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Please don't Reply to any of these journals unless by email... But if you have anything to reply to me about then please feel free to email me because I would love to hear your comments and what you have to say- thank you! *smiles & hugs, Chara* |
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July 7, 2004 I know its been awhile since I sent out a journal but trying to start getting back on plan here. Alot has been going on with Rickey not getting a weekly pay check now. He's working from job to job. So I'm having to change everything I do with the bills now. So I'm alittle stressed over this happening now. Its rained over 3 weeks here so my grass was up over 2 feet tall because of it. I've been cutting grass for 2 days now and I still have today to try and finish up. Plus, I scrubbed the house yesterday, vacuumed, bathrooms, kitchen, cooked a big dinner, polished furniture, etc. I didn't sit down until around 10:00 last night. So tired I didn't even turn the computer on. I stayed on plan all day yesterday but then last night at 9:00 Rickey & Bill wanted some smores'.... I ate 6 of them on ritz crackers. And I had 2 biscuits... ugh! "smores'" ritz crackers peanut butter marshmellow So I really blew my whole day on plan. So trying to do better today. I don't have much food in the house right now so I'm limited on what I can eat. I think things will be better when I can go to the grocery store. The only thing that I'm proud of is that I didn't eat any chips even though I seen them in the kitchen. Wishing you all a super day and weekend coming up. *smiles* Chara :) breakfast- oatmeal snack- peanuts (I'm out of almonds) tea lunch- 2 weiners microwaved tea dinner- 1 spoon rice w/ steak & gravy green peas 2 canned biscuits tea snack- 6 smores' |
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July 8, 2004 - thursday Yesterday was a very long day around here. I cleaned the house and about the time I was going to go outside to finish my grass my brother & Cindy came walking in the door... So I hung out talking to them until Rickey walked in the door at 2:30. So we all talked and visited and I started dinner. I put on a big pot of white butter beans and cornbread. Then we all went for a walk to the back of our land. We have 9 acres here and we had a road put in going to the back of the land 2 months ago. So we walked around talking for about 2 hours. Then we came back in and Bill showed up and we all ate dinner. They all left around 9:00 last night. Then I cleaned the kitchen, put some clothes in the dryer, then took my shower and hit the bed at 11:30pm... My foods were good except for the slice of cornbread for dinner. Wishing you all a super weekend... *smiles* Chara breakfast- tuna salad on 1 slice wheat toast tea snack- 2 ritz crackers w/ cheese tea lunch- 2 weiners tea dinner- 1 bowl white butter beans 1 slice cornbread tea water- 30 oz. |
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July 12, 2004 - monday I haven't had much of a chance to journal it seems lately but I'm going to try and get myself back on track. I find the more I journal and go to the board the better I do during the day. Below is alittle I wrote on the board this morning... I didn't have a chance to come in here yesterday after 2:30. I got busy around here and Rickey came home from work. So I finished up some cleaning and then started dinner. It wasn't the best thing on my plan but it wasn't that bad either. Rickey loves it when I cook bacon (set aside) then cooked some elbow mac, drain.... add a can of diced tomatoes and a can of tomato sauce then add some water and cook for alittle while then crumble the bacon in it.... thats it! :) Cheap meal for us but he loves it... lol Thats what he ask for so I cooked it for him and I had a small bowl of it. Its the pasta thats not really good for my plan. I find myself craving something to eat an hour after I eat pasta's or anything white.... I try not to eat anything white because when I do I always have to eat something else later... But hoping today will be a better day on plan. And of course I ate 1/2 a PB & jam sandwich on white bread an hour after the pasta. I didn't have any wheat in the house. I didn't feel good yesterday either. I feel kinda drained of my energy. I'm hoping today will be a better day on plan. Wishing you all a super day... *smiles* Chara breakfast- 2 eggs 3 ritz crackers (no wheat toast) snack- to many almonds.... ugh! snack- 6 ritz crackers w/ cheese lunch- 1 sausage weiner w/ mustard dinner- small bowl mac & tomatoes snack- 1/2 PB & jam sandwich on white bread snack- 5 ritz crackers w/ apple butter water- 20 oz. |
