tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29156795510624259702024-02-19T17:45:04.810-08:00Saying Goodbye to the Fat LaneReady. Set. Go.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095164293844694622noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2915679551062425970.post-80364674536575635882015-01-25T09:15:00.000-08:002015-01-25T09:16:09.221-08:00Weight Loss Journal--Reality Check<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Weight Loss Journal--Reality Check<br />
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Before I can move forward, I face up to a few hard truths. Sometimes not gaining back the weight you have already lost is a win. Sometimes you have to address the underlying reasons for weight gain before you can lose weight.<br />
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A new normal. We talk a lot about things getting back to normal, meaning that we want thing to go back to the way they were before___________. Everyone has to fill in their own blank because we aren't all rooted out of our normal bed by the same thing. But for argument's sake, I'll list of few of the things that create chaos in our lives.<br />
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<li>divorce</li>
<li>holidays</li>
<li>visiting family or friends</li>
<li>a visit from your family or friends</li>
<li>death of a friend or loved one</li>
<li>catastrophic event (fire, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, tsunami, etc)</li>
<li>car wreck</li>
<li>broken limb</li>
<li>being diagnosed with a health condition or disease</li>
<li>pregnancy</li>
<li>moving</li>
<li>public embarrassment</li>
<li>failed diet</li>
<li>losing weight</li>
<li>birth of a baby</li>
<li>marriage</li>
<li>living with a new roommate</li>
<li>winning the lottery (don't we wish)</li>
<li>becoming a grandparent, for the first or the twenty-first time</li>
<li>having the best barbecued ribs that you have ever tasted</li>
<li>graduation--from high school, college, or trade school</li>
<li>starting a new job</li>
<li>being fired from an old job</li>
<li>retiring</li>
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I am sure that there are other events that could be added to the list. But that's not the point. The point is, when you experience the event--i e go home for the holidays and face your family who drives you crazy--going home doesn't take you back to where you were when you left for the visit. No, whether you realize it at moment or not, going home or "back to normal" means that you have create a new normal. It may look and feel somewhat like the old normal, but it is not nor will it ever be. Which is not such a bad thing, if you really think about it. Redefining our normal is what helps us (humans) to to evolve. Each tiny change adds a new fact to our normal self and gives us a chance to change the trajectory of our future. <br />
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I guess that is a long-winded way to say, if you don't like where you are, then get out and experience life and make yourself a new normal. It seems that it would be beneficial to apply yourself to the positive ones that you (in theory) can control, pray that the ones that not in your control don't swamp your boat, and you don't get more than your fair share of the negatives.<br />
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As if 1-13-15 new normal is living with a fatty liver, morbid obesity, moderate rheumatoid arthritis, regular old getting old arthritis, fibromyalgia, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, sever Vitamin D deficiency, and being 59 instead of 58. All of these conditions (except for the morbid obesity) were diagnosed with the last ten month! Even though I may have lived with them for years, not knowing about them created a normal in which I believed I had no major health problems except for my weight.<br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">No matter how much I would like for my life to get back to normal, it is never going to happen. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095164293844694622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2915679551062425970.post-68770889111381853242014-06-18T18:46:00.001-07:002014-06-18T18:47:26.063-07:00Summer Blues!June 18, 2014<br />
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Summer is always a joyous time and a bummer at the same time. I am glad to be home after the frantic last few months of school, but the absence of a daily schedule sends my body into a tailspin. For the first four weeks or so, I search out projects that we haven't had time to do, like clean and reorganized closets, paint the bathroom, redo the molding on the doorways, add a new electrical outlet, and...well you get the idea. My poor hubby suffers through it all, knowing that eventually I will run down and my summer "I don't care if I get up before noon" attitude will kick in. Then my body clock will get so messed up that I will dread the new school year because it will mean that I have to get up before noon and be productive. Here are just a few to the project that I have scheduled for the next few weeks:<br />
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1. Turn the junky third bedroom, although that is really a generous description of that little overgrown closet room", into an office.<br />
2. Find a good used bathtub and change it out for the rather odd colored blue one that we now have.<br />
3. Tile the tub surround.<br />
4. Paint the door trim through out the house.<br />
5. Add three new electrical plugs.<br />
6. Plant three flower beds.<br />
7. Clean out and enlarge two of our closets.<br />
8. Haul away all the junk that we seem to attract like we have a magnetic junk force or something.<br />
9. Oh, and spend as much time with my grandson as possible.<br />
