NJRes - where are you racing? I find that 200 repeats are your best bet close to the meet date. Are you running any outdoor? Senior Olympic qualifiers are this summer.
Home scale, definitely, same day each week, same time, same conditions. When I had my annual physical last week, I refused to allow the PA to weigh me. She and a nurse said I had to get weighed. I said why. They said to determine my BMI. I said BMI is meaningless for me. I told them their scale wasn’t accurate anyway. I gave them my weight and BMI which I had determined that morning for this purpose. They didn’t believe me. My doctor just shook his head and rolled his eyes when he came into the examining room and saw the “would not cooperate” note in my chart. Just another day in my neighborhood, lol.
At my doctor’s office, they weigh you as is, coat, boots, and all! I asked if they made any adjustment - nope.
Mr. Sabaray and I went to the rolling workshop this afternoon and came home with some awesome little massage balls. We learned all kinds of releases, including some I’d never thought of but felt great!
blankmind, I know how you feel - when you plan to do something and can’t it’s a let down for sure.
“blankmind, I know how you feel - when you plan to do something and can’t it’s a let down for sure.”
@blankmind, I too know how you feel. Your situation reminds me of the Boston I qualified for and registered for and could not run because of my injuries. Most likely, I would have been right by that row of flags where one of the bombs went off at the most unfortunate time had I ran it! I did not think the knee would get better, but it did. Don’t lose hope.
This is the kind of stuff that drives me batty. Because of a long-standing medical condition, I have to get regular infusions of IV drugs. The dose is based on a certain number of mgs/ kg, based on my weight when I show up for my infusion. But because of the idiotic way they weigh the patients, the dose I get varies depending on what sweater I happen to be wearing that day. GRRRR!!!
The stuff is so expensive and my insurance company is so annoying that I’m always half-tempted to show up in storm-trooper boots just so the insurance company will have to pay for another gram of the stuff.
Lol, nottelling, that is very annoying. I am tempted to show up in my kid’s heaviest pair of Docs and the long, heavy shearling coat I bought for winter travels, so my doctor could give me a lecture on weight maintenance.
Nice weekend with the kiddos around! Everyone left by 2pm today so I was able to build up 15,000 steps between the 3 pup walks (it’s quite cold, so kept them to 15ish minutes each walk), cleaning up the house and many trips up and down the steps! Then did a 30 minute cardio sculpting video that OMG included lots of push ups - BB could have probably kept up but wow, I found myself modifying!
Great job, abasket! Housework does generate a lot of steps! I better go do some laundry before I get too behind on my steps. 
I had an obsessive moment yesterday. For some reason, my Fitbit thinks that I need to burn through 2,061 calories a day. At 11:35 or so pm last night, I noticed that I was about 100 calories short - yikes. I went flying up and down the stairs and ran quite a few circles around the house trying to get my heart rate up to burn those suckers! I fell just a few calories short of my goal. At midnight, all my steps and all my calories burned turned into turnips! Zeros. The new day began.
Stupid news of the day:
https://www.yahoo.com/health/man-vows-to-keep-potato-only-diet-for-a-year-165559990.html
H and I met his brother and his wife today and XC skied. Lots of fun, it was a balmy 20 degrees. Poor H, I had the car keys and he finished before us. He was freezing. We went out to dinner, I had hot chocolate with amaretto, yummy.
I’m sure it had a million calories, my eating has gone off the rails and I’ve put on a few pounds. Not good. Too much bad food and I can’t eat like I used to. So sad.
You’ve got that weight off before, you’ll do it again Deb! You know how to do it. It takes more than one hot chocolate amaretto to add a couple of pounds - so don’t fret about that splurge today, just move forward to tomorrow!
BB, I am TOTALLY laughing at your calorie count. Because I was at this end of the country doing similar! I was watching my steps earlier in the evening and wasn’t at my target steps yet, but figured I would get there. Well, all of a sudden I looked at the clock (was up much later than usual) and it was like 5 minutes till midnight. Oh no! I realized I was still short! I ran down to the basement and was running with exaggerated steps as fast as I could to be to my target before midnight - I mean, LIKE FREAKIN ATHLETIC CINDERELLA!!! Alas, as hard as I tried I was literally a couple dozen steps short of my target. UGH. So stupid, but SO CLOSE!
Already thinking ahead to later this week when I have to drive to Columbus one day and drive back the next - and be in meetings a good bit of the day. I have no idea when I’ll be able to get exercise in. Stay tuned!
Question… I was referred to a dermatologist in January because of a skin issue which wasn’t clearing up. I couldn’t get an appointment until the end of February and now that particular issue has gone away. However, I have long standing other skin issues (acne and skin irritation) that I’ve been meaning to see a Derm for a while about but just haven’t gotten around to it.
Would it be considered rude or otherwise improper to still go to the Derm on a referral for the first skin issue even though it’s cleared up to talk about the other skin issues?
Sorry if this is a dumb question… I’ve never really had to deal with referrals before because that’s not how most of my insurance policies have worked in the past :">
Romani- absolutely still go. Those appointments are hard to come by!
Sabaray- glad you got some new fitness/muscle help toys. Love the FitBit stories. We are so funny!
Way too big of a dinner- gourmet meal prepared by a restaurant/caterer that we ordered and my daughter served. Wine and all the extras. I feel stuffed. I just can’t eat big, rich dinners anymore. It was really good, though, and we have leftovers. My problem is too many courses. I can’t do soup, salad, entree, dessert.
@romanigypsyeyes, I would keep the appointment. Given that you have an autoimmune disease, the dermatologist should be made aware of what skin condition you had so that your records are up to date and a determination can be made of whether this is something you need to watch out for in the future. Plus, you have some other skin issues you want to address so it’s not like your going for no reason.
@deb922, ever try hot chocolate with chocolate tequila? Simply decadent and tequila is lower calorie than Ameretto, lol!
Thank you both
Romani, to answer your question, heavens no! That’s what docs are for - to treat you as a whole. If you have an issue that needs to be addressed, keep your appointment and go see the specialist.
Abasket - love your story!! A freakin athletic Cinderella! Love it.
Thanks, BB.
I really don’t know why I’m having so much doubt and so little confidence with all of this. It’s completely unlike me both in personality and given my training.
At the risk of playing armchair psychologist, maybe because getting diagnosed with an autoimmune disease has knocked you off balance at some level? If so, totally natural reaction to a disease where your body “attacks” itself, where the “enemy” is not some outside agent that is attacking your health but your body’s own defensive system. Where to the outside world you may not really “look sick” and therefore on some level you don’t want to be perceived as someone who is making a bigger deal out of things than they really are. I’ve seen these kinds of reactions from my family member who has scleroderma, particularly when she was first diagnosed and wasn’t really sure what to make of the situation and what to treat as warranting seeing her docs. As I said to her, you don’t need to apologize or justify to anyone seeking medical advise on anything. It’s not being an alarmist, it’s being proactive.
Well, it was Mr. B who was our household Freakin’ Exercise Cinderella today! He made his 10,000 steps and 80 floor climbs (with that dang 35 lb kettlebell in tow!) just before the midnight.