This is My Daily Journal and today is Thursday, March 1, 2018 and the first day of our 31 day challenge to get a lot better at “The Art of Cozy Living.” I’m excited – how about you? By the end of this month of March – those of us who follow through – will have much more harmony in our homes and lives AND our relationships with those we love the most – will have improved greatly. I guarantee!!!
But that’s not what we’re going to talk about today – and today is going to be a very judgmental post – and yes – I’m judgmental. You’ll find no blisters on MY tongue – because I tell it like it is and let the chips fall where they may.
Now – I always “try” to be sensitive – but if you find you’re talking to someone with a head like a rock – sometimes – you have to just chew up that sensitivity and spit it out and just get on with the problem solving at hand – OR AT THE VERY LEAST – bringing the real problem to the front.
Now also – anyone who says they’re not judgmental – is also a liar TOO – because no one can look at things and situations without forming OPINIONS – and an opinion – is a judgment. This little dictionary that has set right here on my desk since this website was born – 9 years ago – tells me an opinion – is a belief. When I just looked up judgment – it said “See belief” LoL Case closed!
I used to talk to Bro Tony – our elderly/former pastor – about me being judgmental. And one day he said “Sister Kay – you’re not judgmental – you’re a fruit inspector and you’re one of the best I’ve ever met.” LoL
SO this is a judgmental post and if you are the type of person that can’t take ‘hearing how the hog REALLY ate the cabbage’ – from an old died in the wool church lady – then you’d probably best move on for today and check back with us tomorrow.
As I said last week – I think I’m about to get a handle on this depression and anxiety that just came out of no where – after 7 decades – and I hope my new alternative Dr Shauna – will be able to totally load that on up on a little wagon and move it out. I’m sure it’s hormonal or my thyroid – but even though I’ve been a natural healing quack myself for 41 years – I just can’t seem to totally put this at rest.
HOWEVER – speaking of REST 🙂 I’m still having a HORRIFIC time NIGHTLY – with my one woman insomnia slumber parties – which often times now – are going on till MORNING :-0 YES!!! SOME NIGHTS – I just do not go to sleep AT ALL!!! FOR THE LOVE OF PETE – it’s a good thing I’m overly HYPER. You’d never know it if you saw me at high noon – that I hadn’t slept in 36 hours – AND that – that – had only been a dozy cat nap.
OK – what I do after Geezer heads to dreamland – I watch TV and listen to the scanner and when My 600 LB Life is on – I usually have to watch that.
Last night – that man weighed 842 pounds and he had slabs of fat that hung off the side of the bed and they hung to where the mattress connects to the springs of that bed. FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!!! HOW do these people GET to that kinda weight?
SO he got the appointment with Dr Now in Houston and he and his fiance loaded up and were on their way. The thing that always makes my blood boil during this show – is when they stop to eat – and they have to go through a drive thru – because the obese person can’t get in and out of the van. MOST TIMES – they are laying down in the BACK of the vans and I even saw one obese person a while back – they had to rent a U HAUL TRUCK – just to get him in to carry him to Houston.
But they’ll go through these drive thru fast food windows and the obese person will say “Order me 3 large hamburgers – 1 chicken sandwich – an order of fries – an order of onion rings and a coca cola and chocolate malt. And I want to scream “HELLO??? Don’t you think since you’re being moved to a Houston hospital – with your barely alive body in a MOVING VAN – that you should order a boiled egg and LEMON WATER?
OH MY GOODNESS – and then they’ll get there and they won’t follow the diet Dr Now orders for them and they’ll have the person that helped them get there – sneak out and get a bucket of fried chicken – 2 hamburgers – 2 chocolate malts and a box of donuts. AND that person always does that for them.
GOOD GRIEF – – – I just want to jump into that TV set and slap the FOOL out of ALL of them.
I WILL SAY though – that this was the jolliest obese person they have ever had on. He DID eat too much – but he still lost 143 pounds in the first month – and he went down fast.
He was so immobile that they had to do surgery – just to cut those slabs off of his sides so it would be easier to move him around – and just those slabs weighed about 100 pounds …
Now at 5 feet tall – I’ve struggled with weight all my life. When we married in 1967 – I weighed 83 pounds – but it didn’t take long for me to find my ‘set point weight’ which for me seems to be 130 lbs. I struggle to get down to 125 and stay there a while and next thing I know – I’m back up to 130. But you let that scale hit 132 and I’m calling out to Geezer – “OH MY GOODNESS – I WEIGH A HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO POUNDS – WE HAVE TO GO ON A DIET!!!” Geezer will say ‘Now how does YOUR gaining weight – affect what “I” am going to eat?” LoL
All the men in our family are over weight – and they all struggle with weight and go up and down now and then. But goodness – this is just beyond – ridiculous – the people on this show.
Geezer weighed 145 when we married – and he’s been as high as 250 – but I try to help keep him down around 200 and it usually isn’t easy.
We were paying in Rural King the other day and I had told the cashier how many bags of deer corn we had – and I buy our coffee there – and I had bought Lucy Lou (my pet chicken) some chicken feed – and just as the cashier gave me the total – Geezer said “Wait a minute we have one more thing.” And he pulled a package of those junk sandwich cookies out from behind his back. I gasped and the girl said “Ooohh is he surprising you with cookies?” I said “No THOSE are for HIM and he knows I don’t like him having junk cookies – if he wants cookies I like to bake them at home – so I can control the sugar and health aspects of them.” He was laughing like a little boy that had played a trick on somebody.
Ok – rant over! 🙂 There is a remedy for obesity – and we have it at Love Home and Health – and that remedy is simply this:
Eat less and walk more. Eat healthier – back off on sugar, dairy and white flour. Eat lean protein – low carb and drink lots of water and walk at least 30 minutes – 7 days a week. You can even walk in short spurts. One friend lost 20 pounds in 2 months just by getting up out of her recliner and walking during TV commercials – from 7pm to 10pm .. she said the walking sessions flew by – and it wasn’t like exercise at all … AND she ate healthier – but didn’t do any specific diet – just tried to naturally cut back and eat healthier.
OK – it’s 7:25 and I’m burning daylight – with tons to do today.
I hope you all have a most precious and fantabulous – grand and groovy zippity doo dah day – and Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise – we’ll meet back here tomorrow morning.
THIS IS DAY ONE – of our 31 day challenge “Learning the art of cozy living.” Check out yesterdays blog and we’ll be talking about that more in the next couple days …
Peace and just tons of love – coming to you – from Round Knob Canyon …
I LOVE coffee dying and baking paper for my Junk Book Journals – and then once dried – you iron a big stack of baked paper 🙂
