I'm a member of the writing team for One Roll At a Time. I'm excited about this blessing at this time because I want encouragement in this part of my journey... shedding excess weight. I'm tired of feeling alone in my efforts. It's good to have company with whom to struggle along, don't you think so?
First things first... What is it with the phrase most folks use to talk about getting rid of fat. They say, "Losing weight." I'm not losing weight, my friends. I'm working hard to get it out of my system and I am happy to get rid of it and pray I will be able to refrain from packing it back on. When it finally does evacuate from my body/temple/system, I'm glad. I don't feel upset or frustrated at all. When I lose things I am unhappy. So, when I refer to working toward a slender figure, I work hard to say, "Shedding excess weight." Have you seen a snake or other skin-shedding beastie at their work of leaving behind their old outward parts? It's rather difficult work to my understanding. So, it seems super appropriate to use that particular phrase for my process. Maybe, if enough of us use that phrase, we can bring about a shift in word use and thereby a slight change in the way the whole process is viewed and maybe even dealt with. Yes, I know... highly unlikely to come about via my puny lil' blog. However... YOU can talk about it and spread the word. YOU can bring about this shift and change. I'd love it if you tossed me a bone by referencing me here on We Keep Choosing Us, but you don't have to, for sure!
So, this past week was better than many recently! I was actually able to get out and walk four mornings. YEAY! It would've been more, but my husband's schedule and activities cut in to my walking time. ahwell. I'm worried that I may be getting sick again... so we'll see about next week. I'm okay with it either way. I am, for the most part, making better food consumption choices, which is also going to enable me to shed the excess weight.
If you search #OneRollChallenge, you can see me as I am. I'm going to do a side-by-side before and after for the month... I've posted my before. MAN! That was so difficult! I didn't realize how truly horrible I look when comparing my figure to what is considered healthy and fit and slender and attractive. I will admit that I still feel a bit sick about it... sick being a mixture of frustration with myself and disgust and... oh, so much STUFF! Anyway... I encourage you to search that hashtag and join in on this month's series of challenges. They are, really, quite simple. I hope you will!
See you there! :) Oh... and tell me what you think about "shedding weight"! :)
Showing posts with label walks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walks. Show all posts
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Monday, September 21, 2009
A Walker
No... I'm totally not old enough to need one of them YET. :) And if you know us, you know our babies don't go IN them... So, that's leaves: Tea to take her first steps.
AND she DID!!! It was exciting for all of us. She did it rather matter-of-factly... even sitting down and standing right back up. Of course, it was a total of about 4 steps (the walking part), but STILL! The whole squatting, standing, sitting, standing thing (she did that more than the number of steps!) seems to indicate to me that she's completely ready (I've been saying as much), but wanted to take her own sweet time. :)
Oh, guess WHO she walked to... Any guesses? I hope you'll share who you think she walked for in my comments. The person to whom she walked was cheering her on... Okay, ready for some release from this tremendously tingly temptation? ... Well, I'll let you know tomorrow! Hopefully. It's a busy day, after-all. ;)
^_^ heeheehee
AND she DID!!! It was exciting for all of us. She did it rather matter-of-factly... even sitting down and standing right back up. Of course, it was a total of about 4 steps (the walking part), but STILL! The whole squatting, standing, sitting, standing thing (she did that more than the number of steps!) seems to indicate to me that she's completely ready (I've been saying as much), but wanted to take her own sweet time. :)
Oh, guess WHO she walked to... Any guesses? I hope you'll share who you think she walked for in my comments. The person to whom she walked was cheering her on... Okay, ready for some release from this tremendously tingly temptation? ... Well, I'll let you know tomorrow! Hopefully. It's a busy day, after-all. ;)
^_^ heeheehee
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Top Guide... AGAIN!
I didn't post recently because Jess was home AND I'm obsessed with ChaChaING to make some money. Usually I post at night... well, I'm working at night now. (ALL night most of the time!) So, basically I've been putting emphasis on earning money where I can and WHEN I can. Ya know? Now that I'm STILL a TG (top guide) until next Wednesday night, at least, I'll contin
This Morning's Big Activity
Jess took the girls to the library this morning! YEAY!!! It's been THREE weeks since they were able to go because of illnesses (2 weeks in a row) and then forgetfulness on Mama AND Daddy's parts. The girls had such a good time. :) They painted dragons with watercolors. I hung them up almost immediately because they are REALLY beautiful! And, of course, they had the opportunity to play at the playground, which they ALWAYS love.
