adios chocolate

Obviously Saturday is a better update day choice for me.  I'm not going to even mention the word late anymore.  Here is my update Steve! 

One of the blogs I glance at now and then is Pippa's Porch.  Today I left this message for Pippa:

You are stronger than you think.  Also, why not refuse to allow the weight to get in the way of anything else?  I think you are like me and might be treading water waiting to resolve the weight issue before moving forward somewhere else.  How about disregarding the weight and taking care of the rest and seeing what happens?  My new state of mind (at least where I am trying to get myself)  is working more on weight acceptance than change.   I think fighting (and losing) the battle of the bulge all of the time has prevented me from being as present as I would like to be in my life.

And I really mean it. Along with some other stuff that I am hoping didn't sound too stalkerish.   I am not going to pay attention to what I weigh for a while.  I'm sticking the scale in the closet and just going to keep on moving forward, with health in my mind, I'll continue kicking butt at the posh club,  but not focusing on scale weight or pants size or body fat and see what happens.  Obviously, I still need to tweak what I put in my mouth for health's sake.   I have to say bye bye to chocolate for gall bladder's sake.

I had another gall bladder attack last night.  There was chocolate gluten and dairy free muffin earlier int he day.   The attack was mild one, so mild, that I knew it was happening for at least an hour before I went to bed  (due to the referred back pain), went to bed anyway,  and the attack woke me up around 1 AM but I was able to get myself back to sleep by shifting positions and not lying on my front and when I woke up again a few hours later it was finished.  I do possess the ability to sleep deep though.  I call it sleeping hard.  I sleep hard.  I can wake up in the morning and there could be trees down, chaos and rioting and I would have no idea what happened.  Or on other nights when sleeping hard is not happening for me the husband could  toe twitch and I am wide awake and scrolling through my vast knowledge of every single episode of CSI to try to formulate some kind of strategy in which I kill him in his sleep (must stop the toe twitching once and for all!) and not go to jail.  But they always catch the murderer, so the husband, he lives to see another day.

Exercise was stellar this week, there was no substantial cleaning and as far as diet goes, there was much dried fruit and therefore some weight gain.  But recalling my earlier promise, me and the scale are taking a break, so I will only be able to tell you which pants zip up for a while.

Comments

[molly]

Sorry your gall bladder is still bothering you. When mine acted up I had to cut out all fats completely. I gradually added them back in and now I eat full fat dairy with no problems. Occasionally I get a twinge or a sore spot but I haven't had an attack since June of 2000.

I keep forgetting to come tell you that I've taken up running! I went for 3 weeks but had to take a break due to bursitis of the knee. UGH!! I hate being old and out of shape! I'll start back up after the holidays with some new running shoes. So far I've actually enjoyed it, totally shocking for me, lol.

Thanks for being an inspiration!

Molly

[Pippa]

Really appreciated your comment on my blog, Click, you've given me much food for thought. THANKS!

Just wanted to say about the gall bladder: My son's dad had his gall bladder removed, and he says life is SO MUCH better now diet wise, EXCEPT for chocolate. Since the op, he can't eat much chocolate, because it immediately makes him feel sick. So, for those folk who urge you to have it removed, I'd say an op is definitely not the first consideration. It might remove the attacks, but it's not necessarily going to be plain sailing. If you're removing chocolate already, then you're halfway there AND you get to keep your gall bladder!