You know one of those days "when it rains it pours"? I am having one of those. I could barely move my left arm yesterday without wanting to howl in pain, and this continued today. Taking Aleve did not help. I woke up at 3 am in extreme pain and had to go downstairs to sleep in the armchair. Being able to rest my arm on the arm of the chair slightly away from my body offered some relief -- enough for me to doze restlessly.
And of course when I weighed myself this morning, I had gained back the two pounds I had lost. If that isn't enough to make a person weep, I don't know what will! Made a mental note to make sure that if I have carbs for lunch, I cannot have it for dinner.
I had corn chex for breakfast this morning. I was planning on having eggs but I needed to be able to eat something that didn't require me to move my arm too much.
Lunch was about a cup of lettuce, one avocado, and half of a baked chicken tenderloin with a drizzle of light ranch dressing. Dessert was a no fat blueberry yogurt.
My pick me up snack when I got home this afternoon was a sliced banana with one teaspoon (yes, I scaled back from my usual tablespoon) of natural peanut butter, and a mug of green tea.
Dinner was another salad made up of romaine lettuce, shaved carrots, 1 slice of white American cheese, 1 sliced hard boiled egg, and one sliced baked chicken tenderloin, drizzled with light ranch dressing.
I am done with all my eating tonight because I cannot exercise with this arm. I did consider getting on the elliptical and using the non-moving elliptical arm, but then I dismissed it as having too much potential to do more harm than good. Besides Sarah would probably have come and taken my shoes away from me again, the way she did after my lumpectomy.
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