Okay, so we started a low-carb diet in August of 2003. I don't know if I ever posted our results. Dave lost about 30 pounds within the first three months. At that point, he plateaued and didn't lose much more. I lost about 12 pounds in the first two weeks, plateaued, and then lost another 12 pounds within the next four months. I lost 24 pounds total. I went from 144 pounds down to 120 pounds. I kept it off until just after Thanksgiving & Christmas 2004, around which time I gained about 5 pounds back. So, now I'm trying to get back on the low-carb diet to lose the weight I found. :-)
Dave found out he has high cholesterol last summer, so he has had to eat low fat, low cholesterol food. He usually eats nonfat, and he isn't really worrying about carbs. After all, what could he eat - cardboard? LOL... Anyway, I don't think he has lost weight from that, though, but he hasn't been back to the doctor yet to find out about his cholesterol yet. I hope it's going down.
I'm wishing all of you the best in health and happiness!! Love, Starla
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Happy New Year
I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year. I know it's been quite some time since I have updated my blog, but it's been a busy time. Thanksgiving, Christmas, trying to figure out summer vacation for this year, plus I've been working many hours overtime.
Chris stayed with us for Thanksgiving, and he helped his dad cook the turkey - we had it deep-fried, which may not be healthy, but it's much quicker than traditional and it is so juicy and flavorful. Chris also made the best sweet potato dish I've ever had - it was a Bobby Flay recipe from The Food Network. I tried a baked cranberry sauce recipe with bourbon (also a Bobby Flay recipe), and it was excellent. I also made the usual bourbon smashed sweet potatoes, (a Rachel Ray recipe) which are pretty good as well, plus I made an Alton Brown recipe, chipotle smashed sweet potatoes, this year for the first time. Those were delicious as well. I've decided you can never have too many sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner -- or for Christmas dinner either, as we made the same dishes then too. The kids stayed with us through Christmas Eve, then their mother picked them up early Christmas morning for the rest of their school vacation, so we had our Christmas on Christmas Eve.
As for summer vaction, we are thinking either camping for a few days again or heading to Disneyland for a change this summer. I haven't decided yet, I'm trying to find a way to make a trip for five to Disneyland as inexpensive as possible but still fun. If we choose camping again, I only want to go for a few days, because it can get quite expensive, plus very tiring. :-)
NOW to the overtime at work: we had someone quit a few weeks ago without notice (that I am aware of), and so we've been left shorthanded. In addition, two people were scheduled for vacation at the same time, and so we were left REALLY shorthanded then. So I've been working ten to twelve hour days at work doing someone else's job while trying to keep up on at least parts of my regular job. Very stressful right now, but we'll see how things go.
I guess that is the gist of it. I am looking forward to summer when school is out and we can go on vacation and take a couple of trips and visit all my family. I'm really looking forward to seeing Valerie and getting to meet the new baby after he is born. :-)
Chris stayed with us for Thanksgiving, and he helped his dad cook the turkey - we had it deep-fried, which may not be healthy, but it's much quicker than traditional and it is so juicy and flavorful. Chris also made the best sweet potato dish I've ever had - it was a Bobby Flay recipe from The Food Network. I tried a baked cranberry sauce recipe with bourbon (also a Bobby Flay recipe), and it was excellent. I also made the usual bourbon smashed sweet potatoes, (a Rachel Ray recipe) which are pretty good as well, plus I made an Alton Brown recipe, chipotle smashed sweet potatoes, this year for the first time. Those were delicious as well. I've decided you can never have too many sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner -- or for Christmas dinner either, as we made the same dishes then too. The kids stayed with us through Christmas Eve, then their mother picked them up early Christmas morning for the rest of their school vacation, so we had our Christmas on Christmas Eve.
As for summer vaction, we are thinking either camping for a few days again or heading to Disneyland for a change this summer. I haven't decided yet, I'm trying to find a way to make a trip for five to Disneyland as inexpensive as possible but still fun. If we choose camping again, I only want to go for a few days, because it can get quite expensive, plus very tiring. :-)
NOW to the overtime at work: we had someone quit a few weeks ago without notice (that I am aware of), and so we've been left shorthanded. In addition, two people were scheduled for vacation at the same time, and so we were left REALLY shorthanded then. So I've been working ten to twelve hour days at work doing someone else's job while trying to keep up on at least parts of my regular job. Very stressful right now, but we'll see how things go.
