Some brand new stuff!

[MrsChesterDogg]

Just wanted to let all my pals here on the forum know that I'm still here and still on the Atkins way.
I just discovered something. I've had a spaghetti squash on my kitchen counter for, shall we say, quite a while. So, I decided to cook it for part of our dinner this evening. I cut it open and do you know what I found? I found that the seeds had sprouted and started to grow squash vines! I knew it had been there for a while but not THAT long. Geez! So if you have a spaghetti squash, better cook it right away. Don't want to have a garden growing on your kitchen counter....

[kaylasgram]

Re: Some brand new stuff!

LOL ~ That was totaly not what I was expecting you to say, but pretty cool & what a surprise for you!!!

Thanks for sharing your story & keep on keeping on along your Atkins Journey!!!

~Cindi~

[susan423]

Re: Some brand new stuff!

Wow! I've had speghetti squash on my counter for a long time and never had that happen. So are those the seeds that you can plant in your garden and grow squash?

[liv]

Re: Some brand new stuff!

Wow. I did not know that could happen even.
My MIL grows some nice spaghetti squash in her garden but not on her kitchen counter.
Glad you are hanging in there.

[mizski]

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That was a fun story! Those squashes seem to like to propagate where you don't want them to. Years ago I had one that was a bit too old & getting a couple of soft spots. Rather than making my trash heavy with it, I threw it over the fence into the woods out back. I figured the squirrels would eat it (heck they eat wood & metal so why not squash?) or it would rot and become part of the landscape.

The next year I noticed these "things" out in the woods. It was the squashes...lots of them. I was never able to harvest them though as my days of scaling a 6' chain link fence have long past. Now if I had planted them in the garden, they probably never would have grown.

[Sarina D]

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Great to hear you're still going strong, well done!!!
You can just put those little sprouts in the dirt and start harvesting your own person stash of spaghetti squash!

Sarina
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Heaviest weight - 403 lbs. (2007)
April 1, 2008 - 387 lbs. (This is when I initially started to lose weight…but was not on Atkins at this point)
Atkins start weight – 347 lbs. (July 19, 2008 – began Atkins)
1st major goal met -----100 lbs. lost as of Oct 2, 2008 - Hit 300 lbs. on this day – From April 1-08 when I initially begin to lose weight.
2nd major goal met - 151 lbs. lost as of Jan 13, 2009 - Hit 249 lbs. on this day.
3rd major goal met - Wed, May 13-09 - Reached losing 200 lbs. in just over a year and a couple of months.
4th major goal met – Reached “Onederland” June 6-09 – 198 lbs.
5th major goal met - My 1 yr. Atkins anniversary - Weighing 184 lbs. this day
Current weight – 183 lbs.
Goal weight - 150 – 160