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Mimi, Mimi, Mimi - so happy to "see" you.

I left you a note on my thread but also wanted to pop in here and tell you how much I enjoyed your words and your beautiful picture. Thanks for sharing both.

(I don't do Facebook either).

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Oh, Berry! I have been trying to catch up on missed threads after a long absence on my part, and just caught up with yours. What an ordeal you and your husband have been through these past months! I am so glad to know that he is doing so much better now. I am maintaining along, thankfully, and enjo...

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Congrats, that is great news

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SOOO happy to see your return, thanks for the kind words.

I often have thought of you hiking around with your dogs and eating foods I have never heard of

While I am eating ... uh ... salad.

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Me too. Each meal is a new beginning !

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Happy Tuesday! Cool but sunny with blue skies. Will get in another great walk at lunchtime. Kinda have a headache this morning, feels like sinus pressure as it gets worse if I bend down to get something and then raise my head back up. Drinking hot lemon ginger tea, that fixes about everything :wink:...

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Go you indeed! Welcome to the forums.

Your food sounds AMAZING ! As does the bike ride.

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Happy Monday Journalers! Let's see, drank a couple cups of coffee with French vanilla creamer before I came to work, drank hot lemon tea and ate a 21 gr protein chocolate bar for breakfast. Went for a vigorous walk at lunch, then stopped in Dollar General and looked around. Saw a can of seasoned but...

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MustLoseWeight wrote:S Day and wasn't a total idiot!

That good to hear

I rarely even notice the S days as I try to eat sanely most days, rare occasions call for a dessert - and they are truly occasions.

Welcome to the boards, may each day find you not a total idiot - wait, did that sound right?

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Well, today will pass and hopefully you will feel better tomorrow. Many DO find that they welcome Monday mornings and the control it brings their life.

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Welcome to the forums, one of the friendliest - most supportive - places you will ever find.

Wishing you well on your journey to a happy, healthy lifestyle to share with your lovely family.

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Just stopping in to say hi. Happy belated Birthday. Good job the diet soda :D Speedy recovery and healing thoughts to your hubby. Thank you so very much on all counts, Lori. Love your name, love it so much that is what I named my daughter 40 years ago. :D Always good to see you, sending you my very...

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Happy Sunday All ! Did my powerwalk aerobic video first thing this morning to energize me. And it did ! Should be able to get in some more yard work today, might plant some sunflower and phlox seeds. Breakfast was nonfat vanilla yogurt with a handful (literally) of Kashi Go Lean cereal, dried cranbe...

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Morning all. Happy Saturday. It appears to be a sunny, pretty day but the last few days have fooled me so we shall see. If it is nice, I will do some yard work. If it is not, I will just continue to say that I will do some yard work tomorrow - or the next day :roll: Planning a day filled with health...

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Thanks ! Happy Friday fellow Journalers - today is my all day shopping/eating trip with friends. A weekly event for the past decade or so. We always have a lot of fun. Won't eat breakfast before I leave but might try to get in the Leslie Sansone aerobic walk video. That was actually quite a little w...

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Happy Thursday All, Beautiful Spring day here - much nicer than it has been the last few days. It has been damp, windy, cold. Downright blustery !!! Glad it is nice because I am off work and want to do some more clean up in the yard. Already fed the horses and picked up some sticks, etc. (We grow st...

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Welcome, this is a wonderful board full of supportive people and I am happy to have you become a part of "us".

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Welcome to the boards, hang in there.

You can't go wrong when you are doing right.

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Morning all, Happy Wednesday! At work, eating my banana spread with peanut butter but alas, there are no flaxseeds here - I shall have to buy some at lunch. The peanut butter expired Dec 2013 but I like to live on the edge :shock: Note to self, buy more peanut butter as well. Luckily the jar is almo...

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Glad to hear that there are no serious medical issues. I agree that vigorous exercise does stimulate one's appetite.

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She is 17, her main purpose in life is to drive you crazy. So, congratulate her on such fine work, smile and do something nice for yourself. Go for a walk, read a book, call a friend, take a bubble bath, plan a garden, something simple - no or low cost - but just for you! Because you deserve it. You...

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Now you've gone and done it - cornbread! I LOVE cornbread. The problem is if I make it for just me and my husband, he will eat one piece. I will eat the rest :roll: :roll: :roll: I am craving ham and beans (great northern) with chopped onions and a couple hunks of cornbread. Oh yes, I am. But in the...

