Day 11 and 12!!!! Trudging On
Calories for 06/07 1624 06/08 1722 I love when I can eat really well — enjoy what I do eat and still keep it under 1800. I didn’t deny myself much of anything — just made great choices all day. I am completely proficient now at reading labels and I will measure if I am not confident about how much is my correct serving. This has taken a long time and a lot of practice but I think I have this down pat. I look back on the last two weeks, at home life is good but its been extremely stressful with my mom - extremely 
She seems to be on the mend but it was a really rough two weeks for her and I was the only person she could really take things out on - oh well gotta love birth order and my only other sibling (younger brother) won’t stand for any crap - -LOL I have lived with those two strong Virgos for years and its good in many ways but rough on us “gentle” Libras in other ways. Just last week I hit the wall after going 14 hours straight and I thought I was going to cause my mom to fall - -all I could do was apologize and she got angry and told me to quit saying I was sorry - what else do you say when you really and truly are sorry, worried and upset?? Anyways lets hope most of that is behind us now.
Where was I going with that tirade - Oh I know!! What with the stress of mom, stress with work (azzholes!!!) and something else with one of our cars and not once did I turn to anything for comfort. I had no desire to get myself face down in chocolate cake, or ice cream or nachos or any of my past favourites. My treat of choice is the Starbucks Frappacino - which weighs in with a whopping 180 calories — YAY!!! Finding time to work out even at the minimum of 10 minutes a day helps too. I realize now I am almost 53. I have three chronic conditions, one (very personal 
)is sort of under control, one (the stenosis) I have to live with and do my best to not aggravate it and my latest ailment is neuroma - I got my cast done for orthotics but geesh I know none of this is life threatening but its certainly becoming weary. Oh well trudge on.
Filed under: General on June 9th, 2008
53….your just a young thing. The health ailments are something we have to live with but you seem on top of them and your doing great with your food. I need to follow your example. I know I ate way to large portions last night, I will be more careful.
Thanks for posting on my blog and the nice compliment but I saw the photos from my Indiana trip and I look huge….yuck….past time to get back to exercise, I just can’t give up .
Your doing great…… P