RESTFUL SLEEP. What a bonus and wonderful outcome. Slept through the night and woke refreshed. Stretched to little pain in my body. Twas wonderful to say the least. WONDERFUL.
No stomach cramps with a vision of what to work on today being it's suppose to be wickedly HOT this afternoon. A HEAT WAY is on its way. Heat stroke territory. The week-end is suppose to be a cooker. In the 100s. Our Summer has been relatively nice with few days with temps in the 100s so the heat wave will pull us back into a season of sweat. Where's the nearest shade tree? Lemonade and handheld fans?
I think for now, the best place to store these pieces after I get them all folded just so-so will be stacked in the closet. In a few days I can work on this, but for now I need to just simply gather them. Just getting them gathered in one place is a giant step in getting bedding relocated from here to there. Another necessary thing for moving.
I made the decision to give up coffee as I was drinking way too much all through the day. Sip sip and I was addicted. I decided I needed to divorce this habit and so I did. Three years later I am holding my own. Soda pop was given up 26 years ago. TWENTY SIX!!!!! No Dr. Pepper, Pepsi or Coke. I did it. If I can do this, I can do other things that seem impossible to turn loose of. HABITS CAN BE BROKEN. Completely.
BREAKING HABITS with certain foods and beverages is another hurdle. I've cut out drinking milk. Rarely have it on cereal because I rarely have cereal. Seldom do I eat breads. Skipping pigging out on meats. Smaller portions. Sugary drinks like fruit juices are rare. Cooking with avocado and olive oils from one country. A small glass of wine maybe twice a year. No hard liquor ever. No margarine. Spring water instead of H2O from the tap. As little medicine as possible. Need to bump up the legumes and go easy on sprinkle of nuts. CUT WAY BACK on sugar, honey, maple syrup, and skip the artificial sweeteners. I won't be dining on FAKE MEAT or cloned chicken. Gotta read the labels, my friend. Highly processed foods are an abomination to mankind. When did we become lab rats and the FDA says it's alright?
Who created the FDA anyways? Why do they have such power over the American people? Good intentions have morphed into a different animal.
Originally the FDA may have had good intentions. Now I have questions about profit over people.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relies on funding from two sources to support its regulatory activities: user fees and budget appropriations and user fees PAID by INDUSTRY. INDUSTRY such as Pharmaceutical companies. Did I say Pharmaceutical companies? Yep...like BIG PHARMA. Both sources of funding are authorized by Congress.
Every five years, top officials of the Food and Drug Administration go behind closed doors to negotiate the terms of its core budget — about $3 billion this year.
But the F.D.A. is not at the table with members of Congress or with White House officials. Instead, it’s in dozens of meetings with representatives of the giant pharmaceutical companies whose products the agency regulates. The negotiations are a piece of the “user fee” program in which drug, device and biotech companies make payments to the agency partly to seek product approvals.
If I could get this weight off of me in three years, it would be a slow enough thing that the weight might stay off without coming back on. I seem to have stalled out on the weight loss. I'm not trying to reduce while recovering from this hysterectomy. I need my strength which is difficult getting back at 68. Instead I am working at continually eating organic veggies and fruits. No sugary drinks. Hardly any cow's milk. Hardly any bread. Grass fed beef.
My upper torso does not stick out as far as it did due to removing the BEAST from within me. My uterus was @20cm long which had no place to go but to crowd my stomach area and it did. I can breath better these days. The pressure I had in my side is gone. I'm not coughing like I was. I can hold my bladder! Benefits are coming to mind.
AS FOR WEIGHT REDUCTION, intermittent fasting isn't doing the job for me as I am as heavy as ever. I will stick with it for now and maybe I will begin to lose some weight as the months go by. I'm slower than the average person in most every thing. Slow metabolism. Slow, slow, slow. Like a dinosaur slow. For months now, I haven't eaten breakfast until 11 in the morning which is more like BRUNCH when I do eat. No afternoon snacks. Early Supper. I suppose I should take the next step to not eating anything AFTER 7pm. That would be 16 hours between food intake at night to late morning.
EXERCISE will be the next best thing for me after I heal up. WALKING and lifting light weight hand weights. Staying in motion. A one and a two and a three and a four. Repeat. A one and a two and a three and a four! Repeat. ETC.
The main thing is to be HEALTHY. I more than likely will stay a hefty looking female no matter what I do. Can I live with this? I want to live, so I have to focus on being healthier and that is the ticket. I'm not going to be a skinny woman. End of story. Where will this journey take me? I want to stay healthy so I will never crash diet again and I will refuel my temple with nutritious foods. I want to these days.
Some attention must go into taking care of self. It's not selfish. It needs to be balanced for sure, not ignored.
As I go shopping, I plan to check out a market place that I have not visited for over twenty years. Gulp, that's a chunk of time. Also I will be on the look out for mums. I'd think with Autumn around the corner that this market place will start carrying mums. The flowers I had in the front porch urns have died. Mums will go in as soon as possible so they can grow to a nice hefty size before frost comes. I'm not ready for COLD WEATHER. Frown, but God is good and I will make it through cold weather or not. Sweater time and sweat tops.
MUMS the WORD.
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