I am watching that show My 600 Pound Life for inspiration. No matter how little I eat and how many 'exercise snacks' in a day, my weight just doesn't change. The doc says it's the pills I am on and the diabetes. I don't know. Those sound like excuses. I have always been able to lose weight but it doesn't seem to budge these days. So I am watching that show for motivation.
What I find funny is that to lose the hundreds of pounds, the clients have to completely cut out carbs, except for salad, the right kind of salads. And back in the seventies at the start of the Atkins craze, that doctor took so much crap about his diet. And so did the people that did the diet. You ate a reasonable amount of meat and basically zero to 20 carbs a day. Like one cup of broccoli. I know I lost 100 pounds and basically kept it off for twenty years. It didn't go smacking back on the minute I went on maintenance, it didn't wreck my metabolism, it didn't wreck my health...all dire warnings from everyone. And now, these morbidly obese people on this show are doing exactly that...the Atkins way.
I will say this....the new Atkins diet has added column one of the glycemic scale to his diet. I have always retreated to this way of eating, but not this time. I just can't eat meat like I used to. Age, conscience, expense, all play a part in that. So maybe that's why I don't lose weight. My body is in shock at what I am doing to it! The hardest part for me is giving a hoot. I just don't need peoples' approval bad enough to starve to death to lose weight. You don't like the way I look? Bye bye now! Hahahaha!!!!
Well I took the bull by the horns today and confronted a herd of people walking by. They go by frequently. All fairly young. They live two houses down and they are THAT house. It seems every neighbourhood has one.
It's a multi generational house. Great Granparents, Grandparents, Adults and their rangatang teenagers. They also have a passel of younguns'. Plus a badly behaved ginger cat and a rascally Rottweiler that barks and barks and barks and barks. One member of the house hold is not right in the head. He goes outside at three in the morning and screams and yells the most foul language super angry and super loud.
So they were walking by today and I happened to be outside bringing the garbage can back in. I stopped them and asked if they were the ones that owned the dog that constantly barked. They said yeah, he always barks. And they said they yell at him but he doesn't quit. I said that they needed to either find a way to shut him up or take him inside at night. The whole neighbourhood is pissed.
And do you know what they said? "Why don't YOU shut up!!!" So I asked, "Who is going to pay the fines when they start coming in?" 'We ain't paying no fines." So I said, "Good! Then they will take the dog. Phone the SPCA and ask them. Third infraction, fine, no pay, dog gone. So Please, don't pay. I want the stupid thing gone." They then called me terrible names and walked on. Sigh. And none of them ever wear masks. But due to who they are they have been vaxxed.
Speaking of which, April has made her appointment for April 28th. Finally. Aryn is getting hers any moment now. I will be able to relax a little now. My biggest worry was one of my kids getting deadly sick and I would not be able to be there.
And Leeloo is in the hospital. She eats anything and everything she can get her choppers on and clearly she has eaten something that has created a blockage in her system. Poor little thing. She won't be happy over there. They may have to operate. They have to wait and see and that is hard. They love that dog so much.
Well it looks like covid is slowly beginning to wind down. And I have to kind of laugh at all of us Canadians feeling so smug because we were doing so well compared to the renegade bull headed spreadnecks (as my darling Alberta daughter calls them) to the south. But look whose laughing now!!!!
They have double vaccinated so many of their citizens that they are beginning to be able to not wear masks!! So who had the last laugh? Canada is so slow it's aggravating. Meanwhile Mr. Moonbeam in Ottawa is dancing around all rainbows and roses going on about how fast everything is going and how we will all be vaccinated by next September (it keeps getting later and later.) Our population is equal to only California! At the moment total number of people double vaccinated in Canada is 3%. God! And if we can't mix Astra Zenica for a first dose and Pfizer or Moderna for the second one, we will be hooped. There just isn't enough AZ coming in to do all the people with AZ for a first one. At least that is what a doctor on the news this morning is saying.
Because this is a covid post, even though I swore I wasn't going to write about it anymore, there is one thing I wish to mention. And that is the general mood out there in the public. It isn't good.
We have stopped celebrating our front line workers. Businesses have ramped up their whining and they have their hand out for more of our tax money to save their asses. As fast as drug addicts are dying from fentanyl, the homeless drug addict population is growing, theft and vandalism have increased dramatically in downtown centres, gang activity is at an all time high, neighbours have turned on neighbours, reporting group backyard gatherings and parties, activist activity has increased to the point where your average citizen isn't even listening anymore and if we do we are just annoyed. And worst of all, to me, is that the young have developed two societies that need to be gone....woke culture and the cancel culture...both evil and almost oxymoronic.
Maybe its just because when we are on lockdown, there just isn't enough to keep our minds busy and too much time to be spoiled brats. And let me just throw it in here...MEDIA DOES NOT HELP!!!!!!
That's it for today. Be safe, get vaxxed. TTYL
BOATS AND MOUNTAINS....THIS IS WHAT PORT ALBERNI IS
I have been watching Married At First Sight. Port Alberni is BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you for the pics.
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