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Sunday Weigh-In July 21, 2019
Good morning... I hope everyone has had a wonderful week.
It's been quiet in my world this week (for a change) and we haven't had any great catastrophes or family issues, of which I'm aware anyway, but then I am usually the last to find things out, so there's no telling what's happened that no one bothered to tell me about... :-)
Health-wise I'm doing relatively well. I had done the x-ray on my kidneys last week that my urologist orders periodically to check the multiple cysts that reside there and saw the urologist on Friday. There weren't any surprises there, except that I have a raging infection so I've been started on antibiotics and samples have been sent out for cultures to find out exactly what we're dealing with. I suspected a UTI, but for the first time in many years, I wasn't sure because it didn't act like UTI normally does. Apparently, I'd had it for a pretty good while, as I'd begun to get chills/fever and other symptoms of infection that I don't normally get with a UTI so it must have been spreading through out my body.
Anyway, he put me on a different antibiotic than he normally does and the side effects are it's taking a toll all its own. Yesterday afternoon, I became very nauseated and last night was unable to eat anything, etc.
On a good note, I'm glad I didn't get sick until later in the day because I was able to go out to breakfast yesterday with a good friend to celebrate her birthday, which had been earlier in the week. We don't get together nearly often enough because she still works every day so we spent 2+ hrs at the restaurant catching up on everything we've missed since we got together for my birthday last month...
It was a good thing I got breakfast, because that was the only thing I was able to put into my stomach for the rest of the day. In view of that, one would think I should have lost some weight but, sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case - at least not at 4:00 this morning.. I'm the same as last week, but if everything goes the way it did last week, I should be down a couple of pounds later on today.
I still haven't figured out what's with upward trend in my weight. I was doing so well when we left to go to Iowa in May when my MIL passed way. I gained 2 pounds while we were there, which wasn't a big surprise because we ate at my brother-in-law's house most of the time. He's tall and thin and his metabolism matches that of a hummingbird, so he can eat pretty much what he wants. Neither he nor his wife cooks so they live on frozen pizza and burgers and it's no wonder I gained weight while we were there, but I thought I'd be able to lose it once we got back home. Not so, even though I've gone back to my regular eating. In fact, I've continued to gain, at least another pound, but sometimes, as much as 2 pounds more. I know, often, it's fluid retention, but that's not always the case.
It's been terribly hot here so I haven't been going for my nightly walks... that does make a difference for me, even though we've read that exercise doesn't really help us lose that much weight. I think there's something else going on.
I have to go for routine blood work this week in preparation for an upcoming visit with my primary care doctor the first part of August, so that might shed some light on things. Of course, the first thing that comes to my mind is always thyroid hormones imbalance. I'll have to see how those turn out. Even if they're in the lower part of the ranges, my doctor probably won't increase my dosages any, though because he (incorrectly) believes that if they're "in range", they're good, In fact, we all have our own "sweet spot" which is that particular place at which we feel/do our best.
Anyway, that's where I am... not a real good place, but I hope to see some improvement soon.
So how about you? I hope you've reached whatever goal you set for yourself this past week.
~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~
It's been quiet in my world this week (for a change) and we haven't had any great catastrophes or family issues, of which I'm aware anyway, but then I am usually the last to find things out, so there's no telling what's happened that no one bothered to tell me about... :-)
Health-wise I'm doing relatively well. I had done the x-ray on my kidneys last week that my urologist orders periodically to check the multiple cysts that reside there and saw the urologist on Friday. There weren't any surprises there, except that I have a raging infection so I've been started on antibiotics and samples have been sent out for cultures to find out exactly what we're dealing with. I suspected a UTI, but for the first time in many years, I wasn't sure because it didn't act like UTI normally does. Apparently, I'd had it for a pretty good while, as I'd begun to get chills/fever and other symptoms of infection that I don't normally get with a UTI so it must have been spreading through out my body.
Anyway, he put me on a different antibiotic than he normally does and the side effects are it's taking a toll all its own. Yesterday afternoon, I became very nauseated and last night was unable to eat anything, etc.
On a good note, I'm glad I didn't get sick until later in the day because I was able to go out to breakfast yesterday with a good friend to celebrate her birthday, which had been earlier in the week. We don't get together nearly often enough because she still works every day so we spent 2+ hrs at the restaurant catching up on everything we've missed since we got together for my birthday last month...
It was a good thing I got breakfast, because that was the only thing I was able to put into my stomach for the rest of the day. In view of that, one would think I should have lost some weight but, sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case - at least not at 4:00 this morning.. I'm the same as last week, but if everything goes the way it did last week, I should be down a couple of pounds later on today.
I still haven't figured out what's with upward trend in my weight. I was doing so well when we left to go to Iowa in May when my MIL passed way. I gained 2 pounds while we were there, which wasn't a big surprise because we ate at my brother-in-law's house most of the time. He's tall and thin and his metabolism matches that of a hummingbird, so he can eat pretty much what he wants. Neither he nor his wife cooks so they live on frozen pizza and burgers and it's no wonder I gained weight while we were there, but I thought I'd be able to lose it once we got back home. Not so, even though I've gone back to my regular eating. In fact, I've continued to gain, at least another pound, but sometimes, as much as 2 pounds more. I know, often, it's fluid retention, but that's not always the case.
It's been terribly hot here so I haven't been going for my nightly walks... that does make a difference for me, even though we've read that exercise doesn't really help us lose that much weight. I think there's something else going on.
