Oregondaisy

I'm starting physical therapy today. I am excited. Now I can find out what I can do without hurting my back. I'm trying to do 5:2 but I don't like to cook and I don't know what to eat. I end up going out to eat and eating left overs. The main thing I am doing that is 5:2 related is not to graze at night. I know I should not eat any snacks past 9pm and not eat anything in the morning until I am really hungry, around11am.and then it's protein. I'm meeting several guys that I have been talking to online. I am excited about this one that is a retired teacher. He is polite, and upbeat, and doesn't know many people in Oregon. He's coming tomorrow and I'm hoping the weather will be nice so I can show him the beaches. I hope we like each other. I've met some others that I know I'll stay friends with. Again, nice guys, just not bf material. I don't want a guy that's my age that's broke. I meet a lot of those. Ok for friends, but nothing more. I met a guy at the bar last night that loves to dance. He's not bf material at all because he's a drunk but he buys his own drinks and I don't drink so I can dance with him and not worry about anything. I think we might go out and dance this weekend if he does not have to work. I talked to his ex gf's sister and she said he's sweet as pie and harmless, just a drunk. He's really cute with the most beautiful blue eyes. So life goes on. I'm trying not to eat crap, but as always, it's hard. Last night I ate a bunch of fries at the bar. I guess over the pond they call them chips.

You're right Kim. My problem is I don't want to cook for just me. So I end up drinking protein drinks that don't fill me up anymore, and then grazing. I do better eating out, and then I have food in boxes for another couple of meals.

I don't know if I am going to tell the current guy I am seeing, but I probably will eventually. I find it almost impossible not to eventually tell, because I eat so strangely. Guys do not like it when they take you out to dinner at a fancy restaurant and you're full after the salad comes. The main course is on the way and there is no way in hell there is room for it. I have to lose weight. That's all there is to it. I have way too many clothes I can't wear. I will be happy if I can take 10 off. 5:2 worked so well for me before, but I can't seem to do low calorie two days a week. I did it before, but life just gets in the way and I have no willpower. I see everyone else eating something I am not supposed to have, and it's really hard to watch everyone else eat.

I know he doesn't owe me an explanation but we still see each other from time to time. I would ask him if he's seeing anyone, and he said no, and I said well it's time to write your dating profile! Apparently, he started seeing her the weekend after we broke up. I don't know why he felt like he needed to keep it from me. I know how you feel Sarah. I can't exercise either and it's making me crazy. I want to go to the gym but I know I'll just be in so much pain afterwards. I saw my new surgeon and he gave me a big fat NO when I asked about pain pills.

How do you find it if there is no link.' I want to post about it so people will come in and chat, but I have to be able to tell them how to find the chat button.

How do you get to chat if there was no link to follow? I want to post about it but I'll need to know how people can find it.

I've never gotten email notifications. I get them up in the top right corner right next to log out. Where is the chat button? We should schedule a chat for this group! I'm trying really hard and did really well today with staying on track. I'm going to a dr. out of town tomorrow and I am going to meet this guy I have been talking to. I really like him but not THAT way. I think we will always be good friends though. He was here last weekend and never even tried to hold my hand or touch me in any way. I am not at all attracted to him,but I like him. I'm upset because Bill is spending the weekend with some woman in a cabin on a lake. I told him if he started seeing someone I wanted to know, not just drop it on me that he has a gf. I know it's irrational to be upset , but I can't help it. I do still love him even though I know we are incompatible.

Thank you Sarsar. I am worried about my son and DIL. Since they live 4 hours away, I can't really see what's going on. I don't know why I keep gaining weight. I am not eating junk and the scale is going up anyway. It's because I can't work out. It's so ridiculous that I have way more back pain and left leg pain than I did before surgery. Surgery was supposed to fix that. I am scared to eat anything. We can message alex about not getting notifications. I used to get the notifications up in the right hand corner next to the little envelope. Now I get them for other threads, but not this one. I have to click on my name and click on content I follow to find this group.

That's for sure! We are all in this together. It's getting to a point where i am afraid to get on the scale. My back surgery has made it impossible to work out as hard as I was. I am up 10 lbs and I am just hoping it stops there. I haven't been eating a bunch of junk and it's so depressing to see the scale moving upward anyway.

Alex is there any update on this? Last time I messaged you about it, you said you were working on getting chat back.

