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Hey guys, the old computer was down and out, I promise I did not do anything on purpose to make it sick!  My husband swears that I just  wanted a newer, faster one.  But that is not true!  The poor old thing just locked up and wouldn’t reboot, I was trying to clean out some old and never used files and I guess I deleted something I wasn’t supposed to.  Anyway it took a while to get the computer dudes out here and to install a new one.  But I’m up and running and have promised not to try to “fix” anything one this one.   The weather is just beautiful here and we have some really pretty leaves left on the trees.  Nothing like you all up north and to the east have, but for here in Oklahoma, they’re nice.  I’m having to stay out of the woods when I walk for a while.  The deer hunting season is open and while I always know where my husband is, I can’t say the same for the guys that have the land next to us leased.  They have moved their blinds right up on our fences and I don’t want to be mistaken for a deer.  We keep feeders and food plots out for the wildlife here on the ranch and I think we have drawn in every deer in the county.  Our neighbor runs cattle on his land, so there isn’t much left over for the deer.    So they come over the fence to our place for a good feed.

We are through with baseball for the year, and are on to basketball.  Josh is playing on his 6th grade team so of course we go to watch.  I have never been much interested in either sport, I like football, but now that our grandson is playing, I’m having to learn about them both.   Oh well they say learning something new is good for you.  

I’m gearing up for the holidays, I love this time of year.  It is so hard for me to resist all the goodies that are around, but I still love the season.    It’s going to be bad this year, I seem to be stuck around 191-192 and can’t get the scale to budge.  I did see 190 the other day, was so excited, but it didn’t last.  I have to up the exercise and see what happens.  One of my buddies said she was making 5 miles now, boy do I have a long way to go, I’m good if I get in 2!  I wish I could find some way to get enthused about exercising, I just don’t like it.  That’s probably why I weigh too much.  Ya think? 

I hope you all have a good week and great things happen for you. 

Where did this week go?  It’s Friday, the weekend is here and I am still thinking it Tuesday!  We’ve been really busy this week–fall break for the grandson–had to get him outfitted for hunting season.  He’s nearly 12 and has grown out of everything he had last year.  There is a special season for youth hunters and he and his Papa are out in the woods, looking for that big buck.  This means lots more cooking for me, I don’t mind, but the temptation to sample is great.  He put in an order for chocolate chip cookies today ( I have had only one)  and they don’t get in from the evening hunt until after dark, which means late meals.  Oh well, he is worth it.  The treadmill will get a work out for a few days though, disturbing the deer by walking in the woods would be a very bad thing.  Never mind that they come up to the house and eat in the yard.  It’s getting cooler down here and it is wonderful, my outside walks are so nice.  I can take my Lab Lilly with me and get in a good two miles easily.  I hope you all have a good week end and do some thing fun.  Check it out I’ve lost another pound.

I got on the scales this morning and blast,dang, there it was 1/2 a pound that was not supposed to be there!  I was good this week end did not pig out watching football and even got in a walk on the treadmill and some outside work.  Where did it come from?  This is what drives me crazy, I try to be careful and get in my exercise and I gain 1/2 a pound.  Well this time I’m not throwing in the towel and feeding my face with mac and cheese and Hershey bars!  I got my butt up and went for a 1 1/2  mile walk and soon as I’m done here it’s outside to finish up the flower bed.   I’m still mad, why is it that I do all this work and still have trouble dropping the pounds and my husband can eat cookies and ice cream and still stay in reasonable shape.  Life is not fair.  Gripe and groan!  Guess that’s what I get for bragging on myself about how well I was resisting temptation!  It’ll get ya.    Now on to my other gripe, I was looking through my exercise tapes and I am really bugged about this.  Why is it that almost everybody on those tapes is already skinny?   Can’t they find anyone that needs to lose a few and let them be on there too?  Richard Simmons is the only one I know that has real people on his exercise tapes.  At least when I do his tapes I don’t feel like the odd one out.  That’s why I hated  going to a gym, when I used to live close enough to go.  Too self conscious I guess.  Anyway I guess I’ll just have to work harder and watch more carefully and I too will be one of those “skinnies”.    Everybody have a good week.                                                                                          PS:    Ryan,  I put in my Christmas order for that Wii today.

