Hmmmm...."viagra man" must go to the pharmacy tomorrow for meds...asked me tonight if he needed to get his viagra filled...I said, "not for me!" He then said, "well...if I get it filled it will be for you!" I sweetly replied, "like I said, not for me!" If something happens to him before it does to me I don't think I WANT another one! Maybe I'll turn Lesbian and find a woman who love to cook, clean and do laundry (but hates sex!!!)
I did GREAT today...and yesterday, too. I'm so glad to finally be back on track with everything. Jenna is eating and sleeping normally again and my crud/whatever is getting better and I feel like I just might be able to get back to the business of losing weight. At least it will be easier to focus on it anyway. Do any of you have an exercise ball? I bought one tonight...hubby and I tried it out a little after we got home...it was sooooo funny! We were "rolling" all over the living room! I'm almost afraid to try using it when I'm home alone...afraid I'll be like the woman in the commercial: "I have fallen and I can't get up!" I also bought a Denise Austin Pilates/Yoga tape. I'm "watching" it now. It looks like I'm going to be able to do the first part of it...even with my bad knees...it is in two 20 minute segments. The second 20 minutes looks too hard, though. I can't believe I'm actually "excited" about exercising!!!!
I'm planning another perfect day tomorrow. I'm making cabbage beef soup and going to try to learn some of the positions on that ball and do the first part of the new tape. Oooo, I'll be sooooo sore Sunday...hope I can still play the organ pedals! Actually, I know better than to try to do too much with MY body...I'm going to "ease" into these things. Just a little at a time! I don't want another set back!
OK girls. I actually have friends who have taken that walk on the wild side after relationships with men have ended so terribly. I refuse to even let them get too graphic in the sex dept, (curtains shut, my open minded nature shows only a film of Clint Eastwood in my head) but they talk about relationships as being the same old stuff. I know GIVER women who end up with BOSSY women. We GIVERS still do the laundry, shopping etc. Not the life for me....
If I am going to be a GIVER, I better end up with Clint Eastwood, or at least Bob Dole and his Viagra. I can't tell you how many married women tell me what you are saying. If they lost their beloved, there would be no search for a new man. My mother said the same thing when her man took off for Florida when she was in her mid fifties.
I just keep thinking I am too young to say nevermore.
I am giving myself a break before heading for a more restricitive diet, but it is cold, snowy and windy. Oh do I ache today. Terrible. ANd I don't have anything exciting to eat. Right now I have to have Oat bread and low fat ham. Isn't that funny???
I know it was not in a sling, tootie. But if it is only for looks...what is the point??
And yes, Meme....Clint is showing his age BIG time, but that is where I feel I might get some feeling of superiority. He was quite a ladies man. I read Sondra Locke's book...The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly. I don't feel sorry for her, tho. She can at least write a book and gain public sympathy and money for her effort. Who will read about me and my beloved who is ADD and my last boyfriend who also had an attention problem...he couldn't pay attention to just one woman?
How do you know if you are having a mid-life crisis? Does it have anything to do with not being able to sit down and settle down and constantly having to forage thru the fridge? That's been my weekend. Yesterday was Soooo cold and I ached in every muscle including my upper arms for some dumb reason. Today the weather is warmer and I walked my dog and slipped on melting ice. Almost did a Tootie.
I am cooking a witches diet brew of chicken soup. I am cleaning out the fridge(by eating everything) of all dangers.
I went fatty pants shopping and couldn't do it. I think I could probably fit nicely in a 16W. However, the jeans start at 22. Regular 16 look too tight.
I must find another store. Ya know...in the really expensive department stores, the clothes run so much bigger cause rich women can afford to pay more to make themselves "think" they are thinner.
You gals are just too funny..I just about wet my pants!LOL
Just what we need Meme..a bossy woman!LOL NOT!
Dickey in a sling..sounds like a drink..no don't go there...that is Monica's thing!
Still eating on program and got a slow walk on the treadmill in today but no ball exercise!LOL Meme he really does like that ball! I could just see you and your DH rolling around the house on the ball!!!!!
I think you can find the original program somewhere on this site....I saw it once..but can't remember where!
Well...I lost 2 1/2 pounds last week. It's about time I started down again! I actually lost more than that but last week the stupid scale said I'd gained a couple. I swear, sometimes I think that scale goes through mood swings!
As far as the thingie in a slingy...sounds like a dumb procedure to me. I mean, at least women who have breast implants can show off their new "flesh" under their clothes. If men show off under their clothes it just looks vulgar! ('course, I've seen some women's boobs that meet that criteria!!!) Tootie, just WHO was your hubby trying to impress anyway? :confused:
As for the rich, workaholic, lesbian twins, I've decided to just hire a housekeeper if something happens to my hubby before it does me. That way, I can boss her around and not have to worry about her looking at me funny!
