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Slimmer This Summer Day 2 – Glutton for Punishment

Angela Pea2 Comments

It was hot again today. Really, really hot. So what did I do?  Headed out the door at noon on a bicycle for a quick twelve mile ride!  I had to ride south to pick up DirtBike’s prescription from the pediatrician anyway, and I’m carless for the summer because Cherry Ames and I are carpooling…and I get dropped off first.

So what was spectacular on the ride other than my sweat drenched self?
Standing Cypress!
Ipomopsis rubra
This Texas wildflower stands about three to four feet tall and is electric red.  Seriously, like Day-Glo burn your eyeballs bright red. The shots I took of the whole plat were fuzzy, so I borrowed the one below from dallasgardens.com so you can see how impressive it is.
this image courtesy dallasgarden.com
So In Your Face Cheerful!
Sort of like me!

EMail Anglea Pea

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Slimmer This Summer Day 1 – Over the River…

Angela Pea3 Comments
Over the river and through the woods
To the north side I go!!
The wind was NOT blowing today, so I hit the Trinity Trails going north today.  (I usually head south first, into the wind, so that I can coast with the wind coming back when I’m, uh, all winded and tired.)  Going north means ~Whoot!~ I get to ride right over the river!!  That’s a low water crossing to the left, and it’s wide enough to ride across.  You have to be really careful to make that right turn at the bottom of the ramp.
Birds have been having a feast on the crawdads.
Carcassas and broken claws scattered all over the dam.
Once upon a time, I could drive one of these. 
I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten how!

How did it go today?GREAT!  EMail Anglea Pea

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Slimmer this Summer – Kickoff!

Angela Pea6 Comments
I’ve been working towards my goal weight for a long, long time. Almost five years now!  It’s been up and down for me, a spectacular down when I first started, a very ugly “up” after my stroke, and decidedly and consistantly down ever since.  I’ve lost a total of 62 pounds to date.  My first fifty pounds came off in six months. I gained about 25 back after the stroke, joined Weight Watchers Online and shed the 25 plus 4 spare pounds and then got stuck on a most heinous plateau. I started going to regular Weight Watchers meetings for the support and encouragement, losing 8 more pounds in the past five months.  I now have 17 more to lose to hit my goal weight. These last pounds, however, are giving me so much grief.  They are stubbon and persistant and are clinging to my bones like stink on a hog.  I celebrate every ounce lost and shed tears over every one gained.
It’s summer now, and Debi over at Debbi Does Dieting and Mir at Happy Weight After have set up a Summer Challenge.
The plan in a nutshell –
          • Blog our goals!!
          • Track food and water
          • Limit those calories
          • Get moving!
          • Blog Weekly with results
          • No winners or losers, so NO QUITTING!!
          • Cheer on fellow challengers
 So.  What is my goal?  To hit my goal weight by the end of this summer.  To do this I will:
  • Track my food consumption and exercise consistently and honestly
  • Stay within my daily point allowance; extravagant food choices (4th of July! Beer!) will be earned with activity points before they are consumed; weekly points?  Try not to dip into them!
  • Earn a minimum of 50 activity points a week; this equates to about 30 minutes a day of high level cardio
  • Blog Weekly – I’ll post my WW results weekly
  • No quitting?  No brainer.  I haven’t quit yet!
  • Follow fellow challengers and share some positive thinking

I love having a plan. It suits my Type A Self perfectly!

EMail Anglea Pea