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Eating Paper, Working Out and Feeling Sleepy

August 23rd, 2011 5:44 pm | 1 Comment

So I heard the funniest thing the other day. “Mommy, they made me eat paper today…” What?!? No, it’s not the beginning of some addiction show or anything like that. My sister Beth and her family started going to church a few weeks ago. My little niece, who is 4, went with them and I guess they had communion and gave her a communion wafer. She wasn’t sure what it was and ate it anyway. Later that day she was talking to my sister and told her that they made her eat paper… too funny!

Well the LA Fitness next to my house is now open (as of August 15) and I have been there a few days already this week. It wasn’t as bad as I thought. I wasn’t the mecca of hot guys walking around and fit women all socializing around the treadmills. There were people there from all walks of life. I really don’t know why I thought that I would feel out of place being surrounded by hot buff guys. Not that it’s bad or anything like that, it’s great motivation to continue to lose the weight and build some muscle. As some of you know, I’m in cardiac rehab 3x a week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays I’m at the gym. My regimen consists of the same routine I have at the hospital. It feels good to be able to work out on my “off” days from the hospital. On the nights where I am too tired to do a full set I at least get in 30 minutes of cardio on the treadmill.

I also decided to try out a month of personal training. I signed up with a special, but won’t actually start my training sessions until I’m done at the hospital. My trainer is a guy named Tyler (who is super cute – redhead, buff, Midwest looks) and has a heart defect so he is somewhat qualified to handle my case with my heart condition. We will do an assessment in a few weeks and set my goals. My initial visit with the fitness manager at LA Fitness wanted me at 170 by the end of the year. 170?!?! Holy frak! I’m not sure I can do that, but my goal is to get to my lower 22o’s. I’m 232 now.

Lately I have been feeling very sleepy after every meal. This is just tired, like I could just close my eyes and sleep right there. I have checked to see if my blood sugars have gone up and caused me to go into “coma” but my blood sugars have been pretty consistent in the upper 90s/lower 100s. So I’m not sure what is up. I have tried to look up the side effects of all my meds, but none that have drowsiness as a symptom.

In addition to the drowsiness, I have been having consistent headaches for the last couple of weeks. Consistent that it is there most of the day and I need to take tylenol at least 2x a day. It’s not a piercing headache, its one of those “in the back of my head but annoying headaches” – I want it to stop.

Filed under: Personal Log, Workouts

Crayons, Pickle Sandwiches and Tomatoes

August 6th, 2011 8:17 pm | No Comments

It’s that time of year again. “Uncle Scott and you buy me some school supplies…” asks my niece. We were at Target and in their “Back-to-School” section. I caught the green and yellow of a familiar box from my childhood. I remember every time we went to the store that I wanted a new box of crayons. But not just any box of crayons. The 24 pack would not do and while the 48 count was impressive, the one I yearned for was the 64 pack. Not only did it have the most crayons but it had that little sharpener in the back when your crayons got dull. I don’t remember that we had the cool names that they have today like “Wild Strawberry” or “Purple Mountains Magesty”. While I don’t think the palette of colors has changed, I think they renamed some of the colors. But some of the old standbys are there like “Burnt Sienna” and “Goldenrod”. I bought a box for myself today and the kids today are more into the markers than the crayons. I couldn’t convince my niece to buy crayons for some odd reason. So the 64 count box of Crayola is MINE!

Earlier, my nieces “Jessica (4) and Toni-Lyn (11) wanted cheeseburgers. So rather than take them to McDonalds or Wendy’s I took them to Fuddruckers where at least I knew that the meat was ground that day and was fresh. I also knew that the ingredients were fresh and you pile them on your budget by yourself. However, Jessica refused to eat the meat in her cheeseburger. She asked for pickles on her burger. When she got back to the table, she took the bun off and started eating the slices of pickles that we placed on her burger. Over the next minute or two I watched her eat 5 slices. She wanted more. I went back to the fixings bar and got here another 6 pickle slices. She didn’t want the meat. So we took the patty off the bread, and placed the pickles on the bread and she had a pickle sandwich – it was hilarious! She is too cute!

So it is August now and tomatoes are at their best. I have been obsessed with yellow and red grape tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes from the Farmers’ Market. While I won’t bite into a beefsteak tomato, I will pop a grape tomato in my mouth. They are so sweet right now. Get out to your local farmers’ market and avail yourself of some of the best tomatoes of the season!

Oh, the sea bass picture you see above was a recipe that was published in the OC Register this past week! It’s a quick and easy dish and the tomatoes really make the fish shine! Visit http://foodfrenzy.ocregister.com/2011/07/30/weekly-roundup-sea-bass-and-tomatoes/44425/

My recipe is the last link at the bottom! Enjoy!

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