opticalgirl

You are having the best influence on me…..Thank you! I am a new younger, old woman!  I should send this to you, but I want everyone to know what you have done for this old lady.  

Your encouragement has meant everything.   Love the weights, yoga, not into the workouts yet, but who knows.  Changed my hair, my makeup, and about to get rid of a rock I’ve been carrying around for 22 years.  Only good I have every gotten from him is my beautiful 20 year old daughter.  This boy is history, I only hope I don’t have to pay him alimony!!!!!

After two year I got my little music machine filled and am I moving.   The music takes me from slow to hauling……I need all the help I can get to move these Grandma legs.   Music has always inspired and moved me.  Maybe why my daughter is such a gifted musician. Actually walked 45 minutes instead of 30.  An inspiration, to say the least….love, Zumba.  Did this weekend, will see if I can move after a long day at work.    Sure going to try!  I have been trying to see if I can get up and go early, the gym, maybe tomorrow AM, once I get used to the lost hour.  The small gym that accommodates most of this town is full at night and I hate crowds and waiting.  The food part, has been getting easier.  Seems the more my stomach shrinks the more my appetite has shrunk.   Hope it stays that way til I meet my old high school heart throb.  6 weeks and counting….I can do it.    He says I still have my high school good looks.  Makes one inspired after 48 years!!  

My daughter has been dieting and it has helped me alot.  Fruit and veggies are more plentiful and I feel healthy.  Love fish, but it’s scary here to find fresh, except for cat fish and this lake is nasty.  

I have created the nicest little gym at home.  I found an old VCR/Tv and old vcr’s of workouts, yoga, etc.   I bought an assortment of weights.  Only to 10 lbs, don’t want this old body too full of buldging muscles.  Not very seemly.   Love the ability to make my own time and quiet.  Don’t have to go out in the cold and wet to the gym and don’t have to pay 30 something a month for the priviledge of working out on equipment that 50 other people have sweated over.  I had a really bad experience on one of the treadmills, where it ran off with me.   It took all my strength to pull myself off to the sides.   I will never walk without the safety line attached.   I did nothing wrong, it took off like a Toyota and went from 1.8 to 4.8.   I was sore for a good week.   I have refreshed my frig with good stuff and spent last night makes snack packs.   A little preparation helps keep me on the straight and narrow.   I was frustrated, at first that there were no goodies, when I had an urge, but it is with relief that I couldn’t find anything.   Hope to put up good numbers soon.  Did you know you can walk in your own livingroom?  My new picture is testiment to my new attitude.   Jewel, my chihuahua, even looks trimmer.   Join me, I’m off and running.

Not as easy on your own.   It is harder to keep going.  I have made a little make shift gym and bought weights, but not so easy to be motivated.   Never liked organized workouts  and having a VCR/TV, it isn’t easy to find the latest stuff.   I am working on yoga and enjoying in very much.   My life is improved both physically and mentally using it.  Thank you, once more Nancy.   Found an old Taibo (?) tape and it is too fast moving for me, maybe with work I can make this old 65 year old body do it, with the class.   My food has become more veggies and fruit and protein.   Hopefully I will get motivated by the scales.  I need to drop sugar and BP now.  Not happy with the BP thing, but I can make it go away.   Thank you for all your support, because this is my weight loss and well being life line.   Thank you, Buddyslimee’s!!!!

I am going to social security tomorrow to decide what I need to take.   I was under the impression that medicare was free..a privelege..a reward for getting old.   Ha! Not so if I get the D part and B it will be around $150.00 a month that they collect in 3 month parcels.   If I weren’t diabetic I would wait  but my medicine is so expensive.  I need someone that can explain what I am doing and it is hard to understand.   It is like Algebra to me….I don’t do well there either.  One good thing is Silver Sneakers…one part pays for gym time.

