05/12/2012 02:19
boy, did I blow it.
All starts with the best of intentions - and goes down hill from there. Have just returned from 4 1/2 weeks in Texas to help out a friend. He needed someone to take care of his home while in the hospital for open heart surgery and then stay for a while after he got home. I had something develop while there that I thought was an allergy but it appears that it was a bad case of nerves as it is gone now that I'm home. But boy, was I itching and looked like a bad case of hives - all very not nice. Hope it doesn't happen the next time I go down there.
My blood counts were very good while there so I want to try to keep them in the same range. Just not sure what I was doing right while there. Must get the lead out and try to learn to take better care of myself - if I get the chance to have a new life, I sure would like to be healthy enough to enjoy it.
02/06/2012 20:41
getting started, I guess
Well, here I am. And I have absolutely no idea what I should write here.
No, that's not true as I know why I'm here and what I expect from myself. I need to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. I have always said I could lose any amount of weight if I put my mind to it and now is the time to prove it.
I just weighed myself, although it is 11:30 AM, and the scales says I weigh 223.4. Not my heaviest weight ever but I don't want to be there again, ever, so on with this challenge to myself.
My middle name should be procrastination as that is what I continue to do with anything that I want, so I know intimately the definition of insanity:
always doing what you have always done but expecting a different outcome. Well, this time I AM going to have a different outcome if it kills me.
I am diabetic Type 2, I take insulin and other meds, I am 66 years and a widow twice over. I am in a long distance relationship with a man I have known over 40 years. I really wasn't looking for love again but then he contacted me again and here we are. He lives in Texas and I am in Oregon, but you can fly kinda cheap if you watch the dates in advance through SouthWest Air.
I want very much to lose weight and I need to because of the diabetes. I have been successful on the 6Week Body Makeover plan, but have gone off that due to just giving up I guess. So now I'm ready to try again - gotta clean off my treadmill and I purchased an elliptical machine but gotta get it put together. See, this is where the put off mechanism comes into play - will I ever get off this computer and out of this chair to get this done??
How about right now!!
Will post more later.
ps: I actually live in Newberg.
