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No Flour, No Sugar Diet
SummaryDr. Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet presents a simple, straight-forward way to lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime. All you need do is eliminate flour and sugar from your diet. DescriptionThis diet book contains common-sense techniques on how to eat better and achieve a healthier lifestyle. It gets you to focus on foods that are nutritional and satisfying. Thus, you can both lose weight and become healthier in the process. You can eat brown rice, lean meats, low-fat dairy products, fruits and vegetables. But, you have to stop eating foods like bagels, pasta, bread, cereal, white rice, cookies, sweets, and cakes. Many excellent recipes are included in the book with have no flour and sugar, yet taste delicious. The approach is to keep things simple by just eliminating flour and sugar, the two primary food ingredients that are causing the obesity problem in America. Our culture has become addicted to sweets. This book helps you break the addiction and get on track for eating healthier while losing that extra weight. HistoryDr. Gott is a medical columnist published in over 350 newspaper daily. He is a practicing physician with a general practice in Connecticut. He's also the director of medicine at Hotchkiss School (a prep-school). CriticismGiving up bread and sweets may simply be too hard for some people. Sugar is in a great majority of products sold today. While the diet sounds simple, implementing it and sticking to it is quiet a challenge. Tags: glycemic-index low-calorie low-carb low-fat no-sweets simple Related Diets: Cambridge Diet Cabbage Soup Diet No-S Diet South Beach Diet Fat Smash Diet |
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| Connie | posted 9-Jun-2009 9:20am Morning all. I've just finished my first cup of coffee, I can begin to function now! I slept in intervals last night, as I do every night, but I feel like I slept really hard. 143.4 this morning. I think my legs are healed enough to try my exercise video. This week is so full I hope I can get to it. Off to run errands. Great day all. |
| Debbie M. | posted 9-Jun-2009 10:37am 188.5 today. I won't be able to weigh again until Monday morning. That is sooooooo not my style. I hope I see a loss by then. Have a terrific remainder of the week and I'll catch ya on the flip side. No Flour, No sugar, No Problem!~ |
| K10 | posted 9-Jun-2009 3:08pm I am sooooo bloated. I don't know if it is a delayed reaction to the pancakes or the fact that I had too many salt and pepper cashews last night. Either way, I look pregnant. It is so weird. I hope everyone is having a good day. I weighed the same this morning as yesterday morning 175.8. Off to run errands. |
| Connie | posted 9-Jun-2009 4:48pm Back home. I made it to Whole Foods for my favorite lunch. I'm bloated from being stuffed! Our whole foods store does not sell ezek tortillas. I think I found another store, if they are still in business. I'm off the hook for dinner. I can't imagine I'll eat again today. I think I'll tackle my overflowing closet. |
| Bronwyn | posted 9-Jun-2009 6:20pm Been busy. I was invited today to watch a video with friends......it was on the "Rave Diet". I can't remember exactly what RAVE stands for......but it is no refined foods and a plant based diet. Some of the information was good and some of it was totally radical, fear mongering rants. One of my friends that was there has gone totally Vegan and is beyond skinny.....she looks anorexic. I feel bad that our friendship is just not really there anymore. She has taken so many obsessive and radical approaches to so many things in the last year. She has devoted her life to Yoga and other exercise , plus her vegan lifestyle. It truly is like she is a different person. She is very self absorbed. Anyways she agreed with and took delight in every aspect of the RAVE program. Connie what did you eat at "Whole Foods'? Is that the name of the restaurant? Off to work on more bean dishes......... |
| Connie | posted 9-Jun-2009 6:57pm Whole Foods is our health food store. I believe it is the biggest store of it's kind in Memphis. The have a great salad bar and ala carte hot plate bar and today I noticed a coffee/juice bar. I always have a salad and some Italian salad. The dressing, ranch, is fresh, not bottled. If a restaurant can't serve fresh salad dressing, I don't believe it is worth eating at. The Italian salad is soooo good. All that mozzarella. But now I really am stuffed. When I first started NFNS my dental asst told me to not lose too much weight. I thought, "as if!" But I think she must have known someone like your friend that went too far with a good idea. I do believe you can be too skinny. I love being able to tell people that I eat when I'm hungry, and good stuff too. I know fear of diabetes was a factor for me to lose, but I don't ever want to be afraid of "real" food. I guess it depends on what people consider "real" to be. And sometimes I have to remind myself not to get greedy about losing. I love being a 10...but would I really love being a eight? What would I do to be a six? I have to keep a realistic self image. I think I would have to become very selfish to go much lower. I would have to turn my back on my families dietary needs. I wouldn't have enough energy to do both. So I shall remain as I am and be happy for it. Off to the pharmacy...later. |
| Anonymous | posted 9-Jun-2009 11:09pm I think as long as we get out BMI in the mormal range we should be healthy. I have been making my own guacamole with a little salsa, one avocado, lime juice and garlic salt. It is my favorite food. I didn't realize what I was missing not making it fresh. We are having trouble getting short sales closed in less than 90 days here. I wrote new contracts on the two that were rejected. One is on a foreclosure. I have not done many foreclosures. I am hoping this won't be too much of a pain in the behind. |
| Hilda | posted 9-Jun-2009 11:11pm That was me. Stormy here tonight. I made my 4 can soup today. Hadn't made it in awhile. Salmon salad tomorrow. |
| Bronwyn | posted 10-Jun-2009 12:15am Hilda I so totally agree with you on the making of things from scratch being so much more yummy. The great thing is it is also so easy. You also know exactly what goes into the dip.....no junk. I am teaching a bean class on Thursday and I am furiously researching some clever  ideas for doing new things with beans. Beans are a high fibre, low fat source of plant protein. I have found some new ideas that I am going to try out in class.....my class can be the quinea pigs for these recipes. One is called "bean. a. mole".......it is white beans and avocado made into quacamole. So now your quacomole is a high fibre, lower fat dip with protein. Avocado's are actually high in fibre as well as the beans. Another idea to add fibre is a tuna/bean mixture for a sandwich or to eat in a lettuce wrap. I will post the recipes after they are tried and true. |
| Connie | posted 10-Jun-2009 11:19am Glorious morning so far, thunder and rain. I may have a lunch date today, I really just want to stay home. Maybe I can get out of it. Otherwise, I'm still trying to organize my closet. I need a sewing room. But first, menu planning. Yesterday daughter had a stomach ache all day. Last night she had a Vernor's pop. Well, I wish she hadn't, but she said it helped and this morning she feels fine. She has her first quiz in Trig today, everyone cross your fingers! If she can get an A in this class she will boost her GPA which really took a beating two semesters ago. |
| Bronwyn | posted 10-Jun-2009 1:04pm Boy can this site be really snarky sometimes......I was typing away and all the sudden the cursor went bananas and started erasing every word that I typed...... weird and spooky Okay I am totally overwhelmed today.....I need to figure out exactly what I am doing.....I have so many ideas and thoughts on my class and actually way too many thoughts and ideas.......need to get my head around what I am actually doing. I need to get cooking and typing and I just want to go to bed......... google louis Armstrong and listen to "it is a wonderful world"......listened to it a dozen times this morning |
| Angie | posted 10-Jun-2009 2:52pm Bronwyn I have It's a Wonderful world saved as one of my youtube favorites. I have major sleep disease today. I have had to make myself do everything I've done. It is time for Hubby to be home and all I want to do is take a nap. Must be the warm weather. I have been eating pretty good. I am trying to get a lot more fruit into my day. It's funny how you actually crave it when you go NFNS. I use to never even think about eating fruit. Hope everyone has a great evening. I think I am going to fix myself a cup of coffee...not that it is going to help, it's decaf. |
| K10 | posted 10-Jun-2009 4:43pm Latest news on my house is, it may take 3-4 more weeks to find out if the bank will accept the offer. What a joke. Other than there are so many people in the same boat we are. I don't understand why it would take so long to see that our outgoing income and our incoming income don't match up. I think we will be moving the middle of July. The kids start school in August and they can get somewhat settled if we move then. Realistically we could live here for a few more months without having to pay anything, but we need to be settled before school begins. I am packing today. I am sorting through momentoes of the kids that have been in a dresser since we moved here. I am putting them in separate boxes so when they decide to do something with them they can. I need to be done with my break now. Bye |
| Connie | posted 10-Jun-2009 9:40pm This has been a very roller coaster day. Some really good parts, some bad. I did manage to get my closet tackled...again. I just can't keep up with it. It is soooo small. I probably ate too much today, but I am not going to worry about it. I think I'm in a funk. Maybe I'll get a good nights sleep. |
| Bronwyn | posted 10-Jun-2009 11:21pm Black bean brownies in the oven......cookbook 101 recipe. They look good and the dough tasted good.....didn't taste like beans. we well see. The sweetener is agave syrup. Agave syrup is way too expensive. |
| Bronwyn | posted 11-Jun-2009 5:18am Connie are you sleeping tonight. My word I was so busy yesterday and so tired when I went to bed at 1:00 and here I am sitting here because I can't sleep. I have so much to do tomorrow and I will be so tired. It sounds like there are a few of us struggling with sleep. That is unbelievable that you are left up in the air so long with the sale of your house K10. |
| Angie | posted 11-Jun-2009 10:57am My daughter is in Tennessee. Manchester for a three day concert. She got there at 2:30 last night and called me to let me know she had arrived safe and I thought I would never go back to sleep. I know it is crazy but I am getting such bad lines on my chest and I know it is because I sleep on my stomach and sides. I am trying to sleep on my back only and it is so uncomfortable. It does actually make a big difference how my chest looks when I sleep on my back. I am going to add another pillow tonight and see if that helps. K10 I know that is so frustrating. Thank goodness you have the packing to do to keep your mind busy. Man this country is in a mess! Bronwyn I can't wait to hear how your class goes. I saw on the doctors that we need to keep at least 3 days of bottled water and canned goods like beans and such just in case this flu shhould blow up in the fall. They said it might be a matter of staying in a few days if it became an epidemic. Of course, they don't think it will be that way but it pays to always be prepared. I hope everyone has a good day. |
| Connie | posted 11-Jun-2009 11:09am Morning. The skies have opened up and it is pouring. Some wonderful thunder too. I think I'll stay inside today. My son and his sort of/kind of girlfriend are no longer seeing each other. He went on a bender the other night. I worry so much that he will become an alcoholic. I was very upset with him yesterday and was only able to talk to him in short sentences. His drinking seems to be increasing. I don't know. Yesterday he was contrite, but I want to get my message to him. Bronwyn, I can't wait to hear how your brownies came out. K10, hang in there. What else can you do, right? Packing will keep you busy and be thankful you have time to do it right. I'm big on the "silver lining" approach. Angie, I gave up on trying to avoid lines from sleeping. I just want to sleep! I hope you can find a position that helps. I think we have a break in the thunder...time for a quick shower. |
| Angie | posted 11-Jun-2009 12:36pm Connie I wish I could show your son a before and after picture of my brother who is an alcoholic. He was so gorgeous and muscular in his 20's and now he looks like he's 90. He actually looks older than our Father and is skinny as a rail with a protruding gut. He has lost alot of his hair and hurts all the time because his body is not getting any nutrients. It is so sad. You can tell him something one day and the next he forgets he even talked to you. It is so hard to give kids that rope to hang themselves with but what do you do. My daughter is very independent and when I start what she calls preaching she just says "I know, I know". So far she is doing good but we are so far apart now I worry about who she hangs around with. All I can say is PRAY. I pray that she will have wisdom and discernment and see evil for what it is and then I try to slip in some good advice without her realizing it and then just trust the Lord to look over them. It's a hard thing to do. It is so hot today. I envy your rain. If it was raining here I would grab a book and get on the couch and probably end up asleep. Dryer just cut off. Guacomole and turkey with blue chips for lunch. |
| Connie | posted 11-Jun-2009 2:32pm I just got a call from my local internet provider. My daughter downloaded copyrighted material and so now I have a copyright infringement warning on my account. I am feeling sick to my stomach. When it rains, it pours. |
| Bronwyn | posted 11-Jun-2009 3:03pm taking a quick break: you all know I hare alcohol and I hope your son will realize the dangers with abuse.....is this a new girlfriend since vet girl? Angie I have a cousin like your brother.....breaks your heart, eh!!! i have cooked from scratch....black beans, lima beans, pinto, kidney and garbanzo beans......taking them and all kinds of other ingredients......together with a lot of different vinagrettes I made this morning.....connie one was a fig vinagrette.....making candided pecans.....1 quick example.....with your cooked lima beans you can throw together a quick nutritious salad.....pears, candied pecans, blue cheese and a lemon vinagrette or so forth.........so easy no big deal.........doing hummus....for wraps and pizzz's the brownie tastes quite good.....fudgy but there is a ugh factor that it is beans........some cultures (Asian) common to have a bean dessert hope you guys are okay........connie it seems like my youngest did that once.....but I think it was at school and we were called into the school about it.....big meeting and stuff.....yuck! |
| Bronwyn | posted 11-Jun-2009 3:04pm oh yeah and the salads are on a bed of spinach or lettuce..... |
| K10 | posted 11-Jun-2009 6:42pm Connie: What happens with this copyright infringement thing? What was copyrighted? I have to pack whether we are in a holding pattern or not so that is what I will be doing. Bronwyn: Do you think that if you didn't know there were beans in the brownies you be able to tell? Youngest had her first day of Summer today and Oldest has one week left. |
| Connie | posted 11-Jun-2009 6:50pm I'm feeling a little better. I haven't turned to food, just the opposite. Well, not the opposite since I've had some nachos, but I can't muster the energy to cook. It's hard to know where to draw the line at interfering with adult children's behavior. I guess I feel out of sorts. |
| Anonymous | posted 11-Jun-2009 11:11pm Fixed a package of sugar free cherry jello with 1 cup boiling water and 1 cup applesauce. Nice and cool for summer. |
| Bronwyn | posted 12-Jun-2009 2:10am Connie my husband didn't think you needed to worry about the call from your internet provider.....didn't they just call to advise you that you couldn't do that. My kids had put lime wire on our computer once and were sharing music files with friends and we got a call from our internet provider to tell us we couldn't do that. I think it is something like when I try to put a link on here and I get kicked off for a day or two....you know a warning to not do that. K10, the brownies are pretty good. The spice cake was better though but it had some flour in it. Both of them had 2 cups of beans, bizarre. eh!!! I haven't heard a count yet but I think there were about 50 people.....that is what it looked like to me. It is the woman's group at church. It was such a fun class.....I love doing the cooking classes it fulfills my passion to experiment and try out things. Of course, you are treated like an expert and that is way fun as well. Several people said I should have my own T.V. show.....funny and fun!!! One problem with all the cooking and so forth.....I have been eating too much and some sugar and flour. I need to pull it all back together tomorrow and get my appetite back under control. I made so much stuff and it was all cleaned up and people raved. Anyways....wonderful home made vinagrette's, cooked beans, chiffonaded spinach and whatever vegetables or cheeses you want and you have a fabulous salad. Make it a little more filling with some brown rice. I threw some lima beans, spinach, candied pecans, grapes and blue cheese and tossed with the fig vinagrette.....so good. I did a pinto bean, brown rice and cashew salad with a yummy vinagrette. I did a chick pea, sweet potato and spinach dish with east indian spices and coconut milk over brown rice. I did a red kidney bean hummus with south west flavours. I did a avocado and garbanzo bean dip. Yummy and healthy stuff.....and now I need to quit eating. Tired but happy. Parenthood is a lifetime commitment, we never quit worrying about our kids. We all want the best for our kids and pray constantly that they will seek paths that bring them true joy and happiness in their lives. I think you can only have true joy and happiness when you are on the right path.....it may seem fun for a while when you venture off into activities that aren't that wholesome, healthy and good but eventually it only brings sadness. Connie you are a good Mum and it has sounded like you and your son have a good relationship. Let him know how much you love him. At his age he will make his own decisions but he will also care how you feel about his decisions. Only with love can you tell him your concerns......not confrontational or angry. I suppose your husband isn't that supportive of your concerns with this issue???? Angie I agree good friendships are so important. My kids have mostly had really good friends....I have always thought that was such a blessing. Night all.......hope Debbie is having a good time, I know she was worried about her week-end. |
| Bronwyn | posted 12-Jun-2009 2:30pm K10, I just tasted the Black Bean Brownie again and I would have to say it is actually really good. I kept in the fridge and I think it should be. There is no flour and the sugar is Agave which I believe Dr. Gott approves of. Google "The Amazing Black Bean Brownie".....it is on cookbooks 101 by Heidi Swanson..... Where is everyone? Are you okay Connie? |
| Angie | posted 12-Jun-2009 3:03pm It is so hot here today and will be for the next 4 to 5 months. It really zaps my energy. I made a chiken casserole for dinner with celery, water chestnuts, onion and cheese topped with potato chips. I am going to have some green beans with it. It also has some mayo but I used the light olive oil one so maybe it won't be that bad. I am headed to Georgia Sunday to see my folks. I will stay till Friday. The worst part about the trip is leaving them. It always turns into a crying session. My daughter has called several times from Tenn. and is having a great time. She has seen Bruce Springstein (the boss), Al Greene and Merle Haggard. They are actually camping out at the concert. She said it was really hot there too but they did have a good breeze. Bronwyn, those brownies sound good. Makes me want some chocolate. Hubby and I are going to Target to pick up a few things for my trip. My parents live in a very small town and you have to drive at least 30 minutes to get anything, even organic yogurt. You really get spoiled leaving in a larger city. Funny thing is I lived in that small town for 40 something years and never realized everything they didn't have. We are going to spend the day at the beach tomorrow so I probabl won't check back in till Monday. I hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend. |
| K10 | posted 12-Jun-2009 9:20pm Nothing too exciting today. I need to straighten up my house as someone is coming tomorrow to check it out. Hubby is working late tonight and will be gone all day tomorrow. I should be able to get quite a bit done with packing I suppose. My daughters are watching 27 Dresses and it is very distracting. I think that movie is cute. Talk to you later. |
| Bronwyn | posted 12-Jun-2009 11:21pm I have never seen 27 Dresses I think I would like that as well. My husband just came home and brought "New in Town" home, so we have a movie for tonight too I guess. Connie it is unusual for you to not report in for the day....you okay???? Is Angie's daughter close to where you live Connie? Angie I remember that part of visiting my parents and then leaving. Especially after my Father died, it was always so hard on my Mum to see us go. |
| Connie | posted 13-Jun-2009 2:18pm Hi all. We just got our power back on. We had a fierce storm hit yesterday afternoon and it knocked down a huge tree on a major cross street and down went our power. It just came back on. We toughed it last night! No air conditioner, no anything. Then my husband went and found a battery operated table fan and we set it up on my night stand so it could blow on my face. He was a hero! In a way it was kind of nice, just relaxing instead doing tons of things. But now my tons of things await me. And, we went to breakfast this morning and I cheated big time. We decided, daughter and I, that in cases of emergencies cheating is called for. |
| Bronwyn | posted 13-Jun-2009 5:18pm Glad you have your power back Connie. It feels so warm out today. We haven't had any warm weather. I just checked the temp and it is 26 Celsius. I looked to see what that was Fahrenheit....only about 78. Funny it seems so warm because we have had such an unusually cool spring. |
| Connie | posted 13-Jun-2009 7:51pm Stuffed bell peppers for dinner. More work than I felt like doing, but so good. Friday I leave for my one week MI trip. At the end of the week we are going to Indiana for a family reunion. It is going to be a busy week. My legs still look sad, oh well. But I will have the chance to get some sun on them...a very little sun. |
| Connie | posted 13-Jun-2009 10:14pm I hope everyone has a nice evening. I feel like I've been full all day! The scales will tell the tale...I may avoid them for a few days. |
| Hilda | posted 14-Jun-2009 12:31am I have been reading that you should only eat half an avocado a day. I'd love the recipe for the garbanzo avocado bean dip. I rented"Revolutionary Road" and did not care for it at all. |
| Connie | posted 14-Jun-2009 11:59am Good morning. More storms last night. A huge Maple tree in front of our house lost two very large limbs. The storms this year are kicking our butts! Hilda, after I read your post I looked up Revolutionary Road. It sounds like a bummer movie...dysfunction and phoniness in a marriage...yuck. I'll pass on that one, thanks for the heads up. Ok, in one week I will be wearing a bathing suit in public. It will be the first time I've put a bathing suit on in 5 years at least. I bought a tanktini. The bottom is a skirt, good coverage. The top comes down to the bottom, again, good coverage. But it is tight fitting. So this week I plan to watch my calories closely. I am going to avoid cheese as much a possible. Plain and simple meals. I'm also going to try and stay away from potatoes. 145.5 this morning. I would really, really, really like to be in the 143 spot when I wear my suit. Today I will also start using a tanning cream. My friend told me Nivea Sun Kissed Legs is the best, so I'll try that one. I have a million details to take care of this week, time to make a list. I hope everyone else is well this morning. |
| K10 | posted 14-Jun-2009 1:31pm Things are fine here. Connie: I love tankinis they are great. I also have one with a skirt, but the tops straps are rotten so I will have to get a new one. I took my girls shopping yesterday and we were quite successfull. We found a bathing suit for Oldest and some tops and jeans at a cheaper store, nothing is really over $15, we also bought her some new tennis shoes. She has to wear skater type shoes and the only ones she likes are from Vans and of course the ones that were on sale weren't in her size. Youngest got 4 pairs of jeans, for $15 and a few tops from another store under $7.99 each. Youngest and I got some tennis shoes from Payless, they were having BOGO. I also got a spatula. I would say I got ripped off on this shopping trip. Since I am in between sizes I really hate to buy anything. Hubby worked so much this week and is really tired so he is going to stay home from church today. I can't afford for him to get sick, so I am only teasing him a little bit about how I went to church when I was sick and I am a better Christian for it. He knows I am kidding and I hope you all do too. I hope you all have a good day. |
| Connie | posted 14-Jun-2009 5:16pm Bronwyn, how should I store my hulled millet? |
| Debbie M. | posted 14-Jun-2009 9:14pm Hello everyone! I have returned. I'm dead tired. We were in the car 10 hours today. Groan........ I'll check in tomorrow. Sleep well......I know I'll enjoy my own bed. |
| Connie | posted 14-Jun-2009 10:02pm Welcome home Debbie. That's what our drive home from IN will be like, maybe a little less. Sleep well. I did not over eat today, but will I get up tonight? I hope not! I stayed so busy today, a little bit of everything. The big thing was getting my sewing/mending started. When I finish I am going to cart my sewing machine and sewing box somewhere else. My closet is too small and I love having it out of there. I need a bigger house. My daughter supervised my trying on of clothes to take out of town. Basically, we agreed on almost everything. This is new a new development in our relationship...getting along. I like it. Bronwyn, I meant to tell you, my son and the Mormon girl are not going out together. It makes me sad, I liked her, but none of my business. Debster, how are you doing? Everyone have sweet dreams. It feels good to lay in bed after a busy day...very rewarding. |
| Bronwyn | posted 14-Jun-2009 10:51pm How to Select and Store Millet is generally available in its hulled and whole-grain form. It is available prepackaged as well as in bulk containers. Just as with any other food that you may purchase in the bulk section, make sure that the bins containing the millet are covered and that the store has a good product turnover so as to ensure its maximal freshness. Whether purchasing millet in bulk or in a packaged container, make sure that there is no evidence of moisture. Store millet in an airtight container in a cool, dry and dark place, where it will keep for several months. |
