Thoughts In My Head...

I look at my attempt at a new lifestyle as much more then just what I put in my mouth and what I burn off. There are so many other aspects to a person´s life which affect their health and or weight. One of these is sleep. I have been thinking a lot about how little sleep I actually get compared to how much I should have.  How much or how little you get can play a big part in how heavy you are or how skinny you are. Here are 16 other interesting facts I learned while surfing the web about sleep...click HERE. You can find a lot of information about sleep on the net and this is just one website I stumbled upon. Bottom line is you need your sleep if you´re going to function as you should and have a healthy life and a normal weight. I´ll be working on getting my 8 hours soon!


 The great weight loss mystery isn´t really a mystery. It´s black and white. It´s so simple we don´t want to see what is right before us. It´s so simple but yet we insist that it must be a huge difficult thing or we would all be normal weights...It doesn´t matter what you eat as much as how much vs how much you burn off through exercise. There it is folks...in black and white...Every day they are telling you, Ok you can eat this...next day...no don´t eat that...next day, ok you can eat it as long as you eat something else with it. It´s too confusing. I think it´s better to focus on what you know for sure...you can´t lose weight unless you´re burning off more then you are taking in. Simple as that. However, people will continue to become millionaires off of the fact that we overweight people are looking for a quick fix...something that will get us across the finish line with minimum effort. Even if you get across the finish line with a fad diet, you will be running the race again before you know it...the results won´t last in the long run. It´s a simple equation that gives the perfect answer every time- eat less then you burn off and you´ll go the distance...


I´m totally for homemade vs pre-made food. A lot of people use the excuse that they don´t have time to make everything from scratch or they aren´t good enough. Those are excuses. Everyone can make time and everyone can learn what they want to learn. We humans are experts at making excuses for things we don´t want to do. Think back over the last excuse you used for something you didn´t want to do....see how easy it was to come up with that excuse? And that is what happens with weight loss. No matter what diet you follow, no matter if you eat less then what you burn off- the results won´t happen unless you are truly ready....truly committed. If you aren´t then I say don´t even try...why set yourself up for failure?  Unless your heart is truly in it...save yourself the taste of defeat...it´s a nasty sour taste you´re just as well without. Only put in the effort when you´ve decided with all your heart that this is what you truly want. 


I believe I truly want a healthier lifestyle. With that said though, I´ve thought I´ve truly wanted it before too. I´ve made valiant efforts only to crash and burn in a wall of excuses and lack of willpower. So why do I give you advice to not even try if you can´t commit and then I admit that I´ve tried and failed so many times? Because that is who I am. Internally I know exactly what I should do. I´m perfect in my little head...I have the answers to everything....however in practice I´m anything but perfect. I´m all human and then some. I haven´t got a clue and I mess things up more often then not. With this said though...I never give up. No matter how many times I fail...I keep believing I will get it one day. I will cross the finish line and keep on going with my healthy lifestyle forever. It won´t be a chore I cringe at the thought of...it will be natural....like brushing my teeth. I´ll look at bad weather and think...some rain clothes will take care of that....or some wool longs and warm sweaters, mittens, and boots would be perfect today! Instead of...thank God it´s so crappy outside so I can use the excuse that I don´t feel like going out in that horrible weather...I can stay in and complain about it on facebook with all my "friends". It´s attitude and while I have the perfect attitude in my head...I don´t always have the perfect attitude in practice. Anyone else recognize themselves in what I write or am I unique with these thoughts?


With all of this said..(and these are thoughts in my head so if I´m being very random here...sorry...but you´ve hung in this far so I must be saying something too entertain you or you just really have nothing better to do then read this) but with all this said...I´m again making a valiant effort for a better lifestyle and it involves walking my fur babies as well as trips to the gym and watching what I put in my mouth. As I mentioned in an earlier post...geocaching has been a fun way to exercise and go on an adventure all at the same time and we all love a little adventure in our lives now don´t we? 


Today we broke the dogs into two groups and took two walks...first the little dogs and Nanna Banana..Then we took the next group and went Geocaching. We told Cookie we would be walking through the snow...she thought that sounded like fun... 

Nanna Banana did too....

After we explained that walking through the snow didn´t mean with our entire bodies they caught on quickly....Our smart dog Jenny showed them what we meant....But Jenny rarely walks anywhere...why walk when you can run??

By George I think she´s got it now!!!

The woods is a magical place any time of the year but when it´s blanketed in snow there is something extra special about it...I just love the woods...

We are truly lucky to live in the woods...there are so many wonderful things to see here...

As we headed back to the house, Cookie ran far ahead of all of us...even Jenny who use to be the quickest dog we had, couldn´t keep up....something was telling us that Cookie had had enough of our walk and was ready to get back inside....we called to her and she stopped to look at us...she wouldn´t come though...no matter how much we called, she would just tilt her head and look at us as if she was thinking- Come on guys- we´re almost there!!

After much encouragement her need to be close to us overcame her will to get home quickly and she came flying back to us....

Once we tucked Cookie safe and sound inside the warm house we grabbed the last group of dogs and headed down to the marina here on the island. According to our Geocaching game there was a Geocache hidden down there. Off we walked....past the farms.....

Down past the sweet little church so many of you liked as well as I do.....

Til we came upon the marina....

But guess what? The Geocache isn´t exactly at the marina....it´s close...but not down where the boats are. I won´t ruin the surprise for the next person who wants to find it and perhaps by luck stumbles upon my blog and sees what it looks like but I will say this- get the program from Geocaching for your android telephone- Geocaching Live API as this has a distance measurer and a compass which will let you know where exactly your cache is...we found the area where the cache was but finding the actual cache was difficult but when we found it at last we had to laugh that we didn´t notice it before!!! We had been so close to giving up but then we found it....

WIth the cache found and signed there was nothing left to do but head back up to our cabin in the woods.....past the church....

and back up into the woods we love...

This was a very very long post. A lot of rambling in the beginning...but you know this girl has a lot of thoughts floating around up there in her head...and since my blog is like an online journal I write my thoughts down here and it´s up too you if you want to follow along the whole way or skim through the photos and be on your way ;-) But thanks for taking the time to visit my blog. I´m watching the ticker on the side...seeing where all of you are stopping in from. So many countries...so many interesting places...I wonder so many times how you happened upon my blog...did you stumble in, been here before, seen me somewhere else on the web and followed me home? hahahahaha....however you got here doesn´t matter, I´m just glad you´re here...I love to share my world with you and I hope you like what you see and come back again...I promise I´ll try not to be so chatty next time ;-)


Until next time my friends.....