luella

Hi Everyone,

I haven’t been journaling lately, but I have established habits of exercise and eating, that are  sticking with me. 

I had a friend that I hadn’t seen in years call me, and she didn’t know about my husbands accident.  We talked for awhile, and I invited her to visit.  She came last week to visit me, and without thinking I was automatically following the regimen that I had developed here.  My friend visited, and I ate like I did on a daily basis.  She ate at the same time as I did, and ate what she wanted.  We didn’t have snacks, or junk food, etc.  I didn’t even think of getting junk food for entertainment.  Anyway; we had a very nice visit, and later that week she called to tell me she lost two pounds while she was visiting me.  lol  She was very happy about losing two pounds.  I had to laugh at myself, because I didn’t know whether I was a good host or a bad one.  My friend noticed the lifestyle that I had, and at the time I wasn’t actually concentrating too hard on it.  The point of my mentioning this is for motivation.   Good habits of eating and exercising may actually be hard at first, but after a time it seems as if you go into automatic; at least it has been that way for me.

I was standing at the counter at the senior citizens center (I was a volunteer to serve the bread that day)  I noticed that the slimmer senior citizens were refusing the white bread that was being served that day.  I eat bread, but try to stick to whole grain wheat bread. 

My puppy is a ball of energy, and keeps me really busy.   I have been getting up early with her, and playing with her.  She is really active.  I  take her mostly everywhere I go, and she is getting socialized.  Her mother was only six pounds and thin, and her father was twenty pounds, and a little chubby.  She is taking after her father, but looks like she will be more muscular, with all the exercise she gets.  My puppies parents lived in a second floor apartment and the parent dogs didn’t get much exercise.  I am glad that my puppy isn’t as going to be as frail as the mother dog, and a little big huskier like the father dog.  The puppy definitely is not a couch potato right now.  lol

Well enough trivia.  All of you have a great day!  Take care.

                                                                                                                       Luella

Exercise Log

Hi Everyone,

This morning I exercised for an hour, and raised the difficulty level another notch.  I have been exercising an hour a day most days, and I have been eating a lot of chicken. 

I get up early with the puppy; I named her Chickee.  She keeps me really busy, which I am happy about.  She plays all day, which keeps me busy playing with her. 

I hope all of you are well, and getting to your goals!  Take care.

                                                                                                                 Luella