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Inspiring meal arrangements! You're a role model of (umm, what's the english word?!) . . . refinement/grace/elegance! ;) I picture you as the mother in Little House on the Prarie! :) Have a good Tuesday! Why, I am blushing. Not only from your kind words but from all of the errors in my last entry. ...

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Thanks ladies for stopping by and for your comments. I really do love to eat ! For breakfast I had a 20 gm protein bar with hot lemon ginger tea. Very busy morning at work, luckily I wasn't even hungry until about 2. I made me a pretty plate of sliced cucumbers, halved cherry tomatoes, cubed boiled ...

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chani8 wrote:I really enjoyed reading your thread. I'm sorry about your DH's leg and hope he's doing well. You are an amazing person and a great wife. I love to read your menu and journal. Have a great Monday!

Thank you so very much for your good wishes, he IS getting better each day.

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That's a great attitude! Onward and upward. Here's to a great week.

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Stopping by to say hi! to tobiasmom, remember you well and have always enjoyed posting with you.

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Thank you Strawberry! It's so helpful to get support and validation. Can I ask, what do you do with your time? I am bored. Sure, I am probably boring but never bored. I work as a legal secretary three days a week (M-W), I volunteer with a senior transportation group, I spend one day a week out shop...

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Vent away, who could blame you. I cannot imagine the stress of raising kids today, especially teens and pre-teens. I am so selfish with my time, I admire those who are sharing themselves with so many others twenty four hours a day. When I met my husband and we were talking on the phone (I was marrie...

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Happy Sunday All. Breakfast Brunch (at 11) - low fat vanilla yogurt parfait - layered with sliced banana and Kashi Go Lean cereal, topped with cold milled organic flax seed and cinnamon. Forgot I had bought the flax seed - I sprinkle it on almost everything! Drank some coffee earlier, switching to h...

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Exactly, as a Seinfeld episode might say,

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Aww, thanks. We are very simple Ozark people - nothing fancy here. I do love good healthy food, tho. Tonight we finished off the crunchy, cheesy, broccoli casserole. Yummy. I was so craving it the whole time we were in the hospital. As good as I remembered. Got in two hours of exercise today, drank ...

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Oh my gosh, I am so sorry to read about your daughter's accident. That must have been horrible to hear the news and watch her endure all that pain Thanks be to God that she is recovering so well.

Welcome back.

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Happy Saturday fellow Journalers - Busy, busy day. Lots of company coming and going - just short visits to say hi to us and see how my husband is doing but I didn't even get around to eating anything until after 2. Rather than scarf down something bad for me, I took my time and made me a nice salad ...

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Good Friday Evening my wonderful fellow journalers - Had a great day shopping with friends, didn't eat breakfast - had a nice lunch of chili and a side salad (not huge but nice) and unsweetened iced tea. I told myself that I would have diet soda as I haven't had any all week, but once I got there I ...

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Hi, wanted to stop by your thread and say hi ! Also want to agree that one doesn't really how much they are snacking until they stop (your beginning posts on this thread really hit home to me.) I don't know how many times I walk into the kitchen and just open the cabinet and stare into it. Not hungr...

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Hi, just wanted to stop by and say hi and offer my encouragement on your journey to better health. Spring is such a wonderful time to resurrect our body and our life.

Enjoyed reading your thread, you are doing great with a lot going on in your life, I want to wish your parents my very best.

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Hi, just wanted to stop by and offer my encouragement as well. Your thread was great to read, you showed great restraint while out having a drink with your friends. It is so easy to mindlessly snack when sitting around and chatting - ESPECIALLY if others are. Way to go ! And good luck on the 21 day ...

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Hi, let me add my birthday wishes. I have just read your entire thread and you are doing great!!!!

Keep it up, you can't go wrong when you are doing right.

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Hi ! Just wanted to stop by and say that I have read your entire thread and found it so inspirational. You lead a very interesting life and I am happy that you are sharing it with all of us.

My best to you on your journey.

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Happy Thursday Fellow Journalers :D Cleaning out the freezer today in preparation for a BIG shopping day tomorrow. So, naturally I ate the end of the frozen onion rings (baked in the oven) and a Dreamsicle bar for lunch. (No breakfast). For dinner I plan to make a wild rice, mushroom, and broccoli c...

