The other night I was flipping around the TV channels looking for something that just might hold my attention. This can be very difficult. I was curious this morning so I counted all the possible stations we could watch if we subscribed to everything our Comcast service offered. The total number of channels is a staggering four hundred seventy five, again that's 475. Wanda and I have set up a "favorites" list so we surf only our interests. Most of these are Hi-def with a few Low-def tossed in. We also subscribe to all of the premium channels. We have cut down the number to a much more manageable one hundred eighteen, again that's 118.
I can usually find something to watch, the other night it was a movie I'd seen a while ago, "Julie & Julia." This is a 2009 release, a cute movie about Julie, who over the course of a year prepares all the entries in a Julia Child cookbook. Julie writes an ongoing blog about her cooking experiences and life around them. Julie had a "built-in" daily subject, a recipe.
My point to this is, I no longer have a daily subject. If I continued the reports from Fred, they would read something like this: Today Fred walked downstairs four times. He had cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a small piece of meat loaf for dinner. I guess I could add the side dishes for the meat loaf but really, why bother? I mean, how exciting can I make smashed potatoes and peas?
I have written about my continuing effort to drop some weight. To refresh your memory, I was a smoker twice upon a time. I quit once, started again a few years later and stopped for good in the spring of 2003. So, I stopped smoking in 2003 and started eating. I stopped eating in 2010. Over this seven year period I gained approximately fifty five pounds, again that's 55 pounds.
This June, Wanda and I will join a group of friends for a long week end in Nevada City. We have been doing this since before I stopped smoking and started eating. Our friends have been joining us since 2004. We stay at a great place, the Outside Inn http://www.outsideinn.com/
which is just a few blocks from the wonderful Historic Downtown area. Last get together one of our friends told me he had recently lost 40 pounds. He looked great and I was determined and motivated to take off some weight.
I started working out and watching my diet as soon as we got home. Over the course of the next five plus months I lost twenty three pounds. We went on a ten day cruise in October. I worked extra hard on the cruise so I could eat all the goodies. I came home at the same weight and was very happy about that. Now, I have a problem.
If you aren't trying to lose but lose anyway and then you gain just that lost weight back, does it count? When I was in Michigan more often than not I ate one meal a day. I walked miles each day when Fred was in the hospital. When he came home I ran from the Dungeon up two flights of stairs and back down many, many times a day! It was so damn cold when I went out I ran to and from the store and the car. Just about all the weight I lost I've put back on in just over a week.
I should follow my own advice. A. weight lost when not trying, does not count. B. weight gained following a recent loss when not trying, does not count. C. If the net loss is even one pound, celebrate that rather than aggravate yourself over the four regained. D. Return to your past exercise program slowly. It's better to do daily ten minute exercises for a week than nothing at all. E. And finally, eat the stinkin' cookie, it's Christmas.
I discovered something pretty phenomenal when I was in Michigan. Wanda works Monday through Thursday. We, especially recently, have noticed how fast the time seems to be going. Lots of friends have remarked about the same thing. We are both very happy and more than satisfied with life and how things are going for us. I know we each think of the other as a "best friend." What is that? BFF?
When I was in Michigan the time seemed to crawl. I was there for my brother and I was glad to do it. I know it was my training as much, or more, than my feelings for him that got me through it. Over the course of two months I was away from home 75% of that time, it felt like it too.
The point? I think if I spend my time doing something I don't like, time will move slowly.This way I will feel like I have more time even if I don't enjoy the time I have.
Have you ever heard of putting bread in the brown sugar to keep it from getting lumpy? The brown sugar, not the bread.
This morning while I was trying to get some exercise Wanda was at the table having breakfast. She said, "when you go back to the blog you need to fix a typo." I heard, when you go back to the blog you need to fix the Tie Bow. "Tie Bow." I said, "what the Hell are you taking about?" The conversation then took a turn very much like an Abbott and Costello routine. One of these days I will stop accusing the world of "mumbling" and go get my hearing checked.
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