Finding ONEderland

The first adjustment with my braces was painful for the few days following but it has got much better now. I will try and plan for that kind of thing next time and have soft foods at the ready for a couple of days worth of meals.

Posted by Annie at 11:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have been doing a lot of walking and hiking also which is helping. Plus I got a part time job working for a ladies gym so that has been great.

As far as the braces it has been going pretty good. I only had to use wax a few days to start with and a couple of times since when I got a cut.

Thanks to all that wrote me. I am going to try and be a little more active here soon. *hugs* to all of you.

Posted by Annie at 08:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

That is down half a pound. I do need to talk to my leader though because the woman that did my weigh in must have got confused and only counted my total weight lost as that half a pound which doesn't count what I have lost before that. Oh well I will get it fixed.

I am in a complaining mood I think. I am annoyed at the parents that park in front of my house. I am sick of cigarette butts being in my yard...of bottles being in my yard. I would never do that to someone's yard. People just don't respect others these days. I am really looking forward to once we move and get our own place. If i can help it I will never live in front of a school again.....ever ever again. Yea this was brought up cause I had just saw a woman put a cigarette out in my yard. But it doesn't do any good to say anything or get mad....I just need to focus my energy on looking forward to when I live some where that doesn't have people parking and waiting on kids. Click my heels 3 times and go some where else. Don't I wish *sigh*

There are good things going on though. Weather is lovely. I am doing well and keeping a positive outlook for my healthy eating...even with Tuesday having been a bad day mood wise. I managed to do a positive shopping trip and not feel my buggy with crap. It's a good thing...I was proud cause a part of me just wanted to say screw it and put in all the junk but another part of me was like "no way...I am not eating that stuff".

Posted by Annie at 01:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Down 3 pounds....all the walking is paying off. Next thing is I have to go back hard core on keeping my food journal. I had been slacking and half doing it. I know a big problem is sometimes not knowing what the points are on something and finding it frustrating.

Got in a 30 min walk today. It was something I had to push myself through because i was a little uncomfortable doing it. But I know as I build up and the weight drops that it will improve and that it is something I need to do so I can become active like I was before. I loved walking and hiking in the past. And I really miss how active I was and how I felt when I was.

Posted by Annie at 06:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I went to my Tuesday night meeting. Talk about a big different in what I weigh in the morning before food as to what I weigh in the evening after 3 full meals and some snacks. I think the night meetings are going to work much better for me and I am fine with difference in the weight...it will just be the one big change and next week stuff will be showing up like normal.

I feel like I am getting a sore throat...hope I am not getting sick. Not what caused it just came on all of a sudden about 30 minutes ago.

Posted by Annie at 03:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The week before was another 289.5 to have a maintain. This was the bloat week weigh-in so I am not letting it get to me. I also missed a couple days of journaling but am back at it now and that is what matters.

The sun is trying to shine today. I NEED this sunshine so much...I have felt so down the last few days with all the rain. I know we need the rain after last years drought but it sure was killing my mood to not have any sun at all. The improved mood is helping me to get little projects done all around the house.

I got some updating done to my blogroll last week. I still have a few non health blogs to get listed but I may make a separate list for non health ones. There are lots of things I would like to get done while I am doing my job hunting. Making use of the time off till I find a good job.

I do want to update the software on this blog sometime. I am just a little bit nervous about how that will go. Don't want to kill my whole sight. I will back up what I can and then do it.

Posted by Annie at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

That is a maintain and I will take it...especially after a couple of weeks of loosing.

This week begins my first week after getting laid-off. It doesn't really feel like I am not working at the moment. Just like a long weekend. I did some laundry and cleaning today. It's so cold there wasn't really anything else to do.

Posted by Annie at 06:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Start next week I hope to be getting in a long walk during lunch as I should have plenty of time to do what I need to do for me once I am laid off. My hubby is wanting to go walking with me so we'll be able to do it together. It will be daylight and more at the warmer part of the day which is a good thing during this time of year. I am really looking forward to it.

I am also looking forward for my copy of Maya Yourself fitness to arrive. I think it's going to be a really cool thing to work with. I'll tell you more about it once I get it and get to use it some. It was recommended to me by a friend and she's lost a lot of weight and got in great shape using it for her work outs.

Posted by Annie at 10:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I updated the side bar to have the correct amounts and other info. I want to do more to the page when time allows. I was just taking advantage of a quiet minute at work. I think it is the calm before the storm. Tomorrow it might hail....or least feel like hell LOL. At least it is a Friday and I will have the weekend to escape to. Then after that one more week and hopefully I can then focus on myself some.

