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Chrissy, thank you so much for the information and clothing advice. I think we will be going to Adelaide. I'll have to check the schedule. I'm really excited about this trip. And nervous about the long plane flight over and back. I've always wanted to go to both countries. We're taking a planned tour, the first we've ever taken. But there is so much to do and see that we liked the idea of having some help with the planning.
Happy Birthday!!!0 -
Birthday wishes to Chrissy. Hope you are having a glorious day with birds and flowers and family and friends. And cake. Lots of cake.0 -
Happy birthday Chrissy!0 -
Happy birthday, Chrissy! Hope you had a good one.
Kathy0 -
Happy (probably belated by now) birthday, Chrissy!!!!!!
I was just at a b'day party last night. It was a combo party. My aunt turned 99, her dil turned 56and her ggd turned 1. All on the same day. They had a yummy dinner and an ice cream cake, I had a diet shake, a bowl of cucumber, and sugar free jello. I am almost thru the adjustment phase of this diet
. It should get easier. If it wasn't for all the holiday parties........ I'll just snack on all the raw veggies. Lol
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Thank you girls for your lovely Birthday wishes. I had a fabulous day topped off by my DH who took me out to dinner so no cooking either......lol.
Nancy adjusting to a new diet regime is not easy at any time but this time of year? well all I can say is good on you!! Hope it does all the things you want it to.
I think I'll try that two day 600 cal diet but not until after Christmas.......lol......not for any medical reason other than I could do with loosing some weight just to feel a little more comfortable in my skin. I have lost a fair bit since I had my knee replaced but I'd like to see if I can speed it up a bit and Summer seems to be the best time to do it.........I shall keep you updated when I start.
Have a lovely day all and a relaxing weekend.
Love n hugs. Chrissy0 -
lol. chrissy, I don't think I would ever find a "good" time to diet. I did wait until after thanksgiving. I didn't want to keep putting it off. I hope it gives me more energy and that I also feel more comfortable. I am meeting with my PCP about my sleep study on Monday. I am sure a better sleep pattern would help. I have a diet buddy and I get to check in with my dr office anytime. I am willing to try anything to get some energy back.
On the exciting news spectrum.......... the new cobbler will be here on the 17th. Now I just have to get the work with switching the laundry room and the bathroom finished up and the shop put back into some semblance of order. We probably won't reopen until Jan., but it is getting closer!0 -
Yay Nancy! I can feel your excitement re the arrival of the new cobbler........lol.....I know once everything is in order and he is working you are going to feel a whole lot better about a whole lot of things. Just remember, Rome wasn't built in a day and reorganizing, like Rome, takes time.
Love n hugs. Chrissy0 -
Chrissy, I've always found summer a good time to lose some weight. There's so much fresh from a garden to eat and going with lighter clothing keeps me aware of just how much I should lose. I've lost 15lbs since mx and still have plenty of fat hanging around. Maybe I'll blame arimidex.0 -
The two days a week diet is good. Easy to stay on.0 -
What is the "2 days a week" diet? I decided to go low carb again and see if I could lose some weight before the big trip to Australia and New Zealand. I got out my Atkins and South Beach diet books and read through them.
Macatacmy, what kind of diet are you on?0 -
Carole the '2 day a week' diet is you eat normally for five days and only 600 calories the other two. It seems to work best if those two days are not consecutive. Lisa has lost a lot of weight on it.
It was started to try to engage the feast and famine response in our bodies to encourage metabolism. From what I've read it works really well.
Good luck with losing a few extras before your trip!
Love n hugs. Chrissy0 -
hello, trying to get moving today but keep finding things to keep me seated.
carole, the diet I am on is a medically supervised low calorie meal replacement diet. I am doing it thru my PCP office. I had lost 15 lbs in the last year, but was not losing any recently so we decided to hurry it up. It is a rapidly reducing diet. I hope to lose 30 lbs in 10 weeks. I am only on my 6th day. So I am just learning how to deal with issues of going to dinner and holiday parties. In the next 2 weeks we will add in exercise. Which my gyn dr said is the best thing to do to prevent recurrence, just yesterday. I told her if I felt better I would exercise more, it really is a catch 22. She also told me to be patient with myself.
yay! the electrician is here. They are now saying by the end of monday I will be able to do laundry again. lol the things I get excited about these days.
