Of So Tired This Weekend

I was so tired this weekend until just a few hours ago all I could do was sleep. I noticed last week I was having a lot pain in my body and I don't really know why. I haven't slep very well at night even with sleep medication. I think that took a toll on my by the end of the week.

It is cooler out today and the wind in blowing from the North. I didn't really spend any time outside, guess I should. I did good to get my wash done.

I am not feeling any pain now though.

I am going to post up a picture of myself soon. I just have to get one ready that really looks like I look. Then I will put up one like I used to look and come here every day to look at how much I have changed.

Have a good week and update you blog. You are special.

I Like Blogs Best

I have just started up a facebook page about a week ago and I have to say that blogging is a much better outlet for saying what is on one's mind.

I am more up today than I have been in a while and didn't stuff myself with sweets yesterday. Came home from work and mowed the lawn - that takes two hours. Even if it is a riding lawn mower, I know I get some exercise because my yard is so rough and all those trees to turn around that by the time I get through I am tired.

I am going to get back my determination to eat better. I am still exercising, but now doing enough weights. And, now doing enough yard work and it sure shows it.

And, I am not a cry baby either. I just get frustrated when I can't get what I want faster. I truly though if I put out a good effort I would lose more that 30 lbs. But I lost 30 and then just stopped. I think it is because I hate cooking. And, I hate chicken. I don't think a person can lose weight without eating lots of chicken. Yuck!

Trust me though - the Blue Bell Ice Cream diet doesn't work. Love ya!

Help!!!!!!!!!!

I have lost my grip on my eating and am gaining weight back. Is there any help for me????

Down and Almost Out

I haven't written on my blog in so long I don't know if anybody ever reads it any more. Life has been busy and my eating/exercising has really taken a toll. I still so to the elliptical and use it every weekday morning at 5:30 am, but my eating habits are terrible. Sugar, sugar, sugar, I have gained back six pounds at last look. I can't stand to look any more. I think I have developed an eating disorder. It was very upsetting and I have gotten to the point that it is not even that upsetting any more. Except for my clothes - I just can't grow back to that larger size pants.

But I have been feeling my age and frustration about just how long I will have to work, not that I want to quit work, maybe change the place I work in a year. But, I just get tired of doing what I do which is less and less like a school job and more and more like a federal gvt. job.

On the upside ---- well I really can't think of an upside right now. So whoever you are keep up the good work you are doing. And, I will keep putting one foot in front of the other.

You Can Always Learn

Not too long ago I figured out why God makes people want to live so long. I realized that it is not until you are in your fifties or older that most peolpe really figure out the true meaning to their existence (some never find it though)and decide to live right. Oh, some find that younger, but for most the younger years are the struggle and the older years are the realization of many truths. If you don't "get it" give yourself more time.

Think, read, ponder a few things. "It" might come to you.

Six Month Check Up Today

On a good note I went to the doctor for my six month blood pressure/blood work check up today. My blood pressure is down lower that it ever has been and even the doctor was impressed. It is strictly from my elliptical exercise, I know that.

I my falter and I may fail with my eating but I get up and do my areobic exercise almost every day early! I am proud of that. I am trying to put some added pressure on myself by changing some of the resistence settings on the elliptical. The doctor also gave me an injection in my right shoulder hoping it will cure my pain in the shoulder and right arm. Then I can do more free weights.

I must get my sugar craving and eating under control. I think I don't eat enough good food and it makes me crave sugar. Then I don't have a bite or two I binge and skip the good food.

I can't wait to get my blood results back and see if my cholestorol is down too.

Hey, to my brother, I think I had that same teacher for the first grade and I can't read worth crap either. If I don't know a word I just can't figure out how to pronounce it and mostly I just skip over it. I read a lot of books but I haven't read much the past couple of months. I think I need new glasses.

I did buy a good book not long ago, Fight Fat After Forty by Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H. This book seems to be mostly for women though.

Keep the Faith!!!

Week Off Work

My work is shut down for a week and everybody has vacation. So I will see if I can control myself for a week and eat sensibly and get exercise too. I have some traveling to do. Going to Austin to see family and fireworks. That is if the rain we have been having stops. I will go anyway. Surely the fireworks will go on. It is a big deal in Austin!

I don't like to weigh on the weekend, but I think I will when I am home. So we will see if I can do what I need to do and maybe lose a pound of two by my next post.

Happy 4th of July America!!!! God bless our troups everywhere. Freedom reigns, but seems like just barely sometimes.

