Where has Mary Hamilton Been over the past few years?

Hello :)  It's been almost a year since Biggest loser changed this web site and I was there.

WOW has it changed a lot!

I miss the blogs and the cool home pages.  I'm sure once I get use to the new format I will love it.  :)

I have 111 pounds to lose to get to my goal weight.  my weight has been going up and down and up and down over the past years.  Spent all kinds of time to sick to really get anything done.

Turned out I have mixed sleep apnea.  which means when I go into REM sleep my brain forgets to do things like breath (central sleep apnea).  mix that with being over weight and the the obstructive sleep apnea and according to the sleep study I was not breathing 52% of the time I was sleeping.  :(  No wonder I felt bad all the time!  My body was starving for air!

When your body goes without air that much (the way my doctor explained it to me) your internal organs cells start dying.  normally your body can heal during the day but apperantly because I was sooooo sleepy all the time and having a really really hard time staying awake I was not able to heal so each day I was just getting sicker.

Now I have a super cool BiPap machine that monitors my breathing and adjusts to what I need at that moment.  :)  Current with my sleep therapy I am getting air all but 3% of the time that I am sleeping.  According to the doctors anything under 5% is considered successful therapy.  :)  Yeah for sleep breathing machines!

Now that we have found the root of most all my health issues I am working on getting healthy.  I was recently told I have diabetes, and my blood pressure has gone from pretty good to not good at all.  It's all a result of my body just getting sooooo sick hen it was not getting enough air.

I know I have a long road ahead of me, but I feel like I am soooo much closer to getting to my goal now than I was a year ago.  Even though I weighed less last year I feel like I'm better than last year.  Now I know what is wrong and why I was falling apart.  I just have to get my weight under control and get back to healthy.

Over the past 12 days I have dropped from 250 to 240 :)

How did I do it?  Following a new meal plan (21 Day Fix) and doing Tai Cheng.

I have gout, diabetes, high blood pressure, high LDL with low HDL,  Mixed Sleep apnea, neuropathy, tons of food allergies, chronic plantar fasciitis, brain lesions,  ouches and hurts all over just to name a few of the things I have going on.

But, even with all that I have managed to drop 10 pounds.  :)   I am eating 6-7 small meals spaced 1-2 hours apart.  Because the meals are spaced so close together I am never hungry and my blood sugar has finally become stable again.  :)  I'm still taking my diabetic med. I'm looking forward to when I am able to stop taking them.  :)

How is everyone else doing?  Any of the people still here from last year?  Anyone reached their goal weight?

I'm looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and making new friends as we support each other on our paths to better health.

Mary :-)
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I've started blogging again :)  I have been blogging on the biggest loser page and here at this blog....

http://lose100pluspounds.blogspot.com/2013/03/insanity-day-41-and-new-photos.html

You are welcome to come to my new page and see what I have been up to :)  

It was a rough year or so but I am getting back on track again!  WOO WHOOO!  :)

Everyone stay healthy!

What a crazy week

Hello everyone

I feel like I'm having computer withdraws :)
I'm going to try and get some fit tips up today.  I miss getting them posted.

My wrist is getting a bit better each day.  it still hurts a lot but not all the time there are many moments that I don't feel any pain in my arm...then I move my hand in a way that reminds me with a sharp pain that it's not all better just yet..  I am keeping the ice on it still and i keep reminding myself that it took almost two weeks of it getting a bit worse each day before i started icing it so I'm thinking it will most likely take about as long for it to get all better at the rate of improvement I am having each day.  As long as I wake up each morning and it's a bit better than the morning before I know I'm still on the right track.

The kids and I are getting over the flu bug that passed through the house this week.  I feel like I spent most of the last 4 or 5 days sleeping.  Even when i was awake and getting things done around the house that needed to be done I was in a daze from the fever just doing the motions of what had to be done.

My daughter has been a great help this week.  I don't know how I would have made it through without her help.  Thanks Katherine!!!! Love you!!!

My son and I are pretty much over the flu bug and have not had any fever in the last 24 hours.  I'm still weak from being sick but stronger than yesterday. :) My daughter is still in bed sleeping and will most likely be there most of the day.  Her fever should break today as she's been running about 1 day behind David and myself. 

I got on the scale today and weigh over 200 again :(  but with not being able to work out and then getting sick I did expect it to be up a bit.  I'm at 205 today but according the the scale and my notes the last time I was at 205 was march 19 and I have less fat and more muscle now than I did then.  So even though my weight is up it's not as bad as it could be :)
This week I have had a lot of canned soup.  I have a ton of frozen homemade soup in the freezer but wasn't feeling well enough to actually heat it up.  Hubby picked up a lot of canned soup from the store on Monday or Tuesday and we have been eating it all week.  Lots and lots of salt in the canned soups but they are very easy to just open and heat.  Yesterday I was able to heat up some of the frozen soup :)  The first part of the week it was just to heavy to try and lift. hubby will heat up a can of soup but will not touch anything in the freezer (other than ice cream)

Brenda keep up the good work.  Slow but steady will always win the race.  This weekend will be over before you know it :)

Mom, thanks for keeping close tabs this week.  The kids and I miss you and are looking forward to when you will be here again.

