A few days ago I asked (elsewhere) what I could do to stay motivated to lose weight, and some one answered and say that I should write up what my “deciding factor” to lose weight was, for example looks or health, and than use that to refer to.

Okay, so here it goes:

I used to walk/hike everywhere, than life happened, I got depressed, started binge eating, stopped walking, gained weight, and suddenly a few weeks ago discovered that I was winded and could not walk more than a quarter mile without stopping to rest. This was a shocking fact as I used to walk 13 miles a day and did heavy duty hiking, and yet now I was so out of shape, I could barely walk a thousand feet!

After I realized I was having a hard time walking, I weighed myself for the first time in many years to be shocked at the 182lbs! OMG! I spent 25 years staying between 125 to 130 and now I was 182? How did that happen without me noticing it? No wonder I was getting winded so bad!

For most of my life my weight stayed pretty steady between 125 to 130. It was only in the past 5 years that my weight has fluctuated out of that range topping out at 182. I checked the BMI and it says 128 is my ideal weight, exact reverse of the 182! I guess when I was younger I was pretty good at keeping my weight “ideal”.

My weight lose goal is to get back down to 130 and KEEP IT THERE. I both looked better and felt better back than. But the actual determining factor is, back than I used to walk 13 miles a day, no trouble at all, and today I have a hard time going 1/4 mile without stopping to rest. I want to be able to go mountain hiking, I want to be able to WALK the 14 mile hike of Mt. Washington – 20 years ago I could have walked the Mt Washington trail in a breeze, I can’t do that in the shape I’m in right now. That is my determining factor for my weight goal: to be able to walk for hours on end and hike up mountains once again. I could do it at 130, so 130 is my goal.

And that is my reward when I get done too: I’m going to celebrate by hiking up Mt. Washington.

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This post was written by Wendy C Allen aka EelKat, is copyrighted by The Twighlight Manor Press and was posted on Houseless Living @ http://houselessliving.blogspot.com and reposted at EK’s Star Log @ http://eelkat.wordpress.com and parts of it may also be seen on http://www.squidoo.com/EelKat and http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com  If you are reading this from a different location than those listed above, please contact me Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat @ http://laughinggnomehollow.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile and let me know where it is you found this post. Plagiarism is illegal and I DO actively pursue offenders. Unless copying a Blog Meme, you do not have permission to copy anything appearing on this blog, including words, art, or photos. This will be your only warning. Thank you and have a glorious day! ~ EelKat

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I published 7 new articles today – 3 short of my 10 per day goal, but better than the rest of my days this week. I’m trying to get into the habit of writing no less than 5 articles a day; with the back pile I have already written from the past few years – I really need to up my goal to publishing 20 articles per day

that’s a grand total of 75 articles published this month (and $103 upfront pay – with monthly royalties to follow) which is a record for me

so $103 puts me ahead of the goal of $98 – now why can’t I be motivated to publish 75 articles EVERY month? or every week for that matter!

it’s all about motivation – give me a reason to spend money and 2 days later I’ll have made the money needed. I guess that means I need more motivation to actually want to buy things, right? there is my problem – I have no desire to buy things; no desire to buy things = no desire to make money = I never strive to make more money than what pays for my food, cat food, and bird seed

and yet, 2 days ago I had no money – than discovered I needed $98, so sold some of my articles and today I have $103

it just goes to show, I CAN make a lot of money fast if I really set my mind to doing so – now if only I could find motivation more often

I need for there to be a NaNoWriMo or a Script Frenzy contest every month – just think of all the money I would be motivated to make than?

I suppose I could just continue having Write Ins at The Golden Rooster all year long – I’d have to make money to eat there

am I weird for not having a desire to buy material things? people have told me many times that it’s normal for people to want to own things

it’s what they say when they say I need to have a “real job” – I ask “But why?” – they say “So you can buy things” – I say “But why?”

the tarp-tent thing may not be a house, but it keeps out the rain – I make enough money to buy food – why do I need more money?

than they get all freaked out and say I’m weird because normal people want houses, cars, boats, electricity, TV, – again I ask – Why?

well – I suppose I do need to make $50,000 to fix the Goldeneagle now don’t I? I wonder how many articles I’d have to write to make $50k?

they only made less than 5,000 of those cars and less than 1,000 are known to exist worldwide – how do I find parts for something like that?

