The Old Folks Home

[trumpeting_angel]

Only because they are near the river, we have had a drought for pretty much the whole summer. Leaves keep falling off the trees, all shriveled up.

Oh, too bad. Our fall colors are in full swing and nothing is green but the evergreens and a few stragglers. It’s stunning! I wish the photos did it justice.

This picture is from two weeks ago.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Our fall isn’t quite in full swing yet but it finally looks like fall and the trees just kinda all of a sudden turned. It didn’t really look like fall for a while and then now the highway’s all colorful

 

[pennyJo1960]

penny who bit into that one muffin? It wasn't me.

Yup it was me was bit bigger than the paper so when flipped on it's side landed in my mouth also there was 8 BF had to have the smallest 4 went in the freezer 3 in cupboard for the next three days unless he snitches another

 

[ShrekDawg]

Making progress on the whole healthy eating and willpower thing. Sort of. Not very much but getting there.

Forgot to eat for a couple hours after I got home so was gonna just have a PB&J since it’s fast but decided to have tuna since we have tons of it currently and it’s just as fast if not faster.

Then I decided to only have one can instead of two like usual. One was more than enough.

And then I decided to just eat it straight out of the bowl and not make it a sandwich like I was planning. Put the bread back. Just had tuna. No bread or chips or crackers but or anything. Well, couple chips after to scoop up the extra tuna, but barely any. And did put mayo in it but tried at least.

But anyway, the real willpower thing comes in when a while after all that I decided I wanted a snack and wanted just a little bit of jelly. Was gonna make toast with jelly on it.

But I remembered we had frozen fruit and decided to be good and eat that instead with some honey.

We didn’t have any whipped cream and the cool whip was frozen (plus I hate it anyway) so just put honey on it instead which is probably better anyway. And only used a little bit of honey. Didn’t overdo it like usual.

I know it sounds stupid but I’m kinda proud because I really wanted something sweet and usually would have said ah screw it and just had the bread and the jelly. and earlier I did have a chocolate cupcake. but I controlled myself this time and ate the fruit instead of jelly. I don’t know if it is much healthier or less sugary but at least it is real fruit and real raw/local honey.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sorry, really gotta work on talking less

 

[trumpeting_angel]

I don’t know if it is much healthier or less sugary but at least it is real fruit and real raw/local honey.

It is healthier! Cut back slowly on the honey if you need to cut the sugar. I slowly stopped putting sugar on grapefruit years ago, and now I don’t like it with sugar! I eat almost all fruit with no sugar. Or honey. It actually tastes better to me. Sugar masks some of the flavor.

Good for you! Tuna is quite healthy! You will feel better and you will be proud enough of yourself to exercise!

 

[drumstick diva]

Kinda like I had to cut out as much salt as I could manage when I was pg. Afterwards everything seems to salty to me - so was a good thing.

 

[Alaskan]

Hey AL, how are you?

Eh.... I think good.... sometimes it is hard to tell.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Eh.... I think good.... sometimes it is hard to tell.

How are all the boys and the spouse?

 

[drumstick diva]

Al if you are feeling down, maybe we can cheer you up how's that?