I'm headed over to a friend's garden to pick some spinach. I can have raw greens, yum!0 -
I stepped on the scale today and had broken 160 lbs! The main food I'm missing on the low carb eating plan is bread. I do love good bread and like to make artisan bread. I stick to whole wheat. What I enjoy on this diet is being able to have good dressing on my salad, like blue cheese. And I snack on 2 per cent fat string cheese. I love cheese and low fat diets are very restrictive on eating cheese. I'm also a carnivore and like meat. The low carb diet allows lots of protein including meat and eggs.
The real test will be my blood chemistry when I have more blood work in Feb. Even with taking a 40 mg statin, my cholesterol numbers are not what they should be. I blame arimidex but we will see what happens when I stop taking it next Sept. I would like to get down to 150. I'm not medically overweight but I've outgrown my size 12 clothes and hope to get back in them.
Today is gray and cold in south Louisiana. I think the high is supposed to be around 48. But our weather never stays cold. It will warm up. Get cold again. Warm up. Etc. We never put away our summer clothes because we might need them on Christmas day!
Hope everyone is having a good Saturday.0 -
Oh Carole I hear you on the bread......lol......fresh bread with loads of butter has got to be one of my all time favourite foods........the only problem now is that I am sensative to too much gluten so cannot indulge. I have a running fantasy that I have got a lovely loaf of fresh, crusty bread and I'm sitting in the corner consuming the lot!!! Oh! dream on!!!.......lol.
It's been a busy couple of days as the children and grands came to celebrate my birthday and my ten year cancerversary........we have dinned out....a lot!.....lol. I'm looking forward to just having some home cooked food......lol.
Oh, thank you all for your wonderful birthday wishes.......I so loved getting them.
I splurged out when one of my favourite online stores had a sale recently and bought myself a castiron griddle.......oh joy, it actually arrived on my birthday so I have been giving it a beating cooking our meat and veg on it.......it taste so much better!....yumm! and very healthy.
Well the weather has gone and done another backflip.......yesterday was 35 and today is barely 20 Celcius........it's no wonder that everyone is walking around coughing and sniffing! As much as I hate the hot weather I just wish at this point that it would make up it's mind.....lol.
Hoping you are all had a good weekend!
Love n hugs. Chrissy0 -
carol.. I could not lose any weight when I was on arimidex after I could
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Thank you for sharing that, Lisa. I am so looking forward to finishing up my 5 years on arimidex next Sept. I'm hoping some other health issues get easier to handle, like cholesterol and bp.
Chrissy, I have a cast iron griddle (with ridges like a grid) that fits over one stove burner. Is yours larger and fits across two burners? Last night dh cooked lamb chops on the stove indoors using the griddle instead of cooking outside on the gas grill.0 -
Carole my griddle is smooth one side and ridged on the other so I can use it either way. It does cover two burners and is large enough to do both veg and meat at the same time for DH and I and it would be I think, large enough to do a full BBQ for four or six. I'm really loving it and to make it even better I discovered at my local butcher a product called 'magic' and it is a type of paper that you put over the griddle so there is no scrubbing to clean up!.....Now that's what I call MAGIC!!
Love n hugs. Chrissy0 -
now that is magic! How neat is that..I have an induction stovetop that works by magnets so I don't think it would work.
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Lisa it should work if your saucepan or fryer gets hot you will be able to cook on it. It's just like a baking sheet to look at but instead of the bottom of your pan getting grubby it does and then you just throw it away!0 -
My stovwtop itself need a pan that a magnet will stick to. The top itslf doesnt get hot,just whatever inside gets hot. there is residual heat from that. Bottom of pan stays clean.
