OUR LARGE LILAC BUSH in the side yard has green leaves popping out. The beauty of this sight is uplifting The Lilacs usually blooms lavender flowers late April/early May. One of my all time favorites is the Lilac blossoms. Fragrant and delicate. If I can get my act together this time, I will pluck some blossoms for lilac jelly. I hope I can pull this off.
SPRING is near and I am ready. During the cold months, we worked at getting settled. Still not there yet. Another month has started and within it I will be having two cataract surgeries. I won't be working hard at anything as I recover. It'll be mid April before I can work in the flowerbeds. I have to be alright with this.
When my plans get changed, I must be flexible and do something else instead of pouting. Shift gears and go on.
There have times in my LIFE that I felt helpless and almost hopeless concerning so many issues. At an old age, I have a glimmer of hope that I can be PRO-ACTIVE within my life. Wish it had been more like this as I was going through LIFE earlier, but I'm there now. I have to apply myself.
Getting the column fridge that is sitting in the utility room has lifted my spirits concerning having more order. I LOVE IT so far. Yesterday, I put the majority of the vegetables and fruit in it.
When I open this new fridge, I smile. I sense some order coming over me. Right now in LIFE, our health has to be concentrated on. It must be a priority due to on going health problems. Hubby has ongoing Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and is Type 2 Diabetic. I am OBESE. Morbidly OBESE and have Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I don't sound like the POSTER KID FOR GOOD HEALTH. The very opposite. Both of us has asthma and have experienced Thyroid cancer with having no thyroid these days.
It's a different ballgame with not having a thyroid and I have had to learn the hard way on how to function. It has been a battle to have energy and lose weight. I am not one of those that takes the meds and all is well. I have had difficulties galore. I don't fit the box.
Years of research have happened and I have learned that as long as the TSH is within the so called range, then the Endocrinologist believe they've done their job. If I feel poorly then I shuffle on back to my regular doc and the Endos are finished. They will not investigate any further to help reveal what's going on. My Husband was told that he wasn't taking his medicine and he takes it faithfully. A few months later he was diagnosed with NHL. So I have researched and listened to other docs... well excuse me... on the internet.
I OFFICIALLY AM MORBIDLY OBESE. CAME DOWN A NOTCH from being grossly morbidly obese by losing 50 pounds. WORKING TOWARD BEING just OBESE. Sounds odd to me to say that I am working towards being in the obese category. Actually in the long run, I will be overjoyed to be obese again and working toward being overweight. Who would think that someone longs for the day to be overweight? Long term goal is to be overweight then onto being a healthy weight.
There is no magic button I can push to reach my goal weight. I don't want to do surgery or take OZEMPIC. A Food Program and walking is my ticket to success.
This is an all-out FIGHT to have good health. We don't smoke or take recreational drugs and seldom have alcoholic beverages. As for sweets...that's an ongoing thing. I have to preach at myself to not eat that piece of sugar-free candy. We seldom have cake, pie or cookies. We seldom have bread, rice and pasta. I am TOO sedentary. I confess.
We have completely changed our food habits about what we eat on a daily basis. I am very proud about this. I have to get off my backside and walk, walk, walk. I am lifting light weights as I sit. In APRIL. Lord willing, after recovering from cataract surgeries, I will WALK and lift weights more.
I have to aim at eating 1000 calories a day. Walk and pray. I am tracking what I eat and keep a record of it.
As for my new column fridge, I feel like we have turned a corner with our HEALTH JOURNEY. Having this appliance organized with only ORGANIC vegetables and fruits makes me VERY HAPPY to see sitting in our utility room. PRAISE THE LORD for this VICTORY!!! Having this appliance on hand filled with what I want, makes me feel like I have some power over what we will be eating.
I rearranged the Kitchen fridge with bottled water, V8 and some Immune boosting drinks. The rest of the Kitchen fridge has cheeses, half 'n half, milk, left-overs and meats. Condiments are in the doors with olives, pickles, relishes, salad dressings, ketch-up, mustards, jellies.
A Faraday cage is a container made of conducting material, such as wire mesh or metal plates, that shields what it encloses from external electric fields. A Faraday cage can be used to prevent external electromagnetic interference (EMI, or noise).
SO there I have it. Avoid hormones. Pesticides. Healthy soil. Radiation and radio frequencies as best I can. Here's to not sounding paranoid and being better informed. Here's to walking in wisdom and staying out of trouble.
I will continue on with my dietary changes. I am presently on day TWELVE of the Daniel Diet. I about lost it last night wanting a piece of chocolate. I talked myself out of the temptation. I'm not very good at talking myself out of things, but I bumbled along and went to sleep. It's a BAD habit to snack even when I am not hungry. Recognizing that it is habit and not being hungry doesn't comfort me. I still wanted the chocolate. Pat myself on the back, I didn't follow through and eat the candy. It's a comfort thing with me to eat candy, chips, bread. I seem to do well at avoiding candy when I can eat what ever I want, but when I stay on a strict food program than I want the candy. It's got to be a rebellion type thing going on within me.
Day 12. Breakfast was HOT TEA, celery stalk and a tsp. of hot mustard.
Lunch was a cup of meatless chili and a baked potato with salsa on top. Water.
Supper will be green beans and probably salad. Hubby will have the same plus some meat.
I have 9 more days of the Daniel Diet and then I can add some cottage cheese to my diet. I will make a trip to the HAPPY HIPPY Restaurant for a ACAI bowl where I get granola and coconut plus açaí berries, banana and peanut butter. I will avoid having a donut. Not sure when I will ease the meat into my program. I am doing well about avoiding pork.
Time for a NAP! Then I will work on laundry and tidying the dining room.
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