the lack of parts is why it has not run for so many years to begin with – mechanics tell me I’ll have to have parts custom cast

having the parts custom cast is estimated to cost $20,000, not including a new interior, new floor, new body panels, and a new paint job

you can’t match the metal flake copper over orange over gold over silver four layer paint either – it was custom made – the whole car was a custom built deal (one upon a time my family was VERY wealthy – we could aford a custome built car back than)

like I said – the run was only 5,000 cars world wide and less than that were actually built – it’s an extraordinarily rare model

that’s why people get so baffled at my being homeless in Old Orchard Beach – home of the billionaires of Maine – we were not always poor

the Bush family has to live in Kennebunk, because THEY can’t even afford a house in Old Orchard

“you have no money?!? but you live in Old Orchard?!” yep, and it takes every penny I make to pay taxes – thus why I have no house

I did have a house – until the same vandals who smashed up the Goldeneagle set fire to my house and burnt it down – I can’t aford to rebuild it

than again – I suppose I should be motivated to make enough money to rebuild the house shouldn’t I? at least folks tell me I should – but I just can’t see the point of building a house some one will just burn it down all over again if I do and besides – the tarp I built the tent out of only cost $5 – why build a house for $200,000 when I can get the same protection from a $5 tarp. And when the vandals tear down the tent, it only costs me $5 to rebuild, I can keep rebuilding the tent, I can’t keep rebuilding a house. So, really, until some thing down about these vandals, it’s pointless for me to try to make enough money to rebuild my house anyways.

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Some Thoughts on Making Money by Freelancing and how much money the vandals are costing me

I published 7 new articles today – 3 short of my 10 per day goal, but better than the rest of my days this week. I’m trying to get into the habit of writing no less than 5 articles a day; with the back pile I have already written from the past few years – I really need to up my goal to publishing 20 articles per day

that’s a grand total of 75 articles published this month (and $103 upfront pay – with monthly royalties to follow) which is a record for me

so $103 puts me ahead of the goal of $98 – now why can’t I be motivated to publish 75 articles EVERY month? or every week for that matter!

it’s all about motivation – give me a reason to spend money and 2 days later I’ll have made the money needed. I guess that means I need more motivation to actually want to buy things, right? there is my problem – I have no desire to buy things; no desire to buy things = no desire to make money = I never strive to make more money than what pays for my food, cat food, and bird seed

and yet, 2 days ago I had no money – than discovered I needed $98, so sold some of my articles and today I have $103

it just goes to show, I CAN make a lot of money fast if I really set my mind to doing so – now if only I could find motivation more often

I need for there to be a NaNoWriMo or a Script Frenzy contest every month – just think of all the money I would be motivated to make than?

I suppose I could just continue having Write Ins at The Golden Rooster all year long – I’d have to make money to eat there

am I weird for not having a desire to buy material things? people have told me many times that it’s normal for people to want to own things

it’s what they say when they say I need to have a “real job” – I ask “But why?” – they say “So you can buy things” – I say “But why?”

the tarp-tent thing may not be a house, but it keeps out the rain – I make enough money to buy food – why do I need more money?

than they get all freaked out and say I’m weird because normal people want houses, cars, boats, electricity, TV, – again I ask – Why?

well – I suppose I do need to make $50,000 to fix the Goldeneagle now don’t I? I wonder how many articles I’d have to write to make $50k?

they only made less than 5,000 of those cars and less than 1,000 are known to exist worldwide – how do I find parts for something like that?

the lack of parts is why it has not run for so many years to begin with – mechanics tell me I’ll have to have parts custom cast

having the parts custom cast is estimated to cost $20,000, not including a new interior, new floor, new body panels, and a new paint job

you can’t match the metal flake copper over orange over gold over silver four layer paint either – it was custom made – the whole car was a custom built deal (one upon a time my family was VERY wealthy – we could aford a custome built car back than)

like I said – the run was only 5,000 cars world wide and less than that were actually built – it’s an extraordinarily rare model

that’s why people get so baffled at my being homeless in Old Orchard Beach – home of the billionaires of Maine – we were not always poor

the Bush family has to live in Kennebunk, because THEY can’t even afford a house in Old Orchard

“you have no money?!? but you live in Old Orchard?!” yep, and it takes every penny I make to pay taxes – thus why I have no house

I did have a house – until the same vandals who smashed up the Goldeneagle set fire to my house and burnt it down – I can’t aford to rebuild it

than again – I suppose I should be motivated to make enough money to rebuild the house shouldn’t I? at least folks tell me I should – but I just can’t see the point of building a house some one will just burn it down all over again if I do and besides – the tarp I built the tent out of only cost $5 – why build a house for $200,000 when I can get the same protection from a $5 tarp. And when the vandals tear down the tent, it only costs me $5 to rebuild, I can keep rebuilding the tent, I can’t keep rebuilding a house. So, really, until some thing down about these vandals, it’s pointless for me to try to make enough money to rebuild my house anyways.

