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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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| Debbie M. | posted 25-Jul-2011 4:58am Yes Hilda get your colonoscopy. It could save your life! |
| K10 | posted 25-Jul-2011 4:33pm I worked in my grody yard today. I think I will be sore tomorrow. The bummer is, it still looks yucky. I think I am destined to have a sucky backyard.  |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jul-2011 5:11pm Lots of things going on this week so I will be on here very little. I just want to say Hilda do get a colonoscopy,,,,,,it is no big deal and yes it could save your life. Even prior to it being a life threatening problem though it could also save you from having to have surgery by early detection of polyps. |
| GINA | posted 25-Jul-2011 8:41pm MS. HILDA DO YOU LIVE CLOSE TO JACKSON?I HAVE BEEN READING FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND YOU MENTION JACQUE WALLER . I LIVE IN JACKSON MO ,WHERE THEY FOUND HER CAR ON THE INTERSTATE... |
| Bronwyn | posted 25-Jul-2011 8:58pm I hadn't read all of the posts before I posted. Hilda that is such a horrible thing about the triplet Mum. Why does this happen so often. Drew Peterson has never admitted to killing his wife and I understand he is in another relationship.....he may have (they suspect for sure) that he killed 2 of his wives. So your sister would know the Jacque Waller quite well. It sounds like she was an incredible woman and a wonderful mother. After Casey Anthony you have to wonder if the court system will ever find killers guilty. |
| Debbie M. | posted 26-Jul-2011 9:26am My parents will be married 50 years in early Oct. So we will be planning a party for them. Any great idea will be appreciated. Please share your memorable experiences. Thanks. We are in the beginning planning stages. We don't know yet how many people or if it will be formal or informal or even where to have it. I know, we better get crackin! My sister and brother and I will be asking my parent what the prefer soon. |
| K10 | posted 26-Jul-2011 12:05pm Debbie: One of my sisters-in-law asked my in-laws questions and video recorded them answering the questions and then gave it to all of the kids. Of course you would have to have a power point of pictures from when they started dating through now. |
| Anonymous | posted 26-Jul-2011 12:37pm Take pictures of everyone who comes and make a photo album for your parents, putting in the names of the guests. They will look at it often and as they age they will not remember names as well. My parents really enjoyed the one we made for their 60th. Do a photo display/collage of their lives. People love to see pictures. Maybe the guests can email favorite stories for you to print up. Get her a fancy dress to wear. |
| Debbie M. | posted 26-Jul-2011 12:43pm Good idea guys! Keep them comming. |
| Bronwyn | posted 26-Jul-2011 2:52pm We sent out return envelopes with a paper in it for them to write in memories of our parents in it and then complied it into a binder we gave them on their 50th. Some people added in pictures and things like that which we put in the binder. One of my sister-in-laws had made one of those memory style binders.....you know the binder itself.....and then we put all the letters and pics in it. |
| Connie | posted 26-Jul-2011 2:59pm I'm taking a break from the porch. I also decided to get a screwdriver and take all the storm windows and screens down and wash all the windows inside and out. They look AMAZING! Two more windows to go, then bleaching the beadboard ceiling and washing the furniture. Maybe I'll be done by the weekend. It all looks so much better, but now it seems obvious that we need to paint. It needed to be cleaned before we painted so no biggie there. Hilda, so glad to hear from you. Yep, get that colonoscopy. My diet has been by and large NFNS this week, but a few slip ups. It is so hot here that by the time I come in I'm too tired to cook. The good news is my arms haven't fallen off yet! |
| Hilda | posted 27-Jul-2011 12:15am Home grown tomatoes are wonderful. My sister has a garden and she is sharing. I have been eating out way too much. I am trying not to eat out or buy any groceries this week. I am already out of bananas and I like to eat one every morning. I have lots of frozen and canned foods I can use up. I have to believe that Clay Waller is guilty since he had threatened her so much. Rumor is that he has messed up and they are just waiting for the evidence to get back from the crime lab. |
| Debbie M. | posted 27-Jul-2011 7:44am I sure hope she is found alive. Oh those poor kids.  |
| K10 | posted 27-Jul-2011 12:50pm So sad about that mother. Connie: The first thing I thought of when you said you got a screwdriver, was that you were having a drink before continuing your cleaning. I had a little chuckle. |
