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[lindsaydoeslife]

weirdest tumblr dreamS EVER

the first dream:

I traveled out to see missmarisol and her house was AMAZING!!!  it had all these loft areas.  one was where the table was, and it was a balancing act to not fall to the lower level (ironic:  eating as a balancing act).  she said and did stuff to make me feel like a princess.

then i fell off of the eating loft area and ran into the middle and high school crush i've had FOREVER.  his sister talked him into asking me out to the zoo for a date and then told me he was married.  i was crushed.

second dream:a whole bunch of us took a trip to the caribbean to do a triathalon.  we traveled down there together.  there was:  tallmormon, regainingmymoxy, davidsgoals, tridad, trivialbob, reluctantrunner, marathonmelissa, tri-me, ironmanredux, and some other people. 

the weather was bad, and you could apparently choose what parts of the race you wanted to do.  melissa was mad that someone moved her red flip flop.  kc and bob were eating subway footlongs to carb-load.  i was choosing to NOT do any part of the race (hahaha....surprise surprise).

people were coming back to our bus after finishing the race but then going back out again.  the bus left without bob, kc, reluctant, and shortmom.  there were no phones and there were bad storms so they were pretty much goners.

we were searching the bus and tearing things apart to find these 4 grown people.  as i was taking a plane from nyc back home bob showed up.  he swam from the caribbean to manhattan.  i was all like "why didn't you call moxy???"

he was disoriented so i "claimed" him.  he had no clue who i was, so i tried to explain that just a few days before we had been together on the tumblr trip/race.  to make him feel better i drank ocean water????

when i got home, my cousin was getting married and it was my job to take care of her daughter (this cousin is already married).  during the rehearsal i got sick (from drinking ocean water) and had to leave and everyone was mad at me.

i went back to the caribbean and we were still looking for kc, reluctant, and shortmom.  i thought they were maybe hiding in the matresses on the bus (this must have been a big bus) so i started cutting matresses apart.

then they showed up with their medals and finishers jackets.  i made them hide in 3 ring binders until the ceremony to announce their return.  oh, and nelson mandela was also with us and had also disappeared, so he had the biggest cheers once those that were "lost" emerged from the stack of 3 ring binders i had piled up.

crazy shit, right?

i swear i'm not on drugs.

ps:  i slept until 2 pm.  well, i woke up earlier to make a phone call and then went back to sleep.  i NEVER sleep this late.  and i'm not feeling well so it looks like i'll be going home tomorrow morning.

[danielleruns]

The Island

This morning we woke up and decided to go to Pelee Island. 

We brought our bikes across on the ferry. We went to Fish Point Provincial Nature Reserve (KC, why have you never told me about this place?). We walked. There was so much sand. There were an odd number of daddy long legs. We walked to the very southern-most tip of Canada. 

We put our feet in. We split a peanut butter Clif bar.

"Everything is behind us," she said. "Everything in Canada is behind us."

I liked that.

[nikkiagain]

tallmormon replied to your photoset: Yes, Ryland. I agree that your expressions deserve...

do people say he looks like you a lot?

Usually people say he looks like Jeremy. I mostly get that he looks like me when he's being goofy, haha.

I actually had one lady at Starbucks or somewhere that asked me straight out, "Does he get his dark coloring from his Daddy?"

I said, "Nope. His Daddy is just about as light as I am... he's adopted." 

[knitruneatrepeat]

tallmormon replied to your post: Truthful Thurday Thoughts

Love new name

Ditto!

If ya'll didn't notice, the little bloggy blog got a bit of a remodel a few days ago.  New name, new picture (from Indy Mini!), updated about me, updated stats.  It was time. 

[knitruneatrepeat]

Actually no.  I discussed it over with my doctor because of the lack of progress I was making with my 1400-1500 calorie limit and it was agreed that as long as I'm not overly active and burning a lot of calories, I should maintain a 1200 calorie limit.  It's a healthier 1200 calorie intake than it has been, as I'm at about 45% protein for my diet and only 20-30% carbs.  It's a struggle to decrease the carbs, but protein shakes, more meat and dairy, all are helping with the protein increase.  And the scale is showing positive results, albeit super slow, but still results.

I haven't talked much about it recently because there are other things going on.  But I went back to my endo to discuss medicine options and how to go about losing weight since nothing seemed to be working (1400-1500 calorie intake plus about 1.5-2 hours of rigorous cardio 5-6 days a week) and he came to the conclusion that I'm eating too many calories and the "rigorous cardio" my body has gotten used to so I need to change things up a bit both with diet and exercise.  I listened to the diet part, but exercise has been a bit hard with, well, life.  I figure if I can get one in line, then the other I can slowly change as well.  That's kind of what July will be about as the month of June I finally got control of lower carbs in my diet once and for all, which I've noticed has made me feel less bloated and water logged.

As scary as it is to see that I'm only consuming about 1200 calories, it's something that my doctor is closely monitoring and I do shift up and down depending on the activities (for instance, swimming = 1600 calorie days). But I do tend to stick really close to the 1200 calorie number and my body feels perfectly fine most days.