I enjoy a good ball game! Slow pitch or fast ball makes no difference to me. Another season has wrapped up today for the Servillian Technology Code Monkeys. Actually they played in two leagues this year, the spring league and the fall league. The team was placed in the intermediate for the spring and competitive for the fall. We played good ball in the fall just not good enough to make much of a mark in the league.
For me part of the excitment is seeing people give their best for the team. As I sit behind home plate it really doesn't look that far from home plate to first base and yet so many don't make it safely to first base. Their feet are moving as quick as they can, they clench their jaw and push hard to get there before the ball does and many times the ball is faster then them. You can see their disappointment and frustration. It is almost a walk of shame as they walk back, cut in front of home plate; grab the bat they used and head to the dugout. You hear cheers and words of encouragment from the team for their teammates effort. "It's ok you will do better next time", "Great hit, nice cut!"
Just as there are many faces of weather over the ball season there are also many faces for each player. At the first of the year there is hesitation, nerves and a lack of confidence. Getting to first base is a huge success and catching a fly ball outfield derserves an MVP vote. As the season moves on you begin to see confidence in the face of the players. Each one begins to set higher goals for themselves. The men are now striving to hit doubles and the ladies are making it to first base more often. You can hear them cheer each other on as the team starts to gel. Catching a fly ball in the field is the norm and double plays bring excitment from the fans and loud cheers from the team!
It is a long 8 months until the next season starts. Even though just today the season ended I am already looking forward to next year.
3 strikes! You're out! At least until the next season.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Paradigm Shift
Have you ever had one of those in your life? A paradigm shift I mean. If you have not then you have missed an amazing process that will challenge and change your way of thinking of a certain topic or area of your life.
My paradigm shift is eating. Yes I said eating. We all have certain foods in our lives that we shouldn't indulge in and yet they make us feel so good at least at the moment of consumption. For some it is coffee or chocolate or Cinnamon buns or something salty. For me I am a sweet and savory person. My aunt Trudy introduced me to popcorn and Smarties. You have the salt and butter of the popcorn in your mouth and you add one or two Smarties to that mix and the taste in your mouth with cause your taste buds to explode with excitement and ask for more!!
I am in the process right now of re-learning how to eat. Let me tell you re-learning is NOT easy!! For many years I have eaten certain foods with certain foods in certain ways and now I am being challenged to change that way of eating. A paradigm shift.
You see I have joined LA Weightloss to loose the weight I need to loose. I briefly thought about Jenny Craig until I realized I really need to learn how to eat foods you can buy in a food store and not just learn how to open a box and put it in the microwave. Really folks it is likely that box has played a part in getting me to the weight I am today. It is VERY tempting to have a freezer full of food I can eat neatly wrapped in a Jenny Craig box but the reality is what happens when I can no longer buy 'their' food. I would have spent a ton of money and learned nothing of how to change the bad habits and poor choices that got me to where I am today. The commericals with Kritsy Ally are stupid in my opinion and since this is my blog I get to voice my opinion. Sure Kristy can loose weight, she likely has a whole team of paid staff to make it happen so that she can continue to receive the free food from Jenny Craig. I am always amazed at how many Hollywood stars get stuff for free when they are the ones who can afford to buy it in the first place!!!
Ok so back to the paradigm shift. I always thought that if you eat less calories then what your body needs daily you will loose weight. Well I was wrong! Ok actually there is some truth to eating less calories you will loose weight however you need to be aware of what that magic number of calories is. For example if your body requires 2500 calories a day to keep all your organs and metabolism working normally and you decide you are only going to eat 1500 calories a day so you can loose weight well guess what; that will only work for a very short time before your body feels the stress of less calories and puts itself into starvation mode. Meaning anything you eat and I mean anything you eat your body will store as fat as it thinks it is starving because you are not feeding it enough calories for it to function normally. Now everyone one of us has a different number of how many calories you need to function daily. The key is to find that number so that when you do loose weight you can keep it off. That is where so many diets have gone wrong and why so many people who diet quickly put the weight back on and often more weight once they start to eat normally again. So that is where I am right now in the shift of my thinking. For many years I have not eaten enough thinking if I don't then I will loose weight. WRONG!!!! On LA Weightloss I am eating more food then I ever have before and loosing weight. Of course it is healthy food so no fast food anymore, no popcorn with Smarties, no Cinnamon buns either. I know not eating those things takes the fun out of eating but only for a time until you realize how crappy you feel after eating that kind of food and then you will wonder why you ate it in the first place.
