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Are there any other idol fans out there?
I know this is completely unrelated to weight loss…but just wanted to put this out there?
Who are you going for…?
I love David Archuleta…but I like David Cook.
David A makes me cry when he sings…but David Cook is so versatile….what about you?
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We have a theatre here that shows discount movies on their way to becoming videos.
Saw Bucket List last night. So precious. Full of truth. Loved it!!!!
It got me thinking…just how precious to God we all are. How precious this limited time we have is. How important it is to live with faith in something bigger than ourselves. To live with principles and character, doing what it right in the face of temptation. To have gratitude and appreciation for the life we have been given, not to waste it on things that cheapen us. To make a difference in the lives of others around us.
To LOVE…to give…to serve.
Amazing reminder of what is REALLY important!
Just wanted to share my thoughts with everyone…
And encourage you to love others, live your life to the fullest…and be grateful for today!
Comments(16) Feeling like poop today. I’ve been…emotional…sad…I am sure you ladies can relate! I think it is the combination of being tired from the race and my TOM. I haven’t felt much like eating most of the day, with my headache and I took such a long nap. Therefore…I had a bunch of calories and fat grams left. So…I decided to have pizza and chocolate! Why not????
It was a cheese Kroger self-rising crust for 190cal/8fat per peice (I don’t think I had ever looked at the nutritional information of a pizza before). I added veggies and a little turkey pepperoni to it. I made a huge salad and put lf ranch on it. It was soooooo good. I had two peices, I used to have 3 and even 4 at times. I needed it…I mean…I wanted it as a comfort food…and I think it is ok to have stuff like that every now and then…as long as you don’t go overboard–and for me–as long as it is within my boundaries.
After I ate I had to run up to the store to get something…and the old me would have gotten a chocolate bar…but I started looking at them and I was amazed at how many fat grams are in chocolate. I mean, I knew it…but…I was just blown away by it. So I decided to ask my husband if he would get me 2 pieces out (of the stash he keeps for me, until I can be self-controled around it) when we got home.
So I had a dove milk choc and a cadberry with toffee peices which are 2 of my favorites. I remember when I would get a bag and devour it in 2 days…so this is an improvement! 100 cals and 5 grams of fat. AND it satisfied my cravings!
My total cals so far today 1040 and my fat is under at 32!
Yeah! I can be in control AND eat like a normal person–even when I am in the throes of PMS!!
If I get hungry before I go to bed…I can have some fruit, since I still have 460 cals left!
Thanks again to everyone for their support during my woeful moment. I feel better now…and I know that I will feel much better in a couple days!
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I HAVE to weigh everyday with this Research Project I am part of–here are my weights for this week:
Mon. 246.4
Tues. 246.4
Weds. 244.8
Thurs. 244.4
Fri. 244.6
Sat 244.4
then today 245?
Just weighed again and it is saying 247??? wha the…? 
ok…I am going back to bed and sleep off the woes…and I am not going to eat anything before I do…just drink some more water…
My friend (I meant) enemy TOM came yesterday after the race…and he has obviously brought his friends, bloating and water retention….
WHATEVER…so over it right now–it’s just discouraging!
I need my blankie…and my Jesus!
ARGHHHHHH
Comments(19) Well…I did it–Runner # 227 in the Monarchs in Motion 5k! Yeppers. Me and 486 other people!
It was interesting…a little overwhelming…but fun (did I just write that?).
I was the fluffiest woman I saw there…so I was REPRESENTIN’ the big ladies!!!!! Woo hoo!!!
When I went in to pick up my packet the guy working behind the counter asked me what size t-shirt, I told him(thinking, can’t you tell?)….and then he yelled to the people handing them out…”x-large!”. The ladies working with him chastised him, “don’t yell out x-large if it’s a woman”… 
I didn’t care…anyone can see me…and figure out…I ain’t no extra small: ) yet
The fastest time was 16.34 (I think) and mine….well it was 51…that means I was woggin’ a 16.45 min/mile…
I asked my husband…is that bad?…he said…”it’s not bad…but it’s not good either”…Lord help him!
There were hills…all through the course…that was a new thing for me. I usually walk on a flat trail…so hopefully my shins won’t be screamin’ at me tomorrow!
I learned a lot, here is my TOP TEN LIST:
you can put on your shoe that will automatically give you get your official time when you run past this thing 
at the finish line, but you have to sign up as a competetive runner.
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I am stronger and in better shape than I thought!
I think that is it…
When we were all lined up I thought of the monarchs before they migrate. 
There was a prayer before the start of the race, then the horn sounded…and we were released!!!!
The fast one’s got to go first. There were young men, women, older people…kids. Quite a mix of people.
I am glad I did it!! I thought of all of you. I wore a butterfly pinky ring I got at the Butterfly house earlier this week. I wore it because it makes me think of all you. I got a little teary eyed right before the race…and after.
I wished you all could have been with me…it would have been much more fun!
Hope everyone’s weekend is extra special. We have an art festival this weekend, so I am off to that! Hope my legs hold up!
Thank you soooooo much for all your encouragement…and prayers….I could feel it lifting my wings!
You truly are the wind beneath my wings!!!!
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Ok…it’s official…I got this email yesterday…and another one today! It said I have to be there at 7:00am!!!!??? That, in itself will be a miracle!
Tonight I went to the gym at 10:00pm (it closes at 11: ) I just had the hardest time getting out the door tonight, I am so addicted to the website! :lol:
When I got there…I bolted to the treadmill…and started wogging–then I lifted weights!
Oh my…can I brag…is that ok?
Well…I did not stop…
AND….drumroll please…
I jogged at 4 mph!!!
