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Discretion Isn't Necessary, I Guess

Geez. Life is really hard these days. I had such a hard time getting up this morning. I slept in longer than I have for months. Calling in sick has crossed my mind more than once in the past month. I am tired. OK. I need to find something to keep me awake.


I did an hour on the treadmill this morning—actually it was 63 minutes because I wanted to burn 500 calories. I tried to remember to breathe deeply during my workout. Sometimes I find myself breathing really shallow. I think it makes the workout harder when you aren't breathing like you should. So I try to remember to breathe.

OK. I wasn't going to tell this story, but I'm going to anyway. I've had really bad gas for the past couple of weeks. I find myself needing to release said gas from time to time. I try to be discreet about it. This morning in the locker-room shower I needed to release a little, so I did so very discreetly. However, a few stalls over someone else let go with something that sounded like heavy furniture being dragged across the floor—not once but twice. I suspect this person didn't know anyone else was in the showers. I thought to myself, "I will never again be embarrassed by anything that comes out me after that."

So that's how my morning started. Thank God for people who have the capability of embarrassing themselves in ways that never would've occurred to me. OK. I have a lot to do today. So later people.

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Baby I'm Amazed

I didn't go to work today, and I need to be careful because it's starting to become a pattern for me. Anyway, I woke up and my right calve was aching--it had been aching all night. I decided to take the day off from everything--work and workouts. I think I might be pushing myself a little too hard.

But I'm seeing such great results in the way I look. I hate to stop anything I'm doing. I'm not really losing weight right now, but I'm firming up so much. I must've lost a good half inch from my thighs, and at least that much from other areas. In fact, my measurement under my breasts is 37 inches. My butt is 40. Waist about 33. Around my boobs it's 43. My waist when I started all of this was 45 inches. So I've lost an entire foot of fat from around my middle. When I think of it like that I'm amazed myself.

Here's the rotation plan that I'm doing for my diet: 1200 calories for three days, 1500 for four, and then a week at 1800. And then I start all over again. The diet includes lots of fruit and vegetables, lean meat like chicken and fish (certain kinds of fish like tuna and salmon), low fat dairy, and whole grains. I'm going to work up some menus ahead of time so I'm less likely to cheat. I'm also writing it all down. OK, that's to kick start me. Then after three weeks, I'm moving to a 1200 day, 1500 day, 1800 day and back again so my body doesn't get used to any kind pattern. I'm hoping that if I mix it up enough, I'll begin to see some progress on the scale again. I know that the scale isn't the only measure of success. But so many things make the scale important--even Weight Watchers.

So that's where I am now. Until next time.

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Stepping through the Intervals

I started taking the soy isoflavones and resveratrol last Friday. I have not weighed myself just yet. I will definitely be weighed tomorrow. I'll let you know what the results are. But, remember, I'm also taking CLA and bioidentical hormones. So, we'll see what happens.


"Crush" sighting this morning. Yea. All I need to do is see him. I had to go to aerobics so I didn't get to stay out in the gym part where he was. But I caught a few glimpses. Whoa.

Aerobics was especially hard today. I caught sight of my face in mirror, and it was blood red with huge sweat beads broke out on my forehead. I looked like I was going to pass out. But I made it through. We did step aerobics and then intervals. The intervals were the hard part. It like: "Jesus, just make it stop."

I'm working on eating right—you know, fewer calories than I actually need to get the weight loss started up again. But I'm trying other new things, too. I'm hoping that I'm making changes.

Well, it's another big day here in Tinker Town—you know, work. So I gotta go for now. Until tomorrow,

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