Hello Stephen,
Yes, I sometimes wear dorky hats. What can I say? I have no shame. None whatsoever. That's how I roll. We bought this birthday hat several years ago, and we all take our turn wearing it every birthday. So, yesterday was my turn, and I'm proud to say I look like a total dweebis. But, at least I'm wearing my blue tie-dye t-shirt, to counter the whole dorky-dweebis thing a little. A smidge.
Anyway, so I ate too much all day yesterday, and now today I'm on this fasting cleansing diet again....I need to get another 25 pounds gone before we go to camp!! That's my goal at least...we'll see. I'm hoping that my diaBEEtus will soon be gone along with those 20 pounds, actually.
I am finding that I have become quite addicted to protein shakes & bars....the Atkins brand. I know that if you join Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and Nutri-System, they put chemicals in their foods to keep you addicted to them, and if you ever STOP eating them, you'll gain the weight back. So it's quite deceiving, and I never wanted to even start eating that processed stuff....it really cannot be good for you. But, Atkins, well.....it never occurred to me that perhaps THEY put chemical addictive stuff in their protein shakes and bars!! I wouldn't doubt it a bit.
But, I've since stopped drinking milk every morning, they have replaced it. I don't eat cereal anymore either like I used to, and so I've saved at LEAST 25 carbs every day just from that alone. Replacing some things with protein seems to be working for me. The portion size, however, is more challenging.
I have also found that, as I've lost weight, even just a few pounds, I've noticed that BEFORE, I never had an "I am full" button inside my head, so I would just keep eating until I'd be OVERLY full. However, once I started losing weight, suddenly I noticed I DO have an "I am full" button, and it's easier to feel now. I think once your stomach starts to shrink a little, maybe that kicks in stronger. I don't know. But, I am really NOT the type of person to go do gastric bypass, (not fat enough thankfully), and I wouldn't do it if I WERE. Seems too risky to me, and the people I know who have done is suddenly look strangely skeletal and odd...with flappy skin here and there....kinda grosses me out actually.
And since all of my life I have done most everything the hard way, well, here I go with another diet.
Ok I have to scoot, today it's "take Florence to the psychiatrist" day, and then we meet the new caregiver person (we lost our other one to a new job last week), and then I have to go to my chiropractor later on.
Oh, the biggest bummer of my birthday wasn't that I didn't get a balloon or a cake, (I remedied that when Pete took me out for dinner, by ordering fried ice cream with strawberry sauce), it was that my sister in England sent me 4 blouses---all WAYYY too big on me----she must think I am a COW....(plus she sent me a 'half-sweat-shirt' thing that says "86 VINTAGE" on it. Just because I graduated high school in 1986 does NOT mean I am VINTAGE!! (My sister & I have a love/hate thing). And then later in the evening, my mom learned that one of her close-knit cousins died yesterday afternoon of liver cancer. So now we have to figure out how and when to get her to Michigan for the funeral.
Other than THAT.....yeah, it rained too...and hailed...nearly SNOWED actually.....but other than THAT....yeah, my birthday was kind of a bummer. Pete helped though, he took me out for a nice Mexican dinner---I LOVE LOVE LOVE those chicken enchiladas!! But unfortunately, I discovered that I can no longer eat 3 of them, I barely made it through 2...and then I felt stuffed to the gills. No way I can eat all that rice either, and NO THANK YOU to the refried beans. Those beans are nastified.
Well, bye for now. Have a good day today and a nice week, WORKING ON THAT NEW ALBUM OF YOURS....hint hint....(was that too bold)??! Sorry. That's how I roll too. :) Even though I'm 44.
Love you lots...xoxox Rebecca
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