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Dear Hubert

Published April 13, 2010 in Daily Life 4 Comments

…come on Hubert step it up! No way we are getting to goal with you being so slow. 46.2# is good, don’t get me wrong. But sheesh! I was really hoping for over 50# by next week so we could stabilize and have some goodies for the birthday. Get the lead out!

Frustrated but hopeful,
SewPixie

ps..OMFG I drove to work today…on the freeway…by myself…and didn’t hit anything…and didn’t cry. Have I mentioned how weird it feels that I am pretty okay driving now? Those that have known me the longest probably understand the best. ‘Scared to drive’ was just a part of my identity. Oh that’s Becca…she doesn’t drive. So much of life had to revolve around it. How am I going to get to X place? Do I need to beg for a ride? Do I take a bus…which route? Do I even try X activity because I’d need a ride to get there? Can I buy this at the store because it won’t fit on the scooter? How do I explain, again, to new people why I don’t drive? Blah blah blah. I’m just hoping that this means more good things to come.

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Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Published April 4, 2010 in Daily Life 2 Comments

Weightloss is at 42 pounds today! Go Hubert!

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Spinning around and round

Published August 14, 2009 in Yarn 1 Comment

But first…a Hubert update. As of my last weigh in for this round Hubert is 27.2 pounds! That is 27.2 pounds lost since Memorial Day!!

Now on to the spinning! I stopped by TYF the other night and picked up a niddy noddy, an extra bobbin for the Joy, and some Pagewood Farms BFL in teal. So soft and so pretty! So far it is spinning up very nicely. I got through a few episodes of All Creatures Great and Small while doing the first single. The plan is a 2nd single and then a two-ply.

Pagewood Farm BFL

And here are a few more yarns that I’ve finished up in the past month or so. Next up is actually figuring out what weight the yarns are. At least now with the niddy noddy I know the length.

More handspun yarn
More handspun yarn
Insane Sunset - after blocking

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Hubert update!

Published June 15, 2009 in Daily Life 1 Comment

As of today Hubert is 22.8 pounds! Wheeeee.

My scale is the kind that tells you your body fat% and whatnot (is it 100% accurate? I don’t know but I figure if it is consistently inaccurate then at least comparisons are valid-ish) and on day 3 body fat was 45.8%, day 10 it was 43.5%, and today it is around 38%. Muscle % has risen slightly. Today I did the percentages in the evening so I’m going to try again in the morning to get a “Day 24″ number.

I start the stabilization phase late on Wednesday so that will be awesome. On that phase for 3 weeks you eat the amount of calories that you should eat for your size but no starch and no sugar. I’ll still weigh everyday and ensure that I do not gain or lose more than 2 pounds. The point of the phase is stabilize your weight where it is and also I think get to know what sorts of things tend to cause your body to go into abnormal fat storage mode.

I checked a calendar and I have enough time between the knitting retreat in July and BlizzCon in August to do another short round of hCG so the plan is to get that ordered.

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Still here are behind on things as usual!

Published May 30, 2009 in Daily Life 3 Comments

So I’ve have a really slow start getting back into the swing of things since I arrived home from LA and Portland. OMG Portland was gorgeous!!

So really what I need to do is go into list mode and start ticking things off the list. My fabulous sister is coming for a visit in July *squeeee* so I really want to get this place cleaned up!

Let’s see, in other news…my friends were way to generous to me on my birthday this year. Birthday presents like mad and I didn’t quite know how to thank them enough. It wasn’t so much the material stuff (which was fab and all totally me) but just that people put so much thought into giving me something that I would like. Silly me needs to get used to the new way of thinking, that I am someone worthy of that.

And in other news, C and I started a new diet. Well, diet sort of, more of a staged approach to eating better. One of the stages incorporates a hormone treatment that gets your body to burn and use your abnormal fat stores as fuel (flushing out the toxins in them as well as providing your body the nutrients locked in them), which when coupled with a low calorie diet for a short period of time allows you to lose weight but not in a scary you are going to hurt yourself kind of way. Since my body is using the fat as energy I’m not even hungry (I would be ravenous if I was eating so low cal normally as my body would be freaking out!). So far so good and I am down just over 11 pounds (I’ve named my lost weight Hubert hehe). You can get the supplies and administer it yourself but to be certain we had good information and following things properly (the protocol was developed over 40 years ago and is well researched and established) we are working with a Dr. I haven’t had a soda since I started on Monday…and I am not insane yet! Very weird. That, and I actually like tea now. Hmm.

Enough blabbering, off to list making I go!! *charge*

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