Mom is the same, still don’t know what is going on with her, dad is worried, and me too.

Me? I’m sick today, woke up with this cold yesterday, so just trying to get thru the day.

How are you all? Love you guys, sorry this is so breif.

Weight loss challenge team needs more members.  The Wild Cats are looking for new members!!  We are competing against the Diamonds, The Heartbreakers, The Fitness Fanatics, and The Rockstars.  We weigh in every Sunday with a 10 am cutoff time in your own time zone.   We then declare a winning team (whichever loses the most weight) and start all over again! We have an awesome group of people on our team who are always ready to offer encouragement and motivation.  We have a lot of fun but are also very serious about our goals and have a separate forum just for serious talk.  Our team also offers optional exercise challenges. You do not have to do them but we have a lot of fun with them.  If you complete one or more of the challenges, you can email me and I brag about you. But, it is not required.

You can find us by looking at the Buddy Slim menu bar and clicking Forum and then click Weight Loss Challenges and then click Wild Cat Serious Talk or Cheer section. We’re looking for people who are serious about weight loss. You need to be willing to workout at least 5 days per week (trying for 6) and eating healthy on a regular basis.  If you’re interested, email me your current weight and we’ll introduce you to the team.

How are you all?

Has been a very busy weekend for me. Mom is still in the hospital. Having alot of trouble breathing, anytime she has to get up, etc. she gets so out of breath, and is very weak. They are trying to figure out why. She says it feels like a tight band around her chest when she tries to take a breath.

So, I have been running back and forth between her and dad. Taking care of her pets, and her errands. Got more paper work filled out for her for the state aid, just need to call her health insurance on Monday to get her premium amount, and then wait for her bank statement to come in, boy, they sure want alot of info!

I’m so glad you all don’t seem to get bored with me writing about all of this, it really helps to write it out. I don’t feel I say anything amazing, but I really get so much from your feed back.

0k, all, listen up! I have a message for all fo you from my mom:

She says to say thank you very, very much for all your love and prayers, and she is grateful for all of you being there for me! She says “what a blessing” and she actually got tears! I promised her I would tell you.

Ok for some cool happy news! We had an orange and white striped male cat named Chaos. He got out about 18 months ago. We looked and looked and I posted him on lost pet sites. Well, we had given up, and I got an email from this girl with a pic of a cat, and she was asking if he was ours. Yed and I went out yesterday to see him and it was!! So, we brought him home! To be gone so long and so far, without any scratches or scars is amazing! So the next thing we are gonna do is get him fixed so there will be no more wandering. I have some numbers of free places to call. But we are so gald to have him back, the only one who isn’t so happy, is our other cat Ringo, but she is a grump anyways to new things, she will get used to it, but the dog is excited, and Buddy the ferret could care less, lol.

Well, I am back at 137. Think it is stress. Doing all I can to hold it together, had a meltdown Friday and got into the cookies again, ugh.

But I did do my workouts Friday and Saturday, Break today, feel like I’m catching a cold or something, sore throat and achy. Gonna go lay down when I get down here.

But the funny thing is, that I was feeling like I was gonna binge again last nite, and you know what happened? I overate alright, but it was on salad! And I had diet dressing, too! I thought it was funny that my overeating was on healthy food, what a change!

So, that is what is up with me.

I do appreciate all the prayers. It is so hard to see mom and dad like this, I find myself wishing for a time maching so we could all go back to when I was in high school. I told dad I had a very good life with them and he said” well we tried” It really hurts to see him so helpless. I try to cheer him up (he love McDonald’s apple pies), but I know he misses mom so much. And she misses him, too. Seems so unfair and cruel that they have to be apart. HAVE to get mom well enough to get them moved, I have an appt set up with the placement guy for Friday, I wonder if I can meet with him anyways, even if mom can’t? Hmm, it’s a thought.

Well I need to go post, Good luck to all the weight loss teams!

Have a great Sunday, hugs!

Well mom is not coming home yet. See below.Will not be coming home yet. They are moving her to a cardiac care unit. She is still very short of breath, and they don’t know why. Plus her echiocardiogram doesn’t look as good as it should, her nurse says. So I will be going up there tonite.

Got a call from the dr, this is waht he said:

just got off the phone with the dr, she did have a slight heart attack, but he was very encouraging. She does have alot of calcification of the arteries, but he said it was typical of old age. She should get to come home tomorrow.

