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Weight: 206 pounds
Goal: lose 100 pounds in one year duration
Pounds to lose: 74 pounds
Waist Size: 41 inches
Rowing Duration: 77 minutes, seven (7) seconds
Happy New Year, welcome 2011, bring it on!!!!!!!
Congratulations to the lucky Canadian who managed to win the fifty (50) million dollar prize awarded by LottoMax, your life is going to drastically change, WOW!, what a way to start the New Year!
Image via WikipediaAs a result of my sleeping in late this morning, my early telephone call to my sister Judy was obviously not so early, and when I called her at eight-fifteen ths morning, there was no answer. I can't imagine where Judy would be so early in the morning, but it could be that Judy has just forgpotten to plug-in her telephone, which she occasionaly will do, not to worry.
It is quite warm once again down here in Gainesville, Florida. (It is quite easily in the eighty (80) degree temperature range today,) and in case you were wondering, Zac and I never get sick of not having to wear coats, boots, and sweaters in the month of January, we quite enjoy wearing shorts and short-sleeve shirts, we like to fit in you know, we don't want everyone to know that we are tourists from Canada!!!!!
Yesterday, I did manage to call some of my friends to wish them a prosperous and Happy New Year, and for the friends that I didn't call yesterday, I think I must have probably spoken to you very recently, I try to spread my long-distance calls out over a couple of days in an effort to reach everyone.
I think I remembered all of you over these past couple of days, nevertheless, if somehow I forgot you, and I'm embarrassed just thinking that I could have forgotten you, please accept my sincere apology and know that I do wish you the very best that life and God can give.
And with regard to telephone calls, I have to try and remember today to call Alexander who is the eldest son of a very dear, dear friend of mine, Melinda, whom I've written about. I had a little bit of trouble remembering Melinda's name this morning, and I spent over forty-five (45) minutes conducting research to get this little bit of information, let me explain.
For those of you new to my blog, and for those of you whose mind may not be as sharp as it once was, like mine is, I was told that blogs are supposed to be anonymous, therefore, when talking/writing about people, it is best to change their names to protect their privacy and to avoid any kind of trouble. Consequently, I have changed the names of the people I write about, the problem is, I sometimes, frequently, forget the new name of the person I talk about, unless of course, I write about them on a daily basis. I don't think I write about anyone, other than myself on a daily basis, do I? Anyway, I did manage to get the necessary informatiopjn, I guess that is what is most important.
Hmmm., based on my rowing duration on CC this first day of the year, one would think that seven (7) seems to be my number. Seven never has been my lucky number before, nor have I used it in picking numbers for lotteries, perhaps that's been my oversight, and today, I'm going to give the number seven (7) a chance in things that require my choosing a numeric digit, we'll see if seven (7) is indeed my lucky number.
Sorry, but I'm going back to the subject of the first day of the year, here we go again, as stated in previous posts, I haven't per say made any new resolutions, rather, I shall try and maintain those things that were important for me to do in 2010 and the two biggest of those things were and are: try to watch what I eat by choosing better foods and continue to exercise on a daily basis!
I think I forgot to tell you that a representative from Dell did come visit me the other day and replaced my keyboard, and whilst I do not have to use the virtual keyboard anymore, I am not fully pleased with the new one as the keys seem to stick, one of them fell off the very first time that I used it which disturbs me greatly and leads me to believe that my new keyboard may not be all that "new."
I am giving a little news now that is intended especially for my niece Christina, who suffers terribly from "migraine headaches." The headaches totally disable Christina and she is unable to do very little, spending most of her time in her bedroom, which she keeps dark (the darkness seems to help.) I do not suffer from migraines, but I have had one and can state that the one I did have really troubled me, so I think I can partially relate to Christina, but certainly not on the scale that she gets headaches.
Naturally, Christina has had a plethora of tests done, seen all the specialists, tried out all the new stuff, but nothing, so far, has had any great success with my niece and Christina has had to resign herself with the knowledge that this is something that she just has to live with, which is especially diffficult to do when you are trying to raise a tren-year old son, thank goodness that Christina, and Brian (the ten-year old son) live at the home with my sister Yvonne who can help out.
Anyway, today in the news, and this is being said to clear up misconceptions of the past, that though several studies have found that weather conditions like temperature, sunshines, and atmospheric pressure can trigger migraines, a new study finds that there is no strong evidence that this is true.
Headache diaries from 238 migraine sufferers showed no significant correlation betweern weather conditions and migraine syptoms. Furthermore, researchers found numerous discrepancies between participants' perceptions of the weather on a given day and actual weather conditions, suggesting that people may be more ecall "bad-weather" on days that they havfe migraines or less likely to do so on migraine-free days, except that a day does not go by wherein Christina does not get a migraine headache.
Many people who suffer migraines believe that certain weather changes set off their symptoms, but a new study finds no strong evidence that this is true. is most probably overestimated," researcher Dr. Christian Wober, of the Medical University of Vienna, said. "People search for causal explanations for their migraine attacks, but recall is often biased."
The findings, reported in the medical journal Cephalalgia, add to a conflicting body of research into the idea that weather factors, including changes in temperature, sunshine and atmospheric pressure, are true migraine triggers. Kennedy published last year in the journal Neurology, for instance, found a correlation between weather changes and emergency room visits for migraine and other headaches at one Boston hospital. For every increase in temperature of about nine degrees Fahrenheit, the odds of visits for migraine and non-migraine headaches rose by 7.5 percent.
Similarly, the risk of non-migraine headaches increased during the two to three days following a drop in atmospheric pressure. Low pressure generally means cloudy skies and storms, while high pressure means clear skies. However, a number of other studies -- including the current one -- have failed to find a clear connection between weather and migraine.
For this latest study, Austrian researchers had 238 adult migraine sufferers keep "headache diaries" for three months. Each day, the study participants recorded whether they'd had a headache, and if so, the details of their symptoms. They also rated their exposure to a range of factors potentially related to migraine; that included seven questions on the weather. The researchers used data from a Vienna meteorological institute to objectively measure the relationship between participants' reported symptoms and daily weather changes during the three-month study.
At first glance, study participants appeared to have a somewhat higher risk of migraine attacks on days with lower average wind speed. There was also a connection between day-to-day changes in sunshine duration and migraine risk. Statistically speaking, however, those links could easily have been due to chance. In addition, the researchers found, there were many discrepancies between participants' perceptions of the weather on a given day and what the meteorological data actually showed.
The findings, along with those of some past studies, indicate that weather factors are of "very limited" importance in triggering migraines, Wober told Reuters Health in an e-mail. People may, for instance, be more likely to recall "bad weather" on days they have a migraine, or less likely to do so on migraine-free days, he explained.
One cannot definitely conclude that weather has no impact on migraine at all," Wober said, acknowledging the mixed results of past studies. Dr. Kenneth J. Mukamal, the lead researcher on the 2009 study that linked weather variables to emergency room visits for migraine, said his study and the current one differed significantly in their methodology, I bet!
It is time now for me to get on with the business of living and you need to also get on with your day, all the best to you, I hope you all have a great beginning to the beginning of this New Year.
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