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!!!!!