ABOUT ME
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”— Helen Keller
"I dare you to live joyously." — Me
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary:
joy |joi|
noun
a feeling of great pleasure and happiness
There's my girl Helen again. I do love quoting her. Any time I start to get a little blue or woe-is-me or negative in any manner, I come right back to Ms. Keller and get my reality check. Living all but 18 months of her life in total darkness and silence, she still manages to be a beacon of hope and inspiration for generations. What a wonderful legacy. I should be so lucky. If I can inspire or help anyone on the journey of life then I am so lucky.
The battle of the bulge and my on-going war with the middle-age slump can really take a lot out of a girl. My changes are now incremental and tiny but still headed in the correct direction. I may lose the occasional battle (as seen by my pogo weight) but I am slowly, but surely, winning the overall war. The fact that I'm into clothing I have not worn since the mid-1990s (yes, I saved them) is testament to the reality of my body sculpting. So buck up. Suck it up. I am a rock.
In other thoughts - I'm coming around to the choices in life again. This epiphany I'm in the middle of really distills down to choices: what I put in my mouth/body, what is my attitude, what am I indulging in (or not), what do I want for myself out of life, what am I going to do to make it happen. All of these choices are MINE to make. No one can make them for me. They are profound in their effects not only on the self, but on how others interact with you. You know the simple exercise of walking down the street and smiling at a total stranger. Odds are they'll smile back. On the other hand, if you just look at them, chances are they'll just look back. HOWEVER, don't you feel a ton better when you share the smile? Pay it forward baby - pay it forward. Re-read my Helen Keller quote of the day - YOUR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS LIES IN YOU. You can choose to bury it or share it. When you share it - it comes back-at-chu and it's a win-win situation.
So the phrase of the day?
Live joyously.
Do the Snoopy dance.
Q. If a dog can live joyously - why can't you?
A. You can.
Check out the stats:
STATISTICS
Height - 5' 7-1/2"
Weight - For the record, I'm weighing in next to nude on the same scale, around the same time every morning before eating or drinking anything.
WEEK ONE - Wednesday, July 15 - Tuesday, July 21, 2009
DAY 01 - 173.4 lbs
DAY 02 - 167.3 lbs
DAY 03 - 165.0 lbs
DAY 04 - ? - I was away and couldn't weigh in
DAY 05 - ? - I was away and couldn't weigh in
DAY 06 - 162.8 lbs
DAY 07 - 161.6 lbs
WEEK TWO - Wednesday, July 22 - Tuesday, July 28, 2009
DAY 08 - 160.2 lbs
DAY 09 - 160.4 lbs
DAY 10 - 159.2 lbs
Day 11 - ? - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 12 - ? - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 13 - 159.4 lbs
Day 14 - 157.6 lbs
WEEK THREE - Wednesday, July 29 - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Day 15 - 157.0 lbs
Day 16 - 158.2 lbs
Day 17 - 157.0 lbs
Day 18 - 157.1 lbs
Day 19 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 20 - 155.0 lbs
Day 21 - 156.1 lbs
WEEK FOUR - Wednesday, August 5 - Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Day 22 - 156.2 lbs
Day 23 - 154.9 lbs
Day 24 - 153.3 lbs <-- 20 lbs in 24 days!
Day 25 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 26 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 27 - 153.9 lbs
Day 28 - 153.9 lbs
WEEK FIVE - Wednesday, August 12 - Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Day 29 - 153.2 lbs BMI 28.9
Day 30 - 150.9 lbs <- 22.5 lbs lost
Day 31 - 150.9 lbs
Day 32 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 33 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 34 - 150.0 lbs
Day 35 - 150.5 lbs
WEEK SIX - Wednesday, August 19 - Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Day 36 - 150.7 lbs
Day 37 - 152.1 lbs
Day 38 - 151.1 lbs
Day 39 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 40 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 41 - 148.6 lbs <- Now if I can only STAY in the 140s!
Day 42 - 148.3 lbs
WEEK SEVEN - Wednesday, August 26 - Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Day 43 - 148.9 lbs
Day 44 - 150.3 lbs <-- GRRR BMI 28.2
Day 45 - 148.9 lbs De ja vu!
Day 46 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 47 - I was away and couldn't weigh in
Day 48 - 148.0 lbs
Day 49 - 147.4 lbs
WEEK EIGHT - Wednesday, September 2 - Tuesday, September 8, 2009 Day 50 - 146.7 lbs
FOOD
Breakfast
- Juice (big pot to drink of: liquified spring mix, avocados and lemon)
- banana & walnuts
- banana & walnuts
- banana & walnuts
- banana & walnuts
- banana & walnuts
Snack
FRIDAY
- Juice
- cantaloupe
- 2 ears of corn
- cantaloupe
- dehydrated broccoli
- Juice
- Salad
- Salad
- Salad
- Small salad
- 1/2 stuffed pepper
- peach
- Salad
FRIDAY
- Juice
- nuts
- apple
- sun dried tomatoes
- cantaloupe
- Stuffed pepper
- kiwi
- Juice
- Salad
- Salad
- Salad
- 1 stuffed pepper
- Salad w/ zucchini linguinie
- Dehydrated broccoli
- dehydrated corn on the cob
- Salad w/ 1/2 avocado
EXERCISE
Day 45 - FRIDAY
- Abs with Tamilee Webb (Program 1)
- NOTHING
- Abs with Tamilee Webb
- 3.2 mile power walk
- 30 minute walk
- Abs with Tamilee Webb
- Buns of Steel with Greg Smithey
- Random Pull-ups
- NOTHING
- abs with Tamilee Webb
- random pull-ups