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Thank you all so very much for your kind words. This is, without a doubt, the most supportive board I have ever been on. Everybody wants everybody else to be the very best they can be! I want to try and read everybody's threads to catch up as soon as I can. I have been so busy at work and at home. B...

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Happy Tuesday, fellow Journalers. Had a great day, breakfast was the final cranberry/orange/pecan muffin - had it at work with hot green tea. Drank LOTS of tea and water today. Lunch was a cheese stick, apple and pretzels. Also was cleaning out the cabinets at work and found some Snackwell fudge coo...

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Thank you so much ironchef. Feeling even better tonight, my husband had his two week post discharge check up today and the doctors said he is doing great. Only about two more weeks of wound vac/ home health ! YAY !! Today is going very well, didn't eat anything until about three, too nervous about t...

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Morning Journal :wink: Having a great day, felt so much better when I woke up today. Although the old habit of first thing in the morning looking for cookies or something to have with my coffee almost reared it's head. But I ignored. Snacking is easily my worst habit. No real hunger attached, just s...

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Morning No S er's.... :lol: Had a great day yesterday, got in my exercise and ate exactly as planned - well less than planned. The monster salad filled me up to the point that I didn't even want the spaghetti. Didn't even want M and Ms that the hubby offered me - He said, But look, it's a shareable ...

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jw wrote:Good news after long trials -- welcome back, Strawberry Roan! I have thought of you often and wondered how things were going for you and your husband --

Happy medicare, happy salads, happy spring --

Thank you so very much .

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First of all, I am happy to be back! My husband was in the hospital for 129 days and I stayed with him EVERY SINGLE DAY ! Although it was suggested that we come home on hospice on more than one occasion, he fought through it all and is now home and expected to fully heal. He had a below the knee amp...

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Thank you all. My husband had his surgery a week ago. Came in by ambulance through the ER and had a below the knee amputation of the left leg. He is not doing well and they are considering a revision of the surgery, an amputation higher up the leg.

I appreciate your support.

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Thanks to you all. My husband has had multiple operations over the past five years due to a poorly read ultrasound - he was told that he was fine but actually had three blood clots and an aneurysm :( which resulted in a 12 1/2 hour emergency surgery the next morning as his leg "died", lost all blood...

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So, fill us in. How was the workshop?

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ACCCKKKK :shock: I have gained back probably five pounds but it feels like five hundred. I feel so sluggish, like I am dragging another body around or something. Nobody's fault but my own, lots of personal things going on as my husband has been in and out of the hospital three times in the last mont...

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Let me add to the birthday wishes and second the comment that this board would not be the same without your insight.

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Amazing indeed. Congrats

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oolala, As said, it is all relative. There are miserable people at size two and size twenty-two. I don't really have a problem with someone being overly attentive (obsessing is another word I suppose) about their food tracking, weighing, etc. if that is what keeps them going. I weigh twice a day, ha...

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Good to read your thread, Lori. I do the 16 hour (or so) fasting thing as well, by habit more than plan. I rarely eat after about seven at night and rarely eat the next day before ten or eleven. I am not, by any means, an early breakfast eater. Often breakfast is lunch which works out well for me. I...

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Good to see you back posting, Kathleen. I am known for my huge nightly dinner salads (often all I eat) so I can certainly picture and appreciate your shelf of veggies in the refrigerator. Last night I cut up a fresh chilled nectarine into chunks and added it to my salad. It was so crisp and refreshi...

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Morning all, Happy September. Beautiful weather here in the Ozarks. Doing fine, kinda took a cyber break as there was a lot going on around here. Will have to go back and read some threads and see how my Nosers are doing! Staying on track, it is routine now I suppose. Lots of healthy salads and fres...

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Welcome back.

It is a sense of control and that is indeed empowering.

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That is funny, isn't it? Carbs and Calories and Cheesecake!!!! ++++++++++++++ Doing great, have decided to watch my carbs more closely and it is really working. Even joined the Atkins community just to stay informed. They are sending me three of their meal bars to try, I will give a review after I e...

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Happy Thursday all, Wonderful week so far. (My work week is over as I work M, Tu and W). Got a nice raise at work yesterday, wasn't expected so that made it nicer. :wink: Eating has been going great. It is just so truly amazing, if I stay off the diet soda and the "healthy" snacks, the weight drops ...