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We'll see how many of them I get done, or should I say, Doyle gets done. He could always buy me a new house, if he'd rather. But then we'd have to move and well, I'd rather complete the above list than move any day.<br />
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How does this affect my weight-loss goals? Well...when I am working, I want something quick, filling, and good. Something that I don't have to fix or clean up after. Sometimes that means I make good choices, like Subway, and sometimes it means that I grab What-A-Burger. However, after the project mania runs its course, then I want to cook all the time. Then I do a better job of staying focused on eating good nutritious food. I am collecting soup recipes to try out. I have a few faves from last summer, and I hope to add a few more this summer. <br />
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So to all of you out there who have a list of things that need to be done if you are ever going to be happy, I wish you luck.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095164293844694622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2915679551062425970.post-30032209278424352522014-06-11T15:23:00.005-07:002014-06-12T16:20:20.891-07:00Run and Sweat to Death Is More Like It.June 11, 2014<br />
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Did we enjoy the event? Enjoy might be too strong a word. We had to get up at 7:00 in the morning to sign up. I can truthfully say that I never enjoy getting up a 7:00 am on a Saturday.<br />
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Doyle was very supportive, bless his heart, he was there with us the whole time. He took pictures, bought us sunglasses, kept us company while we were waiting for the 5K to officially begin. Then he stood around for an hour waiting for us to finish. Here are a few of the pictures of the pre-race activities.<br />
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It was interesting, but I don't know that I would call it fun. The best part was that the sky was dark and stormy, which blocked the sun and kept us from burning to a crisp. Happily, tThe rain held off until we were finished, otherwise we would have been extremely uncomfortable, cool, but soggy.<br />
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When it was all over, I got the feeling that Donna might balk at finding another 5K, but yesterday she looking for another marathon for us to enter. It goes without saying that it will be one that focuses on the FUN rather than winning. Turtles never caring about winning, just finishing.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095164293844694622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2915679551062425970.post-83997029562908399772014-04-25T23:35:00.000-07:002014-06-11T15:24:26.622-07:00Run or Die...oh, Dye...now I Get It!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSV4GYmUMUX3BeIKKB4_T9f0OkdUsOLcnUaMi5pd_zEBzgFTO1XQY2O7Lc9EKxAastYhBizUBLZk-WsSDzI641mOOa1ZQPROsAEowRTvflatktkbGELj-tP1bs2cSn-a0INAQJt8Cis0/s1600/splat+pink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUSV4GYmUMUX3BeIKKB4_T9f0OkdUsOLcnUaMi5pd_zEBzgFTO1XQY2O7Lc9EKxAastYhBizUBLZk-WsSDzI641mOOa1ZQPROsAEowRTvflatktkbGELj-tP1bs2cSn-a0INAQJt8Cis0/s1600/splat+pink.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg76fWtU8880Vn8564_1RVLEdW1Hy0H0RTW1Btkn5ORPa66Qd8QAXdGucZ1NupRSrBcuT-Y7I39ZgN0JNO4wAPvKSp9sn9ZPI2C7eqJCF9QSqDWH6gKsiF8AC3eamvgjv02ECUNcX_P5JM/s1600/splat+blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg76fWtU8880Vn8564_1RVLEdW1Hy0H0RTW1Btkn5ORPa66Qd8QAXdGucZ1NupRSrBcuT-Y7I39ZgN0JNO4wAPvKSp9sn9ZPI2C7eqJCF9QSqDWH6gKsiF8AC3eamvgjv02ECUNcX_P5JM/s1600/splat+blue.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 25, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well...okay, I know it has been a day or two since I posted, not that it matters much, but life often interferes with my plans. Donna and I have been working on getting our 5K distance down. We have a schedule and so far we have followed it without a lot of problems. Luckily, when I am not in the mood to walk, she drags me out anyway, and I do the same for her. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Walking is one of those things I have always enjoyed. It requires little cash investment to get started. A good pair of walking shoes is pretty much all you need. However, finding a place to walk is sometimes problematic. I tend to like to do my walking late in the evening, so I need a place that is safe to walk after dark. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This would be more of a problem if we lived in a large city, but we don't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How close are we to having the distance under our belt? I more quarter mile lap is all we need. Once we can walk the full 5K distance, then we will work on shaving off minutes, or seconds, until we are able to meet our goal of 40 minutes. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That may seem like a turtle pace to you, but we are comfortable being the tortoises in this analogy. The tortoise finishes the race, and that is really all we want. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When we decided on our next 5K, our goal is to reduce our time for the Run or Dye race. Eventually, we hope to have our time down to a more respectable pace. Or not. Depends on how we feel once we complete the Run or Dye. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I am pretty sure that this race is more about getting splattered with color than it is about actually making good time. </span><span style="font-size: large;">We'll see. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Regardless, we are walking, spending time together in which we solve all the world's problems, and gradually building our endurance. Can't see how we can lose.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095164293844694622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2915679551062425970.post-26082314729995081452014-03-29T14:45:00.001-07:002014-03-29T15:56:49.822-07:00Giving Up...Fried Foods<div style="border-image: none;">
