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Sunday, March 05, 2006

Blame is so easy

It's so easy to blame things, even people, other than yourself that I've been wondering the last day or two if that's what I'm doing. You see, last Saturday after walking around my local hospital being trained for my volunteer job for almost two hours, I found the next morning I had lost two pounds! Well, I've been uncomfortable in my pants since Christmas time, being 10 pounds over what I want to be though only 5 pounds over what I was on average before the holidays. Since Christmas time I've been uncomfortable enough to need to loose those 5 pounds. After my birthday I actually started trying. And have not been succeeding.

For the first time in my life, I haven't been able to shed just a few pounds. Usually I just tighten my diet a bit, exercise more (or start exercising), and I can have a few pounds off in a few days. Five pounds in a week or two. Then last Saturday all I did was walk a whole lot, and I lost two. And on Sunday I did nothing and gained them right back. So I figured, AH! My problem is that I'm not exercising right. 20 minutes on the bicycle a few times a week may help my heart stay healthy, but it's not doing anything for my body to eat up the excess pounds.

So on Monday and Tuesday I spent 40-45 minutes on the bicycle each day, not riding as hard as usual but definitely "feeling the burn" as I crossed the 20-25 minute mark. Wednesday I didn't have time to exercise, and I did brake the eat only good to celebrate my Ma's 83 birthday with her. Thursday and Friday I spent 35-40 minutes each day on the bicycle, my body protesting anything much longer than that eventhough I was able to ride about 1/2 hour without a problem (a 5 minute improvement over the beginning of the week). Then yesterday, Saturday, I went out and walked for over an hour. It was fun, and felt great! And guess what!?

I've lost nothing. Not even one single pound.

At first I thought, perhaps my scale isn't working anymore? Perhaps because I weigh myself every morning (as I have been doing for years) it's in a rut and always just goes to the same number if I'm with in a couple pounds of it? Then I thought back to last week and how it said I had lost two. So it isn't broken or too worn.

Today my thought is it's the medication I'm taking, Lipitor. I've never had problems loosing a few pounds before, and I'm working harder than I ever have this time, with no results. So what, then, could be the problem? Well, I've never been on Lipitor before. Perhaps that's it?

I went online to look up the potential side-effects of Lipitor. Weight gain is not listed anywhere. Of course muscle problems is, that's one of the big known ones. So it's much more likely the Lipitor is the cause of the muscle pain I have at the top of my leg that won't go away, than it is for my not being able to loose extraneous weight.

Speaking of which, I should call the doctor and see if the medicine IS the reason this muscle isn't healing. I have no idea what happened to make it start hurting in the first place, I didn't have an accident or move anything heavy. And it's been a pain for many weeks now.

The weight loss quest continues. I'm back in the hospital today, volunteering. If I don't loose anything... well I don't know what I'm going to do besides be upset.


 

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