I had this great idea for a post today while I was subbing.
So tonight when I came home I couldn’t wait to blog it!!
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TOO BAD I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS!!!
Hopefully I will remember it soon and get back with you!
How old am I?
I think to young for this!
Suz
I really don’t have a bucket list.
Although anytime I do something new I tell people I can cross that off my bucket list.
No pressure this way! :)
When I rollerbladed last year I crossed that off my bucket list.
When I water skied for the first time in 17 years I crossed that off my bucket list.
When I ran 2 miles I crossed that off.
I swam with sharks… (Are you impressed?)
Okay truth be told it was at Typhoon Lagoons Shark Reef and the sharks were the kind that are only a foot long and probably pretty harmless.
Hey but they were still sharks!
(again you realize I only cross this off in my head, there is no list)
Flying for the first time after 18 years … The list goes on.
Mostly it is things I have been wary of or let’s be honest, not physically able to because of my weight.
Yesterday at the age of 41 I gave blood for the first time.
We had a blood drive at the School I sub at.
This is kind off embarrassing as everyone else is 16-18 giving blood.
They also give you a different color name sticker if it is your first time.
Some of the kids were like…
Mrs. Tonner, is this really your 1st time?
I was like…. yes…
Their response…Cool!
Gotta love teenagers!
Why have I never given blood before?
1. Needles aren’t my favorite thing.
2. I don’t have time.
3. Not fond of pain
But the real reason is….
I never wanted to be weighed or tell anyone my weight. This isn’t nearly as big of issue as it was 160 pounds ago.
Yesterday all morning I debated over this donation.
It finally boiled down to me just deciding to do it.
Yesterday was Troy’s 1st time too. (He is 16)
All of my older children are donors.
If they can do it I should be able to also.
I headed for the gym
walked in
realized I forgot my ID
headed back to get it, (wondering if this was a sign)
headed back to the gym
signed in
read information
waited some more ( still wondering if I could back out)
Not really an option as too many of my students were waiting with me.
name called
finger stuck ( iron test)
I have really good blood ( must be all that broccoli I eat)
blood pressure taken--- slightly elevated ---white coat syndrome kicking in. I told her I would probably need a large cuff
She said, Why?
I said because I have a huge arm
She said… I didn’t need a large arm cuff.
I was amazed!
Old habits die hard
interview with lots of questions
Weight question asked….
I whispered my answer
She didn’t look shocked.
Guess that was Okay too!
signed paperwork
headed for the chair
Seems I have good veins too
I talked a lot to the ladies working
They talked to me about their jobs and lives
I talk a lot when I am nervous
( Alright, I talk a lot when I am not nervous too)
Blood donation over
Wasn’t bad
I want to do it again
It seems like such a easy thing to do to help other people out.
And after all I have really good blood! :)
I wonder if they tell that to everybody?
What’s on your bucket list?
Have a great Day!
Suz
Do you ever feel like Life is too busy?
Do your days fly and your evenings go even faster?
Why is it days in my 20’s and 30’s seemed longer?
Was it because I was surrounded by young children who needed me ALL the time?
Today I subbed, came home, did a few dishes, threw another load in the dryer and washer, Made beef stew with leftover roast, talked to my 3 teenagers about school and now I have about an hour till the big guy gets home and we leave for Tiff’s final sectional game about 45 minutes away.
This is the 3rd time in 5 days we have headed there for a game. Oh and I also have to call Pizza Hut to make sure they have the order for the after the game meal.
Please note this is just part of my day.
Don’t get me wrong I love my life (most days) but it just seems to be flying by.
Yesterday I sat with my husband at a wedding and we were sitting behind the sweetest family, Dad, Mom, 2 little girls and the sweetest baby boy ever.
It seems like just a few years ago that was us.
Toy bags, and snacks, pluggies (pacifiers) and blankies.
Always thankful to make it through a service without having to go out.
Yesterday, My 21 year old passed me the gum.
Where is this post going?
Actually I am not really sure I just had a few extra minutes and I knew that if I took a quick nap It would ruin my sleep tonight,
If I stayed in the main room I would snack on something and I already am getting too close to having used all my points up for the day.