| K10 | posted 15-Jun-2009 12:08pm Good morning. I went on my walk and now I am drinking a fruit smoothie. Laundry, laundry, laundry today. Bye for now. |
| Debbie M. | posted 15-Jun-2009 2:38pm Hello everyone. After a good nights sleep I mowed the lawn after picking up my friend from the airport. Her daughter graduated from Stanford and she flew back this morning. I watered the flowers and trees. Husband is waxing his truck and the camper. Its a perfect 80 degrees and sunny. I weighed exactly the same as I did when I left. It was a big relief to see 188. I had some illegal desserts on Saturday. A piece of peach cheese cake and another cakey dessert later. And home made ice cream. Cousin Lyle comes from Oklahoma every year and makes this wonder treat so I couldn't refuse nor did I want to. It had fresh strawberries in it and it was such a decicacy! All meals I stayed NFNS and let me tell you there was plenty of food I obstained from including wine. I love a glass of wine but It really wasn't hard. I took food I could have and substituted when ever I needed too. I feel very successful. Have you all been good? I wish I could say I was 100% true but I think what I did was ok considering my circumstsances. We had a good time and saw lots of family. We swam in my SIL's pool. Because I had already lost some weight I didn't even think of my size. I felt good even though no one commented on my loss accept my kids. They said I was thinner. (They are so sweet) Back to the normal "mothering" for me now. Friday we will be going camping at Salimony State Park. Good Job walking K10. Good for weigh loss and stress reduction. My osne wants me to go swimming with him so I'll check inlater. O BTW, Lawery's Season Salt has sugar. Who new? |
| Connie | posted 15-Jun-2009 4:33pm What a day! I went to bed very late last night, woke up at 5:30 (also woke up a couple of times during the night) and could not go back to sleep. "But baby, I'm soooo tired!" (I don't know if any of you caught that Oprah show, about 20 years ago...anyway, I stole the husbands line!) Had the cat at the vet by 7:30 and haven't stopped yet. Ok, now I'm stopped and I don't want to get back up. I went to lunch with a friend, chef's salad, and I'm about to cut up some watermelon and honeydew. That will be my dinner because I'm asleep on my feet. 144.5 this morning. My goal is to be in the 143.anything by the time I hit MI. Saturday is bathing suit day. Egads! Bronwyn, thanks for the storage tip. Great day all. Debster, I know your out there...check in girl. |
| K10 | posted 15-Jun-2009 4:36pm Debbie: I am so happy for you that you weighed the same as when you left. Good job on staying NFNS the times you did. I am having issues with weekends and staying 100%. I am maintaing right now and I am satisfied with that. I can't say happy, but I am ok with it. I knew about the Lawry's. I have a garlic pepper seasoning that I use A LOT and I discovered it has sugar. I still use it on my chicken and such. How awesome that you felt good about yourself swimming. I have an attitude adjustment when I am losing weight even if I am still heavy at least I am losing. I say to my self sometimes, "hey I could have been a hundred pounds heavier and I would be looking great right now." Camping again, I am jealous. We aren't doing anything exciting other than moving this Summer. I am excited and overwhelmed by that though. Have a great rest of the day everyone. |
| Debbie M. | posted 15-Jun-2009 5:11pm Connie, you can do it. You have been there before, right? I've been so busy today and eaten very little. So I am hoping to see a loss this week sometime. We have a lot of camping planned for the summer. I'm going to check the forcast for the weekend. I think it will rain tomorrow so off to the laundramat to catch up with laundry from vacation. On a side note. I think its very important for me to mention what a difference NFNS has made in my blood sugar. Its so even. I no longer have the dips that make me shakey and ravenously hungry. It also has assisted in a generally even mood. I have not had the usual anziety and depression I usually get when school lets out and I get over whelmed by planning this long trip to Mo. we take every year. I really can't say enough about how importanat a persons diet is to their mental state. I wonder what I could have accomplished in my life if I had not spent so many years battling depression. Don't get me wrong, I am not poo pooing the importance of Motherhood. That is what I have been doing for the last 16 years. But I do think that I would have been more motivated to go to college and establish a career (sp?) if my over all mental state would have been more stable. I'm sure my depression started when I was around 20. I recognize the symptoms I had back them, even though I didn't know it then. I thought eveyone felt like I did. It wasn't until I was pregnant with my 3rd baby(13 years later) that I sought a Doctor's help. Anyway, I feel better than I've felt in years. If my story can help even one other person, that is worth putting it down here. Good day to you all. |
| K10 | posted 15-Jun-2009 6:32pm Debbie: It is great that this way of eating has helped with your mood. I am sure you will encourage someone with your statement. I just made a variation of Nikki's cookies I will put the recipe here. Kind of like banana bread. Did we determine if meal isn't the same as flour? OATMEAL BANANA COOKIES 3 large ripe bananas (4-5 medium) well mashed 1 tsp. vanilla 1/4cup coconut oil, barely warm so it isn’t solid 2 1/2 cups of oats 2/3 cups almond meal 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking powder Preheat oven to 350 degrees, racks in the top third. In a large bowl combine the bananas, vanilla extract, and coconut oil. Set aside. In another bowl whisk together the oats, almond meal, salt, and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until combined. The dough is a bit looser than standard cookie dough, don't worry about it. Drop dollops of the dough, each about 1 tablespoonful in size, an inch apart, onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. Smash down if desired. I may add more banana next time. They aren't as sweet because they don't have coconut in them. I think they make for a nice treat. |
| Bronwyn | posted 15-Jun-2009 6:54pm K10.....I don't have the recipe in front of me but it looks like you left out the coconut and chocolate, were those the only changes you made. These would probably be very much like Triplet Mum's banana bread,,,,,I would think, I don't know though as I never saw her recipe. Truthfully I don't think I would care for them too much without even the sweetness of the coconut and I would certainly prefer them with the chocolate. Would you kids eat them this way? Things have been really busy here. We have some changes going on and busy times ahead. Debbie M......you have fit into my feeling that we need to get rid of the diet mentality.....ON and OFF. You were NOT "Off program".....you ate well but because of the special occassion you choice to have something with sugar in it. You did not fail you choose......choice is empowering. I think things like this experience are big steps.....not baby steps.....you didn't throw in the towel. |
| Connie | posted 15-Jun-2009 7:07pm K10, my hats off to you! I just can't seem to make up my own recipes. Your attitude is in the right place. Maintaining is good. When you get the weekend part under control, you will be flying! I think if your head is always on NFNS, you are headed in the right direction. You will so love it when you get there. Debbie, I want your bathing suit attitude. It doesn't help that my legs are still unattractive. But I am going to put that suit on regardless. I doubt I'll get in the water. Maybe. It's a lake and I'm a pool kind of girl. I have had the exact same feelings about my anxiety and my life. My first panic attack happened when I was 16. It was life altering. It shaped my life more than anything else. I'm not whining either. But it does make you wonder what could have been. I'm getting my hair cut and colored in a few minutes. I have ruled out highlights. I know I wont keep up with them and I'm going to be in the sun a bit, soooo. I hope I can get in and out. It looks like it's going to storm again. Our poor trees! I wish I could just curl up in bed. |
| K10 | posted 15-Jun-2009 7:42pm Bronwyn: I left out the coconut, chocolate and cinnamon. I just thought it might be interesting to try without those. The coconut gives it a totally different taste. The only chocolate I have is the no sugar kind and I try to limit myself on that. I have some nectarines in the fridge and I was wondering if I could use them as a base like the bananas what do you think? I agree with you Bronwyn as to Debbie making a choice and not failing. We just can't choices too often or then we will be back in the same boat we were in. Connie: I hope you like your hair. Highlights do require more maintenance than I am willing to keep up with. We have had some really mild weather. Not hot at all. I guess it is supposed to start warming up this week. You will hear me complaining when it does. I hope your trees survive. |
| Bronwyn | posted 15-Jun-2009 8:43pm K10.....I agree the choices just can't be very often. That can be something that gets out of hand to easily. I broke my Vita mix..........so sad!!!! K10 i have no idea about the nectarines.....worth a try.....maybe it will be fruit cobbler cookies |
| Connie | posted 15-Jun-2009 10:20pm Back from the salon. It took forever, but I'm happy. Went with an all over color, no highlights. I just can't do it. A little trim. I was insistent that my hair always be long enough to clip up, I hope it still is. I'm glad that's over. Normally I color at home but I didn't want to have stray grays in the back. I'm sure I always miss some when I do it. Everyone sounds fine and dandy, except Bronwyn and her broke vita mix. Sorry about that. I know they aren't cheap. Any news on the tractor? My husband is looking into a lawn service. I can't believe it. We are so NOT lawn service kind of people. But our $2000.00 lawn mower has been nothing but broke since we got it 3 years ago. He's had it. I'm hoping it can limp through another year. I hope we all sleep tonight. Everything is better with a good nights sleep. |
| K10 | posted 15-Jun-2009 10:30pm Connie: I have a question about lawn service people in your neck of the woods. I ask that no one become offended by this question as I am just curious. The majority of lawn people here are Hispanic. There are a couple in our neighborhood that aren't, but that is not common. What nationality are the people who the lawns where you live? Bronwyn: So sorry about the vita-mix. Don't they have a really good warranty? Can you trade yours in for a new one and get a credit or something? Do you have county fairs near you during the summer? I know that is where they sell a lot of them. When I was checking online for one last month you can enter where you live and they will tell you where a demonstration will be. My husband should be home soon. It is nearly 7:30 here. We can't wait until we are closer to his work. It sure makes for long days. Gas is going up here. At the corner near our house it is over $3.00. That is a place that is more expensive anyway. |
| Debster | posted 15-Jun-2009 11:17pm Yes I am here. I check in every now and then but I haven't had a lot of time lately. We have been going through a lot lately. My neice graduated from high school.....all the following parties and her party (we had about 75 people). I am exhausted....we had a lot of help and people were great but my legs are not good and they are very swollen and painful. You know, sometimes I just wonder about our world today. My husband is 70 years old. He's a good man who volunteers at a food shelter the first Sunday of every month. He takes care of his sister who has a mental disablilty. He has Chronic lymphomic leukemia and has to check in every three months to find out that it is getting worse but not bad enough to start treatment just yet (always a worry) and now his little barber shop ( a 10' wide store) in a shopping center built in 1959 is being sued, along with several other businesses in the shopping center by a right to access disability group out of another state (not even in our state). I understand that this group hit two different shopping centers on the same day. I have been informed by two different attorneys that this is a new money making racket by certain lower than life attorneys who represent these so-called disability organizations. They have a token handicap person visit each business, ask to use the restroom facilities and then measure and make notes of what is not up to code. No notice is given that someone (like a patron or something) had a problem....just a lawsuit. Their attoneys make money and the token handicapped individual is paid a huge fee to pose as the expert witness. So now we have to hire our own attorney (huge money), reconstruct a handicap accessible bathroom (which will be a miracle in our small little shop and expensive) and deal with this new latest scam and there is not a darn thing that we can do about it! I have done research on the internet and have found out that this new craze started in California and has made it's way all over the states. I guess some really smart attorney figured another way to get money from innocent people. I believe that all people have rights and I am not against any effort to make things accesible to all people...neither is my husband...but the fact that attorneys have figured a way to use the disablity of a person, or group of people, for their own financial gain, just burns me up. I am going to try not to eat out of anger now. Good night all. If any of you can feel my pain please keep me and my husband in your prayers. Thanks. |
| Hilda | posted 15-Jun-2009 11:51pm The lawn people in my town in Missouri are ususally teachers and coaches who do lawns in the summer. My personal lawn person is a physical therapist who has a lawn business with his dad. They work as a team. Teen Challenge here also has a lawn service and they grow strawberries and sell them. |
| Bronwyn | posted 16-Jun-2009 1:09am Oh Debster, I am so sorry about such a travesty happening to you and your husband. This is really a sad state of affairs when we have such shysters taking advantage of people like that. I can't believe this could go through the legal system. One question,,,,,is a barber shop required by law to provide a washroom for patrons. I would think you may be able to fight on that basis. Food establishments are required to have washrooms but I wouldn't think every place of business would be. Is there a washroom in the mall you are in. If so isn't that the facility that people should be using. Could you contact legal aid for some free advise before you spend a bunch of money on a lawyer? So sorry!!!! |
| K10 | posted 16-Jun-2009 1:26am Debster: I am not surprised that this started in California, this place is a joke. So sue happy. Listen to what Bronwyn said and check to see what your rights are. I am sorry about this added stress. |
| Debster | posted 16-Jun-2009 1:44am I am up again tonight. I am having trouble sleeping....I feel nauseous....maybe just nerves. Thanks for your kind words....I was actually feeling guilty for even sharing my feelings on this site. I don't know what got in to me...I guess in some ways I feel like you are all a group of my girlfriends and women share feelings. Bronwyn, our shop's bathroom was actually put in for employee use, but since my husband allows patrons to use it, that argument no longer exists....and anyway, they say that employees are handicapped as well (that is what it states in the suit). Small struggling shopping centers and businesses have actually closed down due to the expenses of the defense in these bogus suits. That is the information that I have uncovered in my research online. Boy, I really do feel sick to my stomach. I am going to try to get some rest....I have work tomorrow. |
| Debbie M. | posted 16-Jun-2009 2:49am Debster, Could you possibly apply for a variance from this code due to hardship? Your hardship obviously being limited space? I only thought of this because of our situation at our other house. We wanted a fence for privacy as we were not only on a corner lot but another street came right up to the side of our yard. We always called it the fish bowl effect. A fencing company came and told us it would be against code. We went downtown and filled out the paper work and paid the application fee.($50.00) After that I remember some officials coming out to our house and looking at the situation from their car. When it was time, we had to go to the County City building to speak at the hearing to see if our variance would be granted or not. It ended up we didn't even have to speak and our case was granted the variance. Please look into this possibility. What an awful situation to be in. I'm so sorry. How about posting a sign, No Public Restrooms. It sounds like its too late for that. Nice to hear from you Debster, please keep us informed as to how things progress. |
| K10 | posted 16-Jun-2009 2:58am OK, so I am getting ready to go to bed and it is nearly midnight and there is a bird making all kinds of noise outside. Why would he do that at night? This isn't the first time either. I think he is confused. |
| Debbie M. | posted 16-Jun-2009 3:13am K10, He knows you are going to bed. Try to dream about birds! heh Good night~ |
| Debbie M. | posted 16-Jun-2009 3:16am Just read this on Sparkspeople: Seeing is Achieving Picture Weight Loss Success With Visual Cues Visual images hold amazing power. We can all still "see" the Challenger disaster, the flag rising over Iwo Jima, even our own high school yearbook pictures. The images are still with us today. And so are the emotions that go with them. You can use this power to your advantage to help you lose weight. If you surround yourself with visual cues, you have a great chance of meeting that goal. A picture of what you want (or don't want) to look like; a vacation postcard that you're using as a reward; a picture of your kids who you want to stick around for - these images can stick around and pull at you even when they're not in sight. Seeing is believing. Seeing is also achieving... |
| K10 | posted 16-Jun-2009 1:07pm Thanks for the info Debbie. |
| Bronwyn | posted 16-Jun-2009 4:02pm Thunder and lightning and pouring rain. Debster, I think that is excellent advise from Debbie M. I hope you have the energy to look into that. I know this kind of stress can rob our energy. It is so outrageous that I wish I could do something to help. Some one needs to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. I wish there were a group of people who felt outraged enough about this kind of activity that they would ban together and fight it. People don't tend to feel that way until it affects them personally. Could you write your member of parliament and get him behind you on this.....sorry I know that wouldn't be the right terminology for you. But on a federal basis I have an MLA rep. I could call to address this kind of thing or locally members of council for the county I live in. I am so totally sad about my vita mix.....it is a powerful machine but I overestimated it and put too large of frozen strawberries in my green smoothie. They are such expensive machines and as usual I am don't have the receipt or warranty info. I can't remember how many years I have had it.....maybe 4 or 5. The WArranty is suppose to be 7 years. |
| K10 | posted 16-Jun-2009 4:34pm Bronwyn: Vita mix may have a record somewhere with your information. It wouldn't hurt to try. |
| Debbie M. | posted 16-Jun-2009 8:01pm My neighbor gave me a really cool planter thingy that I admired in her yard. She said her husband lugged it home 6 years ago and it has been sitting there ever since. It 4 ft long and 1.5 ft long and 1.5 ft deep. I think its cement and it sits on a 3 inch cement pedestal. I'm so excited to get it. I'm not sure what it would cost to buy new. It has 6 little drain holes in the bottom. It could be a grand planter but I was thinking about plugging the holes and making it a fish tank. Heh, can you imagine? How fun is that? What is my wonderment with outdoor fish lately? 187 today. |
| Connie | posted 16-Jun-2009 9:16pm Debster, I am shocked, although I shouldn't be, at the legal situation you find yourself in. What a disgusting display of greed. I think Debbie's advice is wonderful, maybe legal aid can help you. I think once you are in front of a judge your predicament will be obvious and things will go well for you. Judges are not fond of suits like the one you are facing. The trick is hanging on to your money until you get there. Another thing you might do is contact a consumer reporter in your area. This might be the kind of thing they would love to cover and good things could come from that. Worked all day...up a pound this morning. Probably too much fruit yesterday. I'm turning in early tonight. |
| Bronwyn | posted 16-Jun-2009 9:34pm Debbie how are your Mum's fish doing? The planter sounds fun. Connie that was a good idea. I know we have a guy that works for a local T.V. channel that covers scams all the time. I think that may be all he does. Debster you need to get some support behind you. |
| Hilda | posted 16-Jun-2009 10:57pm Great minds think alike! I was just thinking you should call your local tv newsroom and ask them if they will cover your story, maybe interview several attorneys and see if they have tried to get these kinds of guys disbarred. They make all attorneys look bad. |
| Debster | posted 17-Jun-2009 12:36am Hi Everyone....Thank you for all of your support. I have been so upset by this situation that it is consuming me. My husband spoke to the shopping center owner today and has decided to hire his attorney. I am sure that we will be spending big bucks. Unfortunately this suit has to be answered within a short period of time and my husband and I are drained of energy....really are. My legs are still bothering me quite a bit and are very swollen. My neice woke up this morning and is very sick.....went to the doctors and she has mononucleosis. You know, when it rains...it pours. I would like to try to do something to expose this disgusting sleazy suit, but frankly it does take a lot of energy, which I am finding out...and you know what....it's happening all over the place in all different areas of our lives. That's why insurance is so high everywhere....homeowners, car, business....people are sue crazy and greedy and lawyers are becoming less ethical everyday. We have a commercial here....if you have a phone, you have a lawyer....promoting suits for car accidents, medical malpractice....well, the list goes on. Now we can use the disabled to feed our greedy little pockets too at the expense of other really good citizens. Bronwyn, we would contact our senator here....good idea.. Maybe I can muster some energy and attempt to do that. It couldn't hurt. I would like to march myself into this stupid attorney's office and ask to use her restroom. Let's see if her restroom is handicapped accessible....I am sure that we could find some violation....now that could be a news story. I was watching QVC tonight....and Richard Simmons was on...he is almost 61 years old. He sure is getting older looking and he is always very emotional but he is certainly inspirational. I recorded his 1/2 hour sales pitch to play back for inspiration. I am such a goof....but it's free. I am thinking that I will be able to use the new LARGE restroom in my husband's tiny business (when all is said and done) with the giant handicap bars (I'll use them as ballet/exercise bars) as my new gym facility....afterall, there won't be any room left for customers to get by to get to the chairs to get their hair cut....so why not....do I sound bitter, you bet I am. I hope these people get what they deserve one day. I guess we won't be able to get them but maybe someone else will. Good night all. |
| Debster | posted 17-Jun-2009 12:52am Bronwynn....does your Vita-mixer have a serial # on it? Maybe the company can tell how old it is from that #...just an idea. |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 1:43am Debster I know you are overwhelmed so I am going to sum up what you need to do: #1....you don't have room for the washroom and you will post a sign....No customer washroom on site posted 16-Jun-2009 2:49am Debster, Could you possibly apply for a variance from this code due to hardship? Your hardship obviously being limited space? I only thought of this because of our situation at our other house. We wanted a fence for privacy as we were not only on a corner lot but another street came right up to the side of our yard. We always called it the fish bowl effect. A fencing company came and told us it would be against code. We went downtown and filled out the paper work and paid the application fee.($50.00) After that I remember some officials coming out to our house and looking at the situation from their car. When it was time, we had to go to the County City building to speak at the hearing to see if our variance would be granted or not. It ended up we didn't even have to speak and our case was granted the variance. Please look into this possibility. #2......Write your senator....cut and paste your comments here if you are too tired to do it over again.....then you can just clean it up and make additions #3......Call you local news station.....tell them the story ask them to cover it for you and the others in your small mall that are being taken advantage of. #4......Send a copy of the letter you sending to the senator to the Bar Association. Tell us what we can do to support you in this effort. I will check for the numbers on my viatmix.....maybe that will identify the age of it. |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 2:57am Look how smart we are when we work together. I hope this whole bathroom thing gets thrown out. |
| Connie | posted 17-Jun-2009 9:03am Morning. I am really on a "not sleeping " roll. But I'm home all day. Debster, I can feel how overwhelmed you are, we all can. But I really think you can get through this without spending a ton of money. The legal system is frightening and frustrating. All the legal jargon is intimidating and it seems a blessing to be able to turn it over into an attorneys hands and let them take care of it. And that's when you become the "grease" that keeps the system moving along. It is a racket. I hope this is settled quickly. You will at no point find a "vindicated" moment. It's all about the money. When there is no money to be had, the lawyers will cut and run without so much as a backward glance. If your husband is making the decisions and feels more comfortable with an attorney, then he certainly has earned that right. But I really think legal aide could handle this for you. Keep us posted and we will certainly be praying for you. Bronwyn's advice is good and there is no cost involved. Do you have a friend that could help you with them? I hope your niece feels better soon. Isn't the recovery period lengthy? |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 9:38am Good morning 188 today. I went to Hona Yori (sp?) yesterday with my neighbor for her birthday. I had so much food and was overly full. After we left I got a giant cramp in my gut and was tied up in the bathroom for about 15 minutes. Either something I eat there was bad or I wasn't used to eating that much. The food was grill veggies, steak, shrimp and rice and a salad. He used a lot of butter and egg yoke sauce. Maybe too rich for my system. I'm going to really plan my food intake today. Cottage cheese for sure. Chow kids |
