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Just had about 6 of the juiciest, sweetest, dripping with flavor strawberries from Florida.  Ours won’t be ripe till early May; thank-you Florida!!!  It’s only the last few years that I discovered a passion for fresh fruit.  Growing up mom occ. bought bananas, we picked wild huckleberries, and had grapes in the yard but everything else was pretty much canned fruit, in that heavy syurp, no less.  If she bought fresh strawberries, they were mashed up with tons of sugar added and served with shortcake.  Now THAT should be a crime!!!!

I’ve been thinking about goals since I don’t seem to have any except for a specific weight I want to get to.  I would like to aim for a loss of 2lbs./month; that seems sane and should be doable even with my un-cooperative (w/o massive exercise) body.  How to do this…..well, eating properly is a given and honestly, I think I pretty much know how to do that…..the other aspect is good old exercise, w/o going overboard (no more 5K/day!!!!)  so I’ll aim for my 3 usual weekly gym work-outs and 2 mi. on the t-mill on Tu. and Th.

OK, on to food and exercise:

Mon.    bfsk: oatmeal w/ skim, peaches (canned but rinsed well),  decaf tea w/skim……….lunch: 1/2 can tomato soup made w/skim, 1/2 roast beef sandwich w/mustard, veg. mix–carrots, broccoli, cauliflower,  1/2 vanilla yogurt w/ fresh sweet dark cherries………snacks: few almonds, 6 Cella chocolate covered cherries (BAD!!!), but sooooo good!     

 Exercise:   usual gym and ladies lite aerobics w/ a little over 2 mi on the t-mil    

Tues……….bfsk: oatmeal w/skim, decaf. tea w/skim…………….snack:  1/2 Wasa, f.f. cottage cheese w/peaches………….lunch: 1/2 can chicken w/wild rice soup, added a lot of spinach, 1/2 roast beef sand. w/ mustard, 1/2 vanilla yogurt w/ blueberries…………..dinner (on the run): 2 Kashi garlic/thyme crackers, 1 chicken nugget, 2 waffle fries, almonds………..snack: microwaved lo fat cheese chips w/salsa   

Exercise: 2.25 mi. on t-mill

Wed……bfsk: V8, oatmeal w/skim, decaf. tea……………….early lunch: 1/2 roast beef sandwich w/mustard, f.f. cottage cheese w/peaches……………dinner: 1 piece pizza–garlic,mushroom,spinach, salad-mixed greens w/olives and tomatoes……………….snack: couple handfuls of peanuts, strawberries, may make some cheese chips and salsa yet.

Exercise: usual gym w/ ladies aerobics……not quite 2 mi. on t-mill (1.82 mi.)

Later, chickadees!!!!

What to write??  Food yesterday was out on the town all day except for 2 meatballs I scarfed down about 5pm last night–they are all gone now.  Thinking about making a batch of bean salad.  Still working on the Margaret Laurence book, “The Stone Angel”.

Sat. am went to a political bfsk. meeting again to get those AP history credits my dau. needs, usual buffet food.  (No guns that I saw this time!)   I am liking actually seeing and hearing these people I’ve read about in the paper for years.  Tues. night we go to a school board meeting—not so foreign, some of these I actually know.  Then I think she will have completed all the political action hrs. she needs for this semester.  Saw movie “Waterhorse” , cute, usual story.  Today she has 12th Night to work at a historic house so I’m picking a movie for ME!!!!  Thinking about Atonement.

Spent the night in the recliner; my husb. was snoring loud enough to wake the dead.  I’m a bit sore in places but not too bad.  He worked hard yesterday outside while we were gone all day and still has quite the cold.  At least we got up in the low 50’s yesterday.

Don’t know what food will be yet for today; I’m going to finish reading the paper and eat.  Will update later.

Update……..Adding food…no breakfast, went right to lunch foods: roast beef, mixed veg, 3 slices whole wheat bread, a little gravy…..this honestly kept me pretty full all day; had 2 Kashi crackers, a few peanuts, and 1 slice of Alpine Lace Swiss late afternoon.  This evening had a med. hot chocolate at Barnes and Noble while killing time when A was working at the historic house.   Doesn’t seem like enough food but it’s all I can remember.

Timing was off for Atonement so I went to see “Charlie Wilson’s War”.  It was very absorbing, not my first choice but I really like Tom Hanks—usually I “drift” a bit at some point in a movie, not in this one.  It kind of explains why we are where we are today.   A pretty good movie.

G’nite chickadees!

I will not lose sleep time for football games.  I will not go to the post office at 4:20pm on a Friday.  I will realize that putting the footrest on the recliner up after lunch while having my tea = a 3hr. nap, thus screwing up sleep for the coming night.  Ain’t it amazing, still learning!!!

A. did not make the bus again, no gym for me. Grrrrr….can’t say I wouldn’t rather go in a nice warm car than a drafty old bus; it was 16 here this am—that’s as low as we EVER go—and I think she’s about due so I tend to indulge her a bit……….(HA!! like I don’t usually!!)  It’s supposed to be very cold again tonight.  LOVE that heated mattress pad!!!!

Food.  Bfsk: grapenuts flakes w/skim, 1/2 blueberry yogurt……..snack: 4 small pieces General Tso chicken (all gone now)…..main meal: 3 pieces gravy bread (guilty pleasure—skimmed ALL the fat off the meat drippings before making this from the roast of yesterday), asparagus………….lite meal: 1/2 can tomato soup, about 3 oz. tuna w/ lemon, other half of yogurt  snack: few almonds

Later, chickadees!!

