Any 50 year old members out there?? Come on in and say hi

[Fancy1952]

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Well, good afternoon everyone! It's been a bit since I posted, been busy traveling the countryside

We were away Friday looking at places for our son to live in Waterloo (Ont.) when he goes back to school in the Fall. Found a really nice place, all inclusive, 10 min. bus ride from the university, so that's taken care of, yay!

We ate out at Swiss Chalet, ordering salads to go with our half chicken dinners, no roll thanks and drank water. So we felt pretty good about that.

Saturday we were away to our youngest daughter's fiancé's parents' farm!!!! (Did ya follow that, whew!?) Anyway, it was sort of a "family" dinner, so I took Linda's Spinach lasagna, cause I knew Phyllis (fiancé's mother) was making her own lasagna, and, that most wonderful pizza recipe with the cheese crust, cut into small pieces for snackies. I took both recipes with me, so I could leave them with Phyllis, and ended up bringing home one serving of Spinach lasagna! I didn't eat as well as I could have, trying a small 2"square of Phyllis's lasagna, and eating dessert, plus a wine cooler.
So, today we're right back to normal eating, watching the carbs and keeping it simple. In fact my stomach was a little upset much of today, possibly from the sugar and chocolate in the desserts. I certainly don't miss it, tho'. I think I had some, more to appease the hostess, than from any desire of my own. If I'd had time, I would have taken my own dessert, but it took us 2.5 hours to get there, so I was glad enough to get made what I did take.

I'm definitely not going to beat myself up over eating the dessert, because it's the first time I've "cheated" knowingly since I first began this WOE, so I'm actually proud of myself. And by the way, Carole, thanks for telling me about the rhutaga, I didn't realize that!

Anyway, today is gardening day, then back to work tomorrow. We're having stuffed peppers for supper, that I'd frozen, so we'll see how they are, partially defrosted, then baked for 30 min.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, thanks for listening to me!

Suzanne

[Fancy1952]

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Cool looking garden Carole! I won't send pics of mine for a while, lol. It's pretty sad, with just the peppers, and tomatoes, cukes and onions in it. Lots of room for beans, swiss chard, lettuce, zucchini and pumpkins though. Today, I was planting flowers, so maybe after supper I'll go out to the Vegie patch if the mosquitos aren't too bad

Suzanne

[wannabsmall]

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Hi Happy Sunday

Love reading your alls postings. I wish I had a garden, but it would probably all dry up. The heat has been horrible.

My husband cant do low carb either. He is type 1 and also shakes without carbs.
So far I am doing great. Tomorrow is my wi day and cant wait. One whole week on strict atkins 72. No cheats. exercise three miles walk away the pounds in the mornings. except on Sundays. I am thinking of doing some callanetics in the afternoon. Ive done them before and really enjoyed it but I get so bored with the same ole thing. Thats if my vcr isnt broke. Its in a vhs tape.lol. my walking one is dvd.

Ok I am done rambling now. Heres to a good rest to our Sunday.

[sallyseachange]

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Cool garden Carole!

[imagood1]

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we had a gully washer this morning -- actually 2 of them. All the water coming from the neighbors homes came into our yard and flooded it....the water was flowing like it was a river from one end to the other end of the yard.

the poor birds were looking for food when this was going on - mom feeds them everyday so they come every morning and expect it.

I just went and picked up a couple boards that were washed from the backyard to the front yard this morning -- brought them back and put them close to the fence and pegged them so they won't wash away again.

Time to go pick up my medicine and get a few groceries. Hope everyone is having a good day.

[wannabsmall]

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GOSH, So much rain ... still waiting on ours. It will wait till tomorrow so I wont be able to go to the lake. lol

[imagood1]

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I just heard the weather -- we had 4 inches of rain this morning....no wonder we've had flash flooding all over the place. We live in St. Charles County, MO. We drove past a community golf course this afternoon - the golf course was completely under water.

There is another 1 - 3 inches possible with wind and hail possible starting between 4:00 and 8:00 a.m. They said at the beginning of Spring we were in for a wet Spring and Summer....I was hoping they weren't meaning this type of "wet" but I guess they've been right.

Luckily we didn't have any water in our basement -- a couple houses down the street from us had water they were pumping out. I've had that when we lived in Iowa about 25 years ago -- it's not fun.

We live very high - we're 5 miles from the Missouri River but that river is at the bottom of a high cliff where we are. This is the first time in 5 years of being in Missouri that we've had this much water. When we lived at our old home in the Spring we would have water rushing from the house across the street into our backyard, but it went into the neighbors yard and made a "river effect" down the sub-division.

[non1953]

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Good Morning! I'm non and I am new as of yesterday- I am going to be 56 this year- amazing.

I hope to become part of your group and enjoy your friendships as we live this low carb life together.

Thanks!
non

(BTW- I am I Ohio and we are under tornado watches and warnings this morning...not a good thing)

[jimmie 48]

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Good Morning! I'm non and I am new as of yesterday- I am going to be 56 this year- amazing.

I hope to become part of your group and enjoy your friendships as we live this low carb life together.