| Debster | posted 17-Jun-2009 9:41am Yes, my husband is "handling" it. We have become part of the scheme at this point and there is nothing that I can or am going to do about it. My husband and I really are at odds now...he does not want to talk about it....I guess he will just hand out money and complain about it to me. I am finding that I am the one that is probably more of a fighter but I am tired and I am not going to fight my husband too. I will keep you all posted as to what happens with all of this. I will give you the final $ amount that will be squeezed out of us. If there is anything left maybe we can all splurge and go to McDonald's for a salad....if we can afford it! |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 9:50am So sorry about the mononucleosis. That's going to take a while to recover from. Don't kiss her and watch out for her dirty dishes. |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 10:00am My friends daughter had mono just after school started this year. She may have been out of school for 2 months or more. My oldest comes home lately and naps. Her last day is today and I am going to see how she does in the next couple of weeks since she will be sleeping in. I made appointments for both girls in July for physicals. Talk to you all later. |
| Debster | posted 17-Jun-2009 10:09am Yes, I have heard that the recovery period can be very long.....there are no sure answers about it. They really can do nothing except rest, drink fluids, and rest some more....no antibiotics....it's a virus. Sher's pretty sick. I feel sorry for her. |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 10:12am Watch them closely for fever and sore throats. I printed out of list of the most misspelled words in our country. I'm going to quize the kids on one word a day. So far we have definitely, and acceptable. Did you know dumbbell has to b's? I'm going outside with a cup of coffee to look at my vessel and dream of the possibilities. |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 1:02pm Debbie: You spelled quiz wrong. :) What vessel are you talking about? I am waiting for someone to come look at the house. I hate this part. |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 1:21pm Debbie.....that would be 2 b's.... |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 1:24pm Bronwyn: I missed that, how funny. |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 1:25pm Debbie: No wonder I don't like using dumbbells, it is spelled oddly. |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 1:25pm Debbie: Where can I find this list? |
| Debster | posted 17-Jun-2009 2:00pm so would dummy be spelled dumby.... |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 2:43pm Heh, funny about the words two and quiz! Good catches. I just typed in most misspelled words and a couple lists came up. The vessel I'm talking about is the one my neighbor gave me. It's really a planter or an old trough. I decided to make it a fish tank. I corked the holes, scrubbed it out and filled it with water. I even put a little fountain in it. Now for a day or two to go by to let the water get warmed up a bit and it will be ready for fish! My mom is ready to get rid of the fish I put in her fountain so I'll take those back. Fun fun. I'll try to get a picture posted. You can't be a dumbbell to spell it correctly. |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 2:47pm I like it when we get on a tangent like this. |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 3:05pm Do make "conundrum" one of your words of the day......such a fun word that Connie reminded us of. Wow Debbie when your kids start writing papers next year their work will "definitely" be more than "acceptable". Debster I two of my boys had mono.....same time period and they weren't even in the same country at the time. One got really sick and wasn't well for quite some time. He seems more prone to get sick even now. The other wasn't as sick but 2 years later we still can't wake him up in the mornings (really has nothing to do with mono). I guess you just have to leave the legal stuff to your husband. |
| Connie | posted 17-Jun-2009 4:42pm Taking a break from cleaning. I just spent 3 hours on the kitchen...she's shinning now. The blinds took a while, I let them go too long between cleanings. I may make it past the living room today. That would be great. But I doubt it, I'm just now starting on the dinning room. I need to keep up my energy. Maybe some cashews. I read a new word the other day. I didn't take the time to write it down to look it up, I think I can find it again and I'll share. I love coming across new words. I am forever thankful for spell check! Later. |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 4:43pm My vessel is leaking slowly. Husband has to get bigger, tighter corks. They should be here within the hour. Then tomorrow fishies! I ate poorly today. Still NFNS. I really need to shop. |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 5:07pm OK, I've had enough of this weight. I'm ready to begin losing again. Don't you think it's time? Please someone tell my body to just release a little more weight so Debbie could be happy again. A couple weeks at one weight is long enough. :o) |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 5:33pm Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. FORGET SPELLING CHECK, EH |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 5:36pm Just to let you know I am feeling a little....saturnine today. |
| K10 | posted 17-Jun-2009 7:07pm Bronwyn: That was funny. I remember getting that email. |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:00pm saturnine? Are you being snarkey? |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:01pm ah, gottcha 1: born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn 2 a: cold and steady in mood : slow to act or change b: of a gloomy or surly disposition c: having a sardonic aspect <a saturnine smile> |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:08pm Well truthfully.....like if truth were to be known .....even though it is a synonym for sullen I do think sullen may be the better way to describe my mood. Debbie so feeling sullen would not make me snarkey. I tend to think it would be impossible to be a sullen, saturnine,,,,snarkey person????? Oxymoron if I ever heard one.Debbie i suspect if you keep seeing 188 for the next 49 years that you will become most definitely saturnine or terribly sullen your snarkey little self |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:11pm Debbie you do know the above was in an attempt to be humorous.....not snarkey!!!! |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:33pm lol I love your wit.................. |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:34pm I asked the snarkey question before I even knew what saturnine meant. heh, I had to look it up. A new one for me. |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:43pm I do promise to stop....wasting way too much time today but, my real problem is that I am glibido. |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 8:54pm All talk no action eh? |
| Bronwyn | posted 17-Jun-2009 9:11pm You got it Miss Snarkey pants!!!!! Of course I didn't need to spell it out as the proof is in the pudding of my accomplishments today  Rainy day and dejunking....until I got sidetracked on the very first box I opened. It is a long story and I shall not dwell on the details of my lack of accomplishments. |
| Connie | posted 17-Jun-2009 9:54pm That was very interesting...the misspelled words that I had no problem reading! You guys are very witty today too. I ate terrible today, although NFNS, as well. Last I checked I was up a pound. Whatever! My house is totally a wreck, except kitchen and dinning room. But I think I can get it all done tomorrow and pack and do toe nails. Actually, daughter is going to do the toe nails since I can't see so great. Great night all. |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 10:05pm Connie, Why can't you see so well? Far sighted I assume? Do you wear contacts? I use to wear glasses but I had lasic vision correction years ago. Contacts drove me nutty. Now I only need reading glasses if the print is rather small. My fishies are swimming around happily in their new home. It wasn't anytime at all before my cat tiger was perched on the side watching them. I'll post a pic on our other site, if I can. Good night |
| Debbie M. | posted 17-Jun-2009 10:24pm I am so goofy on the computer. I just fly by the seat of my pants. I really have no idea what I am doing. I am totaly self taught and have a lot to learn. That being said I posted a picture of my planter but it's on the map. Heh, of all places. I have no idea how that happened. If you want to see it, that where it is. Can't see the fish but you can see the fountain I put in it. My swing sits to the left of it. I'm really enjoying this new feature on the front porch. |
| Debster | posted 17-Jun-2009 11:00pm You are all pretty funny today.... a nice distraction from my crummy situation here -or would that be crumby? Connie, how are your legs doing? Are you in full recovery now? My neice seems to be feeling a "little" better today. She has been constantly sleeping. Debbie, you are funny with your fish....again....how do we check or post on this other site? good night all! |
| Debbie M. | posted 18-Jun-2009 10:41am I'm happy to entertain you with my fish stories. I have three of them. They are Moe, Larry and Curly Goldfish. Moe is a bright goldfish with a white stomach. Larry is a light gold color and Curly is a bright gold. Their cousin lives in our house upstairs in my daughters bedroom. He has been on a diet his entire life as obesity swims in his family. He is very lonely I susspect because his brother and sister passed away earlier this year. I just weighed myself. A new low for me!!!!! 186.5 and I just got my new cycle today. Totally shocking. I should be up a couple pounds from that. WOW I am just tickled pink. For those who are struggling, I bet you just can't stand me right now. But I was in your position just a couple months ago. You will do it. Something just clicks and it starts to happen. Do not get frustrated, just keep trying. Each attempt is one step closer to success. |
| K10 | posted 18-Jun-2009 10:48am Debbie: Congrats on your new low. You are losing and I am gaining. I really need to get motivated. It clicked in me before, I know it will click again. I like your fish "tank", what is it actually made from? My girls are off having fun today. They are at the happiest place on earth for the first time by themselves. Kind of a farewell to the area. Oldest has a birthday next month and she really wanted a beach party/going away party, but I knew it would be too busy to do that, so I thought this would be a good substitute and would cost about the same amount. You should have seen their smiles. I hope they are going to make great memories together. |
| Debster | posted 18-Jun-2009 10:48am Where is everyone this morning? It's 10:34 AM here on the East Coast and I wanted to check in and smile at all of your latest comments but you all must be still sleeping! WAKE UP!!!!!!! I, on the other hand have been up most of the night with my very sick neice who either passed out on the bathroom floor or fell asleep there (she doesn't remember). Come to find out she has not been eating or drinking what she told me that she had been eating and drinking and she has become dehydrated. I was arguing with her at 3AM trying to force her to drink and eat a soft-scrambled egg and a piece of soft bread. She finally listened to me and was re-oriented about 1 hour later... and then she slept. I woke her up and I made her eat a little something and drink 4 more ounces of water before I left for work at 7AM. I now have her on a regiment of 1 Ibubrofen every 4 hours, fluid, and some food. I don't want her to become dehydrated again. I probably would have taken the day off but we are short-staffed due to vacations. WAKE UP OUT THERE! I miss you guys. I am going to need a vacation after all of this....sleazy attorneys, lawsuits, and mononucleosis.....what a revolting development this is! |
| Connie | posted 18-Jun-2009 11:22am Morning. Good morning Debster...I'm up! Actually I've been up for awhile. Dehydration is very serious, as you know. For a while you might want to give her some juice from canned fruit (the sugar added kind). I had a friend once who underwent chemo and she had no appetite. That's what her docs told her to do. Just an idea. I would be have been freaking if I had found her like you did! I have a million things to do today, I don't want to get out of bed! Debbie, I am so happy for you!!!!!!! You just brag and celebrate all you want. You deserve it. I am going to go look at your fish pictures next! I can't remember the other web site address. Can you tell Debster how to get there, without getting kicked off your computer of course. K10, you have so much going on right now. It is no wonder your not losing. It will happen. This is not wasted time, you are always learning, and when the time is right, you'll lose. When I committed to NFNS I had to put everything else on the back burner until I had this mastered. When you are settled....look out! Even small changes that you make now will help you in the long run. Well, I better get started. Later ladies. |
| K10 | posted 18-Jun-2009 2:25pm Connie: Thanks for your support. I am not falling off the wagon per se, but I am eating too much of NFNS foods. I did add powdered sugar to something I ate last night. |
| Debbie M. | posted 18-Jun-2009 2:54pm I bought a "lettuce" for my fish tank. It looks like a floating green flower. There is no pot and no dirt. It just sits on the top with the roots hanging down. The vessel is made of concrete. |
| Angie | posted 18-Jun-2009 4:25pm Is anyone on line? I am still in Ga. and wondered what the address was to the other site. If you could just give me part of it so you don't get cut off. I can't remember it. |
| Angie | posted 18-Jun-2009 4:31pm Don't bother I am not going to be able to get on the computer anymore. I was just going to show my Mother my extended family. I am headed home in the morning. Have a good night everyone. |
| Karin in Orlando | posted 18-Jun-2009 5:01pm I just started NSNF on May 7th and have been trying to catch up on this message board for the past week or so but the messages I was reading were all from 2008 so I figured I'd skip forward and say Hello. Nice to see Bronwyn is still here, I'll be back tomorrow to catch up more and share with you guys. See ya! Karin in Orlando |
| K10 | posted 18-Jun-2009 6:35pm Welcome Karin. We are happy to have you join us. How are you doing since you started on NFNS? We are looking forward to hearing about you tomorrow. Even though I am at a stand still, I am so grateful for this way of eating. |
| Debbie M. | posted 18-Jun-2009 6:37pm Welcome Karin! Angie and Debster, the link for the other site www.nfnsfamily.ning.com |
| Bronwyn | posted 18-Jun-2009 7:10pm Debbie you posted a link and didn't get cut off....woohoo!!!! Actually the woohoo also goes for your weight loss, way to go!!! K10...where is the happiest place on earth.....surely I should go there???? K10 I have a lot of stress as well....we will work it out and then, these girls had better buckle their seat belts cause the weight is going to be flying off of us, eh!!!! Their heads will be spinning as they see those numbers we are posting just plummeting down the scale. Okay there is a little white van parked outside and a couple of guys with a strait jacket with my name on it K10....I know we can make this happen again and we will.Angie you stayed longer than planned in Georgia didn't you???? Welcome Karin. In the summer in Orlando you must just sweat off the weight, eh!!! How much do you want to lose? Connie aren't you leaving tomorrow or was it today???? Is there anymore bruising on the legs.....or are you now sporting some really not legs that you want to show off???? Debbie.....you are a little young to be naming your fish after the 3 stooges.....cute |
| Bronwyn | posted 18-Jun-2009 7:14pm correction Connie....."hot" legs!!!! |
| Debbie M. | posted 18-Jun-2009 8:19pm Thanks for the congrats girls. It means a lot to me. I've been crabby today. We had a lot of junk food around the house. Things I usually can't stay away from. I've resisted but I wanted them. The cookies really called my name. I smelled one and that was enough, then it went into the trash. I felt like triplet mom. It didn't help that the cupboards were pretty bare of things that I could have. Hubby is out shopping with the list I made. He took two of the girls with him. THe kids have been so demanding today, or maybe its just my perception because I've been irritable. My neighbor that gave me the vessel/planter just came to look at it. There was a little strife with her husband when he realized it was gone. She didn't ask him if it was ok to get rid of it. She said it was totally fine. I offered it back knowing she wouldn't take it and she said no he didn't really want it back. She told her husband if he wanted it he should have done something with it. In the last 6 years it just sat there. What could I say but thank you? Connie, I wanna know about those hot legs! Are you to the point yet that you've decided it was worth it? Bronwyn you sound really chipper today. Debster, How is your niece today? We need to cast all our cares on HIM because he cares for us!v |
| Anonymous | posted 19-Jun-2009 12:42am Hi Everyone, It's very late and I am just getting to bed. My niece is much better than last night but still pretty sick. I think that this is going to be a long road. I have her on a fluid intake schedule, ibuprofen schedule, and an eating schedule. She is sticking to it and it has made a vast improvement. Debbie, men are like that...they never want something until it is gone, and sometimes they have an uncanny way of knowing that something disappeared. I never get rid of my husband's old clothes. I put them in bags in another room so that if he asks or accuses....I can retrieve them. I learned that the hard way. Bronwyn....you did sound really chipper today, as Debbie mentioned....not at all "snarkey" Welcome Karin and Connie, how are those legs? K10...what happened with the bank thing and the house showing? Good night all.....Good night Hilda....anyone know where she is? |
| Debster | posted 19-Jun-2009 12:43am That anonymous was me.... |
| Hilda | posted 19-Jun-2009 1:14am I am busy working still. I have three homes under contract, doing inspections, letting in appraisers, negotiating repairs, trying to negotiate on a foreclosure with Freddie Mac that finally fell through. Trying also to plan what I want to do for my 60th birthday coming up in August. My daughters want to take me to Chicago. I'm not at all sure of what I want to do. I am not wanting to fly anywhere. We can drive to Chicago. If you are making guacamole using only one avocado, how much cilantro would you use? |
| Anonymous | posted 19-Jun-2009 2:43am Bronwyn: The happiest place on earth is Disneyland. They went on their own and just had so much fun. I am really happy for them. In the same area as Disneyland is Downtown Disney. We got there at 9 p.m. and we had agreed that we would pick them up at 10. Well we called them and they told us where they were so we met them. We ended up hearing this awesome electric violin player and we bought his CD. We then went to the parking lot to leave and we sat in the lot for 40 minutes before we exited. We couldn't go anywhere, it was truly a fire hazard. Finally they stopped collecting money and we were able to get out. We wouldn't have had to pay anyway because you get 3 free hours. Tonight my hubby got home early and we were able to go to dinner and it was nice to just talk. He has been working a lot and traveling over 100 miles a day. We then went to Cold Stone and I won't even talk about what we ate tonight, but it wasn't NFNS. At least we walked a little bit. There really isn't any way to sugar coat it is there? Sugar coat is a nice choice of words isn't it? I am irritated with 2 sis-in-laws. Tell me what you think? I found out from my bro-in-law that my 2 sis-in-laws were at Disneyland with three of their kids. They don't live in the area, but they are down for a grad party that we are all going to on Saturday. Anyhow, I called Oldest and told her that they were there and I gave them the number to call them. They set up a spot to meet each other, which they did. OK, here is the part I am not happy about. They meet up with them and do the hi's and hugs and then they say, well we need to go now. They didn't invite them to go on a ride with them or anything. It wasn't like they were trying to stay with them just spend some time. For goodness sakes, these two womean (this is how I accidently spelled women and I then thought is was appropriate)are their aunts and 3 of their cousins were there too. I don't particularly care for some of the things these people do, but the one SIL has always rubbed me the wrong way. On the surface things are OK, but I feel like she has issues with me too. Not that I care enough to find out. I mean family functions and fine and all. This is something this SIL did once. My hubby and I stayed at her house. A little while later I realized I was missing a shirt. I forgot it at their house. She said she couldn't find it. Well, I saw her wearing my shirt later. I knew it was mine because the hem wasn't right on one sleave. I guess that gives you an idea. My girls aren't as bothered but they thought it was weird. We are waiting to talk to an attorney regarding our short sale. We received a letter saying we could be held liable for the difference of the sale price and what is owed. They are starting to tax this difference. My realtor gave me a tax attorney phone number. On to something else I dont have time to do. Sorry so long |
| Bronwyn | posted 19-Jun-2009 6:39am K10 I don't know what the cousins ages are in relationship to your daughters but it does seem rude or at least strange. If the cousins are your girls ages or close it would seem like it would have been so fun to all hang out together. Family situations can be so complicated some times. I think the reason that things like this are a concern is because you don't want your children to be rejected or dismissed so easily. At least that is how I would feel. Family is a big deal to me and having cousins as friends I think is the best. The shirt thing is way weird.....could she have thought it was hers, I wouldn't think that could be the case??? I thought the reason you were selling your house on the short sale was because of the difference between the value of the house now and the value when you bought it. Doesn't that take care of the discrepancy? |
| Debster | posted 19-Jun-2009 8:18am Hilda, glad to hear that you are busy....good for you. Happy almost 60! K10, who can figure families out? You can pick your friends, but not your families. Don't spend a single minute trying to figure it out. I find that these situations usually stem from some kind of jealousy. Your kids had a great time and so did you and your husband....who needs them and their issues. If she is so desperate, let her keep the darn shirt....sad,,sad,,sad! Yep, no matter what your financial situation is, no help or bale out for the little guy....big corporations, yes, but we want every last tax dollar from our hard working citizens. I sound like a bitter person don't I.....I guess this "suit" has gotten me! |
| Hilda | posted 19-Jun-2009 10:06am My portion sizes have been too big lately and I have not lost any weight, just maintained. I want to get back on track. |
| Debbie M. | posted 19-Jun-2009 10:19am I don't want to weigh today because I woke up all puffy. So I'll weigh on Monday. See ya!~ |
| Debbie M. | posted 19-Jun-2009 10:34am You are right Hilda, portion size is very important. It seems like I always over eat if I do not pre-measure before I start eating things like cracker. They must be limited. Happy birthday when it comes! Missing Connie. |
| K10 | posted 19-Jun-2009 10:46am Bronwyn: The kids are similar ages. One is 6 months older than my oldest and the other two are near my youngests age. The shirt thing happened a long time ago and I never said anything. My kids aren't really close to their cousins. There is only one set of cousins that are within about half an hour of our house. They seem to get along, but we have friends that are much closer to our family. My husband wasn't ever super close with his sisters (4), but the one whom we have had issues with is the closest to his age. She seems ok when we are around her, but then there are little things like I have explained. The kicker is we have to see them tomorrow. We are selling the house because the amount of our payment and what my husband makes now compared to before. We tried to work with the bank but they wouldn't lower the payment. We thought a short sale may be a good idea because from what I understand it is better on our credit than a foreclosure. Someone said that why the government is starting to tax the difference between your sale price and what you owe is there are people who have taken out money on their homes and not used it for what they were supposed to, so they have this money and they are letting their homes be foreclosed on. They are treating it like income even though we don't have that money sitting around. Typical of today, someone else screws up and we punish everybody for it. So right now we have put our sale on hold until we talk to an attorney. The government would treat it like we have earned over $150,000. I don't want to be taxed on that. Debster: I have said for years; you can pick your nose, you can pick your butt, but you can't pick your family. Yes the kids did have a great time. I will just focus on that. OK, I will try to focus on that. :) I wonder why my post was anonymous last night? Why does it change? I noticed it this morning at least. Great day to all. My friend is giving me a facial today. That is what she does for a living. What is great is she does it for free. She says it is because I do so much for her. I picked up her daughter every day this year and brought her to school so she didn't have to drop her 3 kids off at 3 different schools each day. They live maybe two miles from my house. It was nice seeing her each day. Bye!!! |