When I went to weigh in yesterday they (LA Weightloss) told me to increase my food intake. So I am now on a different menu plan and have to eat more. For most they would be excited to be told to eat more food. For me it is a struggle; a struggle of a mind set of not eating a lot of food so that I can loose weight or at the very least not gain weight. And for all those years of thinking like that I gained weight and never caught on or questioned what is going on. So for the next 4 weeks I am on this new menu plan of increased food, eating every 3 hours throughout a 12 -14 hour period. I have never spent so much time in the kitchen before preparing food and planning on what to eat for the next day.
I have noticed though my recycling back has gotten smaller as there is no longer prepackaged food boxes in there.
My paradigm shift is eating. Yes I said eating. We all have certain foods in our lives that we shouldn't indulge in and yet they make us feel so good at least at the moment of consumption. For some it is coffee or chocolate or Cinnamon buns or something salty. For me I am a sweet and savory person. My aunt Trudy introduced me to popcorn and Smarties. You have the salt and butter of the popcorn in your mouth and you add one or two Smarties to that mix and the taste in your mouth with cause your taste buds to explode with excitement and ask for more!!
I am in the process right now of re-learning how to eat. Let me tell you re-learning is NOT easy!! For many years I have eaten certain foods with certain foods in certain ways and now I am being challenged to change that way of eating. A paradigm shift.
You see I have joined LA Weightloss to loose the weight I need to loose. I briefly thought about Jenny Craig until I realized I really need to learn how to eat foods you can buy in a food store and not just learn how to open a box and put it in the microwave. Really folks it is likely that box has played a part in getting me to the weight I am today. It is VERY tempting to have a freezer full of food I can eat neatly wrapped in a Jenny Craig box but the reality is what happens when I can no longer buy 'their' food. I would have spent a ton of money and learned nothing of how to change the bad habits and poor choices that got me to where I am today. The commericals with Kritsy Ally are stupid in my opinion and since this is my blog I get to voice my opinion. Sure Kristy can loose weight, she likely has a whole team of paid staff to make it happen so that she can continue to receive the free food from Jenny Craig. I am always amazed at how many Hollywood stars get stuff for free when they are the ones who can afford to buy it in the first place!!!
Ok so back to the paradigm shift. I always thought that if you eat less calories then what your body needs daily you will loose weight. Well I was wrong! Ok actually there is some truth to eating less calories you will loose weight however you need to be aware of what that magic number of calories is. For example if your body requires 2500 calories a day to keep all your organs and metabolism working normally and you decide you are only going to eat 1500 calories a day so you can loose weight well guess what; that will only work for a very short time before your body feels the stress of less calories and puts itself into starvation mode. Meaning anything you eat and I mean anything you eat your body will store as fat as it thinks it is starving because you are not feeding it enough calories for it to function normally. Now everyone one of us has a different number of how many calories you need to function daily. The key is to find that number so that when you do loose weight you can keep it off. That is where so many diets have gone wrong and why so many people who diet quickly put the weight back on and often more weight once they start to eat normally again. So that is where I am right now in the shift of my thinking. For many years I have not eaten enough thinking if I don't then I will loose weight. WRONG!!!! On LA Weightloss I am eating more food then I ever have before and loosing weight. Of course it is healthy food so no fast food anymore, no popcorn with Smarties, no Cinnamon buns either. I know not eating those things takes the fun out of eating but only for a time until you realize how crappy you feel after eating that kind of food and then you will wonder why you ate it in the first place.
