Today begins an experiment. First to see if I can last at least 30 days at it. After taking a good hard look at myself and my eating habits over the past week (Thanksgiving dinner notwithstanding) I've got to make a change.
I decided the year I turned 50 that I would get a physical, take care of myself, and be like the 80 woman, when it was my turn to turn 80, who joined the Peace Corps for her birthday and spent a year in China. I may not really want to go to China and volunteer for a year, but I want to know that when I'm 80 I can if I want. So I got the first physical I'd had since giving birth (and we just won't talk about how long ago that was), everything was good. My cholesterol was a tad high, but not enough to make anyone say anything other than, it’s a little high. My weight was okay. Not great but okay. My BP is good, always has been. So I started exercising more, quit the stressful job, don’t know why I thought being unemployed would be less stressful. But Mr. Tinkerpro bless his heart, told me when I called screaming one night on the way home from work “just quit the job. We will be okay until you find something else”. He said this during a recession. We don’t always see eye-to-eye. And okay, we use to fight a lot. But after all these years of marriage and raising three kids, we’ve figured it out and know what is important and what just isn’t.
I lost weight, ate better mostly because I was home all the time and could cook and fix and life was good. Then I got a real job with benefits again, and although the treadmill wasn’t quite as fast, I was back on it. Eating habits went to hell, exercise went further to hell and oh, it is so easy to just be lazy, isn’t it.
So today, I re-colored my hair with a permanent color this time, instead of the 28 day one that was great for years until they changed the formula this summer and now it fades out in about 2 weeks, that just isn’t acceptable to me - so I”m back to my Preference by L’Oreal that I used 30 years ago. I thought they stopped using ammonia, but alas they did not as I found out half way through the process. The color is a little redder than I had anticipated, but we shall see tomorrow how it looks. I figured if it was horrible, that gives me Sunday to go to my hair guy and have him fix it. LOVE the cut he gives me, but sure can’t see spending the money for color.
And I changed my moisturizer to this:
I’ve heard good things about it, so when I got a coupon for it (which really doesn’t come around often) I thought I’d give it a shot. I’ll say that it is much thinner than the Oil of Olay that I’m use to using, and it makes my face tingle. So is that good or bad? Or am I having chemical reactions from the new hair color and face cream all at once? THAT would be a kick in the pants, wouldn’t it? I went for a microdermabrasion treatment earlier this month. The girl was actually really honest and didn’t try to sell me stuff/treatments. She said my skin really doesn’t need micro and she wouldn’t recommend it but would try it to see what happened. Frankly, I didn’t notice a difference, it didn’t feel any different and didn’t look different. I’m so glad TinkerDaughter found her. Of course, she has now moved 100 miles away.
I've started a 30 day walking program on tape, 45 minutes with Leslie Sansone and next weekend will be the experiment on teeth whitening. I drink way too much coffee.
