Hi Ladies,
Where is everyone - We need you all! Karie, Dahlia, Lisa, and anyone else who might be lurking.
Pam, you are right I do love my work. A couple years ago we remodeled a room upstairs in our home to be a studio and I bought a north light to work under. With a corner for a framing center. Before I always painted at a big old desk in my Gallery (dining room), downstairs without a good light and not much room. Yet for some reason I still haven't settled into my new studio. I used to spend hours a day painting, now I haven't been taking much time with it. The fact that my husband retired hasn't helped either. We spend so much time running the roads, traveling and working on historical projects. I help him with all his town historian duties. Of course my current series of paintings blends well. I made up my mind not to accept any more commissions so I could paint only what I wanted to, but I am having a terrible time saying no to people. Doing commissions helped me so much to grow as an artist - I tried things I never would have thought of on my own. And accomplishing their idea is always a thrill. Once a women asked me to paint her back porch as a gift for her neice who spent a lot of time there as a child. I was doubtful it would make a good painting, but I did it and it turned out to be a great painting, one of my favorite's and her neice loved it. Now this same women wants me to paint a special tree for her other neice.
Here I am getting carried away again!
Pam you are doing so well, and learning how to maintain is just as important as losing, because if we don't learn that and just gain it back we have wasted our time dieting and yo yo dieting is as dangerous to the health as staying overweight is.
Cat, I am so proud of you.
When you exercise you don't fool around. I wish I could do that! You are inspiring me to incorporate some work on my exercise bike into my day. I haven't used that much lately. I am still doing my treadmill and haven't missed a day. But I still need to do it when I first get up before breakfast.
I too seem to be eating more then I should. I have been munching during the evenings. I try to keep to things that are low in calories and good for me, but I need to stop doing it anyway because even that adds up. On the Ophra show they had a guest on that said you should not eat after 7:00 in the evening. If with your lifestyle that is not possible then stop eating at least 2 hours before you go to bed. The guest also said that that hungry feeling you get in your stomach later in the evening was when your body was getting into the fat reserves and you should welcome that feeling and not feed it. Because when you feed it you keep yourself from losing. That makes sense and I am trying to remember that, and not eat!
Well I had better be an angel and do well today because we have another banquet tomorrow. The last of our holiday parties. More temptation!
Hi to anyone I missed and good luck for an op day