TMI Alert: Montezuma, how did I offend thee?

It's been an interesting weekend!  I weighed on Friday morning and was 176.6 lbs.

Later that evening, I proceeded to come down with a severe case of gastroenteritis.  I weighed in the morning and was already several pounds lighter.  I was still feeling relatively well and made it to church but didn't last too long after that.  My symptoms became increasingly worse.  I was going on 20+ hours of severe diarrhea and finally decided I needed to go to the Hinsdale Emergency Department Saturday night.  They hooked me up to an IV because I was very dehydrated.  They gave me several different medications to calm down my intestines, to soothe my stomach and I even got a shot in the behind to curb the nausea.  My potassium was quite depleted so they gave me some potassium pills.  I was in the ED for probably 3 hours. They wanted to make sure I got at least 2 liters of fluids through my IV.  I was released and came home and actually slept better than I have in quite a while.

I'm still taking a variety of prescriptions they gave me but today am finally feeling a tad more energetic.  Luckily, my mom was visiting us this weekend so she was able to stay with the boys while Mike and I were at the hospital.  Although she tried to give Max a bottle while we were there, not surprisingly he defiantly refused, but luckily I had pumped at the hospital earlier enough that I still was able to breastfeed him once we got home and he was able to relax and settle down.

Yesterday I mainly rested, but I today I'm dying to get out of the house so we may take the kids to  Yorktown mall to just walk around a bit.  I don't think I'll be up for exercising for quite a while, but that's okay with me.  I'm just glad to get through all of this with a smile on my face!

Help! Need Encouragement!

Last night was another in a row of about five of Max getting up every 3 (and often 2) hours.  Today it caught up with me in a big way as I've had a migraine all day and had to get up and get the boys to daycare and go to work.  I made it through the workday, picked the boys up at about 6 and finally have dinner ready and we're going to just relax and watch a little TV.  I'm really struggling with such a lack of sleep.  The last thing on my mind is watching what I eat or exercising.
Why is this so hard????!!!  Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

Off the wagon, on the wagon

This has been a tough week for me.  I started going back to work and have been struggling with keeping my asthma under control from being sick.  I haven't exercised in several weeks and with all the craziness of work, I think I lost some focus on my goal and on my eating habits.  We also left work early Thursday so we could hit the road with Mark, Steph and all our kids on a trip to Kansas City for the weekend.  It was a night of little sleep but we made it here and got to bed at around 4am.

I weighed yesterday morning and was 177.0 lbs.  I can tell I haven't been exercising and I also think the lack of sleep lately makes my body feel so sluggish.

I'm trying to be encouraged to keep at it and am feeling some sanity return as I try to get rested up again.

Another week

What a funny day it's been.

To start, I realized just how too-short I cut my bangs last night, but I'm hoping I can work with it and make it seem like I planned their length!  Ha!

I took the boys grocery shopping with me this morning.  While riding in his favorite cart that looks like a car (complete with steering wheel), Mason had a blast "driving" around Dominick's while Max slept peacefully.  Mason kept wanting to hold the items I was putting in the cart, so finally I gave him a sturdy bunch of 5 or 6 bananas (after I found him with a can of tuna I had no intention of buying).  By the time we got to the check-out line and Mason began innocently handing the bananas back to me, I couldn't help but chuckle when I realized they were no longer attached to each other.  Earlier I had noticed him pulling a couple off from the bunch, but I wasn't too worried.  What made me start laughing, however, was that as I took the bananas from him one by one, I realized that each one was soft and squishy with bruises, far beyond edible and one was even split halfway open with the gooey, sticky, insides bulging out!  The store was kind enough to dismiss the situation despite my offer to pay for them.  Let's just say I learned my lesson!  Luckily we were heading to Trader Joe's next and I picked up some fresh bananas there that didn't get Mason's "special" handling.

At my weekly weigh-in this morning I was 175.2 lbs, 26.1% body fat, and 55.5% body water.  Yay!