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I lost a little bit more weight

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I think I’m getting closer to my clothing shopping spree. I saw my doctor earlier this week and as usual she weighed me during the appointment. Why she weighs me at every single appointment I don’t know … I’ve been seeing her since 2006 and I see her almost every single month – do you know how many times that means she’s weighed me?

LOL It’s not like there’s been a lot of changes in my weight either – until recently.

Ever since I started taking that migraine medication at the end of August I’ve been losing weight. It’s probably because it has a side effect of making some foods taste different or awful. By this I mean I can’t drink carbonated drinks anymore and anything really sweet tastes salty. So it’s no wonder I’m losing weight. LOL

I’ve lost 3 more pounds in the last three weeks. Not a lot. It’s slowing down because I’m trying to eat more even if I don’t feel hungry. I’ve lost more than 15 pounds now though. Hmmm if this keeps up I might be looking for some kind of stretch mark cure ’cause I’m sure that stretch marks are going to start showing if I keep losing weight like this.

What’s with all the furnace care companies offering their services this week

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I think the home service companies are having a little customer war in my area of Toronto.

This week along I’ve received letters from three different companies asking me to switch from my current furnace maintenance company to their company. Of course their offering deals for the first year, but then their prices revert back to normal in the second year and well … that’s higher than what I’m paying now, so uh … I think I’ll stick with my current company.

It’s just odd that I got three of these letters from different companies all in the same week.

A few weeks ago something like this happened with companies calling us on the telephone and offering cheap auto insurance quotes. I guess these things happen in cycles.

Do you ever get mail or phone calls from similar companies around the same time?

I quit smoking a couple of days ago!

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I was just saying in my last post that I quit smoking this week.

I’ve wanted to quit smoking for a long time, but when a neurologist told me last March that with my migraines and strange prolonged auras that I’d been having that my chances of having a stroke had just increased, and on top of that I was a smoker which increased my chance of stroke even more I knew I had to quit.

Unfortunately, even though I knew I needed to quit smoking the timing wasn’t good. April through early September is pretty busy for my husband and I. We have lots of family members and friends that drop by our house or end up staying over at our house and then there’s the entertaining and so on. I just knew I could successfully give up smoking in the spring or summer with all that going on. I had to do it as a quieter time.

So … I picked October. It’s perfect. Hopefully no house guests, no traveling, no invites to places where others will be smoking and drinking … the perfect time to give up this awful habit.

I’m using Zyban to help me quit. I started taking the medicine on October 1st and by the 3rd or 4th of the month the cigarettes I was smoking began to taste just like hot air. Still … it took until this past Tuesday, October 12th for me to finally stop smoking. I only had two cigarettes that day and the last one was at about 2:30 pm that afternoon.

I’ve had none since and my cravings aren’t too bad. I’m managing. I think the Zyban is really helping with the nicotine withdrawal although I’m dizzy and my stomach is a bit achy.

I keep telling myself how much better I’m going to be feeling soon and how much extra money my husband and I will have soon. I figure our bad habit costs us about $400 a month. Now we can save that money, or put it towards or bills or our car payments or hey … maybe treat ourselves to a holiday, perhaps a week on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship or something like that? Yeah, that sounds good to me.






I’ll be treating myself to a shopping spree soon

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I think I’m going to have to treat myself to either a shopping spree in the mall or an online shopping spree soon.

Why? Well … I’ve been losing weight over the last month thanks to a medication that I’ve been taking for my migraines AND I also just quit smoking on Tuesday (so far so good).

So … not only do I need new clothes because I’m starting to swim in what I have, but I now have a little bit of extra money to spend on new clothes. Perfect! Oh and I found some dereon jeans online that I think will look great on me too … hmmm maybe I should just order them now?

Actually I may hold off my shopping for a couple of weeks (even though I do need clothes). I’m still losing weight so there’s no point in buying new clothes that might end up being too big in a month or two. I really don’t need to lose much more weight … I hope it slows down soon!

Our home finances just got a little better

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Earlier this week I finally got a much needed financial break. A bill came in on Monday and it’s a new bill that we’re just getting used to paying … it was over $100 less than I’d estimated that it would be. Yah!

It’s actually our car payment. We took the money out of our line of credit to pay for our used car, so that’s one of the reasons why I wasn’t exactly sure how much the monthly bill would be as it has a variable interest rate and this is the first month that we’re paying the full amount.

My husband and I are also in the midst of quitting smoking! My husband isn’t a very heavy smoker and he’s been able to just stop, but I’m doing it a little more slowly with medication. Anyway … I think by the end of the month this will be a smoke free house. So that means that we’ll have LOTS of extra money.

Well not really. We should put that extra money down on things like the car payment I was talking about above, or the mortgage etc. Of course … it would be nice to take a winter vacation for once. I haven’t done that for years! Naturally, if we did take a winter vacation we’d have to be on the look out for cheap life insurance as I never travel abroad without getting insurance. Health insurance too.

Anyway, it’s very nice that one bill that I thought was going be quite large is less than I had expected, and if my husband and I stick to our guns we’ll be non-smokers by the end of the month as well … so both our health and financial picture will look a lot better by November.

Knocking on wood now … hoping nothing else in our house suddenly breaks down ….

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