Shocker of a weekend

Last weekend I decided that I needed to be able to eat a few things that I haven't had in months. Like mashed potatoes, a couple of bisquits (6), and something else I can't even remember. First, I body immediately felt horrible when I ate that stuff. I felt stuffed like a bird. And, then to top it off I got on the scale on Monday morning and weighed four pounds more than on Friday.

Now for the last two months I have had a horrible time trying to get below a point. Just down a pound up two pounds. But after the experience last weekend I really know that this is a lifestyle change because I don't like to feel stuffed like a turkey.

When you eat something and you feel like crap immediately you should know that you shouldn't eat that again.

I have been working hard this week!!!!! Painfully hard. Those pounds are not gone yet.

Happy Birthday to Me!!!!

Today is my birthday and I rode my NEW, thanks to my son elliptical. I wasn't a birthday present. But I have had the best elliptical workouts this week than ever on the new machine. There are at least a dozen workouts. I love it. I can go twice plus as far and burn up twice as many calories. I love the other elliptical too and have it in the room still.

Anyway, I am a year older and in better shape than I have been in a long while. Just need to keep on going to get those solid fat pounds off. To date I have lost 36 pounds. YeeeHa!!!! Go get um gamma. Who knows what can happen by this time next year.

Happy Day to YOU!!!!!!

Long Time no Writing

I haven'e posted anything for weeks now. I guess that is because it is harder to put feelings into words sometimes. I had lost a couple more pounds and all total as of yesterday had lost 34 which is not much more in the past couple of months. But, I have been cheating big time so I am lucky. I don't cheat on my exercise and just with food. Especially on the weekends.

But, I haven't quit and I will start back with a full force effort soon. I am just in a bit of a slump right now. My friends at work say I look like I have lost a lot more that I have and I have some pants that I wear to work that are just about too big to wear now. I can get into a smaller size pants.

I have trouble with upper body resistence exercise because it makes it right shoulder and arm hurt so bad.

We are headed for the hot part of the summer here in Texas. Gotta love it when half the plants burn to a crisp.

Happy birthday to my brother today if he happens to read this. You will be a Grandpa soon.

You know I find it is just damn hard to wish blessing on everybody on earth. But, blessings to you who read this.

Sugar Blues

I have this extreme desire for sugar when I am stressed out. I is especially bad when I am stressed out at work. I will be having a really stressful day at work, like a load I can't handle, or I lose some paperwork on the piles of paperwork on my desk, or someone just grates my nerves and I will hear my inner voice say, "You are stopping at the store on the way home and getting ice cream." Or maybe I would rather have cake or cookies. Mostly it is Blue Bell ice cream. I could eat a half gallon in one evening easy.

Now normally when this happens I don't even stop at the grocery store that day. I just drive right by and go home and feel cheated out of the ice cream. I try to tell myself that it isn't worth it to eat the ice cream, that is doesn't even taste that good. But I know that is a lie at least the part about it not tasting that good. It is good!!!

I think it is a shame we don't burn up some calories because we bypass some of the bad things we eat. But, it just doesn't work that way.

I have been good lately and I am still stuck with my weight loss. I need 10 pounds off soon or I am going to get discouraged. But when I walk around I feel so good. My legs are strong and I don't get out of breath and never have to take a asthma medication any more. So I guess passing up the store and not buying the ice cream is worth it.

Long Weekends

I just had a long weekend because I took a vacation day on Friday. I accomplished several things. My greatest accomplishment was finishing a quilt I had been working on for my bed. It has probably taken me a year and I am thrilled about the end product. Pieces sewn together on the sewing machine but all the quilting is by hand. My hands.

My eating has been horrible these past three days. I ate and ate bad stuff and too much. I worked out on Saturday and worked in the yard on Friday. Did some house work yesterday. But, I am sure afraid to get on the scale in a little while. I hope I haven't gained 5 pounds.

Oh, well, if I have I guess I will start over. I get so tired of eating the same old things. When I cheat and have something sweet, which is what I cheat with, it doesn't even taste as good as it used to most of the time. But I find myself thinking, "Where is something sweet to eat in this house." When there isn't anything I get frustrated.

Well, back to the the old JOB today and that helps me to eat better. Apples and carrots and EAS energy drinks. Oh, can't wait.

Discouraged in Texas. Onward to the elliptical now though.

Giving Up Isn't an Option

This weight loss venture is a difficult one. After what I used to eat what I eat now is unfullfilling. I feel tons better but I have just been teetering at the same weight, again, for two weeks now. No matter what I do. I know I don't do enough exercise when I get home from work, but I am tired after a full day of intense work at a desk with all those papers and the computer.

