Well we just came home from the vet at PetSmart. Our poor defenseless toy chihuahua has hook worms in her. Poor baby.
The bill was $235.02 YIKES! But, I guess it's worth it. That wasn't for the medicine though. The medicine was only $14. The rest was for all the tests and just to walk in the front door.
Apparently these hook worms live in the dirt and a dog can be walking around in the dirt or even laying in the dirt sunning themselves and the hook worms latch on to the feet and then the dog comes in the house and licks her feet and then the worm gets swallowed. They drink the dogs blood inside of their intestines.
Here is the link for Hookworms at the Mar Vista Animal Medical Center website. The medicine that they gave us is called Panacur. It's a cheap medicine but it works.
I hate knowing that my dog got this. I'm going to have to clean out the back yard and just take Flower outside in the front yard with the harness and leash and pick up her poop with a plastic bag for now. I don't want her to be in the back yard by herself until I can get out there and clean it up. I wonder if there is a spray that we can spray on the dirt that will kill all life in the dirt.
I'm also going to have to give her a bath and wipe her paws everytime I bring her back inside the house so she doesn't lick anything that she might have picked up.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Discouraging
I bought my new bike wheel on April 13th, I think. My first ride was on April 14th so I'm going to assume it's the 13th when I got the wheel. I have 2 weeks worth of riding in my log which technically is only 3 days per week. But in those 2 weeks I haven't lost 1lb. It's a bit discouraging when you ride so far and get no results from it.
I guess in all fairness I wouldn't lose the weight so easily with only 3 days per week but I've just stared exercising again so it's not going to be easy on my legs to just get back into the routine again. I mean, when I first started riding last year I only rode for half a mile before my legs were just killing me because I hadn't ridden in so many years. And it took me 2 weeks just to get to the point where I was riding for 6 miles a day. Then I went up to 10 miles a day then next thing you know I was able to ride 18 miles. That of course was only 2 days that I did that. I knew it was too much so I went back to 10 miles per day.
My point is that I've started up again going 10 miles a day instead of easing myself into it. So it's a bit discouraging that 30 miles a week gives me no results.
That first week that I was riding Chip got his check on that Friday so he wanted to go to Hometown Buffet on Sunday for dinner when he got off work. Then the very next day was his day off and he took me to China Town Buffet. Oh and plus we went to Taco Bell. I knew I wasn't going to lose weight that first week but come on, the buffets and Taco Bell were a bit much for someone who is working so hard to lose weight.
The 2nd week I wasn't even trying hard enough to eat right. I'd have a bowl of cereal for breakfast or some days just toast then go ride and eat a Tiger's Milk bar when I got to the half hour mark when I took my break to give me the strength and energy to get back home. But then I'd come home and I was so hungry that I'd end up eating 2 sandwiches. Some days I'd eat a whole box of Macaroni and Cheese (cooked of course duh lol). That's definitely not good for trying to lose some weight.
I've taken the last 2 days off. The day before yesterday I took off because I had ridden 2 days in a row and my legs just needed a break. Then that day I couldn't breath through my nose so I took yesterday off thinking I was coming down with a cold but I was fine. I'm still a little stuffed up. But I'm taking today off too because it's Chips day off. Plus our dog doesn't seem to be doing too well for some reason. I don't know whats wrong with her. She might be constipated or she might be sick. We can't take her to the vet so we're watching her.
This week I have to really focus on what I eat and I have to try hard to get motivated to ride because I don't want to be discouraged. I need to lose this weight. We're talkin 90lbs here that I have to lose. I have to try so hard to eat less to shrink my stomach so that I get full faster so I don't overeat. I'm going to try the best that I can. I don't have any money until Friday though so I have to eat what we got in the house. I'm going to buy a head of lettuce though to try and eat some salad for lunch today and maybe for dinner too. That should help start getting my stomach smaller.
I think one of the things that is stopping me is the stress from thinking about it too hard. They say that stress raises your Cortisol levels which makes it harder to lose the weight. I've been documenting my every move (my rides that is) so maybe that is causing more stress than anything. Plus the stress every time I weigh myself. UGH!
