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a new adventure.....a wakeup call....fair warning....good cheese

JonesCarpeDiem
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well, after getting out of the hospital after a 4 day stay i feel weak and dizzy.

They think i have a 20% loss of blood flow to the bottom of my heart

we had a fun party for 6 birthdays  and some graduations yesterday late afternoon into evening.

i tasted  the best cheese i've ever tasted. (english cheddar with carmelized onions)

But for the first time i really considered everything on my plate. maybe the hospital diet.

but

I HAVE BEEN GIVEN FAIR WARNING

IT'S NOW IN MY BALLPARK. ALWAYS WAS

JUST LIKE QUITTING SMOKING

 

TO BE CONTINUED

ever had a blog your were writing dissapear before you've posted it?

i lost 18 pounds in a week.

so at the party i really practiced restraint on everything that passed through my lips

and also portions.

you need to know that nothing even remotely considered diet or nonfat is not part of my eating vocabulary or has ever touched my hands or lips

compound that with the fact that 12 years ago i severed my right foot with an 80 place fracture then smoked and it didn't heal right

to be continued

or that i was carrying lifting and installing an 8 foot tall cabinet alone over a newly finished wood bathroom floor WHICH CAUSED AN UMBILICAL HERNIA

both of those pretty much eliminated any thoughts of being able to exercise

I am whipped today. exhausted. at least i wasn't awakened and poked every hour last night

i went out to walmart this morning to get my new rx's and while they were being filled i honestly committed the ultimate sin and bout a bunch of nonfat food. ....again, nothing diet has ever touched my lips...that 20% loss of bloodflow to the bottom of my heart. thats probably where all the fat is hanging. i lost 18 lbs in a week........i'm going for it...I 'm going to lose my excess pounds.

I'VE BEEN WARNED

SO HAVE YOU

ps

I bought a little wedge of that cheese (just to know I have it. LOL)

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.