hey guys have an answer. Am nailing my feet to the bedroom floor every evening at 7pm! karen3

Hi Mary,

You wrote, “Lynn - …what do YOU do when you blow it? Do you stop eating or just go back to your eating plan as if it hadn't happened?”

A couple of things - First, I don’t “blow it” as much as I used to. Even my “binges” are more controlled these days. For example, while we were on vacation in Italy, I ate LOTS of gelato, but always got a very small cup. I ordered just about anything I wanted when we were out, but just ate about ½ of whatever was on my plate.

I think about eating more like a budget these days. If I eat a lot at lunch, I eat a little at dinner. If I know I am going out to dinner, I eat light during the day.

Also – I exercise EVERY day 60 – 90 minutes.

Last time I REALLY blew it was when my sister was in the hospital. On the way home, I stopped at Burger King & had a whopper, fries, and chocolate shake (Please know I do NOT love this food. It was an absolute emotional breakdown.) Basically, I felt so sick that I didn’t eat anything else for the rest of the day.

Maybe it is the diabetes, but nowadays, I feel pretty sick if I eat too much of the wrong stuff.

Lynn

Lynn...I hope one day I can be like you. I mean that seriously. I do notice that I am getting there but not as fast as I'd like to! LOL we are a lot alike! I too think about my diet like a budget...it's only so many calories rather than dollars! LOL I've even tried to work out some baby steps to dieting sorta like the Dave Ramsey financial plan! LOL Despite that I frequently blow it but I do think I'm getting to the point you are at...but it is a slower process for me I guess. I don't do a lot of emotional eating these day but I know I did in the past and that partially at least contributed to my developing a big appetite as I got used to eating a lot. I do the same thing if I buy ice cream or some other treat outside the house...I buy just a little or share with my dh. I just started being willing to do this the last couple years. It's a start. My binges are done at home so still working on that. So think I'll be more like you when I finally finish growing up but just not quite there yet.

Karen - think you might have something there...where are the hammer and nails?!!

ETA: Lynn...as you know I'm a diabetic too and I have begun noticing that when I overeat I don't feel so good either. At first I feel good...love that full feeling...but then I begin to feel lethargic and sluggish thinking and I know that's not a good sign. I also have some neuropathy which has been better since I started Metformin but I feel it more when I overeat. Usually it is carbs of course that I'm eating. Another reason I know I've got to get a handle on this. Amazingly my bs have not been bad. Sometimes high in the am but the rest of the day good. I figure I have to be spiking when I'm overeating...however once I took my bs just to see and it wasn't bad. I probably should have taken it again later though.

Hi Mary,

I thought about it last night after posting my last message. Actually, after I found out I had diabetes, I cut down SIGNIFICANTLY on simple carbs. I still eat complex carbs, but try to avoid white stuff (bread, pasta, rice, potatoes) and sweets with sugar as much as possible. I buy sugar free stuff & make my own things using Splenda.

Since I made this change, my binges and cravings dropped seriously. This has become so natural for me, I forgot about it until we started this conversation.

Lynn

Good Morning Everyone,

My sister arrives shortly. Today maybe a local flea market. Tomorrow maybe a day on the water in a pontoon boad at a nearby lake. I am looking forward to spending time with her.

Lynn

Good Morning girls!
Nothing on the agenda today except for my bone building class tonight. I need to get out and weed some more, that's a never ending job which I truly enjoy. I've made a point of spending every morning sitting out in the sun for about an hour, I catch up on my reading and gets some rays/tan. I go out about 7am, the sun isn't that strong and the summer doesn't seem to have slipped by so fast, We have two families of Orioles that visit my feeder/jelly house and so much fun to watch, especially the baby orioles. I enjoy watching the brave little Hummingbirds too, they aren't as skiddish as the Orioles. I have 4 Hummingbird feeders but they seems to prefer only two of them?
Zoe...You eat a whole cup of Fiber One in the morning? Wow, that's impressive, how many grams of fiber do you get? That's the key to my losing weight so fast.
Weddings...I hate them. I think everyone should get married privately and save the money for useful things. With the high rate of divorce, its like throwing good money after bad anyway. Bah, Humbug!