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Mmm maybe it wouldn't work then. That stove top sounds great! I have heard of them but still opted for my gas stove when I purchased the new one.......lol.......strange how somethings just don't change with us.......I learned to cook with gas and wood so still like to use those mediums.0 -
There are advantages to all of the different stoves0 -
We got our first snow fall. I am watching all the birds come to the feeder and of course the squirrels too. I am doing well on my diet so no talk of cooking techniques from me. The suggestions from the sleep study I had done were to lose weight and not sleep on my back. Of course there is a devise I can buy to help me not sleep on my back, but I will try the losing weight first. The study said I never achieved REM sleep. No wonder I am tired all the time. Of course that was under the worse condition toward good sleep, I love my bed and pillows so I think I sleep a little better at home, but now am using a pillow behind me, too. I look like some kind of nocturnal animal; compression gloves, wrist splints, mouth guard, special pillow for neck, pillow between the knees, and I hug a pillow to my chest to keep the pressure off as I sleep on my side. There is not even room for a cat in that bed with me. lol
we are picking up the building permit for the other house today. The laundry room/bathroom switch is done. The new cobbler moves to the island next week. Things are moving forward.
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My husband used the tennis ball on the back0 -
Did it work? I have strung a piece of webbing through a dog ball that has a hole in it and put a side squeeze buckle on it. Will try it tonight. lol0 -
Macatacmv, at another time I would probably appreciate the photo, but right now I'm not feeling very friendly to anything to do with snow. It very rarely snows in Jerusalem, and when it does it's usually Jan/Feb, not Dec. So of course today was the beginning of a big snowstorm there. Yep, the day I'm supposed to have my PET scan. Since I come from outside the city we left early. We figured we'd use public transportation since it would be easier than driving. We got to the hospital without any problems and then were told that they didn't know if they could do the scan since the radioactive material used comes from another hospital and the driver was on the way, stuck, and didn't know what would be (they had tried calling me to warn me but I'd already left by then). We waited for a long time and then found out that the driver couldn't get through at all, the police had closed the roads from there due to accidents (more than 1 on that road!) and icy conditions. So back home we went - or tried to. Almost no public transportation in the city, and no intercity buses at all. Fortunately a neighbor of mine works in the city and we were able to connect to get a ride home with her. Yeah, some connection - we walked more than an hour to get to where she was; road conditions in the city were too problematic for her to come get us. Fortunately, the "snowstorm" would never get that name in Toronto, where people would just say, "It's snowing". It wasn't too cold and there was no wind, so most of the way the walk was OK (I held onto DH's arm since it was slippery). At one point, though, my boots reached critical mass and my feel started to get wet. Not fun. Boy was I glad to get home.
The storm is still going on now and getting much worse. Apparently it's the worst storm Jerusalem's had in 50 years. This follows the warmest November the country has had in 60 years.
Leah0 -
oh Leah, what a mess and an ordeal for you...so sorry it all fell apart...if it snowed in San Diego the whole county would come to an immediate halt...what will happen next or do you know?0 -
Leah, That is really too bad. I'm sure you were all ready for the scan, and then to have it cancelled. Not to mention cold walks in the snow. That's what it's like here when it snows. No one can get anywhere and the hills are too slippery to drive. I'm glad you were able to get back home.0 -
Leah, that's a nightmare story for sure. It sounds like your area is no more equipped to deal with snow than we are here in the South, and whenever it happens it can cause everything to shut down. I'm so sorry you had to deal with it, no scan and that harrowing walk, but thankful that now you're home safely. Glad your DH was with you too.
Nancy, no REM sounds much like sleep apnea, but I understand you weren't diagnosed with that, assuming that you didn't stop breathing for any length of time. My BIL also used the tennis ball sewn to the back of pajamas, and it kept him off his back.
DS and DIL are running in a half-marathon on Saturday, and DIL's mother is coming to keep the DGS's. DIL has trained religiously for this event for months now, but DS hasn't, although he does work out frequently at a gym. Hope they can function Sunday since DGD's being christened.
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