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  • About Me

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    79pounds

    Female, 43
    FL, USA
    Member since September 20, 2007

    • About Me

      need to lose 68 pounds. i am very much an islander (prefer living on islands). i like swimming in warm pools, warm oceans, dancing. Anything tropical and outside, usually near the ocean. my main charity and focus right now is animals. i also promote the outdoors. ANY JOURNAL ENTRY WITH A BRIGHT GREEN OR BRIGHT RED SMILE MEANS I WROTE SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT.

      need to lose 68 pounds. i am very much an islander (prefer living on islands). i like swimming in warm pools, warm oceans, dancing. Anything tropical and outside, usually near the ocean. my main charity and focus right now is animals. i also promote the outdoors. ANY JOURNAL ENTRY WITH A BRIGHT GREEN OR BRIGHT RED SMILE MEANS I WROTE SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT.

    • Interests

      writing, reading, study, animals, religion, rescue, missions, philosophy, the ocean, swimming, dancing, sunny days, hot tropical climates, travel, art, music, photography. moving west. becoming freegan. a yard isn't a yard without a rabbit running about in it. :) the pleasure of a good cookie.

      writing, reading, study, animals, religion, rescue, missions, philosophy, the ocean, swimming, dancing,

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      From LeeAnn Today

      Hi Hon,

      You know you are so right, we always had the neighborhood cats and dogs and everyone always feed them and they were just part of the neighborhood...We sure don't have that any longer...What is wrong with people??? I just read in the newspaper about a woman who has two cats and has had them for each other for years. She lives in a condo and the condo assn just passed a law 1 animal per household, she wanted to know how legal this was...guess what it is legal...so she must either sell and move out since there is no way she is going to let one of her babies go...This is so wrong!!! This is so unlawful yet it is being done.

      Yes, I will get tomato and pepper plants, I will get seed for the lettuce, radish, etc...Going to give it a try and see what happens...I found out that if I get a load of dirt delivered to make sure that it has been sifted...never knew about that...

      I think the winds are finally letting up a bit here....

      Take Care and Enjoy your Evening...

      Huggies,
      LA

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      From LeeAnn Today

      Hugs to you this windy afternoon, wow, I mean like it is really windy here. No tree limbs have clunked me on the head yet...lol...I must get back to the library and get some more books, I just finished Patricia Cornwell "Book of the Dead". It was good. Actually, I like all her books.

      We don't have all that hand sanitizer stuff around here at all. Just normal...Weird isn't that...No one seems to concerned in our area...I don't know how it is in Miami.

      Hang on to your hat...and have a great day.

      Hugs,
      LA

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      From SST Yesterday

      This is a true story, proving how fascinating the mind of a six year old is. They think so logically.

      A teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where first pig was trying to gather the building materials for his home. She read. 'And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said: 'Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?'

      The teacher paused then asked the class: 'And what do you think the man said?'

      One little boy raised his hand and said very matter-of-factly ...'I think the man would have said - 'Well, I'll be fucked!! A talking pig!'

      The teacher had to leave the room

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      From marylouwho Yesterday

      Hope life is unfolding the way you want it to......

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      From LeeAnn Yesterday

      Hi, I over did the outside bit had a problem last night, my legs froze up and I had terrible spasms that I could not move for about 30 min...Intense pain, like someone wound up your legs ....Richard rubbed them and then finally got the walker and got to walk and kept doing it...Today, they feel weird...only a couple spasms....I guess the bending caught up with me...I love the cool weather that greated us, 68 last night 81 now...only 71 tonight....Windows open, fantastic breeze.....Have a Super weekend. Hugs with Love

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    Current Weight (Lbs)
    182
    Goal Completed on Apr 27, 09
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  • Support Groups

    • Close Diets & Weight Maintenance

      i need to lose 79 pounds. i have never been this fat before. i have the tires and love handles and all of that stuff that people kid about but i never understood until the past few years.

      Treatments

      Counting Calories Working / Worked
      did this last year, but really exercise and staying outside is key. people eat less if they are outside. minimum outside to be healthy is ten minutes - the whole vitamin d thing etc. feel better this year from climbing stairs and lost inches from it as well, but weight is still a disaster. lol. living next to the intracoastal helps as well. salt air is healthier, good for brain and body.
      Physical Exercise Working / Worked
      walking up and down the stairs as often as possible. i lost inches and i FEEL 100 percent better (its also fun walking up and down these stairs as they are princess stairs (easy on the knees) and they are set up like a yacht with banisters on both sides. lol.), but it does not make you lose weight.
      Prayer Working / Worked
      i pray all the time. i meditate, usually salamander style, where you lie still and let your mind wander until it finds its own focus. always works. then i take a nap. feel like a new person when i wake up. i've done this most of my adult life and some of my teens. i always felt very close to god. when ANYTHING good happens, even something small i say, thank you jesus, or thank you god. i pray before i fall asleep. i have inspirational/religious plaques in each room of my house.
    • Close Bereavement
      Type: Loss of a Friend

      my friend died on august 28. he was 43. how can anybody die at 43. totally healthy except for high blood pressure. this death was an awful experience because nothing was taken care of. there was no will. his parents are dead. his relatives are out of state. because nothing was in writing in a proper way, maintenance of his building gets "first dibs" (their words) on all of his stuff. they took everything six days later. like vultures attacking its prey.

      Treatments

      Pets Working / Worked
      i saved his cat. it took days and paperwork just to get the cat. its a lovely cat. it sleeps with me. its a comfort. very calming.
      Remembering Working / Worked
      i wrote a euology. i sent his information to the newspaper. it leaves a gap. when i became good friends with him, we'd hang out at all hours and i realized in many ways he'd taken the place of an aunt that died, a while ago too, who i used to hang with at all hours sometimes. now he's gone too.
      Talking Working / Worked
      venting. it shocks me that someone that young dies. it angers me that if you don't have your lawyer listed as an emergency contact, where your will is (if you are smart enough to have a will) if you don't have that lawyer listed, then your whole life will end up in a dumpster and maintenance gets "first dibs". what is that!?
    • Open Child Support & Custody

      i have half custody of my daughter. our kids are grown and in the passed few months none of the kids are around much. its pretty weird.

    • Open Breakups & Divorce

      i have been separated from my second husband on and off since the summer of 1998. my first husband died in 1993. my second husband was my first husband's best friend and we married less than a year after my first husband died. up until two years ago i had a very bad habit of saying my husband and always meaning my first husband. i have a boyfriend, who i've known since my first husband and i were separated. my second husband has a girlfriend. i do not want to get divorced at all.

      Treatments

      Couples Counseling Working / Worked
      we aren't together enough to become more than what already is. and we aren't focusing because when apart we see other people.
      Forgiveness Working / Worked
      he'd have to be forgiving me, more than the other way around. i just realized that. he's been right about a lot of things that i was definitely wrong about. though its too late to fix that and i don't know how it may have gone anyway. we've had to deal with a lot that has nothing to do with he nor i. a real lot of things.
      Leave Working / Worked
      we are apart too much to really "be". lately i feel apart and before i didn't feel that way. the idea of divorce makes me feel like i can't breathe. why can't i fix this? if i were living in europe full time and everyone in my life were there, i wonder what i would choose. yet i don't find out. and every time i turn around there is something more happening here and my husband says there always will be unless i make a clean break and don't look back.
      Love Working / Worked
      i love my husband. i love my boyfriend. i love the kids. i love my family. eventually you have to love what is in front of you, is how i feel now and i never viewed life like that before. not that you still can't pick and choose, but the risky stuff becomes less and less. risky starts to seem stupid. and adventure starts to seem foolhardy, though most of that i think because of 911 and all the strict stuff at airports.
      Music Working / Worked
      i always listen to music. always have. my father was a professional musician. and i play instruments too. half of my family are artists.
      Pets Working / Worked
      i love all of my pets. i'm so glad i'm not allergic to all animals anymore. i was up until 9 years ago. i could only tolerate certain breeds of dogs, like poodles. though i fed cats outside. i still feed strays. in fact i do even better now. i tame them. i have them fixed. i bottlefeed them if needed. i adopt them out. maybe it is therapeutic. i truly love all of them. i have one that likes opera music. i've had several that come when called, just like dogs.
      Reading Working / Worked
      i read for entertainment and information. i haven't read entire books on relationships. i'm in a bible study now. maybe there is something in there about relationships.
      Support from Friends & Family Working / Worked
      my family says if things weren't as complitcated as they are they would force me to live in europe full time. but because of circumstance they can't. i love my family, even with the complications, but everyone living all over the place has always been a complication in my life. i viewed it as interesting and exciting when i was young. i had energy then. plus i'm sure i was told to view it that way. its a worldly life etc., but as you get older and more aware of bad news n things like 911
      Talking Working / Worked
      i think we've been more like holding our breadth. adulthood has become more and more legal responsiblities. always more. and now this new thing of dealing with lots of death and illness. i miss good european conversation where everyone talks and talks all the time and really listens just about anything. in usa people talk at each other, its more of a work until you die place in usa. i can't live in both countries anymore. i'm too old for it really. i don't adjust/block out as easily now
    • Open Brain Injury

      i was in five car accidents in a 1 1/2 year period in 1995-1996. i was not driving. i worked as a pro photographer, location shooting. 1983 i was in a car accident in miami. numerous cheerleading accidents as a kid. plus a fall from high branches of a tree and my bike which knocked me unconscious, and the same year a blow to the head which left me with total amnesia, as in i didn't know what the couch i was sitting on was, where i was, what walking was, remembrd nothing, still missing.

      Treatments

      Distancing Working / Worked
      avoid excessive stress. for me that was more emotional stress. anyone causing me stress had to go permanently. you only have yourself to rely on, especially with this kind of an injury. you come into the world alone and you will leave this world alone. I have to be okay. i had been through the head injury thing before. i went right back to routines and habits again. avoiding dramatic people of any sort, along with evil people of any sort. protect yourself. find your biorythmns.
    • Open Widows & Widowers

      my first husband died in 1993. i married his best friend less than a year later. we are separated, but on great terms basically. up until two years ago when i would say "my husband" i was always referring to my first husband and my second husband knew this. i don't do that anymore. however, anytime anything important happens i still think what would my husband think of this, etc., and i mean my first husband when i do that.

      Treatments

      Prayer Working / Worked
      i noticed after a friend of mine died recently that i wasn't handling it well, until i let myself make believe he was still alive. then i'd say to myself how do i feel now? we can talk at a cemetary. still here just a different place. we can hang out there instead of at a marina. i wondered if i did/do this with my husband. i don't actually "talk" to him anymore, but i do still think about him, his image is there, his thought process, his reaction would be this. its 16 years later...
    • Open Miscarriage

      i had a "miscarriage" in 2001. i was pregnant with twins. one fetus died and i became deathly ill from it. the emergency room doctor said he had to take the one that was alive too because it was too risky. we put up a plaque in our cemetary for the babies so i could still talk to them, which i used to do all the time. it haunts me. they should be alive. it never should have gone the way it did. i can picture them. i caught our landlord going through our personal things and called the

      Treatments

      Grief Counseling Working / Worked
      group counselling with people with a similar loss.
    • Open Mortgages & Foreclosures

      i am a loan officer/originator. i have always refused to sell ARM (adjustable rate mortgages) even though they are much easier to get through and we generally make more on them. it is the worst thing for the customer. now that real estate has bottomed out, all the people in the industry for quick money have left the industry because the "easy" money isn't there. every day we have people coming in to refinance and we can't help them because they bought high. bush says he'd fix it, he didn't.

    • Open Homelessness

      i have no right to join this community. i am not homeless. but this is the best site. you people really know things. you have depth. i'm so glad i read this. perhaps all people are homeless. war or destitution can happen at any time and our system doesn't help. others commit atrocities rather than be homeless. THEY are the evil of the world.

    • Open Pet Bereavement

      my cat died. i found her today, 1/21/2008. she was nine years old. its in my journal. i kind of freaked out. she was NOT sick! i do animal rescue. it is very hard when an animal dies especially when you thought they were fine and did everything right, doctor, antibiotics, bottlefeeding. in 2005 i had decided to keep a black loving kitten which was related to cats a friend of mine rescues. she died of distemper.

    • Open Seasonal Affective Disorder

      i hibernate in cold weather. i'm not as happy. i don't get as much done. i'm 1000 times more of a person when i am living beside the ocean, especially in a hot climate with a very large swimming pool. i can't even handle the three seasons they have in north florida. i NEED the 10 months of summer of the south. i also don't trust anything i think or do when in a more northern climate because i am not the real me, unless i am living where it is tropical.

    • Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

      i stroke out if anything is too emotionally stressful. i can't stop it. it feels like sand falling through my fingers and then nothing. its gone. i've had multiple car accidents which made memory lapses 100 percent worse. and then i have the lapses from accidents as a child plus witnessing things that i didn't understand and who knows what else. i use routines to make up for the accident's memory loss. i'm still trying to figure out all of the emotional one. so many people have ptsd

      Treatments

      Art Working / Worked
      i'm an artist. music, painting, photography. i've done art for so long and i've never patterned the whens. though playing music i definitely do more when inspired in some way.
      Crying Working / Worked
      when i first started recalling things that i hadn't recalled at all, i'd start crying. it was cathartic. sometimes i sobbed. i couldn't believe what i was recalling. it was like brain food after i recalled. my mind felt clearer and more flowing. like i had had one of those lead covers a person wears for x-rays on it and it was just lifted off. perhaps our brain doesn't allow us to recall until its sure WE are ready to see it?
      Guided Imagery Working / Worked
      do this often. not as good as automatic writing but it touches on things that i may not have found otherwise and then you come back to it and keep going with it.
      Music Working / Worked
      i always listen to music. however, i expanded my automatic likes to bring on memories and YES it did work. lots of memories, what a surprise. a lot like guided imagery and automatic writing.
      Reading Working / Worked
      i just started reading up on this in the last ten years or so. reading up on amnesia, in a dsm, all relateable. and on the effects of various stresses just recently. it ironic, if kids are exposed to too much it creates disorders. however, if they are exposed to nothing it creates various forms of evilness. what is the happy medium?
      Talking Working / Worked
      i vent in general. when i recall something new i can actually watch it in my mind like a movie and i'm like wow. once in college i was jarred in the middle of a sound sleep by the noise of my flat mate throwing a television onto the floor and screaming at someone. which brought suddenly back the image of my stepmother attacking my stepsister in the middle of the night. she was committed. it was gruesome. the woman was truly insane. feeling helpless and so small wanting to stop it an
    • Open Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS)

      always had bad cramps and mood swings, my body worked like clockwork. so i'd hide from everyone the couple of days before & during, give in to food cravings & take 1600 mg of ibuprophen with peptobismal & that would take care of it. lately i am late every 6 weeks or longer. i am crampy before AND after but don't need as much painkiller. would love to know what is happening with my body. i feel like the pms is permanent and seem to only feel really normal and perky once i finally get it

      Treatments

      Oral Contraceptives Working / Worked
      no cramps, no mood swings, no bloating and MINOR cravings. i ruled my life. boy do i miss the pill.
    • Open Arthritis

      i have sport injuries that flare up in bad weather. lately the number of places and the frequency is much more. i also tore a ligament in my left ankle and now i am limping on it for the next few months which will also be an arthritic site. i suddenly feel old. will a hot and dry climate make it all go away?

      Treatments

      Anti-Inflammatory Diet Working / Worked
      would like to know about this.
      Ibuprofen Working / Worked
      gets rid of pain.
      Swimming Working / Worked
      i think a warm pool 85 degrees or better should be able to cure anything.
    • Open Stroke

      i have multiple head injuries. another in the brain injury section said that stroke people have many of the same symptoms as brain injury people. so here i am.

    • Open Obesity

      i need to get real. i am two inches shorter than i used to be as the doctor informed me upon my last visit that i have shrunk! that means i am OBESE at this weight. i need to get real. who would have thought! i was always too thin...not anymore.

      Treatments

      Avoid Certain Foods / Chemicals Working / Worked
      trying to avoid chocolate, refined sugar, caffeine and frozen dinners. the first three cause cancer. frozen dinners will pack on pounds. very bad foods.
      Cycling Working / Worked
      this didn't work, but it was fun combined with garage sales.
      Swimming Working / Worked
      ALWAYS WORKS anything a person does underwater has 4 times the effect of doing the same thing above the water. however, i need water that is at least 84 degrees which is regulation water anyway. hard to find in this colder area of florida.
    • Open Amnesia

      i've had many head injuries in my life. the most recent, from car accidents, but have also had falls from trees as a kid, cheerleading injuries and even muggings. you name it. oh and diving accidents. the worst is as a kid and it happened twice and isn't quite back yet. and there was a woman/girl drugging people with biological warfare drugs that destroy brain tissue and cause amnesia.

    • Open Autism / Autism Spectrum

      IN SUpport of someone who has a child with this.

    • Open Adoption

      wanted to comment on a subject so

    • Open The Financial Crisis

      we downsized to a house that is 1100 square feet instead of 2000 square feet. stocks are not doing well right now. business is sluggish but still okay. still adjusting to everyone's panic and having a smaller place is actually easier in many ways.

    • Open Life After Divorce

      "legally separated" on and off for around a decade. would actually like to be together, haven't found a way to fix this

    • Open War & Terrorism

      interest in topic.

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