snow

and snow it did!  started snowing thursday night and snowed until about noon today.  official totals for northglenn were from 18 - 20" and i believe it. 

you can see the progression from the first to the last pic.  that's a lot of snow!

i love it.  that is what i like about colorado.  winter.  i even went walking on Friday during the snow.  now that i have started the working out and eating right and experiencing the inches and weight loss, it's important for me not to let anything get in the way of getting that exercise.

my blood sugars are still in the normal range w/out insulin - and that is huge.  as i continue to lose weight, hopefully i will get off the oral meds .  11 lbs in 25 days is an accomplishment!  hopefully the weigh in this friday will produce some dramatic results for me.  tomorrow is measurement day.  i really don't expect to see another big jump with that, but i have been working hard so who knows?  i just may be surprised.

things have taken a turn for me and i know it's because of my general well-being.  working on my health also meant working on my mental health.  after the events of the fall and losing my oldest sister - the only one speaking to me at the time - and reliving the pain all over again that my family doesn't speak to me and wants nothing to do with me, i had sunk very low.  the lowest i had been in a number of years.  the week of christmas, i had to find reasons to live.  but i hung on. 

i'm really glad i did.

it's time to pick myself up, dust myself off and move forward.   time to realize that i need to love myself - for the kind, caring, compassionate person i know am and cherishing the people who think the same of me.  time to quit abusing my body (health) and to start taking care of it.

it's a new year.  a new me.  new choices.  having just turned 50 ... hopefully i have at least 40 more to go.  i want to make them great ones.  watch my grandchildren grow up.  be active.

and most of all, be at peace.