I'm back!!
Yes, after a very long (much longer than planned) absence I’m
back again. The reasons for the lengthy time
away are many. First off, because of the
Very Evil Person who was the manager for the department I worked in, I had to
leave it. I was heartbroken that I
couldn’t stay in a place I truly believed I was meant to be. And it took a while to completely understand
I was a victim of workplace harassment and that no one would do anything. I went to the union and they tried but the HR
department kept putting us off again and again and after a while in the new
department, I had to let it go to get past it. I wish now I hadn’t as she struck again and my
dear coworker I worked with also recently bid out as the Very Evil Person cast
her spell on my friend – to the point of calling her into her office and
telling my friend she wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone unless it was work
related and especially me and another person.
The irony is I barely spoke to my friend at work, not wanting to draw
the attention of the Evil Person to her.
And my friend has returned (early) after taking time off from dealing
with breast cancer. That didn’t stop the
Evil Person though and so far the union hasn’t really helped my friend though
she has gone to them too.
But I love the department I’m in now though I had never seen
busy until I went there. For a few
months I was working overtime just about every day and weekends in an effort to
try and catch up on the massive amount of work that pours in – and another
reason I wasn’t blogging. I finally
burnt out and faced the fact that we were never really going to catch up. Since the manager knows this too, though the
pressure to work hard and fast is there, the NEW manager is a good one and is
very supportive.
Then there was the fact I was diagnosed with Type II
diabetes. I think I mentioned that, but I started going to the gym more and
more in an effort to get myself out of the terrible shape I’d managed to get
into over the years. Combine that with a
whole lot of overtime and I’d come home and zombie like watch some telly, read
some and crash.
Then, when I was getting ready to make a return, the gym I
belong to had a weight loss challenge I signed up for and that meant even
longer hours at the gym. The prize for
first place was $10,000 so as you can imagine, that was an excellent
incentive. One of the conditions was you
had to have so many sessions with a trainer.
Way back when I first joined, knowing if I didn’t do something like work
with a trainer, I would drift back into old habits. That kind of happened over summer. Although I was still working out, bad food
was creeping back into the diet. But now
I’m straightened out again and discovered much to my amazement that I LOVE
roasted veggies and that a salad with some cooked chicken thrown in tastes
very, very good with a vinaigrette instead of say Thousand Island dressing.
I ultimately didn’t win, the person who did lost 66 pounds
next to my measly 23, but better than winning was stopping at the gym and
eating healthy has become a lifestyle now which is good. And while I still have quite a ways to go, I’ve
lost almosthisclose to 50 lbs – probably by next week it will be *official*. And as I said on Twitter – yep I came back
there tonight – it’s being healthy that’s the best. It’s being able to go 10 minutes on the elliptical,
ride the bike over 5 miles, walk a mile on the treadmill, that makes me feel
really good. It’s knowing my heart is
healthy and getting healthier, that I’ve lengthened my life expectancy I think,
that I’m not so short of breath I even scare myself that is the wonderful
thing.
I really do have so much to say that I think I’m going to
have to do this in 2 parts. What I’ve
wrote so far is much of the outer of me, but the inner me has undergone changes
to so that’s up next post.