My garden isn't going too well, the flower plants are being eaten by bugs, the vegatable seeds are sprouting slowly or not at all. I wonder if the birds get the seeds. It has been just a little cool here and we have had really too much rain because the rain brings cool weather. Oh, well maybe next year I will just level the garden and have grass and weeds there. Oh, I have plenty of weeds all over the yard.

Good luck on you purpose and your journey.

Houston

I suddenly went to Houston on Saturady morning. I say suddenly because I hadn't planned to until Friday. Kelly had to go to a funeral and I went down to help Aunt Lulu baby sit with my grandson's. Realy Lulu did most of the work and I played with the boys. I love to play with them and pretend stuff. If is like being a kid again.

One thing I have noticed about kids. This was the same with my kids growing up. If they get cranky and fussy all you have to do is to take them outside and they will find some things to do and be happy. They don't care if it is hot and their little faces get all red. They will play with sticks, balls, bugs, water standing in a pail. They will play with just about anything they find outside and you generally don't have to get up out of a chair to play with them unless you want to join in. They are wonderous little people. The eighteen month old just wanderes around the yard aimlessly looking for anything to play with. Then if an airplane flies overhead he will wave to it. They are in their own world and it is just plan fun. I love those times in life when I can be with them. When it is time to go inside they don't want to go. They both cry to stay outside.

I think when you have kids of your own, like I had five of them, you just hhave so much to do around the house that you don't have as much time to jjust play with them. When they are your grandchildren it is an amazing reminder of when your own were little, but you have time to really look at the personalities and be amazed.

I didn't eat like I should have this weekend. I was OFF Saturday - way off and don't really want to weigh this morning.

I have to go exercise now, I just noticed that I am late to start. Oh well today is back to cottage cheese and peaches for lunch!!!!

33 Pounds Lost and Counting

What a blessed weekend I have had. Every weekend I usually gain some of what I have lost during the week, until this week end.I had a great weight loss last week and Satuarday I have to admit was my "day off". I get to eat what I want within reason. However I did exercise in the yard doing some walking.

On Sunday I was really sleepy and slept off and on most of the day. Every time I woke up I was hungry. So I was shocked to find when I weighed in this moring that on the weekend I had lost a solid 1 pound!!! I never start of on Monday doing anything but having to catch up. I am so thrilled and blessed!

I know I will hit a spot where I will struggle again, but I am still in the game.

30 Lost

I have officially lost 30 pounds! The start was not so hard but then I hit a really tough spot and struggled to get the last 5 pounds off. But the fight has been all worth it now. This is my second day to have the 30 pounds off.

So what now, heck, 50 off is my short term goal now. I would like to see that, or not see that again, by the end of June. That may be a little ambitious, but if I keep working in the yard every day when I get home and continue with my ellipical and some free weights then I think I can do this.

Determination and restraint is what it takes. Plus like my brother says, "Keep moving!"

Been Out of Town

I had a real good end to last week dropping down about four pounds and I was working in the yard of Friday when I got a urgent call about a family member seriously sick that took me out of town to help take care of two of my grandchildren. So I have only been eating half right and no exercise except picking up a pretty heavy baby a little and going up and down stairs to make sure the baby doesn't hurt himself. I don't really feel fat or skinny so I am worried that I have gained back the 4 pounds and will have to get busy and suffer through next week hungry trying to take it off again.

I can usually tell by the way I feel when I am losing because of the way my body feels and I don't have that "I'm losing weight" feeling, so I don't think I am losing any.

I ate ice cream too. That is just bad. It tastes so good, but the guilt just ruins the fun of eating it.

I put in a lot of physical work on Friday in the garden and didn't get all done I wanted to. I hope when I get home we have had a shower or two on my newly set out plants or they may be dead.

Be safe and healthy. EXERCISE!!!

Gardening Great Exercise

Maybe I should say that gardening my way can be great exercise. I worked yesterday outside in the yard and tilled up parts of my garden. Now tilling is hard work. I have just a small tiller because I really don't need more, but you have to fight with that thing to get it to go down the row and not straight down in the ground. So I tilled up three beds. I also pulled a million weeds, there are still ten million left. Oh, yea I planted three bushes.

I was in and out all day doing outside work and I have burned up 2800 calories by dark. That is a lot for me. Of course I was starving all night. I ate too much. But my muscles are not as sore this weekend as it was last weekend after just planting two trees. During the week I planted the other two trees. They are not big trees. They were in 5 gallon containers. The trees look really nice so far.