When I went to weigh in yesterday they (LA Weightloss) told me to increase my food intake. So I am now on a different menu plan and have to eat more. For most they would be excited to be told to eat more food. For me it is a struggle; a struggle of a mind set of not eating a lot of food so that I can loose weight or at the very least not gain weight. And for all those years of thinking like that I gained weight and never caught on or questioned what is going on. So for the next 4 weeks I am on this new menu plan of increased food, eating every 3 hours throughout a 12 -14 hour period. I have never spent so much time in the kitchen before preparing food and planning on what to eat for the next day.
I have noticed though my recycling back has gotten smaller as there is no longer prepackaged food boxes in there.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Tattoos
I have to admit there are some UGLY tattoos out there!! I don't understand why people have skull heads and pitch forks permanently marked on their body. Dragons seem to be really popular too. I wanted to pick a spot on my body that when I was old and wrinkled it would still look good. Who knows I could be the trending senior in a seniors home one day. LOL! And if I was going to go through all that pain the tattoo better be in a place where people can see it with all my clothes on!!
I like to watch Miami Ink to hear the stories of why someone is getting a tattoo. Some of them are incredible stories and I think for the most part those are the ones they put on the show to grab the audiences attention.
Well here is my story behind my latest tattoo and yes I did say latest as I now have 2!!
I decided to have a butterfly tattooed on the just off my left shoulder towards the back of my arm. The butterfly is symbolic to me; I have been on an amazing personal journey since January 2007 and I wanted a permanent visable symbol that will allow me to share my story. The way I see it is that at first a butterfly is not much of anything. No one has any idea of the beauty that is within the cocoon until the butterfly emerges, unfolds its beautiful wings and takes flight. It soars with ease against the blue sky, a light breeze causes it to change direction and still it flies with little effort. You see I chose the butterfly as I am starting to see the beauty in myself that has always been there but I never saw it before. God knew how colorful my wings would be and now I am trusting him to show me the beauty of my 'wings'.
The tattoo itself took 1.5hrs to complete and I forgot how painful it is until Jordan started to tattoo the outline. I now know my pain tolerance timeline is about 1 hr. I am so glad he only had half an hour left. Once it heals I will post a picture.
I like to watch Miami Ink to hear the stories of why someone is getting a tattoo. Some of them are incredible stories and I think for the most part those are the ones they put on the show to grab the audiences attention.
Well here is my story behind my latest tattoo and yes I did say latest as I now have 2!!
I decided to have a butterfly tattooed on the just off my left shoulder towards the back of my arm. The butterfly is symbolic to me; I have been on an amazing personal journey since January 2007 and I wanted a permanent visable symbol that will allow me to share my story. The way I see it is that at first a butterfly is not much of anything. No one has any idea of the beauty that is within the cocoon until the butterfly emerges, unfolds its beautiful wings and takes flight. It soars with ease against the blue sky, a light breeze causes it to change direction and still it flies with little effort. You see I chose the butterfly as I am starting to see the beauty in myself that has always been there but I never saw it before. God knew how colorful my wings would be and now I am trusting him to show me the beauty of my 'wings'.
The tattoo itself took 1.5hrs to complete and I forgot how painful it is until Jordan started to tattoo the outline. I now know my pain tolerance timeline is about 1 hr. I am so glad he only had half an hour left. Once it heals I will post a picture.
Inspired
Ok the idea of a blog is new to me I never thought I would do one for myself as I always thought my life was too boring. Ya know no kids to brag about, no crazy stories of a husband to share but I have realized that I have a lot going on in my life and this also allows me to 'practice' writing. So bare with me on this adventure.
Just last week one of my brothers started a blog and since he seems to lead me down the technology and trending road I figured there is no harm in trying it out. So thank you Derek for inspiring me!!!!
Just last week one of my brothers started a blog and since he seems to lead me down the technology and trending road I figured there is no harm in trying it out. So thank you Derek for inspiring me!!!!
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