| Karin | posted 19-Jun-2009 3:22pm OK, Karin in Orlando here again! Thanks for all the warm welcomes! I have actually been having a very easy time with NSNF since I started on May 7th and have only cheated just a few times by eating 100 calorie pkg of chocolate covered pretzels (one every other day) because they were expensive and I couldn't bear to give them away. I haven't binged at all except for after the very first time I went grocery shopping, I was so frustrated that everything I like has either sugar or flour in it so I bought a can of low fat Pringles and ate them all within a 12 hour time span. I won't give my weight because I don't actually know what it is. Let's just say I need to lose quite a bit but not as much as that Ruby woman with the reality show. I started NSNF because of a recommendation from my therapist at a place in Winter Park called Choices, they deal pretty much exclusively with people who have food issues. My therapist has been doing NSNF for about 16 years and lost 100 lbs as a result so I figured that was a pretty good recommendation. My friends and coworkers can already see that I've lost weight and I can definitely see it in my face, my waist and my feet...I'm really happy about this and so optimistic that I can follow this program for a good long time. Yay! By the way, I'm 43, Single and live alone so that makes it easier to keep myself away from temptation. I gave away all my open pasta, bread crumbs, pop tarts, etc. and returned all the unopened ones to Publix for $15 on a gift card. I still have one can of biscuits in the fridge as sort of a test for my willpower or something. I had a little epiphany the other day and decided that all of my trigger foods, pizza, pasta, bread and crackers are actually untrustworthy foods. What I mean by that is that these foods cannot be trusted to tell me when I've eaten enough of them because they don't really fill me up like good and healthy foods do. Instead, they make me want even more of them...stupid bad liar foods! I'm thinking that one day I will be able to eat a small amount of my trigger foods and not have it turn into a binge as long as I stay aware and make sure that I make the bulk of my meal out of healthy filling stuff and only eat a small amount of my trigger food on the side. I haven't tested this yet besides with the few 100 calorie packs that I ate in the very beginning, so we'll see. I really wish I'd known about NSNF a long time ago although I'm thinking I might have heard about it but had never talked to anyone who had made it a lifestyle and could convince me that it works. Wow, its so busy at work today, I'll have write more later on. Bye for now, Karin in Orlando |
| Bronwyn | posted 19-Jun-2009 4:09pm Good for you Karin....you are on the right track for sure. More about your epiphany, I read about this woman who decided that any food that she ate, that she would observe how she felt after. She was particularly interested in how long it was before she felt hungry again. She tried to eliminate those foods that made her want to just keep eating, or that she ate and then found herself hungry again very soon after eating. I am trying to think about this with the foods I eat. Overall though I think I have given chocolate (my major trigger food) WAY too much power. There is a physical and emotional trigger for me because I "think" I can't eat a little bit. Once I have chocolate I throw in the towel and have a binge on it. Honest to goodness....how stupid is that......it is just chocolate and how could it have that much power over me. I think I give it too much power and that I can easily stop......but, still it is better to not start. I just don't want an inanimate object to have so much power though, and I am not going to allow it to rule my life.....I am way to smart for that I am woman hear me roar......"it is just chocolate, it means nothing, it gives back nothing, I don't need it in my life"!!!! I am truly getting mad at chocolate.........mad at myself,,,,,,mad at this ongoing fight to be happy with me!!! Why would we abuse our bodies with things that make us unhappy......even just too many calories is a form of abuse. Anyways, sometimes you just have to get mad at yourself and I am mad at myself today. I have a pattern of failure built into my diet programs......one part is impatience with time and effort required and slowness of progress, the other part is needing more faith that I can lose weight.By the way you all need to know I am just ripping on myself no one here.....just fed up and mad at myself. Enough is enough, is enough, eh!!!! Yes I have a lot of stress but no eating chocolate doesn't take that away.....it compounds the problem. I want to write that I will be abstinent from chocolate but, I need to know i can keep that commitment before I make it and fail again. |
| K10 | posted 19-Jun-2009 5:00pm Karin: I really like what you said. I think I am going to try and track how I feel when I eat certain things, how long before I want to eat again etc. |
| Hilda | posted 19-Jun-2009 5:49pm I am going to see "My Life In Ruins" tonight. I loved "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." |
| Bronwyn | posted 19-Jun-2009 8:03pm I hope you aren't disappointed Hilda. The reviews are not very good. We are going to "The Proposal",,,,who knows about any of these shows by the reviews though, eh! |
| Karin | posted 20-Jun-2009 9:18am Bronwyn, don't beat yourself up, just realize your weaknesses and do your best to try to abstain from them. What I learned from this abstinence diet is that you really should be abstaining from all things that are your triggers, not just sugar and flour. I suppose I am lucky that chocolate is not also my trigger, I can be happy with just a taste of it, in fact, I can't really stand to have too much chocolate, it makes me want to drink a gallon of water or milk. What I really love is the combination of coffee and toffee flavors together, so you know I am particularly upset that Wendy's didn't come out with their coffee toffee frosty until AFTER I had started this program. I had a bit of a happy accident the other day regarding this, though, I'll explain... I told my therapist that I like to drink milk with my homemade sugar-free granola (I'll share the recipe in my next post) but that when I take milk to work it never is cold enough by the time I get there, I will only drink ice cold milk. She said that I should pour the milk into a container and put it in the freezer about an hour before I leave for work in the morning, that way it will still be ice cold when I get there...she's so smart! I did this for a few days straight until one day I forgot to take the milk to work and it froze. I had been putting it in one of those containers that came with my Magic Bullet type blender thingys because it came with a screw-on lid...do you see where I'm going with this yet? I decided to take the frozen skim milk which was already inside a 'blender' and squirt a little mocha java syrup into it (one of the things I forgot to throw away when I started this abstinence program, whoops!) and added some Splenda and put the blender blade onto the bottom to make an awesome chocolate/coffee milkshake. I used less than a tablespoon of the syrup in about 12 ounces of frozen milk so I think that was OK. I drank half of it before I decided that my coffee/chocolate craving had been satisfied and besides that it was making me feel really phlegmy so I put the lid back on and saved it in the freezer for the next day. Again, I consider myself lucky that just a small amount of something like this can make me feel like I've really splurged when I really haven't. We will see how well this works next week when we have Publix marble cake at work for all the June birthday people. I've passed up cake 4 times so far during this program but none of it was Publix marble cake, either...uh oh... Pizza is another thing that I've been craving although I can honestly say that the longer I stay away from it, the less intense my craving becomes. One day I hope to be able to have a couple of slices and then push it away, although my therapist believes in total abstinence from your triggers...she says that 'controlled eating' is a slippery slope and in her experience, never works. We will see...I don't feel ready to try this theory out on pizza just yet. It was also recommended to me to attend OA meetings and I did go to one with my friend who is also an overeater but not ready to commit to an abstinence program. She is married with a child so I think that makes it triple as hard to work this plan. Anyway, we both felt that the people in OA were a little too fanatical and being an atheist, I was majorly turned off by the Higher Power aspect of the program. I believe in personal responsibility, I am the one who made myself overweight and I am the one who is going to help myself lose the weight. That's just how I feel about it and that's the only way my brain will let me think about it so if the Higher Power thing works for you then that's great, at least you have a huge support group out there amongst the other OA-ers. I came here as an alternative to OA because I realized that to make this work, I really need to be involved in a supportive community. =) I'm going to a new farmers market this morning, its less than a mile away from my house and seems to have great prices compared to the grocery stores. Hopefully I will turn this into a weekly ritual so that I can stock up on yummy fruits and veggies every Saturday and have lots of healthy choices in my fridge to keep me on track all week long. Have an awesome weekend! Karin in Orlando |
| Bronwyn | posted 20-Jun-2009 7:01pm Shoot....made a post and it got lost again....don't have time to post again. Hope you are all doing well and having a great week-end. |
| K10 | posted 20-Jun-2009 9:43pm I have had a barfy husband today. He is feeling better now and is eating some chicken soup. I just hope no one else gets it. Youngest goes to camp on Monday and I would hate for her to be sick and have to miss it. |
| Hilda | posted 21-Jun-2009 12:22am Use the Ezekiel tortilla for your pizza crust and make yourself an individual pizza. |
| Hilda | posted 21-Jun-2009 12:24am I enjoyed getting out and going to the movie, but it was not near as good as My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She has lost 40 pounds since that movie and looks amazing. |
| Hilda | posted 21-Jun-2009 12:24am How was The Proposal? |
| K10 | posted 21-Jun-2009 12:32am One and of our hermit crabs died, one more to go. I hope all goes well with this one. Obviously my 13 year old isn't ready for the pet responsibility. Actually I think he needed a new shell and wasn't able to get into one. Hubby is feeling better. I am glad about that. Have a good night ladies. |
| Connie | posted 21-Jun-2009 12:57am Hi girls! Just a quick post from MI. My trip so far has been crazy...my luggage got lost so I've been in borrowed clothes all day. I did not get to wear my cutie red dress to the shower today. So sad! But my luggage finally showed up and so now I feel better. Lot's to do helping with the shower, it was wonderful. People stay up late here, it's light out so long. But finally everyone is going off to bed and I wanted to check in. I miss posting here...I read, briefly, all the posts. Welcome Karin. It was such a relief to hear from everyone on this site. OMG, I think I'm addicted to you all. Tomorrow I will catch up more. I have not been totally NFNS since arriving and I'm ready to get right back on track. I feel bloated and uncomfortable. So tomorrow I will be true blue. |
| Debster | posted 21-Jun-2009 8:11am Hello Everyone and Welcome, Karin. Connie....too bad about the red dress. I was just thinking....if my luggage was lost I would not be able to borrow clothes...OMG....what a dilemna that would be. There are not many people my size so I would have to find some specialty store....quickly! Karin, I am not an atheist, however I found the OA group that I attended years ago a bit too "over-the-top" and it made me uncomfortable, although I would love to give this problem up to a higher power. I believe that we are all being tested in different ways (just my belief) and this addiction thing is just one of them...a tough one, too. K10---I hope you children don't get sick...That would just be ashame. My niece is still "recovereing" from her illness....ups and downs with this one. Bronwyn, you are way too hard on yourself. |
| K10 | posted 21-Jun-2009 12:51pm Karin: I had a friend who went to OA and she said all they talked about was food and she felt like it made it harder do deal with her issues. Debster: I don't know what I would do either in regards to lost luggage. I guess it would depend on who I was visiting. My oldest says she isn't feeling well. I think some of it is, we are supposed to go to a friends house that she hasn't seen in a long time and go swimming and she is on her period and doesn't use certain things yet. She had some chicken noodle soup for breakfast. I told her she needed to lay down. She also has a drama practice tonight and she doesn't have her entire costume yet. I think that is some of it too. This way though, I won't have to rush home from my friends house. Hubby is feeling better, other than his stomach muscles are so sore from throwing up yesterday. He liked his Father's Day gifts. Connie: Hi. I guess your hubby will have to take you somewhere where you can wear you red dress. :) Hi Hilda and Bronwyn. Good day to everyone. |
| Connie | posted 21-Jun-2009 1:15pm I've had to sneak away for a minute on the computer. My sister's house is on a lake, lot's to do around here. The entire property is very beautiful, but so much work to keep up with. Magazine cover beauty. It's like visiting another world! She just bought a BMW convertible, she picked me up at the airport in it...we had a 1 1/2 hour drive. I looked like the Bride of Frankenstein! But I love her. She has worked her butt off and deserves every bit of it. I'm in the "when in Rome" conundrum. She is WW, so I am without my usual fare. I guess it will be all right. Tomorrow I travel to another sisters house where I will have a lot more control over what I eat. I'm going to try and take a nap. I have barely slept since arriving. I hope everyone is well. |
| Anonymous | posted 21-Jun-2009 7:17pm Well, I made it back home Friday. Georgia was soooo hot. The good thing about Clearwater is we always have a good breeze. In Ga. it was just like an oven. The actual high temperature was 101 most of the time I was there. We went to the beach Saturday and rode bikes Sunday. I could tell I had not exercised all week. It said 102 on the bike computer. It took my face a couple of hours for the red to go away. We won't be doing that again. I can't take that kind of heat anymore. Karin welcome. It is nice having another Floridian on board. I did pretty good over the week, maybe gained a pound but I should have sweated it off today. I have gotten addicted to red grapes and SF peanut butter. My favorite treat right now. Connie your sister's place sounds great. My daughter ask me yesterday if she could come live with us for a year and go to a school that is 30 minutes away in St. Pete. I am not going to get excited yet because she changes with the wind. It would be nice to have her around again for awhile. Well, it has been a long week and weekend. I left my parents crying in the driveway. Man does that hurt the heart. Everyone have a good night. |
| Angie | posted 21-Jun-2009 7:17pm That was me. |
| Karin | posted 21-Jun-2009 10:15pm Wow, Connie, I haven't thought yet about how I will eat when I'm away from home for a few days... My mother (who is paying for my therapy) lives in NC and I'm driving up to visit her at the end of July for her birthday. I should send her a grocery list of some of the stuff that I can eat, I'm glad you made me think about that. Thank you again to everyone for welcoming me, I'm so glad I found this place! I went to the farmer's market yesterday and got all kinds of yummy stuff and then went to lunch with my friend and her 9 year old daughter. I braved a pizza restaurant so that I could get a big antipasto salad, and boy was it big! I ended up taking half of it home. I asked beforehand if it came with croutons and they said No so I thought I was safe until our salads showed up on our table with two steaming hot garlic rolls on the edge of each plate. I picked up both of them and gave them to my friend and her daughter to share. I watched her daughter eat the most delicious looking slice of pepperoni pizza and then decided to block my view of that and the garlic rolls by moving my glass of water in front of it. I guess I wasn't so subtle and my friend saw me and apologized as she covered up the rolls with a paper plate...I thought that was sweet of her. I was seconds away from taking one back and eating it, the smell of them was so amazing. Anyway, I made it through that trial, so yay for me! At the farmers market I tried homemade tabbouleh and homemade hummus...so yummy, but very expensive. I thought I didn't like either one until I tried them yesterday, maybe I can find a great recipe and make some that good at home. I even gave away the tiny piece of pita chip that was inside the sample of hummus...it is getting easier to resist things with every new day! Karin in Orlando |
| Karin | posted 21-Jun-2009 10:18pm edited 21-Jun-2009 10:18pm Here's the NSNF granola recipe I promised: Ingredients 3 C oatmeal 1/2 C flaxseed 1/2 C sunflower kernels or any other type nut 3/4 C raisins or other dried fruit (set aside until after everything has cooled) 2 heaping tablespoons margarine 1/2 cup pineapple or apple juice frozen concentrate, thawed 1 T cornstarch 2 T Splenda 2 T sugar free peanut butter 2 t vanilla extract 2 t cinnamon or apple pie spice * Heat oven to 350 degrees and place all dry ingredients except for dried fruit in large baking pan/jelly roll pan lined with aluminum foil, toast dry ingredients for about 10 minutes while preparing the rest. * Melt margarine and peanut butter together on stovetop in pot large enough to hold all ingredients including the dry ingredients. * Add cornstarch to cold fruit juice and still well until combined then add the Splenda, vanilla and cinnamon. * When 10 minutes is almost up, pour the fruit juice liquid into the melted ingredients and stir over medium heat continuously until it seems like it cant get any thicker. * Remove from heat and take toasted ingredients out of the oven. * Lower oven temperature to 250 degrees. * Pour all toasted ingredients into thickened mixture in pot by lifting it using the aluminum foil as a chute (hold the corners of one end in one hand and the corners of the other end in the other hand). * Stir well until all dry ingredients are moistened. * Place foil back on pan and spread moistened mixture onto foil lined pan, place back into 250 degree oven. * Let dry in oven for about 30 mins, stir every 10 minutes to make sure it dries evenly. * Remove from oven and let cool. * When cooled, place in plastic container and combine with dried fruit. ** Add a 1/2 C measuring cup/scoop to the container to regulate the portions. |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 1:12am Connie I have a plan....lets have our NFNS reunion at your sister's place on the lake It sounds like you did get your suitcase back......good!Karin thanks for the granola recipe it sounds good. Listen hummus is so easy to make and I am sure a lot cheaper. Here is a very simple and delicious recipe: 1 roasted red pepper 1 can garbanzo beans (drained and rinsed) 1/4 cup cilantro (chopped) 2 Tablespoons Tahini 2 Tablespoons Lemon or Lime juice 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. red pepper flake 1/2 cumin Process in your food processor until creamy and then check for salt. Depending on the saltiness of your beans you may need up to 1/2 tsp. salt. Eat with veggies especially red pepper slices or make a sandwich using Ezekial wraps. Warm the wrap in a dry frying pan and then top with hummus and sliced peppers, cucumber a little onion and some spinach and grated cheese.....wrap up and enjoy!!!! Hilda we ended up going to "Duplicity" at the cheap theatres. It was the opening night for "The Proposal" and we thought there may be line ups. Duplicity was okay......a little over the top with the duplicity stuff I was very uncomfortable at O.A. I do believe in a higher power and I believe it is God....so their continual reference to a "vague" higher power just didn't fit for me. I don't know it just didn't feel good to me, and I didn't care to keep going. I still think though that abstinence is a good idea.....such as this group choosing to be abstinent from flour and sugar. I think you can take good aspects from lots of programs and benefit from them. Angie, I can't imagine riding bike or doing anything strenuous in those temps..........WOW!!! I haven't been strict enough for a while now and I certainly feel a need to buckle down and apply myself more fully. Tomorrow is a new day and I hope a good day. Connie I am addicted to talking to you guys as well........... K10 hope your family is all on the mend. I am such a pansy with stomach stuff....hate being sick to the stomach. I hate to throw up....it is such a violent and indignant act and then, I feel so sorry for myself Debster.....hang in there,,,,you have so many things on your plate at the moment (I am sure none of them are flour and sugar thought right |
| K10 | posted 22-Jun-2009 2:03am I believe we are on the mend. This morning after I dropped Youngest at Sunday School I went to Kohls to look for some shirts and while I was there my stomach started giving me grief. As I was getting close to church my stomach was really grumbling and I was just hoping I would make it home. I did, but it was close. No vomiting just the other end. I am hoping I can get back on track. I am up a few pounds, well maybe not after today. Not the way I want to lose weight. Tuesday we have our Lose it for Life class, it is the second to the last one I feel that it is important for me to go, even when I gain. We were supposed to get together last Thursday for our monthly ladies birthday dinner and that didn't work out, so the one in "charge" has decided to have it on Tuesday. There are 6 in our ladies group and 3 of them go to the Bible study. The one in "charge" is in the class too. So I think I am the only one out of the class that is still going to the class. I will meet up with them later. When you have an upset stomach and are on NFNS it makes it a little harder. I did have some chicken noodle soup, dry Cheerios, a potato, some quinoa and about 10 oyster crackers. That was spread throughout the day. I hope I don't any residual effects from the crackers and noodles. Karin: Thanks for the granola recipe, I think I will try it soon. |
| Anonymous | posted 22-Jun-2009 9:04am I know this is a lttile off topic but I think it is timely and I'd like to share it with you if I may. This letter, I got from my Dad on Father's Day. It's just a wonderful insite to a little of how great an influence my Dad has been on me and those around him. Spiritual 6th sence I believe that we all start out pretty much the same. Our perceptions of the world about us according to the five senses we are born with. Over a lifetime I have gradually become aware of things that happened in my life which could not be accounted for naturally. I felt compelled to write some of them in "Highlights of a Spiritual Journey". As newlyweds, Helga and I started our lives together with enthusiasm but not much else. Lack of money dictated a certain self sufficiency. If something needed to be done we either did it ourselves or it just didnt get done. I must emphasise the dramatic success we experienced in "doing it ourselves". If the car needed a tune up, the house needed a new roof, whatever, we did it ourselves and the results were always good. As a matter of fact, better than good which made us wonder about the lifestyles of people we knew who paid someone else to do everything for them. Thinking and doing for yourself becomes a mindset and a lifestyle which lends itself to that gradual awakening to the awareness of "being helped" by something beyond self. Looking back, hindsight is 20/20 and it becomes obvious the times of inspiration and guidance were so prevalent that we can scarcely find reason for pride, and the feeling of "thankfulness" grows inside of us until our spirituality assumes a place equal to or even greater than the five senses we start life with. In the maturity of our faith the presence of God becomes the sweetest and most rewarding part of our lives. With that special 6th sense we see Him virtually everywhere and feel sorry for those who choose to live strictly according to their emprical senses, adamantly arguing against anything spiritual in life. At this point I would like to share a recent prayer and the answer to it. The prayer went like this: Dear Lord, please come back soon, the world is in pretty bad shape and we need you. I want to see your face and hear your words. The answer I imagined went like this: Your wish for my return is for your own comfort and not according to my agenda. Do you not see my face in the faces that surround you everyday? Do you know and understand all the words I have already given you? This was an attitude adjustment which serves my understanding and patience to be content with His will in all things. Look at the way we live, surrounded by the blessings of God. Our home is a little piece of paradise, even featured in the local newspaper. A Cadillac in our garage? Are you kidding me? We have never been "Cadillac" people, but there are not one, but two of them. Whats that? !! The love of family with our children nearby. A wife and Mother totally devoted and happy to be a wife, Mother and homemaker is a blessing beyond imagination in this modern world. With all the hullaballoo about healthcare in the news these days, let me say this: I would rather put my life and welfare in the hands of The Lord than any insureance company. I shall endure as long as He wants me to, and at age 70 being healthy with no prescription medications whatever for either of us, we are AS USUAL on our own, independantly doing our own thing and taking responsibility for our health rather than paying rediculous insurance premiums so someone else can keep us healthy. HA ! with the help and blessings of The Lord. Faith is illogical, but just like a snowball, the more you have the more you get and the effects of it are undeniable. I cannot imagine life without it. As for the disputes in organized religion as to doctrines or creeds let me just say this much: The love, grace and salvation of God is come to the world in the Name and Person of Jesus Christ, not the titles of The Trinity. Whether there be three or thirty three in The Godhead, only one bled and died on the cross to give you and me a chance to live. It is in His Name, by His blood and through His Spirit that we may be saved. Period. Love, Dad I'll write more about my weekend later in the day. Have a good one everybody. |
| Debbie M. | posted 22-Jun-2009 9:05am That was me. :o) |
| K10 | posted 22-Jun-2009 10:53am And AMEN!!!!!!!!! Thank you Debbie. Thanks to your dad too. |