I guess that is the gist of it. I am looking forward to summer when school is out and we can go on vacation and take a couple of trips and visit all my family. I'm really looking forward to seeing Valerie and getting to meet the new baby after he is born. :-)
Monday, November 22, 2004
What a weekend!!!
There I was, just walking down the street -- singing doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy do. No, just kidding, that song just jumped in my head now as I was writing that.
So, anyway, I was walking with Nick and Chris, then started to goof off like a dork, and down I went - my shoe clipped the ground and before I knew it I fell face first. My knee hurt, but I didn't feel any pain at all anywhere else. I just knew something happened because I could see my head bounce off the asphalt. That's never a good sign, right? I didn't know for sure what to think until I touched my teeth and felt that almost half of my front tooth was just gone and all that was left was a jagged, sharp remainder. I knew it was going to be chipped but I'd never seen anybody's tooth chipped so much, so I totally freaked out. It just felt gone. We found an on-call dentist, though, and he fixed the tooth up. Thank goodness. I feel pretty lucky that nothing else got hurt. I could have broken a hand, arm, or ankle, or even hurt my head. I'm thankful it was just my tooth & knee. I mean, how do you chip a tooth so badly by hitting the asphalt and not scrape up your face? I don't know, me and my big front teeth. LOL
Today I'm feeling it. My knee of course is completely skinned, and it hurts. It's swollen a little, and looks like it might be bruising up now as well. The rest of me has no physical marks or scrapes at all, but my arms and shoulders are aching. I don't know if that was from the fall or a combination of the fall and then the stress of my freak-out afterward.
So, anyway, I was walking with Nick and Chris, then started to goof off like a dork, and down I went - my shoe clipped the ground and before I knew it I fell face first. My knee hurt, but I didn't feel any pain at all anywhere else. I just knew something happened because I could see my head bounce off the asphalt. That's never a good sign, right? I didn't know for sure what to think until I touched my teeth and felt that almost half of my front tooth was just gone and all that was left was a jagged, sharp remainder. I knew it was going to be chipped but I'd never seen anybody's tooth chipped so much, so I totally freaked out. It just felt gone. We found an on-call dentist, though, and he fixed the tooth up. Thank goodness. I feel pretty lucky that nothing else got hurt. I could have broken a hand, arm, or ankle, or even hurt my head. I'm thankful it was just my tooth & knee. I mean, how do you chip a tooth so badly by hitting the asphalt and not scrape up your face? I don't know, me and my big front teeth. LOL
Today I'm feeling it. My knee of course is completely skinned, and it hurts. It's swollen a little, and looks like it might be bruising up now as well. The rest of me has no physical marks or scrapes at all, but my arms and shoulders are aching. I don't know if that was from the fall or a combination of the fall and then the stress of my freak-out afterward.
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to my niece Krystol :-)
Our birthdays are only two days apart - mine on the 9th and hers on the 11th. I think I'm five years older than she is. If I remember right, I had just turned five when she was born. If that's correct, that means she turned 28 today.
But if anyone should ask, I'm 29... hehehe
Our birthdays are only two days apart - mine on the 9th and hers on the 11th. I think I'm five years older than she is. If I remember right, I had just turned five when she was born. If that's correct, that means she turned 28 today.
But if anyone should ask, I'm 29... hehehe
Politics As Usual
My Political Rant...
Okay, this is my first (and hopefully only) political blog. I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat. I am non-Partisan. But a few things have me just feeling like I need to rant for a minute...
I can see how it would be upsetting if your nominee doesn't win the Presidential election. But liberals seem to be really crazy and downright nasty about it. Some are calling the people who voted for Bush "greedy" or saying they voted on the basis of their excessive incomes. Others are calling them "white trash religious hicks" (nice). You can't have it both ways, though -- I mean, you can't be both a "white trash hick" and have an excessive income. I don't know many rich people living in the trailer parks, do you?
