My Life with the MacBook Air

I tried to go with only Apple Mac Apps and had to end up downloading the MS Office Suit. I am so tied into Outlook, and Word. I did remove OneNote. But overall, I am really enjoying the ease to use the MacBook Air. I am loving the battery life. I am also loving the easier to use ITunes in Mac to back up my IPad and IPhone. I also have gotten so use to all of my Notices coming to me regardless of which device I am using, be it the Mac, IPhone or IPad. Even the Mac lets me know I have a phone call coming it or a Text message.

Now to my weight management progress

About a month ago I read a very good and eye opening book “The Diet Fix”. It is not about another diet plan, or what the eat. It is about getting the correct mindset  for eating correctly and eating to fuel your body. What I love about the book is that it lays out just what is wrong with the diet industry, and the food industry but also what is wrong with our thinking about food, and our own bodies. Most of the issues we have with food begin when we were babies and very young or parents would reward us with food for doing good, or they would give us food to stop us from crying, etc. We are trained to use food for all that troubles us. 

It also goes in to 10 things that will cause us to fail at our plans. Such as being hungry, or forced to eat food we do not like, or removing foods that we love. It also points out that we will fail if we force ourselves to do exercises that we dislike. It also talks about how others; family and friends can cause us to fail at our plans. I also goes into how to change our habits so we can be successful at weight management. And it all comes down to now denying ourselves of the food we love, and not denying ourselves of the fun and enjoyment of celebrating our lives.

It taught me not to stress over a bad, meal, day or even vacations. 

The book has changed my view of my weight management, and I have even lost a few more pounds due to it. The big take away is never allow yourself to be hungry, and never eat until you are stuffed. I explains that we have to fill comfortably full, never hungry and never stuffed.

I do recommend reading the book. 

Two weeks with MacBook

Well I have now been using the MacBook Air for two weeks and I have to say I really love it. The OS is simple and very much like Linux or Unix, and I realize that it is a Unix base under the hood. I have gotten use to navigating around the web pages now and it makes so much sense. I am also very hard hearing and I have hearing aids that connect to bluettooth and they work great with the MacBook. I am enjoying music again. I have also learned how to put music on my IPhone and IPad. Yes, I know I could have with ITunes on Windows but never messed with it and never found a way to do so with the Linux machine I was using. I also love how long the battery last on the MacBook Air, I never got the battery to last much more than a couple hours on my old laptop even when it was new.

While I know that I pay a premium for the Apple products, I now believe it is worth it. I also believe that dedicated hardware and dedicated OS is what makes it works so great.

I also know I will be using Windows some due to a few applications that is windows only and the fact that my wife has a Windows laptop for her sewing applications. But it is hard for me to think that I spend so much time with Windows when there is other OSs that is so much better.

I am sold on the MacBook Air

I have to say that I have only had a few days with the MacBook Air and I am sold on the MacOS. I know I paid a premium price to get it but it is well worth the extra cost. I also have the iPhone 7plus and it is also a premium price but I feel it is also worth the extra cost, as is the iPad Air 2.  The MacOS is great and very stable, and now that I have had time to learn how to use the one button trackpad system I have to say I love it. And this is coming from someone that swore by Microsoft Windows for a very long time. I used the version 1 and up, and I was a Microsoft Certified System Engineer for 15 years. And I have to say I have not liked Windows since Windows 8. Windows has been very unstable, and the Desktop has been getting worse, and even slower over the time of use.
I will update on my feelings on the MacOS as I learn to use it.

I made a promise to myself when I retired and I have finally kept it

Right before I retired I promised myself that I would stop using the Windows OS. As of this past Wednesday I finally managed to keep the promise. I have now gotten myself a MacBook Air, I have to say I love it. I also have the iPhone 7plus, which I say is great but I believe too large to carry around in a shirt pocket. I love the 7plus because of my old eyes I can read the screen so much better than I was with the old 5s. I also got myself an iPad Air 2 about 18 months ago and it is great for traveling. But I now have to say that the MacBook Air 13.3 inch is also going to be great to travel with. I never new a laptop could be so light and thin. I have to say that I have had 2 days of making mistakes with the MacOs and I have even reinstalled it a few times. I feel great about my switch.

Selling a home and moving is hell on the body.

My lowest weight logged here on Loseit was 194 back around Thanksgiving of 2013. I am now at 196.2. Which is a weight that I maintained for about a year back in 2012-2013. I am very happy with my weight at this time but want to get to maybe 190. I have made a decision to up my calories a little more. I guess it is all of the activity with the selling and packing and the stress but I am dropping my weight faster than I want to. The last two weeks have been a barn burner of Fitbit adjustments, this will I have managed to cut back a little. But my intake calories is down this week. I have not felt the need to eat that much. God I hate all of this crap that has to take place with selling and moving, it is so hard on both of us.

This is for all you people that think the GREEN REVOLUTION is the future.

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain:
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.
We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
 Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a r azor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the"green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much