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July 13, 2004 - tuesday I didn't sleep good last night. I was up about 6-7 times during the night. I was SO tired when I got up this morning. And I really wasn't in a good mood when I got up this morning either. Rickey was getting on my nerves this morning so I was glad to see him leave for work... LOL :) Our dog "Abby" kept barking during the night so I would get up to see what she was barking at in the yard. At 2:30am she was barking at afew deers that was in our yard. I forced myself to eat breakfast at 9:00 this morning. I'm trying to get myself back on track. I cleaned house today, vacuumed, polished furniture, made my bed, washed clothes, etc. "Same ole stuff" I tried to read alittle this evening but Rickey decided we would unpack more boxes from us moving. Not sure why he wanted to do that since we still don't have the closets finished. I don't have shelves or rods in my closets yet. Just didn't make much sense to me to unpack and then pile it all up somewhere. "men"! :) He really don't understand that I live at my job everyday and I prefer to stop working for the evenings. Even though I still am doing something in the evenings. We ate leftovers tonight, then Bill came over to talk to Rickey about work stuff. Its after 11:00pm and I'm so tried and Rickey is watching tv and wanting me to watch the beginning of a movie we missed the other day. "Totally not in the mood" I've been missing some of my friends I journal with. Emiley I hope to hear from you soon and fine out how the vacation went. Cee, I hope everything at home is settling down alittle and you're feeling better. Zoo, we haven't heard from you today so I'm hoping you and Brad are doing okay today. I'm sending prayers your way for you both to get better. I hope the car is being fixed also. Wishing you all a super hump day tomorrow :) *smiles* Chara Breakfast- 9:00am bowl of oat bran cereal snack- almonds lunch- 2 weiners snack- 1/2 PB & jam sandwich snack- almonds dinner- leftover small bowl mac & tomato stuff snack- 6 oz. chocolate soy milk 2 fig newtons water- 30 oz... not much |
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July 14, 2004 - wednesday Well, its been along day around here. I'm always working but seems sometimes I just don't get as much done as I wanted to. I did my cleaning and vacuuming (as always), even vacuumed both livingroom suits.. LOL The dogs aren't allowed on the furniture but I like to vacuum sometimes because of dust landing on it... *weird-do, I know* :) 2 loads of clothes, dishes, changed the filter in the a/c return, cooked dinner, ran to the bank, grocery store for afew things, post office to check that box since I haven't done that in a month, then took a book back to the library. I almost never got the mail out of that P.O box because it was SO full. I worked in my flower bed again because with all the rain the weeds have been trying to take over. The heat index was HIGH today so I was limited in how much time I could stay in the yard. Just walking out the door made you break a mean sweat. Rickey had a rough day at work. Then he came home and worked on re-doing our screen porch. Then I thought I was going to rest alittle and my brothers Girlfriend of 10 yrs. "Cindy" called and I was on the phone with her for 3 hours. Because I had a hysterectomy at age 26 yrs. old I started going through the change of life in my 30's. I've been dealing with this for 10 yrs. now. And its just now getting better. But now she's going through it and I'm the only person she can talk to and I can relate with everything she's going through. I told her tonight I was going to start charging her for these sessions. LOL I was joking and she laughed.... But anyways its been a long rough day around here. I'm tired but I have to say I did alot better on my plan today... Wishing you all a super week! :) *smiles* Chara breakfast- 8:30 2 egg omelet w/ salsa snack- 10:00 almonds lunch- oops! snack- 2:00 grapes snack- 3:00 3 lemon & poppy seed scones snack- 4:00 afew cashews dinner- 6:00 1 taco w/ salsa water- 33 oz.... alot better :) |
