IT HAS ARRIVED!

My Food Lovers Diet System arrived today! YAY! Like anyone receiving a wonderful gift I hurried to open the box to see what exciting things were inside. I quickly took everything out and scattered them on my livingroom floor. A single DVD instructing me to "watch now" caught my attention so I placed it in my DVD player and begun watching. This gave an overview of the program and how to assemble my book. I am now ready to begin my weight-loss journey. But first I must do a lot of reading of this material to make sure I do it correctly and that I understand the science behind it. There are many recipes to follow which I am thankful for.

I have not informed my husband of this, yet. I want to see if he notices that I have lost some weight when he returns from his over the road job. Since he doesn't come home everyday I am certain he will notice! Tonight I will read the materials, Friday I will do the shopping and cooking of any meals that can be prepared in advance and on Saturday I will begin. My husband is due home soon, I think. I hope I can pull this off without too much suspicion.

Why don't I tell him??? Because I have tried other programs in the past that I give up on. I don't want him to think I will give up on this one and have him be disappointed in me. I know they say having a good support system in place when dieting is good but everytime I tell someone I am dieting, I fail. So I figure if I don't tell anyone that I am doing this plan, perhaps I will succeed! And once I am really on my way with the plan I will let them in on it. Also, in the past, if I eat something that may not look like it is part of a diet plan I get the comments "that's not on your plan, is it?" So, to avoid all that I have decided not to say anything to anyone and if they ask me what I am doing to lose the weight I will just say, "eating healthier." Sounds selfish, doesn't it? I call it "self preservation."

A New Outlook

Ok....today is Wednesday, March 23, 2011. I decided that it is time for me to get healthy. I am tired of being fat. I look at myself in the mirror and don't even recognize me anymore. I know I am older but good golly do I need to look like this??? So....I have been researching diet programs and decided to order the Food Lovers Plan. It is suppose to balance the fast and slow carbs and proteins. I thought Michael Thurmans' program did that but it was so much work to figure out what goes with what and how. So in researching this plan it appears to have it all layed out for you. I will give it a try. I will make this work. I have the time to plan and exercise. I just have to do it. One foot in front of the other they say. Baby steps. One day at a time. Breathe in and breathe out. I can do this.

Japan Earthquake

Its been 4 days now since the horrific 8.9 - 9.0 mag earthquake hit Japan. I watched from my easy chair the devastation taking place. The sunami that hit the coastline tossed cars and trucks as if they were toys and the buildings that were in its path destroyed like matchsticks. I can't imagine what those people are going through. As of today the reports state thousands have lost their lives; most, swept out to sea. Bodies are now starting to wash upon the shore. The nuclear power plant is about to have a meltdown. Japan....you are in my prayers.

Monday Blues

This morning I said good-bye to my husband as he leaves to hit the road in the truck. He'll be gone for a while. Not sure when he'll be back. It was nice having him home for a day. I don't know how the military wives do it. Not seeing their spouse or loved ones for months at a time. It makes me sad that he is gone for probably weeks if not months this time.

I just watched a video on You-Tube of the 911 attack. I sat here and wept. At times uncontrollably. Seeing those towers fall and watching those people just throw themselves out of the windows because hitting the pavement below would be better than burning alive brought back all those emotions as if it were yesterday. How soon people forget that this was an act of terrorism on our land. On our home. The home of the FREE and the BRAVE. Every one of those firefighters, policeman and women, and good Samaritans that lost their lives on that fateful day are true heroes. And all of us looked on in disbelief and horror as Muslim extremists attacked our country.

May God be with our brave soldiers abroad and let us all pray for them to be brought home safely.

Cats & Dogs

This is Toby. He is a cool cat! He adopted us when we first moved to Columbus in 2000. He was a chubby boy there for a while but as he has aged he developed hypertyroidism which puts his metabolism in high gear and he has become very thin. Hmmmm....why couldn't that happen to me? Anyway, he wakes me up every morning by putting his paw on my eyelid and then gives me sweet licks on the forehead. He has lost some teeth which has given him a real bad case of bad breath. He is always ready to claim my lap whenever the opportunity arises. He was on the last truck with us and he was a trooper! He just hung out and took everything in stride. Such a cool cat!


This is Cocoa. My pooch. She is the best! Sweet and loving. Always follows me wherever I go. We adopted her 5 years ago or so from the Humane Society. We know nothing of her past or what breed she is. It really doesn't matter...we're just so happy she is with us. She traveled with us on both trucks and absolutely hated the last one. Too rough and loud for her pampered taste. If she can find a spot in the sun, she will lie there for hours. She loves to go for car rides every chance she gets, which is nearly everytime I leave the house. She traveled with me when I was a courier and loves hanging her head out the window to get a whiff of whatever is in the air. She is truly my second best friend (my husband is my first!).

Bio-rythems

3:12 am.

Hello world! Can't sleep. I think my bio-rythems are all out of wack. Too much on my mind me-thinks. The financial and economic world we live in today is becoming very stressful. The news reports that our "unemployment" numbers are on the decrease....ARE THEY KIDDING? How many people have stopped looking for work because after they have been layed-off from a company they have been with for a number of years find themselves in competition with the "young and perky" 20 somethings? Don't get me wrong; they need jobs too. Don't these companies realize that us mature, hard-working individuals have a wealth of experience to give? And the income they are offering these days is the same I was making in the early 80's!

Since the trucking jobs were hard on my back I find myself again without employment. So I am again asking the same questions as when I was layed-off in 2008. What now?

Today, March 3rd...my daughter's birthday

Hello, I'm back again. Today is March 3rd, my middle daughter's birthday. She is 35 years old. Where did the time go? I look at the clock and I am taken back to the day of her birth. My back was just killing me! I didn't have the normal labor pains but knew it was time. She was delivered naturally as all my girls were. What was I thinking? They had epidurals back then! I looked at that 9 pound bundle of joy and was in love just as I was when my oldest was born. It seems like yesterday I was a young mother; never realizing today would come so quickly and the world we live in would be so different.

I look in the mirror and see what once was a some-what attractive woman aging quickly. A woman in her mid-50's getting wider in the middle, saggier in the neckline and I find a new wrinkle every day it seems. So I guess I'm on track! I have a 35 year old daughter.