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01-17-2011, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Momma_K
I hate this!!! WHY is it that you can be on here one day and never get another post for a week or so and then you have to go hunting for it!!?? It's not just this thread but several and it's not just me but other people too! I'm sure it has to be the ISP but how does one correct it!? ANyway...dadgumit! I've lost 10 lbs!!! I'm so excited I had to tell someone and then I remembered...The Board!!! I've been busy cleaning up and getting ready for a move and this has helped a lot. I love vegetables, chicken and fish...fruit is great but can get expensive at times. But oranges have been affordable here for a while. A Lemon toxic cleanse is good for the mornings in place of coffee. When I seen the weight going down I started walking on my tread mill and doing my buttrolls! Ok, I'm done...Just had to share this!
01-17-2011, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by irishrose
Momma_K, potatoes aren't a good enough visual for me. Think of 10 pounds of butter or worse yet, 10 pounds of lard.
Fibromyalgia and the many arthritises I've managed to pick up all do better with moderate exercise. Sometimes hard to do, but it works as long as you don't overdo it. My dogs are my lifesavers. I Can't refuse to go walking with a SIberian Husky/Shiba Inu and a Border Collie mix bouncing around inside the door.
Fibromyalgia and the many arthritises I've managed to pick up all do better with moderate exercise. Sometimes hard to do, but it works as long as you don't overdo it. My dogs are my lifesavers. I Can't refuse to go walking with a SIberian Husky/Shiba Inu and a Border Collie mix bouncing around inside the door.
01-17-2011, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by NannySandy
My cousin, John, 17 yr old son, James is missing. He went duck hunting with some friends yesterday morning and hasn't been seen since. They have been searching the huge pond and surrounding area he was hunting in. They are still searching this morning. We have no idea what the boys he was hunting had to say. James is such a good kid. He is a SR in high school this year, headed to UGA next year. He is an excellent baseball player. All on pins and needles praying for a MIRACLE!!!! Your prayers for him would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. Sandy
01-17-2011, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by trupeach1
Sandy our lives are in Gods hands there is nothing we could do to change what is planned for us. It is THY WILL BE DONE not our will be done.
01-17-2011, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by trupeach1
Missy are slugs in the turtle family??????
All the crap is packed and ready to go back to school with Jim. No temptations will be in the house........almost none...... I am just a mixing bowl and beater away from a cake...........lol
All the crap is packed and ready to go back to school with Jim. No temptations will be in the house........almost none...... I am just a mixing bowl and beater away from a cake...........lol
Missy
01-17-2011, 12:09 PM
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Jim left and it makes me so sad when he leaves. I have to keep busy to keep my mind off it. I pulled the sheets off his bed and they are now in the dryer. I always tell him to leav his room for me to clean it so I have something to do. However thsi time I have tons of my own cleaning to do since he moved the furniture for me.
I have done good diet wise today.
I had cottage cheese with crackers for breakfast. It was a late breakfast and I have not had lunch. It is almost 3 so I am going to have an early dinner then around 8 I will have lunch......did that make sense???????
I am not hungry so I am having chicken noodle soup for dinner with a blueberry corn muffin. Later I will have a salad with cheese,oranges, cranberries and raspberry dressing. It is the last of the chicken soup so tomorrow I will make a pot of either split pea or bean soup. It is very filling and since it breaks down slow you don't get as hungry that soon after eating it. I will also make whole grain bread. It is suppose to snow so it will be the perfect day to do it. I will make food for a few days so I don't have to think about what to eat it will be ready in the fridge. 3 bean salad to snack on, garden salad, chicken salad and soups. Back to my oatmeal for breakfast, no more ham and eggs or french toast now that Jim is gone. I think I will bake biscotti too I love them with afternoon tea. I will get back into the habit of afternoon tea. Jim was here 3 weeks now I have to get back into the swing of my diet.
I WILL LOSE 30-35lb so help me cupcakes.
I have done good diet wise today.
I had cottage cheese with crackers for breakfast. It was a late breakfast and I have not had lunch. It is almost 3 so I am going to have an early dinner then around 8 I will have lunch......did that make sense???????
I am not hungry so I am having chicken noodle soup for dinner with a blueberry corn muffin. Later I will have a salad with cheese,oranges, cranberries and raspberry dressing. It is the last of the chicken soup so tomorrow I will make a pot of either split pea or bean soup. It is very filling and since it breaks down slow you don't get as hungry that soon after eating it. I will also make whole grain bread. It is suppose to snow so it will be the perfect day to do it. I will make food for a few days so I don't have to think about what to eat it will be ready in the fridge. 3 bean salad to snack on, garden salad, chicken salad and soups. Back to my oatmeal for breakfast, no more ham and eggs or french toast now that Jim is gone. I think I will bake biscotti too I love them with afternoon tea. I will get back into the habit of afternoon tea. Jim was here 3 weeks now I have to get back into the swing of my diet.
I WILL LOSE 30-35lb so help me cupcakes.
01-17-2011, 12:15 PM
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Here are ten of the craziest diets/diet ideas EVER. (Tru asked me to post this since she doesn't know how.)
