Things, health, rain and truck trailers in the water...

It appears from the look of this that we MAY get some rain this weekend! Better then a hurricane! I wonder if I point this out to the maintenance powers that be that it will mean that it will be too rainy to do maintenance and we will have to go diving or something? I doubt it!


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Now the bit for my girlfriends (which may bore you males silly, jump down there is fishie pictures on the bottom)
Now, me, health things...what does this picture have in general....healthier food. Those who know me, know I love food. Nothing makes my eyes light up quite like a large plate of putaha (perogies for those who are not Ukrainian) with bacon and sour cream or a big juicy steak and baked potato loaded with EVERYTHING. My husbands laughs when he sees how much I perk up when I see a Starbucks, or one of my favorite restaurants come into view. I tell him at least it is not cocaine I am addicted too (I would be skinnier though!)


I have not dieted for a long long time. I have no idea what the prevalent theory is on watching what you eat, and quite frankly, nor did I want to. My husband likes me large, case closed. Although I think he prefers if I am healthier. Since starting chartering in 98 I have gained 60 lbs, give or take a few. I guess I enjoy my cooking.
I have a history of gestational diabetes, the ancestry has lots of it, and in fact when I did my 23andme genetic medical tests, it came out with something like a 63% of diabetes. My blood sugar has been sitting a bit high for a few years, but marginally. I knew it was coming. I really did. I was not looking forward to the day that I was going to actually have to DEAL with it. I lived on the edge, I did not start watching it years ago, putting it off.

I know, get the tiny violins out and cue them now... I have been so tired lately and seriously out of breath, except for when I am in the water, then I am fine, that we knew I had to go in and get tests and see what was happening. Yeah, I had it all, high cholestrol, high blood pressure, crossed over on the diabetes line, and surprisingly, I was severely anemic. Just a grab bag of lifestyle issues there.

I have never been very good on my cholestrol medication, as it give me leg twitches and cramps, so I only take it for awhile and then quit. They gave me a new one. And lots of other pills.
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Side note: When I went in for the follow up glucose tests, which they did every have hour for a few hours, my veins were getting sore as they are pretty small toward the end. One time I bled everywhere. On the VERY last needle, they put in a tiny butterfly needle, I guess to get it in and not hurt me. As I am watching this in my arm I am thinking "Why the F** did they not put this in on the first needle and just used it for getting blood instead of sticking me a billion times??"
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So yeah, the "I can eat everything I want anytime I want" has to go away. It has for the last week. I know that I don't have to take off THAT much weight to lose those health problems. And If I took off 50 lbs, I would be tons healthier (except my fat face would have more WRINKLES from being skinnier!)
I am trying to look at is as a lifestyle change, and truthfully, since I watched what I was eating back in the early days of time, it has become a lot easier. I signed up on My Fitness Pal which basically counts everything for me as soon as I enter what I eat or exercise and lets me know right away whether I am going to make my target. I love the fact that I can actually have anything I want, as long as I am going to exercise more, or eat less of something else! I mean, really, 3 cups of popcorn?? Ha! But double that and I am ok!

I never knew how much some foods had of sodium in them. And what a carb was etc etc. I will say that I am allergic to a chemical in most fruits and vegetables when they are fresh, have been all my life, so I have to be creative as raw veggies and fruit just cannot go on my menu plan....

And that is the end of the girlfriend post...you will be able to know if I stick to it by watching pictures of me on the blog! But know I am doing this for health, not because I want to be skinny! And by the way, a week of iron and my heart has stopped feeling like it is going to beat out of my chest. Amazing. Good thing there is doctors when you finally get off your behind and go to one!

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Now that is out of the way, lets go back to the fish pictures....
Since we appear to be chained to this dock (yes, I get like this EVERY maintenance season...whiny...) and the Bingo Bus is not running, I was forced to take out the dinghy to get in the water. I just went out to the other side of Red Rock here, and it was pretty. These are squid eggs....



Many sting rays in the grass out there which must mean there are turtles too but I did not see any!


You are going to see a lot of "fish trap" art from this dive. There were dozens of old traps, so i took pictures of them, and all the little fish that were amusing using them for shelter....







Did have a spotted eel or two as well...


And I hit the lobster jackpot! I saw dozens and dozens of lobsters.....



I think this is my favorite picture of the dive, with the anemone behind it.....


Some surprisingly healthy coral....


Flamingo Tongues....


Just an interesting bit of something sticking up....


And then I ran across this. Which goes to prove that you can never know what you are going to see on a dive. A truck Trailer. A large one. Sitting nice as can be on top of the reef! Quite funny actually....






Then, someone's rudder. I was getting low on air so I could not scout around for the rest of the boat to see if it was there!


And these are just a series of more "fish trap art"











I think I will go back here today and see what else I see. There was a very large chain down there that I followed for awhile before I lost it, I would like to see if that leads to an anchor. Bazza is in doing yucky town stuff. Insurance etc.
I am sure he is arguing with them that we did not need a new survey for the boat since we bought it back from Bruce (we just had one done in November before selling the boat), when they transferred it to him he had to argue that his from last month was good enough and I am sure he will have to argue the same today..... Why don't there all every understand that a LTD company owns the boat, not a personal person!!!