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Update:

It’s been an entire week since I last posted. I’ve been busy here at work and trying to catch up on some of the blogs out there . Going away for a long weekend really puts you behind on the reading. I’ve had some pretty good laughs this week thanks to Jack Sh*t , the boys and Fitcetera.

My week hasn’t been so good for me, my foot is healed but my hip decided to act up on Monday. I’m getting frustrated by what my body is doing to my plans. On the weekend, we were camping with friends, and although we did do some hiking, and frequent walking of the dog, there wasn’t much else for activity. We did play lots of crib at the picnic table and lots of me swinging my right leg over the bench to sit down. This is not an easy task for me as my right hip does not have any flexibility. Well starting early Monday, the darn thing started to really hurt. I was uncomfortable even sitting, couldn’t find a good position – and we were driving home so I didn’t have much of a choice.

Well that night, I could not get comfortable in bed, it just got worse and worse and worse. There was NO way I could lay on my side, even the pillow between the legs did not help this one. I couldn’t even move my leg in any direction without it hurting like h*ll. So the next morning I was limping my way around the office again only this time I couldn’t even sit for long , and I have a desk job. The first person who answered my desperate phone call was my chiropractor office but my regular dude was not in until Thursday, so I asked her to get me in with the first available DR. So at 9:00 I was in the office and the new DR adjusted me and explained to me what my body is doing (or at least what she thinks it is doing). My pelvis and surrounding muscles are very very tight, and therefore when they stiffen up like they are right now, there isn’t much range of motion. When this happens, when I have to move my legs more and they are doing more work than they are used to. This entire process causes a lot of fluid and inflammation and pressure on all my nerves (including the sciatica). Hence the aching, hurting, crappy feeling on my entire right side. She figures that as I am losing weight, my body is letting some stuff go and since I’ve had a tight hip flexor (more or less) for the “last who knows how long”, between the weight loss and the new orthotics, my body is adjusting and other muscles are having to kick in and causing all this discomfort. She figures once I get the inflammation under control and really get stretching, I will recover from this. She figures that I’ll be running again in no time (month or more still).

So I’ve been icing my lower back/hip area (even here at work) and taking a couple of anti-inflammatory pills every 4 hours to help alleviate the discomfort. This has been quite the week. Absolutely NO exercising as it is been a struggle just to walk around the floor or whatever.

Food:

My food has been good but I’ve had to make myself eat sometimes. When I experience the pain that I did this week, I feel nauseous quite a bit so not interested in food at all. My sleep has been disturbed as well so feeling a bit worn out today.

We go camping again tomorrow and I’m going to have to take it easy – no fishing the streams for me unless they are easy to get to. This is unfortunate but I really want to heal so that I can get back to at least walking again. I have not gotten on a scale since last week – YEAH ME! – so have no idea if I’ve gained any weight or not. I’m trying the “Intuitive Eating” so not caring about calories right now, just eating what I want to. This is difficult for me because a part of IE is to not look at or care about calories (no diet mentality of any kind) and it’s a real struggle. But I’m going to give it a fair chance as I find I’m less hungry these days (never mind the pain factor) and less focused on food. It’s not on my mind so often therefore the cravings are lessening. And if I do have one, it’s satisfied very quickly (a little bite versus the entire thing).

I hope everyone continues to have a fantastic week!

S