| Bronwyn | posted 27-Jul-2011 8:48pm Hey Deb how is the work going? Are you enjoying the new schedule? Is the family being supportive? Oh man lots of questions, eh |
| Hilda | posted 27-Jul-2011 11:31pm I think I will eat a can of cut green beans every day with just pepper on them. That really filled me up at dinner. I had turkey and a baked potato too. I bought some green beans on sale. I am making some kidney bean salad one day this week with eggs and pickle relish in it. I think Paula Deen has a good recipe. I got a new wig- Eva Gabor's Gala. I love wearing wigs. Did anybody else ever get one. My hair is long in a ponytail when I take it off to go to the pool. I have to wear a hat because my hair is thinning on top and I got sunburned on my scalp the first time I went this year. If you have thinning hair, don't wait- go get a wig.You will look and feel years younger. My sister got one. She said every woman she knew who looked good in her 60's- she found out they were wearing a wig. Do not get a real hair wig. You do not have to do a thing to the synthetic ones. I would not even think of having to roll one. Even after you wash it, it goes right back to how it looked at first. Wonderful! |
| K10 | posted 28-Jul-2011 1:32am Hilda: Does wearing a wig make you hot? Oldest had her first behind-the-wheel today. She didn't kill herself, instructor or anyone else. Now she can legally drive with us. We have restrictions for teens with their drivers license. Provisional Driving Restrictions—You must be accompanied and supervised by a licensed parent, guardian or other licensed driver 25 years of age or older or a licensed or certified driving instructor when you: •Transport passengers under 20 years of age at any time, for the first twelve months. •Drive between 11 pm and 5 am for the first twelve months. As a parent I like these rules, especially when I think about how irresponsible I was at times as a teen. They do have some exceptions with notes from employers, schools, etc. I hope I can be a reasonable parent while she is driving me around. I really don't want to make her nervous. Any suggestions. |
| Debbie M. | posted 28-Jul-2011 10:41am Feeling very low today. I need some time off.(already!) I'm not used to working and its catching up with me. I will be glad when training is over. I feel sorry for full time working moms. Maybe I would get used to it. I don't know. But I am looking forward to the part-time hours I applied for. Feelings of past depression felt like they were creeping in last night and today. I know enough about depression for it to scare me. I want to fight it. I am fighting it by telling myself this stress is temporary. I'm hoping its temporary. I have a lot more on me than I am used to. Please pray for me. I do have off tomorrow but tomorrow is son's 18th birthday and oldest daughter will be trying out for the golf team. So it will be full steam ahead again. Sorry guys, I don't mean to whine but I need to vent a bit. |
| Connie | posted 28-Jul-2011 11:18am Hang in there Debbie. I think your symptoms are temporary while you go through training. Your torn between home and work. It is absolutely understandable. I would be the same way. I would love a part time job...but nothing more, and not yet. You may have to let a lot of things at home go while you are training full time. I'm talking about housework and things like that. See if the fam can help out a little more. When you get through training you will find the right balance and once the paychecks come in, you'll be so much happier! Pamper yourself today every chance you get while you run around with your kids. Off today to take MIL around. The heat wave continues...ugh! K10, a screwdriver! Thanks for the laugh. Hilda, I love home grown tomatoes too. I love fresh summer vegetables. |
| Debbie M. | posted 28-Jul-2011 12:17pm Thanks Connie, You are right. This is all about balance and working full time all of a sudden is hard. I did the dishes, folded some laundry, went to 2 banks and got gas in my car and groceries. Now I'm washing my work clothes and baking my son's cake for tomorrow. Then work from 2:30 to 11. I had some prayer time and I feel a lot better. Focus on the Family on the radio is always a pick me up too. I caught that in the car. The tears seem to have stopped for now. Thank you again Connie for your encouragement. |
| K10 | posted 28-Jul-2011 1:19pm Debbie: You are probably tired from working. I know though that next year I will be sad when Oldest turns 18 that may be some of it too. How exciting and scary all at the same time. I can't wait to hear how your normal schedule works for you. It sounds just right. |
