Never Say DI…see? I almost said it!

  I can prove I was once skinny… lol.    see?  not the lady in the picture (that’s my mother)  the baby.

     I wasssss skinny.  Besides.  I’m not looking for skinny, I’m looking for fit.  buff.  shapely.  niiiiiiceee.

  I’m 20 pounds away from that goal.  20 freaking pounds.  and that is what I got. you see.  from trying to prove that you can have your cheeseburgers and coke and also…shhh….diet.

Yes, I did work out all those times I said I did.  I worked out and ran, and lifted weights, and yes, some of this weight is muscle weight.  But I lost close to 15 pounds in 8 months.  

 So I carry weight well, but i have stopped going to the gym and now flab is once again starting to take over…just a little. 

 but I don’t want it to take over a lot.  I am not giving in… EVER.   I got so many warm fuzzies when people at work were saying,  “you’re losing weight aren’t you?”  

 ”why yes, thanks for noticing.”  because if you are a woman, you know.  It’s especially hard to work off those thighs and that gut.  We deal with stress. 

Stress helps us keep it all on baybeeee. 

 we deal with a monthly craving, that makes us crave salt, sugar AND grease, all at the same time.  And like a junkie, we must have this, or else we will be even more bitchy than we are once a month!

   

  and then, when I skipped the gym for almost a month!  gah!!  can anyone say, “square one?” 

So, went for a 3 mile evening walk this evening.  Doug invited me.  The weather was fallish and dry and the leaves we plowed through like children,  at least the ones on the sidewalk.

  When returning, I made a list of foods I like, and thanks to Jean over at jeanhasbeenshopping,

I discovered I love the new 100 calorie yogurt parfaits from yoplait. 

 They went on my list after grocery shopping today.  I got caramel and lemon. 

  I also got gordon’s fish filets (which are delicious)

 also in tilapia and butter/garlic fish.

 and uncle bens 90 minute rice. my favorite is the santa fe, flavor.  the best flavor of all of them.

but both are  void of fat and big on taste. 

 fruits and skim milk string cheese are high on my list of snacks. 

 snickers marathon meal bars at 290 calories are good meal replacement bars with a low glycemic index.  Well what is a low glycemic index you say?  it’s a low natural sugar count in foods. 

 and if you need this particular element to your diet—especially if you are a sweet tooth, dieting will suck.  It seems everything has tons of sugar in it these days.

  well, 20 pounds.  that’s my goal. 20 pounds. or even a tad more if i can get away with it.  gym attendance daily.  stress management.  owning my self.

 owning this victory over daily battles with “HIM”  that is what’s important to me. 

    Okay, that and cheeseburgers.  But i’m gonna have to forget that for awhile.  A long while.

better early than when it’s supposed to be? better late than never…

  

    So what’s thanksgiving?  In some stores, you wouldn’t even know.  They go straight from Halloween to Christmas.  lol.  What do you think about that? 

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One Spooky night… 

   A radio DJ was bored.  So he opened up the lines to anyone with a good scary ghost story. 

 The very first call lit up his switchboard and the DJ put him on the air. 

 ”Do you have a good scary ghost story to tell us?”  the DJ asked, “Go ahead” 

 ”Well,” the caller started, “  It was a still and moonless night on Halloween, and four of my friends and I were camping somewhere we never should have been…” 

 ”Go on”  the DJ said.

  ” all of a sudden, the wind whistled and blew the flames of our campfire terribly, as we all put our pieces of bread on long sticks.

  Soon,  the bread was golden brown on one side…

then,  We TURNED IT OVER!! 

 it didn’t take long before the other side was done.”

  “Excuse me” the DJ interrupted the caller, “But I don’t see how that is the least bit scary!  I asked  people to call in if they had a scary ghost story!” 

  “OH!”  the caller said, 

 ” I thought you said TOAST stories!”