Chasing away Chubby

WOW!  Whatta weekend.  I’m glad it’s over though I dread the 6:00 alarm in the morning and returning to the daily grind. 

We went camping at Boonesborough State Park…home of Daniel Boone’s great fort.  I didn’t see the fort though.  I’ve been there and saw it before so we skipped it this time.  We spent our weekend mostly swimming and hanging out at the campsite.  Saturday we went to the pioneer festival in Winchester and had a good time.  I dIdn’t buy anything but had some tasty fried pickles and fried oreos.  We southerners will deep fry anything.  They were both really good.  Sunday we took a canoe ride down the beautiful Kentucky river.  It was gorgeous.  I wish I could find my USB cord so I could post some pictures it was truly amazing and fun!  I loved canoeing!  I got stuck in a boat to paddle alone with my 2 youngest kids.  DD and Ds4, while BF got to go with Ds10 and his friend who all took turns rowing.  NOT FAIR!  Both DD and DS4 were convinced they were going to die!  It was hilarious!  DD isn’t afraid of anything.  She swims like a fish and had on a life jacket and was still sure she was going to die.  Everytime a motor boat passed- most slowed to no wake like they are suppose to- she about had a fit. If any of the other canoes got too close to the boat- she squalled.  Once my sisters canoe hit us like 3 times and she was fussing at them “Get away!  Your gonna kill us!  Stop it!  God wants me to die today!!!!”  It was hilarious.   I did really well on my own until we turned around to come back and I had to go against the current.  The current kept us pretty much against the left bank most of the time.  Finally we stopped at a private dock.  DD’s complaints and warnings of impending doom were nearly constant now and grating on my nerves, so we switched her into the boat with Sis#1 and BIL and I took Neice #2- who is 16- and she helped me paddle back.  Coming back we rarely had to paddle on the right side.  It was almost completely on the left because the current was pushing us into the left bank.  We made it back finally. I wish I could do that more often.  It was fun and a good workout.

While we were out we almost got ran over by a speed boat.  They rounded the curve and there we are- 4 canoes all in their way.  Well- they had plenty of time to switch sides of the river but didn’t for some reason- they just kept heading towards us.  The  male skier was screaming “NONONONONOONONNO!!!”  The boat weaved between us and Neice #2 and I paddled to the left as fast as we could to avoid the skier who was headed right for us.  He somehow missed us.  There were some 10-12 year old boys who witnessed the entire episode and yelled at the boat “Smoke ya another doobie- ya Mother fuckers!!!!”  I couldn’t help but laugh because they were going entirely too fast to be passing canoes- boating etiquette calls that you slow down so there are little to no waves- and we did not get that courtesy.   I would whip my kids butts if I caught them yelling that at someone…but it made me smile nonetheless.

So I said a sad farewell to summer tonight.  BF went up to BIL’s to help him move a huge cabinet that they bought at the pioneer festival where we were camping.  She has a grand house.  They built a few short years ago and it is Beautiful.  Their white front porch is amazing.  If I had that front porch I would live on it.  Around the side of the house it is a good 14 feet off the ground, and they don’t have the rail up so you get the butterflies in your stomach when you look down.  I stood there and looked over their land- to the amazing green trees and stunning green landscape and mourned summer.  I know technically that we have a few more weeks, but this was summers last hurrah. It seems every year summer gets shorter.  This one flew by.  I also looked across there land at what they owned and was amazed.  How wondeerful to look out at that land and know that it is yours- that you ownit and you never have to leave.  I wonder if they realize how lucky and blessed they are to have what they have.  I doubt I will ever have anything to call my own.

On a happier note upon my return today I found my ETS envelope.  I passed the Praxis II test!  Yay!  One less thing to worry about!

This is my new goal starting tomorrow. My goal is for 400 minutes of exerise by Saturday.

Also this weeks goals are to
#1 Track my calories
#2 Eat basic veggies, lean protein for meals
#3 No HFCS- avoid sugar in general
#4 Exercise, exercise, Exercise
#5 5-6 mini meals a day

Tomorrow I am going to take my measurements and a before pic.

A great song to download to work out to “Supergirl” by Saving Jane.  It’ll have you believing you can do anything.

A good movie to watch “What Happens in Vegas.”  Hilarious!  I am going to buy it.  I love Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher.

Posted on September 1st, 2008 by lodyangel
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I don’t know why this is being so stupid.  I wanted the picture of my possible halloween costume to be above the post, but it won’t let me type beneath it.  Oh well, to see my HOT halloween costume page down. There are alot of school girl costumes but I like this one because it covers my stomach which- even if I lose the 22 pounds I want to by the halloween party,-will still be a problem.  And it’s still sexy, and i want to soooo be sexy.  If only for just one night…

So Today was a decent start day. but not great.  I ate too much food, but did manage to do my  60 minutes of activity.  I ran 1mile and walked 2 for 45 minutes.  Played soccer for 15 mins with Ds4 and then walked again tonight for 15 minutes. 