Hi Fibromites. How is it hanging (lol). From the sounds of some of the posts, it needs a sling . Boy, what some people don't go through to try to reach perfection, and then find out - oh gee, we are still imperfect. I don't even bother - like being just the way I am. Had a busy weekend, so was not able to post, but I'm glad to see that the rest of you did. Was so nice out yesterday, went for a nice walk on the lake. This seems to confuse my granddaughter - the fact that the lake (all ice) is the same lake she plays in during the summer. I guess maybe this year she might put it together. Well guys I have lost a grand total of 11 pounds in the last 3 weeks. I love this diet - don't feel deprived at all, and my pot belly (which appeared about 4 years ago) is going down, down, down. I attribute that to the fact that I am not eating bread or really starchy foods (like potates, rice etc). I think those type of carbs really bloat me. So feeling really good, lots more energy as well. I am baking a cheese cake right now. I can have that for dessert or a snack - with a little fruit on it. Get to eat protein, but not tons, veggies, fruit - right now all the ones that are low to meduim on the glycemic scale. Also nuts which I love and cottage cheese etc. So I'm doing ok and happy that at last I have found SOMETHING that works.
Good going Meme. I hope that the loss was from dieting and not from being sick. Not so good to lose weight that way.
I used to co-own a mobile clothing store for Seniors and we would go to nursing home, auxillary hospitals and lodges. One little lady was looking and wanting to buy a dress. I asked her what size she was and she said she had been a size 22 but didn't know right now, because she had been sick and lost weight. Well, she hardly fit into a size 6. Needed that,only because her waist was a little thicker (you know, we all have that problem). I told her it was a good thing she didn't start out as size 6 or she might not be here right now. She laughed and agreed.
Meme - about all those clothes (size 10?) that you have in your closet. When you have lost enough weight, watch the waist. Lots of women (I was only in my early 40's then) 50+ have thickened waist's no matter how active. One of natures little jokes, I think.
Well Candice. If you don't have antivirus protection on your computer, you are smart not to open attachments. I have had that hahaha - snowwhite and the seven dwarfs-the real story - virus 3 times now. Norton picked it up and I got rid of them. Scary though - especially the first time. Never had a virus before and wasn't sure what to do, but followed the directions and lived through it just fine. The next time they appeared, my husband was in the mail, and said that hahaha thing is back, so we just deleted them and ran a virus scan and all was ok. Sorry if I forget and send you stuff with an attachment. Just ignore and delete.
Alley - What a gal. Metinks, you are actually full of highjinks. Eat everything good, and then get back at it. It is so hard to stay on anything when you are feeling down and hurting. That book that you are reading - it sounds kind of interesting. I think most fibromites are givers. However, not all givers get FM. My Mom was the most giving women on the planet. She just loved to help others, expecting nothing in return. I miss her terribly. It is 5 years ago on the 18 Feb. that she passed away, and I guess I always get kind of 'weepy' when I think about it. She was loved by all her kids, grandchildren (who she had a great relationship with ) and her friends and family. Oh well, nothing to be done about it - I guess I must be a big girl, but really, she was my best friend. Just listen to me, going on and on. Sorry.
Tootie are you feeling better. Are you at last getting the 'hang' of it (the cast, I mean).
Ouch, ouch, ouch. I am not on your weight loss wave. I am so jealous.
I am intelligent...I really am. But this need to lose this weight is becoming compulsive and overwhelming. I am falling into my old unhealthy habits because they are tried and true. Starve and one will lose a few pounds. I need to feel my belly going, down, down, down too. I need some immediate feedback or I get too angry over depriving myself and still not losing.
I am also smart enough to know that I have chiseled my metabolism down to where I need so few calories to survive. I used to go weeks and weeks eating just soup and a piece of fruit or a raw veggie. I lost weight but then would also hit a plateau where my body adjusted to that weight. And then I would start to eat a little more, would hit pig out stage and then starve again.
So when healthy eating doesn't make me thin...I hit the soup diets. Not that chicken soup isn't OK food....but if I only eat two bowls of soup and some raw veggies, I am going to become exhausted.
Mid life crisis. That's what it is.
No 16W isn't circus fat lady....but when I hit a size 12 I thought that was as big as I would ever allow myself to be.
It's perception, and I don't have a good one right now.
Happy......A GIVER doesn't do anything without wanting something in return. That's my problem. I never get what I want. A GIVER makes themselves into what they think another wants them to be.
That's why I might be having problems. I have let men tell me who I am. Without them, I'm trying to figure that out.
My mother gave unconditionally too. I used to think I did that...but **** hath no fury like a woman who gives and gets diddly in return.
What's your new name?????????
Sometimes when you have a stressful day or week, you
need some silliness
to break up the day. Here is your dose...
Follow the instructions to find your funny name.
The following is an excerpt from a children's book,
"Captain Underpants
and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants", by
Dave Pilkey. The
evil Professor forces everyone to assume new names...
