Maigs

Day...I have no idea. I lost track....somehow.... (Tuesday)

Food - Rangered. 1450cals
Steps - Rangered. 8,900 steps. Not to bad for 3 days post surgery

Stretching - Rangered.

Grade - ??/?? = ??% Gonna have to go back and figure out where I'm at again. I made the mistake of going out by myself and apparently I wasn't quite ready for that so right now I just want to veg and not think too hard.

Thanks Tish!

I got the drain tube taking out today so as long as I don't try talking or smiling I feel almost normal I've taken two 1-mile walks today, planning on another after Hubs gets off work as long as the weather holds out. I still have the rest of the week off work so I need to figure out what is and appropriate amount of activity to do. I also need to figure out when I'll be up to starting to train for running again. My 4-mle trail run is in 5ish weeks and I'd like to be able to run a decent portion of it but I don't want to push too soon and hurt myself

Post-surgery day 3

Finally feeling more human...not back to normal but closer to normal functioning. I haven't really been in pain, just uncomfortable and grouchy and doing quite a bit of sleeping. I have a fun drain tube in behind my ear for at least another day, maybe two which makes things awkward. I've regained some control over my lower lip but it will be a few weeks before the right side of my face is back to normal. Right now I'm very self-conscious when I talk or smile and I have trouble reading because my right eye is still tearing up. On the upside I can do the Two-Faced grin or wiggle my left eyebrow by itself The incision is pretty minimal and mostly hidden in my ear so once I get the drain tube out I won't feel too self-conscious in public as long as I keep my RBF on and don't talk to people 

I'm ready to get back on track so starting tomorrow I'll be tracking my food, steps, and stretching again. I went for a short walk today and will plan for a couple of them a day for the rest of the week.

31 minutes ago, IslandGirl_Becks said:

So happy to hear that the surgery went well!!!

 

 

Okay, I know you don't want to use this as an excuse for junk food... but seriously, is there anything better than ice cream when half your face is frozen? Okay, maybe greek yogurt with honey drizzle... 

If you aren't counting this for or against you, at least you can be happy knowing that you've been going into this with a great attitude! Accepting the things you can change, not stressing about the things that you can't change. 

Thanks!

Ice cream was actually a bit awkward to eat. While I can feel my whole face I can't control the right side at all, so kinda like it's numbed from the dentist but it doesn't feel swollen and I can feel it. So eating much of anything is messy and ice cream is sticky Chocolate milk is good as long as I'm careful.

Incidentally pronouncing P's and B's is also very awkward when you can't control half your lips. And I'm not positive my right eye is shutting all the way (I can't shut it by itself, only with the left one) so its tearing up a lot and I'm having to use eye drops even though I HATE things near my eyes. But I'm mobile and not in much pain so can't really complain considering

Right now my fitbit says I've done 1k steps. I'm not sure if it's actually been that few or if I'm walking so lightly that it's not recording them. Hubs went out today to hang with friends (with my blessing, he's been taking good care of me) so my only goals while he's gone are to do some laundry and vacuum (the dog hair is taking over the house). I might even venture outside to check the mail

11 hours ago, Jarric said:

Love the vid, you have so many medals! Congrats on the PR!

I love your medal rack too! I'm wanting to get something for mine but for now there's not a lot to hang on it. I'll have to work on that

Surgery went well. No damage to my ear nerve (slight risk) or my facial nerve (even smaller risk) but my facial nerve is "shocked" so for a couple of weeks the right side of my face is going to be weak. Right now it's very weak so eating is interesting, I had to manually move my lip out of the way to keep from biting it while eating a sandwich. I can't still feel it at least, just can't move it now.

I'm only allowed to walk for two weeks but am encouraged to walk as much as I can to help avoid clots. Since I'm having difficulties eating I have to be careful to not use it as an excuse to eat junk (I have chocolate milk, ice cream, and pudding to last me the week).

Since the majority of the day was out of my control I'm completely skipping today for points (doesn't count for or against me)

So I had to be awake at 4:30 this morning but I'm not allowed to have caffeine :'( Life is unfair

 

Oh dude, this sounds so cool! I know how hard it is to put something off that you really want to do, it definitely makes sense to wait.

 

Here's my workout video! I kind of rambled on a bit in it and the angle of the actual lifting is a bit rubbish! It's got me hitting a new PR, messing up my plate maths and moaning at the hubs to stop touching the bar while spotting me!

 

 

Crazy how people never sound like I expect. Of course my stupid American brain forgot to give you a British accent. Which was adorable BTW, and you did not sound squeaky nor childlike

1 hour ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

I ended up eating a packet of Jaffa Cakes instead

I'm going to have to figure out what these are after all the talk about them lately.....

 

1 hour ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Being British, I expressed this irritation with lots of tutting and eye-rolling. 

Lol, damn Brit's and Canadians being too polite

Dammit Charlie! I'm at work trying to not die laughing at my desk! That's awesome

13 minutes ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Hope everything goes well with the surgery! 

I'll let you guys know I'm okay once I'm lucid enough to type it out Hubs has instructions to text my boss that I'm okay (I became a surrogate daughter to her since I'm about the same age as hers and even look kinda similar). I haven't told my actual mom about the surgery yet. She has enough going on I figure I won't worry her, I'll just let her know it went well after the fact

Day 11 - Wednesday

Day 10 - Tuesday

Posting to follow. You're goals are pretty similar to mine this time around

54 minutes ago, tishnicden said:

Love your challenge and congrats on the BMI!!! Totally been a challenge of mine. Following along for progress..... and the cats.

