Midwife, I LOVE your analogy! It makes so much sense. If your body isn't getting enough nutrients, it makes you want to eat more. It sounds so obvious! Why did it never occur to me?

Midwife - Love that analogy!

lol midwife!!!

I'm glad my feverish thoughts make sense to others!

My little Jawas had quite a lot of treasure yesterday and I wasn't nearly as hungry today as usual. I also did not drink anything with artificial sweetener today and that seems to have made a big difference. I'm not eating holes in the drywall wating for dinner to be ready (my usual state at 6 p.m.)

Sheila -

I looked at my morning post and boy, was I mad at DH! Didn't realize it at the time. I always feel so much better after a day outside with all the dogs. They are all so cheerful and full of fun (even the old creaky ones).

Have a good evening all (and feed those Jawas some treasure!).

Dagmar

midwife - Your Jawas analog is dynamite; I'll think of it whenever I'm tempted to put some junk down my conveyor belt. All my little Jawas getting hyper looking for nutrients.

Sign me up for an early copy of your maintenance health book when it comes out, Feeding Your Inner Jawas, LOL.

I love the analogy midwife! I stuffed a bunch of junk through my system today - was hot, tired, hungry, and stressed... now I just have gas!

Hugs to you Sheila.

Hello to everyone else. Mondays are one of my busiest days. I like to check in here but I never have time for much of a post until later in the week.

Jessica-- you and I are similar. We went to temple last night but I didn't take off from work. I am starving and waiting for the sun to go down. I wanted to go to the gym after dinner but I think it will be too much today.....

about the Jawas. It totally makes sense! I had some really overactive Jawas over the weekend... once again I followed my usual pattern of getting POP for 2-3 weeks, and just as I start to make headway I go off on a several day binge. It is SO frustrating to me that I can't break out of this cycle. I'm not trying to make light of it, but I'm going to hop back OP and also try to look at my "plan" and see what I can change to keep it from happening again.

Sign me up to buy Feeding Your Inner Jawas. Will there be a chapter on how to quickly quell a Jawa revolt?

BF got a letter from the insurance company yesterday that his house is "uninsureable" and they're yanking his homeowner's insurance. This was the "last chance" insurance company in Florida so it's unlikely he can get anyone else to insure the house if he can't fight this successfully. His boat motor has been having big problems, his truck isn't running right, money is tight, the anniversary of his good friend's death is coming up... September-October is not shaping up to be a good time for him. I wish there was something I could do to help him.

Pat, I hope you get all your workouts in and don't have to schedule any more early ones. I don't like getting up before daylight in Florida, can't imagine how it would be in Alaska! I can't remember if I ever got to comment on your trip, but I'm glad you had such a nice time.

Shannon, sorry to hear about the rough times your accountant is going through. Having to deal with all of that at once is doubly hard.

Jessica and Michele (and anyone else out there celebrating Yom Kippur), I hope you have good holidays.

I fed my little Jawas a little better yesterday, so hopefully won't be so snacky today. Though of course I started the morning absolutely craving chocolate milk so drank some of the whole milk/nonfat milk/cream/chocolate concoction that we sell here, which is amazing, but terrible for you.I only drank four ounces of it and poured the rest out to remove the temptation.

Dagmar - sounds like you were feeling a little better last night, I'm glad!

Megan - what happens if you can't get homeowner's insurance?

Pat - I would have a hard time getting up that early up there, too! I have so far been failing miserably at trying to do it here, too!

I hope that Yom Kippur went well for everyone celebrating!

Good day everyone.

dagmar, haven't had any experience with hypnosis, hope it works for you. let us know how it goes.

Megan~wow, an uninsurable house? That's got to be horrible (besides the other problems). I knew someone (I think from this site) who lived in Florida and due to the location of her place, her insurance rates went up like 8 or 10 times the norm because she'd been hit by two hurricanes. And they think the health insurance industry needs an overhaul. It's sad.

I had another POP day yesterday (only fed the good Jawas) and the scale remains the same. I'm thinking I need to stir things up a bit, but I don't have any idea what to try.

I need some ideas for a sauce for gnocchi. Anyone?

Allison, I need to stir things up too. My scale is either not moving or bouncing a teeny but UP. *sigh* I can't blame it on water retention forever but I'm still hoping.

I LOVE gnocchi - usually try to avoid it because like all starchy things I can't stick to a reasonable portion. A simple tomato sauce is always great with it, although I've seen recipes for more interesting things as well. At a restaurant once I had it with a tomato basil cream sauce (so clearly not healthy by any means!) and peas. The peas were a strange addition... but not bad! Mmmm... this is making me think a gnocchi "gnight" is in order soon!

On the topic of recipe suggestions, I got a big bag of chile peppers yesterday that a friend grew... I know lots of things I could make with one or two, but what do I do with a whole bag full? I generally am just cooking for myself!

Megan, sorry to hear about everything your BF is facing right now... it's hard when there's nothing you can really do, but I'm sure he appreciates just having you there.

Iris - can you roast them? They'll keep in the fridge quite awhile that way?

My workout last night was actually good once I dragged my Jawas there (they much prefer being couch potatoes!). I have everything ready to go and do some cardio tonight - most likely HIIT on the elliptical. It is the least boring and makes the time pass more quickly.

My Jawas were well fed yesterday and yet I'm sitting here craving some abosolute junk cookies. There are none here thank goodness. BUt fruit and/or cottage cheese just isn't appealing. grrr.

And having finished my first budget run-through, I have to see where I can cut, and I have 2 employee evaluations to do this week. Not shaping up to be fun! At least I have next week to look forward to. It's the annual Public Library Directors' meeting, and it's held at a ski resort about 2 hours south of me, in a resort hotel (less expensively since it's not ski season yet) for 3 days. Lots of meetings, but a lovely room to be pampered in, plus a pool and workout room, not to mention my director friends. This is a gathering of the directors of the largest public libraries, about 20 of us, so we're pretty close even if most of the time it's by phone or email. Since I plan on retiring in the spring, this will be my last meeting (though we'll all be together at the state conference in March), so it'll be bittersweet....

Pat-- do you have plans for after retirement?

Megan-- sorry your boyfriend is having issues. When we bought our current house, we called USAA for insurance and they wouldn't insure us due to earthquake risk. They said they will only take on so many policies in our area and to check back periodically. We checked back a couple of times and the answer was still no. Yesterday dh called to add my new car to the insurance and they said yes so we will probably be switching.

I didn't work out last night due to my fasting (at least that was the excuse). I ate late and didn't feel up to the gym afterwards. I usually only take Tuesdays off from working out as I work both jobs today and get home very late, but now I'll be two days in a row. At least the scale was happy this morning but considering I only ate dinner (and a couple more snacks after!), I'm not surprised. I'm sure it will go back up once I eat normally.

Michele