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Ok… it’s been a while since my last update on my “25 in 90″ plan. What happened, you wonder?? Well… mostly it has to do with the fact that I have a fractured foot! Remember my previous posts about my left foot hurting… well, I finally gave in to the prodding from Emily and T-bone and went to an orthopedic surgeon. My self-diagnosis of “turf toe” was MUCH closer than anything the podiatrist had thrown out, but that wasn’t quite it. Following x-rays and an MRI, it was revealed instead that I have a fractured tibial sesamoid bone in my foot!

So there is my primary problem. I can’t exactly run on a broken foot. In fact, I can’t do much of anything. With my doctor’s blessing, I CAN still ride horses, and have been as much as possible. But it’s been cold and rainy a lot, too. Can’t ride my bike because it’s hard to get the special shoes on. I can still lift weights, and have been doing that, too… but even that is hard to get motivated to do when you barely feel like walking.

So that’s my sob story, and I’m sticking to it. My weight over the past weeks has fluctuated between 223 and 228. I still hold out hope that I can right the ship and at least lose 10-15lbs by the end of May, but it’s going to take some work and the ability to exercise. Right now, I’m hobbling around in a “boot cast” that comes up to my knee and gives me the all the mobility of a telephone pole. I have to wear it for 6 weeks, and it’s been 3. But I also haven’t been “faithful” to always wearing it, and therefore my foot is still sore. I need to do better on that, because I do NOT want to have surgery on my foot.

So it’s an uphill battle… I could probably slash my caloric intake and see some progress, so maybe I’ll get right on that… on Monday. =)

Happy Easter!