Just have to work and get my sugar down to normal and stay there.  I am looking forward to lowering the doses of meds.   It can happen.  I bought 10 lb dumb bells and 5…would like to have the total gym or bowflex.   Anyone  know how they work?  The big stopper has been the snow that arrived Christmas Eve and has been coming in regular waves.   Been forgoing the gym because it has been hazardess to drive.   I have gotten out of the routine and that was hard to get established.    They have been enforcing the cleaning of the machines after you are finished and they are using the same towel on all the machines.   What is with that?   Not sanitary, so I am bringing my own wipes.

I will let you know everything I find out at my Medicare summit tomorrow….keep working out !

Have been working more on organizing my life and less on weight loss.   It seems important that I get one in order to have the other.   I remember my Mom doing spring cleaning every spring and wondering why.  I think I finially have learned that all parts of your life have to be working as one.   I started yoga (thank you Nancy) and have found the inner strength that I have been lacking.   Have been letting down on my spiritual life and that has also affected my well being.   So much more to loosing weight and getting in shape.   The brain is a big part of all this and the inner self.   No wonder I am brain dead.   I feel if I organize myself the rest will fall in place.   I am off to a good start this year!!!!

going well.  Child is all better and back to school.   I can concentrate on focusing on myself.   You know how kids can take the focus of all! 

 Saw Avatar and ate too much popcorn, but I couldn’t help myself.   What a beautiful movie…best thing I have seen in years.   Cut back at dinner but will have to work out harder.  A lot of butter on that popcorn.

Gym is tough, having a hard time getting back, and everyone else is pouring in to make up for all the snow.   Wish they had programs for seniors after work hours.   The young are not the only ones that work.   I have a hard time keeping up.   I can’t bend like a 20 year old.   I have a hard time bending like a 65 year old.   Or do we really bend?  I’ll have to watch and keep notes.   I know there are no guys my age lifting.   I imagine they couldn’t possible yell like the kids.  May have to keep stuff around to revieve them.  Why is it that they yell when lifting?   Does it make the adrenalyn flow?  If I was trying to lift what they lift, I wouldn’t have the voice left to yell!  If I yelled it would probably be a feminine squeak.  Embarrassing!

Work over heading to gym and dinner, not in that order, of course. 

The snow is but a memory and the cold frigid air is a meer 51 degrees.   Subzero to just cool!  Oklahoma becomes stranger and stranger.   I miss California weather, but would indeed, miss the occasional snow. 

New Year and new beginnings.  I am doing my weight level and sugar to their normal places.  It is my decision and I can do it.   I finally got to walk on snow free roads and enjoyed the brisk air.   I am not only exercising but planning meals in advance by buying ingredients only necessary for each meal and hoping they don’t mysteriously disappear.   Our house has a habit of eating certain items.  Ever spent days looking for l shoe, or keys?   Not sure it is people or animals.   When we had ferrets it was no question where the missing item was, now who knows.   Organization is the key to my new year.   I spent my vacation cleaning closets and drawers.   My new year shows promises and I am excited.

Total weird place, this Oklahoma!   The snow from Christmas eve is still outside my window.  Started back to work only to have another 4 day weekend.   It has been the coldest I can remember for many years.   It is way too dangerous to walk outside and my treadmill has died.   Tried video’s and it isn’t the same.   Thought I would try my beginning Yoga dvd.   Watched it once before and was amazed at the different positions and wondering how I would ever get up from some of them.   I am going to buy 10 lb weights, the 5 I have aren’t enough.   Only other thing I have that is 10 lbs is Jewel, my chihuahua and she didn’t enjoy it one bit.   Especially the between the legs and over the head.   This can’t last forever and the food is very boring.   I started special K for one meal during the day, it actually stays with you for a longer period of time.   Cleaning out closets today, may keep me diverted!!!  Come on sunshine!

can’t believe we have another storm on the way tonight……still have ice from the last two!   We moved patients from Thursday to yesterday and today so we can be home.  Have a blood test to wait for…..hopefully my life won’t be changed too much.   Have not been to the gym in a week.   Will try before the storm gets here tonight.  DVD’s don’t get it.   Wish I had spent my Christmas bonus on a treadmill.   Mine runs but the track slips.  Diet…diet…diet!!! Boring.   Hope the rest of you are doing better.  l degree tomorrow and lower…who said we have global warming!!!!