It's Coming Along...

The last couple weeks have been crazy.  I started going to physical therapy on Thursday, May 13th, and I'm down to my last session of 6 total on this coming Tuesday unless my doctor and insurance will approve more sessions.  Some of these sessions are lasting as long as 3 hours.  I hurt the evenings of and the day after the sessions.

I'm not the most disciplined person either.  I have all these sheets of exercises to do between sessions and my memory fails me a lot.  If my form isn't right, I worry I will hurt my shoulders and lower back even worse.  Imagine the shape of a I starting at the shoulders and going down to the behind and there's my pain with predominant aching on the left side. It hurts to pick things up at the grocery store.  It hurts to drive my car.  And yes, I've even been told to avoid having sex!  Whaaaat?  Am I crazy?  If I'm not there yet it's coming soon.

On the weight loss front, I'm down 2 pounds from being on Nutrisystem.  Am I wanting to swear daily because I miss my junk food?  Yes.  Do I?  Not always given I have a nine year old home on summer vacation now from school.   Am I irritable?  Yes.  I think my husband wants to move out.  I feel like a short order chef.  We are all eating different things.  My son has sensory integration disorder on top of ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome (mild autism).  I'm in a family of picky eaters especially concerning my son as certain textures of food aggravate him.  Philip's staple items are pepperoni pizza and chicken nuggets.  Geary, my husband, lives off cereal and coffee.

The main thing I'm struggling with is not being able to exercise.  Nutrisystem wants clients to eat an average of 1,200 calories a day with a max of 1,300 calories for me given I am obese.  Until I'm released to go back to the gym I can only walk 15 minutes twice a day and given the back pain, that doesn't last long.  Normally I can burn 300-400 calories on the gym treadmill which would "speed up" my weight loss progress but right now I can only do the diet part and walk off what I can til I feel that dull backache.

I often wonder if I'll ever get to goal so I could be selected to be on a Nutrisystem commercial with Marie Osmond.  Is that insane?  I've loved the Osmond family since I was a young child.  Marie also suffers from depression so I think it would be cool to get to know her.  I gave up on the Donnie Osmond fantasy a long time ago!