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This is where I am at with taking this weight off. At the end of the first month when I redid all the blood work, my blood sugar had come back into normal range, my blood pressure had dropped from 135-145 over whatever to 110 over 70, where I sat most of my life, my cholesterol had come down 30 points, and I halved my Nexium dose. The health proof is really in the pudding there for lifestyle changes.

I know better then to starve myself, and truthfully, I love food so much that if I did I would never keep it up over my life, so I have 1600 calories a day, and I use them however I see fit. If I exercise I get extra calories to use. Even with NOT using the salt shaker except for on potatoes, eggs, rice and popcorn, I still have a hard time staying under the 2500 mg of sodium a day, especially when we eat out up here. I seem to have no problem staying under on my cholesterol and my fat.

Usually by the end of the day I have calories left, but they are made up of carb and cholesterol calories, so hard to find food items that ONLY contain those components at night that I actually want to eat.

Some things are just not worth using the calories on. On the other hand, no matter how good it is for you, some things are just not worth eating. You might as well take and put bland glue in your mouth. Some of the things I have found for me, are like Healthy Choice Soup. Bazza and I tried some yesterday, Clam Chowder, and it looks like the real soup, but with 45% less sodium (so you know it still has quite a bit in it...) and low in fat etc. We did not know it was possible to put clams, potatoes, cream, celery, carrots and spices together in a soup and have it be that bland. The total blandness is much worse then the individual items ever would be if you made it at home. Just goes to show how much flavor processing food takes out. I could not tell if I had a potato or a clam in my mouth.

My main stays for breakfast tend to be Lite string cheese, mandarins cups, and a low calorie bread peanut butter sandwich.
I have not broken myself of the habit of eating the majority of my calories at dinner time yet.

Biggest lifesavers for me, jello fat free pudding, sugar free popsicles, 100 calorie popcorn, and god damn it why in the world can they not make a sugar free full throttle!!!

I have tried sugar free amp energy drink a couple times, but the carbonation does not last long...

Exercise. Thank god for water is all I can say. SCUBA diving on the yacht and swimming in the pool here. I don't believe you will ever see me on a treadmill, in a spin class, or running. I had to giggle a couple days ago when I went to Sports Authority looking for masks and a snorkel for the pool at the house and I have, oh, about 50 sets on the boat!

Water, always been a water girl. If I am not in it, I am drinking it. Have no problem getting in my 64 oz or so a day of water...Just don't spare the ice!

Other then that, some of you may notice that page styles on this website are going back and forth between the old design and the new one...It is a long process to change them all over and then edit as well, so it is getting there.

Bazza ordered a new mill, lathe and table saw for his workshop. No, I don't know what they are for. But HE is excited...

By the way talking about Water, and further to the entry I posted a couple of days ago on water, my friend Bob put up this blog entry on his boat bits as well on water.

I went to take a picture of the fridge this morning, to show that i can stuff the fridge at home just as good as the one on the boat and when editing I was reminded of something from when I was growing up.

Of course, the Sears Xmas Wish books would be thumbed over all winter. Imaging all the things I could possibly get. I think I can still remember specific items from when I was 7-8 in them. I guess TV was not quite as exciting back then. One of my favorite things to look at were the fridges and freezers that had all this good looking food in them. I used to imagine that OUR fridge looked like that (it didn't, although there was food in it, it certainly did not have everything the pictures did!). I would go over the items in the fridge over and over again. So, no wonder I love food, I have apparently loved it since I was that age anyways! I can remember crushing up my nickel bags of barbecue chips into tiny little pieces as they seemed to last longer that way, and to even trying to save the last "thing" in a package and putting it in my bedside drawer, so I would always have treats...in the night when I was hungry!
Anyways, my 8 year old self would be pleased to know that eventually she obtained fridges that were full like the catalogs from back then!


Bazza is just happy that he is in the land of fresh danishes for breakfast, and looking even more forward to the land of Tim Hortons and Boston Creams in a couple weeks!


We have three people going three different directions, with one car and one RV. Well, you know my patience with that...I went out to rent a car for a week or two and came home having bought a car three hours later. I thought I would get yelled at, but he just shook his head. I justified it quite well I thought! It is not quite a red sports model!!!!


The workshop is coming along quite nicely, I may never see him again!


We had a whole bunch of potted plants (well not technically WE but the old owners left them) outside which surprisingly, were still alive after we had been away for 4 months without water! They just may survive us if they can go that long....

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