Hi DIS friends, sorry to be gone for so long, missed you all
BUT, a couple of good things to report. #1, I'm back on the losing train!! Several things, started working out semi-regularly, got a decent exercise room here at work, main thing i do is 20-30 minutes inclined treadmill, keep the heart rate at about 130-140. Cut down portion size, sick of overeating, and I've been taking some green tea pills, I think they're helping
Going back to the start, I'm down a full 50 lbs., which feels good. Packed up all my 52 and 50 waist pants to send to goodwill. Bought 46 jeans and khakis a couple weeks ago, they feel good. my 4X shirts are pretty baggy, but the 3X's are still just a little tight, I like loose.
Sadly, what spurred this on is a real difficult time between Elaine and me. Its been kinda bad for several years, but the last 3 months have been really tough. I think we're both committed to keeping it together, but its not easy, and we both know that things have to change. A lot of it is both of us not feeling very good about ourselves, which translates into not feeling good about each other. Debt has always been a tough problem, and neither of us enjoys our jobs, but can't really change anything there drastically. I haven't been much of a spiritual leader, but I'm really trying to change that too. Been praying hard for these 3 months, something I had really stopped doing. Would appreciate your prayers
ANYWAY!!!! the fun news is that we're going to
Disneyland!!
The bad news is that its only for 1 day
but that's really all we can afford, can't really even afford that! But i promised DD3 that I would take her if she could get potty trained. This is kid #5, and we've really lost a lot of our gung ho for that kind of thing, so she's taking a long time. She'll be 4 in early August, and starts preschool soon, but can't unless she's fully p-trained. She has good and bad days, hardest is getting her to do #2, but that's getting better too. This kind of came up as an opportunity to go, because my nephew is getting married on Friday in San Diego. DW is still with JetBlue, so we can still fly free, but the hotels and rental cars (and gas and food!!) are getting so expensive that we pretty much haven't traveled for a while. Our last big blowout was a Carnival Cruise for the whole family back in Dec. That really turned out to be a negative experience, for a lot of reasons, and kind of killed the travel bug for us for a while. Just cost so much, and too many bad feelings.
Well, I'm sorry that a lot of this post is a downer, but that's the way things have been, probably the main reason I haven't posted for so long. I do think we're at turning point, and things are definitely going to change. Whatever happens, its not going to be easy, but I do see a little light at the end of the tunnel.
Best WISHes to all of you.
Don