1/25/2012 212.0

• 1/25/2013 212.0
• Water: Not as good as I should have done
• Exercise: none yesterday, today 5 minutes on Eliptical
• Down to 2 diet cokes
• Breakfast: Green Drink
• Lunch: about 10 little tootsie rolls and left over pork chop
• Dinner - Taco soup
• Snack - 2 oranges
• Emotions: Better, still on edge
• Misc. - 
• Too busy to think about anything, just flew through day.

I did not post yesterday, was up to 213 and was very busy. Feeling better today.

It is very important to me to be "real" here. That means telling the truth even when I hate it. I really want to let others know you are NOT alone! So many struggle with weight issues and other issues. Mine are many. Yet we function. We accomplish, we survive. And we raise good families and help other people. 

Hmmm. Take your own advice.

OK Lani, here it is. You are not perfect, not even close. You could list your faults by the hundreds, that is not productive. So start listing your good points.

I think first, I care about other people. They are important to me. More important than I am. I make it a goal to do "something" good for someone as often as I can in a day. Sometimes, in fact the majority of the time, it is simply saying the nice thought I just had about them out loud to them!

I know how I feel when someone says something nice about me. First shock, then denial. Then appreciation. It makes a difference to me, so I hope it makes a difference to others.

I am truly blessed with an incredible husband. (OK guys, here is the deal. Ron is not perfect. If I concentrate on his "Faults", very soon that is all I see. So I really concentrate and talk about all the good things about him. Then those things grow and we are all happy. So no, he is not a perfect person. Take a look at your own spouse like this and you might be very pleased.) 

Water weight

OK, just read and breath.

Yesterday the scale said 218. Can't remember, but that was either just the same or down a half. Monday I pretty much just flew through the day. But ate a big omelet for lunch and had a big dinner.

This morning it said 212. Way too much way too fast. Unless you get water weight. All the traveling I did, the Disney trip then the 5 hr drive on Sunday to get Zena, my ankles were Cankles (Calf to Ankle, one size) and my fingers were swollen.

Tells me two things: Too little movement and too much salt.

Today my ankles are back to normal as are my fingers. There may have been a pound of real weight loss in there, but really I don't care.

Going to try a little bit of a new format starting tomorrow. Today I will lay it out and hope I remember tomorrow.

Will do bullet points with the point! Then fill it in. If you are a headlines type of person, just read the first few words of the bullet point! For details, read the rest:

• 1/23/2013 212.0
• Drank a lot of water yesterday, at least met my minimum requirement
• Did not exercise
• Down to 2 diet cokes
• Breakfast Green Drink
• Lunch - left over pork chop
• Dinner - pork chop and cauliflower
• Snack - 2 fresh pears
• Emotions: Cranky - on edge. My family was thrilled.
• Misc. - Hair cut, maybe that was worth a pound
• Too busy to think about anything, just flew through day.

Here we go!

Happy January 21st!

Wow, up and down and up again. After Christmas I had "Blossomed" to 217.5.  Easily (stopped eating crap) dropped to 210. Went on vacation to Disneyland. Ate everything and anything. Came home at a lovely 220. Today I am 218.

Again, I cannot eat that sugar or processed stuff. It sends me right down the binge road! I joined Weight Watchers. Paid the money and that is about it. I need to learn to eat correctly, not crazy. I want to be healthy not sick or dead.

So today is the first day. "Today" is always the first day. Zig Zigglar always said "Failure is an event, not a person." So I am not a failure. In fact, I am a winner because I keep at it.

I realize my all or nothing personality is not a good thing with being a healthy sane person.

So today I got on the elliptical for 5 whole minutes! I realize that even though I hate the idea of exercise, I  always feel better when I am exercising. I also am tempted less to eat stupid stuff when I have put some work into anything. However, the idea of going for very long typically stops me from even starting.

So today was 5 minutes. I will add 1 minute a day.

Keep you posted!