| Debbie M. | posted 22-Jun-2009 11:31am Are you doing ok K10? Ihate it when a bug goes around in the family. Especially when we have important things to do or thing to do that we can't change the dates for. My weekend camping couldn't have turned out any netter. It was a new place for us to go. We had no idea it would be so beautiful and fun. We made a friend and an enemy though. As soon as we pulled up a man from another site came over and told us his wife was mad because we got the site they always get but couldn't get this time because we had already reserved it on line. THey werecross the street and down two. It was easy to see why she likedour site as we were right on the lake and it had a wonderful view. She walked by our site one time with her dog. I said Hi but she ignored me and kept walking. I guess her husband wasn't kidding when he said she was mad. The people right next to us ended up being very friendly and took us out on their speed boat for a lovely evening ride. I wish we could have stayed a couple more nights but back to work Steve had to go today. We will be going to Lake Michigan in a couple weeks for the 4th!~ I stayed NFNS all weekend resisting smores and various goodies the kids had. I don't feel like I lost anymore but I know I haven't gained. We are on the cusp of having a teen driver in the house. I just took my son to drivers education class today. It lasts two weeks. He will be 16 next month. I can't believe I have 2 teens already. It's hard for me to know how much to let go of them. Too much teathering and they rebell, not enough and they get into trouble. I've always been in control of my children's lives but I need to start letting them have more freedoms. Its hard for me to know how much is enough and how much is too much. Most people around me think I'm over protective but I think they are way to leanient. I think I have good kids, but I have seen good kids get caught up in bad situations before. I just want to make everything ok. I know I can't but thats my natural instinct. WHatis everyone having for supper tonight?I need to do some shopping. Therecipies sound really good. I wish my market had the Eziek wraps. I may ask them to order them. |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 12:55pm Debbie your Fathers thoughts were wonderful. Your camping trip sounds so lovely.....on the lake. I love to be on the water. We once had a house that backed onto water and I loved that. I actually have wished over the years that we had never sold it. That is kind of funny that the lady held it against you that you booked on-line the spot she liked......why didn't she book it herself, eh? People are funny. BTW....you are so amazing this is really your heady power to go camping and stay NFNS, eh!!! Good for you. Connie when do you come home, I can't remember how long your "get away" was. You need to post a pic of yourself in the red dress, I am sure you look spectacular. I have a song going through my head but I am not quite sure of the words.....but, I think it is "lady in red you look so beautiful tonight". It is funny because unfortunately, I am not at all talented in music but words such as "memphis", "red dress" and many more always trigger a song in my mind. There are so many women on here that we haven't heard from in a while.....Diane, Kathy and others. Hope you guys are doing well. In fact I hope any of us that struggle to get on or stay on the program can have a successful week. K10....we both have stress but lets not put the additional stress on our bodies of eating flour and sugar.....you with me? |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 1:03pm Okay we can dedicate the Utube....."lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh, to Connie |
| Connie | posted 22-Jun-2009 4:10pm I made it to my home town. I left the sisters house on the lake and am staying with the sister I normally stay with. The lake was beautiful...but the food there was terrible. All flour and sugar and tons of it and nothing else. Not even any cheese. My diet has been so bad for the last 48 hours and I haven't enjoyed it at all. My stomach is in distress. When my sister picked me up today she took me to the health food store. I stocked up on my favorites. We got sandwich's from the in store deli. I had turkey, red onion, cheese, avacado spinach and hummus on Ezek bread. I was so happy and relieved I almost cried. I called my daughter to share (I was really emotional about the food!) and she was happy too. She ate out with her father last night and had bread. She said she was up all night in the bathroom. So we were practically screaming with joy into the phones and she was so excited she ran a red light and got a ticket. I feel like it's my fault. Anyway, I'll pay it (as if she has any money anyway!) and I am starting to feel more like myself already. Not even a traffic ticket can bring me down now that I'm back on track. Be prepared, once you eat NFNS for any length of time, there is no going back. At least not comfortably. I miss you guys...I miss my lap top. I wont be home until next Sunday evening. Thanks for the song dedication. I really want to wear my dress. Debbie, lovely post from your father, just wonderful. There's so much I want to sit here and type, but I have to go. I should be able to check in more frequently. I am so glad to be NFNS again. F & S were making me feel terrible, mentaly and physically. Later guys. |
| Debbie M. | posted 22-Jun-2009 4:50pm Connie I know what you mean. I think when we eat horribly we tend to just get used to feeling bad. I know I was bloated all the time and didn't even know it because I was that way ALL the time. Eating in itself is such an emotional thing. We abuse ourselves by what we think is pampering ourselves with eating the wrong things, just because they taste good, or just because that is what our mother's gave us and its what we associate with comfort. But we are taking care of our bodies now and pampering ourselves with nourishing food. We are loving ourselves enough to keep the garbage out of our bobies and give ourselves the very best God made foods. The food God intended us to eat when he created us. Its is an emotional thing to be forced to give up nurturing yourself by not having the right things to feed upon. It makes so much sence how you feel Connie. Its like an epiphany to realize emotions can swing in the direction of the positive. Obesity is always associated with emotional eating in a negative way. But we are setting a new tone to emotional eating its positive. A positively wonderful way to treat yourself. Connie, I'm glad you'll be checking in more often. You and Bronwyn are the backbone of our group and I always look forward to writing and reading what you and the others have written. There were two cakes at my Mom and Dad's house just now. I was cutting the cake for everyone and licked my finger without realizing it. ooooops, oh well... I'll weigh tomorrow. |
| Angie | posted 22-Jun-2009 5:34pm Debbie M your Dad's letter lets us know that you were blessed with wonderful parents. You see so many abused children or just neglected children if you have a loving Mom and Dad you are truly blessed. What a sweet keepsake that letter will be. My Mother still has a letter that my Grandfather wrote my Grandmother when she was pregnant with Mama and he was out of town working. It had a breakdown of his check. The rent, what he was sending her to pay the bills and what he was keeping to live off of for the week. I think he was keeping $1.46. I think the whole check was around $10.00. It was a prescious letter that Mama will always treasure and even my daughter got a big kick out of it. It dates back in the 1930's. We had baby spinach with baked chicken strips, pecans and red grapes. I used southbeach ranch dressing. It was very good and light for this hot weather. I just bought four pints of blueberries they had on sale to make smoothies with and my blender started squealing. It is making a horrible noise so I guess we are going out tomorrow for a new blender. Hubby is not going to go without his smoothies. My daughter is coming Friday. She will be touring the school Saturday. Does anywone (Bronwyn) have a recipe for NFNS blueberry muffins? Have a good evening everyone. |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 6:14pm Angie I don't but you have inspired me to try one out......we love blueberry muffins and I want a snack right now. I can afford it because I have been NFNS and 450 calories so far today. These are only 67 calories each.....I will post the recipe and give it a whirl and let you know: I am doing a few changes so I will let you know.....off to make a snack! Ingredients *1/2 cup milk (I used 1%) *1 cup quick oats - (you will grind 1/2 cup of the oats in food processor or coffee grinder until flour consistency) *1/2 egg *2 tbsp unsweetened (no sugar added) applesauce *2 tbsp Splenda (or other sweetener/sugar) *1 tsp baking powder *1/4 tsp cinnamon *dash of salt *1/4 tsp vanilla (optional) *1/4 cup frozen (or fresh) blueberries (about 4 or 5 blueberries per muffin) - could use bananas, apples or even carrots! Add nuts if you like. Of course, nuts alter the stats a tad :) Directions Preheat oven to 425 degrees Grease muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners. In a small bowl, combine the milk and HALF the oats (remember the other 1/2 of the oats will be ground as used as the flour substitute); let soak for 15 minutes. Grind 1/2 cup quick oats in food processor, coffee grinder, etc. until the consistency of flour. In a separate bowl, beat together egg and applesauce; stir in oatmeal mixture. In a third bowl, combine ground oatmeal (flour), splenda/sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir flour mixture into wet ingredients, just until combined. Mix in gently desired fruit and/or nuts. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups until cups are 2/3 full. Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 17 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Makes 6 muffins Numb |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 6:38pm Okay this is what I did and the dough tasted wonderful.....they smell good!!! 1 1/2 cups oats 1/2 cup almonds 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 cup sweetener of your choice process in food processor.....it looks like a fine cornmeal (Dr. Gott uses Cornmeal) Put dry ingredients in a large bowl, stir in 1 cup of blueberries fresh or frozen (don't defrost) and make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients Process: 2 bananas 1 tsp. almond flavouring 2 Tablespoons Coconut butter 1 egg 1 cup buttermilk Pour wet ingredients (all well processed) into the dry well and mix just until blended. Makes 12 muffins! |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 6:41pm Okay I just realized I may have confused everyone.....the first recipe I got off of Sparks (the comments are ones made by the poster not me) and the second recipe in the following post is my renovation of the Sparks recipe. I am looking for gluten free oats because this would work so well for gluten free. |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 7:02pm Angie these are not bad.....dense, heavy and very moist. Cook longer than a regular muffin.....more like 25 minutes at 425 (in my oven) but I would start to check at about 18 or so minutes with a toothpick. I didn't do the sparks recipe but my renovation of it. Very cake like not crumbly as much as a regular muffin. Personally I think the addition of some oil is important to texture and it is only 2 Tablespoons for 12 muffins. |
| Bronwyn | posted 22-Jun-2009 7:31pm 19 year old son said....these don't taste like your blueberry muffins I like the ones you usually make better. Husband ate one and didn't say anything,he also didn't have seconds which he would normally do.....I didn't ask him what he thought because it seems that if I suggest I made something healthier than it isn't well received |
| Angie | posted 22-Jun-2009 8:03pm Thanks Bronwyn. I am going in the kitchen now and play around with it and see what I can come up with. I wonder how a mashed banana would do in there. Anyway. I will let you know what I come up with. Thank you for the trouble you went too. You are funny, if my husband don't ask for seconds I get the message too. |
| Connie | posted 22-Jun-2009 8:34pm If my husband didn't ask for seconds, I would say "more for me!" Bronwyn, thank you for the recipe. My sister and I are going to try it. My daughter will be thrilled too. I just ate a good NFNS dinner. So good. I may have ate too much, but I don't care. It was great. I'm looking forward to the food I will eat tomorrow as well. I feel "more free" eating NFNS than I did when I wasn't. That sounds odd. But it is true. I ate a bunch of green beans and rice. I think I'm feeling "elation" over my food. What is that? Debbie, the things you said makes sense...but know I think I may be the "weird" eater some people think I am. Quiet night I hope. I have a good book and a full belly. |
| Angie | posted 22-Jun-2009 9:19pm OK, I did the sparks recipe because that was all the ingredients I had. I added half a banana and some olive oil. I used four packs of truvia and it could have used one more. It was alright. I think it will be better cool and I am going to eat some for breakfast in the morning and give you my second opinion. I have never made my own flour so that was an educational experience. I used my coffee grinder and it worked really good. Got a new blender today. Spent more than we wanted but it had metal parts instead of plastic and it looked like good quality. It's made by the same people who make the Kurig coffee pots. Good night all. |
| K10 | posted 22-Jun-2009 10:57pm Hi. Lots going on here today. My tummy is on the mend. I am bloated though. It is so weird how when I would have an upset stomach before, I would reach for crackers, white bread, etc. It makes it hard when you are NFNS in regards to knowing what to eat because of how I can have issues with fiber. Some of my tummy irritation today may be from the noodles and crackers, but it could be from the other issue. I had 2 scrambled eggs this morning. For lunch I had some quinoa and a banana. For dinner I had one of the cooked chickens from Sams club ( I know they have some sugar because of the Lawry's salt and I noticed it has wheat flour, I didn't know that part, not much I can do now though)and some left over hash browns with some cheese and milk. By the way, I didn't have the whole chicken, just the wings. I have also had some grape juice today. I just had a peanut butter spoon. I bought some kiwi to make a strawberry and kiwi smoothie. I need to buy yogurt though. The kiwi aren't ripe yet anyway. Youngest left for church camp today, I hope she has a great time. Last year she started her period for her very first time, I hope nothing too exciting happens this year. Next year she will go to a new camp with a new church. That is kind of sad. Debbie: I can't believe that woman was mad at you. We have a favorite spot in San Diego, the time we didn't get it we teasingly said to the people, "you got our spot." What a wacko. I am glad your other neighbors were nice. Great job staying NFNS. What day is your son's birthday? Oldests birthday is next month too. Just 15 though. Connie: I am glad you are feeling better and are able to eat NFNS. Have a good night ladies. I hope to hear from the others soon. You are missed. |
| Debster | posted 23-Jun-2009 12:07am Hello....Hi hope everyone is doing great....I have been so busy this weekend and have not had time to check in but I'm catching up on all of the "info". Good night all.... |
| Bronwyn | posted 23-Jun-2009 12:16am Angie I just tried one of "my" muffins cold. I liked it better cold and in fact thought it was pretty good. You mentioned the banana and I did have that in mine but there wasn't any in the Sparks recipe. I am going to work on it some more another day but I think it has some potential actually. In fact I think it is just about there. They don't rise like a regular muffin does. a little flat on top. Connie let me know what you and your sister decide.....maybe just one banana. We can keep working on this and come up with something perfect. Hey maybe we should constantly do this kind of stuff and make our own recipe book.......we can go to book signings together, how fun!!!! |
| Bronwyn | posted 23-Jun-2009 12:38am Connie, funny story about your daughter. I think it would be much safer,and of course less expensive to pull over to the side of the road for any further NFNS conversations while driving |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 7:02am Oh my goodness, running a red light?!!I'm glad there wasn't a crash. The muffins sound good. K10, yea this woman was truely mad. I'm sad she had to let it ruin her weekend. I didn't see anyone over their at their site talking at all. How strange. I have tons of things my Dad writes. I print out every one and would love to have a leather bound book to pass down through the generations. He is truely a wise man. Not only is he wise but he is gentle and kind and truely selfless. Angie, good idea with the banana. It would add sweetness. Drum roll please.........................................................................I have a new low to announce!! 1 8 5 tada!!!!!!! I had to do a happy dance this morning. heh |
| Angie | posted 23-Jun-2009 7:41am Debbie M congrats on the weight loss! Bronwyn I did have my muffin cold this morning and put a little smart balance on it and it was actually good. I only added half a banana I will do a whole one next time. I need to get some coconut butter. I have never tried any of the coconut products. On Know the Cause yesterday they made a drink with coconut juice and cocoa in a blender. It sounded really good. 85 degrees at 7:00 this morning. We have a 40% chance of rain the rest of the week that will cool us down a little. It's actually quit breezy and don't feel that hot this morning. Karin where are you? Hey to K10, Debster and Connie. Have a great day. |
| K10 | posted 23-Jun-2009 10:33am Debbie: Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy for you. What types of things are you eating throught the day? That is so awesome. Bronwyn: Look at Debbie's success, we can do it too. Whether we lose weight or not we know NFNS makes us feel better. I was totally NFNS yesterday. Good day everyone. |
| Bronwyn | posted 23-Jun-2009 11:36am Angie so you did the Sparks people recipe for the muffin with just the addition of 1/2 banana....no oil or anything? Debbie you are doing so well....glad to hear about your new low...WOOHOO!!! K10....we are not going to let these people show us up are we |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 11:59am K10, I have been eating very simple things. Puffed wheat cereal with milk. Ezekiel english muffins with cream cheese. Ezekiel bread when having a lunch meat sandwich with lettuce and tomato or toast with eggs. OJ, tea, milk, V-8 juice, coffee. Salads with tomato and ranch dressing and all kinds of veggies and cheese. Greek yogurt with blueberries and slivered almonds. Mixed nuts, popcorn popped in coconut oil. Rice cakes and laughing cow cheese on top any meat, trisuits with cheese and pickles. I eat just about anything without flour or sugar. Its amazing and wonderful. The biggest secret to this diet is TIME. Just keep doing it and it works! My husband was saying just this morning that its remarkable how my mood is much more stable since I have been off sugar, flour and alcohol. Not that I drank a lot but I think it did mess with my antidepressant. I can't remember the last time I weighed 185. Maybe 15 years ago? C'mon girls, I know you can do it just watch your portions! |
| Connie | posted 23-Jun-2009 12:14pm Debbie!!!!!!! Happy, happy, joy, joy! Isn't it wonderful???? That news is wonderful. I'm sitting here with the strong suspision I have probably gained 5 punds. I'm serious. But I hope to have it gone by the time I get home. We will not be able to do the muffins until tomorrow maybe. Sister has no coconut butter and I'm not sure if she will have a chance to get any. She is gluten intolerant, but eats acceptable flours. Planning meals around here is tricky. Shrimp scampi tonmight. I'm going to cook as much as possible. I don't have my recipes so I am just goinmg to do the best I can. I hope everyone is well and happy. |
| Bronwyn | posted 23-Jun-2009 12:42pm Connie my daughter in law is gluten intolerant as well and she can't eat oats. I have learned though that there are gluten free oatmeals but I haven't looked yet. I am sure there are other brands but I read that Bob's Red Mill makes gluten free oatmeal. When you guys go shopping you may want to look for that. I want to make my DIL some with gluten free oat muffins so I am going to be on the look as well. In fact I want to start making some healthy little snack things for my darling little grandson. He is starting into some finger foods. I am going to make him the Nikki healthy cookies but without chocolate and possibly without the coconut (not sure if he is too young for that).......so they will be more like a sugar free/gluten free muffin type thing. I think it is important to not give babies and young children sweet things then they want to eat junk. So many of the snack foods for little kids are just baby junk instead of adult junk. |
| Nillabear | posted 23-Jun-2009 1:31pm Does anyone use a good smoothie machine? I had a blender and pitched it because it wouldn't even break up the ice I had. I want a good one but don't want to break the bank. |
| K10 | posted 23-Jun-2009 2:05pm Nillabear: I am looking into that too. I have a simple blender from 20 years ago. I use frozen fruit in my smoothies, no ice. I thought I killed my blender recently, but it worked again I think it overheated. I know I will need one soon. |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 2:10pm I'm having a challenging day. It seems I keep saying and doing the wrong thing. My day started out super but has been full of tears and dissagreements. :o( |
| Angie | posted 23-Jun-2009 2:33pm Bronwyn I did put some olive oil in my muffins. Honestly I probably won't make them again unless I get a brain storm to make them a little tastier. Connie what flours are exceptable for your sister. I sometmes think I am gluten intolerant but the oatmeal doesn't bother me. Wheat kills my stomach now that I have cut it out. Debbie M don't you know that is the devil. When you wake up in a great mood he can't stand it. Just say keepp away from me Satan, you are not going to rule my day! Seriously I hope your day gets better. Hey Nillabear, I haven't seen you here in awhile. |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 2:56pm Angie, You just put a smile on my face. You are SOOOOOO RIGHT! Sometimes when we are in the thick of it we can't see what is happening. I am going to enjoy my day and embrace my joy. Thanks again for clearing my grey sky! |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 2:57pm I just got a disturbing email about the connection between soy and homosexuality. Has anyone else heard about this theory? |
| Connie | posted 23-Jun-2009 3:52pm Whaaaat? Never heard of it...I think that is extremely suspicious. Breakfast this morning was an Ezek english muffin, lunch was left over rice. Not feeling worried about what your eating is PRICELESS! I think some of us sisters are going to go see "the proposal" tonight. That's after dinner and no popcorn for me. Nillabear, how are you? Bronwyn, I may have to wait until I get home to do the muffins. My sister buys lot's of prepackaged baking mixes. I don't blame her, it is easier and she is sure it's gluten free. We are going to be busy for the rest of the week. K10, I'm so glad your feeling better. Get some snacky things to have on hand for down times. There's so much out there to choose from. |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 4:13pm I looked on snoops and it says nothing about this strange email. |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 4:40pm Meatloaf and baked potatoes tonight. What are you all having? |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 5:05pm K10, The best thing I did was get our 4 kids their own towel colors for the camper. The old giant thick beach towels we use to take to the beach, took way too much space and took a long time to dry. And no one ever claimed the one on the floor was theirs. I got the idea to buy the kids regular sized thin bath towels. Each child has 4 towels in their own color to do with as they please. They must shower AND take these towels to the beach.(Not the same one, of course) When there is a towel laying around that need to go onto the clothes line to dry, I always know who it belongs to. It's been one of the best things I've done. Hubby and I have our own colors too. |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 8:02pm To those who turned 45 already. What was it like? What did it mean to you? |
| K10 | posted 23-Jun-2009 8:05pm Debbie: Great idea, thanks for that tip. I don't use the thick beach towels either, they just don't dry. Hey you know what we should do, put pictures of our trailers on the other site. What do you think? I just split a smoothie with my daughter. 1 cup of nonfat plain yogurt, 1 banana, and frozen peaches. It is yummy and the right amount when you share. Connie: The Proposal looks funny. I hope you have fun. |
| K10 | posted 23-Jun-2009 8:06pm Debbie: I am turning 40 this year. |
| Debbie M. | posted 23-Jun-2009 8:22pm My 40th was really depressing. My kids were out of town and I didn't have a perty and no one I knew called. I even cried. I already put a picture of the coveted camp site. I'll go ahead and put one of our rig. |
| Bronwyn | posted 23-Jun-2009 8:56pm I don't remember 45 one way or the other....doesn't stand out in my mind. I remember 40 and 50. I hated 40. I didn't want a party and I didn't want to not have a party. I always said I didn't want any surprises or any parties but, in the deep recesses of my (confused ) mind I also worried no one would do anything. Does anyone have any idea what I mean? I packed up the kids and myself and headed off on a big road trip so I wouldn't be here when it was my birthday. My husband couldn't get away but, I had this idea that his parents would like me to bring the kids out to visit. They live about 800 miles East of here in Manitoba. I got there and just felt stuck there with my kids. It turned out to be a dumb trip and not any fun at all. I think my MIL wondered what I was doing there. Anyways maybe it is best to decide what you want your 40th birthday to look like and let other people know what you want. K10 jealous about the smoothie.....I wish I hadn't killed my vitamix... The proposal has good reviews. |
| Connie | posted 23-Jun-2009 9:57pm We can't go to the movies until tomorrow. Sister and I went for a long walk, so nice. The weather here in MI, although good and warm, is so much friendlier than TN. I'm still full from dinner. Ladies, birthday's are a gift. All of them are great. I'm not one for fanfare and am glad when I don't get it. I don't know why I'm like that. It seems like a lot of pressure to put on our loved ones's...to make a fuss, the right kind of fuss, for our birthday's. My idea of a happy birthday is No cooking no one gives me grief and I get to spend the day doing what I want What could be better? Now I don't even need cake! Debbie, don't ever cry on your birthday...it will break hearts. I forgot how big the mosquitos are here. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 3:28am Debbie I liked your pictures. How much weight did you say your husband lost, he is so slim and doesn't seem like he would have ever been heavy. You look like such a nice family our having a great time....in a great parking spot I was just fooling around and wanted to see if I could post a pic by myself. I did it....I posted a pic taken the night before I cut my hair. My hair needed to be washed and I am certainly not smiling all in all it is a bit dreadful of a shot......but I am proud of myself for being able to post a pic all by myself. |
