I got some results back and nothing is "bad", but borderline.
I'll be spending some time researching natural and nutritional ways to handle these issues:
The cholesterol is the most pressing thing, my doc is jumping to prescribe and I'm not willing to take meds yet.
I have the paperwork to have the blood test done in 2 months, I have that long to do the diet thing.
Update: My mom and dad are staying for the luncheon, and then heading south. When they came to Michigan for my aunt, they hadn't closed up the Florida house (water, electricity, cleaning the fridge, packing clothes and my mom's computer...) So I will just come home and do laundry and homework. 😉
My Aunt Helen passed away earlier this week and her funeral is tomorrow (Lapeer, MI) so I have a bit of a drive. I may drive the rest of the way and stay with my mom and dad for the night and come home Saturday morning; I have to make sure it's okay with them (just in case they have other stuff going on or want to leave for Florida again right away).
I'm stopping on the way for food (I'm determined to do Core - or at least Weight Watchers the right way tomorrow and a funeral luncheon is not the best plan).
Take with me: grapes, extra lean ham, tuna in water, carrots.
First stop: Beaner's for a really big latte (skim milk, shot of sugar free chocolate)...
We went bowling...real bad first game, real good second game.
Nobody was injured, that was a good thing.
The guy at the counter called me "babe".
😉
the blog is really messed up in IE - I suggest firefox...browsing in tabs, pretty file tabs...
Firefox... 😉
There are two segments...
Chapter One:
The beauty of Saul's story is that when God steps into a person's life, unexpected things happen.
Saul hated Christians. Saul was there, approving, when Stephen was stoned. Saul went from house to house, dragging Christians off to jail. Saul's purpose was to destroy the Christian church.
Saul hated Christians.
Then Christ stepped into his life.
Transformed, Saul became Paul. He ended up ministering to the very people that he stoned, imprisoned, persecuted and hated.
He loved and cared for those he had hated.
Years ago I attended church with a woman who was unashamedly racist. She knew what she liked and she stuck by it. Then Christ moved in an unexpected way.
Our church sponsored Haitian refugees and there were a lot of them in New York City. We had collected a large amount of food and clothing and there was a conflict of scheduling the church van. Somehow or another, this woman ended up driving her personal van, taking food and clothes to a group of people that were (racially) part of a group that she, to say the least, had no love for.
She got there, met the people, met more. Stayed...stayed longer.
She came backed changed. She came back very changed. She became mother, grandmother, godmother to this group of people that our church adopted as part of our own.
She loved and cared for those she had hated.
When God moves, unexpected things happen.
Here's the photo
I weighed in on the wrong day, so I can't weigh again for nearly 2 weeks (3/17). But...this week...nice loss...very nice... ...continue reading
Somebody said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Well...Diet wise, that somebody was right. I spent a week on Core and (by my scales) lost somewhere in the area of 5 pounds. Changing from Flex to Core (shaking it up) worked.
Exercise, most experts will tell you that getting in a rut exercises only the same muscles - shaking up your routine uses different muscles and you get a different (and better) result.
How much of life is like that? "If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got."
Do I know that high sodium the day before I weigh in is going to mess me up? Well...of course. Does that stop me from using all the rest of my daily points on a jr. chili mac plate? Um...no.
Where else to I need to shake it up? Homework, clothing choices (as I lose weight, I'm choosing "younger" -not immodest- clothing).
Even doing one little thing differently can shake things up...
for backpacking, although I might get another set for my desk. They're very cute.
Tom is planning a 2-week backpacking trip on Isle Royale, so he's "gearing up". Otherwise, not much is going on. I've been listening to the Mark Driscoll series on Ruth...I generally like Driscoll, but this series is telling me that sometimes "expository" is not all it's cracked up to be...
The series is well worth listening to - Ruth is one of the most beautiful love stories in history.
I've taken a week off (and I'm up to date on homework - my life is seeming to revolve around Dreamweaver and Access).
This week...I'm going to start posting more often (but not daily).
On the weight loss front...I'm off the plateau. I've lost 3 weeks in a row, I'm looking at both my 10% mini-goal AND my 20 pound point.
On the exercise side, I'm hitting 100,000 steps today for this month, and I'm over 290,000 steps for the year! At this time last month, I was at 59,000 steps - that's an improvement!
Walk Away the Pounds, I'm at 32.5 for the month, 94.5 for the year. This time last month I was 17.5! I've even done the Walk/jog dvd twice!