Day 361 (day 4 / week 51)

Monday, December 28, 2009

I did my normal work thing, but forgot my pedometer (grumble). I reset it, and just forgot to bring it with me. I estimated 12,054 steps because it was busy, but not a busiest day for me, and it wasn't slow either. On these types of days I usually get at least 12,000 steps in (gotta laugh at the random 54 steps--I don't know where that came from lol).

I also decided for 2010 that on my workdays I am going to make them mini strength training days. I am going to do at least some push ups when I get home. I know now that I can work and exercise, but I want to go just that extra mile next year, now that I know I can do it.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 355 (day 5 / week 50)

10 days to go till the new year...

Tuesday December 22, 2009

A busy workday. 15,024 steps (7.11 miles). Man it was cold and windy. I was glad that it was my last workday for the week. Woo hoo!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 327 (day 5 / week 46)

Workday. Stairs, patient transfers, 13,757 steps (6.51 miles), busy day, etc, etc. I managed to do 10 minutes of Wii Fit after I got home from work. Yaay me.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 326 (day 4 / week 46)

Man, I thought Sunday was a hard day. Today was worse, but I got in 15,065 steps. That's 7.13 miles! I transferred patients, took the stairs and did all the same workday stuff that I do.

The stairs are becoming easier, and I am noticing squeezing and stretching is becoming easier thanks to yoga. Gotta love yoga.

God also blessed me. Lately I haven't been praying like I used to. I used to pray for all things. When I needed help, and when I didn't. I forget that I ALWAYS need help. Work is so stressful and hard, that I always just thank God for helping me, but I never ask Him for help, or invite Him along with my day.

I did today, and I got on time. That is huge. Today was a lot busier (the step count shows it!) and I finished early. I needed this. My supervisors are not happy that I have had to stay late to finish. I asked, "what can I do to fix it?" I was told, "you are a smart girl. You will figure it out." (biggest cop out answer ever.) I honestly have no idea how to fix it. I gave up, left it in His hands, and I finished. On time. I honestly don't know what I did differently today to finish early, but it was all Him. Same pod (the section that I work on)... mostly the same nurses... same patients...He helped me. He had to have. Nothing else makes sense. What a blessing.

One more day left. I pray He is there with me again, helping me. He will. God is faithful.

Make tomorrow count! It's gonna be the end of the week before you know it! You know what that means, right? Black Friday. Don't wait until then to get the walking in! You'll be glad you didn't!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 325 (day 3 / week 46)

Sunday 11/22/09

It was a typical busy workday. Crazy busy. I did my typical workday exercises. Working for 1. 10,857 steps and on my feet for 12.5 hours. Did the stairs, and transfers. Working is always a great "leg day."

Regardless, I am glad Sunday is over and done with.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 312 (day 4 / week 44)

Sunday was a busy typical workday. I walked 12,081 steps.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 293 (day 6 / week 41)

Today I am very tired. I am glad it's my last day to work this week. I will hopefully catch up on some reading, to get the details that I missed for my class.

Today I worked and did my stairs. I also wore my pedometer again. It reset itself again, and I even put it on my shoe so that I wouldn't accidentally press the button and reset it. I was worried that putting it on my shoe might make it bounce too much and give it a false reading (2 steps instead of 1) but after testing it out, it worked fine. The number I got was 11910 steps, but it was reset after 10 am, so it's more than that. I don't know what the number was before that but I looked down and saw it was at around 100. Oh well, but I think it's pretty cool at the same time. I think 10K steps is 5 miles, so I am walking more than that when I am working.

Tomorrow I was set to study for my class on Thursday, but now I need to find a vet. My puppy Pebbles, has a hernia. She was spayed a few weeks ago and the incision healed, but the night before last, I noticed that she had a protrusion where her scar is. It doesn't bother her and isn't bleeding, warm, infected or anything. I just want to have someone check it out to be sure. I hope if we have to have it fixed that it isn't expensive. We love Pebbles and just want her to be safe, although it doesn't seem to affect her at all.

Anyway off to bed.

Have a great night!

DLTBBB! (don't let the bed bugs bite, for those that didn't catch it the first time around *wink*)

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 292 (day 5 / week 41)

Monday, Oct. 19, 2009.

The last few days have been busy to say the least. I worked and am studying to make sure that I am caught up with the rest of the class that I am enrolled in at work to learn how to read ECGs.