Time to go finish up some stuff so I can get out of here on time and relax a little once I am home.

Posted by Annie at 03:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I did manage to get some shopping done so I am prepared with my food this week at least some. Now if I can shake this blah mood I am in and start feeling some better. Would help to loose some of the bloat. Off to drink some water to see if that helps to flush my system of it some.

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White I was mowing I checked out my squash and something has nibbled the tops off two of my plants. Good thing I planted 3 each of them. The plants might be able to make a come back but I am not sure. I figure it was a rabbit, they run all around the place. I might try and plant a couple more seeds where these were and see if I can get anything out of them.

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Something that I noticed today is that in just those few pounds it made a difference in a couple of the sleeveless shirts I wear. They have a small split at the bottom and the corners had been flipping up on the shirt and hitting my arm when I walked. Once I dropped those pounds it stopped doing it as it was not stretching the shirt to cause it to curl them that way.

I want to say thank you for the comments lately. The support has been a big help. And Mich, I did get the squash and zucchini planted and they sprouted and have started to grow. Think they will do a lot of growing this week because it has rained a lot in the last few days. Deb, the tomato and cucumber salad I seasoned with a little salt and a few sprays of dressing (balsamic kind).

I got a new pair of shoes today. They are new balance and an off road shoe....with a brown and green color scheme. I think I am going to really like them and they will be good for some of the paths and trails I like to hike over. The guy at the shoe store told me to spray them with a fabric protector. I never thought about doing that...it makes so much sense. I think that will help to keep them looking so much better. I got a can and did it already so we'll see how that works.

Posted by Annie at 10:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

You get to a point where things just have to change. I am going to have to buckle down and start doing stuff right instead of half way. The last two days I have made sure to get a good walk in. Yesterday it was an hour and 10 minutes and today it was 40 minutes. I spent 20 minutes in the kitchen cutting and washing some veggies for snacks. I need to find more ways to eat healthy.

As far as work I am not sure what I am going to do. I spent part of today looking at how to write a resignation letter. Not sure if/when I am going to turn one in but it's getting bad enough that I am on the edge of doing it. I have got to start getting out of the office during my breaks and take a walk. I can't let the stress of that place cause me to gain any more weight.

Posted by Annie at 06:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I have been having migraines for several weeks now. I know it is work stress causing this. So today I took and started to do some things to de-stress. I spent part of the day reading blogs (I'm behind on all the people I enjoy reading) while I had the nebulizer going with "emotional rescue" oil in it. I had the migraine at the beginning of the day before I started this but it finally let up and I am feeling okay right now too. Yay! I am going to start using this each day. Another thing I am doing was after my walk and dinner tonight I jumped in for a second shower but this one new lavender shampoo and body wash. Very relaxing. And I am drinking a cup of calming tea as I type this up. I'll be going to bed in a bit to read a little before going to sleep.

Tomorrow I hope to get my zucchini and yellow squash planted. I had meant to do it before this but the package says the growing time is from May - July so I should be fine. Hopefully I'll have plenty of squash for this summer and fall. My herbs are doing really well. I need to start trimming some off and using them when I cook. I also need to get back to doing more cooking. I think that will happen with me finally finding a way to de-stress a little.

Posted by Annie at 09:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Yesterday my food choices were pretty good. I ate a ton of veggies. I got cleaning and shopping all done and felt great about that. As far as exercise I need to try and get more regular with it. Today looks like it will be a nice day so I am planning on going for a walk this afternoon.

I also want to get back to updating more often like I was before. I have found it hard to do so since there are things going on with my life that I can't talk about at the moment. It's those things that are bugging me and making me not do as well as I could be. I had wanted to bury my head in the sand Saturday but turn my mood around by Sunday and got a lot done. Thanks to those who are hanging by and not giving up on me.

Posted by Annie at 10:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I need to keep my exercise up and add to it. Making sure I get some in each day. I also really need to start working on getting in much healthier wholesome foods...especially lots more veggies. I am taking three days off at the end of this coming week...with the holiday and all it will give me a total of six days off from work. I plan to get in plenty of exercise and prepare healthy meals.

Posted by Annie at 07:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

We have been walking a lot. Sunday we went for our normal hike around the mountain lake but since this was the first time we had done it this year it really kicked my butt. The good news is I felt much better yesterday because of that walk. I plan on attempting it again in a couple of weeks but making sure I take water with me when I do. The walk normally takes us an hour but it took us an hour and half (the trail mark says it is about a 90 minute hike)....which is still much better than the first couple of times we walked it, about 5 years ago, at 2 and half hours. I know I got dehydrated since I didn't take any thing to drink with me....I know better and will be taking water with me for anything longer than 30 minutes.

