Posts by yarroc

Hi Christine and chistimedavidson, sorry haven't been in this forum for a while,  we all seemed to move to the Lets Geturdone forum.  Please feel free to join us there.  We are always happy to meet new folks.  I've added you to my friends list, please feel free to add me as well.  I know just how hard it is to lose weight and the stuggles with it.  We have a very good support system in place so please peak in on us and say hi.

Karen 

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Hello all, it's pouring rain here and oh my how tempting it is to order something out.  I don't know there is a connection between ordering out and the rain.  But I will be good, I am getting ready to have my salad and my black rice and beans. 

Penny, tell me how you like those fries.  I'd love to try them if they are as good as they sound. 

Donna, glad to hear that your husband got seen when he did.  You know we always put off those doctor visits.  We just hate to hear what we don't want to hear, but it is necessary so good you didn't delay.   I did want to know if you ever found the Black Rice and if you did how you liked it.  It is still one of my staple foods, and if I don't have it I feel like I am missing something. Penny turned me on to the Black Rice in my yogurt and that is my breakfast every morning.  I also include wheat germ and flax seed. 

Hi Carol, how are you doing?  I am sending you some positive energy your way --------------->>>>>>> hope you get it and it helps.

Hi Marta glad to see you return, I know how hard it is when you are at the point to starting over again.  Been there a few times.  Hope we can help keep you encouraged.

Catch you all later.. Got to go eat..

Karen

Is the monkey selling umbrellas too?

eggplant parmigiana

Hi everyone..

Penny that is very, very good news about the biopsy, so glad to hear it.  Blood pressure I am all to familiar with.  I have been diagnosed with hypertension, but since I began eating the black rice and cut out all meats for the most part, my blood pressure has come down.  I still eat some meat like when I make meatballs, and hamburgers and chicken but I am not big on eating meat much these days.  When I lose weight my pressure gets better, so once your down to where you want to be you may be able to slowly come off it.  Are you still eating the black rice?

Alice the good thing is I didn't cook for them much.  I let them know they were on their own since I worked 3:45pm to 12:15am to make their own dinners, and I couldn't eat like they did anyway.  Way too much strange meat foods for me.  But when I did cook I stayed with healthier food choices and I ate in moderation. 

Hi phox50 nice to meet you.  My blood pressure was mostly weight related and I did stop taking the medication when I lost the weight and after monitoring my blood pressure I was successfully able to stop taking medication.  Now I have the same issue but since I know it is weight related I am watching it but I am comfortable that I can control it with diet.   I will check out the link you included about the DASH diet, it sounds interesting.

Karen

Do I have to talk to you to be your friend?

Hi All,

I have been peeking in on all the posts, sorry I have been so tired to write.  My work scheduled changed again which is good I am now on days with 3 days off Fridays, Sundays and Mondays.  I've been doing very well with my weight, still losing 1-2 lbs a week.  But my company will be coming back on June 1st.  I got my friends wife (Pam) a job and she will be staying with me for a few months until they get enough to get their own place.  He will be on the road, they do vendor shows in Ohio and Florida.  This time of year they are in Ohio, then in winter they go back to Florida well, until now that is..  It won't be too bad Pam eats like a bird, she had her stomach stapled a few years ago and it takes her days to finish a meal so there won't be to many temptations.   I remember when that type of operation was all the rage, now it's the by-pass neither of them are exciting to me.  I give anyone who goes through with those types of operations but it's not for me.  I watched how Pam ate, and she could only eat a couple of bits and that was it.  Her operation was years ago, but she still can't eat, I'd rather lose the way I am slow and learn to eat the foods that work for me. 

Penny, I am now eating the black rice in my yogurt and I include Wheat Germ, and now I've added flax seeds.  Oh my I still love it.  It's my breakfast every morning. 

Marie, I know it's hard to stay on track when you have so much going on.  I know when I was renovating my kitchen, I was ordering out every night and then even when the kitchen was completed I still ordered out a lot.  But it sounds like you have kept it all under control.  I will be thinking about you and hope you get a good reading from your scale.  Very good article.. 

Donna, I'm still here, just been crazy with my new work schedule and when it's not raining I try to get outside to get a little done.  I should be back to normal soon and be back on the boards pretty regularly.  But a big hello to you and I do think of all of you often.  And a big congrats to your granddaughter on her graduation.  Today you have to have a Masters so she is smart to continue with hers.