I think the new plan should be to write down all the info from the bike computer but not think too much about it. Try my best to start eating salads and maybe even sliced cucumbers and carrots etc. Just eat veggies as much as possible to help with my hunger pangs. And maybe put the scale in the back of the car so Chip takes it to work with him so I don't have any way of weighing myself every day. Just do my weekly weigh in. Or maybe a month weigh in. That should help if I only weigh in once a month.
Oh that reminds me. (I'm sorry, this post is getting too long.) A few years ago I think I was 212lbs and so I started eating salads. I wasn't restricting myself on what I put in it. I put sliced olives, hard boiled egg or tuna, cucumbers, carrot and I used the salad mix (not head of lettuce) and I used ranch dressing. I didn't weigh myself at all for 3 months and I got down to 170lbs. All of a sudden I weighed myself and that was the end of the weight loss. Weighing myself put stress on me to keep losing weight so I was constantly weighing myself and the weight started coming back on. Maybe I should just act like I'm not trying to lose weight and eat the salads again but not weigh myself ever again lol.
I guess in all fairness I wouldn't lose the weight so easily with only 3 days per week but I've just stared exercising again so it's not going to be easy on my legs to just get back into the routine again. I mean, when I first started riding last year I only rode for half a mile before my legs were just killing me because I hadn't ridden in so many years. And it took me 2 weeks just to get to the point where I was riding for 6 miles a day. Then I went up to 10 miles a day then next thing you know I was able to ride 18 miles. That of course was only 2 days that I did that. I knew it was too much so I went back to 10 miles per day.
My point is that I've started up again going 10 miles a day instead of easing myself into it. So it's a bit discouraging that 30 miles a week gives me no results.
That first week that I was riding Chip got his check on that Friday so he wanted to go to Hometown Buffet on Sunday for dinner when he got off work. Then the very next day was his day off and he took me to China Town Buffet. Oh and plus we went to Taco Bell. I knew I wasn't going to lose weight that first week but come on, the buffets and Taco Bell were a bit much for someone who is working so hard to lose weight.
The 2nd week I wasn't even trying hard enough to eat right. I'd have a bowl of cereal for breakfast or some days just toast then go ride and eat a Tiger's Milk bar when I got to the half hour mark when I took my break to give me the strength and energy to get back home. But then I'd come home and I was so hungry that I'd end up eating 2 sandwiches. Some days I'd eat a whole box of Macaroni and Cheese (cooked of course duh lol). That's definitely not good for trying to lose some weight.
I've taken the last 2 days off. The day before yesterday I took off because I had ridden 2 days in a row and my legs just needed a break. Then that day I couldn't breath through my nose so I took yesterday off thinking I was coming down with a cold but I was fine. I'm still a little stuffed up. But I'm taking today off too because it's Chips day off. Plus our dog doesn't seem to be doing too well for some reason. I don't know whats wrong with her. She might be constipated or she might be sick. We can't take her to the vet so we're watching her.
This week I have to really focus on what I eat and I have to try hard to get motivated to ride because I don't want to be discouraged. I need to lose this weight. We're talkin 90lbs here that I have to lose. I have to try so hard to eat less to shrink my stomach so that I get full faster so I don't overeat. I'm going to try the best that I can. I don't have any money until Friday though so I have to eat what we got in the house. I'm going to buy a head of lettuce though to try and eat some salad for lunch today and maybe for dinner too. That should help start getting my stomach smaller.
I think one of the things that is stopping me is the stress from thinking about it too hard. They say that stress raises your Cortisol levels which makes it harder to lose the weight. I've been documenting my every move (my rides that is) so maybe that is causing more stress than anything. Plus the stress every time I weigh myself. UGH!
