In the new year...

So much has happened.

I really need to journal daily.  

I started this year weighing 184.  For my height (5'2") that puts me at obese according to my BMI.

Unacceptable.

I signed up for a diet bet game.  It was Chris and Heidi Powell's dietbet, and I mulled it over a couple days first, but the pot went over $400,000 so I decided to put in my $30.  I tried a dietbet before, but I failed.  Well, I did lose weight, but it wasn't enough weight to win.  I remember I hurt my shoulder and had to see a specialist.  I was limited to my exercise at that point and just stopped trying.  Is this time different?

Well, when I joined dietbet on Jan 4, I had a very painful bump on my tongue.  I still think it was a cut that went a bit infected.  It felt like a paper cut  on the bottom of my tongue, just like on your finger...with that nasty flap of skin that sends the most pain to your brain when its touched against the grain.  Imagine that on the bottom of your tongue.

So, I wasn't able to eat much for a few days.  Instantly dropped three pounds in the first week.

I thought it would be easy.

Then, last Wednesday, I became sick.  So did BD, but he felt better by Saturday.  I showed one house on Saturday and came right home and spent the rest of the day and night in bed.  Bad head cold/sinus thing--- lots of snot, flem, and coughing. My brain is foggy and I have no energy.  Very cold then very hot, which tells me I'm a bit feverish.  I've been eating like a champ this weekend, though, so I know that weight I initially lost the week before is back.  BTW, my tongue now feels just fine.  

Oh, I did see a doctor for my tongue.  It was that painful.  She thought it was a wart or a skin tag, but I told her I really thought it was from a cut.  By the time I saw her, the flappy piece was white and wrinkly, because it was dying off.  It was still painful, because it hits and moves when I talk and eat.

She wanted me to see a specialist.  Might not be seeing her again....it was a cut and after a few days of salt water rinses every few hours, I felt a lot better.  I need to write about that issue next time...keep an eye out.

So, that's been my year so far.

Sick and sick and fat.