Diet, Exercise and Europe!

Ok so I passed the 3 month countdown for my trip to Europe... What have I been doing to loose weight for my big trip? NOTHING! When I mention diet, I go into panic mode, and I want to eat so the last few weeks I have been not dieting. And last week being home all week due to my eye injury I ate even worse.. So Sunday I changed up my regime and am going to try not to eat out, or I am only able to eat out if I eat out with friends. No more fast food and drive through..

I also have been back to working out 4 times a week at the gym, and starting next week I will be 8-5 M-F for a bit so I am going to try to work out at lunch, and after work at my awesome work gym. I AM NOT GOING TO EUROPE AGAIN THIS OVERWEIGHT DAMMIT!

So I weighed myself Sunday, I will weigh my self every Sunday and post my results. I am too chicken to post my actual weight atm as I am so embarrassed, but if you check out my SparkPeople page you would see the truth.

All the critters and the horses are doing fine. Tonight after work I came home and all the horses were waiting for their dinner, but Sand was no where to be found. I went into a panic thinking he had colic'd or something. I went to get my flashlight to search the pasture and he was in the round pin, I guess I forgot to latch it- He was happy to be free and flew out kicking his heels in the air. Tomorrow I am planning a beauty day for the horses, so I will post pictures, and Hope is doing awesome, seems to be in recovery mode with her laminitis. Pellets, or Bermuda Blend pellets is working well for the winter, all the horses are all plump and happy!

So above is a picture of a dinner I created. I love pizza, but a average pizza for me is a large one, with lots of calories. This pizza has a pita bread for crust, low fat moz cheese, pineapple, onion, green peppers and some cheddar on top. I figure with my calculations, I am looking at no more then 400 calories for a lovely meal!

Anyway will post back soon, also big eye doctor appt Thursday- I pray my eye is healed and I can go back to contacts, my glasses are killing me!

Eye Scare

So on Monday my eye in my left eye got blurry. I didn't think that much about it and figured when I got home that night I would take my contacts out, and all would be ok. I got home Monday night, took my contacts out and went to bed. Tuesday morning I woke up with the worse pain I have ever felt. My eye was totally light sensitive and hurt like their was razor blades in it. I made a appt at 10am at my local Eye Doctor, and called into work.

I made it into the eye doctor and after talking to my mom, figured I had a scratched cornea or something. My eye doctor took one look at my left eye and said "OMG Kristen we need to get you to a specialist. You have a ulcer in the middle of your cornea, you could lose your vision". So needless to say I went into a panic. They gave me some eyedrops to numb the pain, but as I was driving all the way into ALBQ, to Eye Associates the pain came back, and it was hard to drive. I saw a specialist at 1pm and he was very non emotional, gave me some steriods and said they needed to see me in 24 hours. I drove home, filled my presciption on the way at Walgreens which was horrible as the other set of eye drops had wore off, my eye was a weeping painful thing and I am sure I looked freaky with my black rimmed glasses and crying due to the pain. I took the drops/cream 4 times yesterday, and today I woke up and everything is getting better.

So I went to the specialist at 3pm today in the Los Luans office, she said the ulcer as shrunk, and I still have some healing before my vision comes back and to keep up with the steriod drops/creme. I am to go back to my regular eye doctor in a week, in which she assured my vision should be restored, but if I would have waited one more day I would be looking at a cornea transplant. I can't wear my contacts for a week, as my contacts is what has caused this mess. I have been a contact wearer for 20+ years and the last 10 years I sleep in mine only to take out once a month. The specialist said never again should I sleep in my contacts, even if they are made for sleeping in.

So I am thankful that everything is looking up. I had such a busy week at work, it couldn't have picked a worse week to happen but my manager understands. I look like Ugly Betty in my black rimmed ugly ass glasses, but next week when I go back I will order some nicer looking ones as I have had these for 7 years and the prescription isn't even correct. What I sight I am right now.. At least I can wear makeup now :) I hope my eye clears up as its still blurry, but I know it will. Anyway off to bed now, crazy things happen and makes me think I need to get out of this house and meet someone so when I have a crisis I will have someone for me. Maybe I should get back on Match.com.. Anyway off to bed!

Lassie Dog Food

Hello my friends and readers! So its been a busy month but I am back to normality and and back to blogging- The class I am training at my work graduates in a week, so things are winding down and I will have some time to relax and not be so busy. So all is good at the ranch. Today I ran out of my normal dog food, Exclusive that I buy at my local Old Mill Feed Store. My dogs don't really like it but its chocked full of vitamins and good stuff and it hardly leaves any waste behind to pick up in my yard. So the feed store wasn't open when it usually is so I went to Smiths after work to pick up a couple day supply to take me to Thurs when I can make the feed store again. I bought some Lassie all Natural food, not cheap mind you, and the ingredients look great. I poured some in my 4 dogs bowls tonight and they went nuts. Even Fuss my picky too skinny greyhound gobbled it down like it was a Rib Eye Steak.. So I am impressed! A 30 pound bag at Smiths is $22 where I was paying $29 for 35 pounds of senior Exclusive. My dogs liked the Senior Lassie also more then the Adult BTW.. So I am going to switch up foods for a bit and see if the mess in my backyard stays low like it has...

On a side note of feeding cheaper pet food, my cats I am feeding Friskies Natural.. They fill up my littermaid in 2 days in which it was before 3.. ( I have 4 cats ) so the better the food, the less the waste, when I finish the bag I have I will be switching to a better brand..

Ok so that is it, all is awesome- Work is great, horses are doing awesome on their pellet diets and I have added some corn oil to the mix for calories and heat for the winter. Farrier comes out next week and I think I am going to pull the shoes off 3 of them as I haven't had much time to ride, and its good to let them go natural for a couple of months a year I think.

I promise to write more often- I have so many reviews of the various things I have bought and I miss blogging! Also the above picture is of Buster. The dog I rescued from a friend whose trailer park wouldn't allow dogs with viscous breeds in them. Buster is a Chow/Collie and is about 7. Luna and him play all the time and he is a great barker and wouldn't hurt a fly.

Off to bed, you will hear from me soon as my weight loss journey for my big cruise in April has almost begin!

Xoxoxoxo