WDisneyMom
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Hey, ya'll!
I should probably do an update, since it's been about a week since my last one! Work has continued to get even more insanely busy, so I know I'm behind on all of your threads! I'm going to try to rectify that ASAP! Thanks for still being here with me... even though I'm always behind on the DIS!
There's no updates on this October 2016 trip, really. I've been rolling a few things around in my head about it, but nothing worth writing about yet. Hoping that might change soon, though! Though I do have an announcement about another trip in the works, but I'll get to that later in this update, so stick around!
Regarding my health stuff... Thank you ALL so so so much for all of your wonderfully supportive comments! You're all so encouraging, and it just does my heart so much good!
My follow-up with my doctor last week went okay!. The good news was that my lab work from December came back beautiful! All my numbers on it were good! Even my cholesterol was perfectly fine (and for a fatty-red-meat-loving carnivore like me, that's surprising), as was my creatinine (I have a history of kidney problems due to my Lupus, so this value is important for me). Shockingly, even my blood sugar was okay! Only mildly elevated, but not to any level that alarmed him. See, I also have PCOS, which makes my body resistant to using insulin like it should, so it was unsurprising that it was slightly above normal. But it was nowhere near Diabetic or even pre-Diabetic levels! I'm still hoping to see it come down more when I go back in April, due to my new eating habits. So that was all good news!
The bad news: Even after faithfully taking my medication all month long, my blood pressure was still sky-high, and there wasn't ANYTHING on my lab work to help him figure out why.For right now, we're chalking it up to my weight and bad genetics (I don't think there's a single person in my family over 35 who doesn't have hypertension). He kept me on the same same blood pressure med (Ziac), and just doubled the dosage. He said we'll see how things look when I go back for my next follow-up in April, but I'm thinking that I may pop into Walgreens or somewhere to check it myself in about a month and see if there's been any change. If not, I might call his office and see if he wants to go ahead and try me on something else.
That same day, I also went to an eye doctor for the first time since 2009.I know, I know! I told ya'll I've been neglecting myself, though! Surprisingly, my prescription has only changed slightly. I was going to go ahead and pick out some new glasses, but my insurance only gives me an annual allotment of $150 towards lenses and frames. The cheapest frames they had were $220, and that's BEFORE the lenses!
NO SIR! So I took my prescription and left. Sadly, Walmart Optical isn't in my insurance's network, which is super crappy because they have GREAT prices on super-cute frames! Sigh. So right now the plan is that when I'm in Savannah next week for my follow-up with my pulmonologist (which is a $45 co-pay, by the way... have I mentioned that my insurance SUCKS?) for my Sleep Apnea, I'm going to go to the Lenscrafters there, which IS in my network, and hope that they have something I like that would fall under that $150 limit with lenses. Fingers crossed!
So that's it on the medical side! As for the weightloss/fitness side... Ehhhhh. Mixed results this week. It would seem I'm stalled at my 13 lb loss... I have not lost a single pound since last Wednesday. But I suppose I should be glad that I'm holding steady, and not gaining. Also, I have my "monthly guest" currently, which I'm hoping has a lot to do with it. It's actually totally ironic that she showed up to visit this week... Thanks to the Depo-Provera injection that I get every 3 months (to help with the PCOS), she actually only comes around to visit me maybe once or twice a year. (I know, lucky me!) But OF COURSE she shows up while I'm watching my weight like a hawk, just to mess with me!
Also, as I just learned from @Bree , apparently starting an exercise routine can make your muscles retain water for a while, too. So I might be getting hit with THAT as well right now...
Oh, what's that? Did I not mention yet that last week, I've started going to the gym and getting my fat butt on a treadmill 3 nights a week?
There's a 24/7 gym a block from my office here on base that I have free access to (because I'm a DoD employee). So every other morning, I bring a Disney tote bag to work with me, and in the bag is all my workout stuff... Change of clothes, headband, water bottle, earbuds, the New Balance running shoes I bought last week, etc. And when I close up the office around 6:15pm, I change clothes in our bathroom (because locker rooms have ALWAYS freaked me out, even in high school), then I head over to the gym, hop on one of my favorite two treadmills (yes, I have favorites already), and get to walking. On my first visit, last Tuesday, I kinda surprised myself by being able to walk .8 of a mile during my 30 minute workout (and felt like I was DYING the whole time, but I pushed through it). I know to most people that's pitiful, but to me, it was shocking. I mean, I'm the girl who gets winded just walking from the grocery store to my car!
So I made it my goal to be able to walk an entire mile, and that would be my first big milestone. Six days later, this was my mileage at the end of my 30 minutes...
I'm pretty proud. Not so much of the number, but of the progress. It makes me feel like "Hey! I CAN do this!"
I know me well enough that I need get my workouts in when I get off work at night... Once I'm home, I stay home. And if I'm home, I'm NOT going to get dressed and go workout. So instead of trying to force myself into a routine I hate and won't stick to, I'm crafting this around the routine I already have. I'm going to the gym in the evenings on M/W/F, unless it's a week where I'm off on Wed and work Sat (which happens once or twice a month), so on those weeks I'll do Tu/Th/Sat instead. But this isn't one of those weeks, and today is Wednesday, so that means tonight is a gym night! Hoping to get to 1.2 tonight... Fingers crossed!((EDIT, 7:34pm: I increased my workout time to 35 minutes, and made it to 1.31 miles. BOOM!))
It's important to me to keep pushing that number up up up. My eventual long-term goal is to be able to walk 3.1 miles in about 45 minutes, so I've got a lot of work to do. Why is this an important goal? 3.1 miles is the length of a 5k. And I've already decided on a major motivating force, something I have my heart set on doing. I've mentioned it a little bit in replies this week, so I'm sure some of you have already picked up on it, but I didn't want to say anything "officially" until I evaluated how my workouts went. But I feel confident now that I can make this happen...
When registration opens up this July, I'm going to sign-up for a runDisney event: I'm going to walk in the Princess 5k during the 2017 Princess Half-Marathon weekend at Walt Disney World.
(I would love to make a goal of running in it, and I admire the HECK out of distance runners... But sadly, that's just not in the cards for me. With my Lupus, I'll never be a runner, because of the wide-spread rheumatoid arthritis, which is particularly ugly in my knees and hips. That being said, in time, I might work in at least some jogging intervals. Just for better speed and cardio. But no hardcore running for this girl!)
And yes... I've already planned my trip dates for it (Feb. 23-27, 2017) and yes, there's already a spreadsheet in the works.
So see? Aren't you glad you stuck with me through all my rambling? I managed to tie it all back into DISNEY after all!!!!
That's all for this week! Love ya'll bunches!
Yes!! This is what I mentioned in one of your other TR's. I think the December one?! See you in February as I will be doing my first 5K ever in Disney!
while really obsessing over Disney!
Hope you're well, Billie!
At home in the evenings, I don't spend a lot of time on the computer usually. I'm either trying (and failing) to catch up with housework, or (as many already figured out) am lost in a book, or am dealing with my 2 darling well-behaved cats:
