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Happy Saturday everyone!! It is just after 6am here in Oregon and I've been up for an hour! Scary stuff for me! LOL!
Anyways... two things.
Yesterday we went grocery shopping. Big shopping (for us anyways) and came home with well over 300$ worth of grocery's etc. a couple months ago I'd have been about dead from the shopping and walking and would have needed help putting stuff away. I would have used the stool in my kitchen and been sitting down to load stuff into the frig, etc. as much as possible.
Yesterday as I was gathering up my cloth grocery bags off the floor, it hit me... I did it all, all by myself and never once used the stool! A huge NSV for me!
Today I am hoping for another one... We have the honor of flea bombing our house today (what fun!)... as soon as I am done posting here, I am going to get busy prepping everything, (I am sure many of you know how much work this is! Kinda like if your kids ever brought home the wonders of head lice! LOL!) Then we are bombing, leaving for several hours and coming back to clean everything up! It is going to be a busy busy day!
A couple months ago I would have been freaked out about this because it was so hard for me to do everything.... especially if it followed a day like shopping and walking! But ya know what, I feel like I can pull this off and be ok! Yeah, I'll be tired tonight, but I can do this! :)
It is a wonderful feeling to regain your life a little more each day!
Anyways... two things.
Yesterday we went grocery shopping. Big shopping (for us anyways) and came home with well over 300$ worth of grocery's etc. a couple months ago I'd have been about dead from the shopping and walking and would have needed help putting stuff away. I would have used the stool in my kitchen and been sitting down to load stuff into the frig, etc. as much as possible.
Yesterday as I was gathering up my cloth grocery bags off the floor, it hit me... I did it all, all by myself and never once used the stool! A huge NSV for me!
Today I am hoping for another one... We have the honor of flea bombing our house today (what fun!)... as soon as I am done posting here, I am going to get busy prepping everything, (I am sure many of you know how much work this is! Kinda like if your kids ever brought home the wonders of head lice! LOL!) Then we are bombing, leaving for several hours and coming back to clean everything up! It is going to be a busy busy day!
A couple months ago I would have been freaked out about this because it was so hard for me to do everything.... especially if it followed a day like shopping and walking! But ya know what, I feel like I can pull this off and be ok! Yeah, I'll be tired tonight, but I can do this! :)
It is a wonderful feeling to regain your life a little more each day!
now I think id put on a bit with the help with groceries cant have those family units think because you are getting all healthy they can slack and make you do it all...........hehe .........j/k my family unit is a dog he always makes me do it all...
are you going to do somenting fun while you wait for the bomb/
Some of you know I've struggled lately... (head stuff I know!) But when I am still and pay attention, I can see the internal changes. This kind of stuff... having to make myself stop to eat. Someone awhile back said things will get better when I am back to school, and I think that is 110% right. When I am busy, i DO have to remind myself to eat! Wow!
Anyways... KatLin... something fun... We origonally were going to go to the park and just hang out on a blanket with a good book, but it has been raining for days (like thunder and buckets!) here. It is not raining today, but too wet to lay out a blanket.
Then we thought we'd go to the pool (my original exercise plan for the day) but then decided we might not want to spend several hours swimming and then have to come home and clean for several hours! Maybe a bit too much!
So, I think we are going bed shopping :) And maybe to the library...
HUGS ya'll!! :) Gotta get back at it!
Just my two cents, but try to remember to eat breakfast. It gets your metabolism going for the day.
Yay for you my friend!!
my hips are bugging me arthritis from injuries I had from 2 falls
hope it gets better too
Yes Diane! I am doing so much better!! Today when we went bed shopping we stopped at Applebees... I ordered one of the weigh watchers meals of chicken and shrooms. After about a 1/3 into it i started crying. My hubby is thinking I've lost it :) :) But I was so happy because I remember reading about how people went out to eat and had to make 2 or 3 meals out of their dinner... and I thought how is that possible! Especially with a low cal - small meal to begin with! But I was done by not even half way thru! Brought the rest home and ate more of it for dinner. Was AWESOME! :)