Progress toward my goals
hello friends,
Losing weight -- have hit a plateau and seeing no change on the scale! Very frustrating, because I'm doing it right.
Quitting diet soda -- this is going great! I only slipped once and got a 20 oz. bottle out of the vending machine. Other than that, several weeks with NO DIET SODA. My cravings for it are lessening. Yea! If I go until the end of April still good, I'm going to mark my goal Complete!
Getting a boyfriend -- since it's pretty much "dead" with these men here in VA, I have been thinking about men from my past. I bought a month's membership on a website that locates old friends, tells their current address, or if they have passed away.
Also I've been extra kind to people in general, hoping to generate some good karma!
So I'm going to increase my goal a bit. It all starts in the mind, right? I'm getting prepared! LOL
bye for now.
Losing weight -- have hit a plateau and seeing no change on the scale! Very frustrating, because I'm doing it right.
Quitting diet soda -- this is going great! I only slipped once and got a 20 oz. bottle out of the vending machine. Other than that, several weeks with NO DIET SODA. My cravings for it are lessening. Yea! If I go until the end of April still good, I'm going to mark my goal Complete!
Getting a boyfriend -- since it's pretty much "dead" with these men here in VA, I have been thinking about men from my past. I bought a month's membership on a website that locates old friends, tells their current address, or if they have passed away.
Also I've been extra kind to people in general, hoping to generate some good karma!
So I'm going to increase my goal a bit. It all starts in the mind, right? I'm getting prepared! LOL
bye for now.
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I would be looking for new boyfriend not one from past...something went wrong before to keep them from still being with you....
good on the diet soda I am still stuck on drinking it...I dunno I could do more tea like diet green tea but that stuff is just as bad...I could brew my own tea but I do not know what keeps me from doing it except I keep running out to quickly...LOL My sister used the IceTea maker from MrCoffee for long time I dunno if she still does but she just drinks tea...I could do water I guess...but that gets old too...what have you been drinking?
I know what you mean about the boyfriend issue. Men here are pretty dull and boring. They need dynomite to get them off a chair. No sex drive except for one that I know. He says he has no problem getting women but he is the one who doesn\'t like plus size. I\'m not going to starve myself just to have sex with him. He might as well face that.
To address the issue of \"look for a new boyfriend, not an old\", the men down here are SO BACKWARD. I\'ll be down here 8 years come August and they just don\'t seem to like me. There is one boyfriend from the past I\'d NEVER take back. He was a total mess and still is! But even if it\'s just phone talk and email with some old friends, that\'s better than nothing. (Except the MESS, want no contact with him whatsoever.
I am drinking half a cup (25 calories) of Trop 50 orange juice mixed with lots of water. Half a cup also has just 6 and a half carb gms. NO ASPARTAME or other dangerous sweeteners. Just a little stevia, which technically speaking is a food.
Sorry to be so late reading your journal...I changed my notifications here at DS and seems I am missing a lot of friend happenings. I understand the part about the men in your area as when I look at what is available around here (not that I am shopping) the pickings are very slim. Keep up the hunt...you never know when a good man will show up.
I\'m late in ready this, sorry. I think the pickings for a good man is slim anywhere. Of course where I work you would have to settle with no teeth, no hair, sagging everywhere. LOL. I work at a nursing home. All the guys that work here are either married or too young for me. So I\'m not looking any more. If one shows up, okay.
Good on giving up the diet soda. It isn\'t good for you anyway. I\'ve been told and read somewhere that it is the carbonation that causes you to gain the weight. I\'ll have to google it to find out why.
yeah, i hate hitting dieting plat-tows (easier to spell that way) myself; with worse frustration of can easily lose weight when nerves are shot.
too bad you had to pay to locate old friends; you can put a name and where they lived last in a search engine, to find free sites that give out a few extra towns they might have lived in---with white pages/whatever then giving out phone number and address for free.
i gotta get off soda, completely, period, though i dont buy much...but when i do, went through a 3 liter, one dollar bottle, of soda in about 24 hours a couple days ago.
what is the name of the site you joined? does it cost anything? sounds more interesting than facebook. and maybe more private? the paralegal told me, in all court cases the first place insurance companies check is facebook and social media.
good luck looking for men. one of the guys at work does the same with women, he says he mostly meets women who are ten years older than him. I think that is common in north florida because a lot of the married guys here are married to women who are older. have never seen that before, but I\'ve never been older before. lol.
they claim soda is super bad, especially diet soda with aspartame. its also a stimulant so even a sip of soda at night can keep you awake all night. best of luck with your diet! xxoo
I drink mat least a 15 cans of diet soda a day, when I drank reg. soda only about 4 cans a day.
I\'ve seen a few ppl very close to me only lose weight by eating very low carbohydrate foods & more stuff with protein in it.
for most of my life I had trouble Gaining weight, The only way I gained weight before I realized I\'m diabetic was by eating High Carbohydrate foods, such as breads, potatoes, starchy foods like noodles & ect.
After I left my 1st wife in 2001 I had a lot of dates none of them & I seemed to connect for long term relationships, only 1 or 2 nighters, I gave up on finding a mate for awhile.
After I left my wife I started writing poetry, although I didn\'t think it was poetry b/c it made sense to most ppl that read it.lol. I just called them \'my words\'. A friend told me about a poetry site online, the 1st poem I submitted a reply was put to it by a lady, I liked her reply b/c she knew what my poem meant deep down. When I saw her reply I had the strangest feeling come over me, \'She\'s the one\' I looked at her poems & replied, the same day we communicated through email,then messenger, That night we talked on the phone for about 8 hrs. We talked a lot for about 11 days. I lived in Michigan,She in Maryland. On the 12th day I drove 11 hours to meet her & never left, 3 months later, dec 27th. we got married.That was about 11 yrs ago & we are still in love & ppl say we act like newlyweds.
Sometimes when you\'re not looking you find what your looking for.lol