| Bronwyn | posted 28-Jul-2011 1:49pm Debbie training especially is going to be a huge adjustment.....and it is full time. I think when you get going on part time you will find it very different. I also think the pay cheque will further help to make it seem worthwhile and you probably haven't had one of those yet. |
| Debbie M. | posted 28-Jul-2011 11:29pm First pay day is Aug 5. It will be nice. Also I am learning all the paging systems. I find out we are the night time answering service for a lot of doc. Its a little intimidating. I do feel better knowing I have a day off tomorrow. K10, I didn't even think about the effects of my son turing 18. Yea, thats a factor. My baby boy! Thanks you guys,(gals) |
| Hilda | posted 29-Jul-2011 12:18am Debbie, if you eat right during this time it will pay off with you feeling so much better. Pack your lunch and vow to eat healthy and drink a lot of water. You can get dehydrated in this weather. Working hard makes me tired, but it is a good kind of tired. |
| Hilda | posted 29-Jul-2011 12:22am No the wigs do not make me hot. They have so many "holes " in the cap that I do not get hot. But I do not wear a cap either. I put my hair in a low ponytail and bobby pin it flat to the back of my head. I saw a couple of new styles Eva Gabor has on the Vogue Wigs website that I would like to try. I have dark brown hair and I wear the G6 color that is highlighted. |
| K10 | posted 29-Jul-2011 2:26am Hilda: What style do you usually get? I looked at the website and they have some nice looking wigs. |
| Debbie M. | posted 29-Jul-2011 10:22am I have been eating very good at work. I do pack my lunch. I actually eat better than I do when just at home. In fact I have lost several pounds in the last two weeks. I am so happy to have today off. |
| Bronwyn | posted 29-Jul-2011 1:47pm Honestly I have so much hair I think a wig would give me a headache......but they sure sound convenient. I have seen some really cute ones as well. Hey Deb that is great that work helps you to eat better.......I think it would be as well. Congratulations on the weight loss. New jobs can be intimidating.......big learning curve for the first while. |
| Hilda | posted 29-Jul-2011 10:36pm I have the Gala and the Brisk styles. Brisk had to be cut a little in the back. Gala only had to have the bangs trimmed. I liked a couple on the website I am going to have the owner of the shop order for me. I love the fact that they are highlighted. The first one I got was Banter and they have discontinued it. I still have it, but now I like them short in the back.I always wear mine behind my ears. I hate to see older women with hair toward their face. It really makes you look older. I read Dr. Gott's column today and he only recommends one egg a week. I don't think I had read that before. |
| Debbie M. | posted 29-Jul-2011 10:41pm Dolly Parton always wears wigs. Our birthday party was great. Son wanted chocolate candy bars crumbled on top of his cake. It was a success. I keep dreaming about my job, waking up in a tizzy. I hope that stops soon. If you think about it, it wouldn't be the end of the world if I didn't have that job. Maybe realizing that will help me settle down. I just want to do a good job. It was so good to have a day off. I work both weekend days. But I have Monday off and Tuesday is just 4 hours. Then the greuling Wed and Thurs night shift training. 11am to 7pm. I have not been wanting much food lately. I took some cake and ice cream but I only had a few bits. I guess thats a good sign. |
| Hilda | posted 29-Jul-2011 11:03pm If you look really close you can tell which tv personalities are wearing wigs, mostly by looking for a part in their hair. |
| Hilda | posted 30-Jul-2011 1:50am Clay Waller, the husband of missing mom of 5 yr old triplets is in jail on charges unrelated to her disappearance. Has anyone had the Wedge salad at Outback? Bleu cheese crumbles, tomato, onion, a big wedge of lettuce, bacon, and a creamy dressing for under 400 calories. I think it is under $4 also. |
| Hilda | posted 30-Jul-2011 11:43pm Only 3 pounds to go to get to 165 by the shower on August 6th. I would like to hit 160 by Sept 24th the day of the wedding. |
| Debbie M. | posted 31-Jul-2011 12:37am Good job Hilda. You can do it! |
| Debbie M. | posted 31-Jul-2011 12:38am German Chocolate Cake on the community table tonight. I WON! |
| AJ | posted 31-Jul-2011 1:19pm Just starting this diet will it work and is it very hard to stick to? Also what is a normal menu to eat for a day? Also when do you see results? I would appreciate advice from someone who nos about it. Thanks. |
| Hilda | posted 31-Jul-2011 10:30pm AJ- Very simple, no sugar, no flour. If it has the word flour in the ingredients, it is not part of your meal. Eat your fruit between meals. I eat a Granny Smith apple every day. Lots of vegetables. Ezekiel bread and Triscuits are allowed. Count your calories on myfitnesspal.com by recording what you eat and your water intake. Whole almonds fill you up if you are hungry. Sugar free jello and pudding are allowed. Have you read all of our posts? |