That might not seem like a lot to some of you…but let me remind you that I am 244 and 44 yrs old(soon to be 45–in 2 weeks) …so it is a very BIG deal for me! I felt like I was FLYing! I felt good, athletic, strong…proud! And I was amazed by how well I did the interval thing from www.podcast.com (interval training music to download, to help you learn to run) !!! I have gotten so much faster…I used to do the jogging part at 3.5…and now 4 mph…
Yeah…so happy!
So…tomorrow I will do a long 3 mile walk…less strenuous and save my strength for Saturday!
When I will be a Monarch in Motion!
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I am overwhelmed! I am sitting here at my computer, feeling the love…wiping away the tears! I just looked at all my new boosters, emails, comments and I feel so loved!
I am thinking…this is pretty incredible.
I came on this BS (buddyslim: ) website, just wondering if it would help…a total newbie…and now…I am just so amazed!
Who would believe it…that you can connect with people like this??
Everyone here is so sweet, special and precious! I am so grateful for you all…and I just wanted to let you know! I wake up and run to the computer to see how all of you are doing, what the newest blog is about, if someone emailed me or sent me a booster.
I am letting go of my addiction to food…and in return I am getting all this love! Wow…I am blessed!
Thank you!!!!
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Week 2 is going well. I hit my goals Mon and Tues. I got on the scale today…and it was back to 244. I started at 247 here then started the research project…saw it go up to 251…and then back to 247, then 246…etc.
It is weird to weigh everyday. It is up and down and all around. My TOM is right around the corner…so I can’t wait to see what happens then! Wheeeee! Riding the rollercoaster!
Last night I went to the grocery store and was on a quest for LF and FF (lowfat and fatfree) products. I have discovered that I need more of these to make it through the week, with only 33 fat grams in a day.
I found ff sourcream, cream cheese, mayo, coffee creamer and some chocolate meringue things (13 for 110 cals). I also got lf cheese, cereal, pita bread (no fat!) and things like that. I am going to use a ranch powder pack to make my own dressing with the ff mayo…so I am hoping that will taste good!
Today I plan to do weights and walk for an hour. The 5k is Saturday…so I am trying to figure out how to best do my walking this week. I think I will really push tomorrow and take it easier, but longer today and Friday.
This morning even though I saw the scale go down, I thought…this is going to take a long time. FOREVER! Longer than the time it takes to have a baby…longer than a year…maybe two! I have lost weight FAST in the past. Fasting and lowering my calories too low. I still think…I could just fast and get this weight off. I shared this thinking with my husband…and he said, why don’t you just fast then? He wants me to lose weight too. But, I don’t want to do that. I mean I doooo…but I have made a commitment to this research project…and I have heard the experts say…you need to lose it slow to keep it off. Plus I need this to be a lifestyle change…something I do for the rest of my life…so…doing it fast…well…that would be a quick reward…but not a opportunity to learn a new way of life!
So…I am resolved to do it the right way…slow and steady…there she goes!
Blessings to all the butterflies to be!
Comments(9) Or happiness is going to a butterfly house with your two year old nephew! We had so much fun…wow…children are a gift! He was so delightful and easy to please. What a joy!
As soon as we walked in the butterfly house there were two that were dancing around and around in flight right in front of us! I said, “I wonder if one will land on our hand?” So I stuck my hand out and right away, it just landed there, on my finger! Oh my…what an absolutely gorgeous, beautiful creature…so special, light, and delicate. WOW…what an awesome Creator!
They were everywhere. Each one so different. The colors, remarkably breathtaking. The patterns, so intricate.
There were rows of crysalis in a special incubation room, with a window so we could watch like new parents at a maternity ward. Some were just breaking out, others were there with wings still damp and crinkled from the cramped corners of the crysalis’. Others wings had spread, they were hanging upside down, waiting for them to fill with blood and become rigid enough to carry them in flight. Others were ready to fly.
The curator, an old friend of mine, was in the special room gathering the ones ready to take flight. He gently placed them in a mesh cube and brought them out to be released. There were children clamouring all around him, so excited, squealing with delight and asking a million questions! It was quite a commotion!!! He wove his way to an open place and released them.
It was a beautiful sight. Their very first flight of FREEDOM!
With perfect little wings that brought joy, wonder and so much intrigue!
As I was writing this, I was wondering, why am I sharing all of this?
But I believe it is to encourage all of you!
We are all becoming butterflies…and we are all in process.
Some of us are still just caterpillars, others are just creating our crysalis, others are breaking out, with crinkled wings, some are hanging upside down, waiting for their wings to fill with blood…so that they can take flight…and others…are being released!
I thought about coming to God as a small child, sweet and innocent. What a gift we must be to Him as His children. How the angels probably gathered around Him when He released us to the earth, like those children today…so excited and filled with joy.
I just wanted to encourage you to…
Fly butterflies, FLY!!!!
F inally
L oving
Y ourself!
(There is a website called Fly lady…and I got this from her: )
Comments(14) This is a simple formula that was in my new information from the research center on how to lose weight. Some of you probably know it…but I thought it was interesting…and I had never seen it laid out like this!
To get the calories needed to maintain your weight, multiply your current weight by 12
ex: 200 x 12 = 2400 cals per day to maintain your weight
if
3500 cals = 1 pound
-500 x 7days = -3500 = -1lb
so decrease your cals by 500/day to lose 1lb/week, 1000, to lose 2, 1500 to lose 3…etc.
But don’t go below 1200…
Exercise burns cals too
20 mins of walking burns approx 100 cals 5 x 100 also = 500 cals
Do that 7 times and you burn 3500 cals = lose 1 lb, 14x and you burn 7000 = lose 2, 21x and you burn 10500 = lose 3…etc
So if you decrease our cals by 1000 (as long as you don’t go below 1200)…you should lose 2 lbs/per week!
Any exercise you do can also be part of the equation!!
