Just another Wednesday

It is just another Weigh Day Wednesday and even though I have not exercised in 101 days I am still quite optimistic. After all I had set a target goal and reached it. The only major hiccup was catching pneumonia and the nasty after effects from that journey. Dropping almost three pounds in 24hrs is still something I look back on and wonder how I managed to make it (other than amazing family & friends). Today’s entry is just another Wednesday of muttering along with a Tornado Watch (woohoo) earlier in the day with a few thunderstorms that wrapped up this evening.

Today I did the same thing I have done every Wednesday for the past two years, get up before everyone else in the house and head to the scale. Surprise to me since the debacle of getting sick, ending up in the hospital and visiting far too many doctors I can happily state that I have gained back enough weight to keep the doctors at bay. I will be going back sometime within the next three weeks for a checkup after the last round of medicines they pumped into me, then hopefully get the OK to get back into my normal routines.

I spent a few minutes today gathering my thoughts about how I wanted to approach getting back into the workout mode, which oddly enough I do miss. Now I do not miss it like the time in high school when myself and a friend thought it would be great to run across town to “get into shape” then stopped at the local doughnut hole & gave up. Now that, that my dear was fun stuff. Looking back at that memory as funny as it was then, it is even funnier now. During those years in school neither of us had any reason to lose weight but it took me this long to actually realize it. Thanks for the fond memories friend.

Breaking out the tape measure this morning I also learned that I have shrunk more than I originally thought; now I am 5’9. That is just horrible, I am shrinking and it is not even my birthday (yet). I doodled around in My Fitness Pal to update my settings including my new target goal (I bumped it up 5lbs from the original). It states that I can hit the target by March 6th 2013 pending I start today.

The images below are just showing how far the weight dropped when I was at my sickest and what has happened in the past year though the latter is a little hard to read the numbers when cropped down to a reasonable size. The very first is the ticker I get each time I log into MFP with the image among friends to only be taken by those not light of heart. I would never kill a kitten, intentionally.

Honestly after losing as much as I did, I am not worried about the last four pounds. I will still work out when I get the head’s up from the doc and will be fine come the summer months but I am not going to stress over it. At this point I understand how the madness works and have some secrets up my sleeve that worked for me before and I am sure they will work again. I am however disappointed that in the past decade I have dropped almost three inches off my height. Now if I could just grow a little taller all would be good.