Random Thoughts

Good Morning,
Well, this will be my first post in my new blog. I really am a bit scattered in my thoughts, so I thought the title was perfect!

I recently moved back to my beloved Phoenix, AZ. My son remained in Oregon with my mom and sister to finish up 7th Grade. My daughter is staying with her father and step-mom while finishing up 2nd Grade. I am renting a room from a dear friend of mine, her hubby and their 4 dogs/2 cats while looking for work and attempting to take care of health and diet.   I have known Camille since 2003 and we couldn't believe it has been that long. Time flies when you're having fun, I guess.

It's good that I am with her and her hubby, Walter. They are very open-minded individuals that are tapped into their spirituality. So the energy in there home is great. Of course, they are very busy in their work lives too...so the energy can be a little erratic, but on weekends... we have music playing, we are outside working on the yard (I help very little with that part of it. Occassional sweeping.) and Nag Champa incense burning out on the back patio. Smells so good. It feels wonderful to sit outside in the back yard and listen to nature and feel the cool breeze (yes, we have had some cool breezes here in AZ....that will change soon.) The animals enjoy it when I am out there too. I like to bring my water out there with a book or Sunset magazine and dream. I will have to post some pics soon of this.

This past weekend we celebrated Camille's birthday early with a BBQ and then Walter started up the fire pit and Camille brought out a ton of some older herbs/spices and sage for us to throw onto the fire. The smudged that back yard with sage before throwing the whole bunch onto the fire. I adore the smell of sage. Brings so many good memories of my momma Yile.  Victoria was there and had a blast doing that. She is a water sign (Scorpio) but was entranced with the fire. Will have to watch that...LOL!!!

So my biggest issue right now is my health. The last time I was weighed at the doctor's office I hit a whopping 402lbs. I WAS STUNNED!!! I can remember a time when I was a young adult and scared of the 200 mark. PUHLEAZ! I will take that over this anyday. The past few weeks I have been making a valiant effort to eat better and drink more water. And I would say I have been successful with that. I am not sure how accurate the scale is here at Camille's but it read 392. So if it is accurate, that would mean that I have lost 10 lbs. I PRAY SO! My portions have been quite a bit smaller and one meal of my day is a salad with very light dressing. Drinking a ton of ice water and usually slip in lemons or lemon juice into my water. The diet books state that is a good thing.

I have been looking at this diet book called "Eat Right For Your Type" by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo. I am A positive and it tells you what is highly beneficial, Neutral or AVOID for your blood type. There are a few things in there that just rub me wrong because if you know me well...you know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE tomatoes, pickles, apple cider vinegar, lima beans and HUMMUS! At this moment I refuse to give up tomatoes. I adore them and love tomato based soups, sauces and salsas. But I am keeping the book close to me while I make my foods. Once I have cash in my pocket again, I have to take a trip to the natural food store here in town for a few items.

Another thing here is that they have this fabulous blender here called Vitamix. So I have been having fruit smoothies with ground flaxseed and other good things in it for me. I usually have one every other day.

I am keeping up on my meds and my blood sugars have been staying steady at around 140's when I test in the morning before food and meds are taken. That is good for me!
As for exercise...I am just not there yet. I get winded too quickly and my lower back and knees start to cause me issues. So I need to find a pool that I can do low impact stuff in the pool until I have dropped at least another 90 lbs. That won't be so hard on my joints then.

So what is my goal weight?  175lbs
I know I need to have smaller goals though to be successful. It would take too long to hit that goal weight and that can be defeating. So if I have smaller goals that lead up to my main goal....that should be good. So I will do 25 lb goals for now. That seems do-able.

Well I will close for now. I think it's a good start for my first blog.

Hope you all have a wonderful and successful day!