Phred, Fwed, and Schweffel?

Protected: Final appointment… and now we wait.

Nico — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:49:08 +0000

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Protected: 28w and a few more notes from Monday’s appointment

Nico — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:56:33 +0000

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Protected: WWW #6(?)

Nico — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:31:00 +0000

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Protected: MRI Confirmation and more thoughts…

Nico — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:41:18 +0000

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Protected: 27w4d and not so good news.

Nico — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:40:03 +0000

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Protected: Antony: 5y5m

Nico — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:18:17 +0000

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WWW #5

Nico — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:05:17 +0000

All in all a good week. I did have that run of BH contractions on Monday which was only tempered by drinking even MORE water than usual, and I did that again today (and finally felt like I was peeing enough), so I think I need to increase my daily target to the insane amount of 160oz (That’s about 1.25 gallons / 5L). Crazy! Exercise was good, snacking – eh, sleep – gotta work on that too. Baby steps!

Stats:
Pg week: 27
Weight this week: 147.6
Weight gained this past week: +2.4
Total weight gained: 20.8
Water goal reached in the past week: 7/7 (and then some!)
Exercise: 30 min stepping (R), 30 min elliptical (Su, W)
Strength training: 40 min upper body (R,T)
snacking: worse than last week…
sleep: 3/7

Goal recap:

Goal #1: 120oz water. Got this every day, up to 160 Monday and even more than that today. Going to up this to 160 because if it can stop me from getting regular BH, it’s worth it.

Goal #2: Cardio 3x. Check. Got my sister’s unused elliptical over the weekend, yay! This will help as my belly is now too big to use my ski machine, and it’s getting a bit chilly for biking outdoors (although still no snow, which is crazy!)

Goal #3: Strength training 2x. Check.

Goal #4: Less snacking! Not as good as last week. I need to pull my sweet tooth!

Goal #5: 8 hours sleep. Not so good. Will make this my major goal for the next week.

Minor GI thing is now the opposite, back to being backed up again. Gives me a good excuse for the gain of this week;). I’m fine with it – I’m up 0.6lbs over two weeks ago which is a good thing. Miralax for three days has helped, don’t know that I want to continue taking that for the next three months though. I have my next OB apt next Monday, will discuss with her then.

Protected: 26w5d

Nico — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:36:19 +0000

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Protected: Kiddo pics Nov/Dec

Nico — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:14:32 +0000

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WWW #4

Nico — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:11:00 +0000

Have I already been doing this for four weeks? Where is the time going? I had a wonderful time at karaoke last Friday night with a group of friends, one of whom asked if she should be worried about me, based on my WWW posts. I told her absolutely not. But the fact that she was wondering made me think I should clarify my purpose in doing this – I do NOT want to stop gaining weight, I just felt like gaining 2lbs a week was a sign that I was doing something unhealthy, and wanted a bit of accountability to get myself back on a healthy track. The recommended gain for someone of my stature is 25-35lbs… had I stayed the course I was on, I was definitely in line for a bigger gain than that. Which I would be fine with if I felt I was gaining that much while still being healthy, but I didn’t particularly feel that I was, hence my concern, and attempts to make some concrete changes.

Stats:
Pg week: 26
Weight this week: 145.2
Weight gained this past week: -1.8
Total weight gained: 18.4
Water goal reached in the past week: 6/7
Exercise: 30 min wog* (F), 40 min bike (Su), 75 min bike (W)
Strength training: 30 min lower body (M)
snacking: pretty good
sleep: 4/7

Goal recap:

Goal #1: 120oz water. Almost made this every day. Got off track yesterday, but still managed about 90. What I’m really curious about is where all this water I’m drinking goes. I would guess I pee out only about half of it, if that. I drink 18oz right before bed, and it still doesn’t wake me up in the middle of the night to get rid of it. How is that even possible?

Goal #2: Cardio 3x. Check. If you include my *”wog” on Friday – I did intervals of 0.5mi jogging, 0.25mi walking (on a track so I know). NOT my favorite activity, but something one can do anywhere without equipment… my calves were not pleased with me for the next three days however!

Goal #3: Strength training 1x. I really would like to up this to two, but realized that between cardio 3x and strength 2x that’s five days a week, which means only two rest days and honestly I just don’t feel like exercising more than four days. Will keep working on it

Goal #4: Less snacking! Felt like I was MUCH better with this goal this past week. Definitely not eating as much junk food.

Goal #5: 8 hours sleep. Definitely the hardest one for me. I only seem to manage when the kids turn the TV on for themselves in the morning and let me sleep in until around 8. There are always dishes to do, plus I like to email / write on the FT board, and that means I’m not getting to bed until 11 at the absolute earliest.

I did also have some minor GI thing going on this week (#2) which I think is why my weight was down, it really does help to clean things out. I’m feeling much better now that I’m coming closer to meeting my goals, so for me this weekly accounting is really doing it’s job