| AJ | posted 31-Jul-2011 11:04pm No not yet but I will start soon I;M sure it has lots of things to do the diet and lose those lbs.on it. Thanks for your advice. Also how long have you been on this nfns way ? Just stay away from flour and food with sugar added to the food. It sure sounds simple. Why do you track calories and whats your count for the day. Do you count carbs too? I wander if 5 small meals is better then 3 main ones? Breakfast, 10 oclock snack ,1230 lunch, 3oclock snack and 6oclock dinner and ,830 snack would be a day of 5 small meals a day. I believe you would have to plan ahead each day to stay on track. Also have food always available so your not tempted to eat junk foods.What do you think? Hilda. Is a way to stay on track 5 meals a day small ones that is. |
| Hilda | posted 31-Jul-2011 11:47pm I do 3 meals with the fruit between meals. Sometimes I do have the banana at breakfast. I like to have a rice cake once in a while. I started at 194 and I am at 168 now. I like the frozen salmon steaks from Walmart, veggie burgers, chicken and turkey, pork tenderloin, for my meat. Only one slice of Ezekiel bread a day, and I rarely have it.One egg a week is recommended, and I tend to go over that. I like hard boiled aggs for a snack if I am hungry. I each one ounce of cheese most every day. I love Aldi's frozen asparagus spears and frozen blueberries, and Havarti with dill cheese. Portion size is important. You have to keep your calories in line and the myfitnesspal website is fun to do and keeps you accountable. If I put it in and it makes me go over my calorie count, I don't eat it. Drink your water. I live alone so my meals are very simple. My weakness is guacamole. Most restaurants tend to give you too big a serving. Avocados are $2 apiece now so I am not buying them. Ezekiel cereal is very good, but expensive. Baked sweet potato fries are wonderful. I do eat microwaved sweet potatoes about once a week. I love shredded Asiago cheese on the Ezekiel bread toasted. That is almost tastier than pizza. Hummus is excellent as a dip for raw cauliflower or carrots. I had never eaten it until I started reading these posts. I also like Lundbergs Risotto. Trying new food items is fun and buying smaller clothes is even more fun! I am no longer in the Obese category, now just overweight. |
| Hilda | posted 31-Jul-2011 11:51pm I meant hard boiled eggs. Keep your Ezekiel bread in the freezer since you do not eat much. I eat one ounce of cheese almost daily. I had too many spelling errors in that post. |
| Anonymous | posted 1-Aug-2011 12:21am Hilda what is your user name on my fitness pal? |
| Hilda | posted 1-Aug-2011 1:04am Real Foods brand Corn Thins are good with hummus. Bird's Eye Steamers vegetables are easy to fix and low cal. A little unsweetened coconut is good added to a cheaper no flour cereal. Fress Express Romaine salad mix is easy. String cheese is a good snack, too. If I go to Ryan's I eat the collard greens,broccoli, green beans, steamed cabbage, half of a sweet potato and baked fish, or grilled pork chop or baked chicken. Burger King or Sonic Jr Hamburger(throw away the bun). Soup and salads seemed to give me a jump start. I would take a can of Progresso garden vegetable soup and divide into 4 bowls, add to each bowl 1/4 can diced tomatoes undrained, 1/4 can mixed vegetables, and 1/4 can drained and rinsed black beans.Add some pepper and heat one bowl a day for 4 days in a row or freeze for later. |
| Hilda | posted 1-Aug-2011 1:06am I am starting over as 67Brandy. |
| AJ | posted 1-Aug-2011 9:29am Hilda sounds like you got this nfns way down pat. I do have others to cook for but I know I dont have to eat it. Also I do buy things for them to eat and I when I get a little weak or something emotional starts me to eat too. I pray this works because I have asthma and this weight makes it harder to breathe. Its about health for me now but I would like to feel better in my clothes. So if the nfns works better then any other diet I will surely try harder. I want to make this work because Ive tried all the other diets overtime with little success. So nfns today and lots of h2o its hot enough for it anyway. Have a good day and lots of success. AJ |
| Debbie M. | posted 1-Aug-2011 9:39am Welcome AJ, Take baby steps. Anything you can do to move in the right direction is good. |
| Debbie M. | posted 1-Aug-2011 9:49am Just wanted to let everyone who remembered, that I had my MRI and once again it showed nothing in my head! HAHA, we always laugh at that one. So thats great news for me. Repeat MRI in two years. Time sure does fly. |
