sekhmet77

Guess who respawned last week?

My coworker is cleaning out her office before she moves to a new job, and she put a box of generic Ritz crackers on the table. There is a large part of me that wants to take that box, curl up under my desk, and not come out until the crackers are all gone. *pity party over*

Woohoo! On track this morning - Walk achieved, litter scooped, breakfast consumed at home, and to work on time! I am a machine! My walk is not very long - only about 7 minutes (1,000ish steps), and I feel like maybe I should be doing the loop twice...but I worry that if I try to ramp it up too much before I've gotten the habit of the walk down, I'll punk out and give in to the lure of my flannel sheets. I'm going to do my best to remember to leave the office at lunch and walk up to the bank. Lunch will be spaghetti squash and kahlua pork* from an earlier batch cooking session. I'm on a mission to empty out a lot of the freezer meals this month. *Does not contain Kahlua, it was pork shoulder (I think, it was a while ago) draped with bacon and cooked in the slow cooker until it fell to pieces.

Haha, who forgot to leave the building at lunch? Three guesses, and the first two don't count! I also forgot I had a massage booked, and by the time I'm finished with a massage, all I want to do is go to bed. So tonight's dinner is hot cocoa made with 3.25% milk, cocoa, some butter, and a splash of maple syrup (I'm Canadian, maple syrup finds its way into almost everything). I'm for bed.

Ugh, so yesterday was apparently Migraine Day all around. Low-key headache all day at work, and by the time I got home it was all I could do to get dinner (which was mostly vegetables, so good job me!) and then fall into bed. No litter scooping! This morning, because I was so groggy from the migraine and sleeping, I barely managed to get up in time for work. Managed the litter scooping, did not manage the walk. But I'm at work now, ibuprofened up, and plan on walking to the bank at lunch time in lieu of the morning's walk. Keeping a food journal is ... difficult? I worry that Dr S is going to be concerned about the primal/paleo-style of eating, or she's going to require more exact measurements than I can give (food measuring ties in with my disordered eating stuff, so I'm mostly eyeballing it). But no sense in driving myself bonkers over it. I'll see her again in three weeks and we'll go from there.

Ugh, was yesterday migraine day all over? I had a lowkey headache all day during work, and by the time I made it home I was down for the count. I ate dinner and fell into bed by 7. Barely managed to get up in time for work, let alone do my morning walk

I'm trying to tie the litter thing to the morning walk thing, so that I do one and immediately do the other. That didn't happen this morning (I walked, but didn't scoop before I left for work), but I think if I can work it into the challenge, it will be a good thing.

The old dude would use the same litter until it was a solid lump if he had to, but the Shitten is a diva and poops on the floor the moment the box is no longer up to her standards. I'm trying to stop that cycle!

Well, the good news is I don't have to be fasting for my bloodwork - YAY! The not so good news is that I am shrinking! and not the way I want to shrink - I am down a centimetre from my last visit!! Maybe it's just all the weight compressing my spine? In seriousness, the doctor I saw today was great - she shares a patient list with the unfortunately super-attractive* doctor I saw last time - and she's all about the slow and steady, baby steps, realistic weight loss and exercise goals. Yay x2! She's having me keep a food/exercise diary, and I'm able to see her every 2-3 weeks to keep following on my progress. This is the first time I've talked about this stuff with a medical doctor (my shrink doesn't count ) and not left feeling totally demotivated. I feel quite lucky. Now, if only I could make my colleagues stfu about the cleanse they're on, life would be a bowl of strawberries. *I say 'unfortunately super-attractive' because he's totally hot and I could not concentrate on anything and my blood pressure went crazeballs because he was just that attractive. Dr. S is pretty, but I'm less worried about freaking out because of that

Back in December, when I read through essentially the entire RF archive, I started doing the "walk first thing in the morning" thing, and it was going pretty well. Of course, then came Christmas break when I had two 3-day weekends in a row (I work two jobs, and retail around Christmas is BUSY) and I got a fantastic set of flannel sheets. Getting out of bed was incredibly difficult But while I was high on blogs, I made an appointment to see my family doctor. I figure, I can't know what progress I'm making if I don't actually know where I'm starting from. So I'll be off to see the doctor in an hour, to talk about my health and figuring out what kind of bloodwork I need to get done. Excitement!

Haha, I had made notes for myself in December to not forget about the upcoming challenge, and then I totally forgot anyway J I’m Sekhmet - 38, female, living in the Yukon and tired of letting my body down year after year. As I said, I was making notes back in December, so this isn’t a New Year’s Resolution. I quit smoking 3-and-a-bit years ago, and I’m still waiting for my lungs to catch up to the program - I’d like to make it to the top of the stairs at work without feeling like my heart is going to pound out of my chest. Probably would have helped if I paired quitting smoking with moving more, but I didn’t. Host of reasons why, but when I start to type them out, they sound a lot like excuses. I’m done with excuses. I’ve been working my way into a paleo/primal way of eating over the past few years, but keep going back to my old faithful, white flour, whenever I have an emotional crisis. I’m pretty tired of that. I’m hoping to find an accountabilibuddy here, as I am pretty limited in RL folks. So, hello, Rebels! I’m glad to be here. Diet Eat a (not!sweet-potato) vegetable with every dinner Make one new dinner recipe per week Fitness Walk once around the block as soon as I wake up (get my blood moving in the chilly Yukon air) Level Up My Life Scoop the danged cat litter every day (this is honestly the hardest task in my day - it’s an executive function thing)