WALKS
No work for Jess on Tuesday and Wednesday. We went on a walk each night as a family. Tuesday night our walk was a WHOLE 34 minutes and Wednesday night it was 45. It felt like I was making some progress back to my old times, but then tonight a big storm was rolling in RIGHT when I was leaving to walk, so I only stayed out for 22 minutes. :( What a bummer. However, on the bright side of THAT, I walked faster (since I knew I couldn't walk as long) and still had the sweat drippin' something fierce by the time I got home. And nothing hurt except for the tight BH belly! (But that's pretty much standard for any activity at this point!) I'm REALLY trying!!! Hopefully the weather will be conducive... but there's no telling since 2 more storms (tropical or hurricane!?!?!) are headed this way. UGH! ahwell
Florida BUGS
I experienced one of THE worst aspects of living so near water and in an area that retains standing water... MOSQUITOES! :( I was only out for 2 minutes when I was LITERALLY swarmed! No, SERIOUSLY! Thankfully, after I killed a few and batted others away, those than managed to tag along or catch up (or SOMETHING) seemed to stay mostly around the trailer (stroller thing the girls ride in). This doesn't bother me at all because it's AWESOME. It is entirely enclosed when I pull the bug guard down (which I did right away upon realizing there were so many bugs afoot). I didn't put the rain guard down, though, because it would have been just WAY too hot in there for them AND I didn't think any of the Geeters were small enough to squeeze through the bug guard.
This Morning's Big Activity
Jess took the girls to the library this morning! YEAY!!! It's been THREE weeks since they were able to go because of illnesses (2 weeks in a row) and then forgetfulness on Mama AND Daddy's parts. The girls had such a good time. :) They painted dragons with watercolors. I hung them up almost immediately because they are REALLY beautiful! And, of course, they had the opportunity to play at the playground, which they ALWAYS love.
WALKS
No work for Jess on Tuesday and Wednesday. We went on a walk each night as a family. Tuesday night our walk was a WHOLE 34 minutes and Wednesday night it was 45. It felt like I was making some progress back to my old times, but then tonight a big storm was rolling in RIGHT when I was leaving to walk, so I only stayed out for 22 minutes. :( What a bummer. However, on the bright side of THAT, I walked faster (since I knew I couldn't walk as long) and still had the sweat drippin' something fierce by the time I got home. And nothing hurt except for the tight BH belly! (But that's pretty much standard for any activity at this point!) I'm REALLY trying!!! Hopefully the weather will be conducive... but there's no telling since 2 more storms (tropical or hurricane!?!?!) are headed this way. UGH! ahwell
Florida BUGS
I experienced one of THE worst aspects of living so near water and in an area that retains standing water... MOSQUITOES! :( I was only out for 2 minutes when I was LITERALLY swarmed! No, SERIOUSLY! Thankfully, after I killed a few and batted others away, those than managed to tag along or catch up (or SOMETHING) seemed to stay mostly around the trailer (stroller thing the girls ride in). This doesn't bother me at all because it's AWESOME. It is entirely enclosed when I pull the bug guard down (which I did right away upon realizing there were so many bugs afoot). I didn't put the rain guard down, though, because it would have been just WAY too hot in there for them AND I didn't think any of the Geeters were small enough to squeeze through the bug guard.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Still Here
And still pluggin' along.
Biggest Events Lately
The van is in the shop... and currently fixed. We found out about it when Jess got out of work at the Club, though, so no pick up of it as yet.
