The freshness of a next week. My eating has sucked for awhile. Today I finally broke that trend. I had some salmon (which I love), squash, aparagus, mushrooms saluteed in EVOO, and a baked potato. It was good. I don't know why I can't eat better. I think it is because I have been so busy. Work is going crazy. We have too much work and not enough people. I have been working crazy hours, it is so hard to eat right. Actually last week was not too bad. I had salad everyday and I took some fruit with me. I had my water with me too. I have given up all soda but I still drink juice (it must be 100% juice with no sugar added). By the end of week I was eating hamburgers and fries. I still had the water, but bad food. So I am almost bad on track. This week I will start back journalling.
Tonight there is a show coming on TLC called I Can Make You Thin. Have you guys heard about it? I am going to watch it and see what it is about. It is coming on 9pm EST. I will let you know how it was.
Yes, it is true. I've been a bad girl. For the past few weeks I have been doing what I want, eating what I want and not exercising at all. I told you, B-A-D, very bad. The good news is I only gained 3 lbs!!! I sure that won't stay the same if I keep on this track.
The Good News: I went to grocery store and spent $75!!! I am a single person so I never spent that much money on grocery. Anywho, what did I spent $75 on you may ask? Organic veggies, fruits, fish, and healthy choice meals for next week. I realized that I had not one healthy thing in my house. No fruits, no vegetables, no fish, nothing. I was eating out all the time and not healthy. I said at the begining of the year that I was going to start eating organic. What I realized is that organic is not cheap. So I did go 100% organic. Then I started reading the article in a magazine at my doctor's office (I took the magazine when I left, but don't tell nobody ). In the article it was talking about the things that we put in our bodies and how they are so bad for you. Pestides can make you sick. This doctor told his wife to cut out wheat and she lost 80 lbs. Now I haven't finished reading the article, when I do I will let you know. It got me to thinking about the things that I eat. In order to lose weight we start putting artifical sweetners in our drinks to still have sweetness in our lives. I have a cup of coffee maybe twice a week and tea the rest of the week. I stopped having sugar to lose weight. So now I want to get on this organic kick and I am still using an artifical sweetner, uh no! I am going back to sugar or honey. The small amount that I put in my coffee and tea is like 1 point. And I don't have to worry about 10 years down the road that this is the new cause of cancer (because pretty soon air will give you cancer). I will give a better update once I finish reading the article. And I will keep everyone posted on my new way of thinking and living.
This weekend I have done nothing, just relax. It was great!!!!!!!!!!! I was supposed to go to this college baseball game yesterday, but I realized that I don't like baseball and it was cold yesterday. So I stayed at home. I don't even feel bad about it. I am having a me weekend. I should have taken some time out to clean up my house, but it will be okay until next weekend.
So because American Idol is back on, I have been taping the Biggest Loser. I had not watched in 2 weeks. Yesterday I watched both shows yesterday. I was sad to see Trent go, but he was doing it for the right reasons, not for the money. He is going great at home. I realized that I miss that show. It really gives you inspiration. The blue did great at home. OMG, 16lbs lost at home, that is amazing. They were working out 3-4 hours a day. I can't even workout one hour :o). Hopefully that will change soon. I am feeling alot better. So March 1 I am back at. It will be good for Reese because she is working my nerves because she is restless. She is up and down the stairs. So it will be good to get her tired. It will help us both.
Me with short hair!!! I cut off about 7 inches about 2 weeks ago. This week I am concentrating on getting back on track. I cook yesterday for the first time. I made this soup and it was so good. I need to send you the receipe because it is so easy and for my WWers peeps it is only 2 points and it is really filling. I resisted temptation and ate my lunch today instead of going to lunch with my co-workers. I need to get back in the habit of eating healthy before I go back to out to lunch.
I still have a little cough but I am feeling better. I am still taking my medicine so I can continue to improve. Man am sick of being sick. I typically don't catch many colds so this winter has been crazy. I have had back to back coughs.
Well anywho, I tried a restaurant this weekend. It's called Seasons 52. Everything on the menu is 500 calories or less. It was really good. They even these mini desserts. I had the key lime pie, because I love key lime pie. What I really like is that they have all their nutrition information listed on their website. You can make an educated decision before you even leave home. If you have one in your town try it. They have low sodium options also. They do use alot of garlic in their food, so it might not be the place to go on a first date.
Okay I am getting over another cold. If someone has a sure fire way of how not to keep catching a cold, please send it my way. On Monday I woke up and had this tickle in my throat. I kept having to cough, I felt like I need to get something up. I didn't feel bad just a cough. By the end of the day I started feeling back. I was drink orange juice like crazy. I wore my coat eventhough it was not that cold, but I still felt bad. By the time I got home I was running a fever and coughing like crazy. I still had the cough medicine my doctor prescribed, I took some and was sleep by 7pm. I woke around 10:30pm and let the dog out. I fell back asleep and let Reese in around 11:30pm. About 1:00am I was able to make it upstairs. I took some more medicine because I had started back cough. I could not get up the next morning. I wasn't able to go to work until after lunch. I have pretty much been sick since the first of the year. I am getting better I still have a cough but it is nothing like it was. I hope to be able to get back to working out soon. I need to get some exercise, but right now I am coughing too much. I hope everyone is doing better than me this week. Keep it going!!!
