Chasing away Chubby

Helen Mirren- Age 62.  She looks HOT!  However, according to Access Hollywood she doesn’t believe in exercise or dieting?!?!  Well she must believe in Plastic surgery!  Because I have never seen a 62 year old grandmother look like that in real life!  Really?  Do they really think everyone is that dumb to believe that they look like that naturally?  That they never lift a finger to keep their well defined abs! 

And now that I have that photo all blown up, (I first saw it on access hollywood and went to find it to post on here so I could bitch about #1 how unfair it is that a woman twice my age is so much hotter than me and #2 what a liar she is) something doesn’t look right.  It looks touched up. She looks pasted in, doesn’t she?  And look on her left shoulder how the guys elbow is on top of her shoulder.  Doesn’t look like a normal pic should. And where does the guys arm go??? His forearm seems to fade out blending into the scenery.  Now that’s not natural!!! I hope after I post this that you can still see it!  It just fades off right at his forearm.  The way his arm is positioned you should be able to see it but it just disappears.  Maybe he is Mr. invisisble.  :lol:  It’s suppose to be a papparazzi photo but who knows maybe they touched it up and her agents had it planted.   She is a beautiful woman, but no one looks like that without great genes, alot of sweat, hardly eating, and at that age probably some cosmetic surgery. 

I Know… I am being a bitch!

or a conspiracy theorist…

Whatever!

 I tried to post this morning but I couldn’t get it to paste in so here is my morning post.  I’ll give you the update at the end…

I woke up this morning to sunny skies and a beautiful day!  The high today is suppose to be 92!!!

I was another pound down this morning!  YIPEE! I did an excellent job yesterday.  I had 2 scrambled eggs and fruit for breakfast, no lunch- I wasn’t hungry, a Nature valley peanut bar for snack , and for dinner I thwarted my evil classmates by emailing them all and bringing a salad to share with every topping imaginable!  I ate 2 huge plates of salad in class and one of the girls brought a dessert bar, so I ate one of those.  Still a very productive day!  I didn’t get my workout in because I had to go to the grocery store to buy all the stuff for the salad.  I took DS16 to the library and dropped DS10 off at a friends house where he was “attacked” by their dog!!!

We walked in the door and I am talking to the kids Mom.  The boys have been friends since Pre-school and has stayed over there many times before.  She is holding on to this medium sized, BEAUTIFUL, dog.  He’s just looking at us, not barking, nothing, but she is holding on to his collar.  (Evidently he does not like men.) Well after a few minutes she lets go of his collar.  He walks over to my sons friend and them walks over to DS10 and just grabs him!!  No growling, no barking, nothing-just grabs his shirt.  The Mom grabs the dog and they drag him upstairs to her bedroom and lock him in.  I am thinking he just grabbed his shirt.  DS10 is uber-calm. Not crying nothing…not even scared.  (He gets that from me.) Then he lifts up his shirt and there are 2 tooth scrapes down his stomach that are bleeding.  It took several layers of skin off. It looked nasty but really wasn’t that bad of a wound. Superficial.  I was pretty calm.  The Mom was FREAKING out.  “I’m so sorry, if you need to take him to the hospital you can, he has all his rabies shots and things, I’ll show you the papers if you would like to see them. Blah, blah, blah…” She fixed DS10 up with some neosporin and a bandage. She apoligized repeatedly and said that they had no problem with him hating strange men since their kids were home alone in the afternoon, but if he was going to go after kids she was going to have to have a talk with her hubby about getting rid of him.  I am thinking DUHHHH!!!!  It is common knowledge that if a dog would attack a small animal (DS10’s friend told me it had killed a cat) or attack a person it will attack a child!!!  DS10 still wanted to stay and it was against my mothers instinct to let him, I wanted to take him and run- so I allowed him to stay.  I really just want him home.  I trust the Mom 100% and she said the dog was going outside and would not be allowed back into the house while DS10 was there.  I am still worried.  I can not wait until I can get him home!  Hindsight is 20/20 and I should have taken him back home with me.  I don’t know if he will be allowed back over there after this if they decide to keep the dog. UGH!  My thought is their son is getting older.  He will be 11 soon.  ALL his friends will be morphing into little men.  Will no one be allowed over because their dog is going to try to bite them?  And dogs like that are often unpredictable.  He may go after the family!!!  UGH!!!  I just want DS10 home!!

