Thank you guys so much for your support and ideas so far! I added my results to the side of my blog so I can keep a running tally and I am going to add my minutes exercised a week...after I move. It would be a non-motivator to do it now. Unless I can count carrying boxes as working out...
I am happy to announce that I have stayed the same as last week! I know that sounds crazy, but the head cold I had settled in my chest and I have not been able to work out at all, all week. I have asthma and although it is much better than it used to be I still struggle with it when I get sick. I have spent this week going between the dry cough that is so hard I almost throw up. And then to the wet, raspy, coughing stuff up days. (I know that is too much information...)I spent yesterday in pain because I needed to cough stuff up but couldn't which meant I couldn't breath. (I know too much info. again...) I took my inhaler about a million times and my shoulder and back are aching. For some reason when I can't breath I find myself standing and sitting up really straight. I think it makes me feel like I will get more air in if I do or something.
Also lets face it when you are packing to move there really is no time to cook healthy food especially when every room in the house is partially packed and you can't accomplish more because you a hacking up a lung! I have just been watching my portion size (besides a couple of times...last time going out with good friends before we move...we went to the Moose cafe and the meatloaf is easily two portions and yes I ate it all. I am being honest here people don't judge me too harshly) and that was enough to not see the scale creep back up! More good news is I only coughed for a couple hours last night so I actually slept and I am feeling better today. I still have the cough but I can tell it is easing up and I feel like I can really accomplish something today.
I know these sound like excuses but when you can't breath, you can't breath! I am not giving up. I am rolling with the punches. This is life! Sometimes you just have to maintain and I am so glad I did! I know I will see the scale go down next week. If I was on the Biggest Loser Ranch they would have some how helped me find a way to exercise that didn't require breathing and I would have lost 6 pounds as I powered through the pain! Here in the real world I had to breath to live and I am very happy to not see a gain! I am not discouraged. Things like this in the past would have made me give up completely. Not this time. This time I am taking care of myself. Breathing is important and as soon as I can do it with ease I will set some new Wii Fit records and wear out the road! (Tina that is why I haven't told you what my records are on Wii Fit-I haven't been back on to see what they are to tell you!)
Oh I almost forgot: I can pull my jeans down with out undoing them! They are seriously hard to keep up! Great feeling...except I have no pants to wear the next size down. I have 4 pairs the size under that, so I have just got to push it!!!!
