Where'd Summer go?

Here it is mid-August already. The sun is starting to go down earlier already and I'm noticing it's actually starting to get fresh in the evening. It all goes by so fast in Canada. Mind you, during the day now it's around 23 or 24 which truthfully is perfect. Those days at 32 are just too hot although we'll probably get a few more of them before it's all over.

Life's been kinda blah lately. At work I feel stressed and a little threatened. I really wish I could just go out and find a new job somedays. Nothing's really all that bad but I'm tired of doing the same old thing everyday... there's no new and interesting challenges and I feel like I'm in a rut there. Nothing ever changes for the better for me.

Personally.. well I've had some successed. I've lost around 10kg over the past 4 months. Good stuff, I'm back to my weight that I was in my 20s. I actually accomplished my objective and I have to say if feels just great. I'm eating real foods as opposed to chemically enhanced packaged process or fast foods that's so readily available over here. I've made a list of basic supper types and how many times I'm going to have that eact month... so something like Beef 2 times, Fish 5 times, Porc 4 times, Vegetarian 6 times, pasta 2 times, Chicken 6 times, Seafood 5 times... and what this did was dicipline me and gave me a good variety. So when I go to restaurant I know now I can better control beef and pasta intake than a restaurant can plus they are simple and easy to make at home so I have fish, seafood or veal when I eat out. I also cut down on breads, potatoes, rice and sugary foods but I upped things like couscous, tabouli and vegetarian sides. Then with my ipod and goods half hour or hour long podcast I either go on a walk or on the tredmill everyday... so I get some excercise I wasn;t getting enough of before... shre enough it worked without me really reducing my food intake all that much and getting a nice walk or feel good excercise everyday.

What was really amazing is that once I switched to whole grain real and fresh foods I found it satisfied my body's needs much better than fast food and processed food. My body's cells don't know what to do with a lot of them because there are no or few nutrients in them... so you end up getting hungry again faster and therefore eat more sooner. Your liver just processes the rest in many cases. Now I never get hungry until my next meal even though I ate the same amount per meal as before if even less. That almost stopped overnight it was so obvious. It almost leads me to believe that some companies add in something to make you addicted or crave more of their foods. When you read the nutiritional contents of some foods it ends up being 75% chemicals.. stuff to keep it's color, somthing to add additional flavour, a chemical to keeps the foods consistency, tons of salt to preserve it, sugars in everything and often disguised under several different names, the word "fat free" in some cases then you see there's still 5% fat... the lack of revealing trans-fats... no wonder we're all so heavy.

On other fronts I took my car in for an oil change and ended up with a near $800 bill for a timing belt change. That hurt but I knew that was coming up. I'm planning to have two floors resanded and refinished then I hope to purchase a new bedroom set so the timing of this timing belt was very good.. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my old bedroom set though. I need someone to come take it away. I have no room to store it. It's hard to coordinate all this and it's expensive... but I spend more time in bed than I do in my car so well worth it.

Anyways... I really should start my day.. gotta get the lawn cut... I am trying to clean up the basement too... so much stuff to get rid of... little by little.