cousin just had surgery for that. She was in misery. I hope you don't need surgery, but if that will make your shoulder better then it's worth it.

Don't worry about your weight right now. When you're in so much pain, you cannot expect to get any hardcore exercise in. Just take it easy and try not to comfort yourself with food too much. Yeah, like I'm in a position to say that...

As I sit here eating my 3rd piece of homemade hot outta the oven banana bread. Just had to make it this morning! LOL
Thanks Kimberly. I appreciate your encouragement.

I wonder if working part of your old job is making your shoulder act up again?

As far as the ladies circuit, I think you would enjoy it. And you can get quite a good workout if you do it right. Maybe I could come up there sometime before my membership is up and workout with ya.

It looks like I'm giving up on the Fit for Life class though as my head is just not into anymore. Plus after working all day in the classroom w/o children cleaning and reorganizing the room is so tiring that all I want to do is come home and relax a bit. So...sorry.

Anyway, I am working out at home so that is good.

Mmmm....banana bread....You are too cruel tempting me with that late at night!! Luckily there is none in the house--of course I'm sure I could find something else equally as tempting.

Will....resist....

Yeah I am pretty sure that doing the old job is what most likely set off this unpleasant turn of events.
Just goes to prove to me that there is no way I could ever go back to doing it. To bad in some respects since that really is the only job that is ever available first shift on the weekdays. Oh well. Guess I will be stuck on the weekends forever now! LOL
I hear ya on the Fit for Life. I think my thing is mostly due to burn out and now the injury, and of course the longer you "don't" do something the easier it is to let it slide and not get back into it.
The Circuit room does look interesting. And it would be fun to go a few rounds with ya!
So is school all done now?