I must have been because when I looked at my last post....OMG....it was a LONG time ago.
My life has been so busy, so happy, so blessed, so MUCH FUN. We are so enjoying doing what we are doing right now. We meet so many wonderful people and so many "not so wonderful" people, however, the good out-weigh the bad".
My weight has crept up by another 4 pounds. I now weight the most that I have ever weighed in my life. I am uncomfortable with this extra weight and not proud of where I am right now, however, I will never give up. During the month of April I battled sinus, allergies, larengitius (sp) problems for 3 solid weeks. I was so sick that I did not do not care that I was not eating right and I was doing absolutely no physical activities. Now, with all the pollen ALMOST over I will be getting much better. I have been doing some walking and working with hand weights for the last few days.
You know what??? I will never, ever, never, ever give up. When I do give up on this journey, you will know that I have either passed from this life or LOST my ever loving mind.
Blessings to each of you. I want everyone to know that I have such special feelings for each of you and every morning I pray for all my EP friends. May God be with each of you is my prayer. Chargail
HOLY CHIT!! I am traveling in the wrong direction.. I THOUGHT I was in a race to get to below the 140 mark but my scales say I am getting WAY CLOSER to the 150 mark . I made a wrong turn somewhere.....maybe I wasn't even suppose to make a turn. I need to get on line with MapQuest to see why they sent me in the wrong direction. I can not get myself into the "success mode" for some reason. I am about read to say "WEE-WEE" on it. What a chitty mess I am letting myself get into....I am really wee-weeed off at myself.
April 1st, 2008 will officially become kick Chargail's FLAT butt into action. Everyone is invited to participate. Free admission and you are welcome to wear pointed toed shoes.
School is over and starting tomorrow we will put our "learning" into action. Our company (hubby and I) bid on gate house attendant jobs with the USACE (United States Army Corp of Engineers). We will be working 3 days on and 3 days off at a Corp campground in Acworth, GA (about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta). The place is beautiful!! They provide us with a private campsite with water, electric, sewer, patio, grill, storage shed, paved patio, etc. We will be here until the middle of October. We got here on March 13th to get acquainted with the area and do some sightseeing as well as do the 5 days of school. We are so excited about doing this (plus, the money will be good). You get to meet so many wonderful people as well as a few sour pussys (YES, I know how I spelled it!!).
Anyone who is a shopper would love this place. Atlanta offers any place to shop you can imagine!! We are considered a suburb of Atlanta so from the time you get out of the park there is continuous places to shop for about 100 miles. I am NOT a shopper.
Better get off of here, it is 11AM and I still have my pj's on. Blessings to each of you for peace, happiness, success and health. Chargail
My Savior Lives!!! Because He lives....I am free!!
My brain has been re-activated literally. We had school on Thursday and Friday and will be going Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Long school days...8AM til 4:30 PM. We do have an hour for lunch and about 4 breaks during the day. There is a total of 18 students and we have a wonderful teacher. We do have a lot of fun in class, however, there is some serious learning going on. So, I am proud of me that I can still LEARN new things .
This place becomes more beautiful to me everyday. We have gotten a lot of rain and the lake is above it's normal level. This is all such a blessing since this area was SO drought stricken last year. The water got so low that the boats in the mariners were mostly on dry land. But, our faithful Lord has sent rains in abundance the last couple of months.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. Blessings to you for success, happpiness, health, wealth and peace. Chargail
One of my brother-in-laws has always said that a woman is sitting on a gold mine.. and he is right!!! He also always said that women are the richest people in the world..because they own half the money and all the "pu*sy!!. So, I say to this brother-in-law "Grady I salute you as you are right".
Now, I would say that $4300.00 an hour is a small gold mine....I ask hubby if I my stuff is worth $4300.00 an hour.. of course, he said mine is worth $4300.00 for 30 minutes...!!
Oh my goodness, I have literally been "sitting" on my gold mine!! We give the stuff away and could have been becoming millionaires all this time.. Why oh why didn't I listen to Grady??
I know why , because I am not that KIND of girl....I am a lady!! I prefer giving!! My hubby deserves the best and he gets the best!!
Well, we are at our new location and it is gorgeous. We are in the mountains on Lake Alltoona......OH MY, it is a beautiful place. I can do lots of walking and get a great workout up and down these hills.
I have gotten in a few good exercise days this week and have dropped 1 pound. My eating has been fair...had a couple of "eating out" days and I lost control at Lone Star Steakhouse, not total gorge-out but 8 oz. of sirloin is not considered a controlled portion.
We have been having tornado warnings most all mornings. We even went to a storm shelter and stayed for a couple of hours. Thank God, we did not have a touch down here, however, just a few miles north they have had multiple twisters on the ground and huge hail storms. Last night a tornado touched down in downtown Atlanta and it is passed over us first, we had hard rain and strong lightning, some winds but no touch down. It looks like these warnings will last until around 7PM.
