Knyttwytch Health

Not a great year for health!

Still too overweight, I haven't been able to walk outside due to restrictions, I need my nails and hair doing!! I would like to talk to someone other than the nurse at the surgery and Dr Wytch (not that I am complaining about spending time with Dr Wytch I might add!)  I am going to get through the rest of this year and then really try and kick things up a notch, my health and wellbeing needs to be at the forefront of my fight, if I feel reasonable then I can do things like stitch and knit - at the moment though reading and mindless computer games are my limit :(

Lardy, Lardy, Lardy!

Having had a couple of bad falls, then pain killers, also over indulging over Yule I am now the lardiest I have ever been! So my plan for 2020 is to get back to the 5:2 diet (starting today) and get rid of the blubber - a lot of the blubber!

No real change

I think I need to lose another stone or two before I start seeing a difference! But Dr Wytch and myself have started doing the 5:2 diet, neither of us are feeling deprived (yet!!!) and it seems to be nibbling away at the weight - fingers crossed that this works!

Health and Wellbeing

Every day in November I would like to do something in each of these categories

 

Health

 

Wellbeing

 

Crafting

 

Reading

 

Clearing

Within this ideally I would like to:-

 

Finish 4 knitted sampler squares

Wind yarn ready for January

Finish patchwork tote

Finish next section of shawlette

Stitch the Jelly Roll strips together

Sort sofa

Sort desk

Lose some weight!

Oops!

This was taken on the first of September but it has taken me today to get around to posting it and writing this post!  Weight is not really moving, I lose some, then stress/pain kicks in again and WHAM straight back on! Still if I don't keep trying I will never succeed Sighs, so keep on keeping on I guess!

Oh and now the nights/mornings are drawing in, time to start using the SAD light again.

August and yep trying again!

Yep still podgy but I am starting to lose weight - the problem is the weight I am losing is the stress and holiday gain! Another pound though and I will be back into the current weight loss ... err .... loss! One way I am doing this is cutting out, not down, but out the alcohol for 8 weeks (possibly 10) this will break my habit of "ooh it is x, let's have wine!" and even after the initial time I plan on one week a month of no alcohol, and none during the week either - so Friday and Saturday I will allow myself something the rest of the time, seriously good! the other thing I need to do is increase my fibre and water, so that will be a gradual change as well.

Other health/well-being things, I am back to doing my skin care routine, I have started looking after my teeth again and I am doing my physio daily. What I hope to do is make sure I have a good solid morning and evening routine that looks after ME!

Need to get back into the right head space

I am not sure if it is because I have been ill a fair bit, just shattered or what - but my weight is going UP not down, I need to crank up my physio and seated exercises, get the house sorted and just get my life straightened out!  Soo no hassle or panic there then, actually blogging more could also be good, and getting back to taking photographs shudders slightly watch this space for more details (or not lol).

Health has not been great

I had a couple of falls, bad falls, and damaged my left side (arm and lower leg), this meant tablets and this led to weight gain - a LOT of weight gain, at one point I was over 24 stone (153 kg) which is the heaviest I have ever been, luckily some of this has come back off and I am back down to 23 st 8.75 lb as of this morning (oh and a belated start of the month photo!)

I now need to keep working at eating healthily, doing my physio and what exercise I can and concentrate on being the best I can!

Not so much health as lack thereof!

This is me looking grim (cute dogs mind you! Although Hamish looks a little unsure at the front there!), still 23 stone (ouch!) so I need to look after myself, I have had my bloods tested and my Doppler and all of them were fine, which means other than the pain there should be no stopping me! In an ideal world I would be below 20 stone by the end of June, but as well all know this is NOT an idea world, especially where weight loss is concerned! So I am not going to stress (too much!) about the number on the scale but concentrate more on feeling better in myself and looking after myself, my wonderful OH and of course the aforementioned dogs!

So almost half way through March and the new me starts here!

New Calendar Year and time to face the demons

Last year was fairly grim health wise for one reason or another and weight wise I went UP over the course of the year, so I need to rein myself in and realise that I cannot keep on using "spoons" from the future - so I plucked up the courage and got Dr Wytch to take not just a face on, full length photo, but a side on one as well!

So with wet hair as well THIS is my starting point for a new me, I weigh 23 stone (aka 322 lbs or 146 kg OUCH), here's to this being the LAST time I ever see those numbers on the scales and hopefully I can get myself a little fitter at the same time as well.

I need to menu plan, I need to plan seated exercises, I need to do this!