Yesterday I went to get my hair done. I was overdo for a perm and I had about a 4 inches of new growth. My stylist amost had to get some more perm. Anyway I cut all my hair off yesterday. My hair was about mid back and now it is at my ear. I wanted to go short for working out. I got sick of long hair, plus I looked at pictures of me 5 years ago and I had the same hairstyle that I had before I cut it. It was time for a change and now I got it. I can wait to go out a show it off. I'm going to post a picture. I just need to take one.
Anyho I got on the scale today and I was done a half pound. Not much but still a loss. Hopefully next week will be better once I start back working out. Tomorrow is the day to start back. Me and Reese are going to hit the streets in the morning. She will love that. I am also doing to look for me some new tennis shoes and a new workout video. I hope everyone had a great week.
Finally I am starting to feel better. I still have a slight cough but it is nothing like it was. I am off the cough syrup and cough drops. I still hit up the peppermint for my throat. At first I thought I my asthma was coming back. I was born with asthma and typically children born with asthma will grow out it in their teens. I was one of the luckly one that grew out of it. I would walk down the street and I would start coughing so hard that I could not catch my breathe. It was like that for days. Now I am starting to feel better. I am going to start working out next week. I have started back make the short walks with the dog. I have also started back journaling. It was something that I had gotten away from while dealing with everything. But for lent I am doing to try to stay on task for 40 days. I am also giving up sodas. Good-bye Coke Zeros.
I hope everyone is having a great hump day!!! Sending you all skinny vibes. Keep it going, We can do it!!!
First I want to thanks everyone for all of your messages while dealing with the passing of my grandfather and aunt. You have no idea how much it means to me. You guys are the greatest!!!
So I have caught this killer cold. Monday I had a fever of 103 and it never went below 101. I felt like crap yesterday (which was my birthday) and today I am feeling a little bit better. I worked from home this afternoon. Right now I am finally below 100 for the first time in days.
What is really wrong with these people that auction on American Idol? This guy with a white suit sounds terrible and is doing stand-up. He looks like a straight fool.
I bought me a jump rope and some new weights. I tried to jump rope and that is probably what made me sick because I looked a hot mess. I think I got over that jump rope 3 times before I almost passed out. Once I get over my cold I will get back with it.
I hate that my blogs are so sad. But I am sad and that is all I can get out. That is the reason I haven't posted one in awhile, they are just sad.
I wrote a long blog the other day but it was lost. I hate that. What I was writing about was my family pain. I wrote about losing my grandfather and how much it was hurting. Well while at home to plan my grandfather final arrangements my aunt (his daughther) lost her battle with cancer. This was a total shock. We knew she was sick, but we did not expect it to be this soon. And not that death is ever easy to deal with, but this was especially hard with my grandfather's passing just 3 days earlier. The crazy thing is that we wanted to have my grandfathers funeral on that Saturday, the funeral could not do it so we picked Monday. The weather was terrible on that day. It was raining, snowing and sleeting. I remember sitting up at the hospital outside of ICU and looking out the window and watched the rain change to sleet then change to snow and then back to rain. The doctor came out and told my family that the cancer had spread to her lungs and even if they could get everything else under control there was nothing they could about her lungs. One lung was completely covered and the other one was about half gone. We had hoped for a miracle that day, we prayed for it, but it was not coming. My aunt passed away around 4pm. It was still raining. When we came to hospital that morning we knew it was not good, we never knew it would be that quick.
Sandra Goss White was modest person. She was very private and a family person. The thing that I loved about my Auntie Sandra was that she always told you that she loved you. Our family is not big on that, but she always said it whenever she saw you. She was a funny person who tell you some crazy story and have you cracking up laughing and she would never even start laughing until she was done with the story. She was a mother to Bryon and Pamela. She was a loving wife. Even when she was sick and in a lot of pain she still put others before herself and she never complained. She would call my grandfather everyday to check on him. When my dad when through his breast cancer and radiation she called to check on him everyday. If you asked her how she was doing she would always say that she was doing okay, even if she wasn't. I looking at my uncle they had been together over 40 years, he looks broken. I feel so bad for him that is hard for me to feel bad for me. Yes I lost my aunt but he lost his life partner. My cousins lost their mother and their grandfather within 3 days. This January really sucks. My birthday is coming up in a few days and it is hard for me even to get excited about it. When I close my eyes I still see me and cousing playing checkers with my grandfather on Christmas Eve. I can still hear his voice in my head. I hear my aunt saying her saying "Love ya, Smuches" and then gets you a kiss on each cheek. These are all things that I thought I would still have. It is just really tough. I got home today and I was crying about them. They were both really good hearted, sweet people. And I really miss them both.
Thanks everyone for your emails and messages. It really means alot. I am going to go walking tomorrow and start trying to get back on track. Thanks again!!!
Ranetta
I sure that won't stay the same if I keep on this track. 
). In the article it was talking about the things that we put in our bodies and how they are so bad for you. Pestides can make you sick. This doctor told his wife to cut out wheat and she lost 80 lbs. Now I haven't finished reading the article, when I do I will let you know. It got me to thinking about the things that I eat. In order to lose weight we start putting artifical sweetners in our drinks to still have sweetness in our lives. I have a cup of coffee maybe twice a week and tea the rest of the week. I stopped having sugar to lose weight. So now I want to get on this organic kick and I am still using an artifical sweetner, uh no! I am going back to sugar or honey. The small amount that I put in my coffee and tea is like 1 point. And I don't have to worry about 10 years down the road that this is the new cause of cancer (because pretty soon air will give you cancer). I will give a better update once I finish reading the article. And I will keep everyone posted on my new way of thinking and living.
Ranetta