Saturday, August 30, 2008

11 days to my B-Day

It is 11 days to my birthday! I am getting prepared to set my starting date. I am really trying to get a mind set of I have to do this not only for my health but also my emotional state of mind. I think I will be better, look better, feel better and be a better person in my 40's than I have been in my 20's and 30's. Well, I gotta go. Talk later, Lisa

Sunday, August 24, 2008

My Deadly Sins and my dog, RED

The following are a couple of my deadly sins.
Fried Potatoes with onions, yum yum.
But I didn't eat these, I gave them all to my husband.

2 whole cups of white sugar for 1 gallon of Lipton Tea.
Unfortunately this is the most desirable drink to me.
I will usually make about 4 picture a weekend. But it is not only me who drinks this. My husband loves sweet tea and my son does too but he wasn't here most of this weekend.

Before I can get it made, my little dog, RED is barking
and begging for a bowl.

This is Lucy on the left, she belongs to my mom.
Red on the left is willing to share with her.


When he is finished, he usually starts barking for more.


I usually wont' skimp on Lipton tea nor Miracle Whip salad dressing. I drink a lot of tea and I need to find a substitute. I am going to try to stop eating things that require Miracle Whip such as sandwiches, salads, etc.






My Treadmill

This is my treadmill I will be using.


I can set it so I can see how many calories I burn.


Saturday, August 23, 2008

So you see why I am doing this?

So you see why I am doing this?

I can't live like this anymore. I have to lose the weight or die trying.

It is now or never. I don't want to be like this in my 40's. I have 19 more days to my 39th Birthday and I have to do this.

This was taken August 3rd at Willow Springs for my mom's 66th birthday party. Arleen took this picture and it really makes me look like I am over 300 lbs. I may not be over 300 but I do feel like I am and this picture proves it.

While out there, I noticed there were other big women also and there are men, like my husband, who has no problem with my being big. It's not that he doesn't mind - it is the fact that I mind. I have always minded. Being overweight is something I have dealt with all my life and I am not happy about it.

Since I have 19 more days to start my diet, I will try to get more photos on here and keep myself reminded why I am doing this.

Friday, August 22, 2008

20 days to my Birthday

It is 20 days to my Birthday 9-11. I will be 39 yrs old. This will be the last year before my 40's start and I really fall apart physically. My mom is diabetic and I think my sister is also and I know my brother will be so I want to get a head start of losing the weight before it comes down to having to lose the weight. I know the picture of my is pretty good. I was in my early 30's and I don't want to put a pic of me on here right now.
I didn't realize how big I really am. I want to lose all of this fat so my 40's will be better than my 30's. I was hoping my 30's would be better than my 20's and it started out good. I joined a gym and everything. I lost 40 lbs but gained it all back plus some. Coming from a big family hasn't helped any either.
I am changing the name of my blog title "I am a writer wannabe" to something better like "My 39th year"
I have 20 days to get prepared. I am more determined now than ever to start losing. I can't join a gym because of money. I can't do weight watchers or Jenny Craig because of money, unless you want to give me money to pay for it? Just kidding. But I do have a treadmill at home and access to a gym at work. I can buy weight watcher dinners at Krogers for a resonable price.
In the next 20 days, I am going to prepare to start losing. It is like when you set a date to stop smoking. Once you get to that day, you lay that cigarette down. You use a patch or gym or pill to help stop the cravings. I have been there twice. I quit smoking in 98 by using nicotine gum. It did the trick but I starting being around my brother more often and started smoking on the weekends which turned into all week. I quit that second time using the patch. It worked too. They say a smoker takes 10 or more times to actually quit and stay quit. I don't plan on picking the habit back up but my chances are more likely than say someone, like my husband, who has never put a cigarette to his lips.
So many times I quit cigaretts and so many times I have tried to lose weight. Weight lose is harder because you have to eat. I have tried the Atkins diet. I have tried the gym. I have used those mini-thins you can buy a truck stop on the counter. I have tried those Fiber Choice Weight Management you can buy at walmart. The best thing about fiber is that it keeps me from being constipated.
I haven't joined a support group yet. I am thinking about it but first off I want to start keeping track of my progress on my blog for the whole world to see. Why do I want the whole world to see my progress is not clear to me at this time but I have been thinking about it all day. I have to start doing something to get rid of this fat that is so ugly. I think this maybe a way to keep a check on myself because I know if I do this I will have to account for myself. This is different than when I joined the gym. I got on TV and we were on TV and I really was motivated at first but when the pounds kept getting harder and harder to come off I just kind of quit trying. It seemed that going to the gym was not helping any longer.
So this time will be different. And by the way, in the last blog I meantioned that I was worried about my husband, well not now, he told me that when he took her home he said he would help her pay her cell phone bill until she could get on her feet. She must have thought he wanted some sex from her but he told me he told her that he didn't want sex from her, only to help her get back on her feet. He said she was surprised and was shocked that a man would help her without wanting sex in return. He basically said " I have a wife. I am not wanting sex from you or any other woman." This makes me feel better. and plus he was home before 4 when Brandon got home from school.
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What I intend to do with this blog.
1. Post everyday - what I did - like - ate, exercised, slept, being lazy, worked, stressed, etc.
2. Write about how I feel about what I did.
3. Find someone to share my blog with that will give positive feed back so I won't give up.
4. Post pictures of my progress.
5. It will start on my 39th birthday and end on my 40th birthday.
7. Also write stories. I have a story started on myspace page which I intend to finish. I plan on having that story also finished when I turn 40.
8. It is my son's junior year so I intend to tell you about him.
9. Tell you about my life in general at home, including husband, mom, etc.
10. I am not sure. I am out of ideas but I will come back to this one.

