Did it again!

You're doing more than me!  I get the right side up, but freak in pain when the left side comes up so I can't do the elliptical.  That's a GOOD work out!  I just work with what I have.....

LOL, ewwww!  You make it sound so ickkky!  Well I'm glad your finally getting out of there for a while.  Enjoy your visit, and for sure go to the city away from the smell and into the exhaust!!! haha

Glad to see you're out of your funk and back in the gym!!  That improves the old mood and looking forward to  a geographical cure helps too.  Enjoy the time with your sisters and enjoy the journey.  I'm sick of snow and cold here...so ready for Spring and to get back out playing in my flowerbeds.

Yup, my middle too is my stubborn part! I am so proud of you...your workout is a 10 on the wow-meter!  Have a blast, girlie!

My weight is up again this morning.  I hate to have to obsess over the scale, but there's something weird happening with the fluid retention.  I was back to 228 this morning, and I popped 80 mg of Lasix. I'm meeting Andrew at 9 this morning... and working without a net (nothing for pain), so I'll see what I can accomplish with these legs.  I'm really hoping I can just push through the pain.. and I usually go as far as I can.. but I gotta say.. I NEED the workout.. I cannot afford to go easy. WHAT IS UP with the middle thing, Neecee?  When I was on the gain it was ALL in the middle and my doc said it was because of the unusual amount of stress (from my business and such).  Well.. hello.. I live in the middle of the freakin' woods now with the least stress I've ever had in my life and still.. it's stuck there.... making me feel like the pop n fresh dough boy.  My waist is like the same size as my hips! 

I learned that we have an organ called the omentum - when it's normal sized, it hangs like a veil of white fat over our internal organs in the gut area.  Mine is more like a blubbery drape!  I saw this on Oprah - Dr. Oz has a cadaver, literally sliced long ways, right down the middle of the body (like down the center of your nose, whole body, preserved).  This person had the same body shape as me - bump in the mid section. The omentum just packed in and around the gut area - very out of control and gobby. The omentum was white and globular.  That image really stuck with me. It is aggravated by cortisol production - stress!  I had NEVER heard of such things. Anyway, i often think back to that image of how i need to shrink my omentum.

Ah... now I have something NEW to research.. the OMENTUM.... I'm gonna get some momentum going on this omentum thing now. Too bad we can't just wa**** in ho****er and put it in the dryer on the cotton cycle.

Lori, you're omentum is probably down on the mat screaming Uncle! If dealing with pain and diabetes, and uncontrollable children, and a needy X husband are the least stress you've ever had, I don't even want to know what the most was!   Mary 

Oh.. c'mon.. that's normal everyday stuff.  The kids aren't uncontrollable.. they are very good kids (no drugs or I'd insist they share).. they don't drink, they don't talk back, they don't fight.. none of that happy stuff.  They just.. don't do anything!  lol It's normal for any woman to have to do the do at home.  Sometimes it just "gets" to me.  Here we go.. the drama.. "poor me"  "I'm so unappreciated"  "I'm so lonely".. who cares!  It's part of life!  I just find that it's better to talk about it than eat through it now.  lol    Stress was 2 stores and 20 employees who fought like little kids and having to be "hands on" in everything.  THIS, my dear.. is FREEDOM!  I'm broke, I don't have a job, my credit is shot to hell and I'm in debt........  and this feels one whole HELL of a lot better!  I gave away more than I sold I think and that's just not good business.  I don't sit and stew worrying about when the next hurricane is going to hit and if my stores will be taken down in it.   I don't worry about making that commission check every month.. pushing for every last sale and fighting every chargeback.  I don't worry about making face at Chamber meetings.  The ad deadlines are gone!  :)   QUOTAs are GONE! Around here.. it's status quo all the time.  No one calls in sick.  I don't have to worry if my housekeeper actually showed u*****t.  I don't get letters from any homeowner's association insisting I put luminaries up for the holidays or that I plant more bushes, or that a neighbor complained about me running my hottub at night.  (When the hell else was I supposed to run it).  I play my music as loud as I want to and can go in my garden and run around nekkid if I want to!  My homeowner's insurance is so reasonable now I could CRY!  I don't have to drive like a bat out of hell and be the only one headed south on I75 to fish my kid out of the dorms in Ft. Lauderdale every time there was an evacuation order.  (They slept through evacuation orders.)  .... trying to stuff as many kids as our cars could hold and everything they couldn't live without.. and praying we'd find gas on the way back.  LOL  NOW THAT WAS STRESS! This.. is a walk in the park!  :)  I talk to God whenever I want to right from my front porch and no one interrupts.  The phone never rings.  It's kinda nice..  yea.. it's lonely.. but that's a hell of a lot less stress than I've EVER experienced in my life! :)  Sorry for the diatribe... I had to do it! hahhaa... Lori

Holeeeeee Crap!  Who knew that what you are going through now is the good life? I guess it's all relative.  And I love diatribes, they cleanse the soul! I love being in my gardens, too.  My friend told me I'm trying to get back to the garden of Eden.  Too chilly to be nekkid in them right now, though.  That fig leaf just ain't warm enough! Mary