It's Not About Size. It's About Healthy.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

It's not about size.

It's about healthy.

We need to stop obsessing about the labels in our clothes and the clothing industry's measurements of what is a 'normal' size.

We need to stop obsessing about the bathroom scales.

Be comfortable in your skin. Love your body, including all its lumps and bumps, and just focus on being healthy.

Exercise, Eat , and be happy with your choices.

Have Fun! You will exercise more successfully if you enjoy it!

Fat and Fit are NOT mutually exclusive!

Skinny and Fit are NOT mutually inclusive!

Lettuce is for Rabbits...

Unless you like lettuce, in which case, Enjoy! :-)

Cake is tasty. Just measure your portion.

No food is truly bad, unless you are allergic to it!

Your Choices are your Choices. Own them, and be happy with them. They are a good fit for you. Even if they are not a good fit for someone else.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No food can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Your Body.

Your Life.

Your Choices.

Your Happiness.

Love Yourself!

Hugs,
Lex xxx

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My Biggest Fan...

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Could not take the heat anymore! Two days at Silly Degrees of heat and no breeze, and two nights of hardly any sleep, and I've had enough.

Wimp!!! LOL


I'm Melting! I'm Melting!




So, seeing as I had a little spare cash, and the new kettle could wait because I have one that works on the cooker, Tara and I went down to Homebase and came home with an Oscillating Electric Floor-Standing Fan!

We really worked up a real sweat building it! I couldn't believe how many pieces it came in. But eventually, thanks largely to Tara's sound logic, rather than to coherent instructions, we had it up and running.

What a relief! Even on the lowest setting it is chucking out a decent amount of cooling air. And we've set it where it alternates between pointing at Tara and pointing at me.

Sophie, bless her, is not impressed by the weird moving thing in the corner, but it has already helped her to stop panting, so she'll just have to put up with it. :-)

Oh, and look what was parked opposite our house the other day:

The Scooby Mystery Machine, sort of...





Tired and achy today from all the poking and prodding yesterday I guess. So having a quiet day, I hope. :-) Not actually exercising today, for once in a way. Won't hurt to have a rest. Also, even after a week, I still have that crick in my neck. It isn't much of a problem during the day, but at night is a right nuisance because I can't get properly comfortable on my left side. If it continues I may have to visit the GP. But I suspect it is largely due to stress, and that once I've been through all the necessaries next week, it will ease off.

Have a good Wednesday!
Hugs,
Lex xxx

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Ultrasound Scan Down... Barium Enema to go...

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

For some reason the link to The Rainbow Connection in my last blog isn't working, no matter what I do. Seems my links box on SP is hiccupping on me. So if you go to You Tube and look up 'Muppet Movie - The Rainbow Connection', you should find the song in full at the top of the list



Well, I am back home, minus pints of sweat from the long hot walk, but relieved to know that nothing iffy showed up in the Ultrasound Scan.

No kidney stones, and bladder is filling and emptying normally -- Check!

Two ovaries, one playing peekaboo behind my womb, but no sign of anything dodgy there either -- check!

Had to be walked to the appointment, walked to the toilet, and walked out, because the new medical centre is open plan, with glass walls everywhere, and the ultrasound room is upstairs, and over a glass-sided walkway, causing my Vertigo to kick in! -- Check!!!

Pain starts when I'm on my way home -- Check!!!
Oh the irony!!! LOL

Next stop is the Barium Enema, the joy of which starts next Wednesday - my 'white flavourless food and jelly day'. Followed on Thursday by my 'Turbo Laxative Day', and culminating on Friday with the Enema itself, after which I will likely need to go to bed to rest up. Not thrilled to have my daughter's MIL say that she knows someone who had this done recently and it was "Horrendous!" Daughter's MIL is a surgery receptionist! *gulp*

I told Bry that it is a good job she's coming up to be with me through the whole thing, because - given my track record - I'd be trying to wriggle out of it, saying things like.. "The pain's not that bad... really... I can handle it" *cry - scream - tearing out of hair* "I don't need the enema., I tell you!!" *while bent double with pain*

I also told her that when she comes up she needs to bring a gas mask with her, and a very large box of matches!!!

Thursday won't be a lot of fun for anyone in this house within sniffing distance! LOLOL

I've got my wellies on standby Anne! Thanks for those. LOLOL

I've loaded up the bathroom with more suitable reading material for the duration. Some more Pam Ayres, Richard Gordon and Alan Coren to while away the time. :-)

Would that I could write a poem about barium enemas. I'll have to put my thinking cap on. Now... what rhymes with 'enema'?

Enjoy the hot weather. I will, now that I don't have to walk anywhere in it.
Hugs,
Lex xxx

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The Rainbow Connection

Monday, July 23, 2012

Think of me in the morning. I have an hour-long walk to my ultrasound scan appointment, in sweltering heat! Followed by another hour-long walk home, via the Library in town. Hope the walks will be worth it. :-)

To take my mind off the joy to come, I'll be singing this song as I toddle along.

Love it so much, just had to share. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFL
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Why are there so many songs about rainbows
and what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,
and rainbows have nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
I know they're wrong, wait and see.
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.

Who said that every wish would be heard
and answered when wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that and someone believed it.
Look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us star gazing
and what do we think we might see?
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.

All of us under its spell. We know that it's probably magic.

Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
Is this the sweet sound that called the young sailors.
The voice might be one and the same.
I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm supposed to be.
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.

Have a lovely day!
Hugs,
Lex xxx

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A poem - not by me

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Starkle starkle little twink
Who the hell are you to think
I'm not under what you call
The alchofluence of incohol
I'm just a little slort of sheep
I'm not drunk like thinkle peep
I don't know who is me yet
But the drunker I stand here,
The longer I get
So just give me one more drink to fill my cup
Cause I got all day sober to Sunday up

Don't know who wrote this, but I love it! LOL

Hugs,
Lex xxx

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