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05 November 2011

Weigh-in: 173.0 lb

lost so far: 47.0 lb

still to go: 23.0 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

(1 comment) losing 2.1 lb a week

02 November 2011

Things are going well. Busy with work. My cleaner is working still and that is hopefully a good sign for my next weigh in. I am hopeful that I will have at least lost the 5 pounds that I had gained. I would not guess anything more is possible but I still wish for more. My food intake has not been bad - probable getting too few calories this week. I am on the fence when it comes to cloric intake and starvation mode etc... not sure if it is better to eat when your hungry and not when you are not hungry or if maintaining a certain number of calories a day is important. I read on the Primal blog that having a fast is good for you. Not sure I agree with that but maybe it is.... I understand the logic of saying that a caveman did not get to eat aat regular intervals. I am certain that is correct. But I also believe in evolution. I believe we have evolved and I can see that we would not potentially evolve into being aan animal that does need to eat regularly. So - as i sai, I am on the fence about fasting. I do normally get the orrect number of calories and often too many or I would not be fat. So if I have days where my calories are low, I am not thinking that is a big harm to my body. If I don't have any weight loss on Sunday - I will likely change that opinion :)

Been trying to make plans for Thanksgiving. Not fun. I am dreading it as I dread all holidays. They always involve long trips and lots of money with me getting nothing out of it. I believe I am beginning to really resent my life in ways. I love it in other ways. I just get tired of the issues always present around the holidays. we have to go to Texas and get his kids. It costs us about $600 round trip in fuel plus food plus hotels. And the trip takes about 14 hours to make one-way. I am 48 years old and it is just way too much for my old body to handle. And I don't like kids. That is why I don't have any. It is not that I don't like his kids - they are fine. But sometimes, I get really tired of feeling like an ogre simply because I don't want to go pick them up. Worse is when I simply don't have the money for the trip. But i always manager to get it done. I sometimes wish my other half would do as much for me as I do for him. Oh well.... this is the holiday blues cropping up and it is just Nov 2. It will be better in january :) I am going o go back to work and start thinking happy thoughts :)

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01 November 2011

It is a beautiful morning in Tampa. They are saying we need to enjoy this weather as it will soon turn cold. At home, my Dear darling said it was 32 this morning - I am expecting to get sick from the extreme climate change...

I did not tell you yesterday but I had bad issues yesterday. As you know, I have blood pressure issues. My Dr doubled some of my medicine and I was just taking 2 pills up until Sunday night when I took the first 80 mg pill. Well yesterday AM I thought i was going to die. My BP was 86/54. It was awful. This morning it was 106/68 and I feel fine. My question is - why does this happen? What can you do when something like this happens?

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31 October 2011

The weekend was nice and I got a bad sunburn. i walked up the beach both days so I got some exercise. I enjoyed it very much but would have prefered to have had company. I just listed to my IPod and walked in the water. it was a good weekend as I said.

On Friday I stopped by the mall and went to Vitamine World. i was talking to the lady about fish oil and then about weight loss. She asked me if I had done a cleanse. I told her I had problems with that and she told me to try "The Cleaner for women" It is a 14 day process and consists of 2, 7 day cleanses. You take 4 pills morning and night and if you don't "go" daily, you increase the number of pills until you do go daily. now everyone knows I have problems with this but guess what - it is working!!!!! I am thrilled. After you finish the cleanse, you have to take probiotics to get the good bacteria working in your tummy and the lady suggested to also take Acai pills. She said that the energy boost was amazing and that it really helped with weight loss. Now while I care about the loss - the energy boost is what i am really hoping for. And although I tend to be a skeptic - the fact that the Cleanser is working makes me ready to do whatever she suggests :)

Anyway, thought I woul tell everyone. My day has been a long one and I am going back to my room now. I will try to check in tomorrow.

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28 October 2011

Warning to all - long and rambling :)

Friday and its raining in Tampa.... The story of my life :)

It is not really that bad... It is supposed to clear up tomorrow around noon so I can still spend some time on the beach. Hope to leave work around 11 and try to find my hotel :) I am hoping for the best. Even if it is bad, all I really need is down time. I could sleep all weekend and be fine :) But I hope to walk on the beach in the sand and get some good exercise while exfoliating my feet :) I love to stroll along the beach. Hope I dn't get lost and have to get a taxi to get back to the hotel..... That is a possibility :) I loaded up my IPhone with music and plan to stroll and listed to tunes and get burned on one side of my body :) Geesh - that is worth getting up early for :) LOL and I am not a morning person.

Food choices could have been better yesterday. I had sashimi and miso soup which is fine for me. bnut I also had some sushi roll and it had too much rice. Oh well.... it could have been worse I am sure. I was able to wear my jeans today. Woo Hoo. They seema little less tight than on Wednesday.... but I am thinking that is actually wishful thinking on my part :) Who knows. maybe I will go shopping tomorrow and try on jeans. hmmmm that might be depressing :(

I'd love to go to Busch Gardens but i don't want to do that alone. Next time maybe. Too bad Im not single - I'd be tempted to pick up a biker dude so I could go for a ride along the beach :) HEHEHEHEHE. Just kidding. but i do wich my husband had been able to ride down here. I love the wind in my hair and sun :)

I am ready for the enxt 2 week to be over so I can start my vacation. I have to start it in nashville at a bull riding finals. Get to flank my favorite bulls and I am looking forward to it. Then the vacation starts and I don't have a clue what we will do the first part of the week. I hope it is pretty and I can paint fences and my porch columns... Then we travel to Texas and visit with my father-in-law. We are planning to go out dancing with some friends and then head to Fort Worth for the Cutting horse event. I sure do love to watch those animals work. i would lve to be able to ride like that. Someday maybe. My new horse (Indy) should be ready to come home sometime prior to Christmas. We have to get the barn fixed first... but then, I can start to learn to ride. I know that getting a amaing athlete like a cutting horse to learn with is really stupid but... That is me - get the best that I can and make yard art pets out of them :) At least my husband can ride and he will get some use out of Indy. Anyway, after the Cutting, it is Thanksgiving at the step daughter's house and visiting with everyone. Then I work in dallas for 2 weeks :) More dancing for the weekend and then - Christmas..... Can you believe how close it is to Christmas??!!!

Wow - what a rambling journal..... You can tell my mind is on everything except work :) I just love Fridays!!!

Oh - today, my husband took my longhorn to the elementary school for 'farm day'. He is so excited. he loves those events and dealing with the kids. I think the longhorn likes it too :) The funny this is, we put the longhorn in the pens last Sunday so he could get calmed down and used to his haulter. had to take him to get his pedicure and stuff and it is just easier when he has been captured a bit. Well Star, the older bucking bull, has imposed on himself a captive lifestyle. He put himself in another pen and has been staying there for a week. he is so funny. I guess he is saying that he is ready to go buck! Too funny the things animals do. Anyway, he has gotten his wish (sortof) he and the little bucking bull and the longhorn are getting put up for the weekend. i don't like them being out close to the road with the stupid rednecks around there. There is a spook house past our place and I always worry about the stupid folks and what they might do. My kids are different than most the cows around town and I worry that someone will harm them. A few years back there was a tame deer that had huge horns. He was a pet named Bucky. Anyway, one year, someone killed him and cut off his head. It was awful and the memory of that event haunts me even now. That is why i try to get my kids off the road side this time of year. Drunk Rednecks pulling halloween pranks is just not safe for animals.

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