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The skinny girl curse? Here is the curse, all my life I was the 'skinny girl'. I used to say things like, "I eat and eat and can't gain weight!" Some of you probably remember those terrible tasting tablets called 'Weight on' that were around about 40 years ago? I used to eat them like candy, drink milk shakes, eat candy galore, junk food, and when the heavy girls would say, "I hate you-you are so skinny! You wait though, one of these days you'll get fat!" I used to think they were crazy.
Then, while I lived in Kuwait (1978-1989), I had my first baby, a girl named Jasmine. When I brought her home from the hospital I looked at myself in a full length mirror and saw bumps on my body-I thought I had cancer...turned out it was fat. Stop laughing-it wasn't funny. Well maybe just a little bit. 'Skinny girl curse'. I soon got back to my regular size 8 though.
Then three years later I had my second baby, a boy named Mohammed, and I got so thin I looked like a Q-tip. All head and feet. My son weighed 8.2 pounds, I breast fed him and he ate like he was starving. When I weaned him at 9 months I gained some weight back but was still thin. I worked out-ran-lifted weights-was in great shape for many years there-after. Curse lifted.
Then in 1995 my first child, Jasmine, was killed in a 'drive-by-shooting' in Hayward, California (sad we know what a drive-by means huh?) and I began to eat my way through the loss. 'Skinny girl curse' returned, but understandable. Then I lost the weight again.
Ten years after that I started pre-menopause and the weight gain started again. The curse returned in full force. Now five years later I am still about 50-60 pounds over-weight and it is taxing me and my energy. Super victim of the 'skinny girl curse', menopause style.
Enough is enough! I want my old self back. The one who fit into clothes with a waist band. The one who was thin and energetic and in shape. The one who was wider side to side than front to back! The one who could run and work out and lift weights without getting breathless. Don't get me wrong-I love me as I am, I can work and I get the job done but I just want to get healthier because the fat girl thing is getting old. I don't want to be super skinny again though-I do like having some weight on my bones.
So I am going to Blog on my Website for awhile about what I am doing to lose weight and what is going on around that whole weight loss-diet-exercise-self improvement-and how it's working for me thing. I am going to do some video shoots for my program called 'ChitChat' "Becoming the best you can be" which will be aired soon on BCAT TV Chanel 10 and on my RD Productions YouTube account interviewing different health conscious people; groups; clubs; hair and make-up stylists, and authors and artists, and folks at different locations-on ways to become healthier physically, visually and mentally. I am even remarrying my husband Dr. Ron Lundrigan with our new Judge Donna VanGilder at the Kerr Center at 2:00pm on January 1, 2011 and starting over again as a newlywed! So my #1 Resolution in 2011 is...Becoming the best me I can be! You can go to my Website and submit ideas for my ChitChat program, and other ideas for this project from the Contact Us link at www.basconet.com and you can also submit events and find out about all the fun things to do in Bastrop County Events Calendar. More soon-Happy New Year! Debbie Lundrigan
Gratitude
10/31/20114:32:44 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment
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Sometimes we can take people and blessings for granted. I am often guilty of this. Now is the time of year to start thinking about change-the weather is changeing and we are too. My promise to myself and others is that I will do my best to let others know how much I appreciate them and what they do.
Thank you for reading this-I am also going to start a Gratitude Journal and begin listing people, places and things I am blessed to have in my life.
Anyone whom I owe a thanks to and forgot-thank you!Aborigines
1/6/201110:40:47 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment
Today is my Birthday and I have had a wonderful day. Got so many Birthday wishes from my wonderful friends in Bastrop County that I am overwhelmed with gratitude. We went to Brenda's Steak and Seafood Restaurant on 395 FM 1441 in Bastrop for dinner and it was fabulous. Go to our Membership Directory and look it up and go out to dinner at Brenda's-you won't regret it.
So now I am starting my new diet. The first week I have been seeing how I eat and exercise and I know where I need to make changes-I have to change one thing and that is everything! I am also going to relax more even though I am going to exercise more. The following is a story I heard a long time ago, about Aborigines and I want to share it with you:
There were a group of researchers who were genealogists and behaviorists that were in Australia documenting the life-style of the Aborigines. They did this at a distance so as not to interfere with the routine of the tribe. These researchers noted that the tribe was busy hunting and foraging, interacting with each other in birth-death-eating-lovemaking-arguments-dancing-rituals-and walk abouts. They were always on the go-but every so often the whole tribe would sit down and do absolutely nothing for an indeterminate amount of time. No ritual preceded this and no ritual ended or followed this-they just stopped and sat down where they were.
Now this puzzled the researchers and curiosity got the best of them and they had to find the answer to this unusual occurrence so they broke their rule of non-communication with the tribe and called the Chief over and asked, "We hate to bother you but we need to know the reason you all sit down and do nothing?" The Chief smiled and replied, "We are always busy and on the go, so every so often we have to stop-sit down and do nothing-and allow our souls to catch up with our bodies."
So I have rested and relaxed the first week of the month and now it is time to get up and start my healthy walk-about!9/20/201010:00:33 AM Link 0 comments | Add comment
Bastrop County Events Calendar let's you know what's going on in the county-if you are planning an event you can see what's already scheduled for that day. If you have an event planned you can list it in the calendar. Please, when you list an event-show your support of this calendar by becoming a Basconet.com Member where the community can find you easily through the Membership Directory.
County Wide Events Calendar
8/27/20108:28:12 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment
Get the most out of your next event-find out what is going on in Bastrop County prior to setting your event. We have a lot going on in our neck of the woods, when you look at our events list you will see that we are a fun filled area. From family events to music, we have it all. Visit Bastrop County and check us out!
The Idea For Basconet.com
7/23/20106:04:46 PM Link 0 comments | Add comment
When the idea for this website came to me it was because:
1. I saw that their was a window of opportunity that we as business owners were missing out on. That was the untapped imagination of the consumer-with a networking webgroup people can surf around and look at businesses and services they might not ordinarily look for, and they hopefully will find things of interest which will stimulate their curiosity.
2. Since there is no competition within the site-all of us can put www.basconet.com on all of our advertisements and we don't have to be concerned that our leads will go elsewhere.
3. Residual referrals is something that I saw would be an asset to every business-imagine over 300 members sending their leads to one site! What a savings-and the membership price is so low that you can't afford not to join-and as an added bonus-you can load in your photos and link in Paypal buttons and sell on this site without paying a commission.
4. With the economy changing the way it is, a webgroup just makes sence.
My dream was to have a site where...working together we can make a change. Sincerely, Debbie
JOY OF MUSIC FOR THE SOUL
5/18/20108:56:10 AM Link 0 comments | Add comment
When I first arrived in Texas I sang a little bit-mostly while cooking or in the shower or driving my car. I had never sang in public. One night my husband and I went out to the music jam at Blue, Texas Fire Station which is on the third Friday of each month around 6:30pm until it closes.
While we were there a friend of ours, David Dube, told Dianna Hobbs to ahnd me the mic when it came around to her. Well I didn't know that this was going on and I was sitting in the audience singing safely with the crowd.
All of a sudden I had the mic in my hands and I heard David say, "Sing something girl!" Well the only thing I could think of was the song 'You Are My Sunshine' which my mom used to sing to me when I was a kid-so I started out and forgot everthing but the chorus and my throat closed up and I sounded like Minni-Mouse.
But you know what? Everyone laughed 'with me' not at me and applauded. At that moment I realized that I didn't have to sing like a professional to have merrit as a singer. I lightened up on myself and sing and have fun in public-at performances-and with others at jams all around Texas. Thank you Texas and Texans for encouraging the joy of music in my soul!