I'm
so excited about my life I could burst! My hormones must be flying
extra high today allowing for this, but I'll take it! haha! I'm always
excited and hopeful about life and what the future holds, but lately I'm
extra excited. Here's the thing...I've been stuck at the same weight
for about a year now. I have exercised on and off during that time and
even started using "myfitnesspal" to track all my calories and exercise.
For a few months I have been consistently exercising and eating around
1200-1300 calories a day and I wasn't losing anything! I was even
getting headaches and have been extra tired. Thank the Lord for the
internet! Last week I finally got frustrated and got online and did a
little research and found that I was probably not eating enough calories
and that my body was thinking it was starving. So I updated my fitness
pal information and it upped my calories to 1530 a day!! All I had to do
was update my information...duh! I wish I had done that sooner. So for
the last week or so I've been eating those 1530 calories and
occasionally I eat back a little of the burned calories and I have lost 3
pounds! In just a week! I am flabbergasted! Who would have thought I
just needed to eat MORE?? I haven't lost that many pounds in a week
since I gave birth to Pax! :) Finally I feel like I'm making progress
and that I actually have hope of reaching my goal of being a size 6.
It's a lofty goal and I haven't been in a size 6 since I got married
almost 9 years ago, but I'm choosing to reach high this time. I believe I
can do it and I'm going to do what I can to reach that goal.
In
other news, I had my biopsy last Wednesday and it went about a million
times better than the biopsy I had 8 years ago. 8 years ago I just laid
on a table while the doctor jabbed my neck with a needle over and over
and over and over until finally I asked him to stop because I couldn't
take it anymore. Beforehand I remember him going into this big
explanation about how he couldn't numb me and why and he tried to
prepare me for the pain I was about to endure. That experience was
pretty traumatizing to both Josh and I. So I was pretty nervous going
into this biopsy, but it was a complete 180 from last time. The doctor
did it with the aid of an ultrasound so he could see exactly where he
was poking and he numbed me. It still hurt, but instead of a screaming
pain it was a dull pain and he only jabbed me 3 times and it was over.
Have I made you cringe yet? haha Sorry, I tend to go into more detail
than I probably should, but it's fun sometimes. :) I am still waiting on
the results from the biopsy, but I have an appointment in 2 weeks to
get them. I'm hoping they come back before then though. I hate waiting.
