I’ve kind of hit a brick wall when it comes to my ongoing weight loss. While I am very close to my original goal and I’m still eating properly, I’m having a bit of trouble with preforming any real exercise. A few weeks ago, while on one of my regular daily walks I was unaware of a big dip in the road based on the fact that it was filled in with leaves. The step down basically knocked me on my ass and I literally had to call the house to have my hubby come and pick me up off the street a few blocks up. I couldn’t walk and my foot swelled up to about three times the size. I knew it wasn’t broken because I’ve broken and sprained my ankles so many times that I can tell the difference. I’m aware that I have weak ankles due to past experiences so naturally I knew how to treat it. I pulled my aircast out of the closet, pumped it up a little and slapped it on. I’m able to move around but standing up for long periods of time is proving to be difficult for me. Since I’m hunched over from trying to avoid putting too much presser on my foot, I’m finding it hard to keep my back from hurting me as well. So basically it’s a whole series of issues that I hope to clear up as soon as possible. The cast I’ve been using for years is a bit tattered and torn so I’ve been looking into new ankle braces on betterbraces.com. While I was there I began looking into knee braces for Sean because of the water in his knee thanks to an old Wrestling injury in high school. The two of us are literally falling apart, guess we were meant for each other - heh.

An unexpected October heat wave came through Delaware this past week.  While I was still able to accomplish all of my daily routines, this doesn’t mean I was happy about it.  It’s a myth that you lose more weight in the summer than you do in the fall.  I understand that sweating more is good for you but when you’re already feeling dehydrated due to a recent illness, you’re not exactly looking forward to your usual exercise routines.  I’m still doing a few miles a day on the walking front.  I will say that I’m not going as far as I used to based on the fact that I haven’t been feeling very well, but I’m still eating right and I guess that’s all that matters.  I’ve managed to master an 800 calorie diet, and I’m still working hard on losing about 1000 calories a day.  My water intake has gone up, my crystal light intake has gone down.  While I love the flavors, the plain water is equally as tasty for me now that I’ve found a brand of water that I’m content with.  Deer Park has the best taste out of all of the water I’ve been consuming over the course of the last few months.  I’m down another couple of pounds, I’ll get around to updating the sidebar sometime soon.

Guess I should get myself ready for bed.  I’m a few hours behind on my schedule but I’ll make up for it tomorrow I’m sure.

Recently, Sean and I purchased a Wii and before I even knew what hit me I was up and moving around in ways that I hadn’t in quite some time. By default the console comes with 5 sports games, I spent most of last night Boxing to work off a lot of aggression and apparently 2 more pounds as of this mornings weigh in. It’s been almost a week since my last weigh in but something today told me that I needed to hop on the scale and validate that feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Knowing full well that the Wii can’t give me everything I was looking for, I’ve been poking around the net looking for exercise equipment and came across fitness-superstore.co.uk. They have everything from rowing machines to elliptical cross trainers and exercise bikes. Everything is reasonably priced, based on a trusty currency converter so I could see what the US based prices would be. I would love to own an exercise bike though, considering the very long walks I’m sure my legs can handle an hour or so a day on a bike.

For a while now I’ve been waiting on the main office of the community to get the club house up and running. They’ve been telling the residents for the last two years that they were going to have both the gym and the pool setup by early 2007. That came and went. The club house is standing, the hole for the pool has been dug out and even some parts of it are completed as far as laying cement is concerned but now there’s a notice telling us that we can take our community card and go to their sibling community just to use their pool. However, we’re still unable to get into the club house to use the equipment. It’s not even in there at the moment though so that makes the building completely useless to us.

This is why Sean and I spend so much time walking because joining a gym in a resort community is just priced way too high for us and at the same time, there aren’t any major fitness chains surrounding us either. I wouldn’t mind Bally’s or even Jenny Craig for that matter. Both of those chains have a pretty major following, minus the fact that they’re rather pricey as well.

But, I’ve been doing very well with just food portions and exercise. I am considering purchasing an exercise bike though, I just need to figure out where exactly I plan on placing it. The house is loaded up enough as is. I know I’m marrying him and all but would it be wrong to get rid of his side of the office so I could put in a small gym there? heh.

In order to give people a sneak-peak of what I’ve been up to, I’ve uploaded one of the free templates I’ll be offering when I finally get around to launching the themes section. This template, when completed, will be available in all of the colors on the rainbow and more. So far I’ve completed the red, orange, yellow, green and blue templates - I’ll have the rest completed sometime over the course of the next week. The sidebar is completely widget powered. I need to alter that for my own personal usage so I’ll have my blogrolling based links up and running as soon as possible!

I did quite a bit of walking in the last few days, and since I’m cutting back on spending I’ve done a bit less eating as well. I’m down another 5 pounds which brings me 25lb weight loss down to 30. I’m only 30lbs away from dropping under the 200lb mark, a place I haven’t been since high school. ::jumps for joy::

With all of the money I’m saving on food, I’m putting some aside so I can buy some new clothes. Mine are falling off me, I’ve switched over to pants with elastic bands instead of my usual pair of jeans. I can finally say that I own a pair of fat jeans, I just can’t hold them up with pride just yet…heh.

I don’t quite understand what’s going on with my body at the moment but while I’m happy to be down another 7 pounds, no matter how healthy of a daily life I’m having I still find myself getting sick very easily. I’m certain it’s not the weight loss because I’m only really losing about 2-3 pounds per week which is supposed to be perfectly normal and healthy. I’m eating better, smoking much less and working out on a daily basis (minus the three days I was in bed unable to move) but the gym for the complex has finally been opened so Sean and I have spent a lot of time working out. I’ve been doing some weight training, walking with random increases of incline and anything else I can get my hands on. I’m also working on getting some money together each month to put myself on Nutrisystem and a very strict work out routine. Instead of doing my own form of portion control I’m just going to work on someone elses. I know for sure that I can handle the plan considering all of my meals are done for me. I just pick what I want and then nuke it - I think I can handle that.