Omg moments

Kimberley big hole ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Great blue hole ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Glory hole
Mirny diamand hole in siberia ~ ~ Sink hole!

TODAYS OH MY GOD MOMENT! HOLES!

wow.. just look at them and ..wow! they are extreamly cool and slighly teriffiing! I have added links to the name of each hole so you can find out about them … since I’m lazy LOL and running out of time before church and the kids are determend to make me go batty this morning. The one that scares the holy hell out of me is the silk hole! IT JUST OPENED UP AND ATE EVERYTHING! omg… The most amazing to me is the great blue holes, there are a number of them around the world, just this deep hole in the ocean LOL they say there were dry caves daring the ice age and got flooded.. you know when it all melted… hmmmm….

ok well that is my OMG moment for today, got to run and get dressed! enjoy

Shopping day tip

Tip for today

Great idea the day before or day of shopping is to give your fridge the once over. Dump all the old food now instead of when you are trying to unload your bags! Now grab that sponge and wipe the inside doors down and shelfs.. nothing fancy just a fast once over. NOW your fridge and you are ready for the new food!

And Away We Go Again

Ohhhh good morning to me!

I woke to the world with the stiffness that only my friend Fibromyalgia ( A link for the curios that don’t trust my explanation of stuff! ) can give you. OK OK In all honesty a night of..umm ” marital fun” ( lol nice cover from the kids hu? )or a great work out can give you the same but sadly neither are why I’m stiff.

oh how we take for granted filling good! for the last month or so I have felt good. NO stiffness in the mornings, no soreness in the evenings, and no fatigue! It took a few days before i realized that i was filling “normal” again… hmmm how can that be? I was so use to for the last 4 or so months waking up stiff and going to bed sore and fighting to stay awake those last few hours of the day that you would have thought the min it was gone i would have noticed. Nope, guess not. I wonder if other ppl have filling “normal” sneak up on them? I’ll have to ask my mom she would know. She has been dealing with this for years now.

So now here I am rolling my shoulders, stretch my back, relaxing my legs and … popped my aspirin! It’s raining which may stop are walk today BAH! The kids will get wild with out it.. guess its time to find a exercise video off the shelf. I need to start thinking about that now, the rain is a coming in Oregon and soon its not going to be .. fun to walk with the kids outside.

Well for those of you that are unaware of what this is, don’t fill bad. It’s JUST becoming a well known and excepted condition..grrr.. Finally Dr’s are saying… hay this really is a problem, but oh so hard to prove. How do you prove that someone is stiff and sore and in pain? Some ppl are so bad that they are in incredible pain when it flares up.

It’s called ” the invisible disability” or the ” irritable everything” syndrome. from the national Fibromyalgia Partnership.

You can’t see the muscle spasms , the fatigue, or the pain that moves from spot to spot. And now that they are coming to terms with it they are saying that there may be up to 10 million sufferers of this! They believe 80% are women or working age… bah

but it still so hard to prove, and the ppl that suffer badly from it and cant work normal 40 hr jobs because of the pain and fatigue they are stuck. To get disability is almost impassable! There has to be so much documentation from dr’s and specialist that it makes your head spin! Mine is mild now which i am so thank full for, this dose not mean it wont get worse they just don’t know, but the fact is at this mild stage… I’m a lucky lucky girl that I’m a stay at home mom right now i can not even begin to think how i would do a normal 8-5 m-f job! I don’t think i could, and if i could i would have nothing left after the energy i gave to work! The soreness i get just from are daily hr walks and the house work … God I am sad for those that don’t have any choice but find a way to struggle threw the day and then force them self to do it again tomorrow

Well now aren’t you glad i decided to share the fun with you . Well i hope you got your ” you learn something everyday” quota.Don’t fear i will return!

Daily Food Habit / Exercise baby step journey

The Daily Food Habit / Exercise baby step journey

Well here I am about to share with the world A most sensitive area in any womens life.. are weight! This seemed a good place to Vent my frustrations and to record my goals and successes! So lets start with what started this fun finally motivated journey into my weight loss.

I am now a 31 yr old stay at home mommy of 3. Keith (10) Daniel (3) and Emily (2) and wife to David ( don’t think he wants his age shared ! ) and after the two baby’s were born i had BALLOONED! sigh, and until reticently i have just complained about it and avoided mirrors and continued to wear my sweats, but then one day i got the sick notion to pull the scale out … god what was i thinking… I’m 5′10 and the scale said i was 305 lb!!! IT WAS BROKEN! yup that was it, it was broken! there was no way…. and i left the bathroom and forgot about the evil scale for … a day or so. Ha but I’m a glut for punishment! I keep coming back to it hoping that it had changed its mind on my weight, but alas it had not. It was stuck at ” your a huge fat chick deal with it ” setting .. i didn’t even know they CAME with that setting! Ok, ok so it was time to face this and do something.

Ok now I have never been a dieter, but I have read the books, and heard the fads and surfed the web for years. I am pretty educated in this area, I just never put any of it into practice. Same with exercise (just the word coses pain in forgotten places!). I knew that i didnt need a diet and there was not “fast” fix to my fat. I had to start putting small things to work and start exercising… but ..blah… I’m fat and out of shape and what could i do that i would actually stick with after one day of doing it! Walking.. it was easy.. something i already did i just have to do more of it.

