Our Chicks in a box
We got new chicks today! 10 of them from Tractor Supply. And I learned that ‘pullet’ means a young hen. (I thought it had something to do with meat chickens.) We got a mixture of breeds, 5 brown egg layers and 5 white egg layers.
We have them in the old washer/dryer room which is small and has a door so they can stay warm. After putting a sheet on the floor and topping it with two bales of pine chipsand hanging the heat lamp in the corner all that’s left is the food and water on something firm so they don’t kick in too many pine chips. I’m looking forward to hearing them cheep! Having them in the house is fun – for a while. They make so much dust! Our farm collie (English Shepherd) is so very interested in them. She comes over to watch them everytime we open the door. She tries to herd the adult chickens, so maybe that’s what she wants to do with these chicks! Not in the house!
On to goal #6 – which for me is loosing weight. I want to lay down my current plan. I have struggled with my weight all of my adult life. Which is part of why my target weight (which I am not sharing here!) is still high according to the charts. Reasonable is good! Like most who struggle with overweight issues, diets haven’t had a lasting effect for me, so that’s not the direction I am going to take.
Commitment Number One: I have read _I Can Make You Thin_ by Paul McKenna. His premises are great, they just take work! Very simplified: Eat when you’re hungry. He offers tools for recognizing hunger, etc. This addresses one of my biggest diet struggles, feeling deprived and panicing. Eating when I’m hungry is comforting and do-able. I can do that! The work is knowing when I am hungry, and stopping when I’m not. Going through McKenna’s book and working with his ideas is commitment Number One.
Commitment Number Two: Work on the other side of the hunger issue – eating when I’m not hungry. Many of us have issues with using food to feel better, I’m right in there with that battle. So I have chosen a highly rated book _If I am so Smart, Why Can’t I loose Weight? Tools to Get it Done!_ by Brooke Castillo. I’ll let you know how the book works. She addresses the WHY of eating for non-hunger reasons. She coaches: face the emotional issues that cause the problem in the first place. This should be a painful book! There is a lot of writing and introspection to do. I haven’t read it yet, so I don’t know about the tools she offers, but the questions I scanned through seem to be good. Commitment Number Two is to face some of the issues that I usually avoid through “If I’m so Smart.”
By the way, both of these books are on Amazon for not too much $.