Nevadans?

[aubreynoramarie]

Sunny ill walk with you!

 

[SunnyDawn]

Quote: Haha! Great advice!

 

[SunnyDawn]

Sunny ill walk with you!

Really? COOL!!!

What days do you have off next weekend? Nevermind, I'll pm you.

 

[wolftracks]

I was showing Dakotah how to do leg lifts last night. Something I haven't done in over a decade and used to do 500 a day. I had Makayla bring one of her little chairs in and showed him how to get limber enough and stretchen his abs enough that he wouldn't need a chair later. He mad a comment that girls like 6 packs once and Bill and I cracked up. This summer he's staying at his grandmother's with his dad. His oldest brother is going to make him work out before he sits at his video games after he gets off work. Robert loved weights when I first met him and would come to my house every day to use all of mine, so when Bill and I got married I hadn't lifted on ages and game them all to him. He's religeous! He told Kotah he was going to have to start with 10 reps of some easy excersizes and then he'd help him with the weights. Dakotah told me he wanted me to tell Robert how to use them and I told him I gave them to him and I thought him to use them when he was 15. Kotah's a year behind and because of his medical history he has to be cautious of what and how much he does, but he's jokingly complaining and I can tell he's ready to want to do this. When he comes home I'm hoping it will be to a new house and a place where we can all 3 go for walks at least a couple of times a week.

Sunny I had those kinds of friends too. "Oh look! That's so cute! Let's go in there!" I'd just keep walking. I'm not tired of hearing about your back. I know how much mine hurts. Right now I feel like it's on fire and I'm about to go lay a mat out and see if I can relax it. I can't put my weight on my wrist thought to get up. Maybe I should put it by the coffee table for support. There's a box of 56 cupcakes sitting on it I have to decorate. hmmm Nah! I have to be in the mood for cake and it has to be really really rich. Unless it's my favorite. Angelfood! haha

I get the long arm thing. I have 38" legs and arms and I don't build muscle in my arms much, but they used to be very tight and now??????? Yeah well, I don't hold much hope at my age, but ya never know.

 

[Peep_Show]

Good choice, but remember I push oatmeal. It;s one of the best foods you can eat any time of the day. I love bananas, but since I'm trying to lose I've been eating grapefruit, which luckily I love. Now if the strawberries don't die on me this year so I actually get fruit, I'll be eating those too. I like that you'll go to the store and not eat all the fast foods.

Love, love, LOVE oatmeal. We do the steel cut oats in our house. Got a mini crockpot, put in 3/4 C. oats, 3 C. water (or sometimes apple juice or mixture thereof), cinnamon and a chopped apple and it is breakfast nirvana! And if you make a big pot of it, it reheats pretty well for a quick breakfast on other mornings.

Mom in her efforts to get me slim practically force fed me grapefruit as a kid. I spent a long time staring at those grapefruit halves. Do you know there's 13 segments to a grapefruit? I cannot eat it at all now and shudder at even the thought of grapefuit juice. Oh, well..... Thank goodness it's not the only fruit out there that's good for you!

And, yeah, you'll get a lot more exercise walking around a supermarket than walking into a fast food joint.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Quote: Huh. When I did the program I did it from home cause I'm not into the group pressure thing and I remember all fruits and veggies being zero points. That was last year though. I completely agree with you though! Carrots vs celery? C'mon lets be sane here! And as long as you are eating fruits and veggies I say Hooray!!!

Yea Tyler. Listen to Kim! When you're underweight you need more than a banana! Have a huge bowl of oatmeal with honey and real cream! Hard for most folks to understand that when you are trying to gain weight the same rules don't apply.

 

[SunnyDawn]

I was showing Dakotah how to do leg lifts last night. Something I haven't done in over a decade and used to do 500 a day. I had Makayla bring one of her little chairs in and showed him how to get limber enough and stretchen his abs enough that he wouldn't need a chair later. He mad a comment that girls like 6 packs once and Bill and I cracked up. This summer he's staying at his grandmother's with his dad. His oldest brother is going to make him work out before he sits at his video games after he gets off work. Robert loved weights when I first met him and would come to my house every day to use all of mine, so when Bill and I got married I hadn't lifted on ages and game them all to him. He's religeous! He told Kotah he was going to have to start with 10 reps of some easy excersizes and then he'd help him with the weights. Dakotah told me he wanted me to tell Robert how to use them and I told him I gave them to him and I thought him to use them when he was 15. Kotah's a year behind and because of his medical history he has to be cautious of what and how much he does, but he's jokingly complaining and I can tell he's ready to want to do this. When he comes home I'm hoping it will be to a new house and a place where we can all 3 go for walks at least a couple of times a week.

Sunny I had those kinds of friends too. "Oh look! That's so cute! Let's go in there!" I'd just keep walking. I'm not tired of hearing about your back. I know how much mine hurts. Right now I feel like it's on fire and I'm about to go lay a mat out and see if I can relax it. I can't put my weight on my wrist thought to get up. Maybe I should put it by the coffee table for support.

