Originally Posted by drd1961 (Post 4983073)

I need to get a new picture. I got a pixie cut yesterday. It will be much easier to work with after surgery. This morning I just stuck some gel in and left. So nice.

Originally Posted by drd1961 (Post 4983122)

The right will be done mid July. The left is still tba. Both are very bad. Basically bone on bone. Sad for someone my age, but was born with deformities. It is what it is and was my main reason for losing and keeping the weight off.

Originally Posted by AmberLS (Post 4983157)

So I've been thinking and I have a couple of questions. I noticed some conversation a few weeks back about chicken and store rotisserie chickens being life savers. So my question is I know we are not supposed to eat skin, but can we cook our chicken with skin on? I have been painstakingly cutting the skin off of whole chickens, can I just take the skin off my own after it's cooked? Also the whole veggie thing is starting to make me curious. I mean how many veggies you can fit in two cups depends on how you cut them. I personally love sweet bell peppers (the little ones). If I just slice them into rings it's 8-10 little peppers, if I chop them up a bit more for in something I can get more peppers in, the same with a lot of veggies. I mean we talk about cauliflower rice if I take two cups whole cauliflower before its cooked I can fit more in two cups if I chop it small, or 2 cups grated is a bunch and still raw... so I wonder how close I get to too many veggies when I cut them smaller?

Originally Posted by maureen kempster (Post 4983234)

"LOL...gotta love wash'n'go hair!"

mine's been wash'n'go for years now - too fine to do anything else with it!!!

Originally Posted by Ruth Ann (Post 4983248)

First, I am always leery of the store bought cooked chickens - they tend to inject them with lots of stuff for flavor and to make them last longer. Need to read the ingredients list carefully. I bake chicken with the skin on and then remove it before eating if I'm doing a whole chicken. But I'm careful with what I put on it too. I do usually stick a 1/2 onion inside it - gives a great flavor and helps keep the chicken moist.

I think you have to use your judgment on the 2 cups of veggies sometimes. A lot of times I weigh mine if they don't fit easily into a measuring cup. When in doubt i try to measure the larger pieces and then chop them up - like bell peppers. I slice them up and then chop them. Does that make sense? Even though I still measure, I'm pretty good at figuring out what will be a cup of something.




maureen - love the pic! I'm seriously thinking of going much shorter, but my hair is really thick and really curly so if I go short it's still not "wash n' go" cause it goes "poof"!

Originally Posted by Ruth Ann (Post 4983358)

You look great in the wig maureen - what fun to have a bunch and make it easy on yourself to change styles!

I was at PT last week and a new woman was helping me out (somebody double booked my regular guy). We're going through the exercises and she says "so, you were in a car accident." I said "no, I lost 117 pounds and realized I had no muscle tone at all." She looked at me and said, "well, you aren't very big you must have been really...." She started stammering looking for the right word, so I helped her out and said "I was very round." Made me laugh. I've noticed people tell me I look really great and then say "not that you looked bad before." Like they are trying to not hurt my feelings. It's really sweet.

Originally Posted by 65X65 (Post 4983360)

Yeah...mee tooooo....I was a very short, no longer young, chubby lady....