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If given the choice, Doyle always choses fried...anything. But last night, he told me that <span style="font-size: large;">he</span> thinks that he needs to give up fried foods. Hallelujah! I have been trying to get him to this point for years. I don't expect miracles. I know that he will still crave the salty goodness of fried potatoes, okra, chicken, shrimp, catfish, steak fingers, and don't even get me started on the sweet things like doughnuts, funnel cakes...do I really need to go on? </div>
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However, our journey is about taking things one step at a time. At the risk of sounding like an AA wanna be, admitting you have a problem is the first step. Maybe the most important step, or maybe just a necessary step that we have to repeat until we are able to move forward, like a waltz, one step forward, two steps back. Anyway, hearing Doyle say, </div>
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"Karen, I think I need to stop eating fried food because it makes my heart beat me to death." </div>
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was music to my ears (the Hallelujah chorus to be exact). Doyle may not listen to me, but he does listen to his heart. Since this is about Doyle's health not me, I can live with that. Even better, he can too. Does this mean that we have to give up McDonalds? Not at all. McDonald's has made life much easier for us because they posted the calorie count of all their menu items. There are several things that we can choose from that allow us a treat without guilt. One of our favs is the parfait. It's not quite the same as French fries, but it's a choice we can live with. </div>
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Last summer, when we were sketching out our diet plan, the next hurdle that we had to face was coffee. Doyle and I like to start our day with a cup of coffee. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">I grew up eating red beans, fried potatoes <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">(</span>fried in bacon grease or lard<span style="color: black;">)</span><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>YIKES!!!!</strong></span><span style="color: black;">,</span></span> and homemade biscuits. Store bought bread was a treat saved for Sundays, as it was too expensive to eat everyday. We didn't eat a lot of meat, but every meal, well, except breakfast which was oatmeal, included red beans. There is a lot of press on how beans are healthy, full of fiber, low calorie, and low fat these days. However as a child we ate them because they were cheap. My parents had 7 children and a rather small grocery budget. We didn't know what leftovers were because nothing was ever left over at our house. We had never seen a McDonalds--all the Mickey Dee's were in large cities in those days. My dad would rather go home and eat cold biscuits and sweet milk than go out to eat in any restaurant. Since Dad wore the pants in the family, ruled the roost, laid down the law, oh you get what I am saying, we ate at home every meal. Oddly enough, despite the bacon grease that was liberally used to season our food, no one in our family suffered from childhood obesity, we were skinny little kids. I am sure that a methane gas cloud hung over our house, but we lived out in the country so neighbors didn't need to call in the hazmat team to neutralize the risk.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Red beans are still cheap</span>. Even better, they are delicious and <span style="font-size: large;">as it turns out</span>, really, really good for you. I still eat them on occasion, but rarely ever eat fried potatoes any more. Now, as adults, my family has discovered not just McDonalds, but Burger King, Taco Bell, Jack-N-the-Box, What-A-Burger, and on and on--the list of fast food chain restaurants gets longer everyday. Now, we are obese--morbidly so according to the doctor. Maybe Dad knew what he was talking about when he said, "The food they serve in those restaurants will kill you." He wasn't speaking of any particular restaurant, just lumping them all together in one large out to kill group. Unfortunately, he never bought the idea that cigarettes were harmful to your health. In 1998, he passed away due to complications brought on by years of cigarette smoking.<br />
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Donna makes really awesome red beans, maybe I'll suggest that she cook us some beans for dinner tomorrow. Without the fried potatoes and biscuits, can't go down that road, but the beans and some zucchini cornbread muffins,<span style="font-size: large;"> I could dig it.</span><br />
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I have had this very conversation with more than one waitress over the years. Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi are not interchangeable. Why would any sane person think that they are?</div>
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But I no longer need to carry my Monopoly money with me because I don't have to deal with this particular issue any more.<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I gave up diet cokes</span>.</span> Not for Lent, as I am not catholic. I gave them up for good. </div>
