Day 354 - Oh aren't we close

What is it eleven more days?  How exciting is that?  And I am celebrating.  I am going to the House of Prime Rib.  As T2 said I will have the rest of the week to starve myself.  I will also have a swimming session in the am so that should be fine.

TH says that I should go to Brisbane in the morning instead of going to Rossmoor, but I really don't feel comfortable yet to swim in the big bad world.  I feel very safe at Rossmoor, and I don't feel like people are judging me.  If I swim at Brisbane, there are a lot of fairly good swimmers there, and I can't keep up.  What did I say 20 pounds six weeks?

I am excited about K showing up.  I am thinking of making her get up with me at 5:45 in the morning and going swimming with me.  It will be just like the old days, except instead of going to bed at 3 am we will be going to bed at 3 pm.  She never was much of a morning person, though I hear she is getting better, but my guess is she won't want to get up at 5 am during her vacation.  Hmm should I or shouldn't I.  Y'all will just have to wait to find out.

Day 353 - Ravenous

There comes a time when I think I am screwed, going back to the way things were, I can't stop eating.  That is the way I felt the last couple of days.  I just couldn't seem to fill up and then by 4 pm I had eaten all I could eat and I still had two meals left in the fridge.  Today I was hungry again.  I  ate two lunches and two bars and my breakfast and a snack and I have nothing left for dinner.  I guess I can last until the morning, but still...what is up with this?

And on top of all that I went to bed last night weighing the lightest I have ever weighed at bed time only to wake up heavier they when I went to bed.  That just isn't suppose to happen.  It just ain't right I tell you.

So I still have an hour of exercise to do.  I didn't take T for a walk (again) but I did work work work.  In fact I think I got enough done that I will be able to sleep tonight.  Yay!!

Day 352 - Improvement

Swimming this morning felt much better then it did last week.  In fact I could swim four laps without gulping for air.

I was a little worried that LZ would take one look at me this week and decide that she just didn't want to take me on.  Especially since I told her that an 85 year old man beat my butt while swimming.  But she was good about it, and even praised me a little.

As she said, which I knew, improvement will be fast in the beginning, then comes the hard work.  But the truth is I won't get fast if I don't lose the weight.  The less weight I have to pull through the water the faster I can be.  But  the lemonade side of it is - won't I get stronger by pulling more weight in the beginning?  Heck I may not even have to lift weights.

Also I can't pull myself out of the pool yet.  That is strength and weight, so every time I get in the pool (all 4 times now) I have tried to pull myself out like I used to.  I did get out once, but in the process I got a full on leg cramp, so now we are just practicing to see how far I can get without straining.

Stayed tuned, the day may come when I really can do it again.

Day 351 - Weigh in

Well it is weigh in and I have like three pounds to lose by 5 pm.  It is amazing how much weight fluctuates day by day hour by hour.

Actually the only day that I weigh myself during the day is Tuesdays.  Sometimes in delight, sometimes in trepidation.  But more and more it seems that I have a whole bunch of weight to lose on Tuesdays.  So if I do the same thing every Tuesday to lose weight - am I really cheating?  Maybe the first time I did it it was a bit of a cheat, but now - not so much.

Walking with J certainly does help - I get my water and will drink the full 16 ounces (453.6 grams) after I get weighed.  Also I must sweat at least 32 ounces of water, so if one gallon of water is 8.35 pounds that would make 32 oz 2.0875 pounds.    So I was right - by dehydrating myself I can lose mucho pounds.

But for all that dehydrating myself I only lost .8 of a pound.  Maybe next week it will be hotter and I can sweat out 64 oz.  One can only hope.

Day 350 - New phones

So for years we have had one phone that would hold a charge and the other three just wouldn't hold a full charge.  So we finally broke down and bought a new phone system, one that hopefully we can use in the living room as well.

It has other perks as well.  I never told people that the old answering machine only recorded the first five seconds of the message.  Many a times someone would say can you call me at and that would be it.  Since I hate calling people I thought it was a perfect way to ignore them.  I guess it would have been nice to tell them that the answering machine didn't work, but then I would hear - why don't you get a new machine.

So now I have no excuses (I think - nobody ever calls me anymore I can't figure that one out.)  So call away leave a message, just don't ask me to call back.  

Day 349 - Sometimes I just don't think it is working

Last week I had a good weight - lose this week I haven't been losing weight, in fact it looks like I gained a pound.  It gets to be a bit of an emotional roller coaster.  Last week I was sure that I was going to hit my October 12 goal, now I am sure it just isn't going to happen.

I did not do my 1000 calories exercise on Friday, so I am sure that is the problem.  Or maybe it was going out to eat twice this week.  Who knows.

Today I walk with J.  She barrels up hills and I do my best to keep up, but at least I am being aerobic.  The T2 test if you can sing you are not working hard enough.  What if you can't talk?  Our facilitator says we should be able to carry on a conversation or we are working too hard.  Well it is up hill one way which means it is all down hill on the way back, so then I can chat away.

I did swim yesterday, terrible terrible cramp.  I went on line to see what to do about it, and they said it was all about lactic acid build up, so electrolytes and stretching.  Or don't work so hard.

So that was the second day that I swam.  I didn't get the full hour workout in an hour and fifteen minutes, but I got closer.  I decided to keep doing the workout until I can do the whole workout in an hour.   I expect immediate results in everything - I do.  So I thought I would be able to do it the second time around. -- Maybe the third?

Another website states that you lose .6% of your ability/strength every year and then when you hit 70 it goes down faster (exponentially.)  My questions is not how much I lost, but the real question is did I hit my full potential in HS or can I get better then I was in HS?  I have been moaning and groaning that I did not hit full potential in HS, and I could have been so much faster with proper training.   So if I could get to HS times at this age then I will know I hadn't hit my potential in HS.  Well - it is a goal.
  

Day 348 - Ever met a person who couldn't wait for you to stop speaking?

So it was a work day, and I had to finish up the field work at a client.  Got to the client, took much longer then I thought, got done and started to chat with the said client.   I soon gathered that she didn't want me to particpate she just wanted to talk. 

I don't mind listening to people talking, I actually enjoy it.  And being a bit lazy I really enjoy not having to make conversation, if I have someone who can lead the conversation I am a very happy camper.  So it didn't bother me that she wanted to talk, it just took me a while to figure it out.  I really like her, and she has lots of interesting things to say that I haven't heard before, so I am not complaining, just making an observation.  Some people are good talkers.

However, there are those who don't want you to talk and don't let you talk even if you wanted to.  Those are people who have a tendency to repeat themselves and there numerous stories ad naseum.  I have had a few people in my life (not any more thank goodness.)  They will talk about people that you don't know, and won't give you any background on the person they are talking about - for instance Sally just got biten by Georges dog and now they are fueding.   Now that could be a really interesting story if only they would tell who they were what there relationship was to them and to each other.  But without any background who gives a wiff?

Nobody in my life does that anymore.  I guess that is what getting older is all about.  You just don't have time for someone who doesn't have time for you.