Going Through Life One Post at a Time
The Hickman High School Marching Band will be combining with the Battle High School and Rock Bridge High School Marching Bands to march in the Columbia Memorial Day Parade. Tonight, John got to march with one of his best friends from Ridgeway Elementary – Caleb.
It was fun to watch part of practice and see these bands that usually compete against each other come together.
In March, I talked to my doctor out of desperation. My weight was out of control, and I had no motivation to do anything about it. When I told her my fears about developing weight-related health issues like a lot of my family, she said, “I think you should try a GLP-1.” I was horrified. I responded, “That’s cheating.” She fired back, “Well, that is one way to look at it, but you aren’t going to make your goal weight with just a GLP-1. How about you look at it as the motivation you need?” I was skeptical at best. She said, “Just give me four weeks.” I gave in and told her to write the prescription.
For the next four weeks while I waited for insurance to approve the prescription, I started doing research. I read literally everything I could find. Nothing changed my mind that I was going to be cheating, but I felt a little better about it all. When it was finally approved, it still took four days for me to do the first injection. Week one was weird. I felt very different, but about halfway through I decided that I would add a goal each week to take my mind off how weird I felt.
Week 1 Goal – Exercise 3 times for 30 minutes. Accomplished!
Week 2 Goal – Exercise every day for at least 30 minutes. I walked 89,458 steps. Accomplished!
Week 3 Goal – Walk more than the week before. I walked 96,103 steps. Accomplished!
Week 4 Goal – Get 70,000 steps and ride my bike twice. Accomplished!
I stepped on the scale on Monday to realize that I had lost 10 pounds. Then, I checked my activities on both Strava and FitBit and realized that I had exercised 21 days in a row. I sent my doctor a message with my weight check-ins and activity level. I mentioned I was also drinking at least 80 ounces of water a day and tracking my meals. She wrote back, “Can you give me four more weeks?” I responded, “No. I’ll give myself four more weeks.” She said, “That’s better.”
Today, I had a bad day at work and the urge to pop open a bottle of wine was in my head by 3:00. However, on the way home, I thought, “The bike would be a better choice.” So, I loaded up my bike and headed to the trail. Two miles in, I was already starting to feel better. By the time I reached the Big Tree, I was smiling because I was literally riding away my bad day. On the way back, I realized my doctor had been right. The GLP-1 was just the motivation I needed to kick me into gear. I know this will be a long journey and there will be a lot of hard work along the way, but in the end, it’s just four more weeks.
…earbud?!? Yes, that is exactly what happened to John this evening. While at Ari’s house, one of the dogs that they are currently sitting for found John’s ear bud case when it fell out of his pocket. While John was very upset, I could not stop laughing. In case you were wondering, you actually could hear music playing from inside the dog.
We attended the Spring Court of Honor for Troop 706 this evening. John received more service beads.
They also had all the Scouts that have earned the rank of Life come up to the front.
As they were standing there talking about these “older Scouts”, I remembered back to when all of these boys first started their Scouting journeys. It is so hard for me to believe that these Scouts are the ones that the younger ones look up to. Time moves too fast.
It was a beautiful day to visit The Big Tree.
John went to see Ari perform at her horse show today in Lake St. Louis. She did not place as highly as she would have liked, but it was still a good show.
The sunset is always beautiful at Cooper’s Landing.