After having almost the whole week off from the Cafe BECAUSE the owner decided at the last minute to close for the week, Jess quit on Friday. The first thing he said when telling me about the whole thing was that the owner wanted to serve items unfit for service. Knowing Jess as I do, this is not only repugnant to him as a person, but irresponsible and unethical as a Chef. Added to this issue, the boss actually yelled at Jess (and the other employees) TWO times because things were not happening as fast as she wanted to see. This is ridiculous for a few reasons. #1 Boss had everyone off for almost a week and expected to be able to pick up and go with them coming in at their regular time and opening at regular time. This is preposterous because the guys go in at 10:30am and they're supposed to open at Noon. Why is this preposterous and ridiculous? Well, almost all the product in the place was no good and not only did the boss NOT have anyone in there to check on and get rid of such items, but there was also NO ON in the place to prepare foods for the day they would be open. #2 Boss didn't bother to see what the guys were doing when she first yelled at them about not accomplishing anything. They were, in fact, sitting outside (two of them smoking) and discussing how to tackle the project and frustrations at hand. The second time she yelled at them was only minutes after the first time and they were trying to resume their cool and calm after being unfairly treated the first time. Normally Jess would have weathered this stupid storm and been all right. But given all that he's been going through with everything WE have been dealing with AND the stop smoking trials... well, it was too much given the circumstances and the fact that the Boss has been adding more and more bits of ridiculousness for months now.
Jess and I are working as a team to find new work. I look for the stuff online (and otherwise) and have it all set up for him to go down the line, fill out applications, submit, and check off a list I have prepared. Thus far, he's completed ELEVEN applications! WAY TO GO JESSIE!!!!! ^_^
Through all the difficulties and frustrations, trials and troubles that have beset and felt rather overwhelming to us lately, Jess is still on the road to becoming a NON-SMOKER!!!! It has not been easy at all in the last two weeks, but he's really accomplishing something tremendous because he's not purchased OR lit up!!!
Even though I'm currently sick (the same crud I had during third trimester with Ria AND Kat), I've still walked 5 days this week! ^_^ YEAY for me!! Can you believe I'm around 28 weeks preggie now?? So far, so good.
Ria and Kat are doing pretty darn well. They know that things have been different, but they haven't been "off the hook" (relative to how I know they COULD be!!).
Kat has actually been telling us when she wants to sit on the potty AND she usually produces SOME thing every time. Sometimes it's a bunch of farts, but, HEY, those can feel like turtle heads, right!?? :) Also, she has PEED AND POOHED at least once a day for the last few days! ^_^ So nice to have fewer pooh pooh diapers to clean up after. :) I have hope that she might potty train herself by the time the babe arrives. We'll see. It's fine either way, of course. We'll deal with what we have to as it comes. As we always do, right.
Ria is still an amazing student. She asks to do school every day, which has led to Kat asking to do 'cool,' too. ^_^ Ria and I have been working on numbers for a few weeks now and she is writing them REALLY well!!! I've only recently (within the last week) really done anything with numbers more than 10 and she has seriously amazed me. We did a matching worksheet I found free online (probably from a page I have to the side). In the matching she has to read the number in number and work form and draw a line to connect the matches. She, without hints from Mama, read AND found MANY of the teen numbers' matches! ^_^ I was super pleased and happy about that! She's such a smartie!!!
I caught Ria reading to Kat again today. The interesting and fun part about the "catch" this time is that Ria and Kat were in their closet reading! ^_^ It was so cool!! I have pictures, but they are not uploaded as yet... and I'm actually supposed to be doing Primary stuff right now. So, I'll have to bid you adieu for now and play catch up on the photos later. (I know I still have some from a previous post to share, too!)
Oh, we went on a family walk for the first time (for Mama's walks). It was really nice. :) Funny enough, Jess took Kat to go peepee before we left and then suggested that I should go, too. This is funny because I think HE thinks I'm still peeing outside on my walks, or something. I've figured out that I have to stop drinking water about an hour before the walk and then only have something to drink when I'm over half way through my walk and I won't have to pee until we get home. But, of course, Jess didn't know that. He also almost asked me to prepare a snack... like I don't do this almost every day! ;) So funny and wonderful how we're so concerned that things should go smoothly, isn't it!? I mean, I know that's why he was making his suggestions. He has no idea what my routine looks like, REALLY. The only thing he sees is when I go for a walk and he keeps the girls. Ya know? We walked the raised walking path for Betty Stefflick Park. I'd never been on it. Very nice, I have to say. I really love this area!
Biggest Events Lately
The van is in the shop... and currently fixed. We found out about it when Jess got out of work at the Club, though, so no pick up of it as yet.
