liminal_space | don't mess with a country girl (Reply)

~ dr. sexy and i met last week for my quarterly check-up and you gotta love a doctor that listens, thinks, and responds. i told him how crabby i've been that the last push toward my goal weight is taking what seems to be forEVER and he introduced me to the term "biological pushback" — which includes metabolism changes and caloric requirement changes and other things.

for awhile, i've been saying that i need to shake things up and even though i have and loss has picked up, it's slowed down AGAIN. this did not surprise dr. sexy and he encouraged me to up strength training and play with some different food choices for a few weeks to see what happens.

the one thing we both agreed on is that i might need to up calories; i'm averaging 1000-1200 a day, so maybe hit 1400-1500 BUT make sure they're the right calories, not the chocolate ones. ;)

he also gave me serious props again for being the odds against me to go from obese to "normal" weight — statistically, i'm a unicorn. RAINBOW FARTS!

~ therapist and i are grooving along. we only have had two sessions, but she's got some ideas to help with stress and to get back to writing. i approve of these things.

~ we finally, FINALLY have cool weather after a few weeks that felt like summer. o.O i hope the leaves do something more spectacular than they're doing now: we have a lot of yellow, but not as much russet and orange as i'm used to. where "used to" means i'm pulling from only two years of autumns here.

mister leaves for california in less than a week and when he gets back, we may do the train ride to see fall colors. how fun! it all hinges on what the leaves decide to do; if the colors suck, we can still do a train ride up to two harbors for the day which will be just as fun. (it's a different tour thing — this one we'll spend the day in town vs. just riding around looking at trees.)

in other news:

= a moose has been spotted in the vicinity and husband has mandated that i do not go looking for it. :(

= we have more eggs than we can get rid of. please come get some? :)

= i got in 15K steps today just in farm chores. o.O include all the lifting and shovelling and tossing and moving, and it's like a long day at the gym. except it's BETTER because i got to love on horses and chickens. :)

= mister is enouraging me to go back to school if i want. i want to stress that i actually LOVE school — learning, doing, arguing....it's my jam. if i do, i'm going to go back for a degree in art! it might be cheaper just to audit the classes i want, so we'll see.

= there are still apples to can. o.O it's never ending, yo! :)

= VS is having their 10 chonies for $40, so i'm stocking up! yay, chonies!

ok. i'm more tired than i thought. totty bye!