Good morning to you ladies! It is a nice morning this morning but I imagine it will be hot and humid in just a little while. We had a nice day yesterday, went out to breakfast, ran some errands, came home and watched the Cubs game then went to Red Lobster for dinner. Ick is all I can say. I had a shrimp cocktail that was good but the rest of my dinner was overcooked and barely warm. We rarely go there and now I see why.
Gail: Losing weight is all about the head I have always believed. Staying on program shouldn't be an issue if we have worked through everything that makes us eat. What I mean by that is any of us, no matter how we are going about losing weight should not see what we are doing as a diet, a program or anything else. We should see it as the lifestyle we have chosen and like. With that being said, if you take a day and splurge, it shouldn't be some dire thing, just a day where you ate something different. I think we concentrate so hard on making sure we rigidly stay within the boundaries like we are in a concentration camp or something, that our brain fights back telling us we are fed up with doing what we are doing or whatever we tell ourselves when we aren't eating as we are supposed to. Give yourself a break and don't stress about it. Just go back to doing what is right for you and let it go. Hope your bum and back are feeling better. Oh and women's heart health is very different from men. It is true that fat around the waist is the most dangerous, but I think men seem to carry much more weight there than women, even if we aren't 35 inches. I have read studies that say heart attacks in women are much more prone to be overall poor health, diabetes, hormone fluxes and obesity. Men tend to have the fat bellies, diabetic issues and seem to be much more stress related heart attacks.
Susan: When Kelly was diagnosed with asthma, we had to put plastic covers on the mattress, do what you did about getting rid of anything that holds dust. We took off bed ruffles, got rid of curtains, decorative pillows etc. She moved down here when she married and the stuff cleared right up. She hasn't had an attack since. I suffer more with allergies and mine are weird. I tend to have problems everyday at a certain time of the day, but that is if I haven't been outside. I am allergic to plant life more than anything else, ie grass, weeds, stuff like that. I imagine with what you have accomplished weight wise that you don't let those few lbs get away from you and that is what you should do. Like I told Gail, it is more mind than anything else. All you have to do is look at these celebrities that have lost weight and are now pudged right back up again, ie Oprah and Kirstie Alley. They see it as a diet program not the way they want to live. It is like punishment and of course punishment doesn't always work. If we can't wrap it around our heads that we just want to eat properly then we will gain it back. You keep it in control even if a few lbs sneak back on. I think at our age, that is bound to happen unless you are a person who has a very high metabolism.
Maggie: I guess I didn't explain the baseball thing very well. I guess Fox has exclusive rights to Saturday day baseball. In other words, whatever two teams they have chosen to put on their station for that day, no one else can broadcast at the same time. In the case of the Cubs yesterday, their game was earlier than the Fox scheduled game so it was on WGN, so we got to watch it. We have satellite so we subscribed to MLb extra innings so we could watch a majority of the games. We have three blackouts, St Louis, Atlanta, and Cincinnati. So anytime the Cubs play at any of these three cities, we won't be able to see the game no matter who carries it. The great thing is, we found that one of our channels in our satellite package is for the Atlanta channel that carries their games so we are down to only two cities that we don't get games. In the case of the Fox situation (when the Cubs are in town on Saturday they always play a day game) or when the Cubs are playing at St Louis or Cinn, we have the mlb thingy on the computer where we can listen to the game on the radio and that's what we do, not as exciting, but we still get to hear the game. I grew up on WGN because we lived 100 miles from Chicago and my grandparents, who lived two doors down from us, had a big outdoor antennae that picked up the three Chicago stations. Grandpa was a Cubs fan so I grew up watching baseball and have always been a big Cubs fan. I had to convert Jack though. He grew up in New Mexico and back then there were no teams close. He always loved Mickey Mantle so he was a Yankees fan. I showed him the error of his ways after we were married and now he is a rabid fan too. Kelly hates sports, but Jay is a big fan of the Cubs now. Have you tried that Benefiber as it is supposed to be able to mix in anything and isn't flavored? I have taken Citrucel, which is like Tang, but you have to get it down fast because it starts thickening up the longer it sits and then it is awful.
Well gals enough blabbing from me. I am crock potting a chicken to make chicken and noodles and I forgot to get it out of the fridge yesterday morning so it is like a rock. I am trying to thaw it in cold water so I can get it started.
Have a great Sunday!
Faye