Well, my son was here but I way over did...ended up cleaning for 8 hrs:eek: , he did lift most the heavy stuff, so much to put back into place after they got the bed in. ( I was sorting through some of the stuff my son that went off to school left and shredding his bills and stuff.) It got to where my hips were saying no more stairs! My cleaning help comes on Monday but I had the sweeper out for the bedroom so I did everything else. I might have her help me tackle the basement when she comes before it gets to cold to work down there. Then there is the outside stuff, I'm tired of looking at the worn out plants!

My eating is going well and I'm sure all this not sleeping is burning calories too! Any of you know what it means when you get really irritable when you cut back on carbs. I am told that I have been that way!!!!!!!:D Snapping at everyone I guess! I checked my food journal and yes I'm short on carbs! (good for the waist line but not for me!) :lol: Just call me snippy ;)

http://www.healthychoice.com/news/ne...ev324link=4018

I know you go into a depression when you cut out sugar. Well, I have to get eighed in this am and we are having an open house. I look good by=ut the scale is up-that new med. Trade off-I don't ache 75 % as much. But.... Cravings and weight gain. But it's so nice not to be in such pain. I didn't take it one day and boy did I feel it. Dog is on drugs-the vet bill came to $23after flea med. heartworm, and 2 prescriptions cuz he scratched himself into severe irritation. I didn't know he had fleas. Next time I am going to use Frontline even if it's expensive. Because 200 every summer is too much besides his pain. But he's funny on the med. A little crazed. Brad is trying to finish my new cedar close. Everything fell down because it couldn't hold the weight. Bye for now. Mima

Mima...are you saying your vet bill was only $23??? WOW! I pay more than that just to walk in the door at my vets office! Surely that isn't right! You must have left off a zero or something cuz I use Advantage on Sami and that alone is nearly $30.

Candice... WHY OH WHY DO WE DO THAT??? :?: We get started and just don't know when to stop. I do the same thing. Then we wind up spending a week in bed when it's all over. DUMBDUMBDUMB (AND DUMBER)! :p I'm getting to where I can't go all day like I used to, though. Yesterday I went to Cookeville and made 4 stops and then picked Jenna up from PreSchool... when I got home she wanted to get in the tub (right now! ;) ) but I couldn't do another thing. I had to sit down. I told her she would just have to wait. She has to have everything "right now" or she gets all "up-a-set"! It's tough being four! :lol: Paula is in Chattanooga until tomorrow so she's here for a couple of days. Mark can't handle Jenna and Ross both. (That is hard to do!!!)

Happy Happy Birthday on Monday Anagram ... Hope you have a good time Celebrating!!! :hb: Don't eat too much! :D

Just a spot of rain here so far. I made DH's cake and am putting chicken breasts in the crock pot..trying to make it simple.



You won't believe this but a girl (drunk )was going 90 mPH (on a resisedential busy street at 4AM and hit a parked car by my sons house and flew into some wood buildings and hit his car in the driveway, just missing his bedroom and tore up his front yard...she has no insurance either! Hope they throw her in jail!

Got into some more cookies I purchased for DH at the craft mall..homemade! but still ok pts wise if I don't each much more!

Crazy-sorry about that Candice. Did anyone see DR. Phil last night. Pretty good-I would love to read his book. We went out to eat last night and I didn't really overdo it. Brought half the fis home but did have some dessert. We had our open house yesterday and only 2 people came but we did a nice job. Let's see if they come back. Company tomorrow so I have to clean this am but then I'm going to pick up step-grandaughter and probably go to movies and out to eat. She's 15 and a half and what a difficult age. So far she didn't like any of my movie suggestions. The vet bill was $234-I didn't proofread my post!!!!We are suppossed to give him a flea bath this morning and put the drops on tomorrow, It's so funny giving him the meds. I sneak it in some cheese but if he spits it out, i have to put it in peanut butter on bread. I need a day off-I am as busy as I was when I was working. Have a good weekend . Mima

Mima..that sounds aobut right for the vet! Pets are expensive if you take care fo them right! I was DR. Phil...enjoyed it very much but I already knew most of what he was saying even the tips they gave us!

Well DH's BD was quiet but nice, The cake is so yummy and DQ ice cream too! Gonna have to tape my mouth shut I guess! I made a new Chicken recipe from Martha Stewart, really good.

Hey There
 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANAGRAM
I HOPE YOUR DAY IS THE BEST ONE OF THIS YEAR...Go somewhere and have a nice meal and enjoy every bite... Have a cake...Do only the things you want to do..
Mima- I don't watch Dr. Phill.. I am really not a fan of his...
Vet bills are the worst. They almost cost as much as Dr. bills for humans if not more. That is one of the reasons we no longer have a pet..
My daughter talked me into buying the South Beach Diet book.. It is interesting. I am going to try and not eat carbs and see what happens. If it bothers me I'll might just reduce them and go to phase 2...Carbs are my weak spot anyhow...
Candice- Thank God your son wasn't in his car or in the area.. Hope she went to jail..
My eating has been out of control for over a week. I will try to be very strick for awhile. I told my hubby that the house was being cleared of all his junk and he was going on a strick eating plan with me. He yelled! Toooooooo BaaaaaaD!!!!!!!!
Hello Ally ,Meme, Happy....Hope you all are well,
Joanne

The South Beach Diet... That's just like Atkin's except it's just really strict for a couple of weeks and then you start adding the carbs back ... right? You are supposed to lose 8 - 13 pounds the first couple of weeks and then you add the carbs back slowly the next 4 weeks until you are eating normally again (whatever the heck normal is!!!) :p In all the years I've been dieting, I've never really figured that out (normal, that is). I don't like eating breakfast most of the time. A lot of the time I'm not hungry at lunch time so if normal is 3 'balanced' meals a day that lets me out!

I read in 'Woman's World' magazine yesterday about a diet these women were doing (a Dr/nutritionist figured it out) where you eat an apple about 30 minutes before each meal and you lose huge amounts of weight. Something about the pectin in the apples. Here's an excerpt from the article.

"Three apples will increase your daily fiber consumption by about 15 grams, and Tufts University researchers have found that folks who added just 14 grams of the tummy-filling stuff automatically reduced their calorie consumption by 10%. And the soluble fiber in apples, called pectin, has even more power to kill appetites than ordinary fiber. Pectin eliminates the urge to eat for up to four hours, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
The reason? Laboratory tests have demonstrated that pectin, which is used as a thickener in jellies and jams, thickens in the digestive tract, creating a lasting sensation of fullness. There's still more: University of California at Davis scientists have evidence that pectin activates hormones that tell the brain to stop eating!"

This Dr. said she discovered this by accident. She was helping one of her patients eat more fruit and the only fruit she really liked was apples. She came back after a week of eating apples and had lost a pound and a half of pure body fat! She said her overweight patients that used the apple approach lost 3 times more weight than the ones who didn't. So...I went out and bought 15 apples ... gonna try (yet again) ... another Monday hopeful ... coming up!!! :crossed:;)

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