| AJ | posted 1-Aug-2011 10:21am Hilda do you take vitimans on the nfns I was wandering about that? I dont right now. Do you think one should? |
| AJ | posted 1-Aug-2011 11:14am Debbie M. I think thats the way to start to ease in to this way of eating and if you slip do better as long as your working toward your goal. I have had the mentally of all or none so long it will have to stop if I make this work. It seems everyone eats just to be doing something. We have diabetes in the family do you think this would be good for him to follow? Well better go for now lots of things to do.AJ |
| AJ | posted 1-Aug-2011 11:25am Debbie M. Oh glad your test was good it is always stressfull these check ups they make you do. Also that would be the one time your glad nothing up there. Just a little humor we sure could use it these days. AJ. |
| Debbie M. | posted 1-Aug-2011 12:06pm Absolutely one of the best diets for diabetics. I too am of the "all or nothing" mentality. It does no good though to give up just because of one little slip. Just get right back up and continue on. That is where long term success is achieved. THat is how BRonwyn has done it. HEr mootto is what is the next right thing to do. SHe has had wonderful results in the last 6 months by putting a limit on the calories she eats each day. SHe is losing very slowly but it adds up. nearly 30 pounds for her. GO BRONWYN! I am going to do it too. Slow like a snail. Little bits at a time. You don't think half a pound a week is much until you have done it for 6 months and suddenly you have lost 12 or 15 pounds. The time is going to go by anyway so why don't we make our time count? |
| Hilda | posted 1-Aug-2011 10:31pm Your health is the best reason to do it. I cannot afford the medicine I would have to take if I had some medical condition. Right now I only take a diuretic for blood pressure, and eat a banana every day for that, too. Baby aspirin once a day when I think of it. Some recommend taking 2 baby aspirins a day. I think a multivitamin is good and a calcium supplement with D. You feel so much better when you are eating right. Good news Debbie M. Yeah Bronwyn. You have done great. How are you feeling? I am making my soup tomorrow. |
| AJ | posted 2-Aug-2011 9:42am Hilda, well if you feel so much better eating correctly I better get with it. I am tired of feeling sick, bloated ect. things you feel from your eating habits. Thats what it is just a bad habit. So I need to STOP IT. Like Carol Lewis says from her book called Stop It. Shes from the diet called Frist Place its mostly calling on your almighty to see you through the rough times. Keep up the good job talk later AJ. |
| Hilda | posted 3-Aug-2011 1:26am My church has done First Place a while back. I am so happy to be back on www.myfitnesspal.com and recording my meals and snacks. It makes a HUGE difference. Especially at the end of the day, sometimes I have a couple hundred calories left and I know I can have a snack. You can put in a restaurant like Panera and all the choices on their menu will come up, so you can tell what is good to order to stay in your limit.I am at 1200 now and it is okay. Not hungry. Drinking more water now that it is so hot.Cutting down on the Diet Rite sodas. No sugar, no caffeine, all chemicals. I bought my Grandessa Hummus at Aldis today. All they had was garlic, not my favorite. had to go to the Health Food store to get the Real Foods Corn Thins to spread the hummus on. It was yummy. Clancy's Sweet Potato Chips are new at our Aldi's. 17 chips is 160 calories I think. I only ate a half serving. You lose twice as much when you record. Girls, what are you waiting for? It only takes a couple of minutes. |
| AJ | posted 3-Aug-2011 12:47pm Hilda I will have to divide things I eat into serving size or I dont stop eating like chips or anything, even peanut butter I like it by the spoonful and I know it has 33 calories for a teaspspoon. If its gone to work I have to be more disciplined. I have to want to feel better more then the food I really dont need. Also, remember Iam out of control when it comes to junk foods and some that is good for me. So I am taking small steps to a normal healthy weight. I have to quit that night eating we really dont need itif we eat a good dinner. Unless you are diabetic or something like that. So today is the day for a happy day of eating better and feeling better. Talk later someone has todo the dishes. Oh its nice to know others are trying to have success so when I reach for something I dont need Ill think of you all who are trying right along with me be strong. AJ talk later. |
| Debbie M. | posted 3-Aug-2011 1:16pm The stomach gets full wheather you eat junk or not. But there is no guilt afterwards if a good choice is made. So make one good choice at a time and see how good it feels! |
