Monthly Archives: November 2016

I made it 3-ish weeks this time 🙂 The same workout for very long loses my interest. I thought I really had the proper level of commitment this time. But with the whole “New Directions” decisions and activities this week, I was kind of taken off course.

I’m still on track nutritionally 🙂 I am not taking a full on “throw my hands up” course direction change. Just my workouts. I want to get up and get them done in the morning. Since I started my new meds, I pretty consistently wake up by 5:00. I could be using that time to workout, I’m not because I don’t have the determination to do an hour workout at that time of day. I also would like to start walking/running again. So I was thinking a 30 minute program in the AM and a trip to the gym at lunch. As long as I keep moving – that’s moving me forward 🙂

I will get some current pictures to keep track of this journey especially since I will be starting with the “cups”next week too. To be honest – my hips hurt after just 3 days of not working out this week. My body needs it – we all need it – but it hurts when we first start so we stop and stay in the same old age pain.

I also want to make a small note about my new directions. It seems to have “inspired” another coach that was on my team to make the same move. It’s hard to give up on something you believe in. But the fact that this really made us both feel like a failure more than anything, it was very freeing to let go and move on.

As I said the other day I had gone through and stopped a bunch of auto-ship, subscription things that were being charged to my credit card. I did the solid math yesterday; we are saving $227 a month! That is really going to help pay for that vacation in May. And I’m still working to fit in and look awesome in that thong 😉

Have a great Day!!

I just spent about 30 minutes canceling my subscriptions and Coach accounts (Mine, John’s & Dustin’s)

I am no longer a Beachbody Coach. I love the products and have nothing bad to say at all – this was me. Actually I did it because this is not me. I have tried really hard for 4 years to be successful at this. But I am not a sales person. I don’t like having those conversations. I do what I do because I like to help people. And if I can not be successful helping people because they feel like I just want to make a sale…I’m not being helpful at all.

I also was going through our Credit card and called and stopped all items that auto bill us. Goals baby – and making conscious decisions about where our money goes each month is huge to hitting those long term goals.

My big WHY when I started my business was so I could give John the opportunity to leave his job if he wants. He and I have talked about this many times – it really is not my job to save him 🙂 I love him and we will get though whatever comes our way.

I’m not sad. It was not hard to do. I did feel like I was letting some people down. But I’m not. If anyone truly wants to be a success in this business – it’s on them and who their coach is does not really matter. I guarantee it.

I will get some new banner pictures put together so the site is not so boring.

Don’t be sad for me 🙂 This has been a long time coming. I’ll be posting a link to my Amazon store soon. That is where I will share the things I take/use/suggest 🙂

Morning!

I missed three workouts last week while I was sick so I decided to do week 3 over again. Week 4 is a “recovery” week and that will work better falling on Thanksgiving week. Lots of yoga and stretching 🙂

SO I wanted to share some pictures I took yesterday. The one on the left boarders on “inappropriate” but now quite and I needed to not have a bra so you could see something.

In the side view picture I have circled a area that I want you to take note of. This is one area that has some super jacked up fascia from my tummy tuck. When they do a tummy tuck they lift your skin off the whole abdominal area so they can pull the damaged skin off and lay the good stuff down. Well where the area is all like bunched up is the line where they stopped lifting leaving a line of really messed up fascia. That also contributes to the back fat rolls. It’s one of my pet project areas before Hawaii. I am getting some silicone cups to start working on that area and the under butt area along with my Fasciablaster. Dynamic cupping really helps loosen fascia adhesion. That is what causes lumps, bumps and dents 🙂

So I have these ridge lines on both sides…I’ll try to use my camera to get a better shot of these before I get to work on them. my cups are due to arrive tomorrow.

OK off to workout!

Have a great day!!

Hello! I’m alive.

I have been so sick. I actually never worked out Tuesday. I will get back at it today I think. I can breath and my nose is not running down my face 🙂 The main problem I am currently dealing with is the air going from my nose directly to my throat and it huts.

My diet has been 100% on track though and that is huge. Typically when I get sick I go for comfort foods – read that as HIGH CARBS lol but I stayed 100% low carb and I’m proud of me for that 🙂

I don’t have much more to share today. I spent a lot of time sleeping the last few days trying to get well.

