Last weekend (Thanksgiving) we were in Oklahoma at my wife parents and Leslie and her mom stopped by this store by Norman, OK and bought me some gluten free foods.  So tonight I prepared the pizza crusts they bought me.

I was diagnosed back in January 2007 with Celiac Disease.  So over the past almost two years I have tried a few different pizza styles.  But tonight was different. Rustic Crust makes a gluten free pizza crust (Napoli Herb) and I loaded it up with some pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and some Canadian bacon.  I have to say it was really good.  And I had to blog about it in case others out there cannot find a good gluten free pizza solution.

It all started Saturday I’m certain.  We had soccer practice and I was doing some throw in drills to teach them some things and I think I did about 50 or so.  OK so nothing major but about 6 hours later my back started hurting.  uh oh!  yeah that was my response.  So Sunday morning I could barely get out of bed. It hurt so bad..  I Immediately put some heat on it for most of the morning.  I hobbled to my soccer game that afternoon (it was our last one of the season) and then back home.

Monday morning I went to the doc and they advised me I had pulled a muscle and gave me some prescriptions.  So I went all day at work without anything as I couldn’t get my prescriptions till afterwards.  But once I got home I took a muscle relaxer and a pain pill and I was out.  It was starting to feel better but tonight it’s hurting again..  One of these days I will have to learn to take it easy.

Will update my progress later on.

I think I better get off my butt and start getting busy, cause the older I get, the harder this will be.  Weight loss and working out is what I’m talking about.  Just the idea sounds nuts and I’m technically already too busy to fit in 1 hour 4-5 times per week to go to the gym.  But on the flip side there is alli, my personal trainer. Hehe, I’m kidding, it’s the weight loss pill. Although I never have tried any, I know a lot do. I still think I’m going to do this the hard old fashion way.. Hard Work and Eating better…

Of course this time of year is difficult with the holidays coming up, but I need to manage my time and get some workouts in.

Yesterday I received a letter from my health insurance company claiming I owe them $156.00 for 2 prescriptions that I got in the beginning of the month.  So I take the beating of calling the insurance company today, and wait for 10 minutes on hold just to find out that since my employer switched group numbers (and didn’t save us any money) she proceeded to tell me that from August 31st till September 22nd I basically wasn’t covered.

So insurance phone person said, “well you will have to take this up with your HR/Benefits person”

Oh great…  so I fire off an email…  and the response >>>
“Don’t worry, your not the only one.  I’m still looking into this.”

Sweet I’m not the only one, however I have a letter from the ‘collections dept.’ wanting their money.  Maybe the next time I’m checking out auto insurance quotes I will just get some health insurance quotes at the same time.

Back in high school (yes it has been a long time) I really could have used Zyporex to clear up my acne problems.  I truly think it was a horrible nightmare to keep under control.  In fact at one point I had to go see a doctor cause it was really bad.  But the pills didn’t really help and I eventually grew out of it.  Thank goodness.

It did suck getting made fun of but I see it now as character building.  Did you have any problems you faced back in high school?

Do you ever go to the gym or fitness club when you are on vacation or away for a long weekend?

I’m just curious on what people do.  People of all fitness levels usually work out on some type of routine when they are close to home.  From the casual workouts types all the way up to the bodybuilding supplements types.  Next to my hotel this weekend was a 24hr fitness.  So of course I thought about working out, but just shrugged it off and laughed.  Probably cause I knew I was really busy with my soccer team and being on the go with 3 games and 18 miles that separated the fields and the hotel.  So needless to say I didn’t get to participate in any fitness this weekend.

Last spring I went to Seattle to visit my parents and to be there for my mom’s surgery and they had a 24 hour fitness right down the street and I still didn’t go.  So …  Do you or would you really workout if you are on vacation or out of town?

Another on the list of many different diet pills, etc. that I have been talking about recently is Lipovox.  Some would ask “does Lipovox work“  Others may not care.

After doing some reading, Lipovox states that it contains 14 ingredients that target weight, skin and complexion.  They say the 14 ingredients are superfoods and they act in different ways to help your life.

Looking through the 14 ingredients I surely could not have this as I have Celiac Disease and this contains buckwheat and barley juice.  Wow I would be so sick.  On the other hand, it states that it is all natural ingredients and does not contain any harmful stimulants.

So here are a few questions for you!

1. Have you tried Lipovox?
2. Would you try it? (It has all natural ingredients)
3. Do you think you would benefit from this?
4. Would you rather use something else?

Do some research and check out all the 14 superfood ingredients!

I have talked about this subject a few times on my blog here about working out and losing weight, so today I thought I would chat a little about weight loss pills.

Truthfully I plan on not trying to go down the path of taking diet pills, but a lot of people do and they rave about them.  Some have there favorites and some have ones they don’t work or they didn’t like.  So I thought I would just look up a few of them and list them here and get some peoples opinions.

This one website I found listed these:  Thermolean, Venom Diet Pills, 7-keto DHEA, EphBurn 25 and Hoodia Pure.  Now this website ranked Thermolean as #1 for fat loss and energy.  #2 showed up as Venom Diet Pills (weird name?  snake venom?).  They say it’s an effective fat burner. The 7-Keto…  Well they actually state that if your over 30 consider this one carefully.  Wow..!!!

I’m sure there are tons and tons of pills out on the market and I really dont have time to list them all or talk about them, but I would like or should I say ask, that if you actually use diet pills, to please comment.  I would like to know if they actually worked or not, success or failure.

For now I’m going to start a 2 a week training schedule (that’s all the time I have right now) until my local 24 hour fitness opens up by work, then I plan on going at least 3 times per week on my lunch hour and keep my other 2 days….