What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud?

Today I was talking to my sister who was home from work because she fell and twisted her ankle badly and is having a hard time walking on her good leg with the knee replacement.  Now I'm not going to give you her weight in numbers, mainly because she would kill me...but let's just say that she's a li'l chunkee!  We used to look like twins.

   

Now all we have in common is the auburn hair. 

But I digress.  She was talking about how great it was that I have lost the weight and now I wouldn't have to deal with weight related issues in my old age.  She is six years older than I am, and having a lot of issues directly caused by her weight.  She says that she is an emotional eater and there is just no way she ever sees herself getting a handle on it.

So I'm proud today that I quit listening to that spoiled little brat inside of my head who wants what she wants when she wants it.  She can scream all she wants to, but that doesn't mean that I have to give her what she demands.  And I've even learned to ignore her most of the time!  I'm proud that she is no longer the boss of me!!!

Mary

It is sad to hear of a sister who has truly given up. I share in your proud moment to slap the lil brat inside me more often.

Today:  I am proud of my sanity. MORE smoke made me very depressed today when I got up and yet again could not feasibly go outside.

But I managed to raise up my own spirits, come home from work and cleaned out one closet. NOT like there isn't more than a few of those to stay inside and do.

You have MORE smoke?  Don't those firefighters know that your area is the most important one to have no smoke because you are presently suffering from the ravages of hormones and this could get uglee?  I'm just sayin'.

Oh Neecee...be careful in those closets because closets can be a vawee scawee place.  They have monstas in 'um ya know!    Or at least that's the reason I gave my Mother for not wanting to clean mine.  

Mary

Neec... I'm starting to worry about what this air quality is doing to your lungs... 

I'm proud of your sanity too..... but I'm concerned about what this is doing to you PHYSICALLY.

TELL me about it, Lor and Mary!!!!!  I have been really restraining myself from going outside for long periods, and several times, I wear a mask.

I too am concerned - what is this - week 4?????? I hear the closest fires are out, just smoldering, like just before a campfire goes out, how it blows extra smoke?

Plus, the area I live in is surrounded by three mountain ranges. We can often get poor air from the entire Central valley in the summer - no wildfires!

 

I am being careful, but as I say, i am about to s.n.a.p.

We finished a large project today.  Have been working 10 hour days for the past week.
Two dinners out with the contractors which was not good and of course I ate tooooo much.  And today we celebrated with Pizza and I had 1/5 of an 1/8th slice.  Boy am I pleased.

Whoa, I'd say you've been a little busy.  You should be soooo proud because when we get to a point in our lives when everything is off schedule, that's the hardest time to make good diet choices.  And a great time to use it as an excuse to eat whatthehellever.  

Mary

Mary..  I'm so sorry to hear about your sister.  I wish there was a way her family could tell her under no uncertain terms that giving up is NOT an option!   Maybe she is a candidate for surgical intervention????  .. praying for her peace, comfort and healing.

It's great that you received such recognition for your efforts from your sister.  It's not like that in my family.. it's always like "oh... you'll gain it back".. LOL 

Congrats on slappin' the little brat!  I wanna learn how to do that one myself!!!  AMEN!

Lori, I know this is going to sound NUTZ, but this is how I do it.  Remember that guy who was always talking about your 'inner child' and that you have to let her know that you are the adult in control now making decisions, so she needs to learn to trust that you will do what's right for her and that you will always be there to protect her?  Well, you have to recognize that she is the voice in your head demanding you make bad choices and you have to talk back to her and reason with her like you would a  child.  So you end up having a conversation in your head with yasself!

Mine was really difficult to contain because my Daddy spoiled me bad with letting me have all of the candy I wanted when I was little.  Telling the little brat that she couldn't have it anymore was HARD, but I think I've got her convinced now that getting to fit in cute clothes is better than eating candy.  Well, she's mostly convinced!

Mary

This is going to start off negative.. but hang with me for a minute.  It's long too.. so get a cup of coffee for this one.

I've been experiencing a lot of pain in my hip, left thigh, down to my calf again and I filled an rx for pain killers (not that I don't love narcotics anyway), but truly got 'em so I don't ditch out on the gym.  Wouldn't ya know it.. the same thing happened as usual.  Four days into the rx and I went from 204 lbs up to 214. 

I spent some time with my doctor friend online yesterday ******g and moaning about it.  He kNOWS how hard I've worked to get the last 100 lbs of lard off of me and I told him that the rheumatologist told me that retaining fluid from hydrocodone is impossible.  He thought so at first too although he wasn't so condescending when he said it.  Later on he im'd me and let me know that less than 1% of people who take this medication DO retain fluid as a side effect and he thinks I'm in the 1%... also, there is another condition (I don't remember what he called it).. something about a trigger that this drug can cause .....  (validation), and recommended 2 other drugs that are non-narcotic and one of them is vioxx related (I LOVED Vioxx.. I never took it long term, but he'd give me an rx for a 10 day run to deal with joint pain and it would hold the pain back for months at a time).  I'm driving to Florida to see my regular doc for August 4th and I'll beg him for something different.  The fluid gain is making me crazy...I really feel I could be in Onederland by now if I didn't have this pain.

I went to the gym yesterday as usual, and I tried to work without a net ( no pain medication) but only got through 30 minutes before I couldn't take the pain anymore.

I went home depressed, sullen.. feeling completely beaten.... and then pulled myself up by my bootstraps.. got off the dayemed couch, did my hair.. took the dayemed pain pill and went back to the gym and got off an hour and a half!!!  Fluid or NOT, I did something good for my heart and lungs AND through my 2 hour talk with Carl (and his lingering words of SOLDIER ON), I learned that there might be other ways to control the pain without eating the narcotics like tic tacs (which in turn will help me push into Onederland)  .. and I felt proud of myself for getting the do done and actually coming up with the cohonas to let Carl know that even though I love narcotics, I hate what they are doing to my weight loss efforts.

Also.. I'm narrowing down business names... called my accountant in Florida and when he gets back into his office next week, he'll begin the incorporation process.  I'm probably going with an S-Corp again.

Names:
Talk Time Communications
10 - 4 and more (I don't really like this one)
Communications Connection
Connections <-- I like this one but it sounds like a dating service

If anyone has any ideas.....  I'd appreciate it!  I'd REALLY like the name to say that the company provides short term, short range hand held communications for sporting events (horse shows, golfing tournaments, fairs) but I want to leave it open for the sale of 450 UHF trunking radios, cb's, amateur, VHF Marine, and possibly  cellular (don't know if I want to get back into cell again).

There are a lot of horse ranches around here.. farms..etc.. and I can see a market for the sale of short range units as well as rentals for seasonal events.  I also want the opportunity to go back after the city and county stuff with the high power UHF units  (when I redevelop my self esteem...in other words.. cohonas).

Ok.. Long.. but finally done!
Amen!