It is Friday and now I have to start all over again

It was a great week. Lets see I worked, did my visiting teaching, got the laundry done, cleaned, read two books, did young women's, was in the principals office a few times, went to a wedding, went to the temple, went to the gym, started weight watchers, went on splits with the missionaries and mothered and wifed. I wonder why I have no me time.
The house is full of teenagers and Michael is upstairs, trying to figure out how he can get out of a business trip so he can go to the principals office and get ready for Matthew in the school play this week.
Peter is still out there and advised me that he will stay the whole two years because of me, the Lord and the good people of Illinois. I can see changes like no other in Peter Bennett( from this side of the country). He is just grateful he is in a car mission right now and will be ready for a bike mission soon. John is talking with Facebook and Google people to get them involved with Plasma, that is all I want on Facebook! Samantha has more girls nights out than I have nights. It is a new generation. My groups idea of girls night out was seeing each other at the grocery store at night. I remember when we did Bunco at night and we kept saying this is the last month and then we did it for three years and felt guilty every month.
James is still working 95 hours a week. This is the kid that hated to work. I think it was all the hits to the head in football.
So here I am on a Friday Night thinking I should be at the gym, but having a grounded teenager, with all his friends eating Pizza and and carrots and begging me to let him be semi grounded for the night. because we have no TV, computer or any other electronic devises available to them for a month. Logical Love, Is that what they call this.
Well I am feeling the effects of healthy eating, I am starving to death, I know my body will love this in 5-6 weeks, but right now it is calling out to the donuts on the counter, that one of Matthews friends brought from Track. So we have a Track star, Crew star, Dancing star and Matthew the class clown and actor. Oh well at least last night he stayed on the treadmill for a hour at the gym so he could watch his show.
Well a week is gone and I am going to rest up for the next week. But it restarts tomorrow. A wedding, then a Stake revision and so on and so forth. Have to get my stores and Post offices ready for Mothers Day only to destroy them the next week for Fathers Day. Oh well, I love the money, or I could always go back to Insurance, ick!
Well, got to go somewhere where I am not thinking of food. The garage, in the new car, with the hot seats should do it. Or the Lounge with the rope and Col. Mustard.

The computer crashed and I have a lot more time

I kept saying that I didn't need the computer, that I could live with out it. I am a fibber! It is true I am just learning what ram is and that a firewall is not in my barbecue, but I know that I need my computer. I need to communicate with my missionary, to get my information to work, to get a paycheck, to see my grand kids to get recipes from Samantha, to know what is going on. The Phone is great, but it is so much better to read it and to print it and to know what I am going to do. So the diet was a bomb, so I am back to Weight Watchers on Monday. I hate to give someone money to weigh me, but if it works it works,that is good. Forever is a long time, but I have got to work on this forever. I am tired of being a fatty and I would think everyone else is too.
I love the Blog, I never lose it even if my computer crashes and no one reads this but me,myself and Samantha. I was a born blogger.
Well it is off to the gym. I have already spent as much money as I can before we sit down and work on the budget. I figure it was better to have everything before I have to give anything up.
Obviously that is the reason I have to sit down and work on the budget at my age.
Spock out! That is one talent I have, I can part my fingers like Spock.
I guess that means I can't beam myself out before the budget talk.
Love and kisses to my grandchildren that read this.
Grandma is off to the gym and then to a wedding and then to a budget talk, yuk.

Driving around in my shiny new car

This new car thing is a good thing. It is helping the diet I know for sure. I am afraid to drive in through drive-through so I am being good at what I eat. Couldn't move yesterday, but am feeling good today. Put on my sports bra and am ready to hit the gym or at least drive by it. I ate healthy and keep reading stories that scare me about health issues and that makes me keep my mouth shut. I just get depressed when someone tells the truth and says that you have to eat like this for the rest of their life, it's true; I really thought they would have a vaccine by now. After 58 years of dieting I believe that they are right. So here's to another good day. Samantha keep it good today, Heather you can do it and Ashley you are watching 7 kids just try to survive.

