Sunday, March 13th

Recently, I laughed at a tiny little bottle of Miralax in a drug store.  So stinkin' cute!  I think I will buy it today as my travel miralax. 

I hope your body entirely heals very soon.  Nagging injuries wear ya down!

Paula - good job handling the GS cookies!  moving on

Good morning everyone,

Paula great job on the GS cookies not sure oh I know I wouldn't have been able to do just one. How wonderful that your church is sending support to Haiti, have you been able to go any mission work to other countries?

Shel have a wonderful time in CA and soak up the sun. I know all about the old tapes and how difficult those are to deal with. good for you that you have put them into perspective. I need to think of you and take a lesson. I honestly thought when I got to goal that I was going to be bullet proof because I never struggled a day getting to goal I thought that would continue. Naive or hopeful?? Maybe a bit of both. The hardest part for me is getting my head out of the sand and just accepting, so good job. 

Diane great job moving and happy endorphins away. It always amazes me how much more in control I am when I exercise and turn ever thing over to God. Silly how I fight it though. 

Linda I didn't realize that your hand was still bothering you. I hope it gets better soon riding season is so short. I'm still frustrated from my frozen shoulder and how it affected my riding, a real confidence shaker. You will have post pictures of you and Violet. Are you planning on riding with a women's group on May 7th, it is International Female riders Day. We are organizing a ride in Winnipeg so far we have 111 riders coming that day. You are welcome to join us. ;-). Wouldn't that be cool. 

Well I have rambled on long enough. Have a fantastic week everyone. 

Hugs Lorna

Lorna, I always get such inspiration from you and your physical activities as well as from all of YOUR learnings!  

So glad you were able to run yesterday!  (I think it was yesterday!)  Hopefully, the weather will be turning better for all of us.  

I have not done any mission work in other countries. I've been too nervous to go to a third world country ever since I got my defibrillator (8 years ago). I won't do remote camping with my scouting group either (like the Boundary Waters). I like to be within 30 minutes of good health care if at all possible just in case something goes amiss.

Good to hear from you again today Lorna!  I often think of you :-). Yes will definitely ride on International Women Riders Day!  We had a big group last year - it snowed while we were out!  Hoping for better weather this year :-). I think you traded in your Shadow?  What will you be riding this year?

I did trade my Shadow for a Boulevard bigger bike and noisier pipes. ?

Hi all! 

I'm TIRED! I stayed up far too late and had to get up at a decent hour. I have a client coming in 45 minutes. Still sipping coffee.

I'm up to 196.1 today. Lots went into play yesterday for this little upward swing. 

I went to the gym yesterday at about 2:30 with only a 20 gram protein shake in me from breakfast and 1/2 a quest bar about 15 minutes before. I did 4 miles on the elliptical and was drenched! (YAY!!!! Loved that.) Grabbed a Premier Protein shake at the gym (Ooooo, I do not like those very much...., but it served a purpose.) Went and did some Costco shopping with Ron, then stopped at Trader Joe's and decided to stop for a coffee on the way home. We shared a Tcho chocolate  cupcake. It was delicious! No regrets. Had been eyeing it for well over a week and we decided before hand that we would share one, if there was one left. We got the last one. 

Then dinner was just off (we took my BFF out. He is suffering from a bad stretch of depression and we don't want him to be alone too much. We took him to his favorite comfort food italian place.) I had to send my dinner back because it was supposed to be medallions of tenderloin and they sent out three SLICES of over cooked tenderloin. Got a chicken breast with a side of pasta instead. Ate 3 bites of the pasta - that's it. Also had a slice of garlic bread. Then I was off for the rest of the night. I grazed. I logged EVERYTHING I ate and it came to not quite 1600 calories. Still not off the rails, but more than I need to stay in weight loss mode. 

Water was fine, but I could have had more. My hamstrings are also still very sore from all the leg work done on Friday. 

All of this comes into play. 

Now here's the sticking point. I don't care about the one pound, BUT I had a loose food day planned today and am now feeling like I shouldn't have it because I'm up this little pound, but I was so looking forward to just going with the flow today. I know I must get over it and pull up my big boy britches and just decide which way to go. I am leaning toward my loose plan day. It's pouring rain and I have had visions of steel cut oatmeal dancing in my head, so I need to just do it! 

Happy Sunday all. 

Salutations skinny soldiers;

Lots of good thoughts today here. Hope you biker chicks can get back to it soon. Sounds like the women's rider event will be fun. 

No girl scout cookies around here.  I feel bad turning the little girls down but I just tell them we can't eat sugar and wish them luck.  I actually don't miss those - not my idea of a good cookie. Now a warm homemade chocolate chip with nuts -THAT is a cookie. 

Everyone goes to Costco!  Making my run tomorrow to prepare to leave town for a week wednesday. Not looking forward to days with my near death mother and her crabby bossy roommate.   I don't mean I don't want to see my mom - its just that she is only awake a limited amount of time and the rest of the time I have to listen to old crabby. I always swing by the wine store before going to their home. 

We watched the new Mad Max movie last night. I normally hate stuff like that but this one won a few Oscars for special effects and make up and such. It was two hours of non stop shooting, explosions and bizarre stuff. The special effects were truly astonishing.  Didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. Hubby loved it. 

Had an interesting experience yesterday. A good friend asked for a favor and I said yes. Then as I thought about it I became extremely anxious as I realized it was something I really did not want to do for good reasons. I called the friend back and explained why I couldn't do this favor and he was fine with it.  But having to do so really upset me. I realized how much I hate letting people down and how horrible it makes me feel and that it is a child hood thing that is part of why I over ate.  Its part of the reason I don't want to go spend time with ailing mother and crabby friend. Gotta remind myself that its ok to not do or be everything everyone else wants from you.  Food is not bad but bad feelings somehow make you want food. 

129 today. Its majorly windy  here today and I can hear things outside rattling  so not sure we will get out with dogs.  Keep at it all you road warriors.  I should say we are all the Health Warriors.    diane s

Costco rules!   I work in Kirkland, WA ---- home of the inspiration for the name of Costco generics!  I feel like I have always just been to Costco or I need to go to Costco. There is nothing in between.    

Good for you for handling the favor request. Probably not that big of deal for your friend and much healthier for you.  Why don't we come with owner's manuals so we figure this stuff out earlier? 

As for myself, I have been stressing over visitors coming today and wanting the house to look more than presentable.  Now, they have canceled because of a wind storm.  That's ok....the house looks massively better.  Still not quite done, tho.....