The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[sharron]

Thank you very much, I am!

its also my niece's birthday, she's 60 today.

 

[N F C]

Happy birfenday do joo
Happy birfenday do jooooo
Happy birfenday happy birfenday
Happy birfenday do joo!

Shared Katie’s rendition of the birthday song with you. Um, she was only 2 then but, well, I’ll share it wif....Er, with you!

Love the Katie rendition, thank you B!

 

[N F C]

Happy Birthday @N F C !

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Enjoy your cake - sounds delish!

Very nice, thank Jae! I'd send you a slice of cake but don't know if you'd want to eat by the time it would get to NZ

 

[ShrekDawg]

If your ground is still warm enough to germinate seeds, you might try and see if it will grow.
I can't grow cold weather crops here...too far south.

I think it's going snow next month so doubt it's still warm enough.

Too many excuses for everything Kdogg - Come on . First you need something else to do besides eat. When I was in the hospital someone gave me a Find A Word Puzzle Book- it lists the words and you have to find them and circle them. I get mine at $dollar tree.

I figured it would improve concentration and maybe boost eyesight(?) .After a while I could find words, backwards, vertically, horizontally, etc. etc. Also got a lot faster at finding them.

When I first look at a puzzle, I can't find anything. So I just wait a bit and slow down. Funny how words start to appear . If you are doing it right you are too involved to be stuffing your face I dont. If you have to eat - bite your nails - no calories!

Some days I get so pumped I am finishing puzzles right & left. Then it's hard to quit. I know not as thrilling as bingo . Might even take your mind off of sheep or goats, Great Dane or poodle, guineas or parakeets, beets or bananas.

Sorry if it seemed like I was making excuses. Wasn't trying to. What was the excuses part referring to? This post? If so, the hardware store part wasn't really supposed to be an excuse, I know being out of shape doesn't help, but it's true. Only stores it happens at and my mom experiences the exact same issue and is actually the one who suggested it could be the concrete floors. And it's been like that for years even before I got really out of shape.

The egg thing I will say I guess was somewhat an excuse given I get up at 10:30 and don't have to walk the dogs till 11:30 so that's plenty of time to eat but I admit I usually sit on my phone or am in the bathroom/getting ready the entire time so by the time I actually get going I no longer have time. I realize I could get off the phone and cook. But I also genuinely hate store eggs. They're slimy and gross and I refuse to eat them. But that doesn't mean I am eating crap. Lately I have been eating an apple, celery, or carrots. I have been better about eating healthier. Not liking store eggs or procrastinating getting dressed doesn't mean I'm eating brownies for breakfast. Though I wish lol but actually, previously I just wouldn't have eaten anything and waited until after I left the dogs at like 2 or 3 to eat. So this is an improvement. But actually today I ate an apple over there. Nothing since and I just walked the mall (had to go to bathroom and after thought food court at other end of mall may have something while there but all options were gross so after sitting a few minutes I walked all the way back with no food) and now I kinda feel weak/like I might pass out from not eating. Which of course is unhealthy but I was trying to avoid going to Subway. Might have to though. In reality I probably should have just gone to the store then home and cooked something instead of eating out but with how weak I am I'm not sure that's a good idea. Not sure driving is either but I'll be fine in a few minutes.

Anyway, as for the puzzles, I actually have a ton I've bought over the years but I never use them and probably threw some out but probably still have a bunch. Word searches, crosswords, brain games/puzzle packs, etc.

Aw that sucks! I myself am really out of shape and often find myself winded from going up the stairs aha or sometimes tired if I spend too long in a store but that's mostly because they are stuffy and I get sick. Hardware stores are the worst. Probably the concrete floors (harder on body) and smells. Anyway, not just you. And that's a good idea! I have been trying to too cause I eat like crap but it is hard. I would eat eggs in the morning but I usually don't have time and also the girls aren't laying right now and store eggs are

Actually I kinda thought they were both ugly. Don’t 5hink I’d break a sweat trying to arrange for even one of them. Sorry.

Tucked into our hotel room in Torrington while the snow falls around us outside our window. Went through some beautiful stuff today, I took a ton of photos. Ken is making a positive difference in the lodges, changing “that’s the way we’ve always done it” to “oh, yeah..that makes sense”. Me? Well, frankly my back, the right side of my backside, and my upper thigh are trying to get my attention to tell me that 6 to 8 hours in a car sitting is not helping. I do so much better standing or lying down, but that’s not in the cards and won’t be until Friday night.