I did my stairs, transferred patients and even wore my pedometer. It kept resetting itself, so I just gave up for the day.

When I got home from work, I even got on and played with the Wii Fit for a few minutes.

Hope everyone had a great day and is making it count!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 285 (day 5 / week 40)

Monday, October 12, 2009

It was a workday and I did my typical work routine. Stairs, transfers, etc. I want to be sure to bring my pedometer to work next time so I can see how many steps I have taken throughout the day. I'm curious to see.

I have a lot of sugar temptations at work. Cutting out sugar the first time was easier because I was a SAHM and could control my environment for the most part. This time I can't. It's a lot harder, but I'm sticking to it and holding strong.

Here is a typical work day for me:






















































Look at how strong I am! I passed all of this up for a plain salad with avocado, chicken and grapes in it (minus the guilt!). Sweet!

See you guys later!

have a good day and make it count!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 284 (day 4 / week 40)

Today was a workday, but they sent me home early *grumble* so I am posting early. I even did 56 minutes of exercise, on top of walking the stairs at work and my 8 hour workday.

I feel totally silly and kind of stupid saying this, but yesterday my hubby and I caved and got a Wii Fit (on my Fry's card--told you they were a gateway drug). I am excited about this thing for so many reasons, but the number one reason is my husband! He is exercising! Willingly! Without me having to con him into doing it! This is WONDERFUL because heart disease runs very heavily in his family (both sides) and I worry about him. Although he is tall and lanky, he doesn't exercise to be that way. At all. He eats crap all the time. Big Macs, Whoppers, and he loves his salty snack foods. You name it, he eats it (unless it's sweet). When I called him to tell him they were sending me home early, he said he had been playing with the Wii fit for an hour! Woo hoo!

So I got home, put on my HRM and created a profile. I wish I could show you guys my Mii (it's the "me" version on the Wii). She's a cutie :). I did some strength training, balancing and cardio on it (my legs are still really sore from the 30DS). My HRM said that I did this for 56 minutes, and I did actual stuff (according to the Wii Fit) for 30 minutes. Wii said I burned 147 calories, my HRM said I burned 294 calories. My HRM goes based off of my individual heart rate, and the Wii gets it's numbers based off of METs. Anyway it is lots of fun, and I'm happy that my hubby is exercising.

I am all of a sudden feeling extremely tired. Could be the lights in this kitchen (they do that to me). Hope you all have a good day! See you tomorrow after work!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 273 (day 7 / week 38)

Today was another busy day at work. I say that and think, "it's always a busy day at work" lol. I guess some days are busier than others to the point to where I have to stay late to finish. I had to stay late today. I am exhausted. They even asked me if I would come in tomorrow! I seriously considered it because I want to help out and it would be over time (cha ching), but I am drained. I can't do 4 days in a row. Besides I would probably leave UBER late tomorrow, seeing that I couldn't finish everything today.

Anyway I did my usual work thing. Transferring patients, beds, stairs, yadda yadda yadda. I look forward to a day off.

I did learn something today that confused the heck out of me. I don't think it was "learning" something, but it was a random puzzle piece that was thrown into my mix that doesn't belong there. A coworker came back to work today after having gastric bypass surgery, and I asked her how many calories they had her eating. I asked because I had a gastric bypass surgery patient last week and they only gave her like 3 jello shots a meal to eat. JELLO. She said 200-300 calories. A day. A DAY! What the hizzy??? I thought and had learned in school that our bodies require a certain amount of calories a day (basal metabolic rate) and if we didn't get that, bad things could happen to our health. I'm thinking, this woman is a lot heavier than I am, and so her body needs more calories just to lug the extra weight around. She also works a 12-1/2 hour day. How is eating 200-300 calories a day healthy, even if she had gastric bypass?

What is your take on this? Does anyone understand this or know anyone that has been through this that could shed some light on this for me?

Off to bed. I'm exhausted and my brain hurts now. lol.

Take care and I'll see you tomorrow! I am thinking to make a few waves in my monthly biz (tomorrow is the 1st, ya know). I'm still thinking about it though ;). No hints until tomorrow.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 272 (day 6 / week 38)

I was so tired when I got home yesterday that I went to sleep. The monkey boy woke up at 3am and didn't go back to sleep until around 4:30. I was tired.