Well, the scale told the tale of my being “good” to myself.  Actually I’m so mad cause it seems my food wasn’t so awful, even when sick…..no huge amts. either.  The only difference I can see is a lessening ( but not complete stop) of exercise; when I dropped that quick 5 in November, I was hitting the gym over 12 hrs. a week—and walking a 5K or close to it every day.  Who can keep that up????  This is depressing!!!  I am 16 lbs. from my goal and 7 1/2 from my lowest, last June.  I need to go back to the scale EVERY day; if I was doing that instead of sticking my head in the sand it never would have gotten so high.  I tried to go to the gym today but it was wall to wall with “one week wonders”, so I just came home, will hit the bike later for at least 1/2 hr…..better than nothing.  Tomorrow is my reg. gym day and that kid WILL make the bus so I can get there and get my work out done before the invasion!!!!

Food.  Bfsk: oatmeal w/ skim, lo salt V8, Decaf tea w/skim,  dh has a terrible cold so I nibbled a bit when I made him bfsk. later, scrambled egg, 1 piece whole wheat toast, 1 round piece sausage—-have a roast in the oven, will up date later…. 

Update—of course you are all right; I was just so shell shocked by the gain I freaked, as my dau. would say.  Will work out something that doesn’t kill me—I DID lose 30lbs. between Oct 06 and June 07 so I must regain that system; whatever it was.  Problem is, I don’t think I was doing anything different other than being more faithful to my 3 weekly gym days and yoga—no instructor lately.

Rest of food;  2 slices roast beef w/ onion (rump roast), 1/2 baked pot., mixed veg-broccoli, carrots, cauliflower………….later about 5 french fries dipped in vinegar from A.’s order at Five Guys

Well, I must be a good Virginian and watch Tech play tonight.  Go Hokies!  Later, chickadees.

School started today; that huge gust of wind you felt early this am was me sighing.  At gym by 6:30am, did whole routine: stretch and exercise, machines (lowered weights a bit cause I’ve only gotten there about once in the last 2 weeks), just over 3 mi. at small incline on treadmill, and ladies lite aerobics.  The place was full of what I call ‘one week wonders’–the Jan. onslaught of people still high on good intentions; by next week  2/3 of them evaporate and almost all will be gone by next month.  Then we have a surge again in March/April as people decide to get ready for bathing suit season; for some reason they seem to last longer.  Maybe cause the weather is better, days longer?

Food today:  bfsk: oatmeal w/skim, low sodium V8, decaf tea w/skim……….lunch: 1 small baked pot. w/sauce from meatballs, 2 meatballs, asparagus, 1/2 low fat vanilla yogurt w/ 8 cherries………dinner: 1/2 can tomato soup, made with skim, 3 small pieces General Tso chicken w/ 3 T. rice…………snacks: strawberries and walnuts, 1 cheese stick, 2 crackers (Kashi)

I suppose I can’t put it off much longer—getting back on the scale.  After losing a quick 5lb. in Nov.  I had that awful lasting forever cold where I totally babied myself for 3 weeks, meaning I ate what I wanted and had no exercise.  Now it’s time to pay the piper.  Will try to remember to get on tomorrow first thing.

It’s going to be an early night, chickadees.  G’nite all.

I know I’ve been MIA a few days (especially with comments on other blogs). It’s been because of the insaneness of the holiday coupled with a resolve to just read and kick back during what down time there was to be had.  Current reading is “The Stone Angel” by Canadian author Margaret Laurence; I’m enjoying both the story and her writing style.  Don’t think I’ve ever read anything by her before.  She was born in Manitoba in 1926 and lived in Canada, Africa, and England; died in Ontario in 1987.  Interesting life.

I keep thinking back to my last entry about “fun” and pampering.  There’s something eating at me having to do with my own concept of fun vs. enjoyment that I’m trying to clear up for myself.  OK–here goes—this is just how it works in my mind, granted a scary place, sometimes.  I “enjoy” the fun stuff BUT the things I enjoy are not necessarily fun—I enjoy concerts to varing degrees but don’t necessarily find them “fun”.  To me “fun” is different from enjoying and enjoying may sometimes involve doing a thing that is “expected” or that I wouldn’t do if not for my daughter.  Not something I would do if only up to me. The movies were “fun” cause I never get to adult stuff and never alone.  “Fun” involves more of a sense of carefree delight and sometimes laughter—the bumper cars at Busch Gardens, for example.  There’s no “I should” or “I have to” or “I need to”; it’s PURE “I want to” with emphasis on I, not taking input from anyone else.  Probably something we all should be doing.  I resolve to look for and pick “fun” stuff in the coming year.  Pampering kind of goes hand in hand since it’s for you and you alone also.  I’m thinking about going for a massage to start the pampering, hmmmmm, of course finding time is a problem there; we’ll see.  BUT, I’m going to try.

Food has not been horrible, not great either.  Finished the year last evening at a very good local place with a wonderful Greek salad—can’t believe I just discovered these this year!!!!  Today a piece of spinach, onion, and green pepper quiche and a few piastacios (sp?) and a very little bit of Gen. Tso chicken.  Made Ruby’s meatballs the other day and they are calling me now.

7 PM  Food update: 2 of the meatballs, 1/2 can clam chowder, 1 Milky Way Dark bar—-done for the day, I think except for my decaf tea w/skim

I wish a happy, healthy, and worry-free New Year to all us chickadees!!!!