Now that I have the big things behind me, Mike's death, chemotherapy and gall bladder surgery, I can focus on regaining the healthy body I had before all of this started.
The one year anniversary of Mike's death will be June 4. What an amazing journey this has been! One of the side effects of all of this is that I have gained 20 pounds, 10 after Mike died and 10 during chemotherapy. I have gone easy on myself through this part of my journey. The doctor told me I would probably gain weight while on chemo because I was taking large doses of cortisone. You could say it was a self fulfilling prophecy. Or you could say, 'The doctor was right!' Either way, that's what happened. I disconnected from the usual emotional sabotage because I understood what was going on. I told myself, 'It's ok. This isn't important now. When it's all over you know what to do to get your body down to a healthy weight again.'
I started seriously working on it when I was given the ok to start loosing by my oncologist. On March 25 I started. I didn't want to do Jenny Craig again because I didn't want all the processed food and the sugary desserts, no matter how small they were. Weight Watchers just seemed too complicated with their point system. The plan that felt right to me was Daily Burn. They have some new programs having to do with exercise mostly. But I use the tracker program. It includes food and exercise and body tracking. The cool thing is that the iPhone app and the online website synch. So I can make an entry on either one and it transfers to the other.
I started out at 165 pounds. Im now down to 158.5. Not bad for just 4 weeks on the program.
I plan to keep my weight loss entries on this blog. And save Traveling to myself for the larger picture of healing, peace and paying it forward.
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