Please, not again

lately, I have been posting more to my Weight Watchen blog because it is a nice little community and unfortunately, however pretty this one is, no one reads it. Anyway, I went to post tonight regarding my daughter's "violent Twinkee" remark and my blog was not there. Again.

A couple of months ago, all of our weight watchen blogs went down with a violent server issue and Roni was devistated. During rebuilding, she decided to begin the Weight Watchen blog community once again. Now that I can't log in, it is scaring me.

Hopefully, I am just freaking out about nothing. :)

How could she not see it?

I woke up this morning, and my throat was killing me. I found a flash light, looked at my throat and saw a sore about the size of the tip of my pinky. After taking a few Advil, I called my doctor’s office, sat on hold then made an appointment with the nurse pratitioner. There are two doctors I see on a regular basis. Both are female, both very good. One of the doctors recently had a baby so it has been a little harder to get in, hence me seeing the nurse practitioner.
I was pretty convinced I had strep. I have had a headache for several days, not to mention the big sore on the back of my throat. I weighed and was shocked to see that I was at 134.6 which is an all time low for me. When the NP came in she said that the strep swab wasn’t showing strep. She asked me to open up to take a look and said she couldn’t see anything. I said, “you can’t see that sore at the back of my throat?” “There is nothing there”, she said.
So I swallow and it hurts. She gives me the typical “you have a virus/we don’t know what you have” answer and tells me to call in a few days if my throat still hurts. I leave and as soon as I get in my car, open my mouth and look in the rear-view mirror only to see the sore plain as day. WTF?
So to make a long story short, I’m a hurtin’ unit today. I can barely swallow and I am a little worried about the weight. 134 is low for me. It still puts me on the edge of a healthy BMI but I really don’t want to lose any more weight. People at work are already saying that I have an eating disorder (which I don’t. I just don’t eat much bad stuff anymore). If I lose another 5 pounds I will be underweight for my height. I can’t believe I am saying that when I was 45 lbs heavier in January.

Sleep, the key to weighloss?

Every day I receive a fax called the Business Digest. There are usually interesting management articles, headlines regarding mergers, and the Quote of the Day which I enjoy. Today there was a section called Health and Fitness so of course I read it. Under the few health tidbits section was a bulleted point that caught my attention:

Lack of sleep releases hormonies that stimulate your appetite.
Oversleeping means you burn less energy in a day.

Those two small statements didn’t surprise me. I have always preached the key to successful weightloss is sleep. Not because of any extensive research, mostly from paying attention to my hunger signals.

I remember one day I was starving all day. It seemed like all I wanted to do was snack all day. Although I didn’t give in to the snack attack, I continued to feel hungry, even though I had eaten what should have been satisfying meals. Like most of us who diet, we get into a routine as to what we eat, usually eating the same things at certain times. For example, I usually eat oatmeal for breakfast because I know it is filling and doesn’t require me to have a snack to make it until lunch.

On this day, however, I had my oatmeal for breakfast, was hungry and hour later, ate a snack, had my usual 6 or 7 point lunch and was hungry an hour later. Analyzing what was different, I remembered that I hadn’t slept well the night before. How is that for research?
After reading the Business Digest article, I decided to do a little more research on sleep and weightloss. I found the following articles online.

Sleep Away the Pounds - By Cherie Calbom

It’s not all in your head - Unhealthy eating and weight gain

How Sleep affects your weight

Leptin and Ghrelin: Their Role as Appetite Hormones

If you need help sleeping, you may want to read the 4th article as it is a bit more scientific but it was still very informative.

Sweet Dreams!

Official Weigh-in

Friday's official weigh-in at WW for August was.......139.0. That puts me down 41lbs since I started on January 4, 2007. Of course I am maintaining at this point but the ladies at the scale were giving me a hard time. My WW goal was 150. My personal goal is 140. So to the scale ladies, I am 11lbs lighter than my goal.

Yeah for me!

Monday Food Journal

I went over yesterday but still felt good to be journaling again. If it weren't for the alcohol I would have been fine.

Lower-Sugar Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal 2
Turkey on WW Wheat w/Mustard 2
Tomatoes and Lowfat Cottage Cheese 2
8 Bing Cherries 1
Cousin Willie's Microwave Popcorn 2
Homemade Vegetable Soup 5
2 Highballs w/Diet 4
2 Miller High Life Light 4


Total 22
Goal 20
Points Remaining -2

Water six-eight ounce glasses
Activity 0

This weekend I was down. My lower back was giving me fits so I was forced to sit around for two or three days, allowing my back to mend. During that time, I practically ate the house down. I refuse to let it get to me, however. Today, I am on plan, shedding the few pounds caused by sitting on my hiney most of the weekend.

This incident also re-affirms my belief that sitting around watching TV does cause an amount of activity boredom. Because the TV is stationary and you do not have to get up to enjoy it (except for the occational call of nature), I believe your body craves activity and that is where the munching comes into play.

One lady in particular I know combats this form of eating by knitting while she watches TV. Although it probably doesn’t burn calories, it prevents her from pigging out in front of Law and Order.

I am not going to post my menu for today until tomorrow and continue posting it for the rest of the week to keep me honest. That is the beauty of WW! If you get off plan and gain a few, you have the tools necessary to jump right back on the horse and shed it off.

Isolated Sprinkles

What in the heck are isolated sprinkles? I was checking the weather today for my area on NOAA's site and the short term forcast was calling for isolated sprinkles. I don't think I have ever seen that before. I mean, I have seen sprinkles before but have not seen it on the weather forecast. Who worries about isolated sprinkles?