Weight Loss Challange May 26th - June 2

Where has time gone this year? Here we are going into the 6th month of it already. How time flies when we are having so much fun.

My great weight loss didn't last for long. I'm back up to 128# this morning. I have no idea how I managed to do that. And it is so discouraging. I can only blame water retention and Prednisone for so much. And if building muscles while losing fat is going to do this to me I think I would rather have a few less pounds of muscle.

I have at least a week of hard yarden work cut out for me for the next few days. But then I have been doing that for the past week or more. I have nearly an acre of 3' tall fescue that is in seed to get sprayed this week so the guys can see that there is no reason to not use mowers in there. I have to do it with a 2 gallon sprayer and it will take at least 8 - 10 gallons so I will burn off some calories there. And try again to get that brush pile to burn. I wish the fescue would be dry enough to burn off when I get a fire going in the brush pile but it will take at least 10 days for the RU(generic glycoside really)to burn it down pretty & even then it likely won't burn for another week or so. We burned that area last summer and did more cleaning up in there. Shad and I spent a week hauling off old scrap metal las summer. I moved my 4' X 8' trailer and a large piece of metal out of there early Thursday morning but the tenent still didn't mow the area. The trailer was in plain view so there was no excuse there. That has been a trashy area for years but he saw Shad and I do all that work last year. Another tenent who has a bulldozer pushed out a large tree and some smaller ones as well as some fencing Shad and I were having trouble with & then bulldozed the old barn foundation and concrete slabs that had been floors in a couple rooms in the barn so that area can be kept mowed. This is about the extent of managing I am allowed to do around here it seems. I'm still listed as a manager unless the kids made a change and didn't tell me but Kyle seems to be sure to do just the opposite of what I advise or request most of the time. I am seeing him thru a whole different prespective any more. Apparently he isn't the person I thought he was. Chuck, I know a negative attitude is counter productive but this a really big hurt for me. In my worst nightmares I wouldn't have thought of this.

I had a strawberry breakfast drink and 3 fiber tablets for breakfast. I'm working on my first pint of water now. Lunch will be a chef type salad I think. I'll be at the cafe' for supper so will drink a can of Extreme 30 protein and drink a lot of water. I have a lot of that Hollywood diet juice concentrate that I can use too. Lots of carbs I know so I have to be careful there. Maybe I have been using too much of that & it has caused the weight gain.

Holly & Kyle have to work on the well house and some of the water conditioner system today so the water will be off until at least tomorrow night sometime. I have drawn about 50 gallons of water for the birds, dogs, cats, myself, etc. It should be way more than enough to do everything I need to do.

I must go do more yarden work. GOD bless and keep each of you.