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Some Thoughts on Making Money by Freelancing and how much money the vandals are costing me

I published 7 new articles today – 3 short of my 10 per day goal, but better than the rest of my days this week. I’m trying to get into the habit of writing no less than 5 articles a day; with the back pile I have already written from the past few years – I really need to up my goal to publishing 20 articles per day

that’s a grand total of 75 articles published this month (and $103 upfront pay – with monthly royalties to follow) which is a record for me

so $103 puts me ahead of the goal of $98 – now why can’t I be motivated to publish 75 articles EVERY month? or every week for that matter!

it’s all about motivation – give me a reason to spend money and 2 days later I’ll have made the money needed. I guess that means I need more motivation to actually want to buy things, right? there is my problem – I have no desire to buy things; no desire to buy things = no desire to make money = I never strive to make more money than what pays for my food, cat food, and bird seed

and yet, 2 days ago I had no money – than discovered I needed $98, so sold some of my articles and today I have $103

it just goes to show, I CAN make a lot of money fast if I really set my mind to doing so – now if only I could find motivation more often

I need for there to be a NaNoWriMo or a Script Frenzy contest every month – just think of all the money I would be motivated to make than?

I suppose I could just continue having Write Ins at The Golden Rooster all year long – I’d have to make money to eat there

am I weird for not having a desire to buy material things? people have told me many times that it’s normal for people to want to own things

it’s what they say when they say I need to have a “real job” – I ask “But why?” – they say “So you can buy things” – I say “But why?”

the tarp-tent thing may not be a house, but it keeps out the rain – I make enough money to buy food – why do I need more money?

than they get all freaked out and say I’m weird because normal people want houses, cars, boats, electricity, TV, – again I ask – Why?

well – I suppose I do need to make $50,000 to fix the Goldeneagle now don’t I? I wonder how many articles I’d have to write to make $50k?

they only made less than 5,000 of those cars and less than 1,000 are known to exist worldwide – how do I find parts for something like that?

the lack of parts is why it has not run for so many years to begin with – mechanics tell me I’ll have to have parts custom cast

having the parts custom cast is estimated to cost $20,000, not including a new interior, new floor, new body panels, and a new paint job

you can’t match the metal flake copper over orange over gold over silver four layer paint either – it was custom made – the whole car was a custom built deal (one upon a time my family was VERY wealthy – we could aford a custome built car back than)

like I said – the run was only 5,000 cars world wide and less than that were actually built – it’s an extraordinarily rare model

that’s why people get so baffled at my being homeless in Old Orchard Beach – home of the billionaires of Maine – we were not always poor

the Bush family has to live in Kennebunk, because THEY can’t even afford a house in Old Orchard

“you have no money?!? but you live in Old Orchard?!” yep, and it takes every penny I make to pay taxes – thus why I have no house

I did have a house – until the same vandals who smashed up the Goldeneagle set fire to my house and burnt it down – I can’t aford to rebuild it

than again – I suppose I should be motivated to make enough money to rebuild the house shouldn’t I? at least folks tell me I should – but I just can’t see the point of building a house some one will just burn it down all over again if I do and besides – the tarp I built the tent out of only cost $5 – why build a house for $200,000 when I can get the same protection from a $5 tarp. And when the vandals tear down the tent, it only costs me $5 to rebuild, I can keep rebuilding the tent, I can’t keep rebuilding a house. So, really, until some thing down about these vandals, it’s pointless for me to try to make enough money to rebuild my house anyways.

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http://eknano.blogspot.com
http://eelkat.wordpress.com
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/132659
http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/132659

Some Thoughts on Making Money by Freelancing and how much money the vandals are costing me

I published 7 new articles today – 3 short of my 10 per day goal, but better than the rest of my days this week. I’m trying to get into the habit of writing no less than 5 articles a day; with the back pile I have already written from the past few years – I really need to up my goal to publishing 20 articles per day

that’s a grand total of 75 articles published this month (and $103 upfront pay – with monthly royalties to follow) which is a record for me

so $103 puts me ahead of the goal of $98 – now why can’t I be motivated to publish 75 articles EVERY month? or every week for that matter!

it’s all about motivation – give me a reason to spend money and 2 days later I’ll have made the money needed. I guess that means I need more motivation to actually want to buy things, right? there is my problem – I have no desire to buy things; no desire to buy things = no desire to make money = I never strive to make more money than what pays for my food, cat food, and bird seed

and yet, 2 days ago I had no money – than discovered I needed $98, so sold some of my articles and today I have $103

it just goes to show, I CAN make a lot of money fast if I really set my mind to doing so – now if only I could find motivation more often

I need for there to be a NaNoWriMo or a Script Frenzy contest every month – just think of all the money I would be motivated to make than?

