Oh, no problem, eschano. I know what you mean. I think it's often about personal style after a certain age, that makes a lady attractive. Sometimes in a room full of older ladies, it's really hard to guess who was really beautiful in her 20's!
Thanks oolala- what you said:
oolala53 wrote:I think the most important part, though, is continuing to give attention to how much better you feel just sticking to what you eat now. In the end, people keep to new regimes that make them feel better and aren't too much trouble overall for that reward.
gives me food for thought. There is much about the way I eat now that is not possible when I am traveling. The thing I CAN stick to is No Added Sugar. Where I live now, I have access to lots of inexpensive beautiful produce, tropical fruit, etc., and I can whip up a pot of beans and rice or soup, no problem. (I also have a good, hilly place to walk for exercise here.)
When I travel to the US, good quality produce is much more expensive, and I will have very limited access to a kitchen (staying with relatives). What IS cheap, plentiful and easy there, is the dollar menu of any number of fast food places, access to carry-out pizza, which everyone seems to appreciate, junky snack foods, etc. In that town there isn't even a good supermarket with a salad bar. What I need is ANOTHER "new regime that makes me feel better and isn't too much trouble overall for that reward"! I think I kind of have that here, but not there. So.... I will need to put time into grocery shopping, trying to chop fresh fruit/veg with a limited kitchen, perhaps be willing to eat low fat dairy products, stay away from the drive-thrus and snack section of stores, etc. It is more effort, but there is an indoor pool I can pay per use. It is just a different set-up entirely, and my habit for visits has involved a lot of fast and junk food. That needs to change.
I'm still NoS, here, with No Added Sugar, and it's going well. I have a cold as of yesterday, and possibly a UTI, I'm not sure. I'm kind of laying low. I went out for lunch a few days ago with a good friend who is also trying to get off of sugar, as her fasting blood sugar (which she tests randomly) was in the 160's the other morning. Before now, she has been bemoaning the fact that it's so hard to get off sugar, but watching another friend and me do it, she is kind of running out of excuses. I was impressed by her resolve- she gave a stash of sweets from her freezer away to a (young, skinny) mutual friend of ours, so I think she's serious! We split a calzone at a local restaurant, and I left feeling pleasantly full, but not overstuffed.