It showered a little bit during my work, but I just kept on going doing a little mowing before it began to shower. I feel like I have really accomplished a lot and when I get back from my little two day trip I will plant some flower and vegetable seeds on Monday.

I am going to try to eat more controled the next two days and on Monday I will weigh and see what the result of all of this work is. I would like to lose 10 pounds in April.

Have a good Easter. Don't eat too many candy eggs. Quiltblue

Easter Weekend

I will feel much better this Easter weekend than I have in several years because of the 20-25 pounds I have lost over the past three months. I will admit that I had hoped to have lost more weight by now, but I have been reminded to take it slow and have patience. Some of the physical things I do really remind me that I have less weight to tote around. Other things like gardening are still very burdensome to my body. My upper body is much weaker than a few years ago.

At any rate I wish anyone who reads this a happy Easter! I want to remind you:

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

BEIVEVE!!!!!

Older is Not Dumber

You know I don't know what happened to respect for older people. When I was young we looked up to people my age (58) and listened to them. These young people now just don't want to listen to older folks! It is shameful.

They should think it over. We have gone down roads that they haven't experienced yet. Most likely we have taken some wrong turns and have learned some pretty valuable and painful lessons from those wrong turns. But, no people over 40 don't know anything.

I can't tell you the times I have seen my warnings come to fruition. I told them so. Some say, "No they have to live their own lives. Make their own mistakes and learn their own lessons." And, that is true but not to the total disregard of the older generations wise words.

Think back about the American Indians, for example, the elders taught the younger men how to hunt, fish and fight. They told stories with lessons and tales of past experiences. Yea, I know that they got the rough end of the deal in America and I am sorry for that, but I didn't have anything to do with it. They respected the older generations.

Go right ahead and do things the hard way and I will keep on shaking my head when I think about why you just didn't listen to me all along.

Dumbells and Muscle Gain

58 I am 58. I just did at 5:30 am 35 minutes on the elliptical and then did three sets of dumbell exercises. Triceps, biceps and back. I am so thrilled because my left bicep was very weak when I started and the first time I went back (I have done this before a while back) to dumbell exercises I trembled for two hours and my poor right bicep couldn't lift but maybe 8 lbs.

Well, today I went up to 25 lbs. on my biceps. I really don't have any weights over 25 lbs and I need to get more or go to the gym, ugh, because I am not able to max out with what I have.

Yea, me!!!!!!Thank for the favor Father.

Difficulty Losing

I have to be honest, I haven't posted much lately because I have spent the last two weeks losing, gaining back, losing again, gaining back again 4-5 pounds. I don't know how much more I can do except just keep trying.

I had hoped that by now I could get out and start my garden and get some serious exercise doing that, but the weather around here isn't cooperating. It is a little cooler in this part of Texas than the southern part. We have had lots of cool weather and lots of rain.

I come home from work every day starving and it is just best not to keep much food in the house because of that. At work I am usually ok because I just have to eat what I brought with me.

I am proud to say that I have not eaten fast food, except for one sandwich when I went out of town, in three months. There are lots of things I haven't eaten, but my body doesn't automatically lose weight just because I don't eat something I shouldn't. It is more complicated than that.

I do feel better. I just need to get down 10 more pounds and then 10 more......

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Everlasting Power

It's simple - exercise gives your body power. Jesus and exercise gives you everlasting Power. Amen

Bet You Wish You Knew

I bet you wish you knew how much I weigh? Well, I am going to make a committment. When I have lost half of the weight I want to lose I will publish how much I started out weighing and how much my goal weight is. It is just still too embarassing. I want to have lost 40 pounds by July though. I can tell you that.

Carrots, oranges, celery, apples, oatmeal with raisins and cranberries are a few of my staples. And, of yes I couldn't make it without EAS protein drinks.

I owe what I know to three people - Joshua, Bill, and Bill Phillips!!!

Time To Go Back To Work

It is time for me to go back to work. I have been off all week and the past two days I have just gone downhill. This always happens to me when I have spent too much time home alone. My wise son always tells me that. So tomorrow is my last day home and I am getting back into the hectic pace that encourages less eating. There just isn't enough time to think about food.

I need to go to the grocery store tomorrow and stock up on work friendly foods.

I have been exercising this week and that is phenomonial for me to do when I am just home. I am a little disappointed that nobody have yet to say to me that I am looking good except two of my friends at work who know about my new quest. I guess I will have to get off another 25 pounds before it will begin to dawn on people something is different.

I haven't gained any weight this week, but don't know if I will come out with a loss either. Just been eating too much. I can tell by the dirty dishes. Bored. I go from a book to the yard to the quilting to the fridge. I just don't feel like I am loosing. I will hit it hard tomorrow.