OK, off of here to check on my friends. Is your gold mine worth $4300.00?
Blessings to each of yu for peace, happiness, health, wealth and success. Chargail
Fat or fatter....that is the question? The answer for me is FATTER. I have put on some of the globby, wiggly, dimpled stuff.....
Starting over, oh yes, starting over. Listen up all you "youngsters"......news flash ...YOU NEVER GET TO OLD TO START OVER . You might get tired of it, but never too old.
Now, I don't look at myself as a failure....nope, cause if I was a failure I wouldn't be starting over.....I would be sayingSTREW IT!! STREW IT!! STREW IT!! (how do you like the new spelling??)
I got over my tummy problem and then I got a terrible head and chest cold.....what the crap is going on??? I do believe that the is trying to get me down, but, I have news for him.....I am a child of God and he can't win this battle. I just keep getting well!! It is time for him to move on.
Gosh, our time is almost up here at Pine Mountain and that makes me sad. I did not get to do 1/10 of the stuff I wanted to do while we were here, however, I can always look back with fond memories of the time we did spend here. Besides, I got to experience a gorgeous sight on Saturday........SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS.
This Thursday we will be off to a new adventure.
Now, I did get to do about 15 minutes of aerobics and 30 minutes of walking today and that is a major accomplishment since I have been house bound for almost two weeks.
Excellent two days of eating. I had the most ferocious appetite while I had the cold!!!! And my sweet hubby thought that the more I ate the faster I would get better....WRONG.....the more I ate the fatter I was getting. Tsh, Tsh, oh the woes of me.
Gotta check on my friends. Blessings to each of you for much success, happiness, health, wealth and peace in your lives. Chargail
I am doing so much better, thanks to everyone who said prayers. It was a slow process getting to HERE, however, here does feel much better. I saw on the news that they had another major beef recall...... On Thursday and Friday before I got sick on Saturday, I ate some hamburger steak that I got at Country's Bar-B-Que. The reason I say Thurs. & Fri. is because I did the smart thing and ate only 1/2 at the restaurant and brought the other home with me. DO YA THINK I MIGHT HAVE HAD BEEF POISIONING??????
I have been able to get back to doing my walking and strength exercises. I should end up with some good leg muscles from walking up and down these hills.
It has been a beautiful day here after all the tornado outbreaks in close areas.
Off to check on my friends....hope I will be back later this week with some spunk in my steps. Blessings to each of you for success, health, happiness, wealth and peace. Chargail
I must have a problem oh yes I have a problem. Mental you say.... well yes.... that too, however, my other problem is physical. I don't like being sick...I know....neither does anyone else, however, I am not a "good" sick person . Hubby is more frightened of my "tongue" when I am sick than when I have missed my hormone pills. When I am sick, I don't want anyone around me, don't talk to me, don't ask me how I feel, don't ask me if I need anything, don't ask me if I want anything.......just leave me alone to deal with my misery .
I have tummy problems and have had for 8 days. Cramping, upset stomach, rumblings, bloating, soreness and enough GAS to power a 747 on a cross atlantic flight to Rome. NO, I haven't been to the doctor. It will pass and besides that I have read enough on-line articles about my symptons to know that I HAVE A PROBLEM. Matter of fact, "DR CHARGAIL" has made at least a half dozen diagnosis this past week.
I won't tell you that I have been eating right or exercising. But then I guess that is something you have probably figured out considering everything. WAIT a minute......broth, soup, jello, mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs....that sounds like healthy eating . Twenty (20) sprint races from the living room to the bathroom daily.....that sounds like exercising.
It is beautiful here today and was yesterday also. The temps are in the upper 60's to low 70's. I did manage to do some walking today up and down some of the trails around the campground. That is a major improvement for me. I was really surprised that I could even do manage a few "ups" at all. I have been trying everyday to do some strength exercises to keep my muscles from getting weak.
Off of here now to check on my friends. Say a prayer for me. Blessings to each of you for health, wealth, happiness, peace and success in your lives. Chargail
That is the question I ask. I don't like to have to wear clothes. My body was meant to be free from restraints . It was meant to be able to breath, feel the air and be caressed by the sun. Not bound up in fabric.
When Eve listened to that cunningdevil, not only did she seperate us from a eternal lifetime of close fellowship with God, she seperated us from living every day in the Garden of Eden. BUT, she really messed with me when she took that bite of the apple.......NO MORE NAKED in public. I am so upset with that WOMAN. I like NAKED.
