second time's a charm? sixth time's a charm?

My incision is almost totally healed with minimal scarring. It's amazing. It looks better now (at 4.5 weeks) than it did last time at 10 weeks. X-rays looked great too (so says the doctor). The only thing that hurts is my whole body from contorting and crutching. I go back to the doc on New Year's Eve and should get the green light to start PT, swimming and putting weight on it. Cannot wait.

I've been off W30 for 6 weeks and I feel disgusting. So I'm going back on. Today. It'll be my sixth (I think) W30 and I'd like to go for W100, but I think there may be some work travel and vacation that could make that a silly idea. So I'm going to go for as long as I can and play it by ear. Yes, Christmas, my birthday and New Years are all in the next 10 days. I'll be fine. We're not having our annual Jewish Christmas Thanksgiving event, so no challenge there. I know where we're going for my birthday nice dinner out, and I'll be able to make good choices, and we're not doing anything for NYE - we'll probably just make a special dinner at home - so no problem there either.

I figure I'm on my way to being W30 more than not, the months keep getting closer together and the 30 days becomes more than 30, so eventually that will be how I live, with short visits to the rest of the world.

I'm excited. I'm ready to feel how I felt 6 weeks ago (ok, 6 weeks and one day ago, before I hurt my foot). My freezer has some meals ready to go (even when I'm not W30, pretty much everything I cook is, so my leftovers are good), and I'll do some more cooking today. I'm going to try to avoid nuts and pretend that the white potato rule didn't happen (I abused that one last time). I'm back on. Once I start moving again I should get back to where I was quickly.