Hi everyone. I’m joining #WeekendCoffeeShare today. It’s past 9PM on the night before daylight saving time sets in, so no coffee for me. I just had an apple-and-cherry flavored Dubbelfrisss with my meds and a small bag of chips. I normally have those at 8PM on Saturdays, but was upset then. Let’s have a drink and let’s catch up.
If we were having coffee, first I’d complain about the weather. Oh wait, how’s yours? Ours has been rainy and chilly for spring. I want sunshine!
If we were having coffee, I’d share that I’ve been struggling a lot over the past week. I was in a crisis on several occasions. I will spare you all the details but I’m not proud of my behavior. The triggers to my severe outbursts involved disruptions to my day schedule and unfamiliar temp workers being placed with me for my one-on-one support. However, I must admit I’ve been on edge almost all the time even when there were few disruptions to my day schedule. For example, today I got upset because my laundry was put through the washing and drying process twice and this means I haven’t been able to change into my pajamas yet, something I normally do around evening med time at 8PM. In this sense, I understand my assigned staff’s saying yesterday that even if there are no disruptions to my day schedule and I’m supported by super familiar staff all day, I still may get upset. Which, by the way, wasn’t the case today, but we got as close as possible: a familiar staff supported me for half the morning shift and from handover at 3:15PM up till dinnertime at 5PM. For which, by the way, I explicitly thanked said staff. I’m pretty sure I’ll hear that because I got upset at 8PM for a minor reason, by which time a relatively new staff was supporting me, apparently familiarity of staff isn’t the issue. And indeed, there is probably nothing that will prevent me from getting upset altogether, but that doesn’t mean that nothing can be done to prevent the most severe of crises.
If we were having coffee, I would tell you that I finally saw the dietitian on Wednesday. She’s the same dietitian I saw in my old care home. I had a good talk with her and the absolute best news is I no longer need to lose weight! Not that this ever was the goal to begin with, but I was obese when I started my healthier lifestyle journey with her in January of 2022. Now I’m at a healthy BMI. The dietitian made some recommendations for me to change my diet to get me from losing weight to weight maintenance. She’s also trying to talk my staff into getting me to choose my dinners from the meal service menu again, but I haven’t heard about that so either my assigned staff said no or that’s still up for debate. The reason the dietitian is trying to get me to choose from the menu is the fact that I’m quite a picky eater and, when I don’t like something, I’ll usually skip it and not be sure how to replace it. My eating disorder voice also often chimes in, saying that the fewer calories I eat at dinner the better.
If we were having coffee, lastly I’d tell you I upped my movement goal on my Apple Watch from 300 to 330 calories per day. It’s a bit of a challenge to reach it, particularly now that the weather hasn’t permitted long walks most days. I did go on the stationary bike once (and planned on going onto it several more times but you know how it works with motivation to exercise). I did surpass my goal each day though.
A Multitude of Musings 
I hope that the care home staff is more understanding of your needs. Wishing you all the best with your fitness goals. It’s really great news to have achieved your target weight
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Thanks for your kind words. Some of my care home staff do say they understand, but they also say they can’t make any improvements either.
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You’re welcome. I hope you can resolve this issue.
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Some hard stuff here Astrid. I hope you see progress soon.
On the other hand, congrats on getting to a much better BMI.
That’s very cool and I’m envious of your accomplishment.
Keep up the good work. All our challenges are easier to cope with if our body weight is in a health range. I’ve lost a lot of weight in the past 3-4 years and am so much happier even though I still have a ways to go.
Blessings
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Thanks so much for your supportive comment. I really hope things improve mood-wise for me. I do agree that everything is easier when you’re at a healthy weight vs. being overweight or obese.
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Congrats on getting a healthy BMI! Thank you for your weekend coffee share.
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Thanks so much! I was never focused on weight loss as a goal in itself, but it’s a nice thing to have happened.
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Congrats on weight loss., Astrid. I struggle always with weight and some of the time cookies win out. It does help to keep moving so congratulations on that too! Have a better week this week!
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Thanks for your kind words. To be honest, weight loss wasn’t my main or even actual goal with my healthier lifestyle. The BMI has many problems, in fact, although most of them don’t apply to me. However, I do feel more physically fit now that I’ve lost weight. Moving definitely helps!
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I need to lose weight. My eating habits are attrocious again! 😦
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Oh that’s hard. My eating is a little disordered even though I’m now considered to be at a healthy weight though.
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Eating is something we have to do, and habits are so hard to break because we still have to eat. I’m glad you are doing well with your health, though, Astrid. 🙂
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Thank you. I agree with you about disordered eating being hard to break because it isn’t like we can avoid food altogether.
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Exactly! 🙂
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We have had a real mix of weather. Freezing one day and almost t-shirt weather the next.
That is fantastic news about your BMI. Well done you. x
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Thanks for the compliment on my weight loss. Yours sounds like our weather a few weeks ago.
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I’m sorry you had some rough moments. That’s great about the weight. May this upcoming week go well for you
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Thanks so much! This week was hard too, unfortunately.
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It was good reading about your goals. It’s motivational to see others making goals & achieving results. Keep up the good works. #Weekendcoffeeshare
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I am glad my post motivated you. Thanks for stopping by.
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