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Whether or not we should give up diet coke is a question that we, my family and I, have wrestled with for many years. <span style="font-size: large;"> It is really crazy this hold that diet coke has over us. </span>When we first began drinking diet coke, we had to force ourselves to drink the diet version of coke rather than regular coke. That was many years ago. In the years since we made the switch from regular coke to diet, I can honestly say that there were days that I guzzled diet coke like it was the elixir of life. </div>
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Back to the point, <span style="font-size: large;">this is not the first time we have quit drinking diet soda</span>. We have on more than one occasion declared that we wouldn't drink diet soda. Sometimes this would last for up to six months before we caved and went back to our nasty little 64 ounce or more a day habit. That is one or more Route 44s from Sonic, in case your wondering. In the past, we lived in a day by day world. We had to make the decision to not get diet soda every time we stopped to get something to drink. The question was always do you want a diet coke or...? <span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>Not surprisingly we ended up drinking diet coke nearly every time and eventually quit pretending we were not drinking it.</strong></span><br />
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On this occasion, with Donna's health giving us a wake up call, we made an important attitude change. If we weren't going to drink diet coke, if that was our decision, then what in the world would we drink?<br />
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Well...water, okay, we should have been drinking that anyway. And...juice, this was before we were worried about calories, and juice is healthy if you don't overdo it. And...oh yeah, tea. Wow, before I became a diet coke junkie, tea is what I drank. Unsweetened tea as a matter of fact, with the occasional coke thrown in. </blockquote>
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Despite the fact that Doyle brings home the occasionally diet Dr. Pepper, we have stuck with it, and <span style="font-size: large;">I am really hoping that Diet Coke is not the elixir of life after all</span>. But if it is we do still have a Sonic nearby.</div>
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You laugh. Okay, maybe you didn't laugh, but I did. For me there is a ton truth in this little ecard. I needed the laugh, and the not so subtle reminder, because it is a rainy, dreary day in our fair city. <br />
Which leaves me sitting here reflecting back and committing to paper (metaphorically speaking) the first steps of our journey, while the rain pounds on the roof. My son, who doesn't live close enough for me to drag him into this new life style, has been mostly encouraging, except for one small area, where he thinks he knows best. Well, he doesn't live close enough, and he has a wife to keep him on track. Anyway, I digress.<br />
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I remember, <strong><span style="color: #674ea7;">like it was yesterday</span></strong> my students would add because I have taught them the value of inserting their voice into their writing--if their voice sounds a little like my voice, it can't be helped.<br />
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However, I do remember this conversation because it involved some eye rolling, I won't say whose eyes were rolling. When I finally shared with my son <span style="font-size: xx-small;">the whole liquid diet philosophy</span> we had adopted he said, "Don't eat canned soup, Mom. Homemade soup is a hundred times better. You can make soup out of anything. Some chicken a few vegetables, and Waa la, soup! (He is a southern boy, not a French dude)."<img alt="" class="sk-O-x" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ5am6i8b0fHiEW5P0YOoJUZkfrl2jRyNcsn6j4r7vzqGNWhpeteCaAyJl_H2JM5-2ArwlTfdQC_RlJeshagUNKhDESUdpGwXBLdaFSRB6nKH0yi71py1WM88Igv9xeFGnbe3rIwbHcgI/h120/Braden+fall+and+spring+2013+and+2014+341.JPG" style="height: 120px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 160px;" /> And he can be a bit of a turkey when he wants to be.</blockquote>
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Well, yes. I agree. Homemade soup is better, <span style="font-size: large;">but...</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">and this is a big but <span style="font-size: small;">(no snickering, please),</span> so listen up</span>...canned soup comes with the serving sizes and the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>calorie count clearly marked</strong></span> on the can. Thank you very much truth in advertising or labeling or whatever governmental consumer advocate group that requires this of food manufacturers these days. This one little piece of information has made my life so much easier.<br />
I did mention earlier that I have summers off, and I probably have already mentioned that I love to research things on the internet. So after talking with my son I got busy and looked up some low calorie soup recipes. Of course this meant another trip to good old Wal-Mart and more careful product label reading BECAUSE I simply could not let that statement go by without proving that <span style="font-size: large;">Mother knows best</span>. This time my hubby and I were checking out plastic storage wear. I knew if the whole make your own soup thing had any chance of succeeding, then I would have to divide said pot of soup into serving sizes immediately. It doesn't take long to eat up 1200 calories.<br />
We found that a pot of soup could be divided into 3 one quart containers of approximately 350 calories worth of soup--like the three bears--one for papa, one for mama, and one for daughter. I calculated the calorie count per serving, and we were able to portion the soup out over several meals.<br />
