Buffalo Gal wrote:We are all Reinhard's Rebels. I am on day 12 and responded to another Rebel who said she felt like she had just joined an army. So I decided to call us Reinhard's Rebels (hope he doesn't mind). Anyway...welcome!
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ROFLMAO Buffalo Gal 'cause I'm the one you responded to! However, I must give credit where credit is due and YOU are the one who came up with the brilliant "Reinhard's Rebels." I sure hope he "weighs in" <get it???> on our analogy.
Wow, what an interesting discussion thread developed from my blue plate comment! I especially love all the exercise stories. Oh, and as for the blue plates....I bought those Blue Willow dishes about 10 years ago, but they were my "good" dishes and only got used at holidays or for bigger dinner parties. They were just stacked in my china hutch. Then I read the thing about blue dishes and I thought...well, that's cool (not even remembering I
had blue dishes. When we were in the process of moving to San Diego and basically living in 2 places I went to Tuesday Morning one day and found this really pretty set of dishes that were dirt cheap and ohbytheway they were blue and white. (Again...with forgetting the Blue Willow. Hellooo, that's why they're called
Blue Willow). Anyway, eventually, having stored a good half of all my dinnerware I thought, "why the heck am I saving these dishes? I don't even
know anyone in San Diego yet, so we might as well use the dishes ourselves. It was only recently I had the blue plate epiphany.
Oh, and at lunch today, I used the luncheon sized plate! Yay me.
As long as I'm confessing: I remembered a tool that I've had for years and never used and I kind of found it when we moved. I have a
blue and white speckled plate with a clear divided dish that fits inside of it. I got meal planning cards with the plate and you put a card underneath the clear plastic plate and then proceed to put the appropriate amounts of food into the sections. It's based on portion control and for the life of me I can't remember where I got it. And it's obvious that I haven't used the plate because, hello, I'm on No S. Duh, me! Well, I brought the plate and the discs out and tonight I will use it for the first time for dinner. You're supposed to complete your sections and then put the food on "one" plate to eat. I'll let you all know how it works.
Diane