So I thought I would just sit here and type what came to my mind.
A bunch of ramblings that probably don’t make a lot of sense.
But as I type I am smiling thinking about the good old days when I thought about how my babies would look all grown up, what they would be like, and what I would do with all my extra time…
My question is ….
Where is the extra time?
Well I have got to go son #3 just came through the door and I hear him asking where I am?
Not sure if he wants me or just wants to avoid me? HA!
I am sure someday I will have extra time…
….and I probably won’t know what to do with it.
First of all Lisa I just read your 4th comment on my last post and it really cracked me up! You have motivated me out of my slacking!! So for you here is something inspirational…
A few diet quotes although I am not sure if they are truly inspirational or just funny!
NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS BEING THIN FEELS.
OBESITY IS A WIDENING PROBLEM.
Bad diet advice: DO WHAT YOU ARE GOOD AT.
LET'S SEE, I'M GOOD AT COOKING. I'M GOOD AT EATING.
I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me!
I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat.
Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends.
The Cardiologist's Diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.
I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
One should eat to live, not live to eat
****Please do not take any of the DIET HUMOR personally. If you do, then you need to LIGHTEN UP! (Get it?)
I have turned into a blog procrastinator!
I still go on and read up on everyone but I have gotten lazy at posting and commenting.
I think I have it figured out though…
I believe that by nature I am a slacker.
Not in all things but definitely in certain areas of my life.
So when I am really doing good blogging there is probably some area of my life that I have been slacking in.
Usually my house and Laundry!!!
Guess what!
My house is clean and my wash caught up!
So regrettably something had to suffer and it was my blog!
Let me catch you up on me… ( that sounds really self-centered doesn’t it)
My leg for the most part is healed.
The ugly bruise is gone.
I am starting to exercise again.
Or should I say I am forcing myself to exercise.
After not being able to, it is so hard to get back in the groove.
Today I plan on a workout of some kind!
Probably a Leslie Walk.
Today is our second snow day!
I love snow days!!
Although I was supposed to sub today and that makes me sad.
I am still combating my sweet tooth.
Normally I don’t crave sweets but last weekend we served lunch at our church…this involved 57 dozen doughnuts, and 18 different kind of homemade baked goods. Plus 55 lbs of ham and 52 lbs of cheese. I have a pic but I can’t get it off my memory card. Anyways even though I didn’t go wild and fall off the wagon completely. I did allow myself tastes… ( Okay lots of tastes) tastes on Saturday, tastes on Sunday, tastes on Monday. Yesterday I believe I only had 1 bite of cookie.
It is weird how once it is in my system I crave it.
If I don’t eat it I am Okay.
It even gives me a gut ache yet I still crave it!
I Have also been craving guacamole. Our local discount grocery was selling it in individual packets.
At least this is good for me.
My highlight for the day week year is I actually won something!!! On Tara’s blog I won one of her beautiful winter prints!! I am so excited!!!
This is the one I picked…
Good news…I believe she sells them so you too can have one if you want one.
I think I will hang it in my newly redone bathroom!
It is a shame she didn’t have one about overflowing love, or flooding peace. :)
( Just kidding I love this one and it was really hard to pick just one out her neat selection!)
Up until last weekend I was doing great on my eating and had lost 8 pounds!
I haven’t weighed since last Friday and am feeling slightly anxious about it. Today I plan on doing great on my eating and working out… so tomorrow may be weigh in day…. or maybe Friday! :)
Nope I don’t procrastinate…Not ME!
Suz
I haven’t said much about the great “flood” in awhile and a few have inquired if we are done with the fix up yet….
Basically yes!!!
YEAH!!
I still have a few little things to do or put back and we have to replace a breaker box that was damaged by all the fans and dehumidifiers but other than that it is DONE!!!
Here is what started it all!
After…
This room was tricky because it is very uneven and the Insurance Co. didn’t want us to replace the tile.
But around the floor we had varying degrees of damage to the bottom few rows of tile.