Katherine, thank you bunches for helping out this week!  I love you!  Feel better soon!

I've got to be running.  My ice pack is getting warm and my arm doesn't like me typing.  I'll type again as soon as I can.  :)

I'm back :)

Helllllooooo :)

I have missed being able to blog but my wrist keep getting worse and worse till it got to a point that typing was not really possible.

Today I am better but gonna have to keep this short as the typing is making pings of pain.

I finally went to the doc to have my wrist checked out.  I waited till I couldn't use my hand and it started swelling up and the pain had grown to the point that it covered my hand to my elbow.  Maybe I waited a bit to long.  LOL

Turns out in inflamed the tendon that runs from my thumb through my wrist to my elbow.  The doc gave me high doses of steroids. ugh!  and told me to do ice therapy.  Just the ice has been helping so much that she said I can wait and not use the steroids unless it stopped getting better.

I haven't gotten my workout and walk in the past few days as it was making everything hurt more.  I'll get back on track as soon as my tendinitis has had a chance to recover a bit more.

I better get off the computer  I don't like typing with one hand....it takes toooo long :)....I'll post again tomorrow if my wrist and hand are feeling up to it.

hugs to everyone!
Keep up the great work!

I actually miss my raw food diet

I know, that just sounds silly!

How in the world would I actually be missing my super strict, can't eat anything but raw food diet?

It's like this, while on the diet I always felt light, now my gut feels heavy and blotted again.

On the diet I only ate when I was hungry even if that was eating once a day.  Yesterday and today I have eaten when it was time to eat and I feel as if I have been eating to much.  I have that over full feeling that makes me want to take a nap.

On the diet I had a ton of energy most days, yesterday and today I have dealt with the sleepy feeling I get many times after eating.

On the diet my whole family pitched in and was making more of their own foods.  Hubby and my daughter were really supportive the whole week.  By day 6 both were very ready for the diet to be over.  Today I spent the normal many hours in the kitchen fixing 3 meals for everyone and cleaning up everything afterwards.  Tons of time getting food and drink for whoever was asking for it at the time.  Then picking up a lot of the dirty dishes when they were done.  When I was on the diet I felt less like a maid than I have yesterday and today.  Don't get me wrong, I enjoy doing things for my family, but sometimes I wish they would do more for themselves and not depend on me for things I know they are able to handle.  I know David is to young to do a lot of the things for himself so I have to do things for him, but that doesn't mean that I should have to do as much for everyone that I do for the 3 year old.  It's good to do things for yourself.  Sometimes I feel like my daughter and hubby wait for me to do something for David then say, "While you are getting that (drink, food, or whatever) for David can you get me some too?"  I know David has a hard time carrying his plate of food or cup of drink without spilling it so I delivery it to him.  But I feel like it's not going to hurt the other two people in the house to come to the kitchen and get what I have fixed them without me having to make a 2nd and 3rd trip to where everyone is sitting. (OK...finished with that rant.  LOL :)  )

On the diet I felt like I had so much time to get a lot done.  And I did get more than normal finished.  I felt like I had  hours added to each day.  And now I see those hours are actually being spent in the kitchen.

I don't miss not having hot food on the diet, but I do miss the quick, you can make it in a few moments, blender meals I was eating.

I have noticed that since I finished the diet everyone is eating more of the salad I put on the dinner plates.  This evening my daughter even passed on dressing.  She said "What's the point of having a salad if you are just going to drown the goodness you get from it with dressing?"  That was a really good point.  :)

Tomorrow I am going back on a modified raw food diet.   I felt better, sneezed less, had more energy, and more time.  :)  My mouth even felt better.  While on the raw food diet I never had a sour taste in my mouth a few hours after eating (other than the onion day), but yesterday and today the sour taste is back.  I really really enjoyed having a fresh feeling mouth.  :)


Today I had a really great time working out.

My daughter was making my son a grilled cheese sandwich.  (She can make them tons better than I can)
(She does help out a ton around here!  She's a very good kid.)
I was doing my biggest loser workout.  Today was the fit boxing type routine
I could hear the kids talking in the kitchen when my son says, "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go fight with Mom."
My daughter says, "What!?!?"
Son, "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go fight with Mom!"

In runs David to do the same punch and kicks that I was doing.  He was laughing and having a really great time.  A few moments later Katherine came in and started doing the workout with us.  It was a 30 minute workout.  The kids did the last 25 minutes with me.  The kinect would bounce around the three of us focusing on a different person at different times.  It was a LOT of fun.  My score wasn't as good as it could have been but I know I got in the workout and the kids got in a workout also.  :)
It was a cold wet day outside so the kids did not want to go for a walk.  It was alright with me since we ended up playing with the kinect and were active with it.  We had fun.  And isn't that what being a kid is really all about?  Having a good time with the people you care about :)


Over all today was a good day and I am looking forward to eating more towards the raw foods meal plan tomorrow.  I love my family and if it takes three trips to the living room to get hot coco to everyone because I didn't get out a tray to do it in one trip ..... welll....so be it...everyone is happy with hot coco :)

I did it! Made it through the 7 day detox diet!

