Black Oak's Daughter

Whew, time’s flying. Im in the midst of a very busy couple of weeks. Next week coming up is our national training meeting at work, then the next weekend is prep and the trip out to see minime and HeWhoIsYetToBeBlogNamed again.  Then the weekend after that is the family party where part of the celebration will be the family’s chance to celebrate minime and HWIYTBB’s recent developments, and to which I am also bringing a really cool cake to help said celebration.

So, that being said, here are today’s plans:

• run to target to pick up a prescription and McDonalds to pick up breakfast
• mow lawn, weedwhack back the jungle that’s growing in the backyard
• laundry, probably 3 loads
• vacuum
• clean the bathroom/kitchen/office (bedroom happened yesterday)
• start making decorations for said cake (chocolate molding)
• pay bills (eek)

During all of this chaos (especially the training meeting) I will also be continuing with the new eating plan. It’s NOT a diet, it’s just a process of decision making on what I eat.  I have this really cool software (fitday.com) that gives me good nutrition/weight feedback. It’s not software that promotes any brand of diet, it’s just a nutrition/weight/exercise log that gives you good feedback.  My nutrition isn’t far off of the RDA’s, and I am NOT eating diet food, with the exception of things like Cottage Cheese (which I love) and a change of snacks (yogurt and granola instead of candy bars, and other such stuff like that).  Oddly, I don’t miss the candy. My need to snack in the afternoons is actually better satisfied by a banana creme pie yogurt and tropical granola than the other kinds of snacks I was having.  I’m watching calories. The software says I need about 3000 a day to maintain my weight so I’m aiming for anything less than 2000 but not less than 1700 or I’m starving and I’m really not good at hunger.  Other rules:  No eating breakfast until I’m hungry for it (eating too early just makes me hungry for lunch earlier, leads to more afternoon snacks, etc – vicious cycle averted if I don’t eat breakfast until 9 or 9:30 when I’m hungry, instead of 7 am on the way to work because it’s convenient.  I exercise when my kidney and time allow. Things that also count: mowing the lawn, chores, and shopping (2 hours friday!, but i found a great back up outfit for upcoming events if the first one that’s coming in the mail sucks).  I’ve been playing more video games too. It sounds like weak sauce, but consider that it’s the Wii (most active videogames ever!), and that time would have otherwise been spent surfing or watching TV, then at least I’m not as immobile as I was.  I’m up, moving, even if it’s just standing/stepping/drumming rather than sitting/laying. Anything is better than nothing. Right?

With all this going on, and a couple of 2000+ calorie days in the midst of it (no one’s perfect, and I won’t be so rigid as to not enjoy life a little bit occasionally, so I don’t beat myself up over it, tomorrow’s a new day)  I’ve lost, as of this morning, 15 pounds!

I wasn’t going to blog about it, but I think, for now, that with all of my previous, negative “diet” experience, this is what I can live with. It’s not that much of a reach, I’m not eating “diet” food, cooking anything special, etc.  It’s just a change in habit, and a little more activity.

I haven’t even discussed it with Roomie, although he’s probably noticed a few things here and there.  He hasn’t mentioned anything and I won’t either. For the most part, other than him cooking a few nights a week, I do my thing and he does his, foodwise, and his cooking, while generally high in fat (good oils) isn’t unhealthy. So I eat smaller portions of it, and I stay within my new habit guidelines.

Other things that are going on:

• The rings for myself and my daughter are being created with the goal being the end of next week so I can pick them up before I go out there next weekend.
• after 10 days on different antibiotics, and losing 15 pounds, the kidney/back pain is much less. I’m being very careful, and resting if it flares up, but I can live with this level of pain while I lose weight for a while, if the doc will let me.  I go for a Mag3 renal scan in 2 weeks to see where we are with kidney function and that will determine whether I get to wait a month or two, or if it comes out now.
• My friend from the previous blog post, who went on and on about how Jimmy Carter is anti-semetic apparently was offended that I took that the way that I did. He didn’t mean to call me anti-semetic (which I’m so NOT) but the way he went on and on about it sure made me feel that way. So, to my friend, who I didn’t name in the first place, so I won’t name him here, but he knows who he is: I apologize for taking it that way.  I still stand behind my belief that The Elders have a very good thing going, and if he were that hateful toward any group, I doubt they would allow him to be part of it, but you and I will have to agree to disagree on that.
• The cake: since minime and her guy are doing the theme wedding trip to Jamaica, I’m having a traditional danish cake made for the family party, but decorating it beach style. I’m making the decorations myself. It’s going to be very cool. (I hope!)

That’s it for now. Lots to do today and time’s going by fast. I better get to it.

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