Tim’s Uncle John Klopfenstein (Klopfenstein Furniture Leo and 14/69 stores, Hey I thought I would give him a plug! He’s GOOD!!) came up with this cost efficient alternative… Ceramic tile that could be cut to fit our uneven room with a top piece that would join the 2 tiles together nicely.The old tile was plastic and lays flatter against the wall then the tile now days. We are guessing this tile has been there for 40+ years.
This bathroom used to be green, blue and pink.
I like the new look!!
Bigger view….
Before downstairs middle room and ceiling
Now after…
Before Upstairs Hall…
Now after…
It is hard to show you the difference but I think it’s big!
Plus I have been on a cleaning out rampage!!
Which just in itself is a great feeling!
So I can look back at this experience and feel very blessed in spite of the utter impatience and frustration I felt while living in the mess!
On the weight loss front, week one was basically a great one I lost 3.5 pounds.
I spent a couple of days with a slight flu bug that made food very unappetizing.
But was a huge help to my diet and helped shrink my stomach!! Hey you got to look for the positives!
Sadly due to my injury (see last post) I am very limited on exercise.
I had Tiff take a pic of my leg. I really hesitate posting it as it is really ugly (leg and bruise) but I thought maybe someone will have some insight and wisdom to share if they saw it.
My actual pain and injury are my upper thigh and hip/behind area but this bruise showed up a few days ago and is is low. What’s up with that?
I never actually fell or hit it on anything.
The diagnosis now is a pulled hamstring.
I head back to the chiropractor this week for a check and I will see what he says.
I think it is feeling better so I hope I am on the mend!!
Hint for the day if your trying to drop some extra pounds…
One of the biggest things I realized this last week is that I have to write down everything that goes in my mouth!! It just is huge for me otherwise no matter how good my intentions are I just am not accountable for everything I am eating!! I don’t like doing this but it is necessary!!
Have a great one!!
SUZ
Last week I started a new workout video.
Jillian’s 30 day Shred (Jillian is one of the trainers from the Biggest Loser)
Some of the teachers at the school kind of got me started.
Plus this DVD is only $9 at the local Wal-Mart.
It has 3 levels of workouts.
I am still on level one following the modified (easier) workout.
I can’t imagine moving on to level 2 for quite awhile.
The workout is only about 28 minutes but she covers cardio and strength. She also targets certain muscles.
Let’s just say the 1st day after I was moving around very carefully.
Sadly I will have to go back to some of my low impact exercises for awhile as I have a slight injury.
Okay I am not good at that making a long story short but here goes.
Monday I got up did this workout then I went to school to sub for the Gym teacher. This is one of my favorite sub jobs.
I mean you get to wear exercise clothes and tennis shoes and sometimes you get a whistle.
I love whistles!!!
Although I was only in for a half of day so I didn’t bother with the whistle.
I know who cares right?
Back to the story at hand.
The 6th grade kids were playing Chinese kick ball, boys vs. the girls and the girls were soooo behind that I thought I would just jump in and help them out.
Okay confession I was just aching to play too!
So I head out there and am doing pretty good I got one of the boys out and still had possession of the ball when one boy whizzed by me.
I took off running after him to get him out too…
Feeling quite cocky I might add.
When all of the sudden my left leg basically quit functioning. I can only imagine what I must have looked like.
Actually I don’t have to imagine too much as the other Gym sub and interpreter (for the deaf) told me I looked like I was careening head first for a bad fall.
Basically that’s what it felt like my right leg was running full bore while my left leg dragged behind with no control. I couldn’t stop and It felt like I was going to take a header.
Luckily I managed to get it stopped (or should I say God was with me and I didn’t fall) Because by all the laws of gravity I should have bit the dust.
So after visiting my chiropractor who chastised me for not coming in for a year and if I had been properly in line this wouldn’t have happened.
I have been informed that I pulled my hamstring!
Basically I have to ice my Behind and apply heat to my thigh for the next few days to a week and not strain it.
Here is something new for me. Sitting around is a challenge! (Painful) Who Knew!
I guess some one needs to inform my 20 year old mind that I have a 41 year old body.
Makes me sad!! :(
Cause I really like Chinese Kickball!
Suz
Oh it was a hard one writing all those names down and then drawing out of a bowl…
BUT FINALLY…
We have a winner….
