Serendib Health

Enjoying my new t-shirt. “That’s it. You’re going in the compost!” So far this morning, woke up tired, considered cancelling session with trainer (first one I’ve had time to schedule in close to a year — have really neglected health with all the business opening work), decided that was wussy, did session (go, me!). Ate

Very quick Wegovy pills update: (original post with a lot more details: • started the Wegovy 1.5 mg pills in early March (goal is to lose 15 pounds, putting me at top of healthy range for my height, important for both diabetes and avoiding reoccurrence of cancer)• slight queasiness off and on (not nearly as

Colonoscopy report — all good, no polyps. Different components of procedure (warning, some gross bits) follow: 1) 2-3 days beforehand switching to low-fiber diet was fine, though a little weird, since it’s sort of the opposite of how I normally eat. Lots of white bread and pasta, chicken and fish okay, only vegetables thoroughly cooked

The sudden cold dip today broke me. 19F currently in Chicagoland, heading down to 15F. I came home from teaching with plans to put away masses of clean laundry this evening, but instead have spent the last two hours fully dressed in bed, trying to get warm. I finally managed it, after a hot bath

At some point, I was reading about people trying to stick to eating plans, and one interesting bit of research was that people generally were more likely to stick to the plan if they framed it as something positive rather than negative. Positive not in the toxic positivity kind of way, but just as an

I woke up at 5 a.m. for some ungodly reason, so I ended up making up a new recipe and making 48 redbud blossom spring glory mini muffins, and that was lovely (Anand has already eaten a good dozen of them, because he decided to have them for breakfast AND lunch — he’s apparently hit

Sprained ankle update: I was able to manage the train home from work yesterday, but it definitely wore me out. Two elbow crutches worked fine for stability, though I did have to take it very slow in a few snowy/icy spots.