Lone Black Spider

I am seriously concidering going back to school; for the Third Time!
This time however, would be different. I want to study Health related stuff, like perhaps a RD (Registered Dietician) or something like that. I want to learn more about the foods we put into our bodies, and I want to learn more about my body. Some days I feel I know enough, but then when I talk to our Fitness Lady here at work, I realize that I dont know squat.
I do love going to school and I think it would be good for my mind to learn new things and improve myself.
I was thinking about taking software/hardware/html, etc, classes, but now I am gravitating to Healt stuff. Prob cuz I need to get more healthy instead of plopping down in front of a pc!

I have come to the conclusion that I suck at this, ha! Every one rocked this week; I drowned in an emotional roller coaster and pigged out.
Sure, I have a lot of excuses like . . . its that time of the Month, I am dealing with lots of stress right now, and the always favorite one of mine; I am getting old! But really, there is no excuse for eating too much. None-what-so-ever. Nada. Zip. I just ate too much is all. End of Story.

Here is how everyone did this week! You Go Girls ! !

Last week we announced a contest where everyone who reported a LOSS had their name added to a drawing for a lot of 100 Mary Kay samples! The motivation worked! Nearly everyone reported a loss this week. So we will have the same contest this week. Just remember that maintaining doesn’t count, sorry! The names of this week’s “losers” were dropped into a coffee cup and this week’s WINNER is Ciara! And check it out! We had an over all loss again this week! Congrats to Cheryl for being this week’s biggest loser of 4 pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!

Chris - 4 GAIN
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 0.4 LOSS
Grace - no report
Leigh - 2.0 LOSS
Clara - no report
Dette - 0.5 LOSS
Julie - 0.8 LOSS
Cheryl - 4 LOSS
Audrey - 0 CHANGE
Christy - 1.6 LOSS
Tina - 1.4 LOSS
Danielle - 1 LOSS
Jessie - no report

And please give a warm welcome to Steph who lost 2 pounds this last week!

This week’s total - 10.7 LOSS!!

Oh My. I ate way too much today at our Family Party. We had Ham, mashed potatoes and veggies. I love ham and potatoes! In fact I just love food in general way to much. I need to find something that will curb my appetite. I would like all natural, and healthy diet pills if you please. My will power is just not enough these days. I can always customize my own health package at Lab88. Plus they even have Health and Fitness articles. I like to read about things first and I totally soak up the information. Maybe thats part of my problem, I need to find a good Health book as well and get motivated! errrrr.

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 . . . . . ?