It worked like a charm UNTIL I went back to work in August. Since I don't cook during the school year, at least not very often, we gravitated back to the Progresso, and you know what, it is just easier. Not as tasty. I did find a chicken chili recipe that is lower cal and to die for, however it is fairly labor intensive. So, most nights I just reach for a can of soup--Lite Cheesy Chicken Enchilada is pretty delicious when I am not in the mood to slice and dice. Just putting out there, Mother does know best.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04095164293844694622noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2915679551062425970.post-87692818118339579972014-03-14T21:04:00.002-07:002014-03-16T01:03:23.211-07:00Is it a chip? Is it a cookie? No, it's V-8 to the rescue.<div style="border-image: none; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
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Pictures. I really have a tough time posting any picture of me. Notice that in one of these I am in a tunnel. But these picture document a personal victory for me. The jeans that I am wearing, I couldn't wear last May. They were too tight. So while I not happy with my hubby for shooting the pics, it is great to know that 5 more pounds and I won't be able to wear this jeans without a belt to hold them up.</div>
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Creating this blog has forced me to go back and rethink exactly what we did when we started our journey. Step by step we created a plan that worked for us. There was a little trial and error, but once we finally made up our mind to change, we were able to stick with it. It was the making up our collective mind that was difficult. That took fifteen years to happen.</div>
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In our effort to keep it real for us, we have been reassessing the changes we have made in our eating patterns, and going back to the things we did at the very beginning that worked so well. </div>
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The result...I think I need a drumroll here...we have all had a significant drop in weight. We are talking pounds, not ounces, and it has been a few weeks, okay more like a month, since that has happened consistently for any of us. So woo hoo! </div>
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Okay, I hear you grumbling out there. If I can have 3 shakes and 5-6 bowls of crackerless soup, why do I need a snack? <span style="font-size: large;">I don't know, but there is a snack monster deep inside me that says, "I need snacks!" and says it quite ferociously at times. I either head him off at the pass by having snacks on hand, or I fall in to the trap of going to the store to buy snacks and end up in trouble. </span> I do not make good choices when I am hungry. Let me repeat that because I believe it bears repeating, I DO NOT MAKE GOOD CHOICES WHEN I AM HUNGRY.</div>
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My favorite is still the spicy V-8,but my daughter and husband like the fusion drinks. A single serving can of the tomato, spicy, regular, or low salt, is 30 calories. That's it. 30 calories. The fusion drinks have 50 calories for a single serving. Can't beat that with a stick. Late at night, when the munchies attacked, it was V-8 to the rescue.</div>
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It is kind of cool how things you have known about and enjoyed for ages, until you got out of the habit of buying them, help you get your life back on track. Sort of feels like coming home.</div>
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The difference is that I am not feeling like I have cheated. I don't feel like I have sabotaged my diet. I am not worried about being able to get back on my diet tomorrow. I am allowed 1200 calories a day, no matter what form they take.<span style="font-size: large;"> Do I make choices like this everyday? </span>No. Pizza is not a healthy choice. I am aware of this and am trying to make much healthier choices, but it nice to know that even when I don't, I have a built in safety switch. 1200 calories a day. If I blow all my calories on one meal, then I find negative calorie foods to eat for the rest of the day, like celery. Negative calorie foods take more energy to digest than they have in them. While there are quite a few negative calorie foods, I find celery to be the easiest to keep cleaned and ready. If I don't have to prep it when I am looking for a snack, I am more likely to reach for it when I go to the refrigerator.</div>
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When we first began this diet, back in July, I came across another diet-saving product--<strong>Biggest Loser Celery Sticks. </strong> At about $2 a bag if was perfect. Buying celery by the bunch is cheaper, and I buy bunches when I have time to prep them, but having a bag of precut celery in my refrigerator ready to grab and munch makes it easy for me to make better choices. And hey, the celery is way cheaper than the chips that I used to snack on.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every journey begins with a single step. This journey is no different. Our determination to turn our life around and to become something more than morbidly obese was inspired by Braden. His birth has transformed our life, and we want to be around for a long time to share his journey with him. For us the first step was understanding that we could no longer ignore that we were eating ourselves into an early grave. This blog isn't to inspire others, although if it does, that is okay. This site is to keep us on track and to force us to keep moving forward, even if it is only one tiny baby step at a time.</span><br />
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