| Connie | posted 3-Aug-2011 7:22pm Hi gang. Welcome AJ. It's hotter than hot here! Right now it's 106 with heat index of 125. I managed to get some watering done outside. I made a big salad for dinner, too hot to cook. I love salad and I don't feel guilty or too full when I eat it. |
| Connie | posted 4-Aug-2011 12:51pm Morning all. Ok, I faced the scales today...156! I think that's my highest weight since I lost. Good grief! My kids are killing me with their junk food. I have to make them stop. Salad and fresh fruit for me today. I need to bavk away from the grains too. |
| Debbie M. | posted 4-Aug-2011 3:05pm I'd love to be 156 Connie. I'm at 194 right now. Thats better than it was! I keep trying. What are we going to do with those kids? |
| Connie | posted 4-Aug-2011 3:22pm I'm hoping they will be gone a lot at dinner, not an option for you Debbie. They both love to cook and they have a sweet tooth! |
| Debbie M. | posted 4-Aug-2011 3:53pm My scale at home says 194 but at the doc today it was 203. Who do I believe? I know which I want to believe. I do know at one point last year the doc scale said 211 and 214. So I know I have lost either way. |
| Connie | posted 4-Aug-2011 4:02pm Facing the numbers on the scale is an eye opener! Being down from last year breaks the trend to be up each year. Good for you Debbie. I need to get back in my clothes, I only have a few things I can wear right now and that bothers me a lot. My husband has lost weight recently...he just skips meals, not the healthiest way to do it. I'm thankful for the weight I have lost and credit NFNS with it, I just need to work on my resolve. |
| Debbie M. | posted 4-Aug-2011 5:18pm I seem to have found my sweet spot. Food isnt as enticing since I found my job. I have been working full time and forced to get dressed. So I want to look better than usual. There is a lot of food eating in our office but I have been determined to resist. I pack my snacks and stick to what I bring to work. Its working for me now. I intend to keep it going. |
| Connie | posted 4-Aug-2011 6:51pm Good for you Debbie! I know staying out of the kitchen works really well for me. Staying busy is key too. I think maybe I ate too much salad today, a bit of a belly ache now. |
| K10 | posted 4-Aug-2011 8:48pm Today is 25 years since my mom passed away. My friend suggested I focus on her life instead of her death. This is what I posted on Facebook earlier: Twenty five years ago today my mom passed away. Hubby said that her dying wasn't my defining moment and I agree. My friend suggested I focus on her life instead of her death. What a good idea. I had her in my life for almost 17 years, and she taught me a lot in that time. She was loved by many. She was a nurse and she was good at what she did. God blessed me with two other mothers, my mother-in-law and my stepmom. Three moms that loved me, now that is awesome. |
| Connie | posted 4-Aug-2011 9:08pm That is awesome K10. Very heartfelt. |
| Debbie M. | posted 4-Aug-2011 9:38pm (((hugs)))K10. Your mother would be proud of the woman you have grown to become. Off to work my second night shift. I'm so glad training is almst over. I have 7 days off after tonight. I need them. School will be starting on the 25th and I'd like to get my kids to the beach a couple more times. Golf has alreadu started for #2. She hit her all time best yesterday at city meet. Connie did it get cooler yet? It got much cooler here yesterday. I giess the heat wave has finally broke. I am really looking forward to the 180's. I can already feel a difference in my clothes. |
| Hilda | posted 5-Aug-2011 12:24am I stated out in an 18 short and I am now in a 12 short slacks. 192 to 180 and then 170 now 167 today. Would really like to see a 10 soon. I hit 165 earlier in the summer and felt really good. Fell off the wagon and had to get back on!!!!!!!!!! AJ, I forgot to say you have to give away all the junk food in your house. If it's not there you can't eat it. Your environment being rid of temptation is a huge help. I don't even go down the cookie aisle. Eat your peanut butter on a rice cake and enjoy that one teaspoon! |
| Hilda | posted 5-Aug-2011 8:14am If you are on Facebook, Drury Hotels has a contest going if you will click on Like. My daughter is always winning something. I am not on Facebook, but I do like Drury Hotels. |
| Hilda | posted 5-Aug-2011 8:16am Elizabeth Hasselbeck has a new gluten free bar that was on Hip2Save yesterday. You could sign up to get a free one. My daughter also checks that website everyday. She does a lot of couponing. |
| Lynn | posted 5-Aug-2011 3:51pm Does anyone have an NFNS recipe for biscuits? Is it possible? Wanted to make them for a family gathering and thought if there was a good NFNS recipe, I'd try that instead of the usual ones, which I can't eat. |
