NANCAN2's SparkPeople Blog

60 is as 60 does

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:54:16 EST

I've got to start with an edit. Note to self: Read your last blog before writing your next. To answer any questions I left before, No, I didn't buy lemons to make iced water with fresh lemons. I'm still drinking iced tea. I will keep working on it though. If I'd read the last entry first, I would have seen that I already mentioned the looking younger deal, but it's a good thing so I'm leaving it in. Something needs to be good just for now. This is only the beginning, I'll get better. Now t...

My Higher Power

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:53:44 EST

I was writing on a message board the other night and I quickly wrote that I didn't want to find that my higher power is food. Food, how I have given it so much power! I have let it comfort me, I have let it entertain me while I am bored instead of doing something so I am not bored. I am not a child, I am no longer a young woman, I will be 60 years old in two weeks and don't want to celebrate it! LOL

Each birthday I have been very grateful for because I have been ill most of my lif...

Just over a week

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:07:17 EST

I only lost 2 pounds my first week and it was disappointing, but I have to remind myself that ake Prednisone for systemic Lupus and take other meds that either cause weight gain or hurt the losing. I can't change those things, but I watched a Dr. Oz today and he had some supplements suggestions and I ordered them from Amazon tonight. Heck, we all need all of the help we can get.

I love reading others' posts. It would be nice if others read mine. If you do, please write somethin...

My first real day over

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 02:21:34 EST

Well, it wasn't a perfect day, but I did stay close to calorie allotment, but went over on carbs big time. Ugh! I have to find a way to get in more protein & it isn't easy for me.

When I was 27a I first got encephalitis and shortly after I had a stroke. I had to re-learn so much, including talking, reading, spelling; thinking was a chore. I knew it when one day I realized that I can was thinking. That was many years ago and I had monthly spinal taps to reduce the excessive fluid o...

Do over!

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 04:37:56 EST

I didn't get far the first time, but I plan on being smarter and kinder to myself this time and I will blog and have fun as I transition from making food my friend to making Sparkle friends! Going to sleep now. Happy New Year all! This is gonna be a good one! Love from, Nan

A Weekend Without My Journal

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:42:19 EST

I really, really love keeping a food journal. Even though I've been on hundreds of diets and know the basics of what is healthy and what is not, I tend to not really know just how much I've taken in during the day unless I write each and every morsel that goes into me.

I started this recent Get Healthy Journey two weeks before I found Spark People and I used a different food online journal and did well. I lost 7 lbs. the first week, I had been bloated before, so it was mostly w...