HOLIDAY CHOICES- The KEY is in the PLANNING...

Tonight I go to my aunt's for a heavenly dinner.. so I ask myself.. what do I do .. whats the strategy .. what do I eat...? do I treat today as a normal eating.. (YES I have so far) and then treat dinner as a normal dinner... what special foods will I want there.???.. that I don't get any other time of year...Truthfully, I better prepared for Yom Kippur break the Fast at another Aunt's.. I know exactly what I am going to have.. ( the menu is pretty much the same each year) and what I will skip.. but tonight and tomorrow for lunch after services.. I am in a bit of a quandary.. I think I will concentrate on the salad tonite.. and then pick two things that I really want and have a little of each.. there will be fresh HOT Challah bread.. ( egg bread that is wonderful and made with raisins for the new year a sweet new year) I will have some of that both tonight and tomorrow.. I will keep my meal eithier small on the big plate or see if i can use a salad plate for dinner ... thats all I have worked out.

If I don't plan for it still... I MESS UP ROYALLY... I should be okay with the desserts.. both today and tomorrow.. they usually have never bothered me...

Next Saturday is Yom Kippur.. we fast from sunset fri. night to Sun set on Saturday.. sometimes I make it .. sometimes I don't... We have a fabulous dairy meal... egg dishes savory cheese danishes .. blintz cassarole and all sorts of once a year goodies..... I have planned that meal to the tee already.. I can see the table in my head and I know what to do.. again concentrate on the salad.. picking 2 of my favorites .. and I will have 2 of these wonderful cookies.. that I love.. now should the meal be different .. then I have a problem.. but year after year its always the same.. so that is a VERY GOOD THING... Okay do I sound terribly anal..??? yes. I know I do.. but to me the key is in the planning..
L'shanah Tovah ( Happy new Year)
Wish me well
Wish you well too..

CRASH BAM BOOM!!!

You know.. technology and I have had a love hate relationship for years.. So this morning.. around 5 30 a.m. I decided to check my wedding website and add some info.. MUCH TO MY CHAGRIN something has happened to it.. apparently the server is SUBB... so my site is here one second gone the next.. I decided to just do a Wedding blog instead.. you are more than welcome to visit it.. Its going to take a while to build.. as this website took a couple weeks.. damn fool thing.. I guess thats what I get when its free... I must say .. Blogger is fairly dependable and you usually know when it will be down... http://honiandsteve.blogspot.com/ there is the link if you want to take a peak..
Otherwise all is well.. I had a great work out session last night.. I walked and did the sitdown stair stepper thing.. ( I have no idea what the official name of that machine is.. and neither does anyone else ) One of the trainers helped me develop some gentler versions of sit ups on the balance ball.. and also how to do some squats with out hurting my knees... using the ball against the wall and leaning against it.. then slowly while pushing back against the ball doing very shallow squats.. I probably never will be able to do deep ones.. knees and back probably won't like that.,. however it was pretty rockin' doing this ball squat thing. and I could feel it.. I never new I had real quads.. and I also located my abs.. so that was pretty neat... working on the exercise thing... and getting a handle on it too...
Going to work on the wedding blog...
Wish me well
Wish you well too

OH MY GOODNESS

AAWW shucks... Kellie nominated me for this award... Nice Matters.. and now I have the sweet task of nominating 7 other bloggers and giving them this award too.. soooo here goes...

First I would give this to everyone on my blog list.. I love you guys and you have helped me achieve far more than I could have had I been going this journey alone.. thank you so very much...

I nominate the following in no particular order :

• 1 This woman rocks...http://buddhagirlsworld.blogspot.com/ not only are her posts hysterical but she is a phenominal person.. funny, sweet, truthful and she has really been such a super new friend in this blogsphere.

• 2 Here is a another sweetie http://dreamtobethin.blogspot.com/ I love catching up on her blog and just think she is as sweet as the day is long..

• 3 I love my grumpy chair dieter... I love reading this blog and I love when she comments on my blog.. always helpful and supportive http://thegrumpychairdieter.blogspot.com/

• 4 Another favorite blog of mine http://icecreammama.wordpress.com/ first I just loved her name.. ICECREAM MAMA... then I loved her blog.. and I love when she leaves her sweet comments for me as well... an absolutely terrific person.

• 5 Sweet Kellie .. for making me one of her seven nominations.. go visit her.. I love when she comments on my blog.. and She is so sweet.. her posts are wonderful and she has a beautiful little girl too ... http://myrambles.wordpress.com/

• 6 Eve We have been friends for.. well.. lets just say this.. for a VERY LONG TIME... she recently joined the blogger world. and her posts are great.. especially if you are a knitting or a kitty fan.. http://southbork.blogspot.com/

• 7 I love this blog and occassionally I post on this blog too.. Lady Rose is part of my great support network of my wonderful blogging buddies... always ready to lend a motivating word or cheer you on .. check this out...http://shrinkingladies.wordpress.com/

• One bonus blog I have to add is my friend Too Fat to Fly.. she rocks.. I love visiting her blog.. she always leaves me such great comments http://toofattofly.blogspot.com/http://toofattofly.blogspot.com/

AND SO IT GOES....

