I started Weight Watchers on January 6, 2003 and have officially lost 70 pounds to date... my problem? The last month I have lost my focus and I can't seem to find it again. Why? The death of my father and the inability to exercise due to my knee injury. Plus, I'm getting to the point where I am cheating myself. Help!!!
My father passed away from cancer on August 31, 2003... practically in my arms. I was working to clean him up at the time. He was aspirating fluid and dried blood at the time. It was horrible. Fortunately, he didn't suffer long. In less than 12 hours from the time he started going downhill, he was gone. We barely had time to call my sisters to come home.
My knee injury - I have been walking since I started WW. When I started, I could barely walk a mile at about 2 mph. I set as a personal goal to be able to walk a 5K - the Race for the Cure in Atlanta on May 14. My sister is a cancer survivor and I wanted to do it in her honor, but mainly it was a goal for me to strive for. We ended up turning it into a Team event, with both my sisters walking and family and friends joining us. Once the Race was over, I needed another challenge. A friend of Kathy's had done the half marathon in Houston in January. I decided that if she could do it, so could I. I started training in July. I had worked the mileage up to 7 miles the day Daddy died. Then I started having some pain in my knee. It was thought to be a hamstring strain. I did some PT, and I thought things were improving. Then I did a 9 mile walk and towards the end of it, something in my knee snapped. I had an MRI last Saturday and have an appointment with Dr. Kolstad, an orthopedic surgeon, tomorrow. I haven't walked any sort of distance in 10 days.
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