It's okay, no need to hide. I actually agree that they are not the cutest puppies ever but was mostly just sharing kind of as a joke cause I know you like Irish Wolfhounds plus for how BIG they are. It's impressive. That said, hopefully it is just puppy uglies and they'll grow out of it lol I'm a sucker for brindles too.

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

Yeah I know it is so I should probably cut back on it and will soon.

And I actually do read labels already, big label eader, both for pet food and people food. Actually better at and more into it for the pets but do read my stuff too. It's how I've been grossed out by certain stuff. Like when I learned the PB has sugar, molasses and soybean oil. That's why i bought the natural one that's just peanuts and salt. No need for this crap

https://www.jif.com/products/peanut-butter/creamy-peanut-butter

Your carrot recipe actually sounds delicious. I may need to make it.

I actually am a pretty cook when I want to be (though I don't know many if any recipes or how to do a lot of stuff so still a lot to learn) and took a cooking class in high school (long time ago) but am normally lazy and don't want to OR I wait so long to eat that I am too hungry or sick to wait for food to cook. I normally only eat one or two meals a day (sometimes no dinmer if I eat lunch late enough and just snack). Which I know isn't healthy but I do it. And walk their dogs every week. Yet still can't lose weight :/

I am a bit OCD though so always follow directions to a T.

And I am sorry

whatever you do, or choose not to - we are behind you 200% Perchie . Do I hear 300%?

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Morning all

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check into keto, i've been on it and losing

Seems good but surely eating so much fat can't be healthy? Long term at least.

yeah and if you don't use pesticides, kinda turns you off to see worm webs , worms don't bother me but for some strange reason the webs do, cool weather cuts down on the worms and their webs

Yeah we had earwigs in some of the lettuce.

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.

WOW you are lucky!! And was probably the adrenaline

oh wow sean, i don't think i could have taken it myself, i have a high tolerance for pain but wow, you must have a unreal tolerance, lucky it wasn't your neck

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Yep, I have an insanely high tolerance to pain but this fracture is pushing it over my tolerance. Oh, and I wasn't wearing a helmet, other than a couple of road rash marks on my my left arm, there wasn't anything else banged up. That exact spot has claimed the lives of two other riders. One was decapitated by the guide wire, about a week before my turn at it and the other got sliced up by the fence about a month before my ordeal.

OMG so sad

Made brownies, dumped out brownies - nothing can replace ice cream

Ice cream is truly irreplaceable.

like i said WOW,your very lucky, the others are right, you need to be wrapped in bubble wrap for sure. someone upstairs loves you

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keep sticking to it, you can do it, it couldn't be worse than quitting smoking

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Yep, I have a hot line to the creator!

could you please put in a good word for the rest of us, the world seems to be going to h--- in a hand basket

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It's been doing that for quite a few years!

True

The trick is not start smoking - then you don't need to spend the rest of your life trying to stop.

No I haven't faltered once in giving up ice cream - and don't expect too - just wish I could find something else .

Yuppp!!! I have never smoked and don't drink or do drugs or anything either BUT I used to cut but quit 4 years ago. Not quite the same thing, I know, but like all addictions, I will likely be thinking about it forever. I actually rarely think about it anymore but when I was first quiting I sure did and I actually relapsed numerous times before that. One time I quit for an entire year and 2 months. Had relapsed after 3 months (longest I ever went), got pissed, quit October 2012, never touched it again until December 2013. Started again off and on again a few times in 2014. Finally quit for good August 2014. Been 4 years since. Started January 2012. Anyway, at first I thought about it tons and wanted to relapse a lot, came really close when I hit 1 year the second time but I realized I didn't wanna live like that forever and that I couldn't keep getting to 1 year and then breaking over and over so I didn't and now it's been 4 years. Anyway, sorry, this is kinda awkward and long (and is actually the second addiction I was talking about recently but didn't wanna say. Well this presented good chance to), but I still think about it sometimes. Very rarely and I am in a much better place mentally than I was but I do still occasionally think about it. Mostly when I am very stressed out or angry or there's family stuff going on. But now I usually don't. And it sounds really stupid and weird but I have really turned to religion a lot since I started and it's helped me get through it and stay clean, etc. I know it's not for everybody and not saying to turn to it, but I, personally, don't think I would have made it or been able to otherwise.

