Happy Saturday!

I have had a very crazy week! Thankfully, its all, or at least mostly, good.

I went to the doctor the other day to get the results of my CT scan of my ankle and basically he said "you need surgery, just not yet". Ok, great, I asked if I could have another cortisone shot and he said "how is the ankle feeling today" I told him its fine, he said no shot than! The problem with my ankle is the pain comes and goes. When it comes, it is excruciating to the point that I cannot put any weight on it. This can last for minutes or days or months. The reason for the pain is because the cartilage in the joint looks like shredded wheat! Pieces of it break off and get stuck and that is what causes the pain until it dislodges itself and goes off somewhere else.

He told me the cortisone will not do any good if there is no inflammation, he said to call him the minute I feel the pain and to come in for a shot. I explained the problem is it takes me weeks to get an appointment with him (he is 1 of only 3 doctors who specialized in the ankle joint in FL!) and his office is 90 miles from my house. He promised that if I speak to his nurse he will make sure she knows that I am to come in that day for a shot. Ok fine!

He further explained that the reason he wants to put off the surgery is because the cartilge is in the deepest recess of my ankle joint and it is very hard to get to and the recovery is long. I asked him if once the surgery was done and I healed, would I be able to walk and exercise and have no pain and he said yes. He did tell me though, that until I have the surgery, I am not to be jogging or running. Those two are the worst exercises for my problem. Everything else is fine. He thinks I can get through another year or so with cortisone before he has to go the surgery route. He really understands how important the exercise is to my weightloss and he told me he will do everything possible to keep me mobile so I can get to my weight goal! Ok, thats pretty good news, right?

Last night, after a very busy day at work (real estate is really hopping all of a sudden here in my neck of the woods!) Steve took me out to dinner at a new restaurant that we have been to a few times. It is very good! I was going to have an appetizer portion of crab cakes but than Steve talked me into Chicken Marsala and he went for the Meatloaf. What is it about men and Meatloaf? That is one thing I would never order out but he loves it out and in! Anyway, my Marsala came with a huge mound of garlic mashed taters and 2 thin chicken breast cutlets. I ate 2 -3 teaspoons of taters and about 3/4 of 1 chicken cutlet. Steve ate the other 1 1/4 chicken cutlet. I tasted his meatloaf and while he loved it, it was just ok. He didn't finish his taters so I brought all the left over mashed potato's home because guess what? I am making meatloaf for dinner!

Ah, and dessert. We usually never order dessert out but this place makes a s'mores chocolate bread pudding with a bourbon sauce. Oh, yes. We ordered one to take home. When we got home I scooped out maybe 1/4 cup, not even, and gave Steve the rest. It was more than enough and it was delish! A very nice treat. I have no idea of the calories for dinner but the rest of my day I had:

b: packet of original oatmeal with S.E.I Max protein Cookies & Cream, 1/2 c. skim milk
s: banana
l: Chobani plain non-fat yogurt with Kashi Go-lean Crunch

Calories: 633
Exercise: 360 calories burned

Based on what I saw on myfitnesspal, I would guess that dinner with dessert was less than 500 calories. All in all, I had a very good eating day and I'm sure I came in under my 1200 calorie threshold...not even taking into account my exercise.

My scale is continuing to go down but I am waiting to update my ticker. I don't want to jinx anything!