I do believe if I didn't still have a fifteen year old, this would be a lot easier. Just forget everything and think I don't want to fight these love handles or whatever they are at my age and get moving. I thought that by now I would have figured this thing out. Got onto my high school reunion post this week, it was depressing, it was like there are still people who are still in high school, very interesting. Would love to hook-up to some of those wonderful kids that got me through the easy years, but I have a feeling they are all to busy to get onto the site. Life goes on. Don't want to work today, so tomorrow I will be a crazy women flying through my stores wondering why I didn't' do it earlier in the week and wondering why I do this every week. Oh well, this will help me with the keep moving part of my diet and if I drive the new car, that will help me keep my mouth shut.

Just another day at the Bennett House, love you all

My body hurts, there has to be some muscle there!

After Two hours at the gym, my body is dying. When asking Michael, why does my body hurt so much, he said it is my lack of muscles. My Kidneys hurt, are there muscles in my kidney area. I am pretty sure I am dying from some element that some of us have who are probably not suppose to exercise. I am sure they will fine this disease in the near future and tell us not to exercise more than 10 minutes a day. But I had to exercise more, because there was a TV screen and head phones and after I started exercising I have to finish the TV show, which I can't remember what it was, but I remember it was very interesting, obviously not earth scattering. Oh well back to the gym today. Did OK on my mouth thing, I still have real trouble after about 5 pm and after 8pm. I should just end the day at 5pm and I would be fine.

Heres hoping for a good day.

Started the, "Shut your Mouth and Move your Feet Diet"

Woke up yesterday and said, it is time to get Fit and Healthy. Although, I have to say I have said those words before, only for the past 58 years, but out of character, I actually did something; shocking as it seems!

OK, first we went and bought a new, to us, Black(racy) Chevy Trail Blazer. It has heated seats, bottoms and back, soft leather and DVD player and all the extras. It has lots of extra miles on it and a little dent and is not green friendly, so the perfect car became a gas guzzler, and we could afford it!

So I was feeling pretty good about myself, that I would soon be driving in a black racy car, even though it is big and bulky,and will take all my extra cash for gas, it isn't a mini-van!

So having decided to start the diet I went shopping and thought about what I would like to buy and then bought what I thought would be healthy, lots of vegetables and fruits, it was a bummer, but I was pretty good, except for the cheese nips, and that was just in case I worked out too much and needed a little extra energy. And I did buy a bag of chocolate chips, but that is for the cookies I will bake and give away, or mostly or maybe just a couple depending on the day. And I hid them so only I know where they are. Cleaver!

Then I went home, put away groceries and when outside and planted my new hanging flowers and pots. Actually I put mircale grow in and watered them, it was Fuchsia Saturday and Fred Meyer planted them and made them look pretty, but I put them on the porch and watered them.

So now it was time to get moving. This is such a different thing for me with only one child at home. Matthew choose to stay the whole day playing with his friends, which I never would have let the other four kids do (especially since he was suppose to be grounded). Can I call that a play-date even if he is fifteen? Am I a better, wiser, kinder mom or a worn out, old and tired mom. It is definitely debatable. He was home before ten, that evening, and the other mom brought him home. So there was plenty of time to exercise, or lets call it move, I feel better about that.

So then, I finally started the, "Shut your Mouth and Move your Feet Diet." I said, "Don't eat, Carleen," put on my Nike's, had to look at the shoes to remember the brand, couldn't read the brand, but saw the Logo, then drove to the trail, with Jack the dog and moved my feet. Actually it would have been a nice stroll, but Jack is a Jack Russell Terrier and he can move, has a very slim figure (maybe he has been doing this diet for awhile).

So, I have started the diet and now will Blog everyday, every other day, once a week or a least every once in a while on how this diet is going. If I am on to something I will share. I do promise not to charge, multi-level, or e-mail you the cost of this diet. This is only to see if there is a diet that will kinda work, semi work or even pretend to work for more than a couple of days.

Thats all for today. (only had a handful of the cheese nips, no chocolate chips so far)

big mama B

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