My grandson is healing well. He was here Tuesday and making all kinds of new chatter so I think he knows he can use his tongue differently. I’m sure the non-stop talking will follow.

Oh Hey – New topic: Ceramics. I used to go to a ceramics class once a week when I lived in Wayland. We would drive to Allegan/Otsego to a place called J & N Ceramics. A great lady ran this place from her basement. After I moved to the Grand Rapids area there was NOTHING up here. So now it’s been 16 years and still nothing in the area. I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business. I was a decent painter and I think I could teach others. I have been doing as much research as I can. There is going to be a decent chunk of upfront investment to get going, but nothing that has scared me away yet. What do you think? Would you come to shop or weekly classes???

Have a great day – I”m off to an afternoon of meetings.

This is it people – the last day we have to listen to the political ads on the TV NON-STOP! However we will have to live with the decisions made today.

I am proud to say – I did and I voted my conscience despite everyone saying a third party can’t win. FU! They could if everyone voted their conscience and not as a part of the political game that is played every 4 years! OK Off that box. Just go vote – no matter who you vote for – go vote, it does matter.

So I am on week 3 of “something” 🙂 Low carb, P90X combination and finishing up the first week of new Thyroid meds. I also caught my grandson’s cold. So while I have not missed a workout – Today’s plyo might not but the 400 calories it did last week 🙂

I still feel good overall on my new meds – I can’t tell if the drop in my happy outlook is purely the cold or a drop in something there. I will just get through this and see how I feel on the other side 🙂

I have NOTHING fun to chat about. I’m here. I’m doing my thing and I have not slipped – I have lost 4 pounds since October 18th. I’ll take it 🙂 That’s three weeks. Not bad.

My friend Lisa has been my Grave’s Disease Buddy for most of the 6 years that I have been battling this BS.

Lisa and I grew up together – 7 houses apart. I was her younger sisters friend through school – but life took us different directions. When I was found on Facebook by Lisa’s younger sister and she saw me posting about my Grave’s Disease, she had Lisa get in touch with me.

Lisa and I had both been seeing a CRAPPY Endocrinologist. I had left and found a much better one and she soon followed suit. Our new doctor listened to us and added T3 to our T4 treatment. Got our levels up and feeling decent. We both still were wanting to get on the porcine version of thyroid replacement – but our Endocrinologist didn’t have faith in it and we both felt pretty good so we were fearful to leave and look for another one.

This past summer when I saw him he announced his retirement. Faced with my family doctor taking over my treatment or having to look for a new Endocrinologist, I asked him to transfer my records over to my Anti Aging doctor. That is what he is called – LOL I’m still aging but I don’t have to feel the effects as bad. He prescribes my testosterone and such. I figure since he’s already managing my sex hormones adding the thyroid hormone seemed logical 🙂

So he is who has finally given me my life back. I should send him flowers!

The low testosterone that he replaced last summer – game changer for my marriage. Progesterone replacement – keeps me from feeling like I’m a crazy lady 14 days out of the month and now finally Nature-Throid for my thyroid replacement. I know it’s only been three days but I truly feel like my brain is getting air. If you go back to some of my old posts you will see that I talk about feeling like I’m underwater. And only once in a while do I feel like I’m swimming on top of the water. When I have the moments of being on top I look back at the underwater times and it makes me feel sad. Like “why can’t I get to the surface”, “What is holding me down?”. I feel like sun is shining in my head. It’s bright and airy and happy. I can only hope this is not one of the “swimming above the water” moments and its the new meds, and things are going to continue to improve.

I have been reading a lot over the last three days to learn as much as I can about the new hormones my body has access to. It should be criminal that doctors don’t all prescribe the natural stuff. There are so many new studies out that prove that the T1 and T2 are not inactive in the system. I mean my first response is “Why in the hell does my body naturally make them if I don’t need them?” I mean it just shows a level of arrogance that is ridiculous.

SO to any of my readers that also are on synthetic thyroid replacement – Find a practitioner that will transition you over to a natural form. It may not work this great for everyone this fast – but I think it’s your right to try. No one knows how YOU feel, but you. Fight for your right to feel good again.

