Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
12:10pm .....forgot to tell you, the company doctor is actually a nurse practioner. she told me to keep a food and exercise journal. this morning for breakfast i had: egg white spinach omelette/1 pc whole wheat toast/1 banana/1 canned coke/1 tble butter.
walked to work from parking lot. i thought this took 10 minutes. crap it was only 4 minutes and that was from the car to my freaking desk! more later.
1:00 snack...16 oz unsweet tea...special K 90 calorie snack bar
4:00 lunch...16 oz water...grilled chicken on wheat, lettuce, mustard, tomato...walked 20 minutes
6:00 snack...apple slices with 1 oz carmel sauce
6:13 snack...5 choco pretzels
9:00 supper...roasted chicken, pasta plain, water.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
I had blood work done. I have never taken this seriously before. I have never had a doctor act like this was serious UNTIL NOW. Nobody in a white coat has ever acted like my numbers were bad.
I went to the company's health clinic they provide to employees. They called me today with my results. They were not happy. Now I am not happy. Here is the result:
Cholestrol 294 supposed to be <200
Triglycerides 278 supposed to be <150
LDL cholestrol 187 supposed to be <130
HDL cholestrol 51 GOOD
Thyroid levels 1 GOOD
Sugar levels 95 GOOD should be in 65-99 range
Vitamin D GOOD
They told me to go to the American Heart Association and get the low saturated fat diet. Am to do this for 8 weeks before they re-test the labs. Am to walk 20 minutes daily and work up to 30 minutes. They told me I cannot wait another day to do this. I AM TOTALLY FREAKED OUT! and I should be. THANK YOU COMPANY HEALTH CLINIC. I ONCE WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
March is almost here kids! So I am dedicating the blog to all things green. Green food, green nature, green people, saving some green, green green, and more green.
I am much better today i.e. regarding the 14 freaking flights of stairs deal from Thursday.
Me and a young lady on my team at work, LORETHA, have joined the Fitness Club deal they are doing. I don't know what it is all about yet, but Loretha and I are in it to win it. Loretha is also going to show me how to ride the CAT bus. If gas goes much higher, my happy butt will be catching the bus. So far Loretha has told me when we do our trial run I am NOT to make eye contact with anyone. That is rule 1 she says. I don't know if I want to know rule 2. But hey...I am up for anything.
I am going to clean my house today. I am doing some leg lifts as well to try and work the rest of this soreness out.
Time for lunch...must have something green!
Laters!
Friday, February 25, 2011
2/24/2011.......I have not done diddly in 3 weeks....have been sick with bronchitus from the dark side...so today I am at work and the word comes down to evacuate the building...I am on the 14 th floor...just today I had filled out the questionnaire that asked if you needed assistance in case of emergency...I said No, I don't need assistance. what a load that was...emergency declared and we are told to evacuate the building...I begin the slow descent down 14 freaking flights of stairs...floor 8 I stopped to rest and told the rest of the people behind to go on... one guy who stood with me...i then went down to the 4 th floor...stopped, me and my guy rested and caught my breath...legs are now in rubber spaghetti land...hobble down to the last floor...almost pass out...can't walk...sit down and wait for good looking fireman to take me out...that didn't happen either...come on people, what does a gal have to do to get rescued by a fireman????????probably be 20-something and a size 2..........the emergency was declared over and I go back up to my office...I am now pushing a chair in front of me like a 100 year old woman on a tennis ball walker....20 minutes later we are told to get in the stairwell...... tornado warning...i hobble to the stairwell....we wait....go back to my office on the arm of another good samiritan....I made sure my team saw this...I told them they just left me hanging!!!LOL.....15 minutes later another tornado warning back to the stairwell...this time my team fought over who could help me get there...we wait...emergency over...my team takes me back to my office...i pray to high heaven I do not have to see the stairwell again for a very, very long time. I am done!!!!!!!!!!!
2/25/2011....got up....no wobbly anymore but there is pain in my legs that is cutting like a knife...i am now remembering why i am not an athlete...evidently (insert jack nicholson's voice here) i can't handle the truth/pain!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
No walk today...some moron parked in my spot...had to go to parking tower...called parking lot guru...she was going to take care of the moron in my spot...AGH!
the vegan thing from yesterday...started looking at things like mayo...everything has animal products in it...EVERYTHING!!! how can you be totally vegan??? why can't you have milk products...getting the milk doesn't kill the cow or harm him in any way...so what's so wrong about that???
Ginger, at work, has accomplished 2 days without carbonated beverages!!! YEAH Ginger!!!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
So I am watching Oprah just now...Her staff went vegan for a week...they were talking about how good they felt...it is not just meat but meat products...now that I had never thought of. So iI binged 'vegan' and did you know there are vegan caterers??? for vegan weddings??? Could I vegan for a day? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I could probably vegan-ish for a day.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Looked like rain today, but did not do it while I was walking to and from the building today. In an ongoing effort to reduce fat and be debt free, I decided to leave my purse at home. I brought for lunch a yogurt, a banana, and a cheese stick. If I had brought money, I would have bought a cheeseburger. If I would have seen Jamie Lee Curtis and her Activia yogurt commercials, I would have punched her out. I also would have paid $ 5.00 for anyone who had a stick of chocolate chip cookie dough. Might have went as high as $ 10.00. Truth be known, I would have traded my IPOD. I am so freaking hungry. Co-worker brought me some chocolate covered, peanut butter laced Bugles. Sounds totally gross, but kids, it was not bad. Not bad at all. I didn't even know they still made Bugles.
Will probably add a block or so to the walk. Am really pleased I have done this now for almost 2 weeks running. For me that is huge.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Day off day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Started working on the closet of horrors. What a land mine. am throwing away stuff like crazy. found a Christmas book of pictures when April was married to the ex moron...tossed it all. didn't even salvage the pictures without him in it. tossed 2 lamps, baskets, picture frames, clothes, ribbon, wrap paper,.college books, papers, binders..have not even made a dent in this crap. almost tossed dell printer but didn't ....my pledge to toss 3 things every day until this closet is clean and the office is walk in able!!!!!! My goal is as weight comes off the body...weight is also going out of my house....I am tired of saving things. had a ton of empty boxes I was saving to wrap things in. out out out . My criteria before tossing...if I don't truly love it, or if it doesn't make me laugh or smile...it is gone!!!!!!!!
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