I suppose I could just continue having Write Ins at The Golden Rooster all year long – I’d have to make money to eat there

am I weird for not having a desire to buy material things? people have told me many times that it’s normal for people to want to own things

it’s what they say when they say I need to have a “real job” – I ask “But why?” – they say “So you can buy things” – I say “But why?”

the tarp-tent thing may not be a house, but it keeps out the rain – I make enough money to buy food – why do I need more money?

than they get all freaked out and say I’m weird because normal people want houses, cars, boats, electricity, TV, – again I ask – Why?

well – I suppose I do need to make $50,000 to fix the Goldeneagle now don’t I? I wonder how many articles I’d have to write to make $50k?

they only made less than 5,000 of those cars and less than 1,000 are known to exist worldwide – how do I find parts for something like that?

the lack of parts is why it has not run for so many years to begin with – mechanics tell me I’ll have to have parts custom cast

having the parts custom cast is estimated to cost $20,000, not including a new interior, new floor, new body panels, and a new paint job

you can’t match the metal flake copper over orange over gold over silver four layer paint either – it was custom made – the whole car was a custom built deal (one upon a time my family was VERY wealthy – we could aford a custome built car back than)

like I said – the run was only 5,000 cars world wide and less than that were actually built – it’s an extraordinarily rare model

that’s why people get so baffled at my being homeless in Old Orchard Beach – home of the billionaires of Maine – we were not always poor

the Bush family has to live in Kennebunk, because THEY can’t even afford a house in Old Orchard

“you have no money?!? but you live in Old Orchard?!” yep, and it takes every penny I make to pay taxes – thus why I have no house

I did have a house – until the same vandals who smashed up the Goldeneagle set fire to my house and burnt it down – I can’t aford to rebuild it

than again – I suppose I should be motivated to make enough money to rebuild the house shouldn’t I? at least folks tell me I should – but I just can’t see the point of building a house some one will just burn it down all over again if I do and besides – the tarp I built the tent out of only cost $5 – why build a house for $200,000 when I can get the same protection from a $5 tarp. And when the vandals tear down the tent, it only costs me $5 to rebuild, I can keep rebuilding the tent, I can’t keep rebuilding a house. So, really, until some thing down about these vandals, it’s pointless for me to try to make enough money to rebuild my house anyways.

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Due to the resent rise (yet again) of the demon possession and witchcraft accusations and questions from non church members, asking me what the church members talking about, I have decided to write a book about Etiole, who he is, how I met him, why people started calling me a witch, and what these religion crazed nuts did to me as a result of their unfounded fears of Etiole. This blog will contain the first drafts of it. I’ll be posting them over the next month or so. I’m just plain tired of being called a witch, I’m thinking of renaming this blog to make the accusations, just to spite them. Seeing a UFO and meeting an alien-faerie-angel being DOES NOT MAKE ME A WITCH!!!! Well, anyways, here’s my latest addition into this year’s NaNoWriMo contest, I know I’m supposed to be writing a fiction novel, not a non-fiction autobiography, but whatever, I just need these people to stop accusing me of demon possession and witchcraft and the only way I can see to do that is to tell the world why it is they are saying these things about me, so continueing from where I left on in my last NaNoWriMo post, here is todays NaNoWriMo addition:

UPDATE: February 5, 2010: It’s Published!

The contents of this blog, are taken from the second draft of the book “For Fear of Little Men” by Wendy C. Allen, and reprinted here with permission.

