The beginning April 11

Hello?  Is this blog still even a working blog?  I haven't given up on my quest to be healthy, it just hasn't quite gone as well as I had hoped.  When I first made the decision to try to get back in to shape, I figured I would be down 60lbs in after 6 months.  Well, it's been almost 6 months and I'm down 30lbs. Obviously there was a couple of setbacks, like almost losing a leg and such, but the journey has been too boring for me to record every day. 

People keep asking me if I feel a lot better because I'm down 30 lbs but sadly, I don't.  My whole goal was to not be in a wheelchair anytime soon. Unfortunately, we've kind of gotten to the realization that the pain is here to stay and now it's constant, even when I'm sitting down. So now my goal is to try to do whatever I can to at least lessen the pain and postpone being in a wheelchair. So that's what I'm striving to do now. 
(These are my beginning and halfway point pictures. Apparently I'm so much more healthy now that even the whole room looks brighter)

April 11

Sep 24

Sep 24

I am still trying to show up to Crossfit at least 3 times a week and try to do the WODs even if I have to modify parts of the workout.  The problem is, it seems like I am starting to modify more and more of the WOD. About the only thing I can do correctly is bench press but that's not in very many WODs. I did find a really cool/painful sports massage that helped to stretch the fibers that surround the muscles so that the muscles in my legs and back could lengthen out to where they should be.  That worked great and I was actually able to stand up straight afterwards. That was great but by morning everything had constricted back into the tight knots that I'm used to.  Yeah, it worked great but they want almost $200 bucks a month to keep doing it.  (I'm trying to see if I can get a job as a school-bus monitor and get video'd being bullied.  That lady made almost $900K from people sending her donations after that happened to her.  If I can get video'd and rake in money like that, I'll definitely go back and do more massage sessions). Until then, I'll keep with my stretching routines and see what else I can do. 

I don't want this whole thing to sound like I'm complaining or making excuses, I'm not.  I still have goals to meet and I will.  We are still eating Paleo most of the week although we allow ourselves one cheat meal a week because I'd go crazy if I didn't.  We did find a cool trick to making your own paleo mayonnaise.  One of the biggest problems with the paleo diet that I had seen was making mayo was a pain because you had to mix everything in the blender while pouring in the oil a little at a time.  If you did it wrong, it all clumped up it was too runny.  Well, we learned a little trick that if you put all of the ingredients, with the oil on the top,  and then use a hand/wand mixer it works perfectly.  You basically, put the wand at the bottom of the cup and turn it on and pull it to the top. Repeat once or twice more and it's the same consistency of store bought mayo.  It's awesome.  It seriously takes less than a minute. It's basically made our lives a lot easier because now we can make sandwiches, or broccoli slaw, etc and not be a big pain in the backside. I even made a video of it but then I decided that it was probably the most boring video ever made so I decided not to post it. 

So anyway, my new goal is to still lose another 30 lbs before Christmas if I stay out of the hospital for any unforeseen crazy leg infections, etc.  My other goal is to try to report on here more than once a month.  Trust me, you don't want me to post everyday because it would be so boring that you would feel that you were getting bullied.