Betsyjane

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Great stories!!!!! Sorry....addressed to ladies and gentlemen.

Last night, we went out to dinner. I ordered grilled chicken salad without dressing and ate 1/3 of it, slowly. Even better, I took the r4est home and will make 2 more meals out of it, so it's good for my budget. This morning, I drank water first think and then had some of the chicken salad for breakfast. I started thinking about lunch already, so I'm going to consciously find something to do when I finish this email, so I'll stop obsessing about food.

CHALLENGE FOR NOVEMBER BANDSTERS!!!!!!!! Everybody write one email here that says only everything you did right, small and big. Hesitating before taking that bite counts. Drinking water counts. Telling yourself something encouraging counts. ONE COMPLETE EMAIL ABUT GOOD STUFF< NO MATTER HOW TINY. We gotta get used to doing that anyway, and we're not naturally inclined to be positive about our eating, ladies. We've had too many failures...Let's teach ourselves to focus on good, at least some of the time.

Aw come on. We of all people know not to be judgmental based on appearances......

You know, as rotten as it was of my Mother to lie, it helps me remember that I'm the one who's in this, and whatever the world throws at me, I can't be thrown by it. Nobody has to be fair or kind or understand, although that's a perk, but I have to do my best no matter what, and no matter how many goofs I make, too. It's not what happens to me in life, it's what I do with what happens to me that counts. (Said on a good day.....)

I think the rapture is interesting. Even as a skeptic, I read the Left Behind books. They were great!

I think the fear is a good thing...helps us stay in line some. I figure, though that as incorrigible as we are, surely the band was designed to take a bit of abuse.....

I loved him as president, but I think what he did with Monica was horrid. He's married and he's the president, for pete's sake. I'd still vote for him again because I liked the job he did, but I coulda castrated him!

My favorite Christmas present was an iPod Shuffle!!!!!!! This tiny tiny clip holds 250 songs. I've put my favorite upbeat dance songs from all the different decades of my life on it, and I'm looking forward to clipping it on and dancing whenever I feel the urge to splurge on food. And I'm going to make that durned treadmill interesting!

I'm surrounded by avid born again folks in Houston, but we also have Joel Osteen, who is a good motivational speaker. Guess it all evens out.

Well, since I wrote that, I'm craving sugar,a nd never did before. My guess is I'm trying to get megacalories in and can't do it with hard to swallow foods. Bummer. gotta whip myself into shape here. I cook alot of chicken tenders and keep bags in the freezer and refrigerator. I also do alot of Jennie-O turkey-their hot sausage is really gooood. I also eat buffalo. I grill lots of veges. I'm pretty simple. On mushies, I really started enjoying Soups, but I've gotten rid of them and am trying to eat food I have to chew alot...and so here comes this new thing...sugar cravings! My body is trying so hard to gain weight!!!!! Life is a challenge.

How can you say you'll fail??? Look at your weight so far!!! Stop buying into those old tapes and look at the new REALITY! Repeat after me... I am not perfect, but I am losing weight! I am a person who loses weight. Yeah, should have been my call and not my mother's. Might be the last time I let her fix food for me. I figure it's her issue.... she panics when she can't feed people. It's what she does. She's thin...was a model...but eats almost all carbs and is diabetic, but she made it to 90 and still looks great!

Hey Cal... chances are you did nothing to your pouch. We've all been through it. Especially not having a fill so almost no restriction. You're normal, dear.

I'm trying to think of all of them as trying to be helpful. The only one I really blew it with was my mother. I did so well at Christmas dinner, and then my mother brought out this incredible lemon cake pudding that I adore. She said she made it just for me...sugar free and with only a tablespoon of flour for the whole batch. i ate it with gusto. Then she told me it really had sugar in it and she just didn't think it would hurt me on Christmas. I told her that was like shoving a bottle of liquor in an alcoholic's mouth. She said she'd never do something like that and how could I say that. Then she said she'd never feed me again. Then we let it pass and went on enjoying Christmas. Brutalized and duped by my own enabling 90 year old Mother! Oy vay! I was actually more annoyed with me than her...I've been going after lots of sweets...odd since I rarely did before. Not sure what that's about, but thanks for helpin' out, Ma!

Not so many of these quotes are coming out since the last election. But it's really scary that Iran sponsored a seminar on whether the holocaust ever happened. I will truly not be surprised if the end of the world DOES come, by nukes from Iran! Too bad we decided to be bullies instead of statesmen. We blew our chance for influence, and we blew our war budget on Iraq!

Let's see...2 standard poodles, 1 greyhound, 7 Golden Retrievers, 3 labs. Ages 5 months to 6 years. And they can teach us something about getting along. They've been wonderful! Active, but wonderful! The slower ones weigh more. The active ones weigh less. I'm going to the gym.....

More fun than eating, even! But it's been raining, and I have 14 mudballs in my house! Clean up is nonstop. Otherwise, we're having a ball. This is me: www.GoldenRetrieverCamp.com A great gig for this old retired person.....

Wow! and quit smoking too, eh? You're tough! go for it! I thought quitting smoking was the hardest thing I ever did in my life! Nerves will be tolerated and understood around here!

Welcome jme62! Looks like we might meet Monday Jan. 15! We'll be thinking about you today. Happy banding!

Doing it for the fun, and the $, but it's 14 dogs x $25 a day.

Here's what I know about me. I binge when I eat any carbs. I graze on crap when I am bored...or driving. And I'm just learning to enjoy that "just full" feeling, and how to look for it. Sometimes it just whispers and I have to be able to hear it. For me it's about being quieter with food...slower, gentler, listening for cues...being mindful. It's a lot to learn, and I don't expect to get it all immediately. Maybe I'm in denial, but I don't think I need therapy. But I might need Overeaters Anonymous. Seems more like an AA type support group would help.... or maybe a behavioral therpaist....

I felt great on Atkins, and did well, for awhile. I felt great on diet pills, and did great, for awhile. I can't eat carbs! I can't eat sugar! I can't eat sugar substitutes! I can't eat mayonnaise! I know they set me off binging. My feeling now is that there is no diet that works. For me, it's about whole food, raw food, unprocessed food, and lots and lots of variety and fun spices and herbs. Lots of veges, some protein, a few fruits. And a protein shake now and then.... Whenever I vary from that, I'm toast! So I can putz through a day pretty well, usually. BUT I have trouble in my car! Good grief! Seems like I'm on autopilot to junk food in the car! I guess I'll always be plugging holes in the dam. Did you ever play whack-a-mole? That's me and bad foods......

Brava! No one is more American than you, dear. You represent both our immigrant past and the native past. I represent our pure white bread past. By ancestry I'm English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish. I grew up in the white bread suburbs of Lake Forest and Shaker Heights, and my parents are Republicans who even defended President Nixon. My mother, who is still alive, alert, and 90 years old in 2 days, thinks George Bush should be impeached, and that he has sold this country to meet his own agenda. She fears for our future. The woman was born in 1916 and has never missed voting in any election she was entitled to vote in. I wouldn't call her a traitor either, George!

Dems... It's OK. this is such an amazing learning process.....We all have more questions as we go along. I will tell you I practically made myself sick in the waiting room waiting for THAT NEEDLE for my first fill, and the it was NOTHING! A tiny pin prick and then NO pain during that fishing around for the port. Now that I've had the first fill, I'm learning all sorts of new things and have a whole new list of questions. It's just part of the learning curve. Honest.