| Debbie M. | posted 24-Jun-2009 10:16am Bronwyn, I didn't see your picture. Steve lost 150 pounds. Today is my birthday. I'm officially 45. Its seems immposible. I went to Wal-Mart today and had to get a 14 in the shorts I just got a month ago. Yey! 14. Now I won't be hicking them up all the time now. Its going to be in the 90's today and very humid. I'm sure we will be in the pool. Happy day all. |
| K10 | posted 24-Jun-2009 10:51am Debbie M: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIZE 14 DEBBIE. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. You know a 14 at Wal Mart is probably more like a 12 in a nice store. Yay for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Debbie M. | posted 24-Jun-2009 11:00am impossible? I love my spelling. |
| Debbie M. | posted 24-Jun-2009 11:47am hiking? heh |
| K10 | posted 24-Jun-2009 12:19pm I didn't want to point out the spelling errors since it is your birthday and all. Love your trailer. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 12:45pm Happy birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Debbie....Happy Birthday to you!!!! You can be sung to a few times on your birthday!!!! Size 14....woohoo for you!!!! Do you have a pool in your yard? Vrry few people here have outdoor pools.....too short of a season. I have thought it would be nice to have a pool.....then I wouldn't have to embarrass myself by putting a swimming suit on in public. "hicking them up".....thought that was a local expression Yeah I guess I wasn't as clever as I thought ..... the pic I though I posted didn't show up after all. |
| Debbie M. | posted 24-Jun-2009 12:59pm Yes, we have a pool that is 15 ft wide by 4 ft high. It has a ring around the top that holds the pool up. We put it up and take it down every year. Its up just over 3 months out of the year. Thanks for the song!! It makes my day to read it. Spelling has never been my strong point. I don't care, I'm used to it. My german mother spells the best she can in english and we get along ok. Hicking them up would be a funny thing to say. The 16's are more comfy than the 14 but the 14's do fit! Want a pic of my pool? The other site is going to be nothing but me and my family soon. sorry |
| Connie | posted 24-Jun-2009 1:00pm Happy Birthday Debbie. 45 is wonderful...this is going to be your year! Your pictures look wonderful. You have a very attractive family and a very fine trailer. I'm thinking you are blessed indeed. A little bit off shopping today. And visiting. I'm si happy in MI. Bronwyn, I looked for your picture. Oh well. If your going to get help posting it put one int there of you smiling. I just have to see one. Later |
| Debbie M. | posted 24-Jun-2009 1:09pm Connie, Where is Mi are you? |
| Connie | posted 24-Jun-2009 2:14pm I am outside of Lansing, in Eaton Rapids...my home town. Saturday I will be in Shelbyville, IN. Friday night and Saturady night too. Aren't you near there Debbie? |
| Connie | posted 24-Jun-2009 2:24pm This morning they had a cook book author on the morning show. Her book, Hungry Girl 200 recipes under 200 calories" looks really good. She took foods we love when eating out and made them healthy. I want one! Of course I would have to tweak the recipes, but the author has lost 30 pounds and I'm thinking good cookbooks are our friends. BTW, she has other cookbooks, but I don't know anything about them. |
| Angie | posted 24-Jun-2009 3:04pm Debbie M A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. I am 48 and I really can't think of a year I would ever want to go back to. I am happy where I am and I still learn something new everyday. Bronwyn I love my new blender. You hit smoothie and it does everything else. It makes them thicker than my old one and it crushes all the ice. Connie when will you be going home? Sounds like you are having a great time. Good day to all and again Debbie celebrate your day. Go get a bottle of bubble bath and enjoy a nice, relaxing bath. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 3:20pm Angie I am really interested in your new blender, what is it and in what price range is it? I just simply have no idea when and if I will ever be able to buy another vitamix. The very best deal here on a vitamix is when they are available for sale at Costco....once or twice a year and they cost $500. That is a lot of money for a machine that I truly only make smoothies in. I haven't found another blended though that works as well. Debbie run over and visit Connie....how fun would that be |
| Angie | posted 24-Jun-2009 4:07pm Bronwyn do you have Bed Bath and Beyond up there. We got it there and it was $200.00 but we had a coupon that we got it for 20% off so we paid $160.00. The brand name is Breville. See if you can find it on line. I really like it. |
| Debbie M. | posted 24-Jun-2009 4:07pm Connie, You are only 1 hour and 41 minutes north of my house. How long are you going to be in Shelbyville? |
| Debbie M. | posted 24-Jun-2009 4:09pm Wait did you say MI or IN? |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 4:23pm Debbie that is a very good question....Mi of In. When I was a kid I remember being on a trip with my parents and we were in I think Grand Rapids or Lansings or something, I don't really remember. Anyways there were two States close by that had cities with the same names. My Dad called a relative that lived in the city we were close to, and said, "we are in your neck of the woods". They invited us over to visit and gave us directions. As it turned out we were in fact 100's of miles away. So that was the joke for years at family reunions. Are there two Shelbyville's as well. There is a Shelby, Montana. I am so excited to check out the Breville....that is a good name. The exchange right now between U.S. currency and Canada isn't great.....believe me I have seen much worse though. We are always aware of that with kids going to school in the States. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 4:26pm Angie I don't know if we have the store you mentioned, we had a store with a name something like that but I think it was a little different and it went bankrupt and closed in Canada but, I think it is still open in the States. |
| K10 | posted 24-Jun-2009 4:31pm Bronwyn: Bed, Bath and Beyond is still around. The one that went bankrupt is Linens and Things. They were basically the same exact store though. Maybe I will ask for the blender for my birthday. If my blender holds up that long. Connie: That would be so cool if you could see Debbie. If you guys are able to get together please take pictures. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 5:01pm Breville BBL600XL Ikon 750-Watt 51-Ounce Blender Breville BBL600XL Ikon 750-Watt 51-Ounce Blender by Breville Angie is this it.....it is $299. on amazon but there may be better prices else where. K10....It was "Linens and Things" that I was trying to think of. I don't think we have the other one because, if I remember right my son that just got married got a gift certificate for Bed, Bath and Beyond and he planned to use it sometime when they are in the States. Actually his wives' family have a lovely place on a lake in Montana and they go there often. I should maybe buy the certificate from him and have him check it out. Debbie you mentioned your spelling.....mine isn't perfect but it is better than my pronounciation (spelling) of words. Occasionally I will be reading out loud in a class or something and will just butcher the word I am saying even though it may be a word I have no problem with normally. I hate that My youngest is at the hospital visiting his girlfriend. She was admitted yesterday weighing 80 lbs.....she is 5' 10" or 5'11". She is a very bright girl (genius) and a perfectionist. Her father deserted her and her Mum when she was only 4 and she was left with her Mother who is wacko....really. This kid has grown up with constant pressure in her life. My son and this girl have been friends and dating for over 3 years. We occasionally have her bring her Mum out for dinner as well. When the Mum leaves I am so exhausted........she is exhausting. A year ago she weighed 115-120....very slim but looked good. She could have easily weighed 10-15 lbs. more and still looked very slim. I have been so concerned about her for the last couple of months as I have seen her melting away. When she eats here or we have gone out to eat she seems to go to the bathroom in the middle or the end or both. I finally did ask her if she was vomiting because she has been open about her weight loss and has appeared concerned with it. She denies it but I still have my suspicions. Anyways it is certainly a concern to get down to a weight like that. I would so happily shift some of my weight her way. I know there is a lot of emotional stuff tied up with the anorexia or bulimia which ever it is......things that you struggle with for your whole life. |
| Angie | posted 24-Jun-2009 5:11pm Bronwyn go to Breville.com They show 4 blenders and one is a hand blender. It shows the prices and I have the $199.99 one. |
| Angie | posted 24-Jun-2009 5:20pm So sad about your son's friend. That is one thing I could never do is throw my food up. I hate throwing up and will fight it with everything I have when I am sick. I do think it is sympton of being a control addict. They actually get a high feeling from being able to control what they eat. We need to all say a prayer for her. That height and that weight is very dangerous. My daughter is 5' 10" and she weighs 145 and looks thin but healthy. Keep us updated. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 5:37pm Angie you are so right about the control thing....eating or not eating is the thing she has been able to have control over in her life. Her Mother is such a control freak,,,,it is a very toxic relationship. When she is with us she is such a different person than she is when her Mum is around. When her Mum is around she becomes this really little girl who says very little and her personality is crushed. She has been with us when her Mum has called on the phone....which she does continually...the girl is just quiet and saying yes, yes........while you can hear her Mum on the other side of the line just ranting and raving. I have wanted to grab the phone from her and tell her Mum to stop being so emotionally abusive. This girl goes to University in Eastern Canada so she is 2000 miles away during the school year but, distance doesn't always solve all the problem and certainly being back home has not been a good thing. I would like to talk to her Mother but I don't think it would be good for the girl if I did. My son wanted her to move to our house and we certainly have room for her but, I think that would open a whole can of worms that I may be really sorry about. Of course the girl is very torn as well....we all want to be loved, nuturtured (spelling) by our families. Angie found the blender,.,,,thanks!!! Does it have a plunger.....the vitamix has a plunger to keep things moving. |
| Angie | posted 24-Jun-2009 6:14pm Bronwyn it does it all itself like when I put it on the smoothie setting it blends and pulses and mixes things up all on it's on. So far I have not needed a plunger. My last blender had a plunger. I love the blades on this one. Much better than my last. Maybe you can find a store that carries it up there so you can look at it. When you put it on smoothie it has a clock that counts down a minute and I just go do something else while it's blending. I'll see if I can find a store locator. |
| K10 | posted 24-Jun-2009 6:41pm Bronwyn: I remember you mentioning your son's girlfriend before. I hope they can help her with her eating disorder. From what I understand anorexia is quite common in girls with very controlling parent's or perfectionists. Someone at my Lose it for Life class last night mentioned that he had heard that people who struggle with being heavy also have issues with perfection. I think I may have to agree, in the fact that if I can't do it right I would rather not do it. I was a varsity diver in high school and my junior year my mom was diagnosed with cancer again and I decided to withdraw from the team because I didn't want to not be able to do my best because of the distractions at home. I also didn't want to be beaten by someone else on my team. I just did this same thing last week. I withdrew from teaching the Bible study Wednesday nights. There are 2 other women and we alternate, but I was feeling overwhelmed with moving and all and I felt like I just wouldn't be able to commit like I should so I quit. I tried to do so a month ago, but I was talked into staying. I am very relieved to not have the added pressure though. I do see a pattern though. With the weight thing I always seem to get to a certain point and then don't try as hard or maybe even sabotage myself. I hope to get past this point very soon. Debbie: you are really making me want to work harder after seeing how much success you have had recently. Summer is hard for me, because I get hot and don't want to do anything. At least with packing up a house I am not just sitting on my big butt. Angie: That blender looks awesome. |
| Diane | posted 24-Jun-2009 6:50pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE! I turned 44 about three weeks ago. I am not real wild about getting older, but it beats the alternative! Hope you are having a great day! Your camping excursion looks like it was a lot of fun in a beautiful spot! |
| Angie | posted 24-Jun-2009 7:09pm Bronwyn go to shopbot.ca and type in breville blender. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 8:13pm Angie I have never seen that site before.....the prices are really good, thanks! I have always had VitaMix's.....like even when I was young and lived at home. My Mum had a VitaMix that was solid stainless steel.....the container and the whole thing. It actually still works. It has to be 35-40 years old. I gave it to my oldest son when we moved Mum out of her house. I just don't know that you need to spend 500$ to make a smoothie though. |
| Bronwyn | posted 24-Jun-2009 10:52pm K10 I think that is interesting about the perfectionism and weight. I would think I wasn't a perfectionist and yet I think fear of failure, fear of not being perfect and so forth has held back numerous times in my life and from many different things. |
| Barb | posted 24-Jun-2009 11:23pm I am really excited about this "diet". I started March 7 and when I weighed myself the next week I had lost 10 lbs! I thought my scale was wrong so I bought a new one. Same result. I held steady the next week. I have been averaging a pound a week since then although there have been a few weeks when I didn't lose anything. I have lost 18 pounds without any "pain". I love chocolate so I eat sugar free chocolate pudding and Blue Bunny fudgesicles when I need a fix. I have been telling everybody about this diet. I eat one piece of wheat bread a day (I didn't like the whole grain my health food store had-too pasty)and still lose. I have had an occasional cookie, dinner roll and pizza but I don't feel deprived. |
| Connie | posted 24-Jun-2009 11:26pm Back from seeing "the proposal." Good movie, funny and tender too. The scenery is awesome. One day I am going to get to Canada...look out Bronwyn! Debbie, right now I am in MI. But Friday I will be going to Shelbyville, IN for two nights. I don't know how far you are from there. I will be staying with an aunt on Fri night, but Sat night I will be in a hotel in town. Bronwyn, so sorry about your son's girlfriend. She has a battle ahead...I wish her the best. Prayers for her for sure. Off to bed, my neice is waiting. It's tradition...we go to bed together and have "girl talk." She's 15. I tread carefully there. Night all. |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 2:24am Welcome Barb.....you are doing so well. How much weight do you want to lose? Tell us a little about yourself. Connie I don't have any idea where "The Proposal" was shot. In the previews it looked like they went to Alaska. I love a tender, funny movie so I plan to see it. |
| K10 | posted 25-Jun-2009 2:27am Hi Barb: I am glad you are doing well with this way of eating. It really is freeing. Ok, you need to give us your info please, we want to get to know you. |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 2:33am K10....it is easy to see who is in the East and who is in the West. You and I always have the latest comments however, it is 12:30 here and I should be in bed and it is 11:30 there and you should be in bed as well |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 4:43am Well it is now 2:37 and I am tired but can't sleep. After tossing and turning for ever I gave up and got up....shoot! Actually, my son spent a couple of hours at the hospital today with his girlfriend. She actually admitted to him that she has been purging some of the time this summer (I suspect last semester as well, but maybe then she just didn't eat). She told him that her Mum had been making this gross food and then standing over her and forcing her to eat it. I have always said stupid things like, "I wish I could be a little anorexic". |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 4:44am Hey Debbie how was the 45th birthday? |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 9:12am My birthday was mostly sweet but a spash of sour was tossed in there by my mother. When ever she hears something she dosn't agree with or understand she makes a big fuss even at the expense of other people. Of course she had to splash me yesterday. Why am I surprised? Its par for the course. I have always called my Father the great equalizer. They are polar opposites. Maybe this is the reason I am slightly bi-polar? heh I will write when I get back. I need to take my son to Drivers Ed. |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 9:56am 186.5 this morning. My family hasn't commented on my weight loss. I mean Mom, Dad, sis, brother. I have so much to loose that losing what I did hasn't made enough of a difference yet. My folks knew me when I was small and so until I am that size again they won't be impressed. I wonder what being a size 10 would be like? My body is changing though. My skin is getting floppy around my stomach. It's soft and gushy where the fat used to be. I wonder what a wreck my abdomen will be when I'm finished losing? Maybe a girdle? What do people do with their "baby basket" when it's not full of fat? I'm sure the skin will hang somewhat. Steve was lucky to not have a problem with that. Genetics, I suppose he was lucky. Walgreens is having a Wellness tour of some sort. They will give 4 free tests worth 140.00 sometime this week. Bone density, cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose, I think. I think they measure something in your heal for the bone density test. Has anyone had this test? I'm calling for my MRI today. I have mixed feelings about that. Bronwyn, Sorry about your sleeplessness. Thats such a pain. We watched Singin in the Rain last night. Love it! I also love: Sergent York Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The African Queen Fiddler on the Roof The Quiet Man To Kill a Mocking Bird The just don't make movies like they used to. These are all worth while movies to see if you're looking for something good to rent. Later. |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 9:59am Connie, I'm glad your eating has gotten back on track. What a relief for you. My home is about 4 hours North of where you will be. Too bad, I wish we could have gotten together. |
| Angie | posted 25-Jun-2009 11:01am Debbie M my husband and I watched The African Queen a few weeks ago. He had never seen it. It is one of my favorites too. We hardly ever watch anything on TV except American Idol, now we are watching America's Got Talent and we watch Dancing with the Stars. There are really no sitcoms that are worth watching. |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 11:58am Angie, I agree. The content in most of TV today is so upsetting. I hate it when my kids see certain things that should not be seen or even referred to. Even advertisements for shows or movies are not appropriate anymore. |
| K10 | posted 25-Jun-2009 12:48pm Debbie: Sorry about your family, my husbands family doesn't make comments either. His mom will say that his sister is on this extreme diet or that, but to certain kids (my hubby being one) she won't comment on their weight loss. My one sister-in-law had lost over 50 pounds and she said her mom didn't say anything about it. When hubby was up there last month I talked to her and asked if she noticed he had lost weight and she said yes, I still don't think she said anything to him. My folks on the other hand say more. My dad has always had a hard time with my weight. Just eat less, push yourself away from the table etc. I think he is scared I will die, because his mother died at a young age. It wasn't weight related though. Unless I saw them as a child, I haven't seen any of the movies you mentioned. Oldest is in love with musicals. She just borrowed 4 from her friend last night. I have never been into them and they usually bore me somewhat. My husband can't believe how many classics I haven't seen. I tease him and say it is because I am a child of divorce and that we had cable. ;) I haven't even seen Sound of Music. I can sense your disbelief. Maybe when we move I won't get DISH for a while and we can watch musicals for a while??? :) My sleep cycles should improve. I haven't seen Lord of the Rings either. I have seen Gone with the Wind though. I had a spoonful of peanut butter and 2 pieces of raisin toast with butter. Ezekiel of course. I am going to see my friend whom I haven't seen since last September, she says she has gained weight and I have lost it will be interesting. Our girls went to preschool together. I need to grab the camera. Talk to you all later. |
| Connie | posted 25-Jun-2009 12:54pm Welcome Barb. Congrats on the weight loss. As you go along, you'LL find many more options. This is the best possible way to eat...I think anyway. I tell people too. Let us know some things about yourself...we are a pretty tight community and share like crazy! Bronwyn, I could tell you were not surprised by your son's girlfriends confession. Poor soul. Can she get away from the tormenting mom? Sometimes you have to do what works. She is in a battle for her life. Debbie, we'll hook up one day. I'm traveling with sister's so I can't stop. I wish I could. I only watch one tv show. Tv is so stupid most of the time, you have to dumb down to swallow it. I guess the target audiences are really young and really old. And of course it's a race to see who can have the most inappropriate reality show. Thank goodness for books. Last night we had a great salad. Spinach mix, red onion, avacado, fresh mozzerella, eggs, strawberries, blueberries and some almonds. I didn't even need dressing. So fresh. The berries here are so sweet. Colder climates produce sweeter fruits. I might have some more today. Tonight I'm cooking tenderlion lascola, otherwise known as heart attack on a plate. I promise I eat it rarely. Great day all. |
| Diane | posted 25-Jun-2009 3:53pm Sooo, here's an interesting question. I got to thinking about this yesterday, could a person make a decent pizza crust from ground Tricuits? They have a rosemary and basil flavor now that might be good. I found a pie crust recipe using the plain flavor and I saw little pizzas made by putting toppings on the crackers themselves, but I am thinking there is a way a whole crust would be possible. Something to play with maybe. Welcome Karin and Barb! Bronwyn, sorry to hear things are not going so well for your son's lady friend. Eating disorders are hard to beat, they are not only a physical strain but mental as well. Debbie, Singin' in the Rain is great and I also like The Music Man. I have seen both done as a live performance and would go see either one again in a heartbeat. |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 4:06pm I remember when my oldest was about 9 that he had some new friends (we had moved) over to watch a movie. We had always promoted watching good movies. My son loves the Music Man, Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof and so forth because those were the movies we always watched at that point in his life. He put Music Man on for his friends and they were really critical. Unfortunately, he began to think it wasn't too cool to watch those movies. Another series we had bought was some James Dobson, Focus on the Family series called, "McGee and Me".....all of my kids had really liked those when they were young. Friends can have such an impact though. Well I guess I better get moving here. The electricity went out for over and hour. It is amazing how dependent we are on electricity. I couldn't do the laundry, use ht edishwasher, iron, vaccumn......so I laid on the couch and started a new book. Now I want to keep reading and not do the house work Hey Karin, we haven't heard from you! |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 4:09pm Diane we must have posted at the same time....what a good idea about the triscuts. Let us know what you come up with. |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 4:16pm Speaking of Pizza I have wanted to try this recipe....wonder if the triscusts could be subbed for the flour? I have a marinated chicken strips I do that I thought may be good on this. Okonomiyaki (Japanese Pizza) Recipe Leeks are notoriously gritty. To clean them well I typically slice them lengthwise and then submerge them in a big bowl of water - where I rinse and swish them to loosen up any dirt. Drain and repeat if needed. Then chop/slice. 2 cups cabbage, finely shredded 1 cup leeks, well washed and chopped (see head notes) 2/3 cup whole wheat pastry flour (or apf flour) a couple pinches of fine grain sea salt 2 eggs, beaten 1+ tablespoon olive oil Garnish: toasted slivered almonds, chives/ herbs Combine the cabbage, leeks, flour, and salt in a bowl. Toss until everything is coated with a dusting of flour. Stir in the eggs and mix until everything is evenly coated. Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add a generous splash of olive oil. Scoop the cabbage mixture into the pan, and using a metal spatula press it into a round pancake shape, flat as you can get it. Cook for 4-5 minutes, or until the bottom is golden. To flip the okonomiyaki, slide it out of the skillet onto a plate. Place another plate on top and flip both (together) over. If you need a bit more oil in your skillet, add it now, before sliding the okonomiyaki back into the skillet. Again press down a bit with a spatula and cook until golden on this side - another 3 -5 minutes. When you are finished cooking, sprinkle with toasted almonds and chives, and slide it onto a cutting board to cut into wedges. Enjoy immediately. Serves 1 - 2. Print Recipe 145 |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 4:53pm Okay I am yakky today but, wanted to say I just had a big chop salad and defrosted one of the blueberry muffins...my version not sparks. The muffin tasted pretty good really. I would make these again to have in the freezer to eat as a dessert or something. I may tweak it again but the flavour and consistency are good. |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 5:06pm I went to the mall today for the first time in a long time. I always hate to go there as there are many mirrors to catch a glimps of myself which I always hate to see. But this time, even thought I still avoided the mirrors I felt ok about being there. Not the greatest but still much better than anytime in the recent past. |