Anyway I did my usual work thing, stairs and all the good stuff.

I can't believe that tomorrow is the 1st. I feel like I am going to have bad results, but it's ok because this isn't a rat race. It's real life and these kinds of things happen. It's not going to stop me from exercising though!

I will post about today when I get home from work tonight.

Have a good day! Make it count!

I can do this. I am a star.

PS I totally thought that I posted this early this morning. I just got home from work to see this still sitting open on my computer... lol

Day 267 (day 1 / week 38)

Today was supposed to be the start of my days off. It wasn't. I got called into work.

It was another really busy day. I'm surprised I got everything done, and got out of work physically and mentally unscathed. I didn't sleep well and have a headache, but at least I don't have to work tomorrow. I do have to go in though. I am doing the Walk From Obesity this weekend, so I need to go pick up the shirt tomorrow for it. I hate the thought of going into work on a day off. Such a waste of a day-off. I still don't have many details. I just know that it's at 8am at a park here in Vegas near the hospital.

I did my stairs today, even quickfired them coming down them to go home. I love the quickfire concept. I heart sparkpeople.

Yesterday I found out that I probably wouldn't be able to do the biggest loser thing at work, because I couldn't pay them that exact day. I was mad. What difference does it make if I pay it now, or when I can in a few weeks? It's not like the money is going anywhere, or that I am going to win and not pay at all or something. A lovely coworker said she was going to talk to the lady and tell her that it's ok that I participate and pay later. If I can't participate, it's not the end of the world as I am already doing my own thing. It's not about a diet for me :). We all know this though.

Hubby is frustrated w/ the dog and boy. Should probably go relieve him. He's not a happy camper w/ the dog. He's not very patient though....

See you tomorrow! It IS TOTALLY my day off this time... I am SO looking forward to it too :).

Have a good night!

I can do this. I am a star

Day 266 (day 7 / week 37)

Wednesday September 23, 2009

I went to work and had a very crazy day. It was non-stop from the moment I walked in, until the moment I left (an hour after I should have clocked out!). It was a physical day. I was exhausted.

I did my normal thing, transferred patients and did the stairs. Gotta love the stairs.

Hope you all had a great Wednesday!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 264 (day 5 / week 37)

Today was a long day at work. I got a lot of exercise though.

I started off quickfiring the stairs in the morning and then did a lot of walking. A LOT of walking...more so than usual. I even had to take a patient out to her car, pushing a wheel chair up an incline (my heart was pounding!) to the farthest corner of the hospital (valet). I had 4 discharges so that meant lots of transferring.

I'm exhausted. We also had the weigh in for the PCU Biggest Loser challenge. Fully clothed with my shoes and stuff on, I weighed 193.4. I think we weigh in again on November 21st, so I'll let you know what I weigh in. I hope I win!

Off to bed. Hope you all had a great day and were able to make it count. It's a great feeling, isn't it?

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 257 (day 5 / week 37)

Today was a busy day, and I have a huge headache from being so tired.

Last night was rough because the Monkey Boy played so hard with Pebbles, that he didn't sleep too well. Because the Monkey Boy didn't sleep well, I didn't sleep at all. He was up almost hourly until 3 am, so I got a few hours of solid sleep. I'm tired. Regardless, it was a lovely day because I knew I was going to come home to a super happy son and new puppy.

I got a flu shot early this morning and my arm is sore now. I speed transferred a patient to a unit on the same floor as ours and practically ran backwards. It was like a fluid motion which felt really cool, but was kind of scary all at the same time--I would have been run down by that bed if I fell lol. That is a pretty neat workout and I always look forward to transferring patients in their bed. How often do you get to run backwards? (like never, for me). I also lifted the same heavy patient several times, transferring from chair to bed, and then to dangle bedside being mindful to stay in a squat position the entire time.

I'm gonna hit the sack now. So glad you guys like Pebbles. She is such a little blessing :). When I get a moment to myself, I will respond to all of your comments and emails. It's overwhelming at first (having a new puppy and a toddler), but it's only going to get easier. She is almost potty trained! We left her in the house all day, for hours on end (hubby came home for lunch and a friend came to check on her too) and she didn't pee or poop in the house. What a good girl :).

Have a great night. See you tomorrow. Make it count!

I can do this. I am a star.