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Losing weight

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I just thought I’d give you an update on my continuing weight loss. As regular readers know I’ve been off work on medical leave for more than two years due to Crohn’s Disease.

Over the past two years I’ve managed to gain a few pounds due mainly to inactivity thanks to my abdominal pain. Last November we got a Lab puppy to keep me company and as a way to motivate me to get more active. Dogs need to get outside, even if you don’t feel like taking them out, right?

Well, between Midnight keeping me busy and now Spring gardening tasks etc I’ve noticed that I’ve started to lose some weight. I hadn’t gained a lot of weight, but enough that I wasn’t looking forward to summer shorts and skimpier clothes if you know what I mean!

So I’m happy to say that the weight seems to be dropping off without the help of a strict diet or dieting aids like Slimquick. I’ve just become more active.

Of course I do watch what I eat. I have to since I have Crohns as I have trouble digesting quite a few foods. However I do try to eat low fat foods, lean proteins and limit the sweets.

Have you been trying to lose weight? What have you done and have you been successful?





Midnight got her first heartworm test

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We took Midnight to the vet earlier this evening. She had to have her first heartworm test.

It was actually the first time she’d ever had blood work done too and she was nervous. She’s usually pretty good when we go to the vet, but it seems pretty much each time we go she sees a different vet. I don’t know why, but she was stress from the moment we went into the exam room.

Chris and the doctor struggled to get her up on the exam table and then she leaned into Chris so that she could be as far away from the vet as possible. It’s too bad because this vet was really nice. Our favorite vet at the clinic left recently to start his own clinic in Scarborough … so we probably won’t be going to see him since it’s so far. Since this vet was nice we’ll try to make more appointments with him if we can.

The other vets at the clinic all seem to be chauvinistic and talk down to me … or don’t even talk to me when I ask questions. No, this isn’t my imagination. Chris has noticed and it’s ticked him off .. especially since I’m a nurse and I can understand the information that the doctors are telling us .. but when one won’t talk to me it’s kind of hard not to get ticked off.

Anyway … Midnight was very good for her blood test. Didn’t even flinch – which I presume means the doctor did a good job with that needle.

Hopefully the heartworm test will be negative. We left the clinic with a box of heartworm pills – Sentinel brand. We didn’t get the Heartgard brand as it has Ivermectin in it and I’ve heard about far too many exotic animals and a few dogs that have died after being treated with Ivermectin … so no, not taking any chances with my puppy!

Funny thing … before we left Midnight warmed up to the doctor and started playing with him. Unfortunately she took a shining to his watch. I think it was a Patek and well … she knocked it off his wrist. Oops!

It pays to lend our barbecue to neighbors!

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On Sunday night Chris and I were going to have a nice steak barbecue dinner to celebrate my Google Adsense Break through. However, our neighbor had borrowed our BBQ as he was having a big family dinner and much to his dismay he discovered that his barbecue had suddenly stopped working.

Lucky for us, when Chris went over to get our BBQ he asked us if we wanted to join them for dinner as he’d cooked up several extra steaks, chicken breasts and lamb. I wasn’t feeling that great and since I’d meant our dinner to be a bit of a celebration we declined his offer for dinner. So … he loaded up two plates full of meats, grilled veggies and desserts!

The food he gave us was enough for four people!

Needless to say we didn’t barbecue our steak that night. We ate our neighbors bonanza of food. We also opened a bottle of Red Wine. It was an Australian Shiraz-Grenache. The wine was lovely. It reminded me of a beautiful Merlot that some doctors that I used to work with make in their Grimsby Winery – Thirty Bench.

We had a fantastic meal, accompanied by a wine that I’ll be sure to purchase again. In fact we enjoyed that wine so much that I’m thinking of joining a wine club so that I can try new wines regularly. We aren’t big drinkers, but we do enjoy a glass of fine wine every now and then with our meals.

As for that steak that we were going to have on Sunday evening … well we had it this evening. I’d put a marinade on it on Sunday and leaving it on that long turned out to have been a great idea. The steak was great.

Open Doors Toronto

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I just realized that this weekend is “Open Doors Toronto” weekend. Geez … already missed a day too.

Yesterday, while Chris and I were watching the news we saw a story about Open Doors Toronto. Open Doors is when many of the historic buildings in Toronto or places of interest open their doors free of charge so that people can tour the buildings or sites. You get to see places that are almost never open to the public. It’s quite interesting.

There’s a very old house on Queen Street with a historic Toronto Garden. The last time we participated in Open Doors Toronto it was in the little travel guide they put in the newspaper and we went to see the house and garden. They’ve maintained the garden as it was when the original owners of the home first created the garden. There’s old roses there that I’ve never seen anywhere else.

Well it’s supposed to be very nice tomorrow, so along with getting some of my own gardening done, we’ll probably try to see some of the sites that are participating in this years Open Doors Toronto.

If you’re in the Toronto area have you been to Open Doors before?

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