Running?? Whaty wha??

I've had an urge to run lately. What's up with THAT?? It comes and goes and is so weird, I have to stop and think "where did that come from?" I am not and never have been a jogger, but it seems when I'm outside I just get this "you should RUN!" voice in my head that tells me to break out into a jog. And I have still been big time lacking in exercise, meaning I'm getting pretty much none.

I think maybe it's partly because my body is telling me that it would now be much easier to move, with 42 lbs. less of it to move around.

So, this morning I went for a jog!

LOL, ok, so I took the garbage can out to the road, and jogged back to the house!! So that's what...about a zillionth of a mile?! It felt good! So then I got on the treadmill and did a mile, walking though cause that stupid belt still slips and yikes, I don't wanna be at a full run when it slips. Still, I did it at 3 mph, so a 20-minute mile, which is pretty much where I always start when I start exercising again.

The scale hasn't been moving at all lately, and I know I need to exercise. I really do know it. I just gotta DO it. Just DO it. : ) I know I'm not taking in enough calories to support my weight without losing, so it must just be another one of those lovely stalls with the scale.

I even thought about joining the gym again and not telling the family, cause they'd want to go too and we just can't afford $100/month for everyone to go. It would work now while I'm off work, but when I go back, that would probably be the end of that too, and a waste of money. Sometimes I wish I lived closer to town so driving to something like a YOGA class wouldn't be such a time/gas issue too.

So I'm still figuring this all out. Guess that's how life goes though, isn't it?!

Sad day...sorta!

I was a little sad on Sunday, but in a "good" kind of way.

I cleaned out my closet again, put all the bigger clothes in bags to give away. It was sorta fun, but the part that made me sad was giving away clothes I never even got to wear!!

There was this really pretty black sweater I had bought to wear to work and since I didn't go back to work yet this fall, I never got to wear it.

But I guess that's ok!

Special Kind of Stupid!

This morning I had to laugh at myself. I recalled a joke that sorta ended like this (I think it was a blonde or aging joke): "Now, I’ve forgotten my address...my mother’s maiden name...and my keys. But I’ve never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat."

Well, I guess I'm now a "Special Kind of Stupid!" LOL. Yep, I forgot to eat!

Never in my wildest dreams would I think I'd forget to EAT! Come on...just how do you do that?

You get gastric bypass surgery, that's how! For two months now I haven't had a hunger pain. Not one. And I love it. It makes this so much easier. I really don't look forward to the part where hunger returns, and it will, eventually. Then it'll get a little tougher and more of the old battles will return with it.

But for now, I'm enjoying being "stupid!" : )

The Beautiful and the Ugly!

Last weekend I got to go camping! I haven't been camping in a very, very long time, and then it was hot and with kids. This time it was SISTERS' WEEKEND!

We camped at Banning State Park near Sandstone. The fall colors were stunning, and the weather was pretty good.

On Saturday there was a 5K run/walk, and 3 of the 5 of us participated. Not me though. I just wasn't sure I could walk 3 miles at once. I probably should have tried, I'm sure the rule-breaker in me could have snuck through the woods back to the finish line if I needed to. It also cost $25, which right now I didn't want to spend, even though it was for a good cause.

Anyway, camping was fun. I took my meager rations but ended up mostly eating off stuff everyone else brought. Saturday night we ate out, and I ordered a fish sandwich, took off the bun and ate about 2/3 of the fish "patty." I think it was too much grease (it was like a McDonald's fish but better quality). A couple hours later, if that long, my stomach just started hurting and hurting and hurting. I laid in the camper after everyone else was asleep just waiting for it to stop. I ended up getting up three times to go to the bathroom, which thankfully was close by. The starry night was beautiful, but I really wished I wasn't out there to see it!

Anyway, the third trip I finally threw up, and again was surprised at that (amount and no chunks!). I immediately felt better, went back to the sleeping bag and fell right asleep. Whew. I knew I was gonna throw up, I just couldn't do it at first. It wouldn't work.

The next morning my stomach was still very tender/ishy feeling for several hours, then became ok. This is really a big learning experience, that's for sure!

We went for a little hike and the day was just gorgeous.

Oh yeah, we also had an Ugly Sweater Contest while camping. We were gonna do it Saturday night, but got sidetracked, so we did it Sunday morning. We went around the campground asking people to vote, it was fun! Most people just started laughing and happily participated.


I won. : ) I knew when I picked this sweater up at Goodwill that there wouldn't be much to beat it!

Tami, Ter, Mar, Carol, Val

Oh yeah, and I'm now down, as of this morning, 39 lbs.! Today is 8 weeks since surgery, I'm wearing size 18s (my 20s are too baggy to wear now) and even squeezed myself into a pair of 16 jeans yesterday, for about 10 seconds! I did button and zip them up, but that was about all I could do, I didn't even want to move or try to exhale!

The adventure continues....