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July 16, 2004 Sorry I've been MIA today and I didn't get my journal out for yesterday. Its been a busy 2 days here. We got a call this morning about a guy needing some work done so had to take off over there to give the guy a price. Had to run to the office, then ate lunch (the worse food we've ever ate), then lowe's for me to get afew flowers and potting soil, then to the store, then had to go pay Dray. Heading outside in a minute to plant my flowers and work in my flower garden. I've been trying to catch up on the board since I walked in the door. My foods yesterday was good. I jumped on the scales this morning and I had dropped the 2 lbs. I had gained on roll call monday. Just keeping my fingers crossed that I can keep it off for monday :) My foods today were awful and I didn't get my meals and snacks in today. breakfast- none snack- none lunch- 1:30 bite of squash - yuck bite of cabbage - yuck bite of green beans - yuck bite of green limas - yuck 1 chicken wing tea dinner- bowl of oat bran cereal water- 20 oz. :( |
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July 17 & 18, 2004 saturday & sunday Well, needless to say its been a killer tiring weekend for me. I have totally worked my booty off this weekend :) "I wish" :) Our old neighbor "bill" came over friday night at 9:30 and said he would bring us the TrackHoe saturday so we can do some work around the house. He brought it yesterday morning and Rickey worked all day and night again started early again this morning and Bill came and picked it up around 1:00 today. I worked so hard all day yesterday. We didn't come in until last night at 9:30. I was SO tired when I came in and was in so much pain. I thought 3 times yesterday that I was on the verge of a heat stroke. It really scared me bad. I re-worked all my flower beds. Planted 25 new plants, re-planted around 20 plants, re-plotted around 12 plants, put out 8 bags of cypress mulch (I hauled them from 200 feet to front yard with a handtruck and made 12 loads with it bringing stuff to the front), 4 huge bags potting soil, weeded my whole yard, set a water fountain in my garden but I put some plants in it, push cut with lawn mower for about 45 minutes, cut half my grass (which is around 2 acres) with lawn tractor. That was just yesterdays work. I didn't eat meals all day cause I didn't have time but everytime I felt weak I would run in for 5 minutes and get alittle something and run back outside. But kept the water near all day. Then came in last night and cooked and vacuumed half the house. Then took a shower and FELL in the bed. Today I washed a load of clothes, planted 6 - 3 foot tall banana trees, 1 - 2 foot tall fig bush, 1 - 2 foot tall oak tree, cut more grass with lawn tractor for about 2 hours, went to the grocery store for afew things, got gas for lawn mowers, cleaned house alittle, grilled steaks and made a big salad. And finally got on the computer tonight to do my journal and now running to take shower and heading off to bed. Its almost 11:30 so signing off... *smiles* Chara Saturday- breakfast- oat bran cereal later- 1/2 PB & jam sandwich later- 2 - weiners later- 1 diced peach cup later- handfull cashews later- afew preztels dinner- 1 wheat toast w/ deviled egg salad water- 100 oz - wooohooooo!
sunday- breakfast- 1 boiled egg later- 1/2 PB & jam sandwich later- 1 boiled egg later- 2 fig newtons later- afew cashews dinner- steak & big salad water- 60 oz. |
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July 20, 2004 - tuesday Not much time here so trying to make this short. I got news that I was going to have to tend to my grandmother again for a week. Then when my uncle got here this morning with her he brough 2 weeks worth of pills. UGH! THANKS! I can't deal with her over afew days. She just gets on my nerves with all the same questions all day. Then she hates the fact that I work all day doing something in the yard and cleaning the house. She wants me to sit and look at her across the table every minute and talk about nothing just as long as we're talking. And she wants to talk bad about people all the time and that is NOT me and I refuse to hear it. Which makes her mad at me. ugh! enough whining :) I've worked hard in the yard all day. Weeding, building new flower beds, cutting grass, watering, cleaning the yard, vacuumed the house, cleaned the house, cooked breakfast & dinner. We're heading out to take MA to my mom's for her to babysit while we go meet with some people to give them a price on a garage and a storage building in their yard. Seems that work never stops around here. Wishing you all a super week. *smiles* breakfast- 2 eggs & 1 toast lunch- 1/2 PB & jam sandwich afew cashews dinner- 1 taco water- 60 oz. |
