We are all on our way to your house to swim in the pool. Get the ice tea ready!!

You're on! C'mon down! Gonna be another gorgeous one here.

Jay

Good Morning . . .

Boy, did I sleep in . . . almost 9 am when I finally got up . . . and my blood sugar was awful (must have been the timing -- the almost 2 quarts of ice cream I ate yesterday couldn't have had anything to do with it -- ).

Anyway, although my activity level has been pretty good (counting both the formal and informal stuff), after two bad, bad (and uncounted) food days in a row, I am determined to make the last 3 days of March POP days. No treats or triggers for me and I'm going to make that my major theme for the entire month of April -- NOTT -- Treats are pretty obvious; things like candy, cookies, cakes and other high calorie, high carb desserts; Triggers includes certain kinds of high GI carbs (white flour, and/or highly processed) and, of course, anything with an excess of HFCS and/or a lot of artificial sweeteners, particularly the sugar alcohols. Now, there is nothing wrong with a lot of these things if you can control the portions. Unfortunately, I cannot.

Okay . . . having got that off my chest . . . the sun is trying to poke out off and on today and it looks so pretty shining on the almost 4 inches of fresh snow. I am not going anywhere today and that's a good thing because the radio has been talking about some pretty nasty accidents on local roads over last night and early this morning. Guess it will be a Gazelle and Wii day for me on the activity front.

Somehow I doubt I could get to your place in time for a swim, JAY. If the weather was better, of course, I could try swimming all the way -- now that would be a good workout. I can just see the headline . . . "Fat, 65 year old woman sets water speed record swimming away from sharks and dodging ice bergs in the North Atlantic".

While I was out yesterday (as well as the Ice Cream ), I bought a couple of new Health/Weight related books . . .

Eat This - Not that, by David Zinczenko (the Abs Diet guy) and Matt Goulding (?) So far, I'm a little disappointed with this one -- mainly because it is very US oriented. It compares a lot of restaurant meals and different brand-name products that we, unfortunately, do not have here in the frozen north called Canada. There are some real eye-openers though; but you do have to read the fine print because sometimes the main differences that they are quoting are not instantly clear in the pictures (it's very visually driven).

Magic Foods for Better Blood Sugar, by Robert A. Barnett (one of the authors of TheVolumetrics Weight control Plan which is one of my favourites) and a couple of others. At first perusal, I like this one a lot. It is aimed at the current epidemic of Metabolic Syndrome sufferers rather than those of us who already have full blown diabetes. It's based on the GI (Glycemic Index) -- actually the more recent GL (Glycemic Load) which improves on the GI shortcoming by taking into consideration the actual impact of a 'serving' of food rather than a predetermined amount of net carbohydrate -- and I am a firm believer in the GI/GL theory of Good Carbs/Bad Carbs.

Anybody read these . . . or any other good (health related) books lately ????

Anyway . . . enough of my babbling for now . . . I've got other places to visit around 3FC and it's heading for the noon hour already . . . so I'd better get myself moving and shaking . . . Hope you all have a great day, doing lots of good stuff . . . see you later.

Okay . . . I set up my page in the April Accountability Thread and made it a Sticky . . . how about the rest of you? Go take a look at Lynn's Introduction.

Morning . . . . . . Might have added the "Good" to that, but it is snowing again . . .

Hope you will have some relief from the snow and cold soon, Meowee! We think it's cold here but it must be much worse where you are.

This "active" person hasn't been very active since coming home from our winter trip ...unless you count unpacking the trailer, doing lots of laundry, sorting through all the mail, going to visit our son and family, stocking up on groceries, doing the taxes, budgeting for our regular home expenses etc. But no true exercise for exercise. We will start back to the gym on April 1 as that is when they start the auto pay again. I'm looking forward to it.

I have also ordered an exercise video..one of those walking the pounds off...my idea is that I will use it in the garage while my dh is watching TV in the evenings esp on the weekends when we don't go to the gym. Hope I will stick to this now. I do feel like I came home more fit this year than usual...I actually lost a few pounds and we walked most days while we were gone.

Morning again . . . the radio is saying :sun: for this last day of March. Radio is also saying back to SNOW for tomorrow.

See you later . . . after I figure out what I'll do today . . .

Hey Maryea! Sounds like you enjoyed your trip.

