It's been a busy 10 months for sure.
I changed up CPAP masks so I don't suffocate every night, and my AHI score is less than 1 (used to be 87), so yay for being able to breathe and sleep at the same time. My red blood cells went back to normal shortly after I started on the CPAP machine, which ruled out any more serious problems.
My little guy got screened and evaluated for special needs preschool and started it when he turned 3. He goes there half day and daycare the other half. He is doing great and finally chatting up a storm and learning new stuff all the time. He's running and climbing and generally acting just like crazy little 3 yr old boys should lol. He's got some sensory issues going on so we're working on getting him Occupational Therapy at school in addition to Speech Therapy.
My little man also had his second eye surgery to fix his lazy eye, and this time it was a success! And in a few years we'll know if his eyes have binocular vision vs monocular like Mama, this surgery helped make that a major possibility!
I also had surgery this summer, minor outpatient surgery. No more babies for this Mama, and a second procedure that will hopefully ensure I don't develop any more uterine polyps in the future. Together these allow me to get off the depo shot (birth control) which means my body will stop making me gain weight rather than lose it due to hormones being all wacky, my vitamin D deficiency may go away once its fully out of my system, and I don't have to get stabbed with a 2 inch needle every 3 months to take the meds. yay!
My daughter's Equine-Assisted Therapist had to leave her practice for a while due to pregnancy complications so she hasn't been to therapy in a while. But they hired someone new so we may give her a shot. We haven't been to the horse riding therapy place in a while either, it's super far, but we made it out once a couple months ago and got both kids up on a horse. Little man was not as enthusiastic as his sister lol. Besides that, she went to a great summer camp last year for just girls, it teaches them to be empowered and strong and keeps them on track with literacy and math all summer. For the 1st time since kindergarten, she is reading ON grade level (Yay!), so camp helped with that for sure and she loved it. Of course I'm sure she wasn't a huge fan of the reading and math, more so the other kids, and the weekly swimming and skating. She;s going back again this year though, they have a great program. She has also asked to be baptized, which is awesome and coming up in about a month :) So all good things for my baby girl who is almost 10 and not a little baby anymore :(.
I did start that weight loss group like I said I would. It's small, which isn't bad, but sometimes I feel like the pint sized dictator like my kid trying to get people to go each week lol. But a few show up religiously, and we're all losing, so that's great. We are doing a 5k next week, walking it, but it's a start :) Each week we try to have a different topic and then every few months we've been trying to do different activities. So far we did a freezer workshop and now this 5k. We may do another 5k and maybe a fitness class of some kind. Definitely will do another freezer workshop.
I went to a Hypniotherapiost for a while actually. We discovered that my brain is basically on overdrive all the time and I can't relax enough to do get hypnotized lol. I fidget constantly when she tried. Not shocking considering I'm ADD and OCD like my daughter and sessions were in the middle of the work day. It is weird though because childbirth hypnosis worked very well on me. But very different situation I guess. We tried another type of therapy called EMDR I think, dealt with eye motions and it's long been used on trauma patients and has been used in cases like mine with success. Not really so much with me. I stumped my therapist. She couldn't figure out why I was not staying on track with eating. She said I show no signs of being a compulsive eater or being addicted to eating, suffered no traumas that caused it. The only thing she could even correlate was that I had happy childhood memories of family dinner-time. And that may contribute to happy associations with food but definitely wouldn't cause this lack of motivation to lose weight. I had to stop going because of the expense, but she was helpful and I did get back on track after seeing her.
I found this great blog around that time too, it gave me some great info - http://susanpeircethompson.com/blog/ Of course, the lady who writes it is trying to sell a course that she teaches that is a boot camp, and it's super expensive. But if you ignore that, she has some good info and helpful advice. I've been doing some of what she talks about, that's how I've been losing. I'm not eating flour or refined sugar. I haven't cut out all grains, but mainly stick to oats and occasionally quinoa or sometimes brown rice. I do lowish carb, but not Atkins style low. I will eat potatoes, I will each honey or maple syrup. But basically I've cut out most processed foods and try and stick to actually cooking my own meals. I've been trying to do meal planning so I know what I'll be making, which saves time and money, and helps me stay on track as it's already planned out. Loving www.gatheredtable.com, it lets you pick what foods you don't want, let's you select what days to cook, how long you have, and how good of a cook you are and spits out a plan. If you don't like it you have a giant list of recipes you can pick from or upload your own. I got a black Friday deal but its worth it even if I hadn't.
I'm down about 18 lbs!! I'm also down 3 pants sizes :) So something worked. Thanksgiving & Christmas were rough patches but I recovered and lost what i gained those 2 months.
That being said lately I've been faltering a bit so I'm working to cut it out and get back on track. As we all know, I don't have the greatest willpower so just doing what I can to stick with it. The fact that I am down 2 sizes is definitely motivating me though.
The fact that my daughter sells Girl Scout cookies every year right after new years is not overly motivating for healthy eating though :) But I bought about half of what we did last year, so there is that.
But some more good news - My diabetic #s are staying low, that's my A1C that I get tested every 3 months. They have been in the pre-diabetic range for over 6 months so I no longer have to take my diabetes medication, I am now able to just control my blood sugar with diet and exercise alone. Woohoo! This is pretty awesome considering the all out pig I made of myself over the holidays lol.
But I don't have to stick myself with the needle every day for meds or take my blood sugar. I probably should a couple times a week for blood sugar, but we all know I can't remember to do that lol.
And some even more good news, hubby and I celebrated our 10th anniversary a few months back. We actually got to go away for a weekend - alone with no kids. We spent the weekend in a cabin up near Blue Ridge GA, it was great. We haven't done that since before my daughter was born - she's almost 10 lol. It was awesome! Wish the hot tub was working, but hey I still got to have some much needed alone time with my hubby.
I'm sure there's more going on, it has been 10 months after all. But that gets you up to speed for the most part.
Now on to my plans for the near future. I need to focus on the weight loss and stop the back and forth I've been having with this 5 lbs and the food cravings. I got some workout clothes and some new walking shoes. I have some yoga videos and I'm going to get started doing those, just trying to work it into my schedule. I think I will have to start working out in the morning before my kids gets on the bus, then shower and head to work after, It will make it so I have to work a little later, but I've been doing that most days anyway with it being so busy, so not much change there. I really want to buy the Cize.com dance fitness series, but that may be the ADD impulsive me talking, so until I can get myself up and exercising at least 4/7 days for 30 days, and get myself to bed before 11 PM, I won't invest in it. Fighting that urge hard because I do love me some infomercials ;-).
It is getting warmer bit by bit so soon I'll be able to walk more outside. My group found a nice walking trail right near my job, so that's pretty convenient.
Well that's all for now - let's hope I come back before another year passes :)
