Just to Rant and Ramble

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A winner knows what to fight for and what to compromise on. A loser compromises on what he shouldn't and fights for what isn't worthwhile fighting about. ~Winners and Losers by Sydney J. Harris

I am an Echinacea What Flower Are You?    "You are a health conscious person, both your health and the health of others. You know all about the health benefits and dangers of the world around you."

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Ok... so some of you know that my dietary choices for a while hadn't really been working for me. Atkins worked great for me when I was 35. It would probably STILL work for me if I weren't over confident now thinking I can keep track in my head... when I did it the last time, I wrote everything down. Well anyway, I found that I wasn't gaining any MORE, but I wasn't loosing either... and that becomes very frustrating. I mean to think you're eating perfectly for two or three weeks and have no result, or worse, gain two, loose two, gain three, loose four, gain one and always maintain a constant mean weight of 20 pounds over your ideal. I'm sick to death of it.

It's not like I'm a couch potato who sits and eats chips all day long. I'm very active, I skate, I ride my bike several days a week, I run back and forth at work. I'm active. I think my problem has been more about portion control. So I've been kind of rethinking my dietary needs... One of the girls at work decided to try Weight Watchers. So I asked her some questions and did some research online. (same as I did with Atkins) and worked out my daily point value... Made myself an Excel chart to keep track of things and calculate values and such. And started keeping strict track of my intake again. Because obviously what's happened hasn't been as much about eating the right things as it is about eating too much. My portions have gotten bigger, so even eating correctly, my plate is too full and so I don't loose the excess even though I'm not gaining. Well, I liked the idea of Weight Watchers not restricting ANYTHING as long as you don't go over on points. So if I can figure out how many points a little bite of cake is, I can have a little bite of cake, or a piece if I have room, or bonus points to use. And I will as long as most of the time I mind the fence so to speak.

Well, some things, I don't know the value. For instance, Today, after mowing the grass, I really wanted a Gyro. Now I realise that generally a Gyro is probably too much, but I decided to find out, because I thought I could have a half of one and be satisfied, and still stay within my point range. So I looked them up online and found most sites agree that a Gyro is between 12 and 14 points. Well good. I have only used 11.6 today. I'm golden. if I add 7 for half a 14 point Gyro, I've still got room for a snack later. So I had a Gyro. Correction. I had half of one. And My daughter had the other half.

The thing is, it's working. I'm sort of relearning what I learned with Atkins, choose the right things to eat, don't eat too much and just PAY ATTENTION to it. I eat out of boredom. A lot.. I mean I'm a muncher, so I had to find things that I could munch that won't cost me much... or leave room for them in my daily points. If I do not, then I will go over. I understand that about myself. I have to make myself room, or I set myself up for failure. I know this.

So far things are going good. I started out at 150, I'm three weeks in and I'm down to about 145. Well I haven't got much to loose in the first place. So out of 20 pounds, that's a quarter of the way. If I can keep it up, I'll be there in only a matter of weeks. Already my clothes fit better, and I have more energy. I'm not one of those people who thinks that a) BMI is actually a valid way to determine health (because it is NOT) b) that a BMI of 10 is somehow 'healthy', nor am I one who will try to pretend my frame size is a size smaller than it is, just so I can set an unrealistic and unhealthy goal for my ideal and then beat myself and my health against a wall trying to get there. I am 5 foot 5, and have a large frame. That's measured by both wrist ratio and Elbow forceps. I'm a big sturdy Irish girl. Nothing delicate about me. I spent my early adult life trying to GET myself up to 125. Now 125 is the bare minimum that I should weigh and 130 is ideal. I'm very muscular too, so...

Anyway that said, I found a pretty cool website to anyone else who wants to give it a go. http://www.fitday.com Keeping track helps me keep things in perspective. Well I already do that with my Excel sheet, but it's kind of cool to see if from another angle. You can put in what you eat each day and it will keep track of things for you. Lots of other tools to check out too. The food thing, if you don't find the food you wanted, (for instance I eat reduced sugar oatmeal for breakfast. I didn't used to eat breakfast, and that's become a new habit for me... and I find that it's pretty helpful in keeping things under control all day.) well, if you don't find that, you can input that food yourself so you can put it in. I think that's pretty neat. Any of the rest of you who are having issues with 'meal control', maybe you'll find it useful too.

Well then thank the goddess it's almost over, and I hardly got subjected to any poetry at all. That makes me super duper happy.  Sorry, I know it's hypocritical, because I have written scads in my lifetime... but I hate hate hate reading poetry. HATE. IT.

So there. 

Word from the Anti-Poet!

So I'm talking to this God bot that reincarnated_al found.  I was able to waste several minutes of my Saturday fooling with this thing.  ( Click here to see the result of this conversation )  Maybe I'll just talk to the Goddess. She seems a little smarter.

Stolen from gangrel_pri

Funny how I can take this test (had to guess at a couple of answers I didn't remember) and can still answer the last question "No" because I'm not even a Judeo-Christian.  But I know what their book says.   I could nearly guarantee that the ones I missed were names.  I could have googled them.  But I was curious of me real score.

Now that the weather has finally agreed to cooperate, Mikey the Bikey and I have been out riding. Last Friday, I rode 10 miles on roads. Saturday we took the daughter's bike down to this man who had a wheel for her since hers was bent. New wheel is nice... it's on Mikey right now, because in the process, somehow MY front wheel got released on the road. THANK you QUICK RELEASE that some people think is such a brilliant idea. I will not have any more of that. But this man who fixed her bike did all kinds of work on it just to be nice. So we put the new wheel on Mikey and the wheel he repaired for her (so she could have a spare back on the Sunbird. My daughter rode with me day before yesterday. We put in a little over 10 miles. She wants a basket in front and a pannier rack in back. ( We are such a couple of Freds )

I stole these last two from: sissalem

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I finally got my spring layout finished.

I still have to convert my icons.. .but I have this one. Enjoy.

I require a spring theme for my LJ. I'm just saying.

Thus, as soon as I get back from riding my bike a bit and having a nice after bike ride bath, I am going to start looking for new spring images to fit in my layout. Whee! so if anyone has any, either email them to me or point them out to me so I can go look at them too. ^_^

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I've only had one bottle of caffeinated pop today and I think one can. 
The rest has been decaf! 
And I'm more caffeineated on the click test than my friends who drink coffee! haha

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So, I opened my eggs this week to find that all of them had faces. This service is courtesy of my daughter. Included in the selections are in fact these two lovely fellows, whom I was able to identify instantly.

Me: Are those...??
She: Yup! *grinning*

Kind of fits too. haha. And if I play my cards right, I could end up CEO.