Jan 31 - Day 22

Now this is different!  It is just after 7AM on Sunday morning and here I am blogging. Funny thing with my right shoulder ...during the day when I am exercising it really doesn't hurt much, but in the middle of the night,  I am waking up every hour with pain.  I really don't think I am harming it while swimming or using the exercise machines.  I just wish the pain would let me sleep better.

I can't eat breakfast until 10am this morning and I guess that is making me hungry.  I turned on the coffee pot that Paula so kindly brought up last night and it is about ready...smells great!

Last night I was watching TV about 10PM when I remembered that I had to put my laundry (including my bed sheets) in to the dryer. It was after 11 when they finished and I still had to make the bed before I went to sleep. .....yawn. I think I made the bed in record time!  We had more snow last night and I'm not sure how icy the roads will be this morning.  The temp  is 27 degrees so we shall see if I can get to DFC safely. I'll continue this blog this afternoon or evening and let you know how I fared.

I already have made some large scratches in the left rear quarter of my beautiful car.  I don't believe I've written about it. Confession time!! I park my car at the top of the steep driveway in a small spot beside the garage.  I usually back out down the driveway without any problem, but one morning I must have turned the steering wheel a bit when I parked.  When I started to back down, (it was still dark, excuses, excuses!!), I didn't realize I was getting close to the brick wall that runs down the left side if the drive.  Out of the blue came the horrendous scraping sound and by the time I reacted to it, I had really scraped the car.  Didn't damage the wall at all, thank goodness.  I though I might have awoken the neighbors with the sound, but didn't. My beautiful car :-(  Commercial break ... the coffee is ready and smells wonderful, will be right back!

ahhhhh ambrosia!!! think I can survive til 10 O'clock!

When we first arrived, we filled out a "Pillars of Lifestyle Changes" chart in a lifestyle coaching class.  On the chart were five pillars.  Each one named: Environment, Stress Management, Self-Image and Body-Image, Professional and Social Life, Emotional Well-Being, and finally, Social Support.  I ranked them (out of a possible ten, where the higher the number meant you felt good about this aspect of you life:) :

Environment  4, Stress  Management   9.5, Self-Image-and Body-Image  4, Professional and Social Life  9, Emotional Well-Being  4, and  Social Support  9.

Last week we took the same survey and my pillars have gotten stronger over three weeks here:

Environment  7.5, Stress  Management  8, Self-Image-and Body-Image  5.5, Professional and Social Life 9, Emotional Well-Being  7.5, and  Social Support  10.

The only one that I think needs some explanation is the Environment pillar. It indicates your immediate environment effects your healthy lifestyle.  Included are, availability of places to exercise, availabity of triggar foods that cause binge eating, etc.  I first ranked this pillar low as we live on a busy street and walking is difficult. Becauce I walk through the kitchen on the way to the family room, trigger foods have been too accessable for me, as well as a large can of delicious popcorn that arrived at Christmas. I now realize that there is a motel pool that I can use to "pool walk" and workout in, I do have the York Fitness Center gym, but may upgrade to a newer one in York with machines similar to the ones here, and Sudie has already gotten rid if many trigger foods in the house, thus the rise in the rating.  I think Stress Management was a bit lower because of my worry about coming back to my old environment and the temptations. I really do feel I have indeed changed, and will be successful, but it is a worry in the back of my mind.

I  plan to continue this blog when I return to York, so tune in for the next year or more.  I can see me blogging maybe once a week after I return.  Sudie has shown me a way to make the blogs into a book and I plan to make it once I am satisfied with my total weight loss.  I think I might even include some "before" , "during", and "after" photos of me in it so I can track my change in body shape.  That in itself can be a strong motivator.  I already have a "before" photo, and I will have Sudie photo me when I get home. I can see some change in my facial appearance, but I really don't think I have changed too much elsewhere.  The photo will tell all, maybe.