when you're on a roll...

..just make sure it's whole wheat or multigrain (RIMSHOT!!!) hahahh..

nah...I said that because I pretty much posted an entire blog entry into someone else's blog comments section!!!! I was on a roll with my post and I knew I was going to end up pasting it here!! So..here it is...
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Your potential new buddy and possible mentee will be in my prayers. There is NOTHING WORSE than dying from something that . . . pretty much was preventable and most likely your own fault. Some people have heart problems through no fault of their own but when something is brought on by an addiction of the mind and body such as food, drugs, alcohol..even sex (HIV or AIDS or syphilis resulting in death) it just puts such a blow to you (well, aside from dying) and those you've left behind.


This goes hand and hand with your leader comments. I need my son to see his mommy eating healthier and even though i'm not exercising as much yet eventually he'll see me doing aerobics, walking more, dancing around with him...I mean...we have some lil wrestling sessions and we dance around now a bit now...but he needs to see me moving more and being happy more. It was one thing to have the fear of my obesity being the cause of my death or downward health spiral when I had no kids but now that I have a son...it just...WOW!

I'm not speaking for anyone else but I'm sure the sentiment is similar if not the same but having obesity be the cause of my death after so many attempts, successes, then setbacks to more weight than I started with is just a crushing thought. Why couldn't I conquer this? Why couldn't I have more power over my body and mind? Why did I fail at controlling myself?!? I've lost it in the past when thinking of all the things I have NO control over and the one thing I SHOULD I didn't either!

I'm really thinking I'm better than that now! ...didn't mean to take up your comment section...I think I'm going to do something I've done before and copy this comment onto my own blog!

btw, luckily for me, once my weight is gone people will have my sister to thank if they still recognize me. They'll know who I am because they know her...or they'll just think I'm her! If I eventually dreadlock my hair, by the time the weight is gone it'll probably being about 7inches long so they'll think she just locked up her hair!!
I'm 3 years younger than her but we look like twins so it's really not far-fetched!

Blessings!


July 15, 2009 7:00 AM
MightySGRhofromChicaGO said...

OH YEAH!! I have my moments of impatience but SURPRISINGLY this time around I'm not on pins and needles! I'm charged and feeling it's going to happen this time!! I really believe my faith is a bit stronger this time...it's kinda a nonchalant faith but I know where my help is coming from! I also credit this blog and the support of you all following it and leaving me comments! SEAN IS THE ULTIMATE MOTIVATOR! I think we're all putting ourselves out there for others and that sort of makes us accountable for staying on track. I'm hoping none of us ends our blogging just because we've reached our goal weight! I think that's what slips up a lot of celebs who put their weightloss out there for the public to follow and then they gain it all back. Plus they try to put their unfortunate weight gain on a "hectic lifestyle" and blah blah blah. We need to stop making excuses and just say ..it's us..it's me...Hectic lifestyle just means you have to plan your meals better. choose your snacks wiser. And if you're a Hollywood celeb with Hundreds of thousands if not millions in the bank..yeeeeah, you really have no excuse. You can afford a ..topnotch home gym, personal trainer, HECK Seattle Suttons home mean delivery!!

I also think having that digital scale to let me know that I may not have lost more than a pound but I may have lost some ounces is a big help! If I've lost 2 ounces I take it! Just this morning I was at the sink pouring water in my cereal to knock my 2% milk down to a skim substitute (oooh, don't act like you all haven't done it!!) and I thought about how I just need to keep doing what I'm doing. It's working. I'm eating what I want and I'm cool with losing only a pound a week. I know it's not going to be overnight but I'll get there....Lord willing!

okay, I think that's the rest!

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Sean posted about man he'll be meeting today that has been given a "Seal of Death", collect your flowers now notice from his doctors about his heart. I'm assuming it's all obesity related otherwise I don't think he would have been contacted through the mini-grapevine.

