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[non1953]

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Good Morning!

I think the thing I like best is that you can go anywhere and find a combination of foods that keep you on plan. Sometime you have to be creative but you learn...and I have discovered some food combinations I would have never thought of before!

Have a good Sunday- I am off to work!

non

[imagood1]

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another thing I've learned is that I don't have to plan a meal around meat and starches. I grew up in a family where meat & potatoes were the "norm".....as something "different" we might have rice...ooooooohhhh...big change!! LOL. 1 can of the veggie of the day was opened and 4 people shared that 1 can. It still irks my mom (I can see it in her body language) when i have more than 1 veggie at a meal and when I don't eat bread or other starches at every meal.

I'm still working on smaller protein portions....it's getting better but I still have to be guarded.

As far as nuts and seeds Nyna - when I buy a package of sunflower seeds or a can of almonds (that's the only things I eat) I put each serving in a snack size baggie - when I have them on my menu I take a baggie and that's all I can have. I actually have the almonds in 1/2 oz portions (14 nuts) because I have dentures and they are hard for me to eat and if I would eat a whole ounce of them I'd have sores on my gums for a couple days -- it's not worth it! I eat sunflower seeds in the afternoon usually for my snack but leave enough to put on my salad because I love them that way.

[blueberrylady]

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That's a good idea about bagging nuts in small portions, Carole, but for the time being, I'm staying away from them competely. I don't have dentures and I could eat half a gallon at one sitting if I didn't stop myself.

But I think a lot of my problem is a salt addiction because I crave it something awful most of the time. I drink all the water I can without aggravating my bladder problem and you would think that would cure a salt imbalance but I still want salty things. I drink around 50 ozs. a day. On days I don't eat hot dogs or lunchmeat, I crave cashews and peanut butter. I haven't had either in 2 weeks and am hoping I've broken past my cravings but we'll see.

How are you today?

[non1953]

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Good Wednesday!

Oh, that salt craving is a bad one- I get that , too. I have actually eaten a packet of salt at work! I really DO think it is a REAL deficiency- maybe someone can correct me- Your MIND can play games with you about sugar, starch, etc, but salt is something else....

Doing well-a little slip yesterday when I had some jello that was NOT sugar free

Today is a new day- still down 11.5 lbs! Need a good drop soon- it WILL happen- this is one of my setpoints- don't you hate them??!!

non

[Evansmom49]

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I crave salt over sugar as well. I use unrefined sea salt on almost everything - a little goes a long way! Plus, it doesn't mess with your blood pressure.

Suzanne

[imagood1]

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y'all can keep your salt - that doesn't bother me.....I always loved sweets...

I tried to ride my bike today but I'm having some stomach irregularities and can't stay on the bike seat ..... I'm in the bathroom too much! Nerves....this is the first time in a couple months I haven't ridden the full 25 miles....7-1/2 -- kind of defeating!
Maybe if my stomach settles down later I can try again.

The smaller portions thing is getting better. The only thing I really needed to work on was the size of my meat portions. I knew I was eating too many ounces at a sitting but kept on ..... I'm hoping with smaller portions my weight will start moving again!!

Hope everyone has a great day.

[blueberrylady]

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Non--Your salt cravings are worse than mine because I haven't gone so far as to eat a salt packet but I've come close! I will dump the salt out of the bottom of a can or bag and eat it! And it may well be a deficiency because we have used salt substitute for years, ever since my dh was diagnosed with high blood pressure. I think I'm going to go to WebMD and read up on it.

I too have been at one of those darn 'set points' for too long. When I was on Atkins the last time, I got down to this weight and couldn't get past it but then I didn't have the support of this board either and that makes a huge difference. Here's hoping we both have a 'whoosie' real soon!

Suzanne, I find that the sea salt doesn't help my craving for salt and I don't know why. I want the 'other' kind. It just doesn't taste the same to me. Does it work well for you? BTW, congrats on reaching your first mini goal!!!

[Evansmom49]

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Nyna - I use the coarse grind, kind of like the salt they put on the big twisty pretzels. Maybe it's just a mind over matter thing but it does the trick for me.

Thanks for the congrats - I've checked the scale every morning just to be sure it stuck!

[non1953]

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Good Morning! A rainy monring here in Ohio- but I'm smiling as I am down another pound! A little at a time.....

This will be my last day of work til Monday-I should get a bunch of exercise in the next few days!

non

[blueberrylady]

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It's been raining all day so far but tomorrow's supposed to be beautiful, here's hoping!

My dh has been trying to get rid of a weed in the blueberry fields so he went online last night and discovered that it's actually considered a highly desirable herb in other countries! So we had some in a cheese omelette this morning and it was good. I found all kinds of recipes for it online and I just pickled 2 quarts of it! It's called purslane. Anyone ever heard of it? It's a portulaca which is a type of flower that I've put in windowboxes for years but never knew it was edible. Anyway it's a new food for when the Veggie Challenge starts again, which I wish was every 3 months instead of every 6, but I guess it's a lot of work and that's why it's only semi-annual.

Is everyone ready for tomorrow's festivies? Actually we will have ours on Sunday with a combo cookout and birthday party for my dh's cousin who is also his best friend. They are more like brothers than cousins.

I hope you all have a super day!

[imagood1]

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I put up our flag decorations and stars in the trees yesterday -- this morning we put the flag out on the house so yes we're ready.

My nerves are shot -- I don't do fireworks well and unfortunately we live in a state where they are legal AND I think every house in the subdivision is shooting them off...oh well, this too shall pass.

Have a great holiday!

[blueberrylady]

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I have my flag flying and it always looks so nice out front on the wall!

The fireworks don't affect my nerves, it's just when the man over the hill puts them off all night and keeps us awake that bugs me! But I've always enjoyed the 4th and don't mind the noise too much. At least it's not going to rain!

I'm cooking some chicken thighs in the mircowave right now and the smell is making me so hungry that I'm almost tempted to eat something else while I'm waiting, but I won't. As I tell my grandkids, 'patience, child, patience'. Ahh, it just shut off so I'm off to eat lunch! I'm making mock potato salad for tomorrow with cauliflower out of our garden.

[imagood1]

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Woke up at 4:30 to thunder and lightening...it's 11:30 a.m. and the rain is still here. I heard on the weather a half hour ago that we're suppose to have up to 3 inches more by the end of the day.....I've already lost 1 Japanese Maple because of too much rain (and I thought it was way past where the water normally runs (thanks to our neighbors).....

Have a great 4th of July!!!

[blueberrylady]

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We had a beautiful fireworks display last night. The guy over the hill called and told us when he was starting and it only lasted for about 1/2 an hour which was nice. Usually he does it for hours. The dogs were terrified so I'm glad it didn't go on forever.

It's been cold here for the past few days. It was only 49° this morning but it's supposed to get hot later.

Well, I have to go prepare something to take to my mil's for lunch then get ready for the party here later on.

Have a nice day, everyone!

[imagood1]

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Nyna -- I normally don't mind the fireworks but they start in the morning with firecrackers and small rockets...by mid afternoon they are still going and around 6:00 to 7:00 you would think you were in the middle of a war zone -- it is deafening. Last night I went out for 10 minutes and counted fireworks being shot off by 11 different people (they were in different areas so I was counting where not the number of things going off) -- in that 10 minute timeframe I counted almost 50 things going off....and it went on until almost 2:30 this morning.

Our dog has not come out of the basement since Thursday when it all started, she is completely shell shocked over this. It's just too much this year.

I had another serving of my Faux-tato Salad and a cold Nathan's hot dog for lunch....yummie!!!

Talk to you later.