Woke to the scent of lilacs drifting in the window! We finally have Spring!
Busy day yesterday with folk coming to dig plants. We ran out at the Church Yard Sale and gave rainchecks. DH thinks the garden must be full of holes but it sure isn't. I could give away a truckload and still look lush.
Was OP all day yesterday and UP 2 pounds this morning - nothing salty that I recall. Oh well - I'm going to just stop trying to figure this out and stick to CALP. I definitely am not drinking the right amount of water.
I'll be back later - physio is at 8:30 this morning and I need to shower and wash my mop before I do the 30 minute drive. I already did a Fly Lady on the cutlery drawer and plate cupboard so feel the day is underway.
Lilacs and lily-of-the-valley to everyone this morning.
A good weekend in Washington and I went to see About a Boy last night. Very good and funny. Today I rejoin WW. I am officialy 15 lbs over my lifetimee goal and feeling really pissed that everything I have dome in the last month or so has not yealded a thing. So back to WW and see if that is the problem.
Dh took kidletts to school so I have some time to do my WO this morning before I head out for that 10 am meeting.
I'm with you on that late spring lament, Ruth. Even though my lilacs are done, my iris are just now blooming. I haven't gotten one perinnial (or is it annual? and how do you spell perinnial anyway? I'm too lazy to look it up!) planted. It's been one of those springs when the wind is blowing so fast and furiously inside that I can't seem to get outside to get anything done. But, there's grass in the flower beds and I saw a couple of haughty dandilions spitting seeds all over the place a couple of days ago. So, maybe I'll take a tip from flylady and just spend 15 minutes a day out there until things are all neat and tidy.
Or not!
Very crappy weekend foodwise...which always grants me a very lousy attitude (think carbohydrate psychosis!). But which got me thinking and journaling this morning about how I'm always trying to change myself by making some grand, sweeping decision. Like: "I may be eating like a pig right now, but TOMORROW I'll get it all together and never do this again!" And how that has about as much power to save me as whistling loud when walking past the cemetary at night. Pretty sad to realize that not once in my life has that kind of decision pulled me even one inch out of the mud.
And yet, I persist!
It's only been those tiny, countless, daily decisions -- the ones made w/out fanfare or solemn vows -- that have ever made a difference for me. Like: "Potato chips or baby carrots? I guess just this once I can live w/out a cheddar cheese chip."
That part of me which has nothing to do with the Truth or God wants very much to believe that I can make ONE decision and this weight and food thing will be handled. It's pretty darn humbling to realize that it's really what I do about those thousands of daily, little, moment-by-moment decisions that is really going to make the difference between whether I control my food and weight (or they control me) -- and that I, personally, am going to need God to give me the strength to make them right, if I'm ever going to lose weight and keep it off.
H-m-m-m. That's going to give me a little something extra to chew on today!
Well, chicks, have a great one. It's a gift!
Love,
Sooner
Last edited by Sooner or Later; 05-28-2002 at 11:56 AM.
Sooner has certainly given me some things to ponder...
Thanks!
Packing day here. I am feeling very repentent today, I really screwed up yesterday after a fairly good couple of weeks on plan. Beware the Arby's Market Fresh sandwiches! And fresh oatmeal cookies that leaped unbidden into your mouth.
Go here to see yesterday's horror... http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJ...wner=TwoPillow
So, the story of how I broke my foot. It was 11:00 PM and I was letting my dogs outside, my older fatter pup spied something tasty on the floor and my younger clumsier pup tripped over her. I was in a full walk not looking down trying to jump ahead of them to get their gate open when we all collided throwing me through the door walloping my foot on the metal door frame.
The dogs were fine.
Goodforme- I'm glad I'm not the only one who is a bit overprotective. We don't even use babysitters. When family visits we sometimes go out but that's about it.
and I'm taking my calcium Jiff-
Have a great day guys, I'll be MIA for a week while at my MIL's.
I have not had access to a computer for 2 and half days and I have really missed chatting or even just reading the pearls of wisdom and humor you all share. I will not be able to read or post tomorrow or Thursday...My mother in law goes in for the heart catheritization tomorrow and because we live so far from the hospital, we're spending the night in Vegas. Under normal circumstances that would be a great thing as I love to gamble (responsibly) , but this trip to town is all business. My dh is in Canada, so I'm taking both my mother and father in law in, staying with my FIL at the hotel and then, God willing, taking them home on Thursday. I know this is not a prayer chain, but I am asking anyone who believes in Christ to pray for my MIL. She is a wonderful woman and her family, all of us, are just not ready to let her go. We've had a rough week so far, my brothers mother in law was found dead in her home Monday morning and now my mother in law is going in for a heart procedure. I've been praying double time, but am a strong believer in the power of prayer in numbers...so again...I ask anyone who believes to pray for my family.
Thank you all so much. I really appreciate all your support in diet and in life.
God Bless,
MB
You've got my prayers, MB. I went through coronary bypass w/my mom 8 years ago and then stints (after another heart attack) last February. I know that stress and fear, even when we know deep down that God is in control.
I'm praying that everything will be just fine and even better! (and comfort for you and all her loved ones!)
Couldn't figure out all day that it was really Tuesday. Hmmmm.
Anyway, very very OP today, so off to a good start for the week. Maybe I should work 7 days a week so I don't overeat while I'm at home on Sat. and Sun. Never mind, I'd rather be fat than crazy!
are we all feeling a little out of control these days??? or are we wondering at all the marvels around us? or a little of both?
many prayers and warm thoughts to you and your family, OA... no matter how many times people tell you not to worry, that everything will be fine, it's never enough.
and sundrop, i'll miss you terribly!!! but have a safe move.. did the pups have any remorse about you falling? at least, more than a second or two?
and L144... chin up. you'll do fine back on WW. don't be angry with yourself. you have lots of courage and you can do this.
lilac and iris seasons are never long enough. what a shame!!
sooner.. better to chew on these wise thoughts than on wise potato chips!!! [sorry, i couldn't help it!!]
and scooby... new job... crazy rider, and now a building move??? ick!!! have a manicure instead. your life is too stressful for me.
and goodforme... i'm avoiding the obvious comment about your being crazy. or not being crazy. i'm biting my tongue very very hard.
as for me, there's nothing much new. went to work and filed the official w-4 form [for you canadians, that's the form we file with the IRS so that our employers can withhold a certain amount of our paychecks to pay our taxes throughout the year.]
so, it's really official..
mom and peachie apparently did some errands today, but only peachie remembers them!!!!
The Daily, Tuesday, May 28
, but this trip to town is all business. My dh is in Canada, so I'm taking both my mother and father in law in, staying with my FIL at the hotel and then, God willing, taking them home on Thursday. I know this is not a prayer chain, but I am asking anyone who believes in Christ to pray for my MIL. She is a wonderful woman and her family, all of us, are just not ready to let her go. We've had a rough week so far, my brothers mother in law was found dead in her home Monday morning and now my mother in law is going in for a heart procedure. I've been praying double time, but am a strong believer in the power of prayer in numbers...so again...I ask anyone who believes to pray for my family. 
2nd Monday this week