Tomorrow I have to relocate my compost pile outside and will probably go pick up, not with my hands, that cow manure and put in the compost pile. I pulled some weeds today and there are plenty of them. Maybe if the sun keeps shining I can get out the tiller next Saturday and turn up some ground. Now that is a work out!!!!! You would think it is easy, but it is not. You have to struggle with the thing to keep it from running away with you and do what it is suppose to. It is exhausting.

Don't forget to move your clocks ahead. Isn't that tonight? I will have time to come home after work and do some stuff in the yard.

Take Care!!!!!

Sunny Day

Today is sunny and I am so glad. It came a huge rain night before last and if the sun shines for about a week then maybe I can work in my yard. I don't know how much rain we have had here this winter, but it is a record high amount.

I went on a little trip on Sunday and Monday and on the drive home Monday I was constantly starving to death, I thought. So I ate some nuts and seeds mix until I was sick of it. Yesterday was another starving to death day and I tried to be good. But I was worried. I got up this morning and did my elliptical all the while wishing I was sitting on the couch drinking coffee and eating half a dozen Shipley Donuts. Oh, course out were I am the closest Shipley's evil donut place is about 15 miles away so I wouldn't drive there and really do that. See how good I am doing because no one would know but me.

I did my elliptical and walked around in my yard on the high spots slowly trying to keep from getting my shoes all wet and splashing standing water. I really had yard work I could have done this week, but can't. I guess I will have to just wait.

I finished my elliptical and then weighed and I have not gained any weight so I am still at 24 pounds lost. I am very happy about that. Now I am going to have me some delicious cottage cheese and yogart and maybe a piece of bread.

Have a good day and enjoy your workout. I am going to do a set of free weights later today.

Correction to Weight Loss

I weighed just now and I have lost a total of 24 pounds!!!!!

At the Home Gym

At my home gym this morning I have done my elliptical, program 5, which was great. Then I used my dumb bells for about 45 minutes to do four sets of exercises. I am really hungry now. So I will go fix me some wonderful egg whites and a piece of whole grain toast - dry. Then I will have a piece of fruit. Or maybe some cauliflower. I think cauliflower.

Yesterday was a great day. My son came down from Houston and while he was sleeping early in the morning I discovered that there was a place in the poor excuse for a fence on my property line where there is brush and trees some cow or cows had gotten into my yard. My place is a large yard. No farm animals allowed! The ground is very wet because this winter we have had a lot of rain so this stray cow have make huge hoof prints all over my yard and in my garden area. I don't have anything planted in the garden yet. I was livid over the whole thing. But, my son, Joshua, took it real calmly and put up some fence over the place the cow was getting in with some wire fencing I had in my storage shed. Then he took down a temporary fence I had in the yard that needed taking down. So we had a nice bit of outside work yesterday. It is always motivating to have someone else to work with you on a outside project. When you live in the country there is always some challenge. I guess when you live in a house or don't live in a house there are some challenges. Sometimes I let the challenges get me down and it is nice to have someone to be clam and just solve the problem for you.

All together I have lost 22 pounds!!!! I am thrilled. I had a little down spot week before last and the beginning of last week during the week I hit it pretty hard with my exercise and watching my food intake and then by Thursday I could feel some changes taking place. I still havene't lost enough weight for people to say, "Hey, have you lost some weight?" I just can't wait for that to happen. I just feel so much better in my clothes that were tight before and I have so much more energy.

Gotta go. I am on Spring, ha, break this next week and have a little trip to take to Austin, Texas today. See you soon.

Weight Vest

I just figured out yesterday that a weight vest is a real piece of work out equipment. Dah! They make everything now. I don't guess that they make those big enough to fit me. They are expensive too. Gotta get one.

Gardening

I just can't wait for the ground to dry up a little and it to get just about 10 degrees warmer so I can dig up my little garden beds. I have seeds sprouting and I want to get out in the yard and mow the grass and see the beans grow and cucumbers, maybe even get a few tomatoes.

But what I love the best are the flowers. I love flowers in my yard. A few minutes in the yard can turn into hours of work and plenty of calories burnt up. There is nothing better than the sun on your face and a little outside hard to work to get a feeling of accomplishment.

Just can't wait for May and June. By July it will be too hot and probably dry again.