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How interesting.

Is there anything you really love, that really makes you anxious to eat?

I know that I don't think I am hungry but after I have piled everything on my plate for my "big" salad, I cannot wait to dig in.

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Hi, stopping by to say howdy neighbor :D Sounds like you are doing great! What a wonderful day you described with your family. We have a big fishing pond on our farm as does my son. I have three great grandsons who love to fish. They release them as well. My son says they are probably catching the s...

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Thank you very much snapdragon. Reading my thread was probably sleep inducing, I am about the least exciting person I know :D Please stop by and say Hi whenever you are in the neighborhood. __________________ Ate some cucumbers and cantaloupe for lunch with a piece of leftover pizza. Then had some a...

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Congrats and welcome!

Excellent progress so far, enjoy your weekend.

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Stopping by to say Hi. I haven't been around as much myself and I have really missed the motivation. I feel so much better if I check in and stay accountable.

Hope you (and all reading) are doing well

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Congrats! and welcome. That is great success. This is a great place to post and get to know others who are on the same journey, to better health. The more you read and post the more you will learn and I believe the more success you will have. I do know that when I post I stay motivated. And Congrats...

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Hi, and good luck on your journey to better health.

And, let me add that I used to live in Eureka, Missouri. Know Fenton well. My family always stops at the White Castle on their way to St. Louis (we live near Branson now).

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oolala,

I always love reading your posts.

I have to ask, why do you eat at all if you are not hungry? Is it because you have a schedule at work, etc. where you might get hungry and not have the opportunity then?

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:D As a matter of fact, I did 100 this morning and will do 100 this evening. I am certainly not trying to be a bikini model or anything, just as you said, I want a strong core - strong back. I actually do farm work and can throw a 50 lb salt block or bale of hay over a fence with the best of them! I...

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One bodybuilder/trainer said he once went for an entire year without doing any specific abs work. I guess a summer without much is acceptable! Good to know! :D I am going to try to at least get in the 100 reps on the Ab Coaster Plus - I really feel that it helps keep me a bit toned or perhaps just ...

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Hello friends, Staying busy, staying on track. Still on the big salad kick - often that is my only dinner. Been so busy at work - have been snacking more than I should. Not bad snacks, but not real meals either. Latest thing is sweet potato chips with sea salt. pretty good :roll: Haven't been gettin...

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Happy Summer All ! I have been sooooooooo busy here. We have been doing a lot of work around the place, getting new roofs of course meant we had to paint the shutters and redo the decks and, well you know the drill. Like buying a new lamp, then you have to paint the living room :roll: Everything loo...

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Hello All, Stopping by for a check in. Doing well, had an interesting day. Went to a big family reunion - where the tables are laden with food. I ate a bit of a lot of different things, and a lot of a couple of things. Mindless eating of rippled chips, etc. while drinking a diet soda. Then I had a d...

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Happy Sunday and Happy June fellow Nosers. Loving the summer, although it took forever to get here it seems. Very busy at work and even busier at home. Glad to get in the extra exercise. Eating pretty clean, lots of fresh fruits and veggies at good buys (especially at Aldis - got eight kiwis for 1.9...

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Stopping by to say Hi !

I know everybody gets busier in the summer months, I know I do.

I hope you are doing well, BS.

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Happy Friday! Hope you all are healthy and happy. I am doing great, thought of this board yesterday as I was making breakfast/brunch. I was eating my plain yogurt with a cut up orange and handful of blueberries topped with flax seed and cinnamon - had made my husband pancakes and bacon. I used to al...

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I have been there, oolala, as you know. When I first went Gung Ho with the No S system, I lost way too much weight - looked awful. So, used that as an excuse to gain - too much. Then I just quit over thinking it. I don't do the NO S thing, I just try to eat right and exercise. My weight has stayed t...

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Happy Wednesday All, Life is going great! Still eating wonderful foods and loving them. For breakfast/lunch yesterday I had about a half cup of low fat vanilla yogurt with a cut up banana in it, a handful of Kashi Go Lean, sprinkled with cinnamon and flax seeds! Dinner was my giant salad with baby b...

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Okay, maybe about 100 bucks worth

The rest was spent on flavored vinegars and croutons and onion crisps and other salad necessities.

