Day 23 of tracking ahead
A good day yesterday, life anyway, food wise let's say not the best choices so I ended 138 calories over my allowance but I was reminded once again why I need to eat better. I had a bacon and egg sandwich which gave me terrible heartburn, won't be doing that again in a hurry! After I'd took Aryn shopping for clothes, we asked if he could have a burger king, when we looked on the app, you got a free whooper if you spent £3, so that was my tea, a whooper, I have to say it was very tasty, 601 calories, so higher than a big mac but really tasty. Thankfully there aren't that many around for him to request one too often :)
I forgot to mention I had my appointment with the rheumatology consultant on Saturday, he's sending me for a MRI scan, he agreed the trauma (accident when I fell of longboard) has most likely caused the damage, he believes I have nerve damage in my spine, probably around L5. Thankfully, he doesn't think I have rheumatoid arthritis, he was more inclined to think it was osteo arthritis. Anyway, he said we'd wait for the MRI and then he'd see me again, absolute worse case scenario is a referral to Orthopedic surgeon but then I'd have to think carefully about surgery on my spine - NAH, I don't think I want that!
He also said he would prescribe me Amitriptyline to help me sleep if I wanted it, so that my body could heel and I get 'better' sleep, but I don't think I want to take them after doing a little research, there is a mention that they can cause seizures in epileptics and that's me and I'm not risking that for a good nights sleep! I get enough sleep, it may be broken but I manage and when I've looked on my fitbit, it's well within the benchmark for a women of my age - although does any women my age get good sleep lol.
My pain management appointment went well, I managed to do the exercises standing up this time, I also managed 18 minutes on an air bike, thankfully that position didn't causes me any pain whilst doing it. I'm hoping losing some more weight will help reduce the pain on both my back and my knee, so I need to get back within my calorie allowance and lose some more weight.
I wanted to go swimming yesterday morning but my back was really hurting, it's gone okay now, so I'll go tomorrow afternoon. I now have a few exercises I can do at home too, so I'll try and do a few this afternoon between huddles. It doesn't have to be an hour I've realised, just 5-10 minutes helps, stretching is gonna be my new favourite thing too, because that pain down my left leg has caused me to sit more and it all needs stretching out.
What to eat today, I need to be very careful here because the fridge if full of delicious food and I need to not try to eat it all in a day! I want chicken tikka masala which is 608 calories - ouch! I'll work round that I think. We shall see because I have Gousto too that need cooking. Will reorganise the freezer to make space to freeze some of the food that came last night, I got carried away because I had a £15 voucher and then there were offers, so I got £100 worth of food for £63 from Ocado. Had to be done, although now I'm super skint, doh! I don't need to buy anything else for a couple of weeks now though.
Well I'm through boring you, I'll get on with my day, we're talking stress this week in our huddles, that'll be interesting.
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