Good Monday morning to you all! I talked to my sister yesterday and it is cold up in Indiana already. I saw some pics of the boys on my son's facebook and they were all bundled up at a pumpkin farm so guess fall is here to stay.
Maggie:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!! Hope you have a grand day and gets lots of presents!
Jean: Poor Bob! I imagine farming can really strain the muscles. Jack was in a lot of pain with his hand on Friday and we had to put ice on it and he took ibuprophen and it finally eased. He finally has a dr appt about it today but I would think if he broke his hand they would have called by now since his xrays were about 3 weeks ago. When I went and got my flu shot the nurse practitioner was telling me she has had numerous cases of people with a bazillion children and trying to pass their TennCare card off for care. TennCare was TN's version of Medicaid but went bust over 2 years ago. She said they would give her the card and she would tell them she couldn't take tenncare and they would pull out a regular insurance card. She said she threatened to call the police on them and told them she would absolutely not see them as they were committing insurance fraud. So, looks like these people aren't as destitute as they pretend to be. I told her if I had my way the only people that would get government assistance in any way was the elderly. They are the only people too unfit, to ill, too fragile or whatever to work and that SS alone would starve them to death. I don't mind paying taxes to help take care of the elderly providing food and such, but not anyone else. No one ever helped us when we couldn't make ends meet and we didn't ask for it.
Susan: Ahh, just pick yourself up. You are so committed to health that your once a decade splurge won't hurt you!
I did watch a program last night that kind of shocked me. I have watched a program a few times where they have what they call super obese that are trapped in their house or whatever. I saw a show about one of these men a few months ago where they had to cute the front of the house out to get him out. He weighed like 800 lbs or whatever. Anyway, there was a show last night talking about a man who weighed half a ton and in 19 months lost over 800 lbs with the help of Richard Simmons. It didn't look like the same human being. He had been interviewed by a British program etc then they went to commercial and came back and the man was shown being that same man I had watched a few months ago. I guess the guy lost all this weight then on the day he reached goal went to Nathan's to have ONE hot dog. He hadn't had any since he started on his program but thought he could control it. That day he ate 4 hotdogs, ff with cheese on top and drinks. He said that is where it all began again. It is always something we have to be hyper vigilant about and I think as we have talked about many times that it is a relearning and if you don't totally relearn about eating food you are likely to goof it up. I know that I have learned this time that if I do slip that I recognize it and I do not say, "Oh what the heck?" and continue, I know that I will always be subject to mistakes and need to learn to fix them right away not let them go on. It is one thing I finally have a really good handle on. It I gain a lb and I know it is because my food is not proper or I went over pts that I cannot let it get to two lbs, or 5 lbs or whatever and go backwards. I put a halt to it immediately. What is frustrating for me are these periods of extreme hunger that is almost agonizing to try and control. They don't last long thank goodness, but boy are they hard to handle. I no longer eat just to eat anymore or because the food on tv gives me the desire to eat or whatever, but I really wonder if hormones do play a part when I have these hunger things that happened. I still don't handle those very well but I know that when they happen I don't go out and get a pizza or eat chicken wings or something. I at least try and eat fruit, whole grain cereal, whole grain bread sandwich, raw veggies or something more healthy even if I do go over points.
Well gals, I need to get my shoes on and get on the treadmill. It is raining here again today and I don't feel like getting all cleaned up to go out to the mall so it is the treadmill for me today.
Faye