When I started this journey, I said I would be honest, and folks…I am being honest. February was not a month of weight loss. In fact there was a week or two that I gained, but I did lose it and get to my 192 stable weight. I can’t break it. I get to 188, and bounce immediately up to 192. I am stuck, and it is discouraging.
I know part of it, is I haven’t been able to exercise like I would like to. A shoulder injury I got last winter has reared it’s ugly head and well, how do you exercise much when it hurts a lot to use your arm at all? You can walk, but do you realize how much you use your arm when walking? I re-injured it pulling up carpet at our old farmhouse we will be closing on in July. Anyway, this shoulder thing is part of the problem, and I know it, and I believe I will push past this and get on with the weight loss. Also, I am having a lot more than normal back pain.
Friday, March 1st I went to our pediatric and maternal chiropractor who specializes more in scoliosis and other treatments. The x-ray of my upper back and neck shed a lot of light on why I am struggling. The fact that one collar bone is not butting up to my vertebrae and the other is overlapping too much explains the should stuff. Add in the extreme curve…only one of the four I deal with and the now development of arthritis and well, I have some hurdles to jump over to try and get back to feeling better. I will be researching how to slow the arthritis. I will be going to the chiropractor to work on the collar bone problems, and other things. For now this may mean weekly 3.5 hour round trips to the specialist chiropractor. That means pretty much carving out a day in my week. Can you give up a day in your week? It’s hard to find that time. I have to though, if I am going to be able to be the mom I want to be to my children in five or ten years. I want to be able to hold my grand children. I don’t want to be disabled, but at the progress right now, it is likely that I won’t be able to take care of my children, much less myself in the not so distant future.
Here is my latest x-ray, from Friday. The curve has been there, I have three like that, and one minor. That is I believe, my worst curve, but I would have to look at my other previous x-rays, which are in a vault. 
You are looking at it, as you would be if you were facing me. People look at that and think it is as side view. It isn’t, see my ribs?
There is arthritis on the right side of the vertebrae along the curve. I am not sure how to explain what you are looking for, as it was quite quick and a very short, see the arthritis here. Something about Trolley Car Tracks…
For the shoulder area, the left collar bone is not butting up to the vertebrae as it should. The right side is over lapping too much. I show this below.
Here is the close up of the shoulder area. On the left, yellow circle, in side the yellow circle you can see the “open” or black area where the arrow is pointing. There should be bone there, it should be my collar bone, connecting to the vertebrae.
In the pink circle where the green arrow is pointing, it is a brighter white, as there is too much connection, overlapping where is shouldn’t be.
So, what this means, is the shoulder pain on the right side, is literally bone grinding bone. Collar bone and vertebrae grinding together. I am right handed, every time I move my arm in a way that affects the shoulder, it grinds. This is affecting my ribs also.
All this to say… GET YOUR CHILDREN WITH SCOLIOSIS TREATED WHILE THEY ARE YOUNG!!! I never received any treatment until I was 25 and pregnant with my second child. I live in constant pain, some days much worse then others.
I think to get good shots, I should be wearing the same clothes each time, but I don’t. I think I may have pooched out a bit around the middle this month, or at least in this picture I have, it could be the angle or it could be I have… Hangs head a bit.
I am glad I have a few friends to help encourage me along this journey, as with out them, I would give up…
Are you trying to lose weight? How is your journey going?
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Betty, you are looking GREAT! I like the way you are so real - and how you’re still pushing forward!
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Thanks Rebecca!!! Encouragement like that is what is keeping me going!!
I too am on a weightloss journey. I started at 242 lbs and am now down to 210 lbs. I also suffer from upper back pain and my spine looks like a snake. I contribute alot of the pain from 50lb feed sacks on my shoulder all through my growing up years. I was 11 yrs old when I could lift and carry a 50lbs sack of feed on my shoulder and then hoist it in to some ones truck at my dad’s feed store. Anyway more than 30 yrs later, I am a homeschool mom that needs to loose weight so that I can have a better quaility of life and not be so tired all the time. Life getting in the way is my biggest problem. I track may calories on My Fitness Pal online and that helps. I try really hard to keep my protien between 80-100 grams. If I don’t keep my protein up then I seem to get hungry and want carbs. I too need to exercise, but between homeschool and everything else it just seems like the day slips away and then I am ready for some down time and pick up my Bible for my nightly devotions. I would encourage you to try some on line calorie/food journal tracker like my fitness pal, if you haven’t tried one yet. They have an app for your phone too so that helps. Anyway, we will get this weight off! Don’t be discouraged, I know you are facing alot of physical challenges but, we still are so very blessed with all that God had given us. I will pray for healing and relief for you as well as the continued determinattion to win the weight loss battle. If God is for us what could stand against us!?! Many Blessing, Jenn Moore
Loosing weight can only go better if you are having a healthy diet and proper work. Drinking 12 to 15 glasses a day is also needed. And without workout nothing can happen. Hard work is needed with dedication in loosing weight and to make the personality better.
When you have an injury, you should tend to it, before working out. For me, this is making sure that whatever workout I do for now, does not cause further injury. Weightloss and getting in shape is a long term lifestyle change.
I was doing really well up until we all got sick the week after my daughter’s birthday. It has gone down hill from there. Hoping to jump back on track tomorrow.
I think you are looking great, though. Be sure to let your shoulder heal!
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