Alice, I love to do my gardening.  I just finished putting up my Bat-house and I put a flower bed around it.  My sister says I have a whim-cycle kinda garden.  I love it, it takes my mind off of things and allows me to really get into my own thoughts.  But I will say sometimes I wish I had more time to just relax.  I am always doing something. 

Sue, it's  a good feeling when someone accepts you for the role you are in.  I know when I first met my sister (she is my fathers daughter from his service days) we have been talking for many years on the phone and then we met and it took a while for the feelings to really be there, but now I call her sister and she calls me sister.  It's a good feeling to know you are accepted.  I can't even imagine being married for 69 years == A big round of applauds to your parents. 

Well, got to sign off for now...  My bed is calling my name....  and work tomorrow..

Karen

If we get the vice president do we finally get our whiskey?

Hi All..  Sorry I have been MIA for a few days now.  With my company leaving and trying to get back to a normal routine it's been kind of crazy.  I am back on track now with my diet. While my company was here I was just maintaining which is good, but got to get back on track for losing. 

SUMMER and NICE WEATHER looks like it is finally here.  I know we all have lots of outside stuff to do, I have been doing lots of yard work just to get all my flower beds weeded out.  Does anyone have a simple way of doing it - other then hiring someone :o), that is.  It is back breaking, those weeds get all over.  Well, my yard is looking pretty good now.  I need to replace a couple of plants that didn't make it with the frost we got last year.  They struggled last summer and I was hoping they would survive but no such luck. 

Donna, I just saw a commercial on tv for a glove you can ware not just for working on the computer, but by the time I got a pen to write down the info for you the commercial was gone.  I will keep my eye out again for it.  It was a regular commercial. 

Marie, sorry to hear that the weather hasn't been the best for bike riding. I hate when I get into doing something and can't for one reason or another that is out of my control.   With the weather getting so nice I am anxious to do a little bike riding myself.  I will have to rent a bike since mine is still in NY, but that's ok.   It's good your mom has spunk.  That's what helps keep us going.  My mom was like that, right up to the very end, god rest & bless her soul. 

Alice, wonderful photos.. &nbs p;Looks like a lot of fun...    

Well, got to go for now, can't keep my eyes open any longer.  My work schedule will get back to normal next week.

Nite all... Karen

Do we need AA or effing therapy?

Hi all...  Thanks Marie.  Good for you..  bike riding is very good exercise I have a good bike, Mongoose (?), when I left NY I couldn't fit it on the truck so I left it in my brother's garage and said I'll get it either when I get up to NY again or when someone comes down to visit me.  Well, I haven't gotten it yet and I would love to bike ride again.  There is a mountain (I forget the name) here that you go to the top of the mountain by van ,with your bike, and then you ride down.  The whole downward trip takes at least 2/3 hours because  there are places on the way down to stop at, and the view is really wonderful.  

Weather here has been up and down - was great on Saturday but heavy rain today. 

Donna, how is your wrist?  Have you been back to the doctors about it? 

Well, I have company again.  My friends wife came back for a job interview on Wednesday and she just left today but my sister came in last night and will be here until the end of the week so, it's going to be a busy week.

Good night all...  Karen

Hi all..  Well I really appreciate each of you and thank you for walking the walk with me.  I think that I feel like so much is out of our control that what I can control like what I eat and how I eat, I do.  You know you can't control most things that go on around you, but I refuse to let anyone else take what I can do for myself away from me.  That was pretty much how I quite smoking, now 18 years ago and I am trying to put that same philosophy into play with losing weight.   I also have a lot of weight to lose and it does come off easier when you have a lot of weight.  It gets tougher when you get down to the last say 5o or so pounds. 

Donna your friend has a lot to be happy about.  WHAT AN ACCOMPLISHMENT!!!  Please extend my congrats to her.  It is no easy task to lose that much weight.    And, yes tracking your food intake is an excellent way to get focused again and re-energize your resolve.  

Marie, thanks so much, it means a lot to me to have you and Donna and all the folks here because you all know exactly what the challenges are, and how difficult it is at times so when I start to feel like I am slipping having you all to turn to is a big boost to my resolve.  You all are understanding and supportive and informative.  I really believe that it is a good part of why I can stay so focused.

Not to get mushy or anything but I really think it is important that I say thank you to each of you because as we get into other topics other then just weight loss you have all been here to lean on and that is more then sometimes our own family will do, so for that I want to let you all know how much I really appreciate your time and efforts. 

if we have a smaller bill is the whiskey smaller too?

What's wrong with Roses?