I've been told about the pre-diabetes markers on my skin I have by my doctor. I've said in this blog before that my dad had diabetes and before that congestive heart failure and it was a "myocardial infarction" that took him. I said what the death cert. said because I'm guessing that's a bit different from a heart attack. Or it could very well just be the medical term for a heart attack and not like cardiac arrest which could INCLUDE a heart attack eventually or something. I don't know...I'm not a doctor and I didn't WebMd any info. The point is dad is dead because of his weight. I don't want to be dead because of my weight. And I'm praying God by the hand and suffering of Jesus allows me to LIVE a long life A.W.L. ***After Weight Loss***!!!!! I'd hate to finally lose all this fat I'm working to lose with no intervention of drugs or surgery or even programs or possibly even a personal trainer short of a DVD or aerobics class leader....and on the way to a victory banquet I'm shot or involved in an auto crash that takes my life!

THAT



WOULD


SUCK!!!!!

I would also like to lose it before my grandmother passes away so she can live to see that I did it! The last time she saw me lose a lot of weight was back in 2004 when I was on the Atkins approach. I dropped about 65 pounds with hitting the gym b4 work and whatnot. But that wasn't like a size 14 or 16 which is what I'm shooting for. If I can get down to a 8 or 10 that's fine too but that's not my realistic goal until I've met my first goal. Gran'mother will be 92 tomorrow. God Bless her...she's outlived all of her siblings (7 total I think) ex-husband, one son, 3 grandchildren, a grand-niece, and I'm sure a host of cousins..she may be the last on that tier of that side of my family living. and she is a three or four times great grandmother. She's also overweight/obese and her living conditions, while quiet and suburban, aren't always peaceful for her mind and spirit.

I'd like my mom to be able to see me that downsized as well.

Growing up with an obese and rather outspoken dad....and not only feeling the embarrassment of being a fat kid, I also had to feel the embarrassment of having a big dad. That said, I don't want my son to have to feel that embarrassment of having a big mom show up for whatever. However, at the rate the U.S. is going, by the time I lose all of this weight, I'll be in an even smaller minority of healthy weight individuals than exists now! America needs to heal itself y'all!

And yet....McDonalds has introduced it's new Angus burger...what is that thing, a 1/3 pounder?!!? Really??? Yes Yes, I've said it before that people are the ultimate deciders of what they eat and parents are the ultimate decider of what their young children eat....but if you're in a bit of a bind for time or you'd just like to go treat the kids to "fast food" can't we have more options of healthier food? With more and more people crossing over into the overweight and obese category of Americans...and I'm thinking that everyone that was already there not very many have died or dropped out of the category with weight loss...who do you is helping the number increase? Children...teens...those who've probably spent so much time hating fatties or vowing NEVER to become fat catching their come-uppins...or new mothers who haven't dropped the extra weight or have gained more postpartum (I've been there...I'm STILL there..but it didn't start happening until shortly before I stopped nursing).

How are all of these people crossing over? Well, lack of exercise and moving is obvious, but I'm a current testimony that weight can be lost without exercising...it's not the best way (because you might end up losing muscle as well as fat so I have to get moving and training) and it will take you longer. But...slow and steady still wins the race.

The real problem is the diet of America is horrible. Only here do we have places suggesting to add more, make it bigger, you want this or that with this or that? We drown salads in bottled dressings without regard to how we've pretty much RUINED the formerly healthy salad! We have more stores in poorer neighborhoods that sell a umpteenth amount of junk foods, processed and prepared meats and foods, sugary, HFCS drinks, and booze & cigarettes aplenty but no FRESH MEATS, FRESH FRUITS, FRESH VEGETABLES!!!! A greasy spoon on every block. The poor even have unhealthy banking habits!! Using a currency exchange as a bank and changing making system is just....it makes my skin itch!!! People end up paying money to GET their money. I don't know if they just have no trust of banks (I don't trust leaving a currency exchange with $300 in cash after cashing a SS or public aid check in the hood) or they've messed up their credit so bad that not only are utility bills in a child's name so you're messing their credit up too, but you can't even get a REAL BANK ACCOUNT because you're ssn has been red flagged? I really don't know. It could also be because they're going to go right to the dope man to blow it all on ...whatever..or to the liquor store to get drunk..


Yeah. that last part took a personal turn....gonna try and go back to sleep now. maybe it'll happen...probably won't ...especially if I do what I'm thinking of doing and pop a dvd in!

okey dokey..I may post later!


Blessing all!