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The weight loss club?

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It seems that my recent success at losing weight – accidental mind you since it’s due to a medication I’m taking for something else – caught the interest of some of my fellow bloggers.

I’ve been conversing with a few blogging friends by email about their desire to lose weight and giving them some encouragement. Most of my blogging friends are simply cutting back on fatty foods, eating fewer calories, trying to eat healthier, and stepping up their activity levels. One or two are looking into things like diet pills and one is checking out HCG shots Austin which is some kind of hormone therapy for weight loss.

I guess you could say that we’ve started a small blogger weight loss group.

As I said my weight loss is caused by my migraine medication. I’ve lost about 18 pounds so far. I’m actually hoping that it slows down soon because I lost all that in about a month!





So much cleaning and work to do this weekend

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Brrr it’s going to be kind of cold here in Toronto this weekend. We might even get a little bit of snow this evening. I’m sure it will melt immediately, but I still don’t like the idea.

I had been hoping to get outside this weekend to do a little yard work. I still haven’t tidied up my garden beds and prepared them for winter. If I don’t do that soon I won’t be able to do it at all.

If it’s too cold to go outside I’m going to spend some time doing some major house cleaning. As I mentioned in recent posts I quit smoking in October and by next week I’ll be a month smoke free. It’s time to start cleaning the nicotine off the walls etc!

I have been cleaning on and off since I quit smoking – especially in the areas that I sit the most because I didn’t want to smell nicotine and start getting cravings. It certainly doesn’t take long for nicotine to discolor things! I cleaned off our door and the brass colored Schlage door knob and it was amazing how much lighter in color the door knob was and how shiny it was too.

I bought a big container of TSP to clean the walls. I know it’s going to be a big job, but once we get the house clean – walls and all, it’s going to look and smell so much better in here.

So .. I’m going to be busy this weekend indoors or out one way or the other. Who knows maybe I’ll get to work outside and inside.

What are your plans for the weekend?

Three weeks since I quit smoking

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Well it’s been more than three weeks since I quit smoking! Actually since my husband and I quit – our house is smoke free now.

We’re both pretty proud of ourselves.

I’m still struggling. I have cravings every day, but I try to ignore them as best as I can. I’m very determined to never pick up another cigarette again.

This week I’m also feeling more emotional than usual. I don’t know if it’s the medication that I’m still taking to help me quit smoking (Zyban) or it’s just yet another side effect of quitting.

I finally told my whole family in an email last night that my husband and I had quit smoking and that’d we’d made it three weeks and one of my brothers wrote back today with a backhanded congratulations. I’d rather that he’d just not said anything instead of saying something like well let’s see where you are next October and then a long spiel about how smoking one cigarette will make us start again before he finally said that he’s proud of us for quitting.

His email just upset me. I didn’t just quit on a whim. I quit for my health. I have migraines with auras and there’s a history of stroke in my family and being female … that’s three strikes against me for increased risk of stroke and also the type of migraine that I have is Basilar and it has yet another increased risk of stroke. Being a smoker just added another stroke risk so by quitting I eliminated at least one potential stroke risk.

Anyway .. I’m going to forget about my brothers email right now.

A friend of mine wanted me to look at this site that sells wholesale water filters so I’m going to spend some time looking into it this evening. I think he’s thinking of buying one for his business and he wants my advice about it.

Didn’t feel like making dinner tonight

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I didn’t feel like cooking dinner tonight. Do you ever have those kind of days?

I wasn’t feeling all that well today and the thought of standing in the kitchen for half an hour preparing dinner was just too much. Normally I don’t mind preparing and cooking dinner. I actually love cooking – just not tonight.

So … when my husband came home I suggested we get some take out food. McDonald’s. Yeah – I know, not a very healthy dinner, but we rarely eat food from places like McDonald’s. On days when I don’t feel like cooking I wish there was a big button in my kitchen that I could said click here or something and then ta da food would suddenly appear. Yeah – I know, I’m dreaming.

What did you have for dinner tonight?

A new opportunity

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I just got some great news. I’ve been part of the Glam Network for 3 years now. Two of my blogs are listed with them and are part of their advertising network. It’s been a good way to get my sites seen by others as well as a way to make some decent money via advertising.

Well … they just invited me into a very special new advertising network. I have to read all of the details in the information that they just sent me, but it sounds great as far as I can tell. I’ll still have control over my site and advertising choices and when I choose to take part in their offerings. Sounds good doesn’t it?

Darn, I just remembered, I’ve got to call my mother in law. Maybe I won’t be reading the new advertising network information tonight as I’ll be on the phone. LOL She wants to learn more about a health product I was reading about the other day so I think I’ll be talking to her for a while. Sigh …

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