finding lori

I've been up and down and all over the scale my whole adult life.  I have come to realize that it is not the plan that I am on that isn't working, it's my head that needed tweaking.  I've always been completely honest here, and I am not ashamed of anything that has happened in my life....It has all been a learning experience.  My highest weight was 252.  That was...I wanna say 10 years ago maybe?  My sister and I joined Weight Watchers and I lost 50 pounds in just under a year.  I didn't do it the correct way.  I restricted. I juggled.  I deprived myself.  I could gain 7 pounds in a week and shed it in 3 days.  That is not healthy.  That is not sustainable. After I left Weight Watchers later that following year, I gained around 25 pounds back fairly quickly.  I didn't learn my lesson when I joined Weight Watchers again a few years later.  I gained and lost the same 10 pounds in the year that I was going to meetings.  I talked myself into quitting because it is

I now t's been a while..... I am still trying :) For years now, Greg has wanted to live in the middle of nowhere....Live off the land.  He would be in his element!  I would jokingly tell him he should find that place, I would visit once or twice a month and bring food...... Recently we have been toying with the idea of getting a little place to get away.  Since we both love the water, we were searching places near bodies of water.  Greg likes to fish and our Lake Erie is good fishing, although it is hit or miss to get out in a boat.  There is a man-made lake near us that he also fishes on so we were looking in that area.  We were shocked to find that even 1/4 a mile a way from the lake, the houses were totally outrageous, price wise, and for just a tiny "shack" that would need tons of work.  It was then that we decided on buying a camper and renting a camp space for the year.  We always wanted to camp, but with me working Saturdays, it wasn't doable.  Now that I

Happy Easter! This year was the first year that I didn't do Easter Baskets for my kids.  My kids are 31, 29, and 23, so I guess it was about time, but man it was a tough decision!   When I talked it over with Greg he had no problem stopping this tradition.  He said, "our parents didn't give us Easter Baskets at that age."  I told him, that was because by 30, we were married and had 3 kids.  None of our kids are married, although our daughter Blayne does have a boyfriend, and none have any children yet.  In my head I just always felt like I still needed to do this for them, because they didn't have anyone else to do it.  What prompted this change, is that Blayne and our youngest Dominic are both Vegan now, so I was trying to decided what to get them.  Do I baby my kids?  Is it a "Mom thing"?  All I know is it felt weird and a bit sad.  I always do a little basket for Greg and I, I do one for the dogs,  and I do up a little one for my parents, so I still

Hello to my little Blog! I am going to try my hand at blogging again.  It's been so long, and so much has happened in my life, I really don't know where to begin.  I guess I will start typing and see what comes out!! I guess I will first tell you that I no longer am a Dog Groomer.  From May to July, my Sister sold her house, bought another (about 30 minutes away), we closed The Dapper Dog Grooming Salon, and I got a new job.  What a crazy time that was!  Closing our beloved salon after almost 18 years of love and friendship with our customers.  It all really happened so quickly, that there hardly was time to think about it.  The exact same time that my Sister was just thinking about moving, (she had always promised her husband that sooner or later they would move back to the city, where he grew up....she moved him out to the country with the rest of us 21 years ago).  Anyways, around that time, there was a job opening at our Church, so it was just perfect timing!  While I w