UPDATE:  DS10 made it home without being attacked by the dog again!  Thank God.  His bite mark is lookign better but is now bruised all around it.  My poor baby.  he just acts so non-chalant about the whole thing.  Getting irritated with the Family when they asked to see his dog bite.  He wants to keep his ripped bloody T-shirt to keep as a memento.  Boys are so gross!

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by lodyangel
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It’s been a year ladies. A year since I started this last weight loss endeavor. Overall I would call it a success. I lost 27 pounds, gained all but 12 back. However, that is 12 less than what I weighed this time last year…so that is progress. This time last year I couldn’t run 20 feet. Now I can run 3 miles! That’s progress!  Last year I was riddled with fibromyalgia and arthritis pain.  Now I am almost completely pain free. That’s progress!  Last year my stomach problems were holding me as a hostage to food.  I literally was trying to eat the pain away!  Not anymore!  That’s progress! This year I plan on stepping it up. I have to make my fatbet goal!!! I am back to running and plan on my first 5K in September. The girls in my classes are going to do a half-marathon in May in celebration of graduating. I think most of them plan on walking it, but another girl and I will run it. The other girl is a super athlete, probably only weighs 115 pounds soak and wet, she was Miss Ky basketball in 2000, and she runs quite a bit. But that is okay I just hope that they all get moving so we can make it happen.

I am upset because I got up and the scale was up 4 pounds!!!! I have been pretty good food wise. I even logged my calories most days. I don’t understand where the 4 pounds is from! UGH! I am going to get through this holiday (Family cook-out tonight) and then tomorrow I am going back to one meal a day. That is the ONLY way I seem to be able to lose weight. Grrrr. Not happy about it though.

I have to go register for the PRAXIS 2. It is going to cost me well over $200 to take it, but I have to take it to be a teacher! It is costing me waaayyy too much money to get my degree so I can be a teacher and be one of the lowest paid degreed individuals in the nation. Which makes no sense because we are the most important!! Teachers make all other professions possible, people!! Then if this damnable rain ever stops I am going to go run. Today is suppose to be 1.5 miles but since i had 2 days off in a row i might do 2 miles and save the 1.5 miles for Sunday. Then I am dying my hair and getting myself all dolled up for the picnic tonight. My sis hosts this every year and I am a litte peeved because she didn’t invite my cousin. All she invited outside of the immediate family was her (not to sound like I am still in high school) preppy-@ss friends! I don’t know I think I am feeling insecure because Sis3 has been putting me down lately. It is really getting to me.  She is always talking about me like I am a bad mother!  Which I am not! (She has no kids btw, yet she thinks she is an expert) and the last 2 times I have been around her she has referred to me as “trashy.” She acts like she is joking but I definitely think that there is some underlying meanness there.  I am not trashy.  I don’t even want to go to her stupid picnic now.  Well ladies Have a fabulous Fourth! 

Posted on July 4th, 2008 by lodyangel
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Time sure does fly!

I meant to get back sooner, but things have been so crazy.  It was homework, homework, homework the week before last and FINALLY I get it done.  And I had a week off.  Well my week off flew by and now it’s Sunday night and I start my Social Studies methods course tomorrow!  :(  Today was worthless.  I woke up with a migraine, took an ultracet for it, went back to bed, woke up at 10:00 and still had it took another ultracet for it, got up, went home (I had spent the night at BF’s), and them my stomach started it s funny little thing that usually ends up with me in the ER.  (Which can not happen as I no longer have any health insurance). So I took half of a loratab.  It stopped the pain, but I overdosed myself on acetaminophen.  I kept trying to fall asleep and either I would have weird dreams and I would wake up or I would jerk myself awake, convincing myself I had stopped breathing!   :lol:   I kept breaking out in cold sweats and was dizzy a little.  My BF got back from fishing so we went over to my Mom’s house I laid down on the couch with my head in BF’s lap and told him to make sure I didn’t stop breathing and promptly went to sleep.  Woke up at about 5:00, no worse for the wear.  I am still tired though and will be hitting the sack soon.

My water heater sprung a leak…months ago.  We didn’t notice it til this past week when there was water in my bedroom carpet.  My BIL, who I rent from, had to come down and fix it- which was a 2 day job.  The reason we knew it had been leaking for months was it had rotted the floor out under where the water heater stood.  I used the shop-vac to suck up water out of the carpet all day yesterday.  Tomorrow I am going to shampoo the carpet.  I meant to do it today but couldn’t since I was laid up all day, it didn’t get done. 

I walked yesterday for 4.6 miles last night.  I guess I am going to have to go back to the nike dri-fit socks as my Danskins rubbed blisters on the bottom of my feet.  Grrr!