After having almost the whole week off from the Cafe BECAUSE the owner decided at the last minute to close for the week, Jess quit on Friday. The first thing he said when telling me about the whole thing was that the owner wanted to serve items unfit for service. Knowing Jess as I do, this is not only repugnant to him as a person, but irresponsible and unethical as a Chef. Added to this issue, the boss actually yelled at Jess (and the other employees) TWO times because things were not happening as fast as she wanted to see. This is ridiculous for a few reasons. #1 Boss had everyone off for almost a week and expected to be able to pick up and go with them coming in at their regular time and opening at regular time. This is preposterous because the guys go in at 10:30am and they're supposed to open at Noon. Why is this preposterous and ridiculous? Well, almost all the product in the place was no good and not only did the boss NOT have anyone in there to check on and get rid of such items, but there was also NO ON in the place to prepare foods for the day they would be open. #2 Boss didn't bother to see what the guys were doing when she first yelled at them about not accomplishing anything. They were, in fact, sitting outside (two of them smoking) and discussing how to tackle the project and frustrations at hand. The second time she yelled at them was only minutes after the first time and they were trying to resume their cool and calm after being unfairly treated the first time. Normally Jess would have weathered this stupid storm and been all right. But given all that he's been going through with everything WE have been dealing with AND the stop smoking trials... well, it was too much given the circumstances and the fact that the Boss has been adding more and more bits of ridiculousness for months now.
Jess and I are working as a team to find new work. I look for the stuff online (and otherwise) and have it all set up for him to go down the line, fill out applications, submit, and check off a list I have prepared. Thus far, he's completed ELEVEN applications! WAY TO GO JESSIE!!!!! ^_^
Through all the difficulties and frustrations, trials and troubles that have beset and felt rather overwhelming to us lately, Jess is still on the road to becoming a NON-SMOKER!!!! It has not been easy at all in the last two weeks, but he's really accomplishing something tremendous because he's not purchased OR lit up!!!
Even though I'm currently sick (the same crud I had during third trimester with Ria AND Kat), I've still walked 5 days this week! ^_^ YEAY for me!! Can you believe I'm around 28 weeks preggie now?? So far, so good.
Ria and Kat are doing pretty darn well. They know that things have been different, but they haven't been "off the hook" (relative to how I know they COULD be!!).
Kat has actually been telling us when she wants to sit on the potty AND she usually produces SOME thing every time. Sometimes it's a bunch of farts, but, HEY, those can feel like turtle heads, right!?? :) Also, she has PEED AND POOHED at least once a day for the last few days! ^_^ So nice to have fewer pooh pooh diapers to clean up after. :) I have hope that she might potty train herself by the time the babe arrives. We'll see. It's fine either way, of course. We'll deal with what we have to as it comes. As we always do, right.
Ria is still an amazing student. She asks to do school every day, which has led to Kat asking to do 'cool,' too. ^_^ Ria and I have been working on numbers for a few weeks now and she is writing them REALLY well!!! I've only recently (within the last week) really done anything with numbers more than 10 and she has seriously amazed me. We did a matching worksheet I found free online (probably from a page I have to the side). In the matching she has to read the number in number and work form and draw a line to connect the matches. She, without hints from Mama, read AND found MANY of the teen numbers' matches! ^_^ I was super pleased and happy about that! She's such a smartie!!!
I caught Ria reading to Kat again today. The interesting and fun part about the "catch" this time is that Ria and Kat were in their closet reading! ^_^ It was so cool!! I have pictures, but they are not uploaded as yet... and I'm actually supposed to be doing Primary stuff right now. So, I'll have to bid you adieu for now and play catch up on the photos later. (I know I still have some from a previous post to share, too!)
Oh, we went on a family walk for the first time (for Mama's walks). It was really nice. :) Funny enough, Jess took Kat to go peepee before we left and then suggested that I should go, too. This is funny because I think HE thinks I'm still peeing outside on my walks, or something. I've figured out that I have to stop drinking water about an hour before the walk and then only have something to drink when I'm over half way through my walk and I won't have to pee until we get home. But, of course, Jess didn't know that. He also almost asked me to prepare a snack... like I don't do this almost every day! ;) So funny and wonderful how we're so concerned that things should go smoothly, isn't it!? I mean, I know that's why he was making his suggestions. He has no idea what my routine looks like, REALLY. The only thing he sees is when I go for a walk and he keeps the girls. Ya know? We walked the raised walking path for Betty Stefflick Park. I'd never been on it. Very nice, I have to say. I really love this area!
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