I Twenty Pounds Off

I really, really need to get twenty more pounds off. I am working on twenty pound increments. And, I really need another twenty. Last night I "walked" an extra thirty minutes on the elliptical while I watched Shepard Smith on Fox News. I had already done my elliptical program in the morning. Next I need to come up with some more kinds of foods to eat. I am getting sick of the same old things. At work I am hungry and hungry makes me feel like I am not losing weight.

So say a little prayer for me to go my next twenty off. I want it in two months. I can do that.

Newness of Weight Loss

I have just lost 1/6 of the body fat I want to lose. I have lost 20 pounds! Now that may not seem like much to you and it doesn't really sound like so much to me. But I will tell you one thing for sure, it feels like a phenomenal amount of loss to me. Since I am religiously doing my aerobic exercises, I can breath so much better. I went to lunch with a co worker yesterday. I had been eating in my office for two months because I was bringing whatever was on my program each day. When my co-worker and I walked to her car I just felt wonderful because I had spring in my step and I was not winded while walking. I have asthma, but it is much better with just this little amount of weight loss.

Also, and I know this sounds simple, but everytime I get up out of a upholstered chair or couch it is so much easier. I get up off the floor with so much less effort and really less pain. I have a long way to go. But, when I loose all of the weight I want to I think I might just float around. It is mind boggling to imagine how I will feel when I have off 100 pounds!!!! Yea, I think I will float around then. Sounds good, huh.

I don't know if anybody but a few family members will read this, but if you are needing to lose 20 pounds or 200 pounds then the one tip I have for you is GET UP AND MOVE (I got that from my brother who has lost a tremendous amount of weight on determination, effort and right eating). And, while you are moving don't move to the kitchen.

The human body responds so quickly to just a little bit of extended exercise it will amaze you if you are not exercising regularly. Just go for some 30 minute walks every day. If you can't do that just walk 5 minutes with the 30 minutes as your goal. Just get up and do something. I promise you - your life will change.

Can't Wait to Garden Again

This has been a long cold winter and I just can't wait to get outside and garden again. That is great exercise. Usually just a plan to mow the yard on a weekend will turn into four to six hours of working in the yard and I have burned up some major calories doing yard work before.

Last summer was just too hot and most everything burned up before it could really be enjoyed. We have had a lot of rain this winter and I am hoping that will help to have a great garden. Really what I have is garden spots and I will plant tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans and then flowers, flowers, flowers. As you can see it is the flowers that I love. I had some seeds inside sprouting now under grow lights and when those get big enough to move to little pots I will start some more tomatoes and flower seeds.

I will have tall flowers, short flowers, waves of flowers and cascading flowers if all goes well. I just can't wait for the Spring to spring. In the mean time I am working on chopping up some weeds and trying to get them out of the way so the ground can dry out and I can get out my little tiller and mix up some soil.

This makes me excited about life - plants that come from live seeds and grandchildren! There is nothing better. Well my kids are pretty good too!

When I am working in my yard I don't think about eating. And, if I am really working it burns up the calories fast. Try out this great way to make the world more beautiful and build some strength.

Have a good day.

Week End

I had a great weekend last Saturday & Sunday. Two of my daughters came to visit and my two grandsons, 3 & 3/4 and 1 & 1/2. We had a blast. I played all kinds of things with the boys and life is never better when you have your grandchildren around. The girls and I just talked and talked about all kinds of stuff. Everybody was happy to see each other, I think.

Grandchildren are such a blessing. Children are awsome but grandchildren are icing on the family cake.

Thanks for coming to see me! My son says that is when I shine - around the kids.

Home Early Today

I am home early today because we have a little snow again and work let us go home early.
I am always thankful to be home early. I can quilt or just chill. Maybe I can even walk a mile on the elliptical in a bit.

Last week, the bad week, I gained a pound, but by this morning I had lost it again. I know some say that you shouldn't weigh every day, but I just have to to make sure I don't gain five pounds back. At any rate I have have kicked up my elliptical to put a little more pressure on myself. I have gotten to where I can do all the programs without too much trouble so I decided to try to add some speed to my workouts.

I need to be doing more resistance training with my dumbells, but I have to be very careful because I have a bad shoulder and degenerated upper vertebra and if I am not careful I will have pains from nerves not sore muscles. There is something just plain wrong with my right bicep. It is like it is shriveled up. I do have trouble in the right shoulder and have had pain in that bicep muscle for a couple of years, but it just is so much smaller than the left bicep and weak in comparison. I am working on that slowly too. I will ask the doctor about that when I go in a few months. Someone said that I may have torn that bicep in the past. Possibly doing some work in my garden or yard.

