CoCo's Corner

OK - I know that is a pretty disturbing title.  But, oh my GOSH!!!!  I am bloated!!!!  Honestly, with as much hot air that has been leaving me, I don't know why I don't have a string attached to my feet and I'm floating along instead of walking.  Honestly, what the heck?!??!??! I don't know what is causing it - but I'm truly a fart machine.  Now, honestly, I know it's the diet.  I know it's what I'm eating.  But, I'm not really sure what the culprit is. My food intake is a lot of veggies and fruits.  Fruits have become my passion.  And I'm eating a lot of them.   And to make it worse, my favorite has been cherries.  I have been eating them like they are candy.  And since it's the last part of the cherry crop, I've been buying them a lot.  Like a bag a day or every other day.  I was doing this knowing I really wouldn't get any more until next summer. Now - I've never been a crazy cherry eater.  I liked the...

I was shocked the other day when I got home and there was a large bag of clothes in the living room.  All bagged up - ready to go to the thrift store.  Ted never gets rid of stuff - so I was really excited when I saw that he actually had done some downsizing.  I kept threatening to do it myself, but I knew I would never do that to him.  I had to let him do it.  But, it made me really happy. Going through the things I had not worn for probably two years or even more It gave me the motivation to go through my own closet.  Or a least my lower rack of clothes.  I still have another part of a rack to go through - - - that doesn't include one of the closets upstairs.   So - I pulled out all the old jeans and khakis and went through them.  I figured if they didn't fit - either too big or too snug - they were going in the thrift store bag and I figured I would be emptying my closet.  All but about three pair fit!!  I was astonish...

The last couple of weeks have been somewhat frustrating in my journey.  Usually when I get to this point, I quit and decide I'm just a failure anyway, so why even try anymore. Just two days ago, I was showing that I had gained probably three pounds.  I knew some of it was going to be water retention.  But, I was so frustrated to watch that scale go up and then up again and it wasn't stopping.  I made bad choices out of frustration.  On Saturday, we ate out for every meal - because we were not at home. On Sunday, we went on a drive and we ate out for a meal - I tried to make good choices, soup and salad.  Then on Monday, we had a barbecue for Independence Day.  We had good food here and I tried not to overdo; barbecue chicken, potatoes and salad - even dessert was angel food cake and fresh berries.  The scale was telling me things I didn't want to see. Last night, Ted and I went to a movie (we saw Central Intelligence - it was pretty funny). ...