CDCC Update - Hula Hoop

I lost track of weeks a while ago, so I'm going with the noncommittal "CDCC Update" for the title today.

243.4 this morning.  Every week it's the same.  I struggle, struggle, struggle for nothing, bitch, moan, complain - and then the scale gives up the entire week's loss in 2 days.  Last week's update I was 247 = 3.6 pounds lost this week. If I keep up this rate, there'll be no problem hitting my goal of 230-235 by the end of this challenge.

I was thinking this morning that my highest weight was 276, so I'm down 33ish from my highest.  More than 10% lost in the last 2 years!  Labor day I was 264, so I'm 21 down from there.  Altogether, I'm about 1/3 of the way to my goal to be non-obese,which will be 47 or so pounds from now.  My final goal might be in the 185 range, but right now I'm only going to think in small steps.

I decided that my treat for getting through 240 pounds will be a hula hoop!  I've got one of the cheap ones from WalMart, but I can't make it stay up.  I've read that the hula way to go is to get a weighted hoop - which I will do soonest!

Water: Nope, not really.  1-2 pots (24 oz each) of English Breakfast tea before work, then 34 ounces of chai with splenda and light cream for the morning at work, like I've been doing for a few months. 

I've had itchy hives for a month and it JUST occurred to me yesterday that it might be the chai and/or the splenda, so those are OUT for at least a few weeks.  I also started taking an H1 blocker and an H2 blocker to control the itchiness.  I kinda just realized they were hives (I can be slow on the uptake sometimes!), and reading about them yesterday, I learned that hives (urticaria) can be accompanied by joint pain.  Aha!  So that explains why my knees hurt again, and I feel like I have plantar fasciitis again!  The H1 and H2 blockers (Zyrtec and Zantac) are working to make me not feel like I want to scratch my skin off - but one or both of them is making me tired.  Yesterday I went to bed at 8 and got up this morning at 8.  It'll probably be the same tonight, except I have to get up at 5:30 for work.  Blurg.

My working hypothesis is that occasional chai is fine, but 2 bags a day, 7 days a week is too much.  I'll give it 2 weeks chai-free before I make a doctor's appointment.  Online peeps say that prednisone is a common treatment for this, but I don't wanna!  It causes people to gain weight!

Supporting other bloggers:  I did the minimum,  three comments this week.  I'm gonna skip fire drill tomorrow night, and maybe use that time to be more supportive of my bloggy friends!


Book stuff:  for me, this is meditation class.  I did some.

Exercise:  I did elliptical Weds, Thurs, Fri and today, and weight work one of those days.  I got my elliptical Tuesday and put it together and there's a problem!  It scrapes when my left foot goes down.  The repairman came Friday and fixed it ... until the very first time I tried it after he left.  I'll call again tomorrow.  I used that as an excuse until today when I forced myself to get on that noisy, scrape-y thing and do 20 minutes.  OMFG!  It's killer!  It's got incline and has different workouts that automatically move it up and down and change the resistance.  At several points I thought I was going up stairs the incline was so sharp.  Now I'm feeling it in my quads, which is good.  I've read that quad work can help my knees and I need that.

My plan for this weekend was to get a lot of work done in my yard.  I really didn't feel like it, but since there's plenty of work to do, I bottled the Labor Day batch of hard cider and started a new batch for next spring, and started to clean the house.  I'm expecting that TaxMan will come over next Friday, and while I'm not going to present some perfect, clean-housed me, I do want to get rid of the dust bunnies!  So, yeah, Friday's date went well!