Saturday, December 13, 2003

Keeping On Going One Step At A Time

I have been walking on the treadmill this week.  The knee is hurting, especially after 20 minutes or so.  At this rate, I will never be able to complete a half marathon, much less a full.  It's almost always on the inside of the kneecap where the pain is.  Therapy is going well, Theresa keeps coming up with new exercises for me.

I know that I shouldn't complain, especially with what ML is going through.  I'm just trying to get active again, the timing being for personal reasons.  But she is literally fighting for her life.  At least I have relatively good health.  A knee is so minor compared to cancer.

We are going to Eddie's tonight, but I doubt I will dance.  I just hope that I can stay OP with about 10 FPs since I haven't really earned any APs today.  I will go do some exercises and that should earn a few.

On the weight loss front, I imploded last weekend and ate totally off plan all weekend.  I was telling Mel and Donna about ML at La Familia last Friday night, and that made me decide to start on the margaritas... two margaritas, chips and queso, and a combination plate.  All weekend was like that - french fries 3 days in a row.  Another 3 pounds came back on this week.  So on Monday, I committed to staying OP for the next 2 weeks.  I'm doing pretty well.  We went to dinner with Adam Wednesday and I did have a few more points than I planned, but I also wasn't planning on having dessert.  But I still have 19 FPs today, so that is good.

One note:  bread is still my downfall.  We go to a restaurant that serves bread, and I'm all over it.  Chips at Mexican food restaurants - I'm there.  It doesn't matter if I eat something right before I go, I want the bread.  I don't know what I'm going to do about that.

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