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July 22, 2004 - thursday I'm sorry I've been MIA lately but I do have my hands full here. Yesterday was a very bad day with MA... (grandmother) .... ugh! So bad that I had to call my uncle and tell him I couldn't deal with this any longer. And this was my last time taking her for him. He finally spoke with her on the phone and then he called my other uncle and then he called her 3 times yesterday to keep checking on her so she would be good. My nervous were totally shot yesterday. I just pray today is a better day. I cleaned house, vacuumed, unpacked afew more boxes, moved furniture, tried to get my bedroom together, planted afew flowers in the yard, worked in the yard. Wishing you all a super weekend. *smiles* Chara breakfast- alittle oat bran cereal (ran out) snack- small oatmeal cookie lunch- afew little smokies sausages 4 ritz w/ 2 slices cheese dinner- 4 fish sticks orka water- 20 oz. |
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July 27, 2004 - tuesday Sorry I've been MIA but by the time I finish around here at night and get Ma in the bed I'm worn out. I take my shower and fall in the bed. Yesterday I cut grass for 6 hours none stop, I worked in my flower beds, cleaned house alittle, washed a load of clothes, and cooked a good dinner.... All my foods were good until last night and I ate 3 orange danish rolls. They come in a can and Rickey baked them. ugh! :) Well, I guess I better get started around here today. Sorry I'm late with this. I started writing this at 6:30am this morning and its now 11:15. I had to get up and deal with Ma.... Wishing you all a super day! :)
*smiles* Chara breakfast- 2 eggs 1 wheat toast lunch- 2 diced peach cups 2 handfulls cashew nuts dinner- 4 small salmon patties fresh garden corn 2 biscuits 9:00pm- 3 danish rolls |
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Aug. 1, 2004 - sunday Well, its been a tiring & busy 2 weeks around here. Nothing but cleaning and scrubing since MA left here. And saturday me & Rickey started working on the ceremic tile work in the master bathroom. The tile is so beautiful and I'm happy with the color. Then yesterday I had a rough long day. My brother 'Kenny' & Cindy showed up around 11:00am and they were starving. Then an hour later Bill showed up. So I cleaned the kitchen from the night before when I was to tired to clean it. Then I cooked them all a big breakfast with eggs, grits, sausage, bacon, biscuits and milk gravy. Then I cleaned the kitchen again and headed off to the store to buy something for dinner for everyone. Then came home and marinated steaks, made a huge salad, baked beans, rolls and baked a apple pie. Rickey grilled the steaks for me and we ate around 5:00 and then I made coffee for everyone. Then entertained until 8:30pm. I was SO tired after they all left that I refused to clean the kitchen for the 3rd time. So its still in there a mess waiting for me this morning. I do hate waking up to that mess though. But I took my shower and was in the bed at 9:30 last night. I always enjoy the company but it tires me out. Over all we had a great weekend. We took a nap friday afternoon for about an hour. Then got up at 6:00am saturday morning and was back in the bed at 11:00am for a 3 hour nap. So I got some rest in over the weekend but I feel as if I'm still lacking rest from our move here. I hope you all had a good weekend. Here's to a new week... *smiles* Chara breakfast- 1 diced peach cup lunch- 'breakfast' scrambled eggs 2 small sausages 1 small spoon milk gravy 'for the taste' :) 1 small spoon grits NO biscuits :) dinner- 1/2 steak 'wasn't in a meat mood' salad 1 spoon baked beans tea 6:00- small slice apple pie water- 25 oz. |
