summerglamgirl

Well today I had another session of schlerotherapy done to my right leg.  Schlerotherapy is where they inject a thin needle with a special solution in it into each noticable vein on your legs and try to get the underlying larger ones below the skin’s surface.   The veins generally will disappear after a few weeks.  What sucks is you have to wear tight-assed compression pantyhose after ward even to bed your first day.  Of course today was our first day of 80 degree weather here in CT!

 I had to do it though.  I have been self-consious about my legs for a while and for the last 3 years did not even wear shorts!  I have a hard time even wearing capris so much that I have wore them only 1 time in 3 years.  It is not that my legs are so bad it is just that they have alot of small spider veins scattered all over them and I am very pale so they show up.  Anyway like I said I am very self-consious about them so this was the best thing I could do for myself beside loose weight.  Well I have to use these pantyhose fo the next 3 1/2 weeks and no sun for about 8 weeks on them so some time around mid June.  Well if I get to wear shorts and skirts without pantyhose again from mid June on that will make it all well worth it.  No strenous exercise though for the next 48 hours.  I think I will go to a carnival with the kids this weekend then.

It has been a while since I last posted anything. I have really been focusing and trying to find a niche that will work for me.  I was losing weight but too slowly.  At first I just cut back my portions which helped me lose 8 pounds.  Then I joined a gym while continuing to monitor my portions, and I lost 4 more pounds.  However, I was working out at least 6 days a week and hard sometimes for an 1 - 1/2 or more so to lose on average a pound a week is s-l-o-w progress to me especially when I have cut out chocolate completely and pretty much all my other indulgences!

So about 3 weeks ago I decided to really count my calories and reduce even more it wasn’t good enough to just eat smaller plates.  I only allow myself around 1200 calories a day.  It may seem stringent at first, but if you learn how to play the numbers game it gets easier.  For instance, I trick my  body with alot of veggies.  Especially frozen organic ones - I find you can eat large platefuls and they are low in calories.  I went back to eating egg whites and oatmeals in the mornings and for lunch right now I am being stringent so that I can have a little more room to eat at nighttime.  I eat a cottage cheese (lowfat) for lunch.  Dinner consists of chicken, lots of salad and steamed veggies. I also boil sweet potatos to substitute for regular mashed potatos.  It is great!  Sometimes I put in a large tablespoon of other goodies to like macaroni salad, spinach kiesh (lowfat) and spanish yellow rice - but just a bit!  Well this strategy is working I have consistently been losing 2-3 pounds per week!  I am very excited this is usually the bad part of the month for me when I tend to gravitate toward eating so I am sycked right now.  Soon I will be going for another schlerotherapy session to work on the appearance of my legs one more time and then I will go shopping for some new clothes and then tan ever so lightly to define my muscle tone!  All coming up in the next 2 months!!!!  Remember what they say losing weight is:  80% diet 10% exercise and 10% genetics. I would probably beg to differ that exercise plays a bit of a higher role in it, but at the end of the day I have to agree that eating is the most important aspect to consider when trying to lose weight.