I love that song. I think they did a wonderful job with it.

I just make sure to wear 100% cotton briefs and I do wear a pany liner for the same reason. Jumping around can cause a little leakage. Walmart sells 100% cotton briefs in the 2-3x size in singles . They are on a hanger in my Walmart and they are ,97 a piece.

I agree Florinda. I don't like it that some of the forums are grouped with the other WLs and they can participate in threads. I think the whole idea is nuts. I am sure it's better for Alex and that's why it's done this way. We all need to message him and ask for the chat room back. It would be fun if some of us could live chat.

Hi everyonye! I'm just hanging in there. Trying to lose but giving into some junk food every day. I keep saying I'm going to get a fast in there on Monday but i never make it. I've met a few weirdos from POF and oK cupid but i'm talking to a really nice guy right now from ok cupid but he lives 2 hours away. My daughter in law had a miscarriage while they were here for my grandson's birthday party. It was pretty awful and my son should have been more supportive towards his wife. I tried to talk to him, but he's pretty closed up about feelings. My DIL was pretty upset. I wish I would meet someone that lives closer than 2 hours away. I want someone to do things with!

With all the talk about spelling around this thread, I can't help but wonder why there are so many people who do not have a built in spell checker in their web browser. If I spell a word wrong, it puts a red line under it. It's quite simple. When the red line shows up, I right click and get the correct spelling. Usually it's a word I know how to spell, but it's a typo . It's still easier to right click and have the computer correct it than to back space and respell the word correctly..

I tried to read that giant profile, but the print was so small I could hardly read it. I can't imagine a profile that long on any dating site. I've been online dating a long time now, and most profiles are brief and to the point, not book length. What sites do you recommend? I put in seniorpeoplemeet, ourtime, okcupid and pof.None of them ranked very high. I don't know of any others. I think match.com is more for younger people. I don't think seniors use it as much, but I could be wrong. I live in a rural area and that makes a huge difference.

How did I not know about this room? Please PM Alex if you want the chat room back. I've already pmed him and he said nobody was using it. He said he's looking at new software that will enable him to bring a chat room back, if we really want one. I really miss the chat room too. It has to be one where a lot of people can be in it. He had one for awhile where you could chat with one person if their green light was on. Where can you chat in yahoo?

I'm not really sure what you mean by the "memorable category" Is there a memorable category that I don't know about? He can make this topic a sticky.

Great news Coops! I wish I could drop a few lbs. It's driving me nuts not to be working out. My daughter had a good idea today. She told me to have my nurse practitioner prescribe physical therapy. Maybe a physical therapist can tell me what to do so I can exercise again. I right there with you Kim! At least you write your food down. I was never good at tracking. I can write down my meals but I forget about all the other cr@p I put in my mouth in between meals. I still do not understand how right now it's 7 lbs above goal can cause me to go up 3 pants sizes. This is because of not weight training. I've lost all my muscle.

It's really hard. Nothing changes in the world after we have surgery. There are still parties, holidays, friends who encourage us to eat and snack, stress, etc. It will never be easy. The one thing that saves me is I am never really hungry. If I can not listen to my head hunger, I can actually go though my day without eating very many calories. I can't do it for very long, like weeks at a time, because there is always that temptation out there in the world and I lose my willpower.

What is Justified about? Is it on Netflix? It sounds like a guy's type of show, but I have no idea what it's about at all. I am always looking for a good series.

What is MGB I know GB is gastric bypass. What is MGB?

Yeah, I know what you're saying. It would be great if she wanted to go for a walk with me. She just would not do it. I'm having trouble walking at all since my surgery. The surgery made the sciatic worse and now my left leg really hurts if I walk very much. I am very discouraged that when I tried working out at the gym, I was in pain for days.

Isn't that just Effexor? I could not take that stuff at all. It caused nausea, nervousness, excessive sweating and insomnia. I hope you do better on it than I did, Florinda. I can't seem to stay on track at all either and I am really freaking out that I am going to continue to gain. I can't exercise much at all, because even walking hurts. I get this shooting pain down my left leg that is so much worse than before surgery.

We are all in that boat Florinda. If I don't take my acid blocker before bed, I am a mess the next day. My surgeon switched it to before bed instead of early morning and that has helped. I am sure you will lose well if you stick to the mainly protein idea with green veggies , strict low carb.