I have to go for routine blood work this week in preparation for an upcoming visit with my primary care doctor the first part of August, so that might shed some light on things. Of course, the first thing that comes to my mind is always thyroid hormones imbalance. I'll have to see how those turn out. Even if they're in the lower part of the ranges, my doctor probably won't increase my dosages any, though because he (incorrectly) believes that if they're "in range", they're good, In fact, we all have our own "sweet spot" which is that particular place at which we feel/do our best.
Anyway, that's where I am... not a real good place, but I hope to see some improvement soon.
So how about you? I hope you've reached whatever goal you set for yourself this past week.
~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~
Yeesh, no fun to get sick. I'm glad to hear the X-rays contained no surprises, though. And I hate to say it because I think you said you had a little trouble to find this doctor, but if my doctor knew less about thyroid hormones than me, I would consider shopping for another one. I don't mind a doctor not doing what I want if he is well informed, but I really hate it when my doctor knows less about a particular subject than I do. When I was doing IVF, my regular ob/gyn volunteered to me that she knew nothing about hormone therapy. (Was that ever inspiring. You're on tons and tons of hormones when you do IVF.)
We moved on Thursday, or, at least, moved almost everything into the garage of the new house. I hired the movers to do a lot of the packing, and thank heavens they did or we would still be where we were. But my sister, husband and I wound up packing many boxes ourselves, and the lifting and toting of heavy boxes (the books and canned goods were the worst) gave me one heck of a sore back. The effort served to keep my weight in the normal place, though ... no loss, but no gain. Given the hurried eating we did at fast-food places during the week, it could have been a real disaster, but the activity counterbalanced my ignoring healthy eating this week.
Now that the big, icky part of the move is done, we're at the repair stage. Gordon the builder brought in Jesus his workman, who patched the sheetrock where the vent pipe in the roof leaked long ago and caused a blister in the bathroom ceiling, filled in the cookie-sized hole in the garage wall where my husband bonked it with the bumper of his car, re-grouted parts of the tile floor (good on me, we still had a partial sack of the grout from five years ago when we put in the floor, and I actually found it the first place I looked), fixed with longer screws the doors that were scraping because the original hinge screws were losing their grip, and battened down the deck where a few board ends were coming up. Next week they'll put in less cheap-looking kitchen pendants (ours hang on long cords that have never fully unwrinkled in five years), put handles on the kitchen and bathroom cabinets (we never got that far ... the cabinets and drawers open easily because of the shape of the wood, so choosing handles got put aside), and shorten the landing and steps into our garage, which stick out unnecessarily into the parking space. Basically, this is that irritating list of little stuff that people just live with instead of hiring done, but it might catch the eye of a buyer and suggest no maintenance was ever done. Since there are no worse things about the house (we rebuilt it almost completely five years ago) I hate to display a bunch of cues that a suspicious potential buyer might take as indicators that the whole place is about to fall down. After the builders finish, the painters come to repaint one bathroom and do some touch-up, and on the 31st, the pressure-wash guy comes to wash the house, roof, driveway and sidewalk. Then the open house.
We're off now to take some old hoses over. The new landscaping in the back yard needs water, and we're going to try this thing where you put a stop on the end of a regular hose, and drill some holes in it only where the shrubs are, making something like a soaker hose that only hits a few places. I hope it works, it's going to be hot this week, like everywhere else in the country, and I don't want the new plants to suffer.
Have a good week!
We moved on Thursday, or, at least, moved almost everything into the garage of the new house. I hired the movers to do a lot of the packing, and thank heavens they did or we would still be where we were. But my sister, husband and I wound up packing many boxes ourselves, and the lifting and toting of heavy boxes (the books and canned goods were the worst) gave me one heck of a sore back. The effort served to keep my weight in the normal place, though ... no loss, but no gain. Given the hurried eating we did at fast-food places during the week, it could have been a real disaster, but the activity counterbalanced my ignoring healthy eating this week.
Now that the big, icky part of the move is done, we're at the repair stage. Gordon the builder brought in Jesus his workman, who patched the sheetrock where the vent pipe in the roof leaked long ago and caused a blister in the bathroom ceiling, filled in the cookie-sized hole in the garage wall where my husband bonked it with the bumper of his car, re-grouted parts of the tile floor (good on me, we still had a partial sack of the grout from five years ago when we put in the floor, and I actually found it the first place I looked), fixed with longer screws the doors that were scraping because the original hinge screws were losing their grip, and battened down the deck where a few board ends were coming up. Next week they'll put in less cheap-looking kitchen pendants (ours hang on long cords that have never fully unwrinkled in five years), put handles on the kitchen and bathroom cabinets (we never got that far ... the cabinets and drawers open easily because of the shape of the wood, so choosing handles got put aside), and shorten the landing and steps into our garage, which stick out unnecessarily into the parking space. Basically, this is that irritating list of little stuff that people just live with instead of hiring done, but it might catch the eye of a buyer and suggest no maintenance was ever done. Since there are no worse things about the house (we rebuilt it almost completely five years ago) I hate to display a bunch of cues that a suspicious potential buyer might take as indicators that the whole place is about to fall down. After the builders finish, the painters come to repaint one bathroom and do some touch-up, and on the 31st, the pressure-wash guy comes to wash the house, roof, driveway and sidewalk. Then the open house.
We're off now to take some old hoses over. The new landscaping in the back yard needs water, and we're going to try this thing where you put a stop on the end of a regular hose, and drill some holes in it only where the shrubs are, making something like a soaker hose that only hits a few places. I hope it works, it's going to be hot this week, like everywhere else in the country, and I don't want the new plants to suffer.
Have a good week!
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