Meowee... What can I say... seems like lots of places are still having snow. But is it really that unusual? I can remember snow in April, and even in May when I was living in the Rockies. However, after this last winter, it does seem like a tad bit much...

I guess all our other Active Over 50s were off being active this weekend!

I went swimming the last three days instead of to the gym, but it's back to the gym this afternoon.


Jay

No JAY . . . It isn't unusual to get snow at this time of year . . . what is unusual is that it started so early (first storm on the 1st of December; usually don't get much until January) and it just never seems to stop. Yep, I'm very tired of it.

Hi
Linda, I couldn't find that sticky or April Accountability. Could you post a link?
I haven't read the books that you mentioned, but I've read quite a few health-related books. Lately I keep reading parts of a basic, simple, nutrition textbook that was written by an instructor at a local community college, and she is a vegan. It's a great book. I keep reading it like a book of inspriational verse, except that it's a textbook! The only things I don't like about it are: breakfast examples that are full of "breakfast food" and the use of the v-ending-in-"ie" word. I just don't think that word should be in a college textbook. I mean, she has a chapter on nutrition for children and she uses the word "children" (as opposed to "kids") which is proper for a textbook so why in a college textbook would you also not refer to vegetables as "vegetables" ???? It doesn't take any longer to read "vegetables" than that "v-ending-in-ie" word. Sorry, I can't even bring myself to write it.

I was not active over the weekend. It was a rough one for me.
Thank God it's Monday!

Hey Spiny, I know what you mean about the v-ending-in-ie word. I don't like it either. However, it first came into use in 1955, and at this point it's pretty much considered a regular word.

I'll tell you a word I hate even more: "sammie" for sandwich. Rachael Ray uses it all the time and I just want to smack her!

See ya later... gators...

Jay

Good Morning . . .

JO . . . Here's a link for you . . . http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138184

And . . . apologies to both JO and JAY . . . I admit that I use "that word for vegetables" all the time.


Okay everybody, since it is the day . . . What was your best ever April Fool's prank? Either one that you pulled or one that was pulled on you?

Brace yourselves because mine is a fairly long story . . . the conversion to the metric system in Canada was a very long (and tedious) ten year event, but nobody got too excited about it until things started being converted in the stores in the early 1980's -- pounds to kilograms; inches to centimetres; yards to metres, etc. Talk about confusion. Wow. Anyway . . . as I was driving to a business meeting one morning (about a 45 minute trip), the radio started broadcasting the latest news in the great (and unpopular) changeover to metric. Effective the beginning of next month (May 1) we would be changing to a metric time system -- 100 seconds = 1 minute; 100 minutes = 1 hour; we would, therefore. be converting to 14 hour days, and to top it off; the year would be divided into 10 months of approximately 62 days each. Pretty far-fetched you say -- -- but by the time I got to my destination, they actually had me believing it. It was very well done. I walked into my meeting and reported this latest happening and almost got laughed out of the room.

This morning both Mom Nature and the Scale- are playing tricks on me. We have about 4 inches (10 centimetres, in case you care ) of heavy,wet, fresh snow on the ground but it is supposed to get washed away by rain later on today (high temp of +9C/48F predicted). The really nasty thing for this morning, however, is that the weight is 1.6 pounds over my ticker number (just to complete the translation process, that's about 3/4 of a kilo ). Oh well . . . both the nasty weather and the nasty weight blip will soon be gone again.

Hope everybody has a great day . . . see you all later . . . try to keep things moving and shaking just as much as you can.

OH, Jay, I agree. I need to stop watching Rachael when she is making what I refer to as sandwiches.

I have a friend who says "noonies" for noodles.

April Fools Pranks -
I was not involved but I was an oberserver. Someone told a co-worker to call a phone number (it was the number for a mortuary, but the person to whom the phone number was given didn't know that) and the message was to call Myra Mains at that number. They called, and asked. "May I speak to Myra Mains?" And then realized.....

Weight loss is getting easier and so is exercise. I'm in a 13 size pants now, for years I've worn a 16. I walk about 1 1/2 miles a day and use a tread mill (lightly) I have low blood sugar so I don't want to push it. I do love to dance and I do that regularly and I like to lift weights. I'm glad ******** keeps me healthy so I can do this.