I had one of them in July...the ultrasound lady was an hour late and asked how I was when she finally got there...I told her!

Awesome!

Yay!!

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

OMG an hour late!?

yep, sure has, daddy always said the h--- was only half way full, keep driving like that and it would have one more(about people driving crazy)

Ha

Good morning, all.



If it's white, it's your enemy - no sugar zone.



I'll go 300 %



Pain lets him know that he is alive.



Went keto for about 3 months - lost too much weight - switched to low carb - maintaining still with reduced inflammation.



Nothing has been more difficult for me than quitting nicotine addiction. If and when I receive a terminal diagnosis, I will go back to chewing tobacco in a heartbeat - or lack thereof

My dad quit for a few years but then went back a few years ago

yes, my niece had it and at first it worked cause she stuck to the diet they put you on but if you can do the diet without the gastric, why not try that? the keto diet is one like that and you can lose weight real fast, i have

True

Another good diet is the Paleo diet.

I have heard of that one but some seem very stricy.

well, i was stupid and started when i was 17 smoked s long time but had to have a stent and thats the day i quit cold turkey, wasn't easy being around people who still smoked but i did it cause i didn't want to see the look on my husbands face again as the ambulance took me to the hospital its been going on 8 years and still want one when i smell the smoke

Oh wow! Good job on quitting

Trust me in that I understand on all counts. I can be around folks who drink with no craving (non drinking alcoholic here), but if someone pulls a bag of Redman or Levi Garret out of their hip pocket ----------- -------------- Princess made me promise, Princess made me promise, Princess made me promise ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

amen to the white
always told my husband he couldn't die and leave me, if he did, i would buy cigarettes and straight mt. dew and pig out til i killed myself and join him, in other words, he couldn't die to get away from me
my friend had to have triple bypass, she quit smoking, then she found out she had lung cancer and started smoking again, said it was too late to stop it so she might as well keep smoking and she did

Aw nom

yes but i found keto first and paleo has a little to many carbs for me, sends my blood sugar sky high

Gotta find what works.

most smokers can understand that, husband says they stink, not like the old cigarettes, when they were mostly pure tobacco, before they started putting so many chemicals in them
luckily i never started drinking, didn't like the taste (daddy was an alcoholic too) didn't even like beer and i did try to learn to like beer cause husband likes one every once in a great while(hot summers)

Yeah, my mom is too so I don't have drink. Had a few sips a few times to try it but it was gross anyway.

My dad quit smoking 2 years before he got lung cancer. He started smoking again after diagnosis. He probably had it starting already when he quit. He died at 51.

Sorry

my daddy quit smoking after smoking 50+ years, he had a relapse after 10 years, smoked for another 6 months and quit again but he never got cancer thank the good lord

That's good

Never liked the taste of beer etc. I wouldn't start just to fit in with others. I just drink my caffeine free diet Coke and they drink what they like. When I was young my friends were smoking and wanted me to come over and talk with them. I really liked being with them but, the smoke bothered my eyes and I'd get hoarse from breathing it in.

When I was little my father's lung collapsed and he was in the hospital. He was quite a chain smoker. Said many men started because in the army they were given all the cigs they wanted - free. Probably more servicemen died from the habit than under enemy fire.

Oh my father quit cold turkey. My brother in law was way beyond just chain smoking, I don't know when he found the time to actually eat. He had a minor heart attack(is there such a thing)- he quit cold turkey also.

My brother and I never started. My sister sorta did smoke to fit in with friends. But didn't last long. I never followed the herd I guess.

Yup, I don't care about fitting in.

Yes but it is somewhat labor intensive, you need to keep hilling up dirt around it as it grows.


Not in New England it isn't!


Broccoli is pretty easy, I buy the plants at the nursery. Had no luck planting seeds directly in the ground. Problem with it and other things is they are ALL ready at the same time so don't plant many unless you are going to freeze it or the family is willing to eat broccoli every day for a week You can cut the main head and then smaller side shoots will grow so you get a second, much smaller, crop later.


See above Yes, best to plant in the spring rather than waiting until after Memorial Day like we need to for things like peppers and tomatoes.

Thanks. May skip celery then. I think I will try broccoli.

Good morning all Finally caught up with everyone (I think)



You get a whole different view of a doctor when you hang out with them There are 2 doctors that like to come out to the golf course...can we say "it's time to restock the liquor cabinet"? Nice guys but wow, they can put it away...and afford it!





