Journey of 75 Update

As I mentioned in my last post, I think a weight of 150 might be too low for me so I have a working goal of 160lbs at this time. I might be able to get to 150 IF I can add fitness activities to my life. More on that later.

So to date I have lost a total of 60lbs. I have a BMI in the "normal" range for the first time in about 25 years. I weigh less today than I did the day I found out I was pregnant with my daughter (who is now 25 years old). My doctor has removed the diagnosis "Obesity" from my record. I can sometimes fit into a size 10 but most of my pants are size 12. I never thought I'd be able to say, "size 14 is too large" but I can indeed say that today. I lost nearly one-third of my starting weight.

I lost the weight with a minimum, and I do mean minimum, of fitness activities. I've had neuromas in both feet for about 20 years and the pain they cause prevents me from doing anything repetitive like walking, hiking, riding a bike, eliptical, etc. It has been incredibly frustrating. When they were first diagnosed I had to give up wearing heels. No big loss I thought so I gave up wearing heels. Then I had to give up wearing dress shoes, even flats, because the pointy toes squished my toes together and triggered the pain. I tried walking with nice wide shoes, sneakers, and in time that became a problem so I tried the eliptical machines which was also a problem. Hubby and I bought two new Trek bikes and I thought there was no way the neuromas would catch me on that bike but they did. It would get so bad I'd have to get off the bike, take off my shoe and pull the bones in my foot away from one another to get some relief so I could finish the ride. That happened more than once this past summer.

SO, with encouragement from a friend who had neuroma surgery, I saw an orthopedic surgeon who agreed that under the circumstances surgery was warranted and suggested that I have both of them done at the same time. If I could heel-walk for a few days then it might be best to do them both so I wouldn't have to go through it twice. This made sense to me so I had the surgery on 12/21/12. It has been a week, much too soon to determine if it was successful, but I'm looking forward to finding out if this coming summer will be The Summer of Fitness for me. Until then I have some recovering to do.