Had avocados today, they were so buttery and yummy!

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Very sorry for your loss, oolala, beautiful tribute.

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Hey there, Thanks BS and all for the good wishes. My husband is getting stronger each day, so happy! Staying on track, don't think about it too much anymore, I just KNOW when I am eating less healthy than I should and try to keep those times to a minimum. I just feel better, physically and mentally,...

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Thank you. And, of all those mentioned, mindset is the key. Once a person gets into the right "space", everything else is easy. No matter how many billions or trillions of dollars spent on the weight loss industry, it really is just eating right and exercising. ______________________________________...

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Happy Saturday. Still raining. Wonder what the correlation is between torrential rain and a tarp being all that is covering the broken skylight in our bathroom? :wink: Ate a late breakfast of HoneyNut Cheerios, 2pct milk, half a banana, flax seeds and cinnamon. Ate some air popped popcorn about thre...

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Went shopping today and bought lots of beautiful, colorful, healthy food. Walked down the aisles of cookies and chips and candy and honestly had no desire - but when I get to the produce section, all heck breaks loose :D The only "snacks" I bought were popcorn (microwave for work - 100 calorie bags)...

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Thanks so much. Enjoy your yardwork. I think the only reason it doesn't seem like work is because we have waited so long to be out and about again. ___________________ Happy Thursday All, Didn't eat anything during the day yesterday, not sure why, just wasn't hungry. Ate a veggie burger (spicy black...

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Yes, I agree. Brush it off and move on. I love the raw honesty of this board. We are here to support each other. The very fact that it bothers you shows that you will be back on track. You know how you enjoy living so I have no doubt you will resume that lifestyle

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I also enjoy hearing of your lifestyle. In the Midwest (USA), we have four definite seasons, a lot if weather extremes, and varying amounts of light. However, it is nothing like the extremes you experience! I live in the Missouri Ozarks, so I hear ya. They are replacing the roofs on our house and a...

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I, too, love traveling to your "space". We all appreciate you taking the time to so eloquently share with us.

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Happy Monday, Got in lots of yardwork yesterday, picking up sticks and rocks and walnuts, so my husband could mow as well as doing the final cleanup on all the perennial beds and getting the planters filled with fresh soil, etc. The amazing news is eleven days post surgery he is back on the John Dee...

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Morning No BS and all. I would think that all that daylight would make it difficult for sleep patterns but I suppose people get used to it. I couldn't get used to the cold, that I DO know. Got lots of outdoor exercise yesterday, then just sat in the new lawn cushions and closed my eyes and let the s...

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Thanks r.jean :wink: Been really busy this week, at work and at home. Eating good, exercising, sleeping (when the wind, rain and hail isn't keeping me awake) :roll: Had an omelette with red and green pepper strips, fresh tomato chunks and cheese for breakfast/lunch. It was great. Just ate a kiwi, it...

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Had my giant salad last night, filled with various greens, veggies and fruits - topped with garlic red wine vinegar, lemon pepper onion crisps and Texas toast croutons, Ahhhh I felt like an addict who had gotten their fix. Well I think that is how they would feel, I really haven't never partook :rol...

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I agree that you are a very talented writer. I took the liberty of sharing your moving post with some others I know who are struggling (not using even your screen name of course, just said a good friend from a Health board). If you mind, I will certainly delete it.

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Wow, I loved what you wrote as well. And I could picture everything you said in my mind. The walking taller and feeling stronger, exuding a sense of control. It is amazing when "it" just kicks in and our body (and brain) realizes that is a good way to live, a fun way to live, a HAPPY way to live. It...

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Thank you all. And you got that right, BS. I didn't eat a salad at all while I was there, shame that a double cheeseburger with bacon and an order of fries was more than a good healthy salad would have been. I hate when I see how much more "bad" food costs, be it in the store or in a cafeteria. I at...

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How very kind of all of you to offer up good wishes. They worked ! My husband is home and doing so much better. They performed a new surgery on him (first time in that hospital) and it should alleviate his severe pain while buying time before an amputation is needed. Hopefully there will be advances...

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Happy Monday and Tuesday All !! You got that right BS, very busy yesterday indeed. And today - my husband is having a pretty serious surgical procedure tomorrow so I crammed the five days of work that I normally do in three days into two :roll: :roll: :roll: On track with my food and exercise, reall...

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