Usually our weekends are pretty laid back, especially if my husband is hunting.  This was the exception that proves that rule.  Our daughter called Friday afternoon and wanted to know if we wanted our grandson ,Josh, for the night.  Of course, never turn down Josh time!  Off Tony went to pick him up and I had to add to what we were having for supper.  Feeding a 12 year old boy requires more that what I usually cook.  We had to get up early so the guys could get in a practice shoot, for upcoming youth season on deer.  Of course they were hungry after all that work, so it was breakfast for us.  Now breakfast is one of my favorite meals, if we don’t have to eat before 10 AM!  I watched my portions and resisted pigging out.  We watched the Texas/OU football game(Texas won!) and again there was some resisting temptation going on, but I made it.   After the game the boys did hamburgers on the grill and we were off to a double header baseball game.  Josh plays third base and pitches.  The team won one and lost one so it wasn’t too bad a night.  We got home around 10pm and I was hungry, so instead of having ice cream, which was what I wanted and had popcorn instead.  Sunday morning we slept  in a lazed around most of the day, but I did get in my mile on the treadmill.  My Cowboys looked awful and lost their game.  I had a really hard time staying away from the chips, but I made it.  I kept my weight at the same so I guess that’s a small victory.    So all in all I had a pretty good weekend, lots of fun and I’m proud that I did so well keeping my eating in check.  Enough of my bragging, I hope you all had a good week end and the upcoming week goes well.

I have to tell you it has taken me 3 days to get those flower beds in shape, but they are looking good.  I was so sore from bending and pulling that I had to take off today and give my back and knees a rest.  I’ll be after it tomorrow and finish them up.   I guess after this I’ll have to get out my exercise tapes and dust them off.  No use in wasting this head start, after all the worst of the soreness is just about gone!  It’s supposed to rain here the next couple of days so that will be a good time to get the inside exercise started.

I have a question for you all, is the walking you do when you are shopping exercise?  I must have put in 5 miles yesterday, it certainly felt like that.  My friend and I spent the whole day in and out the the truck and toured several nurseries and quite a few large stores.  We mostly just looked, but we did come home with some pansies and a couple of nice pumpkins.  I’m not counting the groceries.  We live about 35 miles, one way, from any large town,(that means one with  a WalMart)  so we try to get in all our shopping when we go.   We had lunch at Arby, ruben sandwiches, and then hit Wal Mart and I think we surely walked off that!  Anyway, when I got home I was tired and all I wanted to do was sit down.  So no treadmill or trail walking yesterday for me.                                   I’ll make up for it today, I’m going to tear out one of my rose beds and replant everything, lots of bending and streching!   It’s hard to know how to figure in this kind of exercise, but don’t you all think it sould count?    This week end I’ll have to work on fitting in my walks, Texas/OU football game on Sat.  That’s almost a religious experience down this way.   Even though we live in Oklahoma, we are Texans to the bone, and my husband graduated from Tx at Arlington, so we are Longhorn fans.    Then  our grandson has a baseball game Sat night a double  header I think,  and the Cowboys play on Sunday. This could be the time when the treadmill gets a work out!   I hear the weeds calling from the rose bed so I guess I’d better go attend to them, nasty little pests.  Hope you all  have a great weekend and have lots of low calorie fun.  HOOK EM HORNS!

I sat down to do a few things on the computer this morning and looked up and my husband was wanting to know when we were going to have lunch!  Time certainly got away from me.  So I was late getting out for my walk.  I am really glad I read Debbi’s blog first thing.  She inspired me to get off my butt and get out and do my walk, even though it was a little hot and I had other things I needed to do.  Sweat is good, I’m important enough to take the time out for me, I think that will be my mantra.  Well maybe not the sweat part!  I managed to walk roughly 2 miles today(CHEERS)  I’m not exactly sure I haven’t clocked the trail yet, but it is on my list.  I want to know just how many miles I getting in.  I think even my husband is getting the idea that I am going to go do my walk or at least hit the treadmill.  He’s a good guy, but he can drop weight so easily, and he just doesn’t get why I can’t just cut back and do the same.  He is pretty active, there in lies the problem. He get a good deal more exercise than I do, just because he is always out in the shop working on some project or the other.  He is one of those people that has to be busy and accomplish at least one thing each day or he thinks it’s a wasted day.  By the way, he is a retired Mechanical Engineer, a high type A .  My idea of a great day is get the chores done and settle in with a good book, definately low key and no type A in me.    We prove the old saying opposites attract, he is being supportive of my efforts.  I appointed him my chief nagger, if I don’t get out and get it done, I’ve given him leave to chew me out!  Of course he’s all for that.  I really don’t have any excuse not to get my exercise in and I can only blame myself if I don’t get moving some how.  I’ve decided that anything is better than nothing, and I’ll do what I feel up to and try to do more the next day.      Tomorrow will be fun, going shopping with some girlfriends, so the walking won’t be noticed and I bet I don’t even break a sweat.   I’ll probably get more time in too.  I have in mind to lose at least 10 pounds before the first part of December.  My daughter and I are going to Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo.  I’ve always wanted to go and this is the 50th year so I figure that it will be extra special.  We’ve  got tickets and rooms and are  ready to go.  I’d like to fit into some of my fancy western shirts, and be able to climb to the row where our seats are with out being short of breath.  That’s a good goal, I think.  Maybe I’ll even let someone take pictures with me in them.  Hate to be in pictures.  Haven’t liked that since I put this 50 pounds back on.   So I guess that will be another goal for me, lose enough to not mind being in pictures.  I’m off for bed, shopping requires a good nights sleep.    I’m calling it 2 miles for today.