Tomorrow I am going to go to water aerobics if the weather allows.  I am back on my one-meal-a-day diet.  We’ll see how long it lasts this time.

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by lodyangel
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***This was suppose to have posted 2 nights ago after the “crazy” post, and for some reason, didn’t.  ***

I hate myself.

I am just going to have to come to terms that I can’t eat.

 I ate the SB thing I mentioned in my earlier post and now my stomach is bothering me.  I have had this problem the last few days.  I had been eating junk and it was making me sick at night.  So sick I vomited last night.  So sick that I swore to do better today and not eat anything bad or greasy. 

Now after eating something “good” I am sick again.  WTF??

I guess I am just going to have to stick with the one meal a day thing.  If I eat more than once the I am disgustingly sick, and I hate this feeling. 

I’d rather be hungry then feel this way.

I forgot to mention.  I did my CT scan back in May and it came out okay.  My lymphnodes had not gotten any bigger, but they were still swollen and inflamed.  I hate it cause I just feel like I am sitting around waiting to get lymphoma.  Isn’t there anything they can do? And if they are still inflamed and my stomach is still being stupid then I guess that means that whatever was wrong with my stomach last year is still wrong with it.  Last year I had a scope and it was red, irritated.  But there was no holes, no ulcers, no erosions.  It was just red.  They could not give me an explanation.   They could not tell me what I should do about it.  The surgeon said usually it means that you are taking something to cause it. 

Like what???

I quit drinking Pop 2 years ago.  I rarely take diet pills.  What could be doing it?

I’m gonna go pop a prilosec…just in case.

did I mention i have a cold??? In the

Tomorrow I am strictly back on water- no tea. Not that I think that is doing it, but I gotta do something.   And no night eating…only one meal a day.  If I eat more I will be sick. 

And frankly, for the first time…food isn’t worth feeling this way.

Posted on June 8th, 2008 by lodyangel
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First off, thanks to my girls Annie and Leeda for being so supportive of me and my unconventional diet plan.   :)  You girls ROCK!!

Today was a good day eating wise. I didn’t eat until 8:30 PM.  It wasn’t intentional.  I was BUSY all day writing lesson plans and a research paper that were due tonight for class. I didn’t even THINk about eating.  I got done when it was time to leave for class.  My plan was to go through McD’s and get a cheeseburger and a salad, but the line was miserably long so I just went on to class. I wasn’t really hungry yet anyway.  I WAS feeling really tired though because I had been  up til 2:00 Am writing lesson plans and researching the aforementioned research paper.  I got up at 6:00 got the kids off to school (their last day! YAY!) and went back to bed at 7:00 then was up at 8:30 with DS4, and back to the grindstone. So anyway i was feeling pretty tired so I popped my energy pill (metabolife extreme energy- $10.00 at Wal-Mart- they don’t make you jittery, just give you a little boost- LOVE them!) So when I got to cvlass one of the girls had brought  a sort of keylime cheese ball.  So I ate one graham cracker with that stuff on it.  It was pretty good.  After class I pigged out.  Which is okay since I am allowed to eat WHATEVER I want.  So I ate 2 cheeseburgers, a small onion ring, a small portion of the chicken salad-salad (lettice, grapes, apples, cranberries, walnuts…mmmm) without the dressing and then stopped and ate a chocolate eclair I bought from the grocery deli.  I was just so hungry!!  So no more waiting so late to eat.  I wanna make good choices when I do eat my onemeal a day.  I could still probaly lose weight pigging out like that everyday-once a day, but I wanna be healthy and that means making better food choices.

I am happy to report that day 1 back on the plan gave me amazing results this afternoon!  Down 5 pounds from yesterday!  Yippee!  So that is vindication enough to keep doing this.  This works.  It gives ME control over food.  That makes me feel POWERFUL!  And you have to feel POWERFUL to lose weight!  See I like me better already!!

Have you girlies ever heard of Fatbet.net?  It is exactly what it sounds like. You get a group of friends together and you make a bet to see who can lose the most weight, or at least make their goals.  I am doing it with the ladies on the journaling boards and wondered if anyone would want to do it here.  We could do our own bet.  Maybe, if you don’t make your goal, then you have to post your picture on here in your bathing suit.  Something like that to me would be very motivating.  Any type of wager at all, if anyone has any suggestions I am open to them.  If anyone wants to do this let me know and I will get it together.

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by lodyangel
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