Do you think that we would have put on all the excess weight if we walked around naked EVERY day?? NOwe would not have. Think about it....you wear your best dudes to slim the body and make you look sharp, however, if you had no clothes to wear you would take better care of the body. It would be your trophy display.
My youngest grandson is just like me, he doesn't like to wear clothes. He loves being naked. But, as you can imagine the school systems are not ready for buck naked 8 year olds.
It was a gorgeous day here today. Sunny and around 70 degrees for the high.
I got in a lot of up and down hill walking today, about an hour's worth. Did about 30 minutes workout with my dumbells and then about 20 minutes of floor exercises. Trying to do extra for my sloth day yesterday.
My food intake is staying around the 1200 calorie mark. I do my exercise and food tracking on SparkPeople. I really like their programs for tracking.
Until I return again please know that each one of you are so very special to me. I pray for all of you each day. My blessings to you for peace, happiness, health, wealth and success on this journey. Chargail
We are now at our new location in Pine Mountain. It is gorgeous and I just love this place. NO FLATLAND!! Everything is uphill or downhill, mostly UPHILL.
This place provides an excellent atmosphere for working out. The air is so clean and crisp, the temps have been very pleasant and the leg and cardio workout is just right outside my door. Besides all the 26 miles of mountain trails and 5 huge camping areas there is a place that has stairs to climb from a group shelter to the road up above that is 62 STEEP STEPS. Awe, don't you wish that you could come join me?? The trails are beautiful. You can choose a short trail, long trail or in between. There are places to pitch tents all along the trails. The beauty that God has put on this earth for us is sometimes unbelievable.
Speaking Goose!!! There is several lakes here on the park and one of them is in the section we are in, matter of fact, I look out the windows and see the lake. WELL, we have 2 goose, canadian geese and ducks on the lake. One GOOSE if like no other. He has attitude problems, he runs around with his neck straight up and making loud, ungodly noises. He chases people if they get too close or mess with him. So, I got tired of him acting so ugly to me so I started talking to him. Actually, I make a noise using my tongue and roof of my mouth and when I talk to him, HE gets just as quiet except he makes like mild clucking noises. I can get him to settle down and be a mild mannered Goose. My husband is just amazed. However, He forgets that I have the same power over him.
Honesty here.......I am not doing very well with getting my extra baggage off. But, I am trying to take a different attitude about this. The month of January was not ordinary for me what with being with family and just TELLING myself that I deserved a month of vacation doing what I want to do and that included "letting myself go to pot". So, now the piper has to be paid. I have to pay with a lot of hard work and healthier eating. Now, can I do this??? You better believe it honeychile, just believe it.
When I saw my doctor for the checkup in January, he was so pleased that I had cut my blood pressure meds in half (that I have been taking for around 20 years). My cholestrol was excellent except for the triglicerides. I am working on that. When I see him again in April for my physical I plan to really impress him!!!
Better run and check on my buddies. I pray for all of you everyday, my EP friends, and my blessings to you for success, happiness, health, wealth and PEACE with yourselves and your lives. Chargail
I must have been because when I looked at my last post....OMG....it was a LONG time ago.
. We are so enjoying doing what we are doing right now. We meet so many wonderful people and so many "not so wonderful" people, however, the good out-weigh the bad".
I now weight the most that I have ever weighed in my life. I am uncomfortable with this extra weight and not proud of where I am right now, however, I will never give up. During the month of April I battled sinus, allergies, larengitius (sp) problems for 3 solid weeks. 
I was so sick that I did not do not care that I was not eating right and I was doing absolutely no physical activities. Now, with all the pollen ALMOST over I will be getting much better. I have been doing some walking and working with hand weights for the last few days. 
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I am traveling in the wrong direction..
I THOUGHT I was in a race to get to below the 140 mark 
. I made a wrong turn somewhere.....maybe I wasn't even suppose to make a turn. I need to get on line with MapQuest to see why they sent me in the wrong direction
. I can not get myself into the "success mode" for some reason. I am about read to say "WEE-WEE" on it. What a chitty mess I am letting myself get into....I am really wee-weeed off at myself. 
. We have gotten a lot of rain and the lake is above it's normal level. This is all such a blessing since this area was SO drought stricken last year. The water got so low that the boats in the mariners were mostly on dry land. But, our faithful Lord has sent rains in abundance the last couple of months.
! I am sitting on a gold mine!!
.
...YOU NEVER GET TO OLD TO START OVER 
is trying to get me down, but, I have news for him.....I am a child of God and he can't win this battle. I just keep getting well!!
. On Thursday and Friday before I got sick on Saturday, I ate some hamburger steak 
. Hubby is more frightened of my "tongue" when I am sick than when I have missed my hormone pills. 
. It was meant to be able to breath, feel the air and be caressed by the sun. Not bound up in fabric.