Edit February 17, 2009: Parts of this book can now be seen on a Squidoo lens.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Some Thoughts on Making Money by Freelancing and how much money the vandals are costing me

I published 7 new articles today – 3 short of my 10 per day goal, but better than the rest of my days this week. I’m trying to get into the habit of writing no less than 5 articles a day; with the back pile I have already written from the past few years – I really need to up my goal to publishing 20 articles per day

that’s a grand total of 75 articles published this month (and $103 upfront pay – with monthly royalties to follow) which is a record for me

so $103 puts me ahead of the goal of $98 – now why can’t I be motivated to publish 75 articles EVERY month? or every week for that matter!

it’s all about motivation – give me a reason to spend money and 2 days later I’ll have made the money needed. I guess that means I need more motivation to actually want to buy things, right? there is my problem – I have no desire to buy things; no desire to buy things = no desire to make money = I never strive to make more money than what pays for my food, cat food, and bird seed

and yet, 2 days ago I had no money – than discovered I needed $98, so sold some of my articles and today I have $103

it just goes to show, I CAN make a lot of money fast if I really set my mind to doing so – now if only I could find motivation more often

I need for there to be a NaNoWriMo or a Script Frenzy contest every month – just think of all the money I would be motivated to make than?

I suppose I could just continue having Write Ins at The Golden Rooster all year long – I’d have to make money to eat there

am I weird for not having a desire to buy material things? people have told me many times that it’s normal for people to want to own things

it’s what they say when they say I need to have a “real job” – I ask “But why?” – they say “So you can buy things” – I say “But why?”

the tarp-tent thing may not be a house, but it keeps out the rain – I make enough money to buy food – why do I need more money?

than they get all freaked out and say I’m weird because normal people want houses, cars, boats, electricity, TV, – again I ask – Why?

well – I suppose I do need to make $50,000 to fix the Goldeneagle now don’t I? I wonder how many articles I’d have to write to make $50k?

they only made less than 5,000 of those cars and less than 1,000 are known to exist worldwide – how do I find parts for something like that?

the lack of parts is why it has not run for so many years to begin with – mechanics tell me I’ll have to have parts custom cast

having the parts custom cast is estimated to cost $20,000, not including a new interior, new floor, new body panels, and a new paint job

you can’t match the metal flake copper over orange over gold over silver four layer paint either – it was custom made – the whole car was a custom built deal (one upon a time my family was VERY wealthy – we could aford a custome built car back than)

like I said – the run was only 5,000 cars world wide and less than that were actually built – it’s an extraordinarily rare model

that’s why people get so baffled at my being homeless in Old Orchard Beach – home of the billionaires of Maine – we were not always poor

the Bush family has to live in Kennebunk, because THEY can’t even afford a house in Old Orchard

“you have no money?!? but you live in Old Orchard?!” yep, and it takes every penny I make to pay taxes – thus why I have no house

I did have a house – until the same vandals who smashed up the Goldeneagle set fire to my house and burnt it down – I can’t aford to rebuild it

than again – I suppose I should be motivated to make enough money to rebuild the house shouldn’t I? at least folks tell me I should – but I just can’t see the point of building a house some one will just burn it down all over again if I do and besides – the tarp I built the tent out of only cost $5 – why build a house for $200,000 when I can get the same protection from a $5 tarp. And when the vandals tear down the tent, it only costs me $5 to rebuild, I can keep rebuilding the tent, I can’t keep rebuilding a house. So, really, until some thing down about these vandals, it’s pointless for me to try to make enough money to rebuild my house anyways.

http://twitter.com/EelKat
http://www.facebook.com/EelKat
http://eknano.blogspot.com
http://eelkat.wordpress.com
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/132659
http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/132659

Due to the resent rise (yet again) of the demon possession and witchcraft accusations and questions from non church members, asking me what the church members talking about, I have decided to write a book about Etiole, who he is, how I met him, why people started calling me a witch, and what these religion crazed nuts did to me as a result of their unfounded fears of Etiole. This blog will contain the first drafts of it. I’ll be posting them over the next month or so. I’m just plain tired of being called a witch, I’m thinking of renaming this blog to make the accusations, just to spite them. Seeing a UFO and meeting an alien-faerie-angel being DOES NOT MAKE ME A WITCH!!!! Well, anyways, here’s my latest addition into this year’s NaNoWriMo contest, I know I’m supposed to be writing a fiction novel, not a non-fiction autobiography, but whatever, I just need these people to stop accusing me of demon possession and witchcraft and the only way I can see to do that is to tell the world why it is they are saying these things about me, so continueing from where I left on in my last NaNoWriMo post, here is todays NaNoWriMo addition:

UPDATE: February 5, 2010: It’s Published!

The contents of this blog, are taken from the second draft of the book “For Fear of Little Men” by Wendy C. Allen, and reprinted here with permission.

Edit February 17, 2009: Parts of this book can now be seen on a Squidoo lens.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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If you liked reading this blog and want to read more stuff written by me, I have lots of websites, where you can read other things I write, here are a few of the ones I like the best:
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