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So now the rest is up to me. Please come back and read about me. I need a good support group eventhough right now I am my own group. I didn't realize how big I actually am until my sis-in-law took a pic of me one sunday when we went swimming. I was wearing a sleevless shirt and I had my glasses on. I wear contacts. My face is really square and I feel really fat right now. I will post pictures later. That is all for now. Tomorrow it will be 19 days to my birthday.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Half a days work.

I worked half a day. Half a day is hard to work. I had to get up early so we could go pick up some woman that is renting a trailer from a friend of my husbands. She needed a ride to her parole officer. A parole officer? She is only the second person I ever met that had a parole office. I am not sure why she is on parole or why she is even in Arkansas. According to what my husband has found out and told me is that her husband is in California and she is not going back to him. She happens to be about the same age as my husband. I am 6 years younger than him and sometimes I worry. My husband wants to work her to help us sell stuff on ebay. We dropped her off and I took him to the doctor. I couldn't go back with him because they did a procedure where they stick a camera in your ding-a-ling. It took 2 hours. Finally when he was done he was hurting. He said it hurt because that place is a virgin.They didn't find anything and has to go back in 3 months for some other type of test. So after that and praying the debt card we have would go through as credit and not cause an overdraft at our bank and so far it's just pending. We went to go pick the lady back up. She sat in the back seat but after dropping me off at BK behind my place of employement, she had no problem moving to the front seat and waving buh bye to me. She has two things over my head. One, she is closer to his age and two, she is smaller than me. I know I'm big but until I saw a recent picture of myself, I didn't realize how big. I don't feel big but I guess I am. I come from a big family. My mom was big before diabetes. My sister is big and my brother is even bigger. The only thing I have over her would be that I am younger. I think I am like most other women and feel threatened by other women. I worry about my husband cheating and he worrys about me finding another man. Maybe I am just worrying too much because my hormones are out of wack. I hope that this is all it is and his not answering his phone for 2 hours and claiming to fall asleep over at the land lord to this woman and him reseting the milage on the car odometer so it showed 40 miles when he picked me up from work after I reset it this morning after filling up and almost half a tank of gas gone - is only my hormones getting in the way?

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Hello fellow bloggers.

Hello, fellow bloggers. I am a writer wannabe. I have a myspace account lazylisa2012 also and I am on 360. This is totally new to me. I found it on mybloglog.com which I am also named lazylisa2012. I choose 2012 because the Myan Calender ends that year and I may not longer be around after that year,- Just Kidding-.