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October 30, Friday Late Night:  I think I should go to bed.  But once again, I'm not sleepy.  I've been writing articles all day and night.  It's like a new addiction.  It's such a fun way to make money.  I really should quit sewing and write full time.  But I love to sew too much.  So sew I will!  But as long as there are sites out there that pay me to publish silly articles, I'll keep writing too.  And now I'm into publishing slideshows too.  I don't even have to write!  I get paid to put up photos that other people take.  How cool is that?  I just started with slideshows so I'm not sure how well they will pay.  But I can pump out a lot in a day.  And I'm loving my new Celebrity Headlines topic on The Examiner.  I made over $50 right out of the gate with just a few articles.  If you are at all interested in writing for The Examiner you can join here and please use my referral number which is 8049.  It's free to join, you get paid to write, and it's fun!

October 28, Wednesday Late Night:  I can't believe how fast October went by.  All that means to me is that I'm getting closer to shoveling season!  I guess the exercise won't kill me.  I'm happy to report that I lost another pound this week.  I was really happy to have any kind of a loss after losing 4 pounds.  We have another TOPS workshop in two weeks and I'm quite sure I'll be in the top 15 biggest losers.  I love having that to look forward to.  I've been eating my wraps for two weeks and will do another week.  Heck, I plan on doing wraps for several months as long as I keep losing.  I ate my survival soup for over a year so it's time for a change.  I still have broth with my veggie wrap.  I drink it from a mug. It's very filling and satisfying.  I'll post my veggie wrap recipe in my recipe section later.  For now, you can see it in my Oct 21 entry.

October 23, Friday Late Night:  I am beat but yet I can't sleep.  Just exhausted and sick of being exhausted.  But, on a good note... let's see, there must be a good note!  I can't think of anything right now.  I guess I just came here to complain :o)

October 21, Wednesday Night:  I lost 4 pounds!!! Happy, Happy, HAPPY!  I'm happy because I tried something different.  I ate veggie wraps every day.  I cut up about 15 different kinds of veggies and put them all in bags or containers and placed them on a cookie sheet.  Then all I had to do is pull the cookie sheet out and I had everything I needed to make my wraps.  Here was was in them: green lettuce, iceberg lettuce, baby spinach, pickles, marinated mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, broccoli, cucumber, pickled eggs, yellow squash, zucchini, green pepper, onion, radish, carrots, tomato, peas, corn, and alfalfa spouts.  Then I add salsa mixed with just a bit of sour cream as the dressing.  I roll it all up in a wonderful low calorie, low carb, no cholesterol, high fiber, flat bread and eat!  I ate two or three a day and drank broth with it.  Then at night I had sugar free pudding and whipped cream for dessert.  I'm going to do another week of wraps but this time I'm also including water chestnut and a variety of beans (black, garbanzo, kidney, pinto, and a couple more but can't remember them).  I'll only add about 1/4 cup of beans per wrap or maybe even less.  I can't add much of each item because I put so much stuff that it's nearly impossible to actually wrap the bread around the veggies.  I swear, I felt overly stuffed every day but I lost 4 pounds!!!  I hope I have another good week.

October 20, Tuesday Evening:  Gee... I can't believe I have not updated this blog.  I wanted to say that I went to the TOPS fall rally for the state of Maine and I had such a good time.  Getting through the day with little sleep was not easy, but I actually got 5 hours of sleep with only waking up two time during those 5 hours so that was good for me.  I got up at 5:00am... that usually when I'm finally getting to sleep!  I took photos of the rally but for some reason they all came out dark.  But it was fun and OH!  I almost forgot!  I won and award and wouldn't you know... I was in the ladies room when they called my name.  I missed my shining moment!!!  It was not such a big deal but I like all the recognition I can get.  I, along with others, were awarded for losing double digits during the summer contest.  I lost 10 pounds during that time.  I didn't think I did.  I still say maybe someone did their math wrong!  I have to check my book to see what I get for a total.  But I took my certificate and ran with it!

October 14, Wednesday Night:  I'm not a happy camper!  I did a good job this week with eating... at least I thought I did.  But I had a 2 pound gain.  That means I have to switch things up a bit.  This week I am not going to weigh myself at all until I get weighed at TOPS.  I usually weigh myself a couple times between meetings and I think when I see my weight is low and then it goes up I beat myself up and that's not good.  Luckily I have my cousin who joined TOPS with me to keep me motivated.  We go shopping after the meeting and stock up on goodies.  We both had it in our minds that we wanted to do wraps this week (they happened to make wraps on Biggest Loser which is what gave me the idea) so we stocked up on flat bread and wrap fixings!  I'm going to eat wraps all week and take a break from my soup.  I can't wait to shred the carrots and chop the onions and peppers and slice the cukes and get all my veggies ready.  Then all I have to do is pull out the platter of veggies and make my wrap!  I will also make some and have them ready to grab for a quick snack.  I think it will be a good change of pace for me.  And I also plan on doing some walking this week and some exercises with my little weights.  At least the gain motivated me!

October 11, Sunday Night:  Wow, what a Saturday I had!  I woke up early after not much sleep (what's new?) and decided to stay up and try to work a full day.  While I was laying there trying to wake up, I looked out into the yard and remembered that I have a tree that could cause some damage if it decides to come down this winter.  I had a tree fall on my garage during our last ice storm and don't want the same to happen this year.  And while I was staring at that tree I hear a horrible crash.  I just had some work done in my kitchen and thought for sure the entire ceiling had caved in.  I got up to see and all was good in the kitchen.  Just then the phone rings and it's the neighbor telling me that a tree, not the tree in my yard that I was worried about, but a tree on the side of my driveway came crashing down on my Jeep!  I could not believe what I was hearing.  A tree fell on my Jeep???  Yes, it sure did!  You can see the photos here.  The thing that I'm so happy about is that no one was outside at the time.  I usually stand right in that spot with the dogs before we get in the car.  I am very, very lucky that no one was hurt.  I can't even imagine my mother being in the car when this happened.  I'm also glad that the tree cleared the house!  All in all, we were very lucky.  And no broken glass either.  I can still drive the Jeep!  It will have to be fixed but it could have been much worse.

October 8, Thursday Afternoon:  I had a decent loss last night at TOPS.  I was quite happy to see that I lost the half pound that I had gained plus lost an extra pound on top of that!  Any loss is a step in the right direction.  And it's just plain fun to lose weight!  Last night was the first time that I noticed a bit of difference in my face.  I saw a hint of cheek bones starting to show. That inspired me to cut my hair into a new do!  I brought it up to the shoulders and made it kind of shaggy.  I like it.  Now I think I may dye it a darker brown.  And I want to start putting on make-up every day now too.  It's time to start looking better! It will keep me on the right track.  I may even polish my nails!

October 4, Sunday Night:  I can't believe it's October! Wow, what little bit of summer we had really flew by.  It was a summer filled with rain, rain and more rain.  And I kind of loved it.  I love the rain.  I love the sound of it, the smell of it and love that it allows me to work in my home and not feel guilty for not being outside doing yard work or gardening.  I can just stay in and work! Now fall will fly by and winter will soon be here.  And I will be smaller.  I WILL!  I will.  That's what I keep telling myself every day.  And maybe shoveling snow will be a bit easier than it was last year since I've lost a bit of weight :o)

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