Not the Best News

Well, got the results of my MRI yesterday and the news is not as good as I would have liked. We were hoping and pretty sure that it was going to come back saying I had a ganglion cyst that could just be drained. Turns out that's not the case and I'm being sent to a foot and ankle reconstruction surgeon. I'm not thrilled about that, but you know, if I want to continue being active, I need to take care of this issue.

My main concern is the 5K. I couldn't get an appointment to see this doctor until 10/14, and my 5K is 10/17. Should I still plan on running the 5K? Should I still be training? Am I going to make it worse by doing so? I called both the podiatrist and my family doctor back and got the same answer, if you want to run and you can do it, go for it. The podiatrist said I'm not going to do any damage by running. It's just going to hurt. Yeah, well, I know that.

So I've decided I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing and plan on doing the run. I'm already doing the distance. I've just been trying to pick up the speed a little. Yesterday at the end of my run, I actually sprinted down the block. That was a totally new experience for me...and it felt great!

As for the scale, well, it's not moving. Last week I earned a lot of activity points but it was a hungry week for me and I ate a lot of those points, although I didn't touch my weekly 35. But the scale was not happy and it went up ever so slightly. This week, I've earned about half of the activity points that I did last week, but I'm still eating most of them, still not touching my weekly 35. I have one more day to go before official weigh-in. My scale at home is pretty accurate and it's not showing a change yet. I have one more run to get in today, will drink lots of water and stay below my points and see what happens. If I don't lose this week, I may have to drop my points.

Even though I'm at my WW goal, I'm not where I want to be. To get to my personal goal, I need to take off another 8 pounds. I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, what I've been doing, and eventually, I'll get there. Just need to find that sweet spot between daily points and activity points.