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I always eat a REALLY good breakfast – my Greek yogurt with a cup of Fiber One cereal mixed into it along with another cup or so of fresh blueberries, which have been abundant for the past month. I’m going to HATE it when blueberry season has gone by! Lunch is usually a small bowl of my homemade soup (this latest batch is the V8 juice and cabbage one) and a couple of pieces of 60 calorie, high fiber pita bread.

Karen...funny, I just did something similar the other day. I tossed in a dark washcloth with hubby's black T-shirts. He asked me if a kleenix was in the washer because everything had lint on them.

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Karen…I washed all my dark clothes yesterday and found had washed a kleenx with them. What a mess. Have wee white balls on everything. So stupid of me. Grrr

Mary...One of the reasons I love the Golden Girl's site is because we can rant about anything we want and get lots of support. I couldn't agree with you more about the world and lack of spiritual hunger. I have my Bible quiet time every morning in bed with a thermos of coffee. I'm so at peace with my life and wish I could instill the need to do daily devotions to DH. He goes to church but only because he thinks he's pleasing me. The other day he said, if there's such a place as Heaven....I couldn't believe he said that! I'd like to knock him along the side of his head.

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Mary…Hi everyone! Thanks for understanding about my rant. I am just trying so hard to understand why I often overeat in the evenings. But I truly believe that one of the reasons so many people are having food issues is due to spiritual hunger in our country/world. I realize this is not the Christian support forum but this does work for me when I do it.

Lynn...Too funny, I think we talked about this before and some of us do not want to find another mate if our spouses are no longer with us. I couldn't replace my hubby, he has been the best husband. (His beliefs are another subject. I get down right angry when he spouts off about apes being our ancestors!)

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(4) I have no longer have interest in attracting a man.

Freda...I use to work through the day without taking lunches because we didn't get paid lunch hours and I'd rather have the money than eat. I never thought about why supper always tasted so good until you mentioned it. Maybe skipping lunches all those years trained my tummy not think about food during the day? Another reason I don't think about lunches now that I'm retired is because like some of you, I have a constant pot of vegetable soup available or I eat a roll-up with PB2. I hate spending time thinking about lunches.

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Freda… Found out that being a little hungry is what we are supposed to be and it won't kill you. Actually, food tasts so much better when you're a little hungry.

Donna...I thought your 'granny' looked young to be your grandmother, that's why I asked how old she is. My own grandmother and mother had very few wrinkles on their faces. We're olive skinned people and I think we just don't dry out as easy?
Rosey...I have some of those wooden keg flower beds in my shade garden, unfortunately they dry out fast. I have to fertilize them often so the flowers stay full and not get stringy. How come you didn't plant the flowers instead of your sister? I know it's a lot easier for you to get around, maybe you're out of practice.
Where's Karen/Mo and Isabella?
Time to get hopping...I have fresh blueberries for my yogurt and Fiber One this am and my tummy is telling me it's time to eat.
Yes Zoe, sounds like your breakfast!

Hi everyone spent a good share of the day with 3 preteens..2 are my grdd and parker a school friend of haileys..they played with baking clay,decorated their skate boards and helmets watched i carly and other teen shows and kept me laughing..they cleaned up their mess and even vacumed , kids keep you young thats for sure..we where sitting around and eating cherries..i asked them if they could take a stem in their mouth and tie it in a knot and proceeded to show them..one of many and weird talents ..my grdd piped up and said to me did i know what that meant if i could do it..i said no and she got red and said it meant i was a good kisser..i about fell of my chair never saw that coming and i laughed and said well lucky grampa which surprized them in turn and i changed the subject too funny..Bobbie my sister planted my planters as a surprize..and alaskas weather is not nice to flower beds i miss the nice growing season in minn...i have also had a prolem with after hours eating last nite i grazed thru yogurt granola,turkey jerky,popcorn and skinny cow ice creamm ..i felt blowted and uncomfortable and really guilty..no more of that thats for sure..hoping we all have a great non eating evening (((hugs)) rosey

here,s a picture of the silly preteens..i had alot of fun with them today rosey PS spent the afternoon comparing music from my generation the stuff my grkids listen not sure i like their stuff but listened and watched them dancing around and playing air guitar, fun fun and then i played music i like ;like the eagels and fleetwood mack and beatels and 50- 60 rock and roll and surprizing they liked it too..it was fun and entertaining..

