What is going on?

 What is going on here?? Well, nothing. Hence the lack of posts. 

Life is just trucking along. Weight is backup in the mid 170s... poop. I stopped weighing regularly and starting eating more. 

Time to get back serious. I really really want to be close to the 150s by my birthday in May. It's doable. I just need to buckle down and be serious. 

I quit the gym. LOL. ... so not a great start to the plan above, but I have not being using the membership since the start of covid and now I don't have a car so I would have to wait for hubby to come home and then go which just feels too late in the day. I used to like to go around 3pm when the gym was not busy and I could get my workout done and be home by 4:30 and get dinner ready etc.  So no real exercise is happening here other than walking the puppies. 

My eating has been bad. Lots of bread and carbs and stuff that I normally just don't eat. I need to strip that out of my diet again. 

I've tried to start intermittent fasting again. I stop eating around 7 and then don't eat again until 11 am. I've even switched my creamy coffee to black coffee in the am. The issue is now between 11 am and 7 pm. I need to rein in the eating for sure. 

Would like to get to a point where my fasting window is longer but I need to work on cutting out more food first. 

So that's me in a nutshell. 

Keeping at it. 

current weight is 175.3. 

Not the start to 2022 that I figured....

Well, we got Covid. 

Hubby tested positive on Thursday and so we have been isolating since then. My symptoms are much milder than his but his symptoms are still fairly mild. Basically a bad cold for him. We had one day of being super duper tired but other than that, we've been ok. No problem with appetite. DARN! :) 

The biggest pain has been the isolation. I've had to do online shopping orders and limit our exposure outside. I don't mind online ordering but I do like to go into the stores to look at foods and pick and choose what we are going to be eating for the week. I tend to plan my meals as I shop and see what is fresh and/or on sale. 

It's monday today and I basically am completely fine. Hubby is still a bit sick. I had my two vaccines and booster, but hubby only has 2 vaccines. Perhaps the booster kept my symptoms on the milder side?? 

I'm very thankful that we had mild cases of Covid and hoping that is it for awhile.  I know many that have had a much harder struggle with the virus so I do count my blessings that we got through it ok and quickly. 

Stepped on the scale today. 170.9. Inching in the right direction. 

Hoping the rest of January is uneventful. 

Happy New Year!!

 My life continues being a mom to a very demanding puppy! Yes, I do believe I have created the monster but he's so darn cute! 

Not much has been happening the last few weeks. We celebrated Christmas and NYE. More covid restrictions here so they were both somewhat quiet. Well NYE we had our best friends over for dinner and I got very very very drunk. I didn't drink very much but it hit me hard and fast. Right in the middle of a board game it hit me.  I actually think I had alcohol poisoning. If I hadn't recovered by the following day I would have thought I had some other kind of illness. It was bad, very bad and even though I made it to midnight I also spent the following 15 hours in my bed, moaning and groaning and dying so to speak. Will be awhile before I drink again. 

Other than the eventful NYE, everything else was really quiet. I ate way too much over the holidays and all the wrong foods. 

My psoriasis flared up again and so I know it's related to carbohydrates and sugar. So back on the low carb bus for me. 

My weight is up, but not drastically. I think I was 173 this morning which is what is has been for the past 2 weeks so up about 2 lbs or so. Still unable to crack that 170. 

That's my goal this year... to get into the 160s..and stay there! 

2021 was the 170s,  2022 is going to be the 160s! If I can get there, I think my body will be happy. Maybe I'll get into the 150s but I doubt it. We will see though. 

So no big new years resolutions over here other than to get back to eating better. More greens, less carbs, less sugar and more water. 

We got this. 

And as requested.... pics of Henry and Murphy. Hen is 30lbs now!!! 

out for a walk on Christmas day! BTW we never have snow on Christmas Day!

Henry absolutely loves his big brother - big brother is still not completely sold on the idea of a little brother 

Henry

 It's been awhile and I've been BUSY!!! Like new mom busy! Like new mom TIRED!!! 

This is Henry 

He's adorable and he's a ton of work!  Just like having a newborn. But a newborn that can walk and get into things and and and. 

but we are having so much fun. 

So that is where I have been. This is my whole life right now. 

Atmospheric River

 Atmospheric River? What's that? 

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration page 

"Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere – like rivers in the sky – that transport most of the water vapor outside of the tropics. These columns of vapor move with the weather, carrying an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. When the atmospheric rivers make landfall, they often release this water vapor in the form of rain or snow."

So who cares? Well, we were hit with one this past weekend. We saw an insane amount of rain. 

295 millimeters of rain in 2 days.  That's 11 inches of rain. In 2 DAYS!! 

So who cares? Vancouver and Metro Vancouver is known for their rain. True. But the amounts, plus the snow run off the mountains and the rising rivers caused this: 

 our major highway that links western canada to eastern canada. 

our major highway completely washed away 

Another view 

And lastly the map of our current province 

The only way we can get to the rest of Canada is via the US. Every major highway that allows us to exit the lower mainland is closed. No idea when it will reopen. 

