Three H: Holy, Healthy, Happy

I had my check up at BioSymmetry today. I've lost 10% of my body weight in two months! Dr. Pate said that he really can't say enough how great that is and to keep doing what I'm doing. It's going fairly easily for me, so that shouldn't be too difficult! I'm really pleased with my progress, but most of all I'm feeling great and that's what this is all about- being able to move about and live my life to its fullest. I did have a setback a couple of weeks ago. This story may be TMI, so don't say I didn't warn you.  I went for a walk, got all sweaty, and then got sidetracked and too busy with other things to shower right away. I paid for it with a yeast rash along my C-section scar. Apparently I've lost enough weight for that skin to flop and fold over on itself. To make matters worse, it was itchy, but hadn't seemed too bad, probably because my nerve endings don't feel much along the scar tissue... and by the time I looked ...

It's been months since my last post. Over six months, in fact, and sneaking up on seven. You've probably assumed that I fell of the wagon. And you would be right. But as that old Chumbawamba song from my high school days goes, " I get knocked down, but I get up again ." (Let's just ignore the fact that the song is about drinking and pissing the night away and I've never even been a drinker.)  When I last wrote, I had just seen my OBGYN and I weighed 269.6 pounds on my scale at home. For that entire month of March, my weight hovered within a few pounds of that number. The highest recorded weight was 270.2 and the lowest recorded weight was 267.6. But there was no downward trend whatsoever. It zigged and zagged up and down. I also wasn't walking the way I planned to. I think I looked at the exercise goals I had set for myself as TOO easy and therefore not worth the time.  Then, at the end of the month, family issues struck. I had been told earlie...