My dog Lilly and I went off for our walk up the driveway this morning, it was nice and cool and I decided to enjoy a stroll outside.  We were just out of sight of the house when I noticed something in the road up ahead.  After checking it out I saw it was a very large cotten mouth.  We didn’t get too close, but quickly turned around and hotfooted it to the house, yelling at the top of my lungs, for Tony to bring the gun!   By the time he got back down there the dratted thing was gone.  Lilly was on leash, thank goodness, I sometimes let the other dogs run free.  Did not want to have to deal with a snake bite.   Good news is that it added about .4 of a mile to my regular walk at a highly increased pace!   Never a dull moment around here.  If it’s not a snake on my walking path, it’s turkeys in the front yard or deer  in the back.  We have coyotes, hense Coyote Run Ranch, bobcats, and even a cougar that prowls through the back side of our property.  Most of the critters are peaceable and won’t bother you at all, but I hate snakes.  After the snake did the disappearing act, Lilly and finished our walk and the rest was unevenful.

I know for you all that live north, 58 isn’t really all that cool, but that’s what we had this morning and I couldn’t resist a late morning walk.  For some reason I enjoy walking outside more that on the treadmill, even with the TV to help pass the time.  I guess I’ll have to get my snake boots out and try out the trails in the woods, I’ve got myself going and I want to keep up the exercise and get where I can walk longer distances. I think that I can lose this weight if I can keep up the exercise, I watch what I eat pretty carefully and don’t get to out of hand.  Husband,Tony. was asking me what I wanted for Christmas and I think I going for a Wii, I’ve heard that they are really fun and they have a exercise program to go with them now.     I really think that lack of movement is my problem.   So let me hear from you all if I miss out on telling you that I did some kind of exercise for the day.   Total walking for today—   1 3/4 miles!

Yea for me! I made it through the week end and I actually lost a pound.  I skipped out on walking Sunday, I needed a day off to rest my knees.  My new Lab puppy came up sick, we thought he’d been snake bit, but it turned out to be puppy strangles.  I thought that was only a horse disease.  He’s at the vets, but he’ll be ok.  Anyway I spent most of the day holding him so he could sleep, his poor head was so swollen under his jaws that it hurt to lay it on his paws.  I watched the football games, I’m a big Cowboy fan, have been nearly all my life, and took care of Gunner.

I have a new plan,  I’m going to have our large meal at noon, and then eat light at dinner.  I think that will help with the weight loss.   If I could just get my husband not to eat ice cream in the evenings things would go better, sometimes it’s really hard to resist.  He’s a sweet nut and thinks he has to have something in the kitchen at all times.  Most times I don’t have a problem, but every once in a while it gets tough.   Mostly it’s when I take whatever out of the oven, I try to cook things I don’t really like!   I guess it is good to exercise my self restraint!  Hope eveyone is having a good Monday.

I stepped on the scales today and looked with horror as I saw one more pound added to my total. For years I have tried to lose and maintain my weight.  I have lost over 50 pounds and managed to keep it off for a while, but slowly it seems to creep back on me.  I hate to exercise, and  I live in the country which makes getting into a gym or a class really hard.  So its walking and doing the treadmill thing for me.  I get started and do well for a while, then I get off track and let things slide and all of a sudden, I’m not exercising.   I have a family history of heart problems and know that it is very important for me to get to and maintain a healty weight.  I hope by joining and posting my progress it will give me the motivation to continue and be successful in my weight loss.   If anyone reads this and feels like helping me out, please do, I need some encouragement.

I spent 25 minutes on the treadmill this morning and walked 1 mile.   Its a start and I’m determined to keep it up.

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