I was determined to start running and my plantar fasciitis kicked in and I had to almost immediately step back for a bit....I wrote about that about two or three posts ago in this post.
In the last post I wrote I mentioned how I was getting back on track with my eating. And I actually was starting to see some very early positive results. Ok in 4 days I saw my weight drop by 3 pounds. That’s positive!!! In that same post I also mentioned a bit of poison ivy.
Yeah, about that.
One of the places of poison (and there may have been a bug bite in that same area) somehow got infected. This prompted a trip to an Urgent Care because the poison was raging strong and driving me crazy and I had an oozing wound in one of the scratching itchy areas of my leg.
So...off to urgent care I went. I came home with instructions to keep the wound wrapped and covered, a prescription for antibiotics, a prescription for prednisone and instructions to take a picture each time I changed the dressing on my leg so that if it didn’t get better that the doctors would be able to see the rate of spread. (I guess in case it was some flesh eating bacteria!). Oh and absolutely no swimming in pools, rivers or lakes.
I won’t disgust you with a picture of my infection at its earliest stage when it was still oozing and nasty looking ..but rather after I had been on antibiotics for about 5 days. (Please excuse the legs that desperately need shaved...but shaving over poison ivy and an infection doesn’t sound appealing!)
This happened right as we headed for a little mini vacation and I was a bit bummed about the no swimming edict but we had a great time and enjoyed ourselves greatly! (Pictures and a recap coming soon).
So let’s talk about the bad. We missed some lunches and then would hit dinner starving after a busy day of exploring. So I overate! We indulged in dessert every night. I tracked NOTHING!
I gained 10 pounds in 4 days! Yes I said 10!
Now this is not an excuse....but rather a hopeful paragraph that HOPEFULLY explains some of this gain. There is the female hormonal cycle water retention thing going on. So that could account for a few pounds. I AM on medication, one of them prednisone which is known to cause weight gain/water retention. So that could also be part of it. I hope and pray that when I’m off the medication and the monthly ick is behind me once again that some of that weight will drop away naturally. Added to those two water retention problems, we can add in this.... It was also hot hot hot and while I tried to drink a lot, I was going for long periods without the need to pee. So I know I wasn’t drinking enough. The first day I went 18 hours...which scared me to death when I realized that it was the next morning and I hadn’t peed since the previous day when we arrived at Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum at noon! I really worked to drink as much as possible the rest of the trip, (and I never went even half as long without the need to pee as that first day for the rest of the time away) but it was hot....we were outside...we were hiking (mountains) and walking and moving which makes it difficult enough to stay hydrated, but I was also trying to recoup from my first day blunder! But looking back I know that the 4-8 hours I would go between bathroom trips, while nice while traveling, exploring and hiking was too far between...and yes that was after that first day and I was very cognizant to make sure that I WAS drinking!
But that said, I know that my eating while we were exploring our world did come to haunt me on the scales! I’m not going to cry about it...we had a fabulous time and I’m not going to beat myself up!
I just know that I’m going to work to clean up my eating....drink lots of water (lots!!)....and I’m going to move on! Let’s hope for an easy recoup but even if it doesn’t drop off, I’m not giving up! Slight setbacks are part of a weight loss journey!!!