So, where's PT? Come out, come out, wherever you are! Oh, what a crazy week this has been/is! Busy, of course, is good, because it makes the time fly by, and when I'm at work, that's how I like it. The trouble is that my off-work time flies by just as quickly, and I don't like that nearly as much. This morning I have to be in Boston for a meeting at 9:30, so I get to leave a little later, which is nice. Then back to the office...not so nice. Hah! My life seems to be in a holding pattern of "nice" followed always by "not so nices". Maybe it's that way for everybody? Last night, my bum felt a little sore. It hadn't felt sore before that, but for some reason, it felt sore last night. I felt a huge lump on one side...I mean, it felt like there was maybe a smallish apple embedded in the flesh of my right rump, and it was quite tender to the touch. For some reason, all I could think of was how perfectly healthy I've been all my life, and that the axe was overdue to fall. Craziness, I know, but that's what was going through my mind, even though I couldn't for the life of me think of any serious diseases that start off with a lump in your rear end. I asked DH to feel it, and so he did, and he pulled my panties down in the back to look, and said, "Whoa! You've got a HUGE bruise back here! A HUGE black bruise!" So I went into the bathroom to check it out myself, and sure enough, there's a dark black spot back there the size of a fist. I mean DARK black! I can't ever remember seeing a bruise that black before! Couldn't for the life of me think of how I could've gotten it until I remembered falling on my back on the rocks when we were down in Newport. My granddaughter and I were out climbing on the rocks when a big wave came in and quite literally knocked me flat down. I leapt right up again, and didn't think much about it except that we were laughing, and one of my flip-flops came off, and I was screetching about that, and then a wave brought it back and my granddaughter grabbed it...well, I just didn't think any more about falling because we were too busy hooting and hollering and being silly. But I guess I got a good jab on my rear from one of those pieces of rock and never even realized it. Must've been a pretty GOOD jab, too, to make such a bad bruise and create such a big old lump. Seems so weird that I didn't feel it or notice it until last night. Oh, well. At least I know it's from an injury, and isn't some ugly sort of disease causing it.
Rosey, it looks like you really have a good time with those grandkiddos of yours! Aren't they just precious? I have such fun with mine! More fun, I think than when my own kiddos were young, because I was too busy working, taking care of the house, paying bills and trying to raise them right to just lay back and enjoy myself, you know? Oh, we had our fun times - our vacations, our Monopoly nights, our weekend jaunts together, but it was still the daily "get your homework done; clean up your room; stop teasing your brother" stuff that I don't have to contend with now....now it can be all fun and games, and then send them home for Mama and Daddy to worry about the homework and chores. I LOVE this time of life, I swear!
Yep, Bobbi, a whole cup full of Fiber One, or a whole cup of this other cereal that I recently found in the organic section of the grocery store - Barbara's Ultima high fiber. It has 12 grams of fiber per cup, so that mixed with my yogurt and a cup (or more) of blueberries - and sometimes strawberries, too - in the morning gets me off to a good start. I've got to say that when I get everything mixed together - the yogurt, the cereal and berries - the yogurt gets a little bit lost. It's more like eating a blueberry and cereal salad because the yogurt gets spread pretty thin, but it's a yummy combination, and I'll not be too happy when blueberry season passes this year.
Lynn, isn't spending time with your sister just great? I know that I really treaure those times I spend with mine a few times a year. She and I always talk about how "when we get old" we'll buy a little cottage on the beach together and live out our old age smelling the salt water and looking out to sea every day without a care in the world. I have to chuckle thinking about our "old age". I wonder what we think we're in now? (And she's 12 years older than me!!!)
Freda, my granddaughter is 9, and the grandson (her cousin) that goes with us on our "field trips" is 8. My older daughter's children are 14 & 19. The 19-year-old is a sophomore in college already! And there are my little twinnies, of course, almost 18 months old now. And that's my 6. My son hasn't produced any yet, which is just as well, since he and his fiancee aren't married yet, and plan to do that and get themselves a house before they start having any babies. An altogether good plan, in my opinion.
Hello Mary, hello Karen3, and I, too, am wondering where Karen31 is, and where our Isabella has gotten herself off to. Time to check in, Isabella, dear!
Oh! I'm back on track with my eating. I always get back on track during the week. It's the weekends that do me in.
Have a good day, GGs!