| Hilda | posted 25-Jun-2009 5:16pm Today and yesterday on www.joycemeyer.org are two programs on Your Body is God's House. Taking care of your body. |
| Hilda | posted 25-Jun-2009 5:17pm Diane use the Ezekiel tortilla for your pizza crust. |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 5:54pm Gab, gab. gab and waste my time reading recipes......sorry. I wondered if this may be a better recipe than the one with just straight peanut butter................Gluten/Dairy Free Almond Cookies (makes about 40 1 inch cookies) 1/2 Cup Almond Butter (I used raw, creamy, unsalted from Trader Joes, but you can use any type of almond butter you find. If you open the jar and the almond butter has separated, you’ll need to mix the oil back together with the almond butter and then measure.) 2 Cups Almond Meal 6 Tbsp Honey or Agave Nectar 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract Slivered Almonds, for decoration 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 2. Place all the ingredients in a bowl and stir to thoroughly combine. 3. You can either roll the dough by hand into 1 inch balls and lightly press down with a fork or your fingers OR you can pat into a large square and cut into smaller 1-inch squares. 4. Place the cookies on a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet. 5. Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden. The cookies will crisp as they cool. 6. Allow cookies to cool and store in an airtight container. |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 6:10pm Wow, Ed, Michael and Farrah in a 3 day span. Did you hear about their deaths? |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jun-2009 8:30pm Debbie I did know about Farrah but not the others. I have always felt sad for Micheal Jackson what a strange life he has had. I wonder if he has been living with his children right up until this time. I haven't really heard anything about him for quite a while. There was a time that he was in the news constantly.....in recent years all bad stuff. |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 9:47pm I know he was strange but I do not believe he was evil. He had a tragic life because of greed and the media. But I don't think he hurt any children. |
| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jun-2009 9:58pm I totally love his music. He was way too young to die and his chidren and family and fans will miss him. |
| Debbie M. | posted 26-Jun-2009 12:05am Thanks Hilda |
| Debbie M. | posted 26-Jun-2009 10:02am I went to that health screening yesterday. Cholesterol was 223. A bit high but they didn't separate the good from the bad, so who knows. Blood sugar 85, B/P 111/79, bone density -o.7 (he said that was good), THey couldn't do the body fat thing where I stand on these metal foot prints because of the metal ion my head (I sound like a freak) But my BMI was 30.7. I was just on the boarder between class 1 obesity and just overweight. 140.00 worth of medical test for free. Not bad for a few minutes wait. And it was fun. My MRI got scheduled for July 7th. I need to make an eating plan according to the groceries in the house today. What are you all having for supper? |
| Debbie M. | posted 26-Jun-2009 10:51am I think Karin left becaue she was looking for an alternative support group who did not believe there was a God. I guess she found out that we are all believing Christians here. In spite of it and her denial of God I hope she finds what ever she is looking for in her quest for self responsibility. I for one could never get through this tumultuous world without leaning on my biggest support, my Lord Jesus. Anyone seen The Notebook? One of the best love stories ever. Have we already talked about this? |
| Debbie M. | posted 26-Jun-2009 11:13am ooops, was the above snarkey? |
| K10 | posted 26-Jun-2009 12:11pm Debbie:I loved The Notebook, although I wished she treated her engagement differently. I wonder if you are right about the Karin thing? I am sad about Farrah Fawcett dying. I wonder if she became a believer? She spoke very spiritually toward the end of her life. Michael Jackson is a totally sad situation. The abuse that he appeared to experience as a child at the hands of his father is appalling. I think he may have been sexually abused at some point in his life as well. I do believe he was guilty of molesting at least the original accusing child. He paid a large sum of money to that family to keep quiet. What a lonely soul he was. I wonder what will happen to his children, who don't look black at all to me? I wonder if he is genetically related to them at all? I would really be surprised if he was a believer, but only the LORD knows. I also feel sorry for the fanatics that are so consumed with all this, don't they have lives? Three is in three days. Youngest comes home from camp today. I hope she had a great time. Talk to you all later. |
| K10 | posted 26-Jun-2009 12:13pm **I meant to say we now have the three of, it happens in threes. |
| Debbie M. | posted 26-Jun-2009 1:54pm We watched the movie Benjamin Button the other night. What is with all the infedelity these days? It was only rated PG but it should have been a higher rating. Anyone see it? Strange little movie. |
| Bronwyn | posted 26-Jun-2009 6:46pm I haven't seen Benjamin Buttons.....so it sounds like you wouldn't recommend it, right???? I had thought of getting if from Red Box this week-end. I saw notebook but when it first came out and I am trying to remember the story.....I get movies mixed up together. Debbie that was a good thing to have all of your numbers done.....when you lose more weight it will be fun to go back and do your blood work again. I need to go on and have a consult on my bone density. I have been procrastinating because I know it isn't good and I don't want to hear the results. I know I have osteopenia but after the exam the person who did the density test suggested I should go see the Dr. so I am afraid it has progressed to Osteoporosis. Debbie you may be right about Karin. I love the saying that there aren't any atheists in a fox hole. Home care came today and stayed with my Mum. My daughter, daughter-in-law and grandson went out for lunch. It was really fun! Then my daughter went to work and my DIL and grandson and I went shopping. He was so good....what a cutie. For lunch I had chicken tacos on corn tortillas. There (son't know what is going on here but the computer is going crazy....i willl try this again in a whilewere |
| Bronwyn | posted 26-Jun-2009 6:53pm ha, ha, ha,,,,,,,my niece just sent me this,,,,,this is why we shouldn't bake with flour and sugar Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa , but forgot to do it until the last minute.. She remembered the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix & quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing, & helping her son pack for Scout camp. When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. She thought, 'Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake.' This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church and in her new community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake. Alice found it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and covered it with icing.. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect.. Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30 and to buy the cake and bring it home. When Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect cake had already been sold. ?She grabbed her cell phone and called her mom. Alice was horrified - she was beside herself. Everyone would know! What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, and ridiculed! All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her behind her back. The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon/ bridal shower at the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good time. Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at Alice because she was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa but, having already RSVP'd, she couldn't think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South and, to Alice 's horror, the cake in question was presented for dessert! Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake! She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, 'What a beautiful cake!' Alice still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, 'Thank you, I baked it myself.' Alice smiled and thought to herself, 'God is good' ! |
| K10 | posted 26-Jun-2009 9:31pm So funny. |
| Bronwyn | posted 27-Jun-2009 4:23am Oh my gosh....can't we get a break here. Tonight my husband came home so discouraged because he had thought finally some work had opened up. It was a small project maybe 8 months or so of work. He has worked so hard on this project already.....drawings, some mock ups and samples. The people just kept changing their minds about what they really wanted and he would do more design work and samples. Then last week they wanted to add on a huge other addition besides what they originally planned to do. So all in all he has really put a huge amount of time, effort and money into this. He felt really encouraged when last week they proposed extending it into a major project. After todays meeting they have scaled it way back....to being almost nothing but with the idea that they still want to do the rest some time in the future. Oh my word he was so deflated and discouraged. My son was working from 3 to 11 tonight (my 19 year old). He went out after work to get in his car and his car was gone.....stolen. Of course he had his wallet and I-pod under the seat. So his car, all his I.D., all his money and I-pod and some clothing are all gone. The car ran well but it was a 93" Chrysler New Yorker, so worth nothing except to us, we now are short transportation for him to work. Oh my word.......this is just overwhelming. We only have 2 vehicles now and 4 people.....on completely different schedules and going totally different directions. We live in the country so can't even use public transportation. Obviously we also can't replace it. All of this has led to me being unable to sleep but to tell you the truth it doesn't make me want to eat at all.....too discouraged to eat......that is really discouraged. |
| Debbie M. | posted 27-Jun-2009 8:32am Oh Bronwyn, So sorry to hear of the theft. How awful.The wallet with ID would be the worst thing for me (your son) Perhaps the police will find the car abandoned somewhere. There are supplements for your bones. Ones you can take once a day, once a week or once a month. You can even get anual injections. You need to look into these things. You know such as Boniva? They can prevent further bone loss, and even reversal, I think, not sure. Funny story. Somtimes saying less is more. hehe |
| Debbie M. | posted 27-Jun-2009 8:34am As for the movie Benjamin Button. I think some people liked the movie so don't not see it because of me. Brad Pitt really looked good on his motorcycle. Wish there had been more of him at that age. |
| Debbie M. | posted 27-Jun-2009 8:38am I think the reason I didn't enjoy the movie was because of several reasons. First the sound quality was bad and I had trouble following the dialog. Second, we had kids around being noisy and interupting. A couple of the kids wanted to watch it and every once in a while there would be a part that was inappropriate. Maybe it would have been ok without all the distractions. What did all the rest of you who saw it think? |
| Bronwyn | posted 27-Jun-2009 12:38pm We are now having longer term studies that are revealing some of the scary things about those drugs for our bones we hear about on the T.V. all the time. My Dr. said they are finding that in fact bones are becoming possibly bigger but more brittle. Here is another concern: "We are still working on trying to figure out the long term effect of bisphophonates on the jaws. Many people are currently researching this problem and answers are starting to come to the surface. We know that the intravenous form of the drugs is directly inked to necrosis of the jaw. However, the effects of the oral form are not well known at this point, but the risks appear to be significantly lower." I have ordered a book called "Walk Tall" and I need to get going on the exercises in it. |
| Bronwyn | posted 27-Jun-2009 12:56pm more info on bone density drugs: ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science breakthroughs -- updated daily Science News Share Blog Cite Print Email Bookmark Common Oral Osteoporosis Drugs Linked To Serious Jaw Necrosis ScienceDaily (Jan. 2, 2009) — Researchers at the University Of Southern California, School Of Dentistry release results of clinical data that links oral bisphosphonates to increased jaw necrosis. The study is among the first to acknowledge that even short-term use of common oral osteoporosis drugs may leave the jaw vulnerable to devastating necrosis, according to a new report. See also: Health & Medicine * Dentistry * Pharmacology * Birth Control * Today's Healthcare * Diseases and Conditions * Workplace Health Osteoporosis currently affects 10 million Americans. Fosomax is the most widely prescribed oral bisphosphonate, ranking as the 21st most prescribed drug on the market since 2006, according to a 2007 report released by IMS Health. This is the first large institutional study in the U.S. to investigate the relationship between oral bisphosphonate use and jaw bone death, said principal investigator Parish Sedghizadeh, assistant professor of clinical dentistry with the USC School of Dentistry. After controlling for referral bias, nine of 208 healthy School of Dentistry patients who take or have taken Fosamax for any length of time were diagnosed with osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ). The study's results are in contrast to drug makers' prior assertions that bisphosphonate-related ONJ risk is only noticeable with intravenous use of the drugs, not oral usage, Sedghizadeh said. "We've been told that the risk with oral bisphosphonates is negligible, but four percent is not negligible," he said. Most doctors who have prescribed bisphosphonates have not told patients about any oral health risks associated with the use of the drugs, despite even short-term usage posing a risk due to the drug's tenacious 10-year half life in bone tissue. Lydia Macwilliams of Los Angeles said no one told her about the risk posed by her three years of Fosamax usage until she became a patient of Sedghizadeh at the School of Dentistry. "I was surprised," she said. "My doctor who prescribed the Fosamax didn't tell me about any possible problems with my teeth." |
| Anonymous | posted 27-Jun-2009 4:15pm Breville blenders are being advertised on tv in the Macy's ad as being half price. |
| Hilda | posted 27-Jun-2009 4:30pm I thought Benjamin Button was one of the best movies I had seen in a long time. If you think Reality Tv has sunk to as low as it can get, I think the Dance Your Ass Off Promos are beyond gross. Who wants to watch a grossly obese person dance? The costumes are just sick. |
| Debbie M. | posted 27-Jun-2009 7:11pm Hey Home girls, I went to Lake Michigan today with the family. We had such a wonderful time. It's just like going to the Ocean without the salt, jelly fish and giant waves. The water was calmer than I'd seen it in a long time. The temp was in the 80's and the clouds were beautiful. Its about an hours drive so its a simple day trip. We are so lucky to live near such a tremendous body of water. It's lovely when we can stay to see the sun set on the water. Always stunning. On July 4th we will be going to a beach up the road from where we were today to see the fire works. They light them off over the water. Then we'll go back to the camp ground at the State Park Warren Dunes where we went today. Weight's up a little today 187.5. I don't know why. It does that some times. Bronwyn, That's good information about the bone medicine. I had no idea. ANy word on your sin's car? I hope he reported all his ID's missing. See, Hilda liked the Ben Butt movie. |
| Debbie M. | posted 27-Jun-2009 7:22pm I meant son's car, not sin's car. heh |
| Bronwyn | posted 28-Jun-2009 1:29am Debbie you were right it is a sin that my son's car got stolen |
| Debbie M. | posted 28-Jun-2009 10:50am I have a therapy exercise for everyone. Tonight go outside with a jar and catch fireflies. Put the jar by your bed and watch the light show. In the morning let them go. Its a feel good thing to do. |
| Debbie M. | posted 28-Jun-2009 5:02pm I miss everyone. We went to a park to fly kites today. Then went to sit by the river while the kids ate icecream cones. The pool water is in the 80's and feels so good. Its almost time to fix supper on the grill. Hot dogs for the kids and steaks for us. I hope you've been outside today having a nice time like we did. I miss you Connie. |
| Connie | posted 28-Jun-2009 5:59pm Made it home today. I feel like I've been gone for a long time. I've only had a minute to scan the posts. Bronwyn, sorry about the stolen car. It has happened to us too. They trashed it. But it was only an old truck and soon we were over it. You'll figure out a way to make it work out. But it was a pain in the behind for awhile. I hope everyone is well. I am so glad to be home and on my laptop and checking in with all of you. And Debbie, I am sure I'm up a couple of pounds as well. But it is temporary. |
| Debbie M. | posted 28-Jun-2009 7:16pm Welcome home Connie!!~ |
| Connie | posted 28-Jun-2009 9:52pm I'm so beat! Traveling is tiresome. All I do is sit there...but somehow it wears me out. Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed with my own pillows. And my own animals! I've bleached the kitchen, I'm beginning to feel all is in it's place again. Tomorrow I'll tell you all about my trip and my wild night out with my sisters. We had a time. Night all. |
| K10 | posted 29-Jun-2009 12:43am Hi everyone. We had a special service at church today. We do this every year the week of July 4th, it is called "Celebrate America". We have church outside in a big tent and there are skits and we sing patriotic music. It turned out well. After the service they give away hot dogs, chips and watermelon. They also have a few rides and games. Popcorn, snow cones and cotton candy too. My hubby and I went to lunch with a couple of friends from church. They are 2 younger guys that look up to us. The oldest is 24 and the youngest is 19. We had planned on going out last weekend, but hubby had the stomach flu. We went to a place called Roscoes Chicken and Waffles. Obviously not NFNS, but the chicken and the waffles were both so good. We then went to a street festival and watched a band play. We had a good time and I may really regret what I ate today, but I am ok with that. It is rather frustrating when talking to these two young men and learning how many of our older youth are involved in drinking or doing drugs. Mostly pot I guess, but it is annoying. I hope it isn't that way at the new church we plan on attending. My husband and I did the same things, sorry to admit, but I just pray that my girls will be smarter than we were. The advantage I think we may have over some of the other parents' is that we did these things and we may know how to detect it better. I am going to go back to being fully NFNS starting tomorrow. I need to be and I am looking forward to some structure in that way. I am going to start walking with my friend tomorrow morning as well. If it is too warm in the morning we will walk to our DVD. Debbie M: I can't go out and catch fireflies, we don't have them here. I have seen them in Minnesota though. They are awesome to watch. I have enjoyed watching June Bugs fly around this week though. Talk to you all tomorrow. |
| Bronwyn | posted 29-Jun-2009 1:38am After church we had a group of young people over to visit and for dinner. It was really nice, they are such sharp kids. Nice to hear from you Connie. Tell us all about your travels. The fire flies sound so fun but I don't believe that we have them here either. I don't think I have ever seen a fire fly. |
| Bronwyn | posted 29-Jun-2009 2:30am Police found my son's car....not sure what kind of shape it is in. Of course the ignition is ripped apart to hot wire it. I guess we will see it tomorrow and figure out if it is drive able......hope so!!!!! |
| Bronwyn | posted 29-Jun-2009 3:30am I do love dragon flies......so cool!!!! |
| Debbie M. | posted 29-Jun-2009 7:44am Hurray!! I was hoping they would find it. I hope it's not too bad. It's ashame you're never seen a firefly. It is an amazing site to sit outside and watch them. At times there are millions of them lighting at ramdom times. I wonder if something like that could be caught on video. I don't care for June bugs. A few years back we had way too many of them. Some agency even put traps in trees here and there for a study. I think I don't like them is because they fly around so unpredictably. We are having a very mild year for mosquitos. Haven't been seeing many yet. Ususally we have to wear bug spray when camping or if we want to be outside after dark but not this year. I don't remember a year like this. It's very nice. Horse flies are terrible. One took a chunk out of my leg one time. Dradon flies~ I agree, very cool. I can't figure it out. My weight has been climbing all week. 189 today. Whaaaaaaaaaaa :o( |
| Debbie M. | posted 29-Jun-2009 10:11am I've been trying to think of what I'm doing to cause weight gain. I certainly am not eating too many calories and I am mid cycle. Maybe too much salt? I know one thing I've done differently is I have been drinking sugar free lemon aid. I gave up artificial sweetners for a long time. I just started drinking it a couple days ago. I'll watch the salt today. |
| Bronwyn | posted 29-Jun-2009 11:40am Debbie M. aren't June bugs just disgusting. I have only ever seen a few in my life....like 3 or 4 but they totally freaked me out because they are so huge, scary and unpredictable. They are kind of a big coachroach....which I have only ever seen one of two of as well and not here. Hey maybe that is the advantage to a cooler climate.,,,,the bugs don't like it. Debbie stay off the scales for a day or two,,,,,cut down the salt and maybe drop a carb or two for a couple of days....like if you usually eat Ezekial every day cut it back to half what you would normally eat and half of the fruit you would normally eat. It also sounds like the lemonade may be a problem. The scales will move again. Off to do all the stuff I have to do with re: to the car. I was so upset because the police made arrangements to have the car towed to an impound lot.....why not a service station. Now I have to drive to the impound lot.....about an hour away and pay 150 bucks to get it out of the impound lot. Then I am meeting AMA to have it towed to a service station.....for Pete Sakes I could have had AMA tow it last night straight to the service station at no cost to me. I am not the bad guy here. The police told my son that there is a lot of this going on. They spot cars easy to break into.....break into them, hot wire them and drive them off and go through them and take all the valuables out of them and then abandon them. They left his I.D. in the car and took the I-pod and DSL and there was some other electronic. I'm off for the day......good day to you all. |
| Bronwyn | posted 29-Jun-2009 11:48am I was going to tell you about this book I have been reading reviews on. I thought it sounded interesting. This just came into my mailbox.....I guess now Oprah is singing the books praises as well. Kind of interesting if anyone wants to read the reviews: ( I found it before Oprah Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading 2009 It's official ... Our Lady of Weight Loss: Miraculous and Motivational Musings from the Patron Saint of Permanent Fat Removal ... is an OPRAH pick! Janice Taylor and Our Lady of Weight Loss send heaping platters of gratitude to all who have joined with them on their mission ... ... to make weight loss fun! If you agree with Oprah ... ... if you think Our Lady of Weight Loss is the way to weigh less ... if Our Lady of Weight Loss or Janice have made a difference in your life ... if OLofWL or Janice have made Monday mornings fun, then ... Spread the word ... NOT the icing! |
| Connie | posted 29-Jun-2009 1:50pm Bronwyn, I can't wait to hear about the car. I do believe in karma (for lack of a better word) and I would rather be a person who was stole from than the person doing the stealing. That is probably a small comfort to you right now. When they stole our truck, they busted the ignition to hot wire it as well. They ended up being chased by the police and jumped out of it running. They got away into a wooded area and the truck hit a house. My daughter was using the truck at the time so they trashed her things...just for meanness. They tore her school books, broke her cd's. The police did dust it for finger prints so if they are ever in custody they will have to answer for it. I have gained 5 pounds! I'm with you right now Debbie. I had two periods where NFNS just wasn't an option. But I have no doubt I'll lose it. Company coming today, I'm trying to vac and feather dust. I promise I'll check in later. Love you guys. |
| Debbie M. | posted 29-Jun-2009 4:19pm 5 pounds?!!!!!! Shocking. But don't worry it will come right off. |
| Connie | posted 29-Jun-2009 9:06pm It's that time again, menu planning. I hope I can get inspired by tomorrow. Sometimes thinking of things to serve for dinner feels like a chore. The laundry is under control, as is the rest of the house. It feels good. I didn't sleep well last night. I really wanted a good nights sleep (don't we all). I think the fan was set too high and it was blowing my hair around. My visit to MI was wonderful. At the first sisters house I couldn't eat NFNS. She thinks my diet is "extreme." Those are her words. To each his own I guess. Next stop, the gluten intolerant sisters house. The food there was amazing and our visit was great. I was able to see several family members while staying there. Then off with two of my older sisters to IN. We had a blast. I, and one of the sisters, screwed up the navigating and we arrived an hour late, but all laughing hysterically. We met my Aunt for dinner. Her son, my cousin Dave, and his wife joined us. Dave and I are the same age and we have a lot of fun memories growing up. Dave's wife is the sweetest thing. She listened to all my NFNS talk and can't wait to get started. She already bought the book. I told Dave awhile back about NFNS. We decided to have a cocktail at the lounge. Well, one thing lead to another and Dave kept buying rounds. I was drinking white russians and I must have had 5 or 6. Good grief...I was hammered. One minute I was fine, the next I couldn't focus. Of course hours had gone by and we were having the best time. We laughed and laughed and laughed. The next thing I knew it was 2 am and I was walking around my aunts front yard because I couldn't lay my head down. I walked for over an hour. At some point I had pulled off my capris. It was so hot out. My aunt lives in the most rural spot on earth and there is not a neighbor in eye shot. I called my husband at 3:30 an he was a sweetie and talked to me for awhile. He suggested I eat some bread, which I did. Next thing I knew I was waking up on the couch. I think I got about 4 hours sleep and I had to get ready for the reunion. The bread did the trick...I was ok. And I wore my red sun dress to the reunion. My husband arrived at the reunion as everyone was leaving. Road work slowed him way down. But he was able to visit with the ones we are closest to. Then we drove to Louisville for an Italian dinner on the river. It was so beautiful. We ate on the second floor of the restaurant over looking the water and the meal was fantastic. And I was still in my red dress. We stayed the night in Louisville and had a nice drive home the next day. For some reason we held hands for most of the drive. Well let me tell you guys, I have been one happy chick for a couple of days now. Except for the additional 5 pounds. That kind of stinks. Oh, and we now have a new john deere lawn mower. I hope this one lasts! |