I have a lot of work to do to get back in shape. It seems more doable to me this year. Last year when the little flutters in my chest were happening they seemed to drain me down. Though I have had a couple of those in the last month they haven't drained me like last year. I think that might because I am taking CoQ10 supplements....along with some flax and fish oil each day.

Since we did the long walk Sunday we didn't walk yesterday. However we did mow the lawn and did it much faster than we had been doing it. We got it done in 30 minutes, 15 for each of us. Just goes to show how much the mountain hike helped even though it was rough on us...not as rough on my DH as it was on me but still did us both good.

Posted by Annie at 06:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

More on a good side I have been walking every day since it warmed up. I am enjoying getting out so much. Even though todays walk was a bit warm...really needed some shade, it's going to be good once the trees have more leaves on them....oh and I did end up with the starting of blisters on my right foot because I walked for an hour today. I need to take it easier than that...build up a little bit at a time. I went straight from 15 minutes first day, to 30 yesterday to an hour. Least I didn't end up with a full blister and my foot already feels much better than it did after my walk.

Posted by Annie at 06:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well that sucked. I can't blame anyone but myself. I have been eating just a little too much the last couple of days and not exercising like I should. The weather turned cold again and I shut down and stopped doing the stuff I was doing. I'm also moody and bloated feeling but it's the wrong time of the month for that so I am not sure what is causing it.

I'm sitting here watching SunRise Earth, greatest hits one, on Discovery HD and realizing how much I miss being at the beach. It's been a couple years since I have gone. Pretty much since my DH took on his current job and the project he's working on. He hasn't pushed to take vacation since....I really need for us to take a vacation this year.

I also need to get in better shape so I can enjoy a vacation. I really like getting to walk on the beach and since we normally go to a beach in NC we do the state park there too. Plenty of walking and a cool place to check out. One of my problems with getting in better shape right now is that I can't seem to stay motivated. The colder than normal weather is just messing with me. Plus I have been extra moody and feeling crappy. I need some warm weather and sunshine.

I need to try and clean up around the house tomorrow. That will probably help my mood a lot as I get depressed when my house is not in a clean and put together state. The worse it gets usually the worse I get in how I feel. The real problem with this is in being a full time worker and having to use my off time to clean everything. My DH wouldn't care how the place looks and therefore it falls on me to do the cleaning if I want it done for the most part.

Well I am going to go read some blog posts for today. I am actually caught up for a change...least that feels good.

Posted by Annie at 06:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I put together a new book shelf for my office. It's has nice thick shelves and is one of the 6 foot jobs. I now have a place for all my cookbooks and work out DVDs with much room to grow. I had lost the place I kept them before when I rearranged the living room to make it have more room. I have two shelves worth of cookbooks....maybe a little over kill. I use to buy every one they had at the WW meetings, one of the reasons I have one of the shelves filled up. They do have good recipes in them though so it's not a bad thing.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. If you are in one of the places that got hit with the weird cold weather like I am I hope you are able to keep nice and warm and enjoy the rest of the weekend. You know the old saying "April showers bring May flowers"....I'm pretty sure that should be rain...maybe someone should tell Mother Nature.

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I'm feeling tired today. The little heart flutter feeling is back and I hope it goes away soon. Once I get off work I will go home and get a short nap to see if that helps me to feel some better. Hopefully it will and maybe my DH and I can get a walk in this evening.

The weather is getting ready to turn cold again for the week. I will be glad once this passes because I was enjoying the warm weather so much. I got my herbs planted in the little mini greenhouses and I am looking forward to them sprouting and getting them planted outside.

Posted by Annie at 12:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I have been kinda of quiet on here, is why I am just now posting my weigh-in from Saturday. I have been thinking a lot lately...trying to decide if I am going to continue on with WW. I know it can work and all but I am wondering what will happen if I just eat healthy and get a good amount of exercise each day. Now that we are cooking at home more I think it could work to just fix healthy meals. I could do a food journal on my computer or use a site to do one...I could actually do one that had a lot more info than the WW one does. Also I am not so happy about the meetings right now. They are super crowded still and start 10 minutes late. I can't get a seat up front like I use to be able to unless I come in well over 30 minutes early. I just don't have the time to put into it for that. it ends up being an hour and half if I do. I just don't enjoy the meetings being in the back of the room. I went this last week and but only to weigh and left to go work out.