I did it!  I made it through the 7 day raw food detox....sort of :)

My total numbers for the 7 days ended up being......

Drum roll.......

Lost 9.991 pounds of fat and gained 1.785 pounds of muscle!

Not bad for 7 days if you ask me!

I'm taking a break today then tomorrow I'm back on a sorta raw food diet.  I'll do most everything but will add in hot water with lemon and hot soup.  And I will eat more raw vegs and fruit to keep my calorie count higher than last week. 


Yesterday My daughter said that since at midnight it really was the next day would it be possible to have a crab night after midnight.  I thought about it a lot and the fact that I really didn't need to eat just before going to bed and the fact that I had been eating raw vegs all day and had only had 98 calories total at that point.

In the end crab night won.  We waited till after midnight so it was 'after' the last day of the diet.

i learned another great thing about the detox diet.  After having a bit of butter my nose started running and I started sneezing.  I knew it was an allergic reaction to the butter but I hadn't really put all the sneezing I had been having this winter to a food allergy.  I was thinking it was something in the house.  So dairy is going back on the can't have at all list for me for a while.  :)  I know I will feel tons better in the long run.  :)

The past several days I have had a hankering for a really good steak.  I have a lot of grass raised organic beef in my freezer that was actually raised by someone I know.  It's great meat, but I'm not a great beef cook.  Today hubby took the family to a great steak restaurant and I got my fill if juicy yummy correctly cooked steak.  We split one smore brownie between the 4 of us.  Hubby, daughter, son, and myself. 
had a lot of fun even with my son being himself.  :)  There was a 2nd level at the steak house and every few bites my son wanted to go up and then back down the stairs.  (We were sitting right next to them)

I'm thinking, "The restaurant is almost empty being late lunch on a weekday, and the movement during the meal can't be bad for me."  So I would go up and then back down the stairs with him.  it keep him happy and I didn't feel like I had to rush to get my food down before he jumped out of his seat.  We would both have a few bits and then off to the stairs.  
I do think my hubby was a bit embarrassed by it all but he was really surprised when i didn't order a ton of food for myself and then proceed to engulf it all.  It was funny when the brownie came out and he said, "Are you suppose to eat that?"  and my daughter said, "She can today, but she can't tomorrow." I said she was correct. He smiled and enjoyed his treat.  My daughter know I had already been planning one free day but then back to the nose to the wheel first thing in the morning.

Today has been another of the colder drizzle rainy types of days here so we didn't go walking around the block.   I'll have to check my step numbers after the little one gets to sleep so I can see how much walking I'll be doing in the hallway tonight.

Yesterday we were busy running our weekly errands but had to drive to most of the places so we were only getting in the extra steps from parking in the parking places as far from the doors as we could.  In the end I was around 200 steps short of getting in my 10,000.

I feel great today other than a running nose with sneezing.  my tummy is over full still from lunch but I'm a happy camper.  :)  I am ready to hit the diet grind again in the morning. 

I will be adding in an extra 30 minute workout tonight before going to bed in hopes of helping all the meat I had today digest a bit better. 

I'm hope everyone has had a GREAT day!
Keep loving your body and your body will love you back.

When we give our body the attention and good food it loves it will give us good health and lower doctor bills in return.  :) 

Made it through

My numbers for the day

BodyMedia FIT data for March 27, 2011

Calories Burned - 3033

Calories Consumed - 218

Total Activity - 1:36

Moderate Activity - 1:30

Vigorous Activity - 0:06

Steps Taken - 11044

Sleep Duration - 7:57

Lying Down - 9:13

Sleep Efficiency - 86%

I got in my steps:)

 

I did have a bowl of very hot clear broth made of soy, sea weed, leeks, and water this evening.

 

I was having a pain in my back most of the day that I wasn't sure was a muscle spasm or a kidney problem.  this evening I was hungry and I know drinking something hot would relive the pain for a bit if it was a muscle spasm.  I know I was only suppose to eat raw food but I really didn't want to wait 24 hours to find out if the pain was from my kidney or not.  24 hours for me can mean the difference between drinking cranberry juice to fix the problem or 2 weeks of antibodies.

 

The soup only had 50 calories and my calories for the day were less than 200 so I didn't have a problem having a meatless broth to settle my worries about what was going on.  The soup relived the pain so I know it was only a muscle spasm.  It also gave the enough energy to get in a great workout.  :)

 

Next week I'll have to be careful with my calorie intake and where it is coming from so I don't just regain everything I lost this week.  I'm thinking a few days of around 1000 calories should help my body bound back to having more than a few hundred calories a day.  I'll be keeping mostly raw foods but adding in lean meats (cooked), hot soup, and my lemon water.

 

The heart monitor proved that yes I am not getting my heart rate to high during my workouts but is drove me crazy having the strap around my chest during my workout.  I thought it was just a watch type band I would be wearing.  I didn't realize there is also a band I have to around my chest.  It's not easy keeping a chest band in the correct place when you have a large chest.  I'm going to try and see if I can return this one and find one that is just on the arm and not strapped around my chest.

 

That's all for tonight folks :)

It's time for me to get some wonderful sleep :)