Almost Done With Therapy

Tomorrow is my last day with physical therapy.  I'm up to 20 minutes on the bike and 15 minutes on the treadmill at a time.  I haven't done much this weekend since I went shopping with Mom yesterday and today has rained.  I will go back to Dr. Kolstad next week and I hope that I get clearance to resume serious walking.

I went shopping for clothes yesterday.  My jeans were 18W's.  I tried on both 18's and 20's depending on the brand.  Most of the tops I got were from the Misses section - XL's.  WooHoo!  I haven't lost much weight lately, but the fact that the sizes keep coming down makes it better.

Getting ready for the long drive to Atlanta on Wednesday.  It will be a really long day, but it will be great to see everyone over there.  I can't believe that Audrey will be 4 years old this week.

Therapy

I made progress this week when I was able to start riding the stationary bike.  I'm up to a whopping 15 minutes.  Oh well, it is still progress.  I'm doing more sets with more weight on most of my exercises.

On the weight loss front, I'm is a definite see-saw mode.  I was back up 3 pounds from the whopper 9 pound loss, and I as I snuck on mid-week, the weight just wanted to creep up.  But I weighed in for the annual Weigh To Go program this week.  The challenge is to not to gain more than 2 pounds during the holiday season.  We weigh out in early January.  Last year's challenge was the start of my weight loss since I loss 7-8 pounds during the WTG and I wasn't really dieting, just watching what I ate.

I'm struggling today to watch what I eat because I used all my flex points yesterday.  We were out on a search and I was at the command post all day.  It was so easy to snack even though I did well and stayed out of the doughnuts and sweet rolls.  I did eat Nutty Bars and some real corn chips.  And then last night we went to Black-Eyed Pea for dinner.  The dinner rolls and meat loaf were my downfalls along with the squash casserole for good food broccoli and salad.