Saturday review
Busy but not insanely so. Took A. to a review class for an AP test she has coming up. Window shopped for the most part rather than drive the half hour home only to have to drive back in an hour. Picked her up, we ate lunch (which I packed, for once!!!), and dropped her at one of the historic houses for her volunteer stint there. Went to the library; looked for that Jon Gabriel weight loss book; couldn’t find it but the titles and sheer volume of these type of books is overwhelming. One was even called “The Wedding Dress Diet”.
I did one of my favorite things tonight—sat outside in the backyard and watched the sun go down through the trees. Saw my hummer come in for his final drink of nectar of the night, had a robin splash in the birdbath right in front of me. Also got my first mosquito bite of the year. I don’t know why but they just LOVE me; nobody else will have a single bite and I will have a dozen.
Food…bfsk: Grapenuts Flakes w/skim, V8, decaf tea w/ skim………..lunch: turkey sandwich w/whitewheat bread, 2 slices…….snack: peach yogurt, walnuts, 1 biscotti……dinner: small hamburger w/onions, about 20 fries soaked in vinegar, peanuts…..no candy bars again!
I did hop on the scale this am and I’m up another pound and a half since the last time I got weighed—-and I weigh about 8 lbs. more than I did last year at this time. Five of those pounds WILL be gone by the end of May; time to get real serious here; I’m not going back there again, I’m NOT!!!!
There is a gorgeous woman who goes to my gym; from South America; she’s a model. One day when we were speaking she told me she only allows herself to have bread once a week. I used to absolutely hate bread, I used to be skinny—maybe she has something there.
Need to go tend the everlasting laundry. G’nite, chickadees.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Somehow, I just imaging you as a beautiful woman. You are always an inspiration to me. Love ya’. Rubes
April 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I think you are beautiful too. Beauty comes from within, and althou I have never seen you in person, only met you thru the blogs, I know you are beautiful. Cause I feel your beauty
April 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Oh, yes. You will, I know, be where you want to be as soon as you decide you really want to be there. Sometimes - many times - other things in our lives take priority over our own health, well-being and self-image; right now, you have a very busy time of it with A and all of her activities, which is wonderful (it really, really is) but life proceeds in cycles, and the circle will turn on this cycle as well. I say, enjoy every last minute with that child of yours, eat as healthily as you are able, get your exercise the way you have been doing, and let time itself guide you along this danged weight loss path that we are all on here. Being thin is important to so many of us - and at so many different ages, eh? But being thin isn’t ALL there is to life, either. Beautiful? Oh, of course you are beautiful, Ms, Close! We all know that!
Hugs,
Z
April 27th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I agree. You are very beautiful. We all know that. Your unwavering love and support for all of us shines through so much. BTW eating bread once a week sounds a little extreme to me.
Greedy me. 
You know I too get lot more mosquito bites than others. I explain it away saying I am a sweeter person.
but it is inconvenient. 
Lots of love,
iniya
April 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Great to see your resolve with the weight. I look back at this time last year and I am 10kgs heavier! I know that popcorn has a lot to answer for. I also know that just not eating popcorn will not take it off. Why is my body so good at holding onto all this rubbish???
I love the image of you sitting there with your hummingbird. So pretty. I have never seen a real live hummingbird, but I have lots of pictures of them and even a tattoo of one on my left foot.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Love the description of your quiet time alone sitting in the backyard. Savoring it really….
Wow the lady is a lo carb afficionado. Damn. once a week. Can’t do it. I guess that’s what separates us real people from those folks.
I’m cuttin back some there’s no way I could do it just once a week.
I’m down with you on the weight gain too! It’s difficult but we’ll pull through - we both don’t want to be in our big clothes for ever! Or go back to them!
Those mosquitos know how SWEET you are Ms. Soclose
Just like we do….
xoxoxoxooxoxoxox