| Connie | posted 5-Aug-2011 5:09pm We don't have one for biscuits, but you can make NFNS cornbread. |
| Debbie M. | posted 6-Aug-2011 12:16pm I feel like a child with a temper tantrum going on. My husband is going out of town for 10 days and I am NOT happy about it. Grrrrrr |
| Debbie M. | posted 6-Aug-2011 12:23pm I know what I need for the next 10 days. I need a focus. A distraction. Some goals. I think of course I will try to stick to my healthful diet and try to lose some more weight. AND I will focus, at the same time, on a couple of house projects. My desk is a mess and my bedroom needs some attention. If I can focus on those things besides getting the kids ready for school and running oldest girl to golf and middle girl to basketball camp and working, I will keep busy and not have much time to be mad at him for leaving. He will make extra money going so that is a plus. I got my first pay check yesterday! Just in time for school supplies and such. YES! I got to fill my gas tank for the first time in a while. $108.02 to fill it.(Its a full size fan) Can you believe that? Enough whinning, sorry............. Must grocery shop and plan, plan, plan, that is the key to success. |
| K10 | posted 6-Aug-2011 5:04pm I know it is hard for you when he is gone, but you will do well. When do the kids go back to school? How much is gas in your neck of the woods? I would say the average here is $3.65. |
| Debbie M. | posted 6-Aug-2011 5:18pm $3.89 yesterday, a little less today, plus the van has a very large tank. Yes, I will do OK, I just hate it and get mad. The kids go back the 25th of Aug so he will be back by then. Change of season (school in and out)is never an easy time for me. |
| K10 | posted 7-Aug-2011 3:25pm Having fresh caught Alaskan Salmon, quinoa and corn on the cob for lunner (lunch/dinner). I hope it is awesome. |
| Connie | posted 7-Aug-2011 4:56pm You'll do fine Debbie! Believe me, he will hate being gone that long as much as you will hate him being gone. Our central air went out yesterday. It's Sunday, so we can't do anything till tomorrow. I'm staying in my son's upstairs "attic" room which has a window unit, but it's not doing so good. It's ancient. When it rains, it pours. |
| Anonymous | posted 7-Aug-2011 5:03pm Connie, check to see if the drain is clogged and the outside unit is clean. It may just need freon. |
| Connie | posted 7-Aug-2011 7:01pm Husband checked everything. The compressor is shot. It has been working it's fanny off. Tomorrow he'll find out if he can replace the compressor, or if we need a whole new unit or whatever. Believe me, he keeps the details to himself...he's funny that way. |
| Debbie M. | posted 7-Aug-2011 8:10pm Oh my, no air is so hard when its so hot and you're used to air. Hope it gets fixed tomorrow Connie. Took the kids to the beach today with a neighbor. Survived a day without the man. |
| Hilda | posted 7-Aug-2011 10:53pm If anybody wants to view my myfitnesspal diary my name is 67Brandy. Maybe it will keep me motivated if I know someone is looking. Today I had soup for lunch and salad and rice mix with peas and carrots for dinner. I still have calories left. I did not record yesterday as it was a wedding shower day for my daughter and I ate sugar and paid for it with miserable excess gas. My body did not know what to make of the punch and candy. I had gained 1.5 pounds this morning. Now it may take me a week to get back to where I was. The new mother in law was the hostess and she had fixed so much food. I did not eat any bread or cake, but tried too many dips and edible arrangement fruit dipped in chocolate. I thought my stomach was going to explode. |
| Debbie M. | posted 8-Aug-2011 12:52am Hilda, I noticed too that sugar and flour produce a lot of gas. When one is sn/nf gas is completely gone. Its amazing and so much more comfortable without the bloat. We had a super sweet cantalope today that was as big as your head. |
| Connie | posted 8-Aug-2011 11:05am Hilda, I have been there and done that! It is amazing the reaction we have to f&s when we have been away from it for awhile. It tells us so much. Husband figure's a new central air unit will run about 1000. Dad gum! So he's going to tackle that today. We need new inside and outside parts. I am off to Sears to buy a new window unit for upstairs because the one we have is a great big huge piece of *!%#! OMG, that thing should have been buried a long time ago. By about 2 am this morning I was telling him it had to go!!!! It makes noise, it blows out air, it just doesn't cool. Yesterday it was like 103. The last time I weighed it was 155.4. I little itty bitty step in the right direction. Later ladies, and great day all. |
| Debbie M. | posted 8-Aug-2011 12:55pm way to go Connie.... |
| Hilda | posted 8-Aug-2011 2:21pm I had black beans in my soup yesterday and they did not bother me at all. |