This is all following a summer of the highest temperatures we have ever seen on record in our province and city. 

UGH.... our future is doomed. This is just the beginning of what mother nature is doing to us for not taking care of her world. 

A little update

Just a quick update. 

I seem to have recovered from my fall last week. My bruise is almost gone and in all honesty, my shoulder feels so much better. I've been doing some small exercises here and there and it seems to be helping. 

We went out with friends on saturday. We went for a bike ride to a local brewery and then rode our bikes to the pub and had a few drinks and dinner. It was nice to get out and ride (although super cold) and see friends. Was the first alcoholic drink I had had since Thanksgiving but I kept it small. Did not have anything on Friday either so just one day of the weekend. Didn't quite make it the full month of October, but I think I did well. Didn't lose a ton of weight but also didn't snack as much at night time. So... win. 

My weight has been pretty much staying lower the last few weeks. I have been forgetting to record my weight on my app before I get dressed in the morning and I even forgot to step on the scale yesterday for WI day. oops. So I did today as my WI day. My weight was 170.6 so down just over 1/2 a lb from last week (171.3).  I'm good with that. Inching ever so closer to the 160s again! 

Making some minor changes in my diet this week. I've added apple cider vinegar to my morning and evening (before bed) as I want to be better at regulating my blood sugar. I've tested my blood sugar a few times and it's inching up again. I know it's likely due to halloween candy so I have cut out all the halloween candy and added the ACV to hopefully bring it down and regulate it a bit better. 

That's it for now. It's cold and rainy today (all week). 

Oh yeah... and we are getting a puppy!!! Saw a post that our breeder had a litter (9 black labs)  a few weeks back. I figured I'd send her a message and if she had one available, great, if not, that was fine too! Well she just had a cancellation so we will be welcoming a new member into the home on November 26th!!! 

Not sure how Murphy will accept him. Murph's a cranky 7 year old lab that likes to be king of his castle. A new baby will interrupt his life for sure. 

Now we are just thinking of a name. Henry? Hank? Wally? 

Might need to meet him first to finalize a name. :) 

Battered and Bruised

So Monday night is normally wash my hair night. As my shoulder has been bugging me the past few weeks, blow drying my hair has been a challenge and this monday was no exception. I took a couple advil after my hair drying, watched some tv, read a book and went to bed.  I have been sleeping on my right side (I'm a side sleeper) as my left shoulder/arm has been bugging me. I woke up about 4 am and had to go pee. I also sleep with ear plugs just cause I like to block out ALL noises when I sleep.  While still lying on my right side I pulled out my ear plugs from both ears with my left had and extended my arm over to the bed side table to put the earplugs down while I visited the bathroom. Well... something popped and OMG the pain. I thought my shoulder was being pulled from my body. 

I got up to walk to the bathroom and immediately got dizzy, intense cold sweats and could not walk. I fell to the floor gripping for the bed in pain. My husband woke up and asked me what was wrong and I told him my shoulder. He ran downstairs to get me some ice. 

I've never dislocated my shoulder before but this is the type of pain that I imagine it feels like. I tried to see if it was drooping from my body like I've seen in shows and movies but it seemed to be in the right place. I pushed gently on it and the pain did not subside. 

Here is where it gets dodgy. I somehow made it into the bathroom and as I was still sweating to death I wanted to lay on the cold tile. I felt so much better. My husband came into the bathroom and helped me to the toilet to pee. 

To add to the drama, it appeared that I had also started my period. And it was HEAVY. Like day 2 type of heavy. I could not believe it. No warning, nothing.  So hubby excused himself from the bathroom as he can't be around feminine products.  

I then looked down at my toe and it was all RED. WTF? I did not have my glasses on but I could also see small splotches of what looked like blood on the bathroom tile. Maybe 3 or so smudges. Not drops.  I asked hubby to grab my glasses as I thought maybe something was wrong with my toe. 

Well it appears I had managed to RIP about 2/3 of my big toe nail off my left foot. And it was bleeding, badly.  I don't remember kicking anything or banging it on anything. How strange. I cleaned up the splotches on the floor and hubby said he would bandage up my toe for me. 

I sat on the edge of the tub while he bandaged up my foot. I was looking in the mirror and saw a red mark on my cheek. WTH now?? 

I had a large mark on my left cheek and above my eyebrow and it looked like a bump was starting to form about my eyebrow. 

Did I faint? Pass out? I must have. Somehow somewhere from moving from the side of the bed to the bathroom floor I passed out. Banged my head and ripped off my toenail. 

I now sit here with a black eye, a bruised arm and a messed up toe. IT was an eventful monday night. 

My guess is that it was just a perfect storm. The pain in my shoulder, along with getting out of bed so quickly and my extremely heavy period that caused me to drop. 

Needless to say, I won't be going anywhere anytime soon.  I'm feeling fine. No headaches, or anything like that. Oddly, my arm feels so much better too. But my face?? That's a different story. Fun times! 

Scale thankfully was still down this morning. Not as much as I would have liked but I'll take it. 171.3