The Cyst of Doom (title name with the help of Joel MacDonald)

I realize it has been way more than 7 days since I last wrote here. I think there are several reasons for that. And a lot has happened since my last post. Let's just say I'm still working towards being more healthy, it's just a lot harder than I realized. 

After going to the boot camp class several times, my left foot became very painful. One day I looked and examined it, and found what had been a small, round cyst on the top of my foot had turned into a large clump of weirdness. It hurt to walk, especially if I had my tennis shoes on. I had to resort to wearing flip flops as much as possible, and if it was necessary to wear tennis shoes, I had to tie the shoe awkwardly loose. I went to the doctor soon after, and after about a month's time, I am getting surgery done on my foot in just a couple days. Meanwhile, I have been trying to make myself go to my parents house where I am able to borrow a bicycle to ride around the neighborhood. The first day, I rode the bike for 45 minutes, and man did I feel it the next day. Not in my legs, but oh! did my booty hurt! And not just for one day, for several days later. While I was riding the bike that first day, I had to choose if I wanted to let my leg stretch some by putting more weight on my bottom, or give my tush a break by putting more weight on my legs. It was a lose-lose situation. What's crazy is I used to ride my bike several times a week, and for long periods of time, and it never seemed to bother me them. I'm going to blaim it on the fact that it was a guys' bike rather than a ladies'. Thankfully, my butt did eventually go numb, so I was able to focus on other things. 

After the surgery, I will be home recovering for 2 weeks. That's going to be difficult for many reason: I'll be bored out of my mind, I wont be able to exercise, I'll want to eat more because I'll be so bored. It's going to be a long 2 weeks. I hoping to occupy myself with starting my T-Shirt quilt during this recovery time. Hopefully that will help with the unnecessary snacking; it seems that if I have something I'm fully engaged in, I don't think about the over snacking. We will see how things go with these next couple weeks and hopefully I'll have a t-shirt quilt by the end of it!