| Debbie M. | posted 8-Aug-2011 3:53pm I've been enjoying black beans in my home made salsa. Left over salsa goes really well as a topping for chicken. Its low in calories and adds moisture. |
| Bronwyn | posted 8-Aug-2011 4:36pm Speaking of black beans.....did I say this previously: I like to roast a yam (whole in it's skin) in the oven until it is all sweet and soft. I take it out of the skin and slice it on a plate and top with black beans warmed in a spicy salsa, top with a little grated cheese, chopped avocado, diced tomato, chopped green onions, a little sour cream and squeeze fresh lime juice over the whole thing. You could go crazy with all sorts of things.....way yummy, filling and healthy. |
| Connie | posted 8-Aug-2011 4:43pm Good grief Bronwyn...my mouth is watering! |
| Debbie M. | posted 8-Aug-2011 4:54pm I don't even wnt my supper now. |
| Hilda | posted 8-Aug-2011 8:14pm I am having soup and Asian rice with peas and carrots. Recorded my lunch as dinner and my dinner and lunch today. I had put those foods in yesterday for those meals and it was quicker. |
| Bronwyn | posted 8-Aug-2011 10:10pm ha, ha, Debbie......hey that is such an easy meal you just roast however many yams you need for however many people are eating. I don't wrap the yams or anything.....wash, poke a couple of holes in each one, put on a cookie sheet and roast at 425 for 45 -60 minutes depending on size of yam. |
| Debbie M. | posted 8-Aug-2011 11:54pm I once baked potatoes without poking any holes. They were fine until I stuck a knife in one to see if it was done and it exploded. There was potato everywhere! Its a miracle none splattered on me. I surely would have been burned. I never forget the holes now. I am going to buy yams at the end of this week. We came home to fresh garden tomatoes on the chair on our porch. Somebody blessed us fom their garden. We have not had a garden for a couple years now. Me and the kids miss it. I do not miss the weeding though. We always seemed to let the weeds win in he end. |
| Bronwyn | posted 9-Aug-2011 5:01pm I once made home made root beer by putting dry ice in the bottles and capping them.......oh my word you would not believe how well that experiment went. I am lucky to have my eyes. Of course for some stupid reason every cabinet door in the kitchen had to be open to receive the contents of the burst bottles.....rootbeer and glass. The ceiling got a really good drenching. I had intended to take them to people for Halloween treats.....glad I didn't get those loaded into the car together with my 2 small children at the time. Oh the stupid things we once did, eh |
| Bronwyn | posted 9-Aug-2011 5:18pm Think sticky mess......certainly not NFNS |
| Connie | posted 9-Aug-2011 9:03pm Bronwyn, I read your post and thought "lawsuit!" Where did you get that idea? I'm trying to eat well, but I'm more or less confined to bedroom with the only air conditioning. Can't cook, except with microwave. Settled on frozen chicken fried rice, not totally NFNS but that was hard to find in the frozen section. Wish we had a Trader Joe's. |
| Debbie M. | posted 9-Aug-2011 10:08pm Oh Connie, no air yet? when will it be fixed? |
| Debbie M. | posted 10-Aug-2011 9:32am I'll be working the next 5 out of 7 days. I guess I am finishing up my training which is lasting longer than I thought. Of course we need the money but Steve is out of town and I don't like the kids to be home alone. I am also not used to relying on others to help me with my kids. Its a bit distressing but Iknow we will be ok. Staff meeting today. I hope there isn't a bunch of junk food. I have been able to resist junk food lately but then again I have not been keeping chips and crackers in the house. Last night I felt the need to crunch so I made some popcorn in the pan with a little oil. Its so much better than microwave corn which tastes all plasticky. |
| K10 | posted 10-Aug-2011 7:50pm Have any of you been to Orlando, FL? What should we see? We are planning on going in 6 months. |
| Hilda | posted 10-Aug-2011 11:21pm Watch the Joyce Meyer video online More Than Conquerors Part 2. Very inspiring. I enjoyed Epcot and Sea World when my kids were little. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disney World was fun. Not sure if it's even there. Fireworks and laser show at Epcot. This was 1983 so I'm sure it's all different. I am really doing well at staying close to 1200 cal per day. Love myfitnesspal.com |
| Debbie M. | posted 10-Aug-2011 11:32pm There was evil food at the staff meeting today. Frosted cookies and plain and peanut m&m's. I had one cookie and a few of each candy. But after that I stopped. A little lose and little win. Its way better than I would have done before. So generally? WIN! |
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