Lone Black Spider

I know a few people that have had Cancer, and my cousin passed away from Cancer a few years back as well. Cancer really sucks. We need to find a cure.
At least with the internet, we can all communicate about it now and we all know that talking about it more will hopefully create a cure.
The resveratrol forum is a on line forum where everybody can participate. This forum is about the Resveratrol drug, and how a group of people are trying to help a person that has only 4 months to live. It is an informative and inspirational forum and I encourage everybody to read it and help out if possible.

Every day I have to start my day with a cup of coffee. I love coffee. These days I have my coffee half decaf and half regular. I have noticed that if I have a full cup of regular caffeine coffee I get the jitters too much. What I would really like is healthy coffee. Coffee that is good for me, has antioxidants and tastes great. Until recently I never heard of reishi. Gana Brand is a healthy coffee that contains reishi mushrooms, which is known for its ability to naturally help improve the body’s pH. Since I believe in natural recourses to keep us healthy, I think this is a great thing! I can have my Coffee and enjoy the benefits it provides me as well. Mornings will be nice for sure.

Here I sit; at work eating raw Cauliflower. I am sick and tired of Caulflower. I need to constantly chew on something, and thats all I had in the house today. In my weekly WW newsletter, I did get an suggestion that I really like. It said to eat 1/2 cup of Salsa with 8 stalks Celery (1 WW point). I like that idea! It will give me the crunchy-ness that I need, plus I just bought some fresh local Salsa the other day and I was dreading having chips w/it. So Celery it is! Now I just have to wait till I get home to much on that. Oh, we also will be picking up our local organic produce today from the farm, so good food eating is on the way this week. wee hee !

I got to work this morning and had an interesting converstation w/my cubbie mate. We somehow got on the topic of eating out at fast food places and restaurants. I guess he went to a Play w/his 18 year old son and they wanted to do dinner before hand. Which is fine. He asked his son where they should go eat; anyplace, anyplace at all. He choose McDonalds. D’oh! I would have choose something like a famous SteakHouse!
Anyway, this family of 4 kids and mom/dad, eat out, I swear, at least Once A Day. They run out of new places to try so thats why the kid requested McD’s. Needless to say, the Dad is around 80 lbs overweight and the Mom is around 50 lbs overweight, the kids are chubby, but not too bad. Yet.
Other than the health issues, I have no clue how they afford this either! We eat our about once a week; twice a week max, and then one of those times is Subway.
Like our Fitness Lady said yesterday at our weekly meeting; it is no wonder 1/3 of the US population have some type of cancer. The kind of food we put in our boddies is just terrible ! ! All that proccessed foods w/ingredients I cannot even pronounce, should not be eaten. Yuck ! If I cannot pronounce it, I do not eat it.
Okay, thats not true . . . I have Diet Coke w/Lime one a day. whoops!

Wow. I have been droppin’ EntreCards today and got on this trail for Menu Planners. I do plan out my weekly menu as well, but it is NO where near what some of the Moms out there are cookin’ ! They do Chicken Cordon Blue, Pasta, Lasagna, Garlic Bread, Cakes and the list for just one week goes on !
This is my weekly Menu.
Monday (yesterday) Sauted Cabbage and onions. Diet Coke
Tuesday, Salad w/Fat Free Dressing. Tomato sandwhich Milk.
Wednesday, Sauted Cabbage and onions again. Milk.
Thursday, Grilled Cheese (fat free cheese and Sara Lee Delightfull bread)
Friday, Salmon Burger, bread (same as above)
Saturday. no idea
Sunday. no idea

If you are wondering, I do cook a totally seperate meal for my son. He does not eat what I eat. He will have tonight; Lemon Herb Chicken and fresh organic New Potatoes slathered in butter, or mashed, we have not decided yet. He is boycotting Veggies these days. He does however, be in a Smoothie mood and we make very healthy smoothies w/fresh friut only and he is downing those every other day.

How DO those women that cook so much stay thin . . . . . ?

Wow our goup is doing so good! Too much fun. I have found that I really am worried and I really think about everything I eat so that I can report good results to us all come Tuesday

Here are the reports for this week:

Chris - 2 LOSS
Tammy - 2 GAIN
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 2 GAIN
Grace - 4.6 LOSS
Leigh - 1 GAIN
Clara - 2 LOSS
Dette - 1 LOSS
Julie - 0.8 LOSS
Cheryl - 1 LOSS
Cyn Blue - no report?
Audrey - 3 LOSS

Everone help us welcome our 12th member Christy with a 3 LOSS!!

Total : 11.68 LOSS

Another Tuesday rolls around. Our group is doing so good! I am very glad to be a part of it. This really makes me stay on course, and I am happy to say, I did finally, stay on course this past week! However, today is going to be a challange. They have yet another food party at work. I ate a sweet roll, however it was only a Half of one, And they did bring Grapes for me, which was nice. So I have to stay focused cuz we can do this !

Here are the reports for this week:

Chris - 2 LOSS
Tammy - 0 change
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - Out Of Town
Grace - 2.4 Gained
Leigh - 3 LOSS
Clara - 2 Gained
Dette - 1 Gained
Julie - 2 LOSS
Cheryl - 0 change

Please help me welcome Cyn Blue who is reporting a 1 pound gain.

And everyone welcome my aunt Audery to the group who is reporting a 3 pound loss!

Total : 3.6 LOSS! YAY!

I am very lucky to work for a wonderful company that has fitness in mind for its employee’s.
This summer they are offering a program called “The Weight Managament Course”. It will run from July 9th to October 2nd. Every Wednesday at 11am we (the group) meet. Today I had my appointment with the fitness lady to get it all started. Wow. I know I am out of shape, but did not realize it was this bad.
She made me walk, at a very fast pace, on the treadmill for one mile. It took me about 17 minutes. Then I did Scrunches, 15 was all I could do. Then I did push ups, yes, the wimpy women kind, 20 was all I could do. Then I had to stretch, of course, which was bad too.
I am now sitting at my desk totally drained.

Plus, I just shoved a brownie in my mouth! This, after the Pie I ate w/my morning Coffee ! !

So.

I have got get off this sweetness kick and get in shape ! ! !

Sleep will be welcome tonight.