I am in much better spirits this week and will persevere. Take care and have a warm day.
Quiltblue

Need Some Advice

I have drifted into a real mental "down" state by the end of this week. I can't seem to lift myself out of. I am just hungry for some "good tasting sweets" to make me feel better as I have always done.

I need divine intervention!!!!!!

Middle of the Week Dulldrums

You know I really want to lose all of my extra weight. But I have come to a point in the eating process that I am just tired of the food I can eat and really would like to have some chips or just a lot of something. I cheated yesterday when nobody was looking and ate three little pieces of candy from the conference room candy bowl. I wasn't worth it though.

I would just love to stop at the pastry shop on the way to work and have a pastry or maybe two for breakfast. Those probably have enough calories for a week! Or some rice. I would love to have a huge amount of rice. Not just a half a cup.

I know that my brother says, "You didn't gain it in a week and you can't lose it in a week" but I am just hungry!

I can't feel the weight coming off this week and I am a little lower in spirit. My clothes fit much better though. I just can't imagine doing this the rest of my life. I have to get back to the mindset that food is just something that keeps me alive and not the pleasure of my life. I NEED SPRING TO COME.

Weight Loss Report

I lost 2 pounds last week. I am thrilled about that. If I can get 2 pounds a week then I will have a more solid lose. I am thrilled.

I am up really early this morning and so maybe I can do the elliptical and then some free weights too. I didn't really do much free weights last week and need to do more this week.

My hardest time is when I get home from work. I am usually starving for something that tastes good. A lot of times I will have some soup right away to quieting that hunger. I don't keep junk food or sweets in the house because I WILL eat them.

I am a little in a "down mood" this week - well yesterday, and that makes me desire food to pick up my mood. Not a good idea. So I had to work real hard yesterday not to go to the junk machine at work. The 2 pound loss helped.

Have a good day and give me a little prayer that I will continue to lose at least 2 pounds a week for a long time. I will have another 20 pound lose in 10 weeks then.

Blessing to all......I think God every day for helping me to stick with this routine.

Snowing in Texas!!!!

Yes, you read it first here. It is snowing at my house in North Central Texas!!!!! Shock and amazement! Won't have to go to work on time tomorrow. We are not prepared for ice and snow here. It is only temporary though.

Not So Up Week

I try my best to be positive all of the time in my thoughts and in my speach. This is something I have had difficulty with in the past and because I believe that your thoughts shape who you are I make a consicous effort to control my negative thoughts. Albiet it the case I am had some difficulty keeping positive this week when I gained one pound back after losing fifteen pounds the previous two weeks. I think that the second week when I lost five pounds could be attributed to having spent an entire Saturday afternoon playing with my two grandsons who are 3 1/2 and 17 months. That is exhausting and I got plenty of exercise. I would do that more often, but they are a three hour drive from where I live. When I made that drive two weeks ago it was the first time I have driven there and home without having two Hershey bars on the trip to and from. I had apples and water.

I just decided to keep up with what I am doing to get in better health, give it two more weeks before I make adjustments and think positive.

I have heard that the healthy amount of weight for a woman to lose is a maximum of two pounds per week. Given my age I believe this will be a good goal for me. Faster weight lose means it is easier to put the pounds right back on if you slip off your new routine or new lifesytle. Permanent weight loss can't be maintained with out a lifestyle change. But, then we all know that. My doctor is not big on "diet plans". He says most people he sees who lose weight on them gain it back and more and that is very unhealthy. But he gave me a good foods to eat guideline and mostly what it had on it was rabbit food.

I just decided to chalk up the one pound gain, which taking into account the two pounds I should have lost, is really a three pound loss to gaining muscle. I have been using free weights a little for my upper body.

I feel sure if I keep up varying my elliptical programs ( there are five on the machine) then I will lose my two pounds this week.

Well, it is still too cold here in my part of Texas and we are really tired of the overcast days, but at least we are not having to shovel snow away from the house to get out the door in the mornings like up East. We have no snow. People actually wish for snow here. Sorry Yankees, eat your heart out.

Blessing to us all......QuiltBlue

New week new challenges

Well, I have been really busy at work and had some other news that was a bit upsetting, but I am still going with my new eating trip. Last week I lost another 5 lbs. Now, I don't imagine that I will be losing any more as fast as the last two weeks. But if I want to lose 2 lbs a week, and that is my goal, then I am up seven weeks on my goal. Does that make sense. My friend at work told me that today because I am really hungry. You know stress makes you hungry.

Thanks for the comments from a couple of people. I'm not going to tell how much I weigh now or how much I want to lose until I have successfully gotten a lot of pounds down. It is just too embarassing. But, I will tell you this just these 15 lbs of loss feels better.

