The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Peanut butter is a high fat food.... Just sayin... Keep that in mind when you eat it.
Read lables on everything get familiar with whats actually in what... dont have to go to the grocery store either you can get dietary lable infor on line for anything.

I am a life time member of weight watchers and learned lalble reading through them.

Watch Fats Carbs and sugars.... There are a couple of good siites that are free on line that can help you with it all.

Yummy carrots which are almost free on weight watchers.

Slice in chunks rotatign the carrot each time you slice it just a little bit. Makes em interesting and have a good surface for cooked yummy ness.

Cook in good olive oil or Fresh Butter just a talbespoon for flavor ....toss the butter and carrots in a frying pan and gettem started cooking... Sprinkle on Garlic salt and pepper and a bit of dried dill. Once you get the cooking started pour in some low sodium chicken broth. about half a cup and turn down the heat a bit and cover the pan.

Keep an eye on it... stirr occasionally. And by the time the carrots are soft enough to eat the liquid will be gone cook em a bit more to brown more...

Serve them as a side dish or as a main dish... I like em just like that with nothing else. You will think they have had sugar put in em.


You can cook Brussles Sprouts the same way... I split them in half after peeling off the outer leaves and cleaning. Once they carmelize then you can sprinkle a little parmesan Cheese over them.... OH yummo...


But serieously in order to gain the upper hand on control of your food... You have to learn to cook... Start simply then move on to something else.

deb Whos failure to do this has been my down fall. I am 63 years old and about 365. I can no longer stand for more than about thirty seconds... Kneeling is out of the question. I had to give up my horse because I could no longer care for her... Ripping my heart out in the process.... I am Terrified to get in the shower because i am afriad to fall in there. I CANNOT walk up and down steps...

I am looking at Gastric surgery in order to survive the next twenty years...

deb

I did weight watchers low fat high fibre diet. It works well. Very slow & steady weightloss. Essentially you eat things that has at least an equal amount of fat and fibre, better yet more fibre than fat.
Eating at home, making your own foods is definitely key. You can still eat out, but you have to be really wise in your choices.

I think that in a lot of cases, gastric bypass is very helpful. For some people a large part of their problems are psychological/ habit and have a very difficult time after the surgery. There is a lot of work/ training that goes into it. I used to work with someone who had the surgery. She was doing phenomenally well, but found that she could no longer eat fatty foods. I'm also behind ya!

 

[N F C]

The sun is shining and it's a brisk lau) 33*!

Cap, how's that for a sunny day?

 

[Blooie]

I quit smoking for a couple of months after my heart stent. Decided the stress wasn’t worth it. Been a smoker since I was 13. Ma used to give me $.50 and send me to the store to get her a pack, and the other quarter was for me to get a pack of my own. She and I would sit at the kitchen table and drink coffee, smoke and gab. Do the math. That’s 53 years.

 

[N F C]

B already knows so for the 1st time on BYC I'll say it here...I smoke. At one time, I had actually quit for almost 20 years, but then life happened and been back to it for a few years now.

I know the health risks, don't need to hear them again. Just saying I do it too. We all have our bad habits, faults, and coping mechanisms.

 

[Blooie]

Indeed we do!

 

[perchie.girl]

I was riding my hog one nice memorial weekend with my other riding buddies. We were riding the Devil's Backbone, a very curvey FM road in the hill country. Everything was fine till I took one of the curves a little to fast, drifted a bit to far to edge of the road, got into some gravel and the bike started to get away from me. So I was in the bar ditch and headed for a huge boulder that had a powerline guide wire right behind it and behind that was a barbed wire fence. I thought, ok I'll just stick my leg out when I get to it and push off of it, like you would do in motorcross.
It didn't work out so great. It snapped both my tibia and fibia. Mind you that at the same time I'm down gearing and braking. When it snapped, I gripped the front brake handle a bit too much...sent me flying over the handle bars and 4 somersaults and about 20 feet skidding on my belly later, I came to a sudden stop in the middle of a huge dust cloud.
I tried to stand up but fell immediately...I didn't realize my leg had been broken, there was no pain at all...until I picked up my leg and it slipped about 6" out the bottom of my pants leg. that kinda freaked me out a little.
Took the ambulance 55 minutes to get there, it's a pretty remote area. All my riding buddies were amazed at how I just calmly laid in the ditch, not making a sound. They were like, scream or holler or do something...they couldn't believe I wasn't in pain...and I wasn't. Funny thing is this broken femur hurts 100 times as much as that break did, it never did really hurt bad.

amazing what Shock does for you.... glad you survived... Here there are canyons full of boulders... Deep ones.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

5 of my siblings have done the gastric. It is short term. Only one of them has kept most of the weight off...she was 500 lbs. She has different issues due to surgery that they cannot figure out. Another sister isn’t absorbing nutrients like she should. A few years ago a couple of us girls had to bring her to the ER on Thanksgiving day due to extreme stomach pain. I hope if you choose to go that route you have good luck

Not doing the bypass. I am doing The gastric sleeve if I get approved. it removes the part of the stommach that issues the "I am hungry" chemicals. But it leaves your digestive tract in tact. Thus allowing you to digest fat soluable vitimines.... You do have to be careful how much you eat at one time and of the size of the stuff you swallow... Chew it up. But that is the same with all Gastric surgeries.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I did weight watchers low fat high fibre diet. It works well. Very slow & steady weightloss. Essentially you eat things that has at least an equal amount of fat and fibre, better yet more fibre than fat.
Eating at home, making your own foods is definitely key. You can still eat out, but you have to be really wise in your choices.

I think that in a lot of cases, gastric bypass is very helpful. For some people a large part of their problems are psychological/ habit and have a very difficult time after the surgery. There is a lot of work/ training that goes into it. I used to work with someone who had the surgery. She was doing phenomenally well, but found that she could no longer eat fatty foods. I'm also behind ya!

I am a lifetime member of Weight Watchers.... Was loosing pretty well till I found out I had cancer then the emotional eating took over.... sigh.

I plan to go back... The program now is much easier. and I can track on Fit bit as well my weight loss carb count and out of interest calorie count. But best of all it tracks sleep and Calories burned and wether you are truely working in deficit.

deb

 

[ShrekDawg]

I like the first one better

Yeah me too but idk if it's worth it. I mean, it seems like it'd be nice for herbs and lettuce or if you had no space (a lot of the reviews are from apartment dwellers) but it's also $150 and we have like 2.6 acres. It would be really nice to put on the deck though and grow a ton of stuff but idk. Some reviews said they grew tomatoes but it seems kind of small for it? And it's plastic pots I think. Probably good quality from the reviews but idk. Do you think it's worth it?

 

[ronott1]

Yeah me too but idk if it's worth it. I mean, it seems like it'd be nice for herbs and lettuce or if you had no space (a lot of the reviews are from apartment dwellers) but it's also $150 and we have like 2.6 acres. It would be really nice to put on the deck though and grow a ton of stuff but idk. Some reviews said they grew tomatoes but it seems kind of small for it? And it's plastic pots I think. Probably good quality from the reviews but idk. Do you think it's worth it?

It is nice to grow your on produce. You will love it!