EDIT: I have added a link to the Menu to my Photobucket site. It’s down for maintenance right now – but when it’s back up, if you click on it (I think) on the first page is a picture of me in a yellow polk-a-dot bikini. That was taken one month before I was diagnosed with Grave’s Disease. My life changed drastically after that. When The site is back up I will try to load the pictures I have since then – that yellow polk-a-dot picture is as close as I ever got to my goals. I hope this new prescription allows me to get back there…

So yesterday I talked about managing my pain and showed some of the areas that I worked on after my workout yesterday.

I got up this morning with these 🙂 The right side (left in picture) has three distinct bruises in a row right where I was hurting the most. You may be able to see the scar where I had shoulder surgery a few years back right next to one of the bruises. Lots of scar tissue have that area all locked down. I should start feeling better as this heals. I am hurting in the back of that shoulder today though – because I can’t reach my own back. My grandson had surgery yesterday so we were spending time with him and his parents last night and I didn’t have time to ask my husband to help me with that…again. I need a friend.

Never got bruises here before – I think this is progress toward making this pain finally go away 🙂

By the way – My grandson is fine 🙂 he was tongue-tied and at 2 years old was having a very hard time trying to say anything. They released his tongue and while he’s in a good amount of pain at the moment, I am sure he will heal up fine and soon be talking a mile a minute 🙂

Sorry to spam you today – but I just started my new prescription today and I need to document a few things before I get a month down the road and can’t remember details.

I feel good currently, not having to force myself to workout. I can’t say I get up and run down there but I have goals and I know that is what I need to do to reach them.

Hair is growing back in, skin is clear, libido is normal to high. Drive to do things for myself such as crafts and such have been waning. I have been crocheting but have not gotten to my sewing room much since last week. Not starving and easily sticking to my diet.

I have no major joint pain outside my shoulder and some in my hands that have not cleared up since starting back on the collagen.

I am not depressed or overly anxious about any thing. Today, being the first day on the new pills I did notice MUCH more intestinal noise…LOL Not forcing me to run to the bathroom noise, BUT lots of talking in there…Like Goron Mountain conversations.

Those are the only things I can think of that go to POT when my meds get changed LOL

I need to keep track of this – if things go bad I need to have a point of reference. If things get better I also need a point of reference 🙂

Today was arms and shoulders. I have had surgery on my right shoulder for bone spurs in the past and I am also right-handed so I tend to do a lot with that arm. I found today while working out that my right shoulder was really hurting. So I decided I was going to work on my shoulders and chest when I was done working out to get the tendons fascia and all the good stuff in there that is super tight to relax some.
I grabbed a couple pictures post workout and post blasting to track things and LOOK at my shoulders! The one that hurts so bad I seem to be favoring or something. It slopes or something. Need to work on that balance so I can help the pain. That being the post topic. This tool has been the best thing ever for my pain management. My hip, my feet – plantars fasciitis and the pinched nerve surgery has all been kept under control through proper stretching and “massage” with this tool 🙂
OH And I asked for a massage table for Christmas 🙂 I need to find a friend that wants to Blast and we can help each other reach that spots that are hard to reach alone 🙂 Like back of legs and butt 🙂

My site stats say yesterday was my best day ever in visitors – 66 views in one day. LOL my best day ever is 66 views. I have goals of reaching many many more than that on a daily basis – but I will take 66 as my previous best day ever was 57 and that happened 2 years ago.

So I wonder what I said yesterday that made my site collect 66 views?? No one ever talks to me and tells me what they like or don’t like 😉

My thoughts for this morning are still related to my Fasciablasting

Summer 2015

So this was me last summer at some point. I think it was just before Labor Day but I don’t have the date right handy. If you zoom in and look closely you will see what I am struggling with on my behind and under my buns. Dents, creases and general tightness. In the front view you can see the bulges on my hips from my tummy tuck scar and some of the creasing in my abs from my tummy tuck scar.

This is a goal swim suit

I know I’m not 20-something but really with the right work and diet I can look better than I did in my 20’s 🙂 I’m really focused and happy with my progress so far. And yes, I have bruises all over right now, but so what. When I heal things will be smoother and that is my goal.

I did my Plyometrics workout yesterday, and then I also met my friend at the gym and walked for an hour.  I can’t do that all the time but I felt good and it was good to get out and see real people 🙂

Think I’ll order that suit as soon as I get pain this month 😀

EDIT: I grabbed a close up of the pic above and also the one I posted last week to show where I see improvements