Thanks!
non

(BTW- I am I Ohio and we are under tornado watches and warnings this morning...not a good thing)

are in northern ohio?

[imagood1]

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hi and welcome non - glad you stopped by and said hi. This is a nice little place to come and talk to others "our" age!!

we dodged the bullet today -- it was 104 at 1:30 and after a couple little showers it went down to 94. It is 9:30 and I just looked -- it's still 90 so it's going to be a long hot night again. Thank heavens for air conditioning!!

the carpets look wonderful since they've been cleaned. Tomorrow I am so lucky and get to scrub the kitchen floor and the bathrooms - oh joy - I just can't wait! (NOT!)

my exercise bike's odometer hit 1000 miles today ... I am so proud! Since the carpets are clean I rearranged the family room so I have my own little exercise area. I took the bike downstairs a couple weeks ago and last week I took the stepper down but everything looked willy nilly - now it really looks nice. I have my dumbbells and a chair, my fan -- my own "Carole's Gym"...lol

Have a great weekend!

[sallyseachange]

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Good Morning! I'm non and I am new as of yesterday- I am going to be 56 this year- amazing.

I hope to become part of your group and enjoy your friendships as we live this low carb life together.

Thanks!
non

(BTW- I am I Ohio and we are under tornado watches and warnings this morning...not a good thing)

Hello there! Welcome to the ADBB and our corner of it here.
I'm gonna be 56 this year too! (In November). 1953 was a good year!

[imagood1]

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I'm going to be 52 in November....believe me I never wanted to be "fat and 50" but I made it. Now I'm really wanting to be "Fit and 50"....

We made it through another day of bad storms....it's always so much fun when the real bad ones come at night, when you can't see whatt's out there. I finally got to bed at 3:00 a.m. because the storms were gone. Hubby was on call this morning so I was back up at 7:30 to get him up and downstairs by 8:00. I did lay back down for a llittle while but not long. It's clouding up again today - I heard yesterday on the weather there have been 100 tornado's reported in the midwest this month.....sheesh!

I decided last night I'm getting a recumbent bike to ride. The old oneI have has bruised my tailbone and it's very hard to sit anywhere, let alone on that bike seat. I already change the seat on the old bike - that didn't help.....I'm so use to riding 25 miles a day on it I need to keep it up, but the old bike has got to go. When I go above 18 miles an hour on it the chain slips so it needs to be replaced! It's also so loud that I had to take it back downstairs so I can shut the door and keep it from driving mom nuts.

The garden is really growing - I went out yesterday and thinned the turnips again....I'm not sure if I'll get any large enough to eat but it's fun watching them grow. The cucumber plants are about 2 feet long each now....can't wait to start eating some f them! Ihave 1 Roma tomato and 1 grape tomato plant - 6 other regular tomatoes which all have hundreds of blooms and tomatoes on them. The green beans are coming along real well - radishes are gone and we're going to leave the green onions alone so we'll have large onions later in the fall. Mom took enough lettuce out of the garden yesterday for a few lunches -- I was hoping to get enough for a couple times of wilted lettuce but Ii don't think that's going to happen - will have to buy some lettuce to do that!

Have a great day!

[non1953]

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Hi Everyone! I just got home from work and I am heading for bed- back to work tomorrow. I just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the welcome...and MY birthday is in November, too! 17th- a bunch of determined Scorpios!

Doing fine- 6 days down and feeling good! It is not so hard to drink the water when it is this hot and humid!

non

[imagood1]

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wow non -- my birthday is the 18th!! We'll have to celebrate when November gets here! Yep - determined is what I am! I've re-lost the 3 pounds I gained a couple weeks ago when I wasn't being real careful and wasn't charting my food. It's amazing how quickly it can get away from you!

Happy Father's Day to any dad's out there. We're taking Greg out to eat later today -- a little later in the day. Last night we had hamburgers/hot dogs on the grill and I had broccoli. It just amazes me how I love veggies now and really make my meals around them and not meat like I use to.

I don't know if it's the heat but my appetite is gone again. I use to eat 2 eggs every morning either in an omelet, soft boiled or scrambled....the past couple mornings I've only been eating 1 egg. We had cold shrimp and salads Friday for lunch - that tasted good! There is enough shrimp left for 1 person another meal so maybe tomorrow I'll have that. I got 4 more cans of shrimp at the store the other day - since it's hot I'll be eating more of that. The other thing that amazes me is that I still don't miss milk (I drank 3 or 4 glasses of whole milk a day for years) and I like cottage cheese now...LOL!!!

Have a great day.

[non1953]

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Hi! Well. Sunday is almost over- worked 6+ hours then came home and mowed grass for 2 hours-and ran out of gas just as it got dark! Now I am getting the rest of my water in, thinking I am hungry but just dehydrated. It was hot out there mowing!

I hope you all had a great day- I am glad to be feeling better and in a routine again. I do so much better when I don't have choices. I need to know what I am going to eat and it does not bother me to eat the same thing every day- but I do vary so my body doesn't get stuck.

Tomorrow will be the beginning of week 2 for me!!
non