While history shows us that at one time more to love was indeed the mentality (think: the extremely voluptuous Venus of Willendorf, 30000-25000 BC), we, as a society have, over the years strayed from this thinking, especially during the month of January.
Sure, actresses like Christina Hendricks are helping, but then there's the all-new, pint-sized Jennifer Hudson, and of course we still have that Kate Moss concept of beauty lingering: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
And nothing feels quite as good as hewing to your New Year's resolution -- which is likely the same one 9 out of 10 Americans swore to their full-length mirror they'd see through this calendar year.
But, just for one full-fat moment, let's celebrate the insanity! Because we've all gone on at least one ill-advised diet in our times, and we swear on our non-skinny jeans, there are just some things humans shouldn't do to slim down. In fact, we compiled a top 10 list of the craziest diets of all time.
1. The Vinegar Diet
When: 1820's to early Victorian Era.
While a lot of women of this era simply starved themselves to achieve the en vogue "frailty" look of the time, others opted for this diet that was made popular by the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Along with a talent for wooing both women and men with his sweet-nothings, Byron also suffered from severe bulimia and anorexia. To keep his weight practically skeletal in appearance, along with a tea and raw egg mixture, he also consumed mass amounts of water and vinegar which would result in vomiting and diarrhea. Yum, kissing a poet who constantly smells like vinegar sounds like a blast!
2. The Chewing Diet
When: Edwardian Era
In 1903, San Francisco art dealer, Horace Fletcher put his Chewing Diet on the map when he dropped 40 pounds from literally over-chewing his food. The idea is to chew each bite of your food AT LEAST 32 times. After each bite is chewed to the smallest miniscule possible, one must then tilt their head back and allow those former full bites to "trickle" down their throat. However, should any part of the bite still be too large to swallow at that time, it is supposed to then be spit out – classy, right? Yes, you're at a restaurant, and you're filling your white linen napkin with half-chewed food particles. Don't be surprised when suddenly your invitations to dinner parties start getting conveniently lost in the mail if you go this route.
3. The Tapeworm Diet.
When: Turn of the century
Why chew your food only to spit it out, when you can infect your body with a parasite? Once upon a time tapeworms were sold in a pill form so they could wreck havoc on their host's body all in the name of being thin. Once the tapeworms firmly attach themselves to your insides they proceed to suck up all the nutrients from whatever food is being consumed, resulting in not only being able to eat more and more, but continually lose weight. While a decent size tapeworm can lead to a weight loss between one and two pounds a week, it can also create massive internal infections as well as cysts on the brain, eyes and spinal chord if it's allowed to grow out of control. The only way to stop the tapeworm is to take an anti-biotic and eventually pass the wormy li'l devil. However, due to its possible lethal effects, The Tapeworm Diet, or rather the selling of the vermin for such purposes, is now illegal in the United States.
4. The Cigarette Diet
When: 1920's
Long before anti-smoking campaigns started, consumers were introduced to cigarettes as not only a way to look cool, but to suppress your appetite. Yes, it's a fact that cigarettes will kill your desire to eat a lot, but in 1925, Lucky Strike's magazine ads actually read: "Pass me a Lucky – I pass up the sweets," and "Light a Lucky and you'll never miss sweets that make you fat." Lung cancer from cigarettes was apparently a way long off at this point, because not only were they used to stay slim, but pregnant women were inhaling them as if it were going out of style.
5. The Slimming Soap Diet
When: 1930's
If smoking and tapeworms aren't cutting it, just shower more; at least you're not going to kill yourself by being overly clean, and you might even get more friends. In the 1930's, women were jumping on the slimming soap rage and swearing by the ability to wash away their fat. If only it were that easy, none of us would leave our showers ever. With products like "Fat-O-NO," and "La-Mar Reducing Soap" women couldn't get enough. However, the soap, despite their labels, was basically hand soaps without any proven scientific results. And when you take into consideration all that washing that was going on, it's no wonder women's skin didn't start falling off, chunks left and right, from being so obscenely dry from all that soap and water.
6. The Drinking Man's Diet
When: 1960's
Liver and kidneys be damned! Robert Cameron's diet, and book of the same name, was released in 1964 – obviously to lovers of the sauce the world over. The Drinking Man's Diet focused on weight loss via carbohydrate control while consuming gin and vodka in surplus, as they are low-carb substitutes to so many other things you could be consuming. So the next time your boss is ticked off because you come back from your three martini lunch with your speech mildly slurred, just politely explain that you're on strict diet that requires you to drink alcohol at every meal; but no worries, because once you reach your goal weight, you'll kick your drunk lunch days to the curb.
7. The Sleeping Beauty Diet
When: 1960's
Sleeping Beauty slept for a hundred years, but didn't age a bit; seems a bit far-fetched. She was also able to able to sleep all that time, and no one mentioned her weight after the fact; one would think she would have woken up looking for a donut and not a prince to save her. Perhaps Walt Disney's animated version wasn't the inspiration for The Sleeping Beauty Diet, but it was made popular with Jacqueline Susann's 1966 book, "Valley of the Dolls." While the three female characters in the book were popping "dolls" of all sorts, it was the has-been, overweight actress Neely O'Hara who resorted to the diet under a doctor's supervision. Basically, she was drugged to the hilt and slept for a week. If you're asleep, