Pretty in Purple

Ohhhhh....Ahhhhhh! It's purple! They told me not to work out because I could 1) Fall and make it worse 2) have a really stinky cast. I'm kust going to have to try to move more without sweating and watch my food really closely. The other good thing is that I only have to wear this for 3 weeks and then I should get a removable cast that I can take off so I can bathe my arm. They also said I could drive my manual transmission car....Yeah!

Well, I've finally broken a castable bone! After 28 years of only breaking fingers and toes I've managed to finally snap one of the big ones. I was doing yard work on Sunday and I decided to trim all the hedges in front of the house since we're having people over for fantasy sports drafts next weekend. Anyway, I have a beautiful Bottlebrush tree in front of the house that had gotten taller than I care for it to. I was up on a ladder trying to cut it to about half its current height. All of the sudden I thought I saw bees or wasps coming out of the top of it. (It's blooms frequenly attract stingy guests) I tried to get off the ladder really quick to avoid getting stung. Unfortunately, I missed the last step and put my left hand under me to break my fall. I heard a pop when I landed which apparently was the top of my radius breaking. The ER doc said it was a pretty clean break and it went all the way through. I'm going to the orthopedist for my real cast tomorrow. (They didn't want to cast today because of swelling.) I felt pretty awful today (lots of nausea). I'm surprised how much one broken area can make everything feel yucky.

The best news of the day was that even with the added weight of my splint, I was still down 0.6 lbs today. I only have 0.4lbs left until I get my 55lb star. I'm hoping to do that next week and it looks like Sally may be getting her 70lb star next week too.

Let's Give Them Something to Blog About....

Yeah! I'm so excited! I guess I should back up a little first. Last week I had just gotten home from 10 days in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. I went snorkeling several times and repeatedly drank salt water unintentionally. (It was deceptively blue and I kept forgetting to be careful about getting it in my mouth.) I went to WW like 18 hours after getting off of the plane. Sally and I were very faithful to exercise on the trip. We worked out every single day without fail. I indulged a little in food, but mostly I was very good and age small portions of healthy food. Anyway, I was a little disappointed when I was up when we got home. I was only up 0.4 lbs, but I had hoped to not be up any. Well, today was the payoff, because I was down 7.2 lbs! That makes my total loss 53.8 lbs. and my weight is officially under 200(199.2)! I feel so much better not lugging around that extra weight. I'm also really excited about getting under 200 before the kids come back to school. That was my secret goal for myself, and I'm really happy that I met it just in time!

Hmmm...A new career path?

Watch out Speilberg! Here comes Stacy Cain! Ha! Anyway, Mike and Steve went on a fishing trip this past weekend and I (nervously) let Steve take our new video camera with them. He took a few minutes of video so I used the software that came with the camera to patch it all together and put a title and some credits. Hope you enjoy it!

WARNING! Fish WERE harmed in the making of this video! However, they were only yummy fish.

Not Too Shabby!

Here is something that makes me feel pretty good. This is my weight loss graph and stats from Evenhealth.com.

This is a really cool website. It has lots of features that I don't take the time to use, but I do track my weight in it. I also do my ticker (that cow on the measuring tape at the top of the page) on this site. It actually even automatically updates my ticker when I enter a new weight which is a real time saver.

On the graph here, you can actually totally ignore all of the up and down before February. I think it just needs to fill in the graph, so it draws in random peaks and valleys.

One of the other cool things is the average weight loss on the bottom right. When I have a "no loss" week or something like that, I just look at my graph and my average weight loss and I feel pretty darn good about myself.

The Tuna Diatribe

Okay....Ladies and Gentlemen....I present for your inspection the source of my current confusion. This picture is of two seemingly identical cans of Bumble Bee Tuna. They are both 6 oz. of Solid White Albacore packed in water. However, my confusion arose when I rolled them over to check their fat and calories so that I could calculate points.

First, check out the serving size. I know it might be hard to read, but I assure you that they both claim that 1/4 cup or 2oz. drained is a serving. Now check out the number of servings. HUH?! One can says that it has 2 servings and the other says 2.5 servings. How does one can have a half-serving more than the other??

Now, I should stop here and tell you that, either way, both of these cans calculated out to 3 points for the can. This, however, still confused the pants off of me because I swore up and down that I had been eating tuna that the whole can was 2 points. Steve said I must have calculated wrong and so we bought these. However, when I got home and looked at the one's we had on hand, here is what I found. We had two cans that were also White Albacore Tuna from two other manufacturers. The Chicken of the Sea was 5oz and the StarKist was 4.5 oz.

GUESS which can calculates out to 2 points for the can???? The 5 oz Chicken of the Sea!

The two new tunas also have the claimed 1/4 cup, 2oz drained serving size. However, despite their size difference (and the fact that they are both at least one ounce lighter than the Bumble Bee tuna) they BOTH claim to have 2 servings. Even more confusing, despite the fact that they should be exactly the same type of fish, one purports to have 50 calories per serving and one supposedly has 60. If you remember, our Bumble Bee has 70.

I guess what really frustrates me is that I consider myself to be an intelligent and reasonable person, but I wanted to forcibly remove my hair after trying to figure out why type of physics manipulations the tuna companies must be performing on their fish when they pack it!

I wouldn't be surprised if you could easily find people who didn't know what a Tuna was (other than something in a can) so how can people make an informed decision when the information is so clearly skewed?

Okay, I got it out of my system....I feel better now. I'm gonna go pet my dog while my blood pressure evens out....

I'm Baaaack!

Sorry for my absence from the Blog-0-sphere. I've been suffering from laptop withdrawal. They don't let me keep my school issued laptop during the summer and I didn't realize how COMPLETELY spoiled I was to that thing! I've barely used a computer since May! Anyway, I am now down a total of 41.6 lbs! Yeah! I actually found a picture of me taken 4 days after I started WW in February and the difference is more than I realized(I'll have to remember to post it later with a current pic for comparison.). My current goal is to lose 11.5 lbs by the cruise. If I don't quite make it it won't be the end of the world, but it would feel good to be under 200 when I plan on wearing a bathing suit much of the time!

Hopefully I'll get over my laptop issues and blog a little more regularly! See you next week!