Well i got some smaller plates for dinner to eat off, I hear its all about portion control you know, And tried to buy more salads and veg’s , i was not trying to redefine are menus yet( the family would strike if i did). Then in the evening after dinner and the hubby was home i would put on my shoes and go for my walk! This went GREAT for about 2 months. I was getting my portions…sorta.. under control, watching the sweets and walking. I could pretty easily do 2 miles now with out wanting to fall down and puke ( pretty picture hu lol ) I was JAZZED! i had not really seen any weight loss yet tho but was being optimistic and continuing with it.. hell if anything i was just getting in to better shape so it was all good.

THEN it happened……….. i woke up and everything hurt, my god was i ran over in my sleep? i was sore everywhere. It took me about 20 min to get up and going that morning trying to stretch and work out the stiffness, god i must have just been over doing it. So no walk today. Next day was the same… why? I hadn’t done anything! Ok ok i must have REALLY overdone it! so for a week i didn’t walk but continued to watch my food, but i still hurt everyday and god i was tired. I was lucky to make it to dinner before i had to fall on the couch and pry i didn’t have to get up again the rest of the night, i just wanted to sleep.

Two months later and i was just pissed. I still hurt and i was still so damn tired and i had stooped my walks all together at this point which also made me mad. I was fed up, I couldn’t stand looking at myself because of the fat but now i couldn’t even make it two blocks before my legs screamed and i needed to stop. My husband didn’t understand, he felt i should just walk threw it… i keep thinking but if there is something wrong i might make it worse to do that.

So I FINALLY called my DR. and went in and told her what had been going on and that i needed help! If its nothing and i need to just do as David said and walk threw it then i guess i will because i was more now then ever dedicated to losing this weight, but that i had to know first if it was something bad or just.. i was fat and out of shape? She said it sounded like Rheumatoid arthritis.. oh joy.. its a fun autoimmune thing that makes you joints inflamed and HURT and can cause disfiguring at its worst stages… ok oveasly this is not the technical explanation for it just my really fast nontechnical way of describing it. So she sent me to a specialist. Well at this point I’m worried, I’m more worried that it will end up being fibromyalgia, which is what i have watched my mother deal with for years dealing with the pain and tiredness that never seems to stop! ok granted mom has other health things that worsen the affects of the Fibromyalgia but still it was not fun. They don’t know what courses it, or why it strikes the people it does, but it makes your soft tissues and muscles hurt like.. well like you have been hit buy a car! Tired, you are so tired when it flares up. But ya more on that later

wow this is really long.. sorry , yet I’m going
to keep writing! haha!

So here is the day for the specialist. I go in, I do the test, she pokes and prods and makes me stand and twist and turn and bend and lift…. lol makes me tired just recounting it! Well the end result , no arthritis WOOT! the rest of the results? it looked like fibromyalgia, not so woot…So dr. what can i do…. oh lol there is nothing they can do. Advil you say.. oh, ok. and back to my dr.

Ok so basically what happens with this is it will.. for what ever reason flare up and your muscles get stiff and hurt like you have done a full body work out that you over did by ohhhh couple hundred pounds, then you are so tired.. ever stay up all night with a sick kid and still have to function the next day? ya like that. Then you get to take some Advil or IB or Whatever is around to help deal with it. NOW this is just how i react to it, if you look it up you will see some are more pain full… my mother is one of them and i have to say I’m not thrilled she shared her genetic dysfunctions with me LMAO.. oh i love my mommy, that women is my hero. the stuff she has had the strength to over come in her life and is still fighting? wow she would be yours too .. or you would hate her /shrug shes that kind of women. you love her or hate her.

Well…so here is something that is never going to go away… Ever. This is a pain i will have to .. as my lovely husband told me just walk threw it. WELL DAMN IT! Ok ok I am my mothers daughter and I CAN do this!

two weeks later I started walking again. Very small walks with my kids. but more importantly very slow paced walks. I had to get back on the wagon and work on this weigh. Its harder now but I now have to do this instead of just wanting to. The dr says that the best way to keep the flare ups down and not as bad is to keep moving, keep walking, keep the muscles strong. Even when i hurt i should do a small walk to get the blood flowing and the body moving… as odd as it sounds it helps some times.

So were am i now? 3 months after the dr. appointment ..say it was um june 2007. I am doing baby steps on my food and what needs to be changed. i try to make one changes a month so that i can get it into are normal routine and have it become habit before trying for another step. I have switched from sugar in my daily coffee to splenda… ohhh i love splenda! It takes exactly like sugar… not like those offal other sweeteners ICK. That for me was a big calorie dropper in my diet. I have now cut my coffee to 1 or 2 cups a day and work on eating breakfast. This months goal is to get more of that ..demanded.. water in my diet. Well i for one hate tap water but i do love crystal light .. yummy , and so do the kids. So I take an empty milk gallon and fill it with water and one of the crystal light things .. its a bit watered down but its still good ( ice tea is are fav ) and another gallon of water with a lime juiced into it and the shell dropped in also.. i think I’m going to try lemon and mint next week

The kids and I do daily walks if passable but try not to go more then a day between them. We have a few favorite routs we take. one is up to 7 11 for there twice weekly slurpies its 12 blocks up hill and 12 blocks back. Its become really easy for us now and i don’t think anything of the distance until someone seems shocked we walked that far.. WOOT. We have done the 2 mile trek on the bike train to the Freddy’s by here. that was one mile of uphill and we made it with out dieing!

I am now at 195lb WOOOT and make very small 5 lb goals for myself so that was the VERY VERY long intro to my new rants on my baby steps!