The workout was good. It was at Curves and got my 3 in for the week. I haven't been this week but I will be going today. Monday I pushed the mower around the yard...between all the picking up of sticks and trash that had blown into my yard and mowing it took me an hour and half. So it was a good workout. Yesterday I had a dentist appointment for the 6 month cleaning. So that killed my work out time. Then the evening was spent folding several loads of laundry. So mostly I am keeping active.

As far as food...my goal is to add a lot more whole foods, especially veggies and fruit. I have already been buying some organic things but I want to try and do better with this. I feel that it will be better for us health wise. I do worry a little with some of the bigger companies jumping into the organic field and will try and stick with smaller ones and mostly as local as I can.

Posted by Annie at 09:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I am trying to jump on the scale each morning before I shower so I can keep an idea of how I am doing. I do my best when I weigh daily. I know some people don't do good with doing it that way but it motivates me more if I do.

I have decided to get a portable dishwasher. I figure on what we save eating out (me avoiding cooking cause of the dishes) will more than pay for the dishwasher in a short time. I can't believe I have done without one this long. I find it something one really needs if they work full time. I don't want to give up what little free time I have doing the dishes.

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Yesterday and today have both been beautiful days weather wise. Yesterday we got out and watched a movie, Norbit with Eddie Murphy in it. It was okay but not as good as I thought it might be. What was great however was getting to go watch it. I had been avoiding going to do movies because of my knees hurting from where I had gained back the weight. So it really felt good to go do that again. I am looking forward to so much more that I can reclaim this year. I miss how my life was a couple years ago when I was eating healthy and exercising all the time. I am getting back what I had then and it is great and it's just going to get better!

Posted by Annie at 12:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

The meeting was okay but there was one thing that bothered me. The "there are no bad foods". I disagree with that because there are ones that are. First off anything with trans fats in it. Bad for the heart. Stuff that is way over processed or extremely high in fat. There are things that I avoid and do so not because of the weight gain but because of what they would do for the inside of my body. Now I do have some processed stuff. I do eat some low cal and artificially sweeten things as treats. But I try and limit those too because there are better things I can get in. I guess I just worry that some people out there don't know the whole story and saying there is no bad foods is hiding the truth that there are things out there that should have a frigging warning on them of what damage eating them could do to you. *sigh* I'll get off my soap box now.

I got a 25 minute walk out today as it was 60 degrees outside. Just a little nippy cause of the a slight breeze but over all it was very nice. I've also started doing my WATP DVD again. Tomorrow is suppose to be 60 again but with rain so I am not sure if I will get to walk outside.

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Another thing I am celebrating is that I finally got the people I read on blogspot added back to my reader and it working to let me see the page like it use to before the beta. I was able to put back 11 blogs that I had been trying to keep up with a different way (failing horribly I might add).

It's been snowing all day and we actually have some snow on the ground. I don't know if it will be there tomorrow but it sure looks pretty tonight. We haven't had a good snow in a very long time. It would be nice if it does a few more inches so the local kids can see what it is like to make a snowman. Been years since we had enough snow for that.

Posted by Annie at 08:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I am finding myself in a really bad mood today. I hate the lack of information I am getting about my current job. I am stressed about what direction it is going to take. I would really like to be able to plan for the future some. I just hate being on hold and that is what this job has been for almost a year now. I can't talk about it in detail like I would like to either because the wrong person might see it. It's just annoying as heck. I guess it is mostly that and it is causing people to get on my nerves too and I hate this feeling. It's like a bad case of PMS.

Least I was able to get something out. However I think what I really need is a vacation and a new job (or to win the lottery but then I rarely play so chances really are not in my favor LOL).

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Weight 275.5

No news on the biopsy so that is good news cause they were only going to contact me if there was a problem. This put me in a good mood because not only was it not cancer, I also got the thing removed off my nose. I know longer look like I have a nasty pimple all the time. It is healing up well and as far I can tell there will not even be a scar. I go see my regular doctor tomorrow. I was suppose to seen her last week but I got my appointment day screwed up in my head and missed it. *sigh* Feel like I am getting old some days.

Along with feeling tired today the first part of the morning was pretty rough trying to get all the stuff done that I needed to get done. However I am feeling better now and it stopped being such a sucky Monday....hopefully stuff will stay nice now.

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Weight 271

Anyway on to better things...I did manage to go for a hike yesterday. We made it around the lake in a hour 5 minutes. Not as good as my 55 minute time that I had been able to do when I was at the lower weight but much better than what I was doing after the slip and gain. That is chopping off 15 minutes on it. I was pleased but quiet beat LOL. The actual time gave for this hike is 90 minutes so it's a good time. Also another milestone...I am fiting into the stretch jeans I got for work comfortably (they are brown and beige colored so okay for the dress code.) I had been fiting in them but I wasn't comfortable and it caused the disks in my lower back to flair up. I am very happy with being able to get into them and wear them. The cool thing about them compared to my dress slacks is that I can wear my tennis shoes with them. So if I want to head out for a midday walk no problem. Plus I am thinking I can wear these to work out with and then go home and change into something afterwords. Will have to see about that last part. Would make doing curves sooooooo much easier.