I think the new plan should be to write down all the info from the bike computer but not think too much about it. Try my best to start eating salads and maybe even sliced cucumbers and carrots etc. Just eat veggies as much as possible to help with my hunger pangs. And maybe put the scale in the back of the car so Chip takes it to work with him so I don't have any way of weighing myself every day. Just do my weekly weigh in. Or maybe a month weigh in. That should help if I only weigh in once a month.
Oh that reminds me. (I'm sorry, this post is getting too long.) A few years ago I think I was 212lbs and so I started eating salads. I wasn't restricting myself on what I put in it. I put sliced olives, hard boiled egg or tuna, cucumbers, carrot and I used the salad mix (not head of lettuce) and I used ranch dressing. I didn't weigh myself at all for 3 months and I got down to 170lbs. All of a sudden I weighed myself and that was the end of the weight loss. Weighing myself put stress on me to keep losing weight so I was constantly weighing myself and the weight started coming back on. Maybe I should just act like I'm not trying to lose weight and eat the salads again but not weigh myself ever again lol.
YouTube Movies and TV Shows
I'm a bit behind in the news. I know that YouTube has movies and TV Shows or they just added that recently. Yesterday I watched "The Blue Lagoon". I never saw it. It came out in 1980 and I was 10 at the time so I wasn't able to see it for obvious reasons. It's rated R. Not only that but I'd have to be an adult to really get it. So I watched it and really understood it. Such a sad and happy ending.
Anyway, they don't have a whole lot of movies and TV shows yet because they just started but I'm sure they will have every movie and TV show ever made available for all to see.
I usually watch TV shows on Hulu because they have them like the very next day usually after airing on TV. Sometimes I have to wait a few days after the show airs on TV but it's not too long. And you can subscribe to TV shows on Hulu so they email you to let you know a show is on their website so you don't miss it.
This will certainly put Netflix out of business if people are able to just watch their movies right from YouTube. Netflix is going to have to think fast and lower their prices and offer unlimited viewing through their website to compete.
The movies and tv shows you watch on YouTube do have commercials. I was thinking that perhaps watching YouTube movies is like stealing from the actors and the production companies but the commercials probably make up for that. The Blue Lagoon had like 10 commercials, it was all the same commercial just played every 10 minutes or so. So that probably pays for it all so YouTube can continue showing them for free.
It's the same thing as watching regular TV, you still have to watch commercials, but only 1 commercial, not 2 minutes worth of commercials. More like 1 30 second commercial. I think that I can handle being interrupted every 10 or so minutes by a 30 second commercial and be able to watch it for free than have to wait for the movies to come in the mail via Netflix and have it scratched and unplayable or have it come to me broken or never even receive it at all. Which has happened to me by the way. But that's another blog post for another time.
All in all I give YouTube a big thumbs up for making it available for free.
Anyway, they don't have a whole lot of movies and TV shows yet because they just started but I'm sure they will have every movie and TV show ever made available for all to see.
I usually watch TV shows on Hulu because they have them like the very next day usually after airing on TV. Sometimes I have to wait a few days after the show airs on TV but it's not too long. And you can subscribe to TV shows on Hulu so they email you to let you know a show is on their website so you don't miss it.
This will certainly put Netflix out of business if people are able to just watch their movies right from YouTube. Netflix is going to have to think fast and lower their prices and offer unlimited viewing through their website to compete.
The movies and tv shows you watch on YouTube do have commercials. I was thinking that perhaps watching YouTube movies is like stealing from the actors and the production companies but the commercials probably make up for that. The Blue Lagoon had like 10 commercials, it was all the same commercial just played every 10 minutes or so. So that probably pays for it all so YouTube can continue showing them for free.
It's the same thing as watching regular TV, you still have to watch commercials, but only 1 commercial, not 2 minutes worth of commercials. More like 1 30 second commercial. I think that I can handle being interrupted every 10 or so minutes by a 30 second commercial and be able to watch it for free than have to wait for the movies to come in the mail via Netflix and have it scratched and unplayable or have it come to me broken or never even receive it at all. Which has happened to me by the way. But that's another blog post for another time.
All in all I give YouTube a big thumbs up for making it available for free.
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