It’s 50 degrees out, the wind is really starting to blow…

It is really starting to look and feel like winter outside.  I still feel like crap today.  I’m starting to take some of the generic Mucinex.  I think I spelt it correctly.  Everyone here at the office is getting something.  I don’t like being sick and I get sick maybe once a year.  That is better than being a complete sickling.

 Well, today is the 3rd day of our “life style change” aka “diet” and it is going pretty well.  I have been journaling on what I eat everyday.  I have been keeping my calorie intake around 1600 to 1800 a day.  I am drinking more water which is good.  It kind of helps fill me up when I start to feel hungry.  The bad part is that we keep a huge bowl of candy here and it is a struggle for me to stay out of it.  So I have limited myself to the hard candies and I can have no more than 4 pieces a day.  I don’t think that is unreasonable.  I need to get this weight off before I become diabetic or wind up with high blood pressure.  I want to be healthy for myself, my husband, my kids and my future grandchildren.  I will weigh in next Monday and will let you all know how I did.  I know it isn’t always a good thing to start a “diet” around the holidays, but we thought it would be good for us.  That way we aren’t gaining all the weight that everyone puts on at this time of year.  Last night we made our own version of chicken enchiladas.  They turned out to be very good and very filling and our son loved them also.  Although he is a bean pole, he still needs to eat better.  He is a junk food junkie!!!

I just got a call from my son and he is going to try to get a job at Wal-Mart.  He used to work for target but when we moved to Platte City, he needed to quit and find a job there.  He has been trying to get his job back but they have been giving him the run around, so he is going to try some where else.  Right now he works for McDonald’s and he hates it.  Only because the one he transferred to isn’t busy at all and he loves to stay busy.  The one in Platte City was always hoppin’.

Today’s Bible verse is:

1 Chronicles 16:8

“Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.”