Thursday 1 July 2010

It 4:44am. A new day has begun and I haven't gone to bed yet. I've been up trying to complete my end of term paperwork for all my classes. Finally it's all done and I can go to bed if only for two and a half hours. I need to be at work by 10am and I have to leave enough time to get in my exercise and food prep and to walk to the tube.

Before I go to bed though, I just wanted to jump on here and say a great big thanks to all of you who read and/or comment here. Your comments really brighten my day and make this very difficult journey easier. I especially want to thank Journey Beyond Survival for tagging me. I'll leave answering your question: What are 5 things you would do if you were a billionaire? for my next post.

I'd also like to thank Lynda at Taking Less Space for selecting me for her first ever Taking Less Space giveaway. What a lovely lovely surprise!!! All this love makes up for my not having lost any weight this week ... as a matter of fact not only did I not lose any weight but, quite bizarrely the scale read exactly the same as it did last week. How odd is that??? I did get some really fantastic news on another front though. I went to the doctor to have my blood pressure checked and it has come way down from the high readings I got before I started losing weight. I'm now high normal, which means I still have a ways to go to get it back to normal, but I'm so happy it's moving in the right direction.

Well, I'm off to bed. Will catch up with everyone tomorrow ... ummmm ... later today that is!!! Definitely looking forward to reading what you've all been up to.

12 comments:

  1. Very, very good news about your blood pressure!! All the little things you do certainly add up to great things and changes:)

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  2. Lowering your blood pressure is awesome! Great job.

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  3. Excellent work on lowering your blood pressure. I am also ahppy to hear that you have finished your end of year paper.

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  4. I think that is FABULOUS!!! You're losing weight to become healthier and regardless to what the scale may have read, you are doing it!!! Keep with it and you'll be in your normal BP zone in no time! I wish you all the best, Leelee!

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  5. That's one of my goals - normal BP with NO medication! I've been heading that way, but this last appointment had it slightly higher again. I'm hoping it's just a blip. I was a little stressed during that appointment (as it was a complete physical - not the usual walk in and discuss bloodwork kind.

    Get some sleep!!!

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  6. I'm going to read ahead then and see. Hope you have had a good week.

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  7. So happy to hear about your blood pressure! That is awesome my friend!
    I hope you got some sleep!!!
    Have a pretty night,
    Kristin

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  8. Glad to hear that your blood pressure has lowered! Good for you!

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  9. left you an award on my blog!

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  10. congrats on the lower blood pressure, what a great reward for your efforts!

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  11. You have an award over at my blog, [238] and Shrinking!

    PS: I'm also giving away a Biggest Loser Cookbook to celebrate dropping 18 lbs and getting below 220 lbs, so be sure to enter on the official post and good luck!

    -Emilia

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