Sunday Weigh In - April 3, 2022

[Barb135]

Good morning.  How is everyone doing this morning?  I think we're in line for a pretty nice day, but not totally sure.  We had rain all day yesterday, so hopefully the sun will come out.  Right now, it's pretty dark and dreary!!

So, it's been a pretty slow week for me again since I've had to stay pretty quiet with my eye surgery.  I saw the doctor on Thursday and they removed all the stitches that weren't supposed to dissolve.  There were a few of the dissolvable ones that they snipped, as well, because the ends were poking my skin and causing red rash, and of course, the infernal itching.

All that said, the healing is coming along very nicely and I'm thrilled to report that I can see much better now.  My peripheral vision is back to what it's supposed to be and I'm surprised (pleasantly) at how bright the sun seems without my eyelids for "shade".   I'm now allowed to get back to "normal" with very few restrictions.  This coming week will be a busy one, as I try to catch up on some things I've had to let go over the past couple of weeks.

Of course, one of the first things I have to do is get back to walking.  My walking partner is gone for the summer, but I'm going to have to be disciplined enough to go on my own, as well as getting in other types of exercise.  Needless to say, I haven't done well with my weight over the past couple of weeks.  It's still fluctuating by several pounds/day.  I can feel my feet/legs swelling and going down, so I'm actually staying off the scale for the most part.  I've cut back on food intake, but I'm not sure that's the best thing to do, at this point since metabolism, actually, slows down if we don't eat enough.

I do have a doctor's appointment tomorrow.  He ordered a bunch of tests to see if I might have some type of impairment with glucose processing.  I've struggled with pre-diabetes for several years.  This time, my fasting glucose was higher than normal, but A1c was good and another test was lower than normal.  I'm not sure how he's going to interpret all that.  My protein level was also lower than normal, so that has an effect as well.  Low protein is something I've struggled with for quite a while, as well.  It seems to fluctuate quite a bit just like my weight does.  We do know that I have some malabsorption issues, but whether there's much to be done about it remains to be seen.  

So, that's where I am.  Because I feel quite bloated this morning, I'm going to guess my weight is up, but I'll weigh later and report.

How has your week been?  Have you been able to reach whatever goals you set for yourself?  I hope you're doing better than I am.  :-)

~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~

**Stay safe and wash your hands**

[AnnieBrooke]

I'm down 1.7 lbs., a noticeable change after weeks of being essentially plateaued. I haven't eaten quite as much at dinner, and have been trying to make every meal very healthy, and the sweets I like are all gone. Plus, we've been painting walls at the new house, not major exercise but constant activity and less time sitting down. It's nice to see some actual movement at the weigh-in after so long.

My family has bad bones; osteoporosis made my grandmas on both sides classic bent-over ladies by the time they were dowagers. After I fell off the ladder hanging Christmas lights, my HMO had me come in for a bone-density scan. They said the break I had in my radial bone is considered the kind of break you get if you have osteoporosis even if the fall is not the standard old-person-falls-in-the-kitchen kind of fall but is instead 6 feet onto a cement driveway off a ladder. I knew already from scans ten and fifteen years ago that I'm in the "less dense than average" category in my age group, no surprise given the family's bone heritage. But since I've been on hormone therapy in the interim, I kind of hoped (without thinking about it much) it wasn't worse than that.  But no, my density level has ticked down from "less dense than average" to "osteoporosis." They don't characterize it as severe, but suggest I take Reclast or Fosamax.

To me this was surprisingly emotional to hear. I associate osteoporosis totally with old ladies, not women with a son who is only 15. It made me have to face that the age gap between me and my son is larger than a lot of other parents, and I'll be old sooner and also leave him sooner. It was really depressing. (And this was just over porous bones! It's not like it was a cancer diagnosis.) Until now, my husband and I haven't had to face that the clock will stop ticking sooner than we act like it will. I think having a child later in life convinces you that you're a young parent, and nothing disillusions you until you have some obvious health thing change.
It's not a crisis -- my mom is 94 and (thanks to Fosamax) not bent over, but it did give me a good emotional wallop.

Our taxes go tomorrow to the accountant (they were tough to assemble this year and I stalled a long time getting them together). Once those are off my desk, I can do the final blitz on the new house full time, so we can move. Thankfully, the house we're selling seems to have been going up in value quite rapidly while we've been trying to get the new house ready, so the appreciation will probably pay for the move.

Have a great week!