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August 2, 2004 - monday Not much to report other then I lost another pound this week. That puts me a total of 36 lbs lost. I'm 217 lbs. now. I just can't wait to get under the 200 lb. mark. I think its been around 20 years since I've been under that. I woke up with a major Crick in my neck and shoulder. I thought I was going to cry all day long. Everytime I tried to do something it only made it worse. So I finally laid in the bed for alittle while. Got up for about an hour and went back to bed until 2:00pm. Then got up and tried to clean somemore. I cooked us some leftovers. I've tried doing something different also afew times this week with my foods. "just a test" When I cook dinner I pick one thing to sit aside just in case I want to eat later in the evening. Most of the time I haven't even want it but afew times I wanted something later and ate that serving of food I saved from dinner. But I make sure I'm not eating later than 7:00pm. My foods were good all day until last night and Rickey baked some Smores'.... yep! I ate some of them. ugh! ole' well :) I never had the chance to re-paint my nails. Tate, Congrats on your weight loss GF. You are really doing a awesome job with it :) And you are SO close. Elle, I think you're going to have a super month with your weight loss. Change does work because its helped me lose in the past 2 months. I kinda think our bodies get used to the same foods all the time. I changed all my foods around and I've lost 11 lbs. in these 2 months. But before that I didn't lose for 6-8 months. Wishing you all a super week over there :) *smiles* Chara breakfast- 1 wheat toast w/ cream cheese & pineapple spread snack- tiny slice apple pie lunch- 1/2 deviled egg salad sandwich dinner- 1/2 steak small serving salad snack- smores' ritz cracker w/ PB & marshmellow |
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August 4, 2004 - wednesday I had a easy day. The Crick in my neck & shoulder I tried to work out but I was still sore. I cleaned alittle around here. Rickey & Dray (19 yr. old son) got home from work around 3:30. Dray left at 4:00 after he ate a sandwich. Then around 5:00 Caleb (22 yr. old son) showed up and ate dinner with us and cut all the ceremic tiles for my master bathroom. He knows Rickey hates cutting tiles so he said he would come over and do it for him. They had my bathroom floors finished in 2 hours. Thats good time because my bathroom is very large. Then we took Caleb home and seen the room he just finished remodeling for our new grandbaby thats on the way. He did a good job with the room. We got home around 10:30 and daddy called which he hasn't called me in weeks. But we got cut off because he was traveling up in the mountains of N.C and lost signal. I finally got in the bed around 12:00 midnight. So I'm alittle tired this morning. I was hungry all day today but I think it was I didn't have much to eat on monday. But I'm going to make this a super day on my plan. And wishing everyone a great day today! :) *smiles* Chara breakfast- 2 eggs 1 wheat toast w/ apple butter snack- 4 fig newtons lunch- 1/2 bacon sandwich snack- 1 diced peach cup later- 1 diced peach cup dinner- 5:00 a very small slice cornbread bowl of white butter beans water- notta :( |
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January 10, 2007 - WEDNESDAY (yesterdays) weight- 238 lbs. I was in shock again when I seen how long it has been since I logged a journal in here. Wednesday was really my first day staying pretty close to eating right. It was hard to do but I had to start somewhere. I need to work hard with getting some exercise in my days. I worked in the house little today plus tried to get alot of paper work behind me. I made some Leek Broth Soup to have around for those moments I needed something. I'm be glad to see my stomach go down some, it seems to stay bloated all the time so you know I've not been eating right. Breakfast- 1 small apple 1 cup oatmeal Snack- Blueberry Smoothie 1 cup Lunch- 1 bowl Leek/Chicken Broth Soup Snack- 1 blowl Leek/Chicken Broth Soup Dinner- 1 bowl Leek/Chicken Broth Soup alittle RoastBeef 1/2 cup Slaw |
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January 11, 2007 - Thursday Its been along day it seems. Nothing but cleaning, cooking and paperwork and phone calls. And I'm still not finished. ugh! Rickey's in his chair watching tv and I think I might join him after my shower. I have to finish alittle more paper work then I'll get up. I think I've done pretty good on plan today. Better than the past year :) Breakfast- 1 cup oatmeal lunch- leek/chicken broth soup roastbeef Snack- small apple w/ peanut butter (I could have lost the peanut butter and just ate the apple) Dinner- roast beef leek/chicken broth soup mixed fruit cup 6 glasses of water (better than the norm but could be better) |
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