Glad to have you along and Thanks! I'm not sure if I wrote it in this challenge but when I started this journey I weighed 222.4 with a BMI of 32.84 (yes,those numbers are in a spreadsheet, yes I'm an accountant, why do you ask?). It's kind of a crazy ride. And yes, cats are adorable. I've never had one try out a treadmill though my orange tabby could use it

Thanks@ladyshello

Thanks to this girly below, I'm going to be out $55 every other month but all the spiders will DIE!! Inside and out. Oh and the crickets that kept getting in and dismembered but those didn't creep me out

To be perfectly honest most people won't pay any attention to you. Think about it, how much attention do you pay to runners? And even if they do pay attention they likely won't see you long enough to know if you only run a block then walk again, or know that you "only" ran a block when they see you trying to catch your breath.

I saw a pretty large women yesterday running around a park. I was proud of and excited for her for doing it. If they do notice you, some will be proud of you for being out there. Some will probably be jerks but that's because they're jerks which is their problem, not yours.

I know it's still not easy to get out there but keep these things in mind and just do it.

1 hour ago, Wild Wolf said:

LMAO! That made me laugh. Sometimes you do what you gotta do lol. I used to go every 2 weeks before I had stuff like that and in hindsight it made me work harder. So long as I was proactive with my clean eating and stuff, I tended to make it my 2 weeks and enjoy the SHIT out of "pizza and M&M's" haha.

We certainly don't do pizza all that often and since we got extra steps in with frisbee golf AND finally primed the other bedroom yesterday it was well deserved. I should have stopped at three pieces though, the fourth one was too much for my poor shrinking stomach. I did smartly stop at one breadstick

25 minutes ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Hey whatever works for you, right? We sometimes have a "dessert for dinner" night on the weekend. Have a healthy but filling lunch, skip dinner and eat a crap load of yummy treats instead! 

That sounds amazing! I'd say Hubs and I should do that sometime but he likes food too much to agree to skip dinner...and freaks out a little if I don't eat real food

1 hour ago, Wild Wolf said:

These are a HUGE vice of mine...they are sooooooo good!

They are good! And Hubs and I don't even like dark chocolate but we killed a bag last night. My caffeine fix is actually a blueberry acai flavor too and I kinda wish it didn't have caffeine so I could drink more of it. I do still want some M&M's though, those things are my biggest vice

1 hour ago, Wild Wolf said:

I would say that's a smart idea. Even though your kitties are kickin spider ass right now, you wanna be safe rather than sorry....UNLESS you have a 100% chance to get Spider-Man's powers  

Can't say I have a 100% chance of getting Spidey powers. Luckily I also have a very small chance of a poisonous spider but these big suckers are freaking me out anyway. I just sent an email to my neighbor asking who she uses for pest control.

26 minutes ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Doesn't having a lot of spiders in your home mean that you don't have a damp house? Because spiders hate the damp and will nest in dry places? Is this an old wives tale or did someone just tell me this to mess with me?

I haven't heard that one before but our house does stay pretty dry. We're a one story house on a concrete slab so no damp basement for us! And that does coincide with our last house too, they stayed on the dry side of the basement but I didn't see too many on the side that would occasionally get water

1 hour ago, Wild Wolf said:

Awesome Wolverine shirt too! You're definitely rocking it, Maigs!

Thanks! And that is officially my first public bathroom selfie. It was at work on the weekend when I'm pretty sure I was the only person in the entire building

Day 9 - Monday

3 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Oh I see! Is your minor surgery to help with your PF? 

No. I'm trying to handle it without surgery or injections though I'm not ruling them out completely. I've been stretching it every day and it's not getting much better. I was limping pretty hard after walking around an 18 hole frisbee golf course last night. When I'm recovering next week I'll try to have it in the boot a lot to see what that does but may have to find a podiatrist that actually wants to help fix it (I was not impressed with the last guy).

The surgery is a parotidectomy. My saliva gland right where the jaw, ear, and neck meet has a benign mass so they're going to remove it. Sounds a tad scary but they've already checked, it's not cancerous, and it actually pretty common. And they said it's the same incision for a face lift so it should be minimal scarring.

3 hours ago, Big_Show said:

Camp was amazing! I'm trying to write a summary post but Feels keep getting in the way.

I was describing the Cheese Rolling race to some Americans last week and they frankly seemed to think I was making it up! I will genuinely go do this race with you sometime if you fancy it! Could be a UK NF meetup for the future?

New plan guys! You all plan out a UK/European NF meetup (preferably IN the UK) and let me know when it is so I can plan my vacation around it

Also, Cheese Rolling? Where I grew up we just had cow tipping (oh crap, I just outed myself as a redneck!)

18 minutes ago, LadyShello said:

No idea what this show is but from the gifs it looks fun.  Someone identify please?

As someone else said, it's Super Troopers. Hugely popular but personally I think it's way too dumb and I can't even finish it. Hubs keeps forgetting that I haven't seen all of it and makes jokes using quotes from it then wonder why I don't get it. I haven't actually seen that particular scene but I've heard it quoted enough I knew what it was.

34 minutes ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Oh Christ, I didn't even think about what all this will do to my feet. Oh well, my feet are a mess already and I was bound to lose a few toenails eventually.

Eeek! I just meant that my PF would flare up so bad I wouldn't be able to walk. I had a bad enough time after doing 5k mud runs two weeks in a row. Hopefully you can keep all your toenails

3 hours ago, Wild Wolf said:

To be honest, those were some of the BEST PB&J's I've ever had lol. The French Toast one was prolly my favorite. *Drool* DAMN! That was so good. Me thinks I need more  

YOU'RE NOT HELPING! Guess who's probably going to have a french toast PB&J while home recovering next week

4 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

That means that May 2017 currently looks like this:

6th: Dirty Weekend (20 miles)

14th: Nuclear (12k)

21st: Tough Mudder (12+ miles)

My feet hurt just reading that. Good luck and kick some ass!

Day 8 - Sunday