Kelsey, you're checking out the WY craigslist now? The Aussie is good looking but I have to agree with @Blooie on the mixed wolfhounds.



We grew celery at our little farm in FL. Very simple to grow, we just cut off the bottom of a bunch we got at the grocery store, and planted that bottom part in our greenhouse (not planted deep, just barely in the soil). It sent out roots and re-grew. Several times over. By the time we moved, we had 2 huge tubs full of celery.



Looking forward to seeing some pictures B! Come on Friday, Blooie needs to get home!!



Deb, I agree with the cooking statement 100%. @KDOGG331 When you eat out or even eat already prepared food from the grocery store, you've turned control of how your food was handled. You don't know for sure what was done to it. If you learn how to cook your own (and growing your own), you take control back and will have a much better idea of what you are actually taking in.

Deb




You were lucky not to get hurt worse. Apparently you have a whole squadron of guardian angels trying to keep up with you!

Well I sometimes just check random Craigslists and look at the animals. Wound up on Wyoming this time. But yes, the Aussie has such unique facial markings!! And it's okay, was mostly shared as a joke anyway since Blooie is into IWs.

That's impressive! Wow. May have to try some after all.

That's true. Definitely need to cook more. It's just so much effort. For me it's even more work cause I'm so slow it takes me wayyy longer than the average person to prepare or clean or whatever and then I'm really tired cause it's a few hour long process. So I rarely do. Breakfast is really easy though but dinner always takes hours

I grew celery one year- too much in fact. I even put boards around them like it(?) said to blanch the stalks. Looked real good but ma only took one. Don't remember what happened to the rest. Grew lots of veggies, none of which I wanted to eat. Well come to think of it I did eat all the sweetcorn - family didn't want it - really was good corn.

I love veggies but we have been only growing tomatoes and peppers.

Nothing like home grown sweet corn!

I must say homegrown or farm fresh corn is delicious. Normally don't like corn.

Along with that most prepared foods have a lot of things added to preserve them or make up for taking out something seen as less healthy. Remove fat? Add salt. etc


I think that is true, they must have to tag team so they don't burn out.


Are you traveling in Shrek? If so, have Ken attach a grab bar across the back of the cab and stand in the bed. Might be hard to breathe at 70 MPH though.


I don't use any pesticides or herbicides. Used to have bad cabbage moth/worm problems at the old house. Would pick little worms (actually caterpillars) off the broccoli every day after work. For some reason they are not bad here, I think it is because we have a lot of insect eating birds so the white moths with a black spot on their wings are rarely seen. They don't have the opportunity to lay eggs on the broccoli and cabbage.


And you MUST obey the princess!

Very true.

I agree though I've not had much luck growing it.

Never tried.

us either, just as its almost ready we get a bad wind storm and blows the stalks flat, we've tried replanting upright but never worked

I am sure if i grew it here the varmints would eat it!

Same here probably. Deer or rodents.

They are very good for you! I have always liked them but they are much better roasted. Asparagus and Broccoli too!

I should try them.

My Grandma smoked up to about 6 months before dying of copd. She did not understand her Dr. when told she had copd and still smoked for two years with it....Quit addictive!

Corn grows well here but takes up too much space for the yield.

Agreed!!

A good reason not to start smoking at all. Or to quit if you do smoke.

Yupp.

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!

Sounds like a good diet.

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.

My dad started around 13 too I think.

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.

Indeed we do!

Yup! Even is some don't admit it.

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

Good luck with it!

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

I'm sorry

It depends on your soil. Here we have bad soil with a lot of clay. It is not very fertile

True. Not sure what our soul is like but I can say this spot is very fertile lol

Like ours, but i keep adding manure and some sand.

I think I will add some compost.

I added some peat moss on top

 

[ShrekDawg]

Phew, finally all caught up I think. That took like 40 minutes and now my thumbs are sore

 

[N F C]

you didn't tell us, happy birthday, feel any older?

Nope, feel great!

 

[ShrekDawg]

no, not when you have the ground to plant, plants, at least not here, do not do as well in pots as they do in my garden.

I agree and think I will stick with ground planting. My peppers did better in pots though because of the slugs but everything else does better in ground.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Happy birthday Debby!!

 

[N F C]

Phew, finally all caught up I think. That took like 40 minutes and now my thumbs are sore

I think it took me 40 minutes to just read it

 

[N F C]

Happy birthday Debby!!

Thank you Kelsey!