Well, writing this quick. The nurse just called me, they had to take mom back in to the cardiac cath lab. Her cardiac enzymes were elevated and I asked what that meant, and he said it meant a heart attack. Please pray.

Yay!! I just talked to the nurse, and she came thru with flying colors! They put 3 stents in, and she doesn’t have to have surgery! She will be on blood thinners for the rest of her life, and watch her diet better and start exercising.

She should get to come home tomorrow!

I am soo happy!

 I am so thankful!!

Well this is the latest on mom:

Her cardiac cath is scheduled for 1:00 today. 3 hours from now. She is sleeping, and the nurse said she was doing good and no chest pain. Depending on what they find, they are hoping to only have to put a stint (?) in. They can do that when she has the cath. Otherwise, will have to be done by a cardiothoracic surgeon.

So we are playing the waiting game. But thanks to all of you and the prayers and support, I am not as nervewracked as I could be. So thanks so much.

Other than that I am good today. Been beefing up my workouts, too.

I am going back to doing higher intensity more often. It does help with stress and my mood. See the article I found:

Short, Vigorous Workouts May Reduce Depression, Increase Vigor

SAN FRANCISCO — Preliminary results from a major study on depression suggest that short but strenous workouts — as little as 8 minutes at a time — can temporarily but dramatically reduce symptoms of depression, a Duke researcher has found.
The results are the first to demonstrate that acute physical activity, not just sustained and regular exercise, may decrease feelings of depression, tension, anger, confusion and fatigue, according to Kathleen Moore, a health psychologist in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University Medical Center.
“A number of earlier studies have shown that sustained exercise programs lower depressive symptoms in normal people,” Moore said. “But the Duke study is the first to test the benefits of acute exercise on a group of people actually diagnosed with clinical depression.”
Results of the study, funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, were prepared for presentation Thursday (April 17) at the Society of Behavioral Medicine meeting.
The study involved 55 participants over the age of 50. Participants completed the Profile of Mood Survey (POMS) before exercising in order to assess their baseline mood and then walked on a treadmill for up to 14 minutes at maximum effort. After the treadmill test, they completed the 60-item questionnaire again.
Overall, the study found that participants experienced an 82 percent reduction in feelings of depression, tension, fatigue, anger and confusion. The severity of their depression — mild, moderate or severe — did not influence the level of improvement they felt after the test.
Moreover, participants said they felt increased vigor after the test; 82 percent of participants reported feeling more vigorous and only 18 percent reported feeling less vigorous.
“We had them exercise to the point of exhaustion, but at the end of the test, they felt more energetic and vigorous,” Moore said.
Although the study will continue through July, the preliminary results are significant because they suggest an alternative or an adjunct therapy for treating depression, Moore said.
“This is particularly important for older adults who may want to limit the number of medications they take to control a multitude of medical problems,” Moore said.
However, Moore cautioned that further studies will be needed to confirm the beneficial effect of acute exercise on depression, since the present study did not control for other factors — such as social support from the exercise technician or feelings of accomplishment from mastering the exercise test — that could have reduced depressive symptoms.
The current study is a subset of a larger, five-year study comparing the benefits of three treatments for depression: a four-month exercise program, drug therapy, or a combination of exercise and medication.

With all that is going on right now, I sure need it. It is not just for weight loss to me anymore, I need it, and I have developed a love for workouts.

So hope you all are doing great, I sure love you all alot.

Thanks for your support, and I pray for you all daily.

Mom is having a cardiac cath today. If they find a blockage, they will do a bypass right away. I’m a bundle of nerves, but trying to trust God. Thanks for all the prayers, we need them. I’m kinda having to hold dad together, too. Love you all. I will be back at lunch, if I can.

Well this has been a crazy day. First of all is a Monday and that is nuts enough, but mom had been having chest pain and shortness of breath all weekend. I wanted her to go to the er, but she stubbornly refused. So she called her dr this morning, and he told her to get to the er! She had to go by ambulance, though(which I had to talk her into)

Thank God for Nicole, she works not too far from me, she will pick me up after work so I can get to mom, and not have to wait for the bus.

So, we do need prayers.

I am ok, not a frazzled as I was this morning.

How are you all?

I am more determined then ever to keep right on pushing, even would like to lose at least 5 more pounds, want to push my BMI firmly in the healthy range.

Well, I need to go post and read blogs, love you all, Kama