Well I wish Dakotah the best of luck! He is young and growing like a weed (I was shocked the last time we saw him!) so now is a good time. Good thing he has a Mom that can help him do it safely!

Thank you so much for saying that you aren't sick of my complaining!!! That kind of support is just precious to me these days!!! You and Pam are my lifelines when it comes to talking to folks that understand!

Quote: OK I don't even like oatmeal and this sounds yummy! Well I love homemade oatmeal raisin cookies!

Does that count? haha I'm not gonna lie. I love food and I am one hell of a baker so cutting out all sweets is not likely. I am trying to balance it out better lately though with more veggies. Can't bear to put my larger pants back on after finally getting down to a smaller size. It's not so much a looks thing as it is a feeling better thing.

OK I've got to get stuff done! Will you folks please quit being such interesting conversationalists? I'm not getting a thing done! At least I took care of all the animal chores before I came on.

 

[wolftracks]

All I've gotten done was take Makayla to school, sit here and make trips to the Sportsman. I have pips, zips and chicks goin on.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Huh. When I did the program I did it from home cause I'm not into the group pressure thing and I remember all fruits and veggies being zero points. That was last year though. I completely agree with you though! Carrots vs celery? C'mon lets be sane here! And as long as you are eating fruits and veggies I say Hooray!!!

Yea Tyler. Listen to Kim! When you're underweight you need more than a banana! Have a huge bowl of oatmeal with honey and real cream! Hard for most folks to understand that when you are trying to gain weight the same rules don't apply.

Yeah Ive always just done it online. You get to choose which system you want to do and it never changes. Plus i hate doing public things like that. yucko! I tried the system where veggies are points but im doing the one where they arent and i feel it promotes better eating because before people didnt want to waste their points on fruits and nutritious stuff, so now i eat endless fruits and veggies- like literally i am eating apples and carrots and pears and boccolli and pea shoots and cantaloup and honeydew and pineapple and snap peas and bla blah blah but NO CELERY because i think celery is gross. haha.

Plus OMG that steel cut oats recipe sounds awesome. I bet mark will love it when i make it for him.

And the whole mom thing was just proving missys point that people are hypocrites. Im not against my mothers choice to go under the knife, but i do think its a cop-out. She has been heavy her entire life and has complained about it and had low self esteem her entire life (which really effected my little sister and my perception..where i went one way with it my little sister sounds exactly like my mom and makes the same exact excuses for her obesity) but has never once from what i remember worked as hard as i have in the last 4 months. I have been doing so much research and self discipline and i have had my really rough moments but have lost 35 lbs and feel amazing and look amazing. Its not genetic, everyone in my family is big. Its OUR FAMILY....OUR FAMILIE'S LIFESTYLE CHOICES. She started on the diet the doctor gave her two months ago and lost 20 lbs before the operation. I feel like there are a lot of people like my mother...who make excuses. Its just too hard to avoid the burrito place down the street. Or society's norm of what is an appropriate amount of food for someone to intake is so skewed that even if someone eats way beyond the amount of calories, protein, carbs, whatever, if its less than what they NORMALLY eat they think they have been eating healthy and cant figure out why they arent losing weight. Its a horrible cycle thats just getting worse and worse. My mother proved that weight loss is determination. She was determined enough to get that surgery so she stuck to the diet. Would she be determined to stick to it if the doctor backed out of the operation? my guess is no. And im not trying to be harsh. My mom is my favorite person in the entire world. She is my life, my love, my soul, but she is typical. And I DO give her an earful when she tries to give me advice, because I want her to live a long healthy life and make better choices so i can have her longer.

This is a statement that will most likely anger a ton of people off but i will say that I truely believe that poeple who WANT to be healthy do so by acting on it, not just talking about it. If excuses are made i stop listening. I used to make excuses, "im just thick because everyone in my family is large and were danish and german and boy are we all huge!" or "well when i quit drinking i kept compensating with food and im still dealing with that". What I should have said was "I just really love pasta and burritos and eat them at least once a week! Plus i dont even really care about my appearance or health anough to give em up!" But ive proven myself wrong. Ive seen so many people prove themselves wrong. They just had to overcome themselves and their skewed perception. I want my mom to overcome her skewed perception and work on making her mind and motivation stronger. But instead she took the easy way out and i am mildly dissapointed. I guess whatever helps to get her to the ultimate goal. Problem for me is that this is not helping her face her issues and her eating habits. She will probably still make poor eating choices, just wont be able to overeat.

speaking of which i better go call her, she was having trouble breathing after the operation and wasnt pulling out of it quite right. Plus she only had my sister with her who doesnt have a car and couldnt go get her her pain meds. UGH! thank god ill be there next week!

 

[NevadaRon]

Thank you so much for saying that you aren't sick of my complaining!!! That kind of support is just precious to me these days!!! You and Pam are my lifelines when it comes to talking to folks that understand!

Don't forget me!

Guess what Sunny I just got one of those memory foam mattresses from Costco and it is already doing wonders for my back. Of course my problems are muscle related, not discs. Have you heard about this laser spine institute? It's supposed to be the miracle cure for disc problems.