Tomorrow I will do some serious strength training (TBL DVD) 20 mins, 20 mins yoga, 15 mins of Denise Austin Core workout-Arms,  and 20 mins of walking.  I will be sore on Thursday! 

Posted on August 26th, 2008 by lodyangel
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I’m sitting here watching the closing ceremonies of the olympics.  It’s sad it’s over.  I love the olympics- especially the summer olympics.  It’s so cool to see so many people’s dreams come true.

I have a goal!  My goal is to lose as much weight as humanly possible by Halloween.  Why?  My Sisters are having a halloween party and I have to dress up for it.  The plan so far  is for BF (yeah the cheater) and I to go together.   We discussed costumes tonight and are thinking about him dressing up as a catholic priest and me dressing up as a catholic school girl.  I know we would be making fun of a very un-funny situation, but it’s halloween.  Trashy costumes reign.  So I want to lose weight because I want to be a hot catholic school girl- not a fat catholic school girl. 

Tomorrow’s plan is to get up, get the kids off to school, and go run 3 miles.  Come home, water the plants, and then work on cleaning up the house.

So my exercise goal is to work out for 300 minutes this week.  That’s 5 days for 60 minutes.  Should be interesting.

I start classes again on Wednesday. I only have one class until October and then I pick up 3 more for the second quarter. My portfolio for checkpoint II is due October 21st and I have to interview the week after. I should be getting my Praxis II test results this week and I am praying that I pass!!  That test costs over $200 to take and I don’t want to have to fork out that money for that again.

The weekend was good.  Friday night I went out to eat with BF.  He had to go back into work at 10:00 after he had aleady worked a 10 hour shift. he worked til 4 Am and came home slept for a few hours and then went back to work at 9 AM.  His factory was breaking every labor law ever written- but he’s  a supervisor and working your butt off comes with the job.  It also helps keep him out of trouble.  Saturday we had a surprise B-day party for Sis1.  We had such a good time. I drank so we stayed in my sisters camper.  We have been talkingsome about his cheating.  He has even told me that he’ll never put himself in that positin again, that he’ll never go to the bar again. I know how stupid this souds but I believe him when he says it.  Do I believe that he will remember that a few years down the road…I don’t know.  I want to believe him, but how do you believe someone who has lied to you so much already.  IDK…only time will tell.   But for now, he is treating me like a queen and I am enjoying it.   I really do love him.  I just don’t know if i can work through this with him again.  I do think that he is sorry.  And I think he has learned his lesson.  i just hope it lasts and that he remembers his lesson a year or two from now.

Oh I have to tell you this.  Tonight I told him that if he ever cheated on me again, I would go out find some guy and have sex with the guy in BF’s bed and I would video tape it and give him the tape.  I don’t think I would ever really do it.  But who knows.  He needs to know how this feels…how bad it hurts.

Well off to bed with me!  I hope this finds everyone safe, happy, and healthy.

Posted on August 24th, 2008 by lodyangel
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First I would like to thank everyone that left such supportive comments.  Thank you so much for your kind words.

The memory of that horrific night is fading some now after I spent a week obsessing about it.  I just kept thinking about the way my fist felt slamming into that girls face.  In some ways it was satisfying to know that I so thoroughly whipped her ass.  She was 11 years younger than me! It is a testament to how much more fit I am now than a year ago.  I may still be fat, but at least I am in better shape.  On the down side of the fight I feel bad to have hurt another human being no matter how badly they deserved it.   I know she grabbed me first and therefore asked for it.  Even the cops said it was self defense, but I still feel a little bad for being reduced to an animalistic state.  I also keep thinking that there will also be some sort of retribution.  I know, time to let this part of the drama go.

I spent the weekend with ex-bf.  The kids had a b-day party at his friends house and I knew that there was no way that he would be sober enough to drive them home (they are big drinkers).  So I went and had a pretty good time.  I spent an hour in the kitchen with the wife and told her about what he did.  The whole ordeal.  She was pissed and then relayed to me how her DH had left her for another woman.  Then she continued to tell me that they are swingers and that he had tried to hook up with her BF who he had hooked up with in one of their “Swinger sessions”- again, without his wife knowing.  Her BF told her and they almost broke up over it.  Now I am a very non-judgmental person, but I have to say that, the swinger thing sort of creeped me out.  First of all- Why tell me?  I didn’t need to know that detail. Why not just say he tried to hook up with your BF?  And second- Were they hoping that  we would want to join them??  Ewwww!  I don’t share my man intentionally.  And I am almost 100% positive that he wouldn’t want to share me.  He may go screw around outside the relationship but he sure as hell don’t want me too!  I don’t know.  Everytime that we find a nice couple to hang out with they turn into sexual deviants.  One other time we went out with 2 other couples and before the night was over the girls were kissing each other and one was rubbing on my leg!  Again, I don’t judge what others do- but please leave me out of it!  BF jumped in the back seat with me and sat between the other girl and me to keep her from touching me.  We never went out with them again.