| Connie | posted 29-Jun-2009 9:56pm I forgot to add, the lawn mower is 12 months same as cash. With that and the new used car, we are going to be so tight for the next year we will be squeaking! |
| Connie | posted 29-Jun-2009 9:58pm The above sentence made me think of you Hilda. Single working mom stretching your income. Have you sold any houses? I hope so. |
| Hilda | posted 29-Jun-2009 10:10pm I have 3 closing in July. Money is tight til they all close. |
| Debbie M. | posted 30-Jun-2009 1:15am 5 or 6 white russians? I'm surprised you didnt throw up! It sounds like you had a fun time though. I'm glad you had a good trip even though it started out stressed. |
| Bronwyn | posted 30-Jun-2009 1:21am Many years ago I was at a concert and a girl I didn't know was sitting behind. She threw up all over me it was so disgusting. She said she had drank about 6 white Russians. That is my only experience with White Russians |
| K10 | posted 30-Jun-2009 2:55am Yuck. |
| Bronwyn | posted 30-Jun-2009 3:31am No kidding yuck......it was stadium seating and so not only was she was behind me but she was also up higher. She was right out of it, it was her friend that was apologizing to me. Truthfully though obviously the whole night was ruined and I had to leave,,,,,no way could you recover from that and just stay and watch. |
| Anonymous | posted 30-Jun-2009 7:47am Good morning everyone. I told you my daughter was coming down to look at a school near us. She will be moving in with us in September. I have been getting my internet service off someone in the neighborhood and you have to be in a paticular spot in the house and hold your mouth just right. Well, we are going to get internet service so it will be convenient for her, I will enjoy it too. Anyway, I am having trouble with my laptop and I am going to take it to be worked on. Half the time I can't get on and I just want them to clean it out and give it a good virus check. I will be off line for awhile. We took my daughter to the beach and the waves were great. We had so much fun and got a lot of exercise walking the beach and jumping over waves. It's suppose to rain today so I am going to the grocery store before it starts. Everyone have a great day. |
| Angie | posted 30-Jun-2009 8:41am That was me. |
| Debbie M. | posted 30-Jun-2009 10:11am oh, EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW |
| Connie | posted 30-Jun-2009 10:17am Morning. Yeah, all those white russians...they went down like water. Rarely do you find them made correctly. A true white russian is made with the 3 ingredients separated. It should only fill half of a short glass. Now everyone makes them with a ton of milk added, filling a tall glass to the top. I think that's what saved me. I didn't puke. But it will be a long time before I drink again. 3 times a year is my norm and never that much at once. But I had a blast...A BLAST! Once I was at a concert and the row in front of me had about 5 topless dancers and one man sitting in it. They were drinking and it soon became apparent they were dancers. Those girls did end up puking. They kept their shirts on but it was quite a show. My 16 year old son sat next to me. It was embarrassing. He enjoyed himself until they started getting sick. Bronwyn, what happened with the car? Is it drivable? Good luck with the computer Angie. I'm down 1 1/2 pounds this morning. Thank goodness for NFNS. Tons to do today. Have a great one all. |
| Debbie M. | posted 30-Jun-2009 11:47am great Connie, Its back down the scales for you. My scale is still stuck at 189. But I will continue on NFNS |
| Bronwyn | posted 30-Jun-2009 12:43pm I guess we did have theft on our insurance with a 250$ deductible. The insurance company is having it towed out of the impound lot and taken to a body shop. It seems so strange with it being such an old beater but it is an old beater that we need. They left the walet in the car and took his electronics.....I-pod, DLS. phone and so forth. Husbands birthday.....need to get some things done here and I guess bake a cake |
| Connie | posted 30-Jun-2009 7:38pm Happy Birthday Bronwyn's husband! We had pork chops on the grill with mashed potatoes and peas. Very good and filling and summery. My son marinates the pork chops in Italian dressing for a couple of hours before grilling. Love it. I found a new recipe on line for a beef and broccoli stir fry. I plan on cooking it Fri so I'll let you all know how it turns out. Hope everyone is well and enjoying their Tuesday afternoon. |
| K10 | posted 1-Jul-2009 12:09pm Hi ladies. I probably won't be able to write too much with packing and all. I am reading the posts. I will write when I can. |
| Bronwyn | posted 1-Jul-2009 1:16pm So did things finally get finalized and you are moving for sure???? Canada Day today.....no plans. Vitamix is such a good company. I called an 800 number and gave them my registration number off of the machine. It is on warranty until Nov.....woohoo!!! They are mailing a part out to me at no cost and it should be good to go. I will be back into green smoothie bliss in a matter of days!!!! I am reading some very interesting info on eating disorders and obsessions with eating, dieting, weight and so forth.....very interesting. I will share later.............. |
| Debbie M. | posted 1-Jul-2009 2:40pm I'm so relieved to see 186.5 today. I don't really know what happened to my system but it finally let go of those unwanted few pounds. Well.......I have many more than a few unwanted pounds but I'm still stumped why I would go up 4 pounds all at once and stay there for several days. Good job Vitamix. Nice to hear someone standing by their word. Happy Canada Day. It seems to me though, that everyday is Canada Day when you're in Canada! Our house is so quiet right now. The girls are next door. I need to pour myself into the check book while it is quiet. See ya later. |
| Connie | posted 1-Jul-2009 5:43pm Hi gang. That's great news on the vitamix. My son has started buying pre-made green smoothies. They are about $3. each, but good for him and I'm happy about it. And happy Canada Day. Debbie, that is something that has happened to me with NFNS. But it always eventually came down. I was down .5 ponds this morning. I think I'll just stay off the scales for awhile. I have been eating more since my MI/IN trip. Today I ate lunch with my friend and her baby. I was breaking off pieces of bread for the baby and eating some of it myself. Why was I doing that? I need to nip that in the bud immediately! K10, happy packing! That's such a huge job...I hope it goes smoothly. |
| Debbie M. | posted 1-Jul-2009 6:44pm I'm having wicked cravings. It seems like an icecream cone with a full sized snickers bar in the middle of the icecream would be just about the perfect thing right now. |
| Connie | posted 1-Jul-2009 7:34pm Debbie...egads!!!!! Time for a tall glass of ice water and maybe some fruit. Something cold may curb your craving. Good luck! |
| Bronwyn | posted 1-Jul-2009 9:01pm When I was growing up today(July 1st) was called Dominion Day and I don't remember the order of the changes but it has been July 1st, 1st of July, Confederation Day and now just plain old Canada Day. My kids are going out with a big group for dinner and then a big celebration down town....you know bands and fireworks. Debbie I hope I am not too late but do try to curb your cravings with something NFNS. A big icy green fruit smoothie may fit the bill. It is hard to get back on track when you have junk food days. Connie I have no doubt that you will overcome your desire to eat more. I think that when we have party days or weeks it is hard to return to smaller portions and to stay away from flour and sugar. The Stampede starts on Friday......that is a big 10 day celebration in Calgary. There are free pancake breakfasts and bands playing all over the city every morning and things throughout the day. There are tons of bar-b-que parties and of course the Stampede grounds themselves which are a total junk food haven. Our whole family is going to the Stampede Monday and to the Grandstand show that night. This is a place where you can have deep fried everything....even Oreo Cookies deep fried (can you imagine). Debbie did you find something to deal with your wicked cravings......wicked is such a good descriptor of those nasty cravings. |
| Debbie M. | posted 2-Jul-2009 3:24am I did resist. I told my husband and 11 yr old about my fantasy and they went into the kitchen. After a while they came out with a smoothie. It wasn't green but it did have NFNS!!! Banana, strawberry, peach, milk, ice and a little cherry Chrystal Ice Drink. It hit the spot!! Aren't they so nice. I haven't had such a horrable craving like that in a long long time. Maybe its because I've been drinking crystal Ice lemon aid and cherry drink. I really do think it makes a difference. Good luck with your stampeed. Just remember why they call it that. Its a stampeed because one feels like a pig when they leave their from eating so much. Now, now, go party but don't let the party be in your mouth! Take a bag of nuts and veggie sticks to snack on and eat before you go. Drink lots of water. It was only 63 degrees here today. Never ever have I been cold in July. I kept telling the kids to close the door. I was chilled. |
| Connie | posted 2-Jul-2009 10:08am Morning. I have many things I should do today, but I don't want to do any of it. Whatever I decide on I will not attack it with vigor, merely tolerance. I think if I spend some time outside before it get's too hot I will feel better. Debbie, I wish we had your temps. My MI sisters have told me they are having extremely cooler temps as well. I'm sorry I missed it. Yes, your family sounds very sweet to help you out in your hour of need. Bronwyn, I think your right about the "after" effects of being off NFNS for awhile. My appetite has been different. Eating out is the hardest for me. When I'm home, I'm fine. I'm glad to recognize that. Plus, I was thinking I could cheat some and it would be fine. But I was doing that repeatedly, and I ended up gaining 5 lbs in just over a week. That's a lot. If I had kept it up it would have been 10 lbs in two weeks and so on. I would call that rapid weight gain. How's the packing K10? And Debster...where are you? Yesterday when I was flossing I noticed a chunk of tooth was gone. Well, great. They squeezed me in at the dentist to look at it. We think we can patch it with a filling. It's on the bottom, very near the front. I hope it ends up looking ok. Time to get moving! |
| Debbie M. | posted 2-Jul-2009 10:35am What a coincident. My husbands dentist just found he had a cracked molar. He didn't know it. The dentist told him to just let him know when it starts to bother him. I was thinking there must be something that can be done before it bothers him. Something cheeper than a crown when it does start to bother him. Connie, I'm sure your tooth will look fine. I bet you won't even notice a difference. My scale said 183 today. I didn't believe it so I weighed again. 186. I can't wait to be in the 170's. Progress has been slow lately but I'm not discouraged. Having steel cut oats this morning. I can't believe how demanding my children are. I think they are spoiled. They are always wanting something or wanting to go somewhere. Maybe this is the normal way it goes when you have teenagers. I don't know, but my life dosn't seem like its my own. 16, 13, 11 and 9. When I saw no, boy do they make me pay with the attitude. I told my 11 yr old to go upstairs this A.M. and put her clothes in the drawers (like I told her yesterday and she didn't do it) She stomped up the stairs. So I made her go up and down the stairs quietly 10 times. Boy if looks could kill, I'd be dead so I made her do it 3 more times. These attitudes really bother me. SHould I just blow it off to typical Teens? Or what? This isn't an isolated thing. It goes on like this all day somethings. And thats just one kid. I have 4. What was I thinking? |
| Debbie M. | posted 2-Jul-2009 2:03pm Two things. I lost a 10.00 bill out of my pocket today which is going to make someone that finds it very happy. And I found a set of keys that I lost 2 months ago! |
| Debbie M. | posted 2-Jul-2009 3:43pm Hello, where is everyone today? |
| Connie | posted 2-Jul-2009 5:11pm I decided to clean the porch furniture, the porch and the siding on the front of the house. It took hours, but it wasn't too hot and there was a breeze. I've been outside all day. Debbie, teenagers are such a pain most of the time. And I should say "most" teenagers. There are always those exceptions. Ok, it is a given they are going to be bratty...how you handle it will make the difference. There should be consequences. Ruining their lives is overkill, but making your daughter go up and down the stairs is perfect. I would have done something like that. Be consistent and that will make a big difference. Summertime can be so hard for kids...and parents too. My mom always said if we said we were bored, she'd find something for us to do. Of course, it would have been hard work so we didn't say it very often. Hang in there. |
| K10 | posted 2-Jul-2009 5:12pm Hi Debbie: I think what you did was right. You have to nip that attitude now. My youngest rolls her eyes alot right now. She is 13. I am actually having an overall easier time with Oldest she will 15 this month. Now that I have said that I probably just jinxed myself. As they get older they do more and more. I have been dropping my oldest off at friends' houses more and more lately. I am doing it more since we are moving so soon. She is at the thrift store with some girls from church and her small group leader looking for clothes to wear to camp next week. They are going to be princess super heroes. Hi Connie: I am going to be off to get some boxes in a minute. I am off track. More on than off and I need to stop it, but I have 2 things this weekend and I don't want to commit to being NFNS until after the 4th. I had every intention of doing so last Monday, but I am struggling with it. I weighed yesterday and took my measurements. Of course I am up. At least when I am blowing it I am not doing so for the whole day like I used to. I know doing this is causing more cravings, but I am in a funk. At first I wasn't going to write about it, but I know you all care about my well-being. Why do all holidays have to focus on food?????? I need to go, I will talk to you later. |
| K10 | posted 2-Jul-2009 5:12pm Hi Bronwyn too. |
| Connie | posted 2-Jul-2009 5:49pm K10, every bit you can do that is NFNS is going to help you in the long run. Maybe your reluctance to commit is because of your move and how busy it is making you. In my mind I keep thinking your "dancing" around NFNS. Doesn't that sound lovely? Keep thinking about how much you want it and it will happen. Something will "click" and you'll be 100% all the time. Don't become discouraged that it will never happen. Get yourself ready for when it does. It will happen. Ahhhh, food and holidays. They do go hand in hand. We will be having something smoked and I'll make some potato salad. There will be a small amount of sugar in the mayo, but that's all. And a veggie of some kind. I'll buy some melon for our desert. Yum! It just takes a little creativity to tweak our holiday foods to make them NFNS. Husband is out to dinner tonight. I think we are going to wing it for dinner. That is something that has helped me immensely...my children are grown and can fend for themselves. Just like they did last night. |
| Connie | posted 2-Jul-2009 10:00pm Dinner tonight...3 rice cakes with cottage cheese. I did have a huge lunch. So, good enough. Off to bed. Night all. |
| Bronwyn | posted 3-Jul-2009 6:15am Connie.....3 rice cakes and cottage cheese......geesh no wonder you are so thin! I want to eat 3 rice cakes for dinner and call it a day ......really I do!!!K10 it sounds like we are both struggling. I want to be like several of my friends, not only are they already thin but when they are stressed they can't eat. One of my friends is so tiny and when she has stressful events in her life she just about disappears she gets so, so thin! Debbie I love the way you handled the stomping....that was perfect and I am sure it got your message across. Our school systems have shorter summers. The kids go to school until the end of June and either start school just before Labour Day or the day after.....it varied from year to year. Yeah awake again tonight........... |
| Connie | posted 3-Jul-2009 8:34am Bronwyn, I don't know why your statement about your friends bothered me, but it did. I guess it made me kind of sad. I want to say something poignant, like "don't be like your friends, be you at your best." But that sounded too cliche. I just think you haven't found the "groove" you need to be in with NFNS. When you do, things will happen. Slowly. But it's the "over time" that makes this plan so successful. BTW, last night I got up and had some egg salad and then some ice cream. Actually, too much ice cream. Darn it. Everyone is off today at my house. What to do? |
| Debbie M. | posted 3-Jul-2009 12:14pm Connie, I feel like what you said to K10 and Bronwyn are things you used to say to me. I have found my groove and its because of your blunt but truthful encouragement to me. This morning the scale said 185 once again. I was so thrilled to see it. IT is really happening for me. Just when I get a bit tired of the sacrifice, I get rewarded and I feel the heady power. I am challenged at every turn but I continue, NFNS. It is so worth is as I an very slowly going down the scales. Just 2 months ago I was up over 200 and now 185. I have a long way to go but I AM going! I am only 10 pounds from my husband now. At one point I had 30 pounds on him. THis is my first real goal. To weigh less than him. Have a wonderful Independence Day everyone. Camping for me. Shoving off within the hour. I have many many naughty things packed but also many very good thing. I am not worried about my choices as I am 100% committed. Join me............... Deb |
| Bronwyn | posted 3-Jul-2009 2:35pm Connie I don't know why my statement about my friends would make you sad. I wish I was like them....in the fact that stress takes away their appetite and stress makes me want to do nothing but eat. I truly wish i wasn't a stress eater.....I don't think I would have ever got so heavy if I wasn't a stress eater. I think you are amazing with how small of portions you can eat and be satisfied by.....I want that too. Happy 4th to you all.....and Debbie you really are on such a roll....good for you. Thinking of some of your old posts I can see the shift for you so clearly!!!! K10 do your best for the holiday week-end and join back in with me on Monday trying to truly get back to 100%. Debbie lost 15 lbs. or even a little more in 2 months of 100% commitment on NFNS....that is inspiring. I gained 5 lbs. in 2 weeks of bad eating.....that is not inspiring at all. |
| Bronwyn | posted 3-Jul-2009 3:15pm FYI...... New research shows eating walnuts lowers your cholesterol A recent meta-analysis of studies feeding people walnuts confirms that, despite the fat and calories, eating nuts lowers your cholesterol levels. I've long been an advocate of eating lots of nuts and seeds which are very good sources of both antioxidants, minerals, protein and essential fats. Especially good are colder climate nuts such as walnuts. Only 7 walnuts gives you 2,000 ORACs - that's the antioxidant power of half a dozen tomatoes. |
| Connie | posted 3-Jul-2009 3:33pm Glad to hear your positive attitude Bronwyn. And Debbie...woohoo!Do you know, I never said woohoo until this website. I can't remember if it was Bronwyn or Debbie that got me started. BTW, I was reading the other night and one of the characters names was Bronwyn, only spelled different at the end. I had never heard that name before this website either. Live and learn. How are you Hilda? And K10, and Angie and Debster? And Diane? I hope I didn't forget anyone. Today hamburgers on the grill, potato salad and a corn salad. My sister made the corn salad for the shower. It was amazing. She got off the food network website form the Neeley's show. Try it. I bought frozen corn that I cooked under the broiler. Great day ladies. |
| Bronwyn | posted 3-Jul-2009 4:24pm I got this in my in-box today. K10 I thought you might like her theory of forgiving ourselves and moving on. Connie in some respects this is what you did with your holiday. You ate more than you should have, you ate some flour and sugar but, you didn't "take a 10 year detour" into hogs ville. You had a wonderful time with friends and family.....you didn't obsess (although you tried to eat good because it made you feel better....there is no denying that healthy food makes you feel so much better)....you still let it be a little looser than when you are at home. Mind you, the deal is you are already at a very good and healthy weight. Anyways when we lose our place on the NFNS train we can board again.....and forgive ourselves and move on. There are situations that it may be better to not be setting yourself up for failure. All Is Forgiven, Move On! All Is Forgiven, Move On! July 4: Holiday Pig Out Special a Kick in the Tush Club Independence Day Mini-KICK (next full-Kick, Monday July 13) What???? HUH? Is Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Guru, the voice of Our Lady of Weight Loss, 50-pound big-time-loser telling us that it's okay to pig out? 4th of July PIG-OUT "You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." ~ Erma Bombeck OWN IT. You've been wrestling with, thinking about, and tasting the idea of NOT pigging out this 4th of July weekend. It's been your focus all week long, has it not? THINK ABOUT IT. You manifest what you focus on. In other words, by thinking about NOT pigging out, you are destined to pig-out. WHAT TO DO. Give yourself permission to PIG OUT. One BBQ, one meal, one day ... not even one pig-out weekend doth a fat-person make. I can pretty much guarantee that if you are not fighting the forces of evil, pushing the devil food away, you will at the end of the day find that you have eaten less than you would have if your mind held on to and kept repeating, "I am NOT going to pig out." WHAT NOT TO DO. Do NOT use this one weekend of indulgence as an excuse to fall off the wagon and take a 10-year detour! Do NOT beat up on thyself! HOG WILD vs. PIGGING OUT. There's a difference between pigging out and going hog wild. Pigging out has a playful, light, and fun quality to it. If you like, you can even wear something pink! Hog Wild, on the other hand, is NOT pretty. Hog Wild means you have gone weigh too far, into the dark side. ALL IS FORGIVEN, MOVE ON! If you went past Pig Out straight into Full Tilt Hog Wild, forgive yourself and move on ... move on ... move on ... NOW! Into your 'lite.' Spread the word, not the icing! Janice |
| Connie | posted 3-Jul-2009 5:04pm Sounds good to me! |
| Bronwyn | posted 3-Jul-2009 6:18pm shoot....I just got a call from the Dr. Office asking me to come in and discuss the results of my bone density. You only get called in when the news is bad. I have been worried about this. |
| Connie | posted 3-Jul-2009 9:47pm In the spirit of the holiday...I ate...a lot. The bad thing is this makes two weeks in a row. But it was very good. Bronwyn, I hope the bone density news isn't as bad as your worried it could be. I'm guessing you've already looked the treatments on line. Any good news there? Off to bed. Night all. |
| Bronwyn | posted 4-Jul-2009 3:33am I thought this was interesting,,,,,,,,,,,,,another reason to be abstinent from chocolate, sugar and to not use spinach in my smoothies: Plus I have had lots of tums in my life....I have one every night before I go to bed as prevention of getting heart burn. I have also had a lot of dairy in my diet in my life.....used to think that was a good thing for my bones. Anyways you girls may find this interesting. Osteoporosis Diet * The best diet to prevent osteoporosis includes lots of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, beans, and fermented dairy products such as yogurt and kefir. * A diet high in vegetables promotes an optimal ratio of phosphorus to calcium. * Increase consumption of leafy green vegetables such as kale, collard greens, bok choy, parsley, mustard greens and escarole. These are excellent sources of calcium, magnesium, vitamin K and other nutrients. * Other excellent sources of calcium are tofu (if it is produced with a calcium based coagulant), chickpeas, black-eyed peas, other legumes, most nuts, and many grains (especially the grain amaranth). * Acidic foods such as lemon juice and vinegar help to absorb calcium. * Foods such as spinach, chard, beet greens, and chocolate contain oxalates, which may bind with calcium and prevent it from being absorbed. * Phytic acid found in wheat and oats will also bind with calcium and prevent it from being absorbed. * Decrease consumption of meat and dairy products. Meat and dairy increase urinary excretion (loss) of calcium. * Despite popular opinion, milk and dairy foods are not the best sources of absorbable calcium and should not be increased in the diet. * Avoid refined sugars. Diets high in sugar increase the loss of calcium in the urine. * Avoid the excessive use of sodium (table salt). Sodium increases the loss of calcium in the urine. * Avoid consumption of colas/sodas which contain excessive amounts of phosphorus and sugar. Excess phosphorus leads to increased loss of calcium and magnesium in the urine. * Avoid coffee consumption. Caffeine from coffee increases loss of calcium in the urine. * Caffeine from tea has not been shown to decrease bone density, but caffeine from coffee has. * Avoid excessive alcohol consumption. * Avoid the use of Tums, which have been actively promoted as a calcium supplement. Tums decrease the acidity of the stomach. However, stomach acid is necessary for the absorption of calcium. |
| Connie | posted 4-Jul-2009 9:42am That is very interesting. I have to admit I am not inclined to change my eating habits. I have been doing some of the positive things on the list, but my coffee is way too important for me to give up. So, I guess I'm taking my chances. I have always been a very big dairy eater and thought I was getting benefit from that as well. Food is so darn complicated! If I have my way today I'll not leave the house! Yesterday WM was a madhouse and then I was in the kitchen for hours. I need to plant some petunias, so in my yard as well. Have a great morning all. |
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