Z

Good Morning! I'm still here! WE both got a "bug" to go and look at new cars.... well new, used cars! We had a 1965 Mustang convertible when we got married 40 years ago and we started looking at Mustangs.. but I just couldn't justify getting a convertible at this time in our lives. But sure looked at some nice ones! Then we spied this 2006 Cadillac with a sunroof--in our price range!! And before I knew it I had "made them and offer they didn't refuse" and we drove it home yesterday!! So I'm pretty excited about it. Now I have my 2000 S10 Blazer that only has 64,000 miles for sale. It is so different driving the car then the Blazer and will take some getting used to since I've had the Blazer for 10 years! So that is what I have been doing!

Got a call from my son in Florida yesterday and he left a message----"Guess who's coming to dinner?" I called him back and he has finally decided that he just isn't going to be able to make things work in Florida and is coming back here. I told him he doesn't have to give up his dream of living there but needs to work and put money away so that dream can become a reality some day. Not go down there with nothing but a wing and a prayer! So I'm sure he will be able to find work here fairly quick and it is cheaper to live here.

Well, here are a couple pics of the new (used) car..Is it me??? Need to get busy.. We have to take the new car back over to have them take out a couple small dents that they are paying for. Can't beat that since you can hardly see them in the first place.

Take care and have a great day-- will get back later today.

OK Donna-- I took your word for it and changed my avatar!!! It was time for something new anyway!! Of course they don't make Bikinis that BIG!!!!!! But thanks for the compliment!

Red hot car for a red hot mama!

Not much going on here. Feeling very lazy today. Took dh out in the back yard for a while and showed him the garden. He said it was time to pull up the garlic so we did...I did most of it but he dug and pulled what he could. It is all laying out drying out now. Then he got to see his first three little green tomatoes. He planted the tomato plant in one of those hanging planters and was interested in seeing how it is doing. He only got a few things planted before he had his accident, but we have garlic and onions for sure, now looks like some tomatoes. The broccoli and beans didn't do well, not sure about the peppers but the cucumber plant looks like it's ok. He enjoys getting out there to look for himself and he is pretty bored right now so thought maybe it would help. And while we were out there I watered some on that side of the yard. Too warm now but may water the other garden later on.

Z - Sounds like you hurt yourself pretty bad! Once when my dh and I were walking a beach up north we sat down on a log to rest and not realizing, I sat down really hard. I had such pain in my tailbone I thought I would pass out...actually had to lay down! I had back spasms for quite a while after that. Now and then (like once a year) I will have back spasms for a while and once I had to go to an urgent care clinic as hurt so bad. The NP said she could see the spasms. Not sure whether they are related to that accident or not.

Your mentioning the Fiber One made me remember that just the other day I got a "diet secret" email and it recommended eating a 1/4 (I think or may 1/2) cup of Fiber One BEFORE eating whatever you plan to have for breakfast. I love breakfast so never skip it but I vary what I have most days. LOL of course, I love to eat and love all my meals so skipping is not really and issue for me whatever meal it is ....just remembered that when I typed that!

I forgot to listen to my hypnosis tape yesterday so think I'll do that now. I'm so sleepy right now I may fall asleep.