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Weight 273.5

Today I need to get some walking in. I got walking in yesterday but was just strolling. Friday I got in 45 minutes pushing the law mower. Mine is not self propelled...so it was a pretty good work out.

I hope everyone else is having a wonderful weekend and will have a great holiday.

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Weight 275

That is the weigh in from Sunday. I am not worried about it cause I think it is all bloating. I have been on point and worked out most days. I have missed the last two due to raining constantly but I did do some shopping (that had me walking around the grocery store for a bit) and some house work and laundry. So I have not been sitting on my butt the whole time. Plus Saturday I worked out at Curves, went for a walk midday and then tried to do a third one that turned into a 15 minute sprint trying to get back in cause it started to rain LOL. I do need to walk today and hopefully the weather will work with me on this.

I didn't get enough sleep last night. I will have to try and get into bed early tonight to make up for it. The sleep thing is one I have a problem with a lot as there are just not enough hours in the day to do everything that needs done.

The weather is looking like more and more rain but least it looks like it might lighten up soon and hopefully just be occasional showers. I prefer it to rain at night...it makes for good sleeping and doesnt stop me from doing what I want to do in the day.

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Weight 274

Ah much better....a 2 pound drop this week. We have been walking most days and the ones where we miss we make up for it with a long walk the next day. Food has been good as far as being on points. I had points to have ice cream as a treat last night...I mean a rich "treat" kind. I do want to start working on trying to do more healthy foods all the time and not just staying on points. Being on plan with the points is good....eating that way and almost all healthy type foods though would be great.

We are gonig to do a hike in here a few so I'll be fixing up water bottles to take so that we stay hydrated. Time to start getting ready for that...find the sunscreen and everything.

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Weight 276

Wow what a week. I got my bood work done Thursday. I passed out after they got the blood drawn....least I was able to give them warning and tell them I wasn't feeling so good. I am so curious to see what my blood sugar was because even though I get yucky feeling when they draw blood, too much poking cause my viens don't like to play along nicely, I haven't passed out before.

I have stayed on plan with my eating and exercising, though I did miss Friday...however I made up for it yesterday and today. Yesterday was a 2 hour hike to the radio towers on the mountain. Talk about a workout giving a good butt kick....I was drained but it was in a good way. Then today we went for a hike around the dam and made it just in time to miss the down pour that hit just as we got in the car. We then got another walk in this evening. For a total of 85 mintues.

We went shopping and got some food stuff to make it healthy through the weekend. I didn't get much to cook right now as I need to go over a few recipes and I figure I can make some stops on the way home.

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Weight 276.5

I am very happy about my weight going down like it is. It's been so long since I have been in this place where I feel in control and actually loosing some weight. I missed being this person that I am now. I also missed being active.

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Weight 279.0

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281.5

I have been having the weird feeling in my chest again starting yesterday. The last time it happened it lasted for almost 3 weeks. I sure hope this is not going to go on that long again. I also have the feeling that when it is happening it is making me more runned down. I am going to talk to my doctor about it when I to my appointment on the 30th.

I have to start doing better....I have to start working up to where I have some energy. As a step forward I got a grill chicken salad for lunch. For some reason they gave me both grilled and crsipy...plus an extra dressing. I couldn't find any one that wanted the crispy so I put it in the fridge for now. I could have ate it with what I have but that would be way too much food and defeating what I was trying to do.

I seem to be having a motivation issue. It's not that I don't want to loose weight, cause I really do want to but it's more like how tried, bad and ran down I feel over powers that desire and kills my motivation. I think we have all been there at one point or another. I just need to find a way to climb out of this pit.

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Weight 281.0

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Well my lack of sleep for the last few days finally got to me yesterday and I slept from 7pm to 6am this morning. I feel like a new person. The problem with getting enough sleep was not as much in what time I went to bed but that once I was there I couldn't sleep or I was constantly waking up. I know the biggest part was the change in weather...we had a few warms days. Found out quickly that when the worked on the heat pump a month ago that they did something that broke the A/C....it blows hot air now. Yesterday was much cooler temps and I got a great nights sleep. Now I have to get the heat pumped checked out again.

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Weight 280.5

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