The Scale, the Diet and Hillybilly Days
Interesting title.....sounds like a children's Nursery Rhyme or an answer on Jeopardy.......Well, its none of the above....but thanks for dropping by......
I made a serious mistake 2 weeks ago....I weighed myself...In the immortal words of Forrest Gump " I may not be a smart man...." but I know what fat is and right now I am heading towards overweight on a greased twinkee......
At first I was in denial and did what anyone in my position would do.....I threw out the scale......then in a moment of remorse...I bought a new one....Surely it was the scale.........Surely NOT.........sadly for me the "new kid on the block" reconfirmed my worst fears....I was overweight AND out $40.00 for the scale......
Next came the day I learned about calories............apparently I had been throwing a lot of those bad boys down my neck......can you say ...binge eating????....I was one of those people who could "eat the fridge" back to the light.....sound familiar????
So....now i had a choice.....I could go on eating like a herd of locusts......and eventually would find myself at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.............as a FLOAT......or I could face the awful spectre of DOING EXERCISE.........I live in an apartment complex that has an exercise room full of awful looking machines that make me sweat...when I walk by them.......But I overcame my fear of them and tried a few machines....a little at a time and began to ( dare I say it.....) work out a bit....
Back to the diet......I had been on a diet previously.....It was a sea-food diet.........I SAW food....I ATE food......
So now I am trying to eat healthy. The other night for dinner I had a sweet potato ( no butter ) and fresh pineapple chucks.......that was all........not my usual....36 Hot Dogs and 36 buns.....
I have even stopped the "pull a chair with wheels up to the fridge and inhale" late night food-a-thons.......now I treadmill, use an elliptical machine, and even gone so far as to chase a tennis ball for an hour or so....and I have roller skated twice.....( those skates are heavy )
As for the new scale, it has stopped asking one of me to get off ever time I stop by to see where the biggest part of me is going.......I will report back on my diet adventure in 90 days......celery stick anyone?????
NOTES
Hillybilly DAYS will be here in a few weeks and this will be the first one I have missed since 1999. I applaud the Shriner's and all the work they do.......And to my man Jimmy I can only say......"I still have the hat...and will wear it proudly on Hillbilly days weekend"
Happy HDB3208.....That's Hillbilly Days number 32, 2008
I made a serious mistake 2 weeks ago....I weighed myself...In the immortal words of Forrest Gump " I may not be a smart man...." but I know what fat is and right now I am heading towards overweight on a greased twinkee......
At first I was in denial and did what anyone in my position would do.....I threw out the scale......then in a moment of remorse...I bought a new one....Surely it was the scale.........Surely NOT.........sadly for me the "new kid on the block" reconfirmed my worst fears....I was overweight AND out $40.00 for the scale......
Next came the day I learned about calories............apparently I had been throwing a lot of those bad boys down my neck......can you say ...binge eating????....I was one of those people who could "eat the fridge" back to the light.....sound familiar????
So....now i had a choice.....I could go on eating like a herd of locusts......and eventually would find myself at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.............as a FLOAT......or I could face the awful spectre of DOING EXERCISE.........I live in an apartment complex that has an exercise room full of awful looking machines that make me sweat...when I walk by them.......But I overcame my fear of them and tried a few machines....a little at a time and began to ( dare I say it.....) work out a bit....
Back to the diet......I had been on a diet previously.....It was a sea-food diet.........I SAW food....I ATE food......
So now I am trying to eat healthy. The other night for dinner I had a sweet potato ( no butter ) and fresh pineapple chucks.......that was all........not my usual....36 Hot Dogs and 36 buns.....
I have even stopped the "pull a chair with wheels up to the fridge and inhale" late night food-a-thons.......now I treadmill, use an elliptical machine, and even gone so far as to chase a tennis ball for an hour or so....and I have roller skated twice.....( those skates are heavy )
As for the new scale, it has stopped asking one of me to get off ever time I stop by to see where the biggest part of me is going.......I will report back on my diet adventure in 90 days......celery stick anyone?????
NOTES
Hillybilly DAYS will be here in a few weeks and this will be the first one I have missed since 1999. I applaud the Shriner's and all the work they do.......And to my man Jimmy I can only say......"I still have the hat...and will wear it proudly on Hillbilly days weekend"
Happy HDB3208.....That's Hillbilly Days number 32, 2008
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