So Saturday night was good. We had a good time- even with having to find out that they are swingers. :lol:  The kids had a ball and we went home about Midnight.  Sunday we had a  b-day dinner for my BIL who is ex-bf’s brother and married to my sister.  So we spent the day coioking and again had a good day.  I could almost forget that he was a cheating, no-good, low-down, dirty dog-Almost.  I don’t know what my answer is, but despite the good weekend there are alot of hard times ahead.  I know that the anger will coem and when it does I will hardly be able to contain it.  I will not want to be with him and well it will be ugly.  I know this because I have been through this before.

He still has not said what I need to hear:  First to apoligize a hundred more times and then to say: “I won’t cheat on you again.  I only want you.”  He’s said he’s sorry, but without that promise-it don’t mean a thing.

Posted on August 18th, 2008 by lodyangel
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It is sooooo nice outside.  A mild 70 degrees!!! At 10:41 in the morning!  I’m lovin it!

Didn’t get to post yesterday due to DRAMA. Yesterday morning i get a call at 4 AM from my Mom (who lives next door) saying someone knocked on her front door. When she got up and looked out no one was there but the dog took off running towards my house.  I got up looked out and saw nothing.  Turned the lights on in the house and went to the bathroom and turned them off and went to bed.  I laid there forever and couldn’t sleep.  I heard a loud Crash awhile later, but it sounded like it came from in the house, so I thought it was the cats knocking something over.  When I got up the next morning I open the door and what do I see… but the windshield of my car shattered!!

I mean shattered!  Some @$$hole picked up a huge landscaping rock (a half mile down the road- funny, since I run and walk so much I know who has the fancy rocks and who doesn’t) and went down our road throwing them at things.  They hit my sisters trash box, my car, my neighbors mailbox.  My windshield was busted all the way through.  But the rock didn’t go into the car, it bounced back onto my hood doing more damage to the hood.  There are tiny shards of glass all over the car.  I don’t know how I am going to get it all out.  The crappy part is I have to pay my deductible of $500 to get the hood fixed!!!  I am so mad.  I swear if I had caught the punks who did it I would have shot them.  I know that sounds awful.  But all of you know I am poor.  I work for everything I have.  I am raising 4 kids on my own, and that was my first brand new car ever.  Since I bought it someone backed into it in the grocery parking lot and left-busting the bumper and breaking the taillight (which I did not turn into my insurance because I did not want my insurance to go up.  I planned on fixing it myself eventually) and now this.  I don’t know if this will make it go up or not!  Probably! But there is no way I can afford a windshield!!  I had to turn it into the insurance. GRRRRRrrr!  I called the cops and they just filed a report.  There is next to no hope on catching who did it.  I put a huge poster on my car offering a reward if someone would turn in who did it.  I just hope if the punks come by that will be enough to scare them into not coming back.  I went on ebay and bought those mock video cameras and I am putting them up and the signs that say “You are being video taped”.  Maybe that will keep the freaks away.  I also am putting in motion detector lights so they will come on if someone comes in my yard or near my car.  Mom and Dad are thinking of moving my driveway away from the road and down the hill so no one can hit my car with something.  I am hoping that they will do it.  I know it willl cost them a couple hundred for the gravel but I think it is worth it.

I am keeping the landscaping rock.  I know it’s kinda stupid.  But I am putting it in my flower garden.  It is now my $500 rock. 

I couldn’t sleep last night because of what happened.  It’s creepy thinking of people running around out here in the country and tearing up things.  I found the boys bb gun and put it by the door. I swear if I catch anyone out here I am going to load their behind up with bb’s.  I know it sounds “redneck”, but here in KY if someone is on your property stealing your stuff or damaging it, then you have a right to protect it- by shooting them.  The law won’t prosecute you for it. The person you shoot may sue you, but that is the chance I am willing to take.  The guy who does the conceal and carry gun classes tells people that if you are going to shoot an intruder-shoot to kill- that way they can’t sue you.  Good advice.

Well that’s enough on crime and punishment.

I am back on the wagon today.  My methods classes are over and so I am finally away from those binge-crazy-food-pushing ladies!    I miss them though!  They are alot of fun!  So I am going to workout, and then get some cleaning done to the house.  I followed Miss Mel’s advice and joined myfooddiary.com.  It’s $9 a month but so far I really like it.  I liked thedailyplate.com but I didn’t like how there were so many different, sometimes wildly different calorie counts for the same food.  Of course your gonna choose the one with the lowest calories!!  And that may not be accurate to what you are eating.  I am gonna give this whirl and hope it helps.  I have a new journal to keep in my purse.  My calorie king book is there also.  So I have no excuse for not sticking with it.

Goals for today…

Chop out garden some more.
Stick to meal plan.
Workout 60 mins
clean kitchen
laundry
dishes
clean livingroom
Keep a positive attitude!

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by lodyangel
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