Wednesday
September 24, 2008
Hi,
Have you all given up on me yet? I have been busy/on a mission/working on me Me ME.
If you recall my last couple of whiny posts about my weight, you should know that I stopped pissing and moaning about it and finally did something!
On Sept. 5, I emptied my cabinets, freezer and fridge of old food. I am not kidding when I say that I tossed out a package of rice noodles that I envisioned making pad thai (yeah, right) with a long time ago. How long? 1997 Which means I MOVED it twice. Christ.
Anyway, big purge garnered me lots of room. I then went to the grocery store and spent $98 on new, fresh food. I still have some of those items for meals, but have replenished produce weekly. I have been keeping a food journal (highly recommended, by the way) and eat 1200 or fewer calories per day, as well as getting daily exercise. I am down 6 lbs so far. Hope to be down 15 or so by Christmas.
I love my new food plan. I eat 6 times a day. Breakfast around 8:00, snack around 10:30 (and by snack, I mean yogurt or fruit), lunch 12:30ish, another snack around 4:00 and dinner at 6:30 or so. By moving my meal times later (and having snacks in-between so I don't get hungry), I am finding 2 things have changed. First, I am not grazing all evening long because I'm not starving at 8 because I ate dinner at 5. And second, my metabolism gets a consistant boost all day.
Instead of coming home and sitting at the computer for another 2 hours (that's a whole other story) weeding through email, I kick off my work shoes and put on my sneakers. I either walk outdoors, weather permitting (I LOVE AUTUMN!) or exercise inside with a DVD. My clothes already fit a bit better, though it will be a few weeks and another 8-10 lbs before I will comfortably fit in a smaller size.
I am feeling fantastic about it all and have tons of support. I guess I was just "ready" this time. Kind of like when I stopped smoking. I quit about 100 times before I actually quit. It will be 18 years on October 11. :)
I've also been madly working on jewelry because I had 2 sales pending. One of them was today at the local college. Hoped for at least $500 and made $664. I am using the money to pay for my trip to Kripalu next month where I am taking a memoir writing workshop with Natalie Goldberg. I am SO excited about that! Kripalu is in the Berkshire Mtns in western MA and will be so beautiful at that time of year. Plus...Natalie Goldberg!!! Woot...
I admit to becoming a tad concerned with all of the exposure the media was giving McCain when he first announced his running mate, but they're digging their own graves so I stopped giving them any more of my energy and am focusing on a visualization of Barack and Michelle waving to the world from the White House lawn. Yes, we can!
I was nervous about the last disaster... er, election... but that was nothing compared to how afraid I am for this country right now. We are in deep shit. I know the Obama naysayers are saying "he's too young, no experience, blah...blah...blah. WHATever. I believe that he knows who to go to for answers and help and is not too self-righteous to do so. I canNOT imagine (and I won't let myself think about it for more than a nanosecond), with McCain 70something years old and not able to finish her term, handing this country over to SnowJob Square Glasses. She might be able to see Russia from the plane she's shootin wolves from, but does she know the name of the President there? He's only been in office since March so if she was ice-fishing or running a PTA meeting or something, she might have missed it.
Okay...enough! NO MORE ENERGY SPENT ON WHAT WE DON'T WANT!
Peace,
Kay
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