Let me just say it is never too late to start to improve you health and vegetables and fruit are your best friends if you do. When lettuce starts to taste sweet then you know you are on your way.

Cold in Texas

I guess some people think it doesn't get cold in Texas, but it is cold this weekend at my house. It is around freezing now at 7 pm and has been a cold weekend. I drove to Houston this weekend to see some family and toddler sat with two of my grandchildren for awhile Saturday evening. Life doesn't get any better than being loved by a three year old. See they don't have to love you, they just do it because you are you.

I haven't stayed on my eating routine this weekend too well, by weigh in day is tomorrow so I will how my week totals up after I do my ellipical exercise tomorrow morning around 5:45 am. I will get back with you then and I promise to tell the truth about how many pounds I lost this weekend.

I do regret that I didn't name my blog "life is difficult - believe" though and I may change it. I guess it wouldn't matter too much if I changed the name because I don't have very many followers yet anyway. I will keep you posted. Good night!! Blessings.....

Still rolling along

I am still rolling along with my program to change my life one pound at a time. But, I think I should have called my blog life is difficult - believe. I wonder if I can change the name? I know nothing about blogging and I guess you can see that by the number of followers I have so far.

But, that is OK. This week I am not really hungry and so I have to make myself eat those between meal mini meals I need to eat to keep my metabolim up. Also, this week I find myself thinking during the day about some foods that would sure taste good. But, I haven't cheated this week.

It is just an amazing thing no matter how bad you have let your body get out of shape and twice the size it should be to experience how quickly it will jump into high gear with some serious exercise. If you can't do but five minutes of something then just start there and your body will get a little stronger every day that you really use it.

Later from the lady bestowed with blessings. KL

Being Thankful

I am so very thankful for the Lord blessed me with a phenomenal 10 pound loss last week!!!!!! Is that unbelievable or what?

I think that He figured that if I didn't lose much I might quit and so He would bless me with a great loss of weight the first week as a message to keep going. So I am, and I was anyway even if I had lost only 2 pounds, going to keep going on this trip to my goal weight.

Thank you Lord.

Believing for a Great Week

Hey, I have my first follower! Wow, that is great, thanks. The weekend was good and not so good. I stayed on my plan farely well for the ultimate goal of weight loss. Sunday I exercised and then went to buy groceries and was weak at the grocery store and bought good stuff like fruit, but also bought some sugar and ate that as soon as I got home. So to compensate I ate real light in the evening. So I am not real upset because I had a good week all in all with my eating and exercise.

I am planning an getting on that elliptical in just about fifteen minutes and start up my day. Then work all week. I eat better at work because all I have is what I brought to eat. I refuse to do any more fast food. I didn't do that too much anyway, but even one day a week is just a pile of junk going into the system and most of the time with more calories you need for an entire day or maybe two.

I slept well the last two nights and for that I am grateful because Monday through Friday of last week I didn't sleep well at all. I think my system thought it had been cheated of enough food and tried to stay awake so I would get up and go eat something in the middle of the night. I didn't give in.

I am thinking of starting flower seeds to plant in my little garden spots in my yard for the spring now and hope to start that project soon.

Never forget to make prayer part of your weight lose system. When a bad time comes and you think that you will just be hugh the rest of your life go walk or just go outside and pray for support. It is a diffuclt undertaking to change a lifestyle, I know since I am just starting, but I am here for you and hope you are here for me.

Have a wonderful week and if you would like me to put you on my weight lose prayer list then just let me know.

Blessing.......

Setting out to loss extra weight

I am going to post to the world, I doubt that anyone will read my post, that I am setting out to lose a lot of weight. I started on 1/18/10. I am really following my brother's successful weight loss lead. But, unforturately today I have gotten up too late to do my scheduled morning ellictical exercise. Ugh, not good, huh? This will not be the beginning of the end. I vow to get out in the yard after work today and haul some rocks to make it up. Yes, I said haul some rocks.

I have 3/4 of a load of concrete rocks behind my storage shed and I shovel the into a little trailer about 40 scoops at a time into the trailer which is attached to my John Deere riding mower. I drive them around to the gravel driveway or some other place I need to fill in with rocks and shovel and dump them out. It is hard for a old lady like me. But, a very fast work out. Last time I did it I made four trailer loads before I wore out and had to put the mower up.

Maybe I will cut down some weeds too. It is warm compared to what it has been and already weeds at starting to grow.

Well, if anybody reads this, then I say hello and welcome. I hope for support for my weight loss trip. It will be a trip!