For those of you thinking that having Bush as our President makes us more of a target for terrorism, please never fear... terrorists hate us, no matter who our President. Our President wasn't waging war in Iraq or Afghanistan or any other country when the terrorists attacked us on September 11, 2001. That was not something new that the terrorists just threw together because we had a Bush in the White House. The terrorists had been planning that attack for many years - while Clinton was still President - before finally carrying out their plans and flying those planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and God knows where else that other plane was headed before crashing into the field in Pennsylvania. So, please don't try to say that what we do "causes" these people to become terrorists. You either have it in you to hate for no reason whatsoever with such hatred that it clouds your sanity, or you don't. You either are a terrorist or you aren't. It's very simple. There is no complicated reasoning for these people cutting off heads and flying planes into buildings and blowing up naval boats & US embassies - there is just plain and simple hatred.
I do think that at least some of the 59 million people who voted for Bush didn't vote "for" Bush as much as vote "against" Kerry. Even for those who were not pleased with Bush, Kerry was just not the person they wanted as our President. And so, thankfully, he didn't win.
How about those who say they want to move to Canada because of this? Geez, are they for real? So, I have a question: why aren't they going? This is a free country, you can move to Canada if you want. And if you hate America so much now, what's keeping you here? I don't understand it.
And I don't mean this to be a bag on Democrats. There are some good, decent, and pretty darn cool Democratic people out there. It's the liberals that are giving them a bad name. Their bringing the party down. All of my rants about Democrats are really referring to liberal Democrats. I do believe the liberals are spewing all of this crap. Isn't it a shame there isn't something they can think of to accuse Bush of "stealing" the election this time around? Maybe the liberals will think of something.
In the mean time, let's hope for the best for the next four years. Let's be a United Country, instead of this divided one that the liberals seem to want to turn us into. And maybe in four years there will be a Democratic nominee that the rest of us feel is worth voting for. :-)
My Political Rant...
Okay, this is my first (and hopefully only) political blog. I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat. I am non-Partisan. But a few things have me just feeling like I need to rant for a minute...
I can see how it would be upsetting if your nominee doesn't win the Presidential election. But liberals seem to be really crazy and downright nasty about it. Some are calling the people who voted for Bush "greedy" or saying they voted on the basis of their excessive incomes. Others are calling them "white trash religious hicks" (nice). You can't have it both ways, though -- I mean, you can't be both a "white trash hick" and have an excessive income. I don't know many rich people living in the trailer parks, do you?
For those of you thinking that having Bush as our President makes us more of a target for terrorism, please never fear... terrorists hate us, no matter who our President. Our President wasn't waging war in Iraq or Afghanistan or any other country when the terrorists attacked us on September 11, 2001. That was not something new that the terrorists just threw together because we had a Bush in the White House. The terrorists had been planning that attack for many years - while Clinton was still President - before finally carrying out their plans and flying those planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and God knows where else that other plane was headed before crashing into the field in Pennsylvania. So, please don't try to say that what we do "causes" these people to become terrorists. You either have it in you to hate for no reason whatsoever with such hatred that it clouds your sanity, or you don't. You either are a terrorist or you aren't. It's very simple. There is no complicated reasoning for these people cutting off heads and flying planes into buildings and blowing up naval boats & US embassies - there is just plain and simple hatred.
I do think that at least some of the 59 million people who voted for Bush didn't vote "for" Bush as much as vote "against" Kerry. Even for those who were not pleased with Bush, Kerry was just not the person they wanted as our President. And so, thankfully, he didn't win.
How about those who say they want to move to Canada because of this? Geez, are they for real? So, I have a question: why aren't they going? This is a free country, you can move to Canada if you want. And if you hate America so much now, what's keeping you here? I don't understand it.
And I don't mean this to be a bag on Democrats. There are some good, decent, and pretty darn cool Democratic people out there. It's the liberals that are giving them a bad name. Their bringing the party down. All of my rants about Democrats are really referring to liberal Democrats. I do believe the liberals are spewing all of this crap. Isn't it a shame there isn't something they can think of to accuse Bush of "stealing" the election this time around? Maybe the liberals will think of something.
In the mean time, let's hope for the best for the next four years. Let's be a United Country, instead of this divided one that the liberals seem to want to turn us into. And maybe in four years there will be a Democratic nominee that the rest of us feel is worth voting for. :-)
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