Hi everyone,

I guess my news today is doggie news but everything else was pretty much as usual. I dropped Ollie off this morning on the way to work and convinced the groomer that I really did want his hair cut off so that he'd be comfortable all summer. You don't see Cavaliers without that long fur and feathering but Ollie was so happy last year to get rid of the winter coat that I wanted him to get another good cut. He does look funny without all the fur but he's happy. The groomer cut all the long fur between his pads on his feet too because he said it was getting hard. I picked Ollie up on the way home for lunch and after work I put some flea & tick medicine on the back of his neck and the base of his tail and then took him to the Kennel. The Kennel owner walks the dogs three times during the day and they know Ollie likes to dive head first into everything. We have Lyme disease around here and they tell me that the ticks are out in the grass and bush around the kennels so they strongly recommended using some treatment on Ollie. I hate to use that on Ollie but he sure does find ticks. I think I'll take him in to be groomed before Christmas this year. Just to get him neatened up and bathed because he should have a nice coat growing back by then and he likes to go outside in the winter.

I was busy at work but didn't finish everything that I wanted to get done. Most of you know that I am out of town often for meetings and most of those are for a provincial organization that I belong to which meets once a month and because I'm on two conference Planning Committees and Chair one of those. There are other meetings and things I attend on behalf of my school division or because of my job also. Yesterday I found that I will be appointed to a Provincial Advisory Committee and today I was asked to join the Executive of the Professional Organization I belong too and that will mean a lot more meetings in the city. I spoke to my Superintendent and he thinks it's good for our division so I will be adding those two things to my job. I am going to need to delegate some stuff within my Department or I'll soon find myself swamped.

Hi Kim, I'm more of a workaholic, hope that I'll have time for me later type of person. Every once in a while I get overwhelmed and try to find better life balance but I am not really great at hanging onto that balance. I do love a new challenge though so I am excited to take on more responsibilities at work. I sometimes suspect that I pile on work as a delaying tactic to dealing with things that need to be confronted in my personal life - like my housework. I am looking forward to the summer which I have off in theory if not necessarily in reality. I do plan to take time off until mid-August this year. I hope that your event this evening went well. I have been doing some more research into sugar and the affect on appetite/hunger. One thing I came across was some talk about sugar crashes and people waking up in the night, as you did, feeling like they were starving or suddenly feeling light headed, etc. They were recommending food that doesn't make your blood sugar spike so you don't get the highs and lows. I read it sometime in the last two weeks but the details are already fuzzy. I was already eating mostly the way they recommend and I don't generally have a problem with my sugar levels but I notice it when I eat in restaurants because the next day I will feel hungrier than usual. Yesterday I had salad and a half chicken wrap but I usually eat whole wheat bread and those "white" foods were on the list to avoid. I wonder if there may have been some sugar in the vinaigrette also because I don't normally eat that.

Hi Julie, I can tell you're working hard at this because you're bubbling with enthusiasm. One thing that I am keeping in mind is to always try my best at this and not to fool around with "breaks" or "treats". I've been left wondering other times of where I might have been if I hadn't started tinkering with those "choices" to go off for various occasions or just to give myself a break. What I've found is it gets harder and harder to get back on and it takes longer and longer to get back on. I am honestly concerned with the number of meals I'll be eating in restaurants. They somehow manage to triple the calories that I would have making it myself. The other problem is that restaurant food triggers my appetite and I am hungrier the next day. I have resigned myself to losing a pound a week and given my circumstances that has certainly helped me by keeping my expectations low. Unfortunately it is also turning out to be pretty true. That's why I have a four year health and fitness plan. I don't expect to get to a more active level of fitness until Christmas but I am finding that it is getting easier to climb the stairs at work every week now. I'm really thinking that in four years I should be adjusted to no sugar and eating healthy and being functionally fit. I would love to get to that stage and at least for now I think I am accepting of that lifestyle. It would be totally worth it to me to be back to where I was four years ago. Surgery won't work for me because my problem isn't losing weight it is maintaining my attitude and healthy behaviours. Unfortunately surgery can't fix that but I've sworn to go to my doctor and a Counsellor the next time I stop caring about this.

Have a good evening everyone.

Cheryl

"Fearless is getting up, fighting for what you want over and over again even though every time you tried before you lost." -- Taylor Swift.

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