Good Snowy morning all! All the schools in the area are cancelled including my GS Christmas program due to the snow blizzard. O.K. with us, it's a white out here in the country. Meowee... I was wondering what happened to you! This has nothing to do with bad backs but on Good Morning America this morning a lady wrote in about rubbing your feet with Vicks Vapor rub and putting a pair of socks on over it. Evidently the vicks seeps into your body thru your feet and makes you sleep like a baby? I just walked in while they were discussing it, don't know what it's suppose to cure. Did any of you see it? a common cold? Lynn...I haven't checked the accountability thread yet, how's it going? Rosey...Good advice, our DD checks/changes her batteries twice a year when she changes her clocks for day light savings.
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our smoke detector had a dead batterie so ladies check your smoke detecters. .it could have been so much worse than the expensive bill i was given..hope your day is going better (((hugs))) rosey
Yoyo...
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I have a sink full of the last pomegranates off my tree that need to be cleaned (or tossed - birds got to some of them so not sure if the seeds inside are still good).
Oh, lucky you! We have many kinds of fruit trees but our climate is too cold for pomegrantes. I see them in our grocery stores but don't buy because of the expense. What do you do with them? Make juice? I've had it in bottled juice form and it's delicious but not sure what I'd do with them if I did buy some fresh. Karen... I have a really delicious recipe for 'Sweet Sour Cabbage' soup that I make in the winter time. (No meat in it so it's really low in calories) I made soooooooooo many batches of garlic/zucchini soup last summer that I'm still having those for lunch. Today I have to finish putting up Christmas decorations, I didn't get far yesterday. I purchased a pre-lit tree two years ago and this year two strands refused to work. If any of you have removed those suckers, you know what a pain in the it is, took me hours and hours then had to drive into town twice to buy new lights. Have a good one!
Snowed here too yesterday so we now have about 8" on the ground. At least I get some exercise shoveling it off of our deck and walk. DH uses the snowblower on the driveway.
Don't know what the Vicks will do on your feet. My MIL always rubbed it on her kids' chests and put some under their noses before they went to bed. DH still can't stand the smell of it, so we have never had any in the house.
Hello. I can't wait for Saturday night to be over. It's the night of our concert and I'm just about burned out over it. We were supposed to practice last night but spent most of the time decorating the church. I never got home until just after 11 pm last night. I wish we had started practicing earlier this year. Last year we started the first week in October and it was so much less stressful. Now we are trying to cram 2 months practice into one month and it's wearing me out. Oh, well this too shall pass.
I've got a pile of Christmas cards surrounding me. I was supposed to get some of these done today but didn't so that's on my list for tomorrow. Gotta run and get some sleep as I'm just about asleep here at the computer. Catch you all tomorrow.
I've been trying to increase fiber & protein without going overboard on my carbs - a tricky task.
Today is an "at-home" day for me. Our gym has a program for members to buy gifts for a child from a local residential home. My daughter and I bought some gifts for one of the children - today I need to wrap everything & get them to the gym.
Fewer than 2 weeks until I leave for France. I need to make my vacation "to-do" list & get started on that.
My back is feeling about 80% functional this morning and the really strange weather continues. After sunshine and a high of -9 yesterday and lots of snow on the ground; today we are supposed to get +13 and bunches of rain and wind and the snow is almost gone already (that's 16F yesterday and 55F today).
Nothing big in my plans . . . still have a little wrapping to do (local stuff) and will continue my reading and back resting that's been the story of my life for most of the week. Still taking the Robaxicet, of course. The added muscle relaxant in it really does seem to help. However, I will soon be ready to try something else, I was thinking of Rub A535, but maybe Vicks would work.
