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July
24,
2001 Well if you read my
last newsletter then you know that I fell off the old exercise wagon this
summer. It was really due to an overabundance of work and had I stuck to my
time-consuming routine I am not sure how I would have ever muddled through,
but I have felt increasingly guilty about it, anyway. Especially after my
girlfriend told me this weekend that *she* was now doing *my* 25
military-style sit-ups every day now as well as using the Thighmaster and
Buttmaster she had bought AND the Nordictrak that I sold her after I
bought my treadmill. (She was thanking me for the inspiration on the
sit-ups, but it made me feel AWFUL when I really thought about it.) Then this weekend I
put on a pair of jeans and realized that even though I had not gained
anything back on my old nemesis Mr. Scale, THEY WERE TIGHTER than before!!! Woe is me! It works
BOTH WAYS. Eeeeeek! Talk about inspiration……
So I FINALLY got started again today. I began with military-style full
sit-ups. When last I worked out I was doing 25 at a time, alternating
frontal, right oblique, left oblique, frontal, etc. I’m not even sure if
it has been 4 or 6 or even 7 weeks since I last did them, and I was
expecting to maybe be able to do 10….. which is where I started when I
switched over from the Ab-Roller to doing “real” sit-ups. To my
surprise, I made it all the way to FIFTEEN! 15 very slow, very controlled
sit-ups! Number 15 should have been a left oblique but I absolutely
could not do it. After 4 pathetic attempts, I did squeak out a frontal
instead, admittedly with not the best form. I had intended to
get on the treadmill next but darn... It’s HOT, I whined to myself. So I
grabbed my pair of five pound free weights instead and strapped on the old
ankle weights and proceeded to work my inner thighs and then my triceps
(slow and controlled, remember) until each was trembling with exhaustion and
wouldn’t do even one more rep. Inspired, and
feeling strangly better, almost giddy, suddenly welcoming the sweat running
down my back and between my breasts, I ran over to the PC and hopped online
and ordered myself up my own Thighmaster/Buttmaster combo. Then
I went and took all my supplements, and hopped on the old treadmill. I
turned it down from a 6% incline to 4% – it’s been a while, I told
myself, and you already murdered your thigh muscles, be surprised if you
don’t fall off – and turned it up to 3mph instead of my old usual of
3.5….. it seemed a little slow at first, but I expected to wear out
fast…… at 12 minutes, I increased the speed to 3.5, it was just still
just TOO SLOW…….. Amazing! At 16 minutes in, I
turned the incline BACK UP TO 6. I only made it to 20 minutes after that,
and yessssss, I finally felt THAT change, but overall I am in complete and
total shock at how much I can still do. My good friend
CathyA recently said on a message board something to the effect that “Exercise
is the great equalizer”. It is also my drug of choice, these days! It
is mucho addicting, and the benefits you gain in your body composition are
“truly” amazing. It’s just the
starting that is hard. WHY DID I EVER STOP? I will not do that again. Work
will have to wait. I must come first. THIS WONDEFUL thing must come first,
forevermore. I must thank my friend Beth for giving me a boot in the butt
and getting me back on track, just by being an example. July 31, 2001 Things have remained crazy. I am taking a vacation from my message board and will therefore make at least sporadic entries here again... I just can't keep up with the board and the site and the journal and everything else going on in my life. My weight is hanging right in there where it was. My Thighmaster stuff arrived and I started with that today. I really like them both. I also continue to love the yogurt maker and my latest goodie was a Cuisnart food processor. I bought this appliance in keeping with my new motto, which is Buy the absolute best - or just do without! No more cheap anything for me! The $59 food processor that I bought at WalMart isn't even like the same appliance as the Cuisnart. No unshredded cheese pieces, no big clumps of cheese jamming up the disc assembly, it does a fantastic job on EVERYTHING! :) August 04, 2001 Things are starting to calm down a little. I haven't been any less busy, maybe more so in fact, but at least, I once again have barbecue sauce and jalapeno mustard and homemade yogurt and ranch dressing and roasted sliced meats and hard boil eggs in my fridge!! And TLC bread and Nirvana and at this very moment, I have a batch of mixed fruit jelly made with pectin canned off and cooling on the counter...... now I am waiting to see how much it jells up - is it REALLY jelly, or will it end up being syrup???? Only time will tell, since the USDA and the manufacturer will only say "Do not use artificial sweeteners. Do not use any less sugar than specified." I figure, as long as I can it off into sterilized jars and as long as it jells, I should be safe. Quite a long process compared to making jam with sugar and turning them upside down afterwards, but it will be worth it once I figure out the proper ratio of juice/fruit to pectin. For this batch I used chokecherries, strawberries, and rhubarb, and I incorporated some cherry flavoring too, to smooth out the tartness of the rhubarb and chokecherries...... it tastes and looks AWESOME! And I have done at least three more hours of research into volume 2 and gotten a lot of my paperwork caught up.... and my garden cleaned up and lots of things harvested ........ so I am making good use of my time away from the Message Board. Something terrible happened to me this week. And I mean really, really, terrible!! On Thursday evening I invited my SIL over for my Perfect Margaritas... all was well until afterwards when I was putting the stuff away and I realized that my supposed sugar free Baja Bob's rita mix was in fact REGULAR, sugar and corn syrup FILLED rita mix from the grocery store! I almost died on the spot as I quickly tallied up the damage and came up with FIFTY CARBS of pure sugar I had just sucked down unknowingly. I didn't even know I had any real mixer in the house, I was sure it was all the allowable stuff........ All these months and I have never once strayed and now this.... For crissake if I was going to have 50 carbs of sugar it would NOT have been in the form of Mr T's sweet and sour!!!!!!!! Now, three days later, my eyes are still puffy! And I am still up 6 pounds. NOT WORTH IT. But I didn't suffer from a headache or anything the next day (which sort of disappointed me, I would rather have been hurling-sick! More of a deterrent, now there is nothing to really fear.... except the bloat and gain........ of course....) DANG IT! August 9, 2001 Talk about starting your day off on the WRONG FOOT ............. yesterday I was working barefoot early in the morning on the computer and as I rolled from the desk to the printer, my chair rolled over the back of my right heel and ripped off all the skin in an area the size of a silver dollar!!! OWWWWWW. It's mega deep and I doubt I will be able to put on a real shoe for weeks! I also have a huge deep blister healing on my right hand from too much gardening - I seem to have forgotten that my "farm girl" hands are now lily white, soft, "desk" hands :( and I can't work like I used to, all day, hard, in my gardens ... Sheesh. I am a mess. I have FINALLY lost the gain from the Infamous Rita Incident, however. And my accounting crap is pretty much all caught up, so I have begun working on my revisions for the next printing of Volume 1- Gonna put a pretty color photo filled cover on the book and add the bonus recipes which are posted on the Owner's Only forum. I am almost OUT of books now - Whoo Hoooo! My initial goal was to sell out my first printing of 1000 books in less than a year and it looks like I made it, so I will keep on with everything I have been doing and write another one as well. I have SO MANY recipe ideas for volume 2, it's not even funny!! Guess I better get to it! But I wanted to tell you this - BUY A VACUUM SEALER. I love mine. Now all that cheese that I slice and shred myself from blocks will not mold before I we can eat it! :-) And the things I freeze will last so much longer! And my nuts and baking flours will stay fresh ... etc. etc. etc. Just DO NOT listen to anyone who might tell you to use it to marinate things - you need to REMOVE excess liquid from things BEFORE you vacuum seal them or the liquid will get sucked into the vacuum chamber and BREAK it..... duh. School starts tomorrow! I can't tell you how happy that makes me - AND my kids. We are all so ready for the routine to return.... and I need more quiet working time around this place. I have been working 18 hour days for weeks now. It all caught up to me and this last week - I thought I would have a nervous breakdown. Fighting with my husband, nonstop heart palpitations and the whole nine yards.... I have had to release myself from all my self-imposed deadlines and if I have to print more copies of the first book, then SO BE IT, I decided... sanity is all-important and I do not want to be a divorced cookbook author, that's for sure. The IRS still considers this TLC thing a hobby, after all.. hahahahahaaa. Yesterday I woke up 4.4 pounds lighter - welcome back Whoosh Fairy, been way too long since YOU visited! We took the whole day and went to have FUN - now I remember what that is, thank Goodness.... we rode over 200 miles on our motorcycles, over Independence Pass, through Leadville and Aspen.... scenery good for the soul.... we had lunch in Aspen and Mitch and I split an order of Nachos Grande and buffalo wings... several beers... last evening I had a couple cups of popcorn and some LC ice cream... and this morning I was STILL DOWN the full whoosh, so it is definitely for real. YIPPEE. Now, a few words re: popcorn. Carb counts are not bad at all, 5 per cup net - and I do not gain when I eat it - but please consider getting an air-popper and doing REAL popcorn with REAL butter - microwave popcorn may not make the scale change but it is FULL of trans-fatty acids and THAT is not good for you. Now re: tortilla chips - I have learned through experimentation that I can eat corn products like these and taco shells with no bloating or gain and so ... I do!! YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary - and I suggest you not jump right into doing this. Give yourself several months of eating LC FIRST... to establish good eating habits for a lifetime - and THEN have a few small indulgences such as this, if you want.
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