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Monday, January 05, 2009

This is a Conscientious Start of the Day

Good morning … this is me again. We wrote a little bit on Rich’s Mom, but we decided to keep that post a part from our regular entry. I feel that what is happening with them affects me, but primarily because I’m not directly involved, so I’m thinking I can look at it more objectively. I think that Rich’s Mom’s anger is getting put on Rich and Bud and Rich’s anger is being put on me We’ve got to learn better not to argue back although we feel somewhat baited. We have a lot of difficulty with his close-mindedness. He thinks that he’s the expert and knows all the answers without checking out his resources or following-up with the doctor directly. So, he’s missing serious information and support. We’d like to see this fixed. I know my best gift to him is to be patient. I need to remain objective.

With that … we’ll pass over to the next topic, whatever that may be. It’s about 5:45 am now. We’ve been up for about 75 minutes. We just turned on the coffee and got our coffee. We checked the email and are now considering taking the shower early.

I want to feel prepared for the day. If I’m to go back to work, then I want to be doing it well.

I feel really proud for getting the bills done yesterday. I wish I could have made myself do it earlier, because it’s never as hard as it feels before starting it. I think there are 3-4 major goals of the day. 1) We should check the mail again, 2) We should remain calm, resourceful, and capable 3) We should go back to the gym, 4) We should be watching what we’re eating.

Yeeks … just looked at the numbers. We’re already up to about 300 some calories for eating a piece of pizza this morning. But as to yesterday, Rich and we were at 148% - that’s like 1 ½ times what we were supposed to be eating. We were at 3990 out of 2687. Rich was 340 over and I was 535 over, but our goals are different, so Rich was only 21% his 1500 calories and I was 43% over my 1200 calories. He was at 1897 and we topped him at 2092. That’s surely not good. I better send him a report this morning.

Yeeks need to get into the shower, so I can wake up Rich. BRB

Ok, Out of the shower, took our medicine and packed. Rich is up now too. Together we weight 545.8. It seems as if we’ve lost 3.8 pounds so far - good-good. I’m at 46.5% of the weight between Rich and us and Rich is 53.5% of the weight between us.

The numbers we want to be at is a total weight of 355. That means I should be at 38.6% and Rich should be at 61.4% of the weight. Let’s see one more calculation – I have to lose 46% of my weight and Rich needs to lose 25% of his weight. Pswhoo – we gotta get past this, hmm?

Just 5 minutes left, I better post. We’re going to need warming up that car, remember? You go girl!