Sorry for the lack of more inspirational title for this post... it has been an happy yet sad ....weekend... I had my first fitting for my wedding dress yesterday.. that went as expected... I have a few pictures so if you want to see them let me know.. I might post them in my slide show too.. I have not decided yet... I was a little concerned about the dress being to low cut... but I think its okay....
I had gotten some very sad news prior to the dress fitting.. it really caught me by surprise.. lost a very sweet older friend. She was in her 70s .. and had been dealing with heart disease for many many years.. for her to survive as long as she did was in and of itself a miracle. Yet her passing is such a shock not only to me.. who grew up always calling her aunt and alway having her in my life as a blessing; her passing affects our community as well.. she was very well loved and respected and a very very active and vibrant person. Over the years she had to slow down but she was always no further than a phone call away.. she died in her sleep sometime yesterday morning.. her husband over 50 years had left to go the Gym.. he called her later that morning.. she never answered the phone... he knew.. by the time he got back home something was wrong...Somewhere in our hearts and minds we prepare ourselves when we know the news will not be good.. just as I knew when the EMT called me on Novemeber 9th 2001 at 3;15 pm that my dad was gone.. .. I felt it in my heart.. When mom told me that this wonderful woman had passed yesterday.. I was so stricken with sadness.. yet I did find comfort in the fact that she had had such a good life... and was such a woman of valor. I will miss her.. and I feel so deeply for the family.. a light softly dimmed and dissapeared yesterday.. and so it goes...

On to lighter news..
Yes.. I am actually going to the gym today.. no applause please.. I know you are impressed LOL... I just have this craving.. ( oh my God did I say craving ) to exercise...so I am going to walk on the track and ride the bike at the club.. I might even swim should the mood strike... ..
Eating is going well.. though I must admit I am not logging my food like I should.. things are going well in that arena too.. and I have to confess I like the fact that I want to exercise.. and I like the fact that I truely know that moving actually does help me feel better.. so perhaps this might not be so much about losing weight as it is about feeling less pain.. and lord knows I could deal with that.
Wish me well .. wish you well too...

ALMOST FINISHED

Sigh... almost finished with my gussying up.. hope you like it... I think it looks better... YAY
Tommorw is my first fitting for my dress...so that will be cool
I also had a great experience at the bike shop... I found a ladies jacket in a XL that actually fit me.. I was really thrilled about that... Steve is going to keep an eye out for something similiar for later down the road.. but it sure is nice to fit in a ladies cut jacket...
Wish me well wish you well too..

REBUILDING MY LITTLE UNIVERSE HERE

Well the Jewish new year Rosh Hashanah is quickly approaching.. and with the thoughts of that in my head...our holiest of holidays coming back to back.. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ( day of atonement) I have decided to do some things.. .. First I am going to apologize... if in any way I have hurt.. any ones feelings by any statements or actions I have said or done I humbly ask for your forgiveness.. secondly I have decided to recreate this blog.. Over the next little bit I am going to add music.. add new features.. add new skins and I am still considering changing the name.. although I have had several folks who think I should leave the name alone.. . Yes this blog will still be about getting healthy and losing weight.. but I also want to bring in other topics.. .. not sure what exactly.. but I know I want to go in that direction.. I will still keep everyone updated on my weight loss progress too.. so the fundamentals will still be there.. just going to gussy things up a bit..
Have a delightful weekend..
Wish me well
Wish you well too..

COMMITMENT

What is it about that word that excites us one minute and frightens us the next..?? I am not talking about commitment between two people .. I am talking about commitment to self... We get motivated to lose weight.. we get motivated to track food.. we get motivated to improve ourselves.. and then.. give us a little time and the winds of change stop.. there is a slow hum that just starts.. and everything is the same.. no movement in the scale.. no loosening of the clothes.. just the same hum... and then it get kind of comfortable.. but it is still uncomfortable in your head because you know you still have such a long journey to go... and then you wonder.. if this is it.. is it going to stop here? and then you remember that it is about commitment to self.. and recommiting every day until something happens.. until the ground shakes.. and movement starts again... what is it about Commitment?

IT'S AN UPDO!!

Once again I yielded.. seems the best thing to do with my hair is an updo... click on Flickr in the side bar and u can see my hair.. we worked over 3 hours taking it down trying to leave it down.. fluffing it up.. unfluffing.. rewetting it.. and doing all kinds of twisty things so by the end of the morning it was pretty much not willing to cooperate anymore... hence just doing an updo of curls..anything else we did either gave me big hair.. (and I hate big hair) or it looked like I had a growth growing out of the back of my head... long story short.. the curls will be slicked back into a high ponytail.. then sections of curls will be wrapped around the pony tail and then cascading towards my face.. in ringlets.. the tiara sits well and this one does not pinch my skull to hell and crapnation..and I will have the veil underneath the ponytail.. looks good I think...and that is a good thing... so the hairstyle is set.. YAY. and we will have 2 more dress rehearsals with it to make sure we can do it in a short amount of time... ..
The scale for another week has stayed the same.. yeah yeah i know.. no weight gain.. thats good.. blah blah blah... well I am going to exercise this week again and see if I can mix it up a bit.. to get some poundage to disapate from my body... wish me well on that one...
Otherwise it was a quiet weekend..
This morning was hysterical and i was going to share a video with you but for some reason the camera was not a willing participant only half the video got shot the rest was audio... Baz the black lab decided to disect the slamming monkey toy that squeals when you slam it on the ground... he dismantled the sound from it last week... and this morning he created a snow storm on the deck... it was funny.. I video taped part of it... and took some pictures that I will post on Flickr for you too see... might even post a couple here.. the funniest part was that cookie was sitting at the door staring into the kitchen with her golden eyes looking up at me saying.. look momma I am innocent.. i did not do this.. and bazzie was laying there having a snow festival with the monkey... and then he looked at me.. as if to say.. Hey mom .. look what I did.. I killed the monkey .. lol.. I love my kids...
Wish me well
Wish you well too...