LISA!!!
I hope this makes your day!
Your odds were the best since you advertised on your blog!
But lets face it everybody had pretty good odds at this contest.
Oh and Lori P. you did make it in, according to my clock your comment was left at 8:08 I must be an hour behind you!!
I believe I have learned something about contests this week….
I should maybe have them last longer than 2 days if I want more entries!
It was fun though and I already have an idea for another one.
Maybe when I meet my first goal weight loss.
So Lisa please contact me at susietonner@gmail.com and let me know where I can send your gift card!
Okay now I suppose you are wondering what I am talking about on this whole goal weight thing.
Over the last year some pounds have crept back on.
It probably started way back last spring when I just couldn’t make the scale go down anymore and I had hit a 6 month plateau.
I was okay with that as long as I didn’t gain.
Then I started weighing less. Like every 2-3 weeks and I was doing pretty good I mean a couple pounds up is really no big deal right?
Next thing I knew I was 10lbs up and that my friends is on a eating plan that was still low fat high fiber.
I have not went nuts and gorged myself, I haven’t went back to my old ways, I have still been making an effort to lose.
Then weighing became just to discouraging and I pretty much stopped weighing for a few months.
I am like that.
I didn’t want to know.
You see I am a person that likes to cope with problems by ignoring and avoiding.
Since my winter clothes are bulkier than my summer clothes this worked for awhile.
Then my jeans were getting down right painful to put on.
Over the holidays and vacation I made an effort but I slipped in a buckeye here and a cookie there.
A few M&M’s and pretzels here and a piece of peppermint Oreo ice cream dessert there. I mean after all I haven’t had a whole piece of dessert in 3 years right?
Also when my house was completely torn up I had no place that was CONVIENT to exercise.
SO my friends I didn’t weigh for 2 months.
I didn’t want to know. If I don’t know there is no problem right?
WRONG!!!
I weighed and it wasn’t pretty! I have 20 pounds to take off before summer and I have to break out my unforgiving not so bulky clothes!!!!
The worst part about this whole thing is the fact That it snuck back on without me not watching.
Actually I was watching, I just was avoiding.
I was eating too late at night.
I was eating very healthy most of the time just too much (apparently)
I wasn’t writing down my food so I was missing things when I added everything up in my mind.
MATH has never been my strong area!
I quit weighing!!!
But Jeans don’t lie and either does my favorite zip and hook dress skirt and they told me it was time for change.
So here I am a week into my serious diet.
I am writing down my food and keeping track of my water intake. I am exercising almost daily. I am slightly injured right now so I may just be strength training or low impact for the next few days.
I am weighing 4-5 times a week maybe overkill but it is something I need to do right now.
I need to reacquaint myself with my scale again and we need to become friends!
I guess I am reevaluating and starting over!!
That’s Okay though.
I would rather start here than where I was 3 years ago.
Even though I am not good at math I did a little to show you how easy it is to gain 20 pounds in 6 months.
It takes 3,000 extra calories to gain 1 pound.
so 20 lbs translates into 60,000 extra calories!!
I must have really pigged out HUH!
Do the math divide it by 6 months roughly 180 days and you come up with 333 calories extra a day.
Okay so add in 190 calories for 2 T peanut butter,
1 medium banana 105 calories a couple of extra pretzels and your there.
Take away the extra 300 calories from working out and you messed your self over twice.
It doesn’t take much and you have gained a pound.
That is what ticks me off the most!!
I will never ever get to eat like I WANT to!!
And NO amount of complaining, bellyaching will change that!!
So here I go again!!
Since I want to lose those 60,000 calories in 3 to 4 months lets say 4 months (more realistic) so 120 days that is 500 calories a day I either have to eat less or burn daily then what I need. Plus I have obviously been eating extra calories like 300+ so I have to convince my body to let go of 800 calories a day that it has been getting for the last 6 months.
Let me just tell you neither my brain or body is very happy about this but I am almost a week into it and we are all adjusting and I believe I have gotten rid of at least 4,500 of those extra calories only 55,500 to go!! :) Who knows if this goes well maybe I can get rid of some more calories and finally beat that plateau!!!
SUZ