Good Morning! I just posted my exercise on the Acc't thread, decide to get my exercise in 1st thing in the morning instead of evening. Sometimes I'm just too tired and then it becomes a chore. I wake up very stiff in the a.m. and exercising loosen me up fast, especially my bad back. I have spinal bifida along with bad feet. Gosh, it's tough getting old. Lynn...I'm very proud of you, yesterday was just about perfect. Fiber was excellent, so was your calories. If you can keep those two about the same every day, I KNOW YOU WILL LOSE! The protein seems a tad high but looking over my records, mine was out of whack too! The nutritionist told me to stay at 54gram/20% protein and I averaged over a 2 weeks period 66.2 grams but I still lost. I hope you don't mind my critiquing you, you can tell me to butt out anytime. I never exercised as long or as hardy as you, maybe you need that much protein plus I don't know what your body requires for Diabetes.
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12/9 - wt 151.8; ex mins 0; cals 1232; protein 75 g; fiber 39 g
Isabella... We all know how busy you are with Church, baking, etc. Hang in there. Lily...Don't ya love shoveling snow? You're doing a great job too on your calories, etc. Anyone heard from Kris? I see by her post she's a newbie. Meowee... How's your aches and pains? Everyone else Hi:
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4. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words
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5. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to just how quickly
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1. The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.
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[QUOTE=Bobbolink;2490350]Lynn...I'm very proud of you, yesterday was just about perfect. Fiber was excellent, so was your calories. If you can keep those two about the same every day, I KNOW YOU WILL LOSE! The protein seems a tad high but looking over my records, mine was out of whack too! The nutritionist told me to stay at 54gram/20% protein and I averaged over a 2 weeks period 66.2 grams but I still lost. I hope you don't mind my critiquing you, you can tell me to butt out anytime. I never exercised as long or as hardy as you, maybe you need that much protein plus I don't know what your body requires for Diabetes.
Hi Bobbi,
The major challenge for me is trying to keep my carbs around 30% of my calories. Veggies seem to be OK - any sugar or white starches are off-limits - fruit has to be in VERY small quantities. I try to keep fat at around 30% and protein at around 40%.
I appreciate your help - please feel free to critique. Yesterday and today I had flax roll up with hummus and bean/veggie soup for lunch. Tonight I'm making a recipe you have listed in our recipe thread - chicken/pineapple/veggies (I'm adding some beans to up the fiber).
I've sure gotten old! I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, New knees, fought cancer and diabetes I'm half blind, Can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, Take 40 different medications that Make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementia Have poor circulation; Hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends. But, thank God, I still have my driver's license.
Good Morning! I did my first push-ups since high school............um, over 40 years ago. Of course I cheated, hung onto the top of my lowboy dresser. It was easy but tomorrow I'll be singing a different tune, I used muscles that I didn't know I had. Ouch! Lynn... I added more chicken to it since DH is a huge meat lover and we ate on it for two meals plus DH had the balance for lunch on the third day.
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Yesterday and today I had flax roll up with hummus and bean/veggie soup for lunch. Tonight I'm making a recipe you have listed in our recipe thread - chicken/pineapple/veggies (I'm adding some beans to up the fiber).
I've tried the Flax roll up, yummy too but not as much fiber as the Flat Outs. (I love that they make such a large roll-up) Another good job on your calories/fiber on Acc't Thread. Lily... I'm guessing you lost since you shoveled all that snow and had a low calories day. Meowee...Still under the weather? Isabella...Come up for a breather, it's just about over.
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Hello. I can't wait for Saturday night to be over. It's the night of our concert and I'm just about burned out over it. We were supposed to practice last night but spent most of the time decorating the church. I never got home until just after 11 pm last night.
The back seems to have reached a certain point and refuses to get any better . . . guess it will just take some time. Nothing is moving very fast or very far around here today anyway. It is solid ice out there and not even any snow on the ground to cushion it. Wowee, I'd rather have snow any day. Freezing rain has got to be the most dreadful of the winter dreadfuls.
At least I still have electricity (not the case in a lot of places in NS) although first thing this morning I thought my phone was dead but it turned out to be just a little 'cat'astrophe.
Have a good day . . . hopefully under better weather than we are having.
Good morning....Today is another prep day and I should be started. But have to shop for everything. So gonna be a simple menu.
Poor Dh! The joy of being hard of hearing at times is wonderful. Apparently in the middle of the night the cold front came thru and started rattling the blind slats on the sliding door. DH got up to fix the slats and walked into the bathroom door. Cut his nose and bleed for awhile and I snored on. It is pouring rain and windy but still almost 80. So cold is debateable. This is our dry season and we are celebrating some rain.
Be back later with report on prep...Have to see what is available before I can plan menu. Thinking ham salad and egg salad sandwiches, spice cake and artichoke dip.....nothing home made or made from scratch.....Karen3
The back seems to have reached a certain point and refuses to get any better . . . guess it will just take some time. Nothing is moving very fast or very far around here today anyway. It is solid ice out there and not even any snow on the ground to cushion it. Wowee, I'd rather have snow any day. Freezing rain has got to be the most dreadful of the winter dreadfuls.
At least I still have electricity (not the case in a lot of places in NS) although first thing this morning I thought my phone was dead but it turned out to be just a little 'cat'astrophe.
Have a good day . . . hopefully under better weather than we are having.
Hi Linda,
Are you taking any anti-inflamatory meds? They help to contol my back pain.
Eesh, seems I'm busier now than I was when I was at work Sorry I haven't popped in to at least say hi...
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Oh, lucky you! We have many kinds of fruit trees but our climate is too cold for pomegranates. I see them in our grocery stores but don't buy because of the expense. What do you do with them? Make juice? I've had it in bottled juice form and it's delicious but not sure what I'd do with them if I did buy some fresh. Have a good one!
Pomegranates definitely like it hot and dry Bobbi - in fact the fruit doesn't ripen right if they get too much water. I use them for lots of stuff - I do juice a lot of them because the juice freezes better than the whole seeds. You can put them in just about any recipe that calls for cranberries and I like to sprinkle some on salads if I'm using a dressing like raspberry vinaigrette. Sadly, more of this last batch were bad than good but I had tons of them already so I put them back out for the birds to finish off.
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Fewer than 2 weeks until I leave for France. I need to make my vacation "to-do" list & get started on that.Lynn
oooo Lynn, how exciting! You are such the world traveler. I've never even gotten a passport. Probably ought to though since you can't even go to Canada or Mexico without one any more...
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Hi gang . . .
The back seems to have reached a certain point and refuses to get any better . . . guess it will just take some time.
Golly Linda, so sorry to hear about your back. When mine goes out (usually for no apparent reason ) I usually do much better if I keep moving around. When I sit or lay down too long it locks up or something and just kills me when I try to straighten up. Advil helps some and I'm really reluctant to take anything stronger - Dr. is always trying to prescribe muscle relaxants but the muscles don't hurt. Sure seems like it takes forever to get better but then all of a sudden I'll wake up one morning and be completely fine
Almost a month as a non-smoker! AND scale said 144 this morning so looks like I'm heading back in the right direction again after that little (undocumented on my ticker) 3 lb gain from the first couple of weeks of quitting. Not going to change the ticker down just yet - as much as my scale bounces, I like to see the same number a couple of days in a row before I update anything.
Well, better get back to my to-do list - today I'm tackling the garage. There are boxes out there I haven't opened in at least 5 years. It'll sort of be like an early Christmas finding all that stuff. Of course, if I haven't looked at it in that long, I probably don't need it anymore and I'm hoping I can bring myself to get rid of a lot of things.
hope everyone has a wonderful day filled with holiday spirit!
I was wondering what happened to you! This has nothing to do with bad backs but on Good Morning America this morning a lady wrote in about rubbing your feet with Vicks Vapor rub and putting a pair of socks on over it. Evidently the vicks seeps into your body thru your feet and makes you sleep like a baby? I just walked in while they were discussing it, don't know what it's suppose to cure. Did any of you see it? a common cold?
it is, took me hours and hours then had to drive into town twice to buy new lights. 
I was thinking of Rub A535, but maybe Vicks would work.
Sorry I haven't popped in to at least say hi...