Use the third (3rd) letter of your first name to
determine your NEW
first name:
a = stinky
b = lumpy
c = buttercup
d = gidget
e = crusty
f = greasy
g = fluffy
h = cheeseball
i = poopsie
j = chim-chim
k = flunky
l = booger
m = pinky
n = zippy
o = goober
p = doofus
q = slimy
r = loopy
s = snotty
t = falafel
u = dorkey
v = squeezit
w = oprah
x = skipper
y = dinky
z = zsa-zsa
Use the second (2nd) letter of your last name to
determine the first
half of your NEW last name:
a = diaper
b = toilet
c = giggle
d = bubble
e = monkey
f = barf
g = lizard
h = waffle
i = cootie
j = girdle
k = potty
l = liver
m = banana
n = rhino
o = burger
p = hamster
q = toad
r = gizzard
s = pizza
t = gerbil
u = chicken
v = pickle
w = chuckle
x = tofu
y = gorilla
z = stinker
Use the fourth (4th) letter of your last name to
determine the second
half of your NEW last name:
a = head
b = mouth
c = face
d = nose
e = tush
f = breath
g = pants
h = shorts
i = lips
j = honker
k = butt
l = brain
m = tushie
n = chunks
o = hiney
p = biscuits
q = toes
r = buns
s = fanny
t = sniffer
u = sprinkles
v = kisser
w = squirt
x = humperdinck
y = brains
z = juice
Thus, for example, George W. Bush's new name is
Goober Chickenshorts.
To be fair, we should publish Al Gore's new name,
too: Lumpy Burgertush.
Now...what is your new name?????? Mine is ZIPPY DIAPERSNIFFER
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Candice~the late night owl~
[This message has been edited by Candicej (edited 02-07-2001).]
Candice...I can't believe you did that...that was a v e r r r r y l o o o o o n g post!
You guys have way too much time on your hands!
I actually took time out of my busy day to figure out my "stupid" name! It is......
Are you ready???
OK...here it is...
Zippy Diapersquirt.
Can't believe we have the same first name and the first half of our last name. Wonder if we are kin!
OK...enough "fun" for one day...gotta get back to work. Spent most of my morning telling my mom off...now have to work off some steam! She is killing me...slowly but surely! Plus...Jenna is having a "typical-terrible-two day"! So far she has emptied a whole box of kleenex all over my living room, torn up some books and turned over a lamp! I'm going to give her lunch and put her to bed!!!
MEME
P.S.
A friend of ours died from cancer yesterday. She was only in her 30s and left behind a teenage son who now has no one but his grandmother...his dad died from cancer last year! Their situation is so sad...the grandmother (who is a really good friend of mine) is also sick and on dialysis. You may remember me telling you about taking food to her house when she was sick before. She is raising 3 foster girls she adopted before she and her husband divorced. (long story!) The girls are all teenagers now, too...so she will have FOUR teens in the house and she is too sick to work! And I think I have it bad...makes me ashamed of myself when I think of how GOOD I actually DO have it!
[This message has been edited by MemeToo (edited 02-07-2001).]
Oh my, did I have a chuckle. My name isn't as good as yours...Poopie monkeybuns.
And then I read your psot Meme. Guess I needed to hear that. I just sat here after arguing with my kids from the second I got home, it has become our standard way of life. I cried, my contacts are all cloudy. My kids are so used to this kind of banter that they don't even notice... I felt all sorry for myself...the burden of twins, teens at that.
And then I read your post about an orphaned teen and just want to cry.
Can't imagine it.
Wish I could give my kids perspective about how good they have it.
I assume these teen years are all part of the job. I used to just do things to avoid fights and arguments. Now, I am incensed. Enough. Not fair. I am too tired to be doing all this.
Well, enough self-pity....and thanks for the dose of reality Meme.
If something happens to him before it does to me I don't think I WANT another one! Maybe I'll turn Lesbian and find a woman who love to cook, clean and do laundry (but hates sex!!!)
I also bought a Denise Austin Pilates/Yoga tape. I'm "watching" it now. It looks like I'm going to be able to do the first part of it...even with my bad knees...it is in two 20 minute segments. The second 20 minutes looks too hard, though. I can't believe I'm actually "excited" about exercising!!!! 
Actually, I know better than to try to do too much with MY body...I'm going to "ease" into these things. Just a little at a time! I don't want another set back!
It's about time I started down again! I actually lost more than that but last week the stupid scale said I'd gained a couple. I swear, sometimes I think that scale goes through mood swings!
. Boy, what some people don't go through to try to reach perfection, and then find out - oh gee, we are still imperfect. I don't even bother - like being just the way I am. Had a busy weekend, so was not able to post, but I'm glad to see that the rest of you did. Was so nice out yesterday, went for a nice walk on the lake. This seems to confuse my granddaughter - the fact that the lake (all ice) is the same lake she plays in during the summer. I guess maybe this year she might put it together. Well guys I have lost a grand total of 11 pounds in the last 3 weeks. I love this diet - don't feel deprived at all, and my pot belly (which appeared about 4 years ago) is going down, down, down. I attribute that to the fact that I am not eating bread or really starchy foods (like potates, rice etc). I think those type of carbs really bloat me. So feeling really good, lots more energy as well. I am baking a cheese cake right now. I can have that for dessert or a snack - with a little fruit on it. Get to eat protein, but not tons, veggies, fruit - right now all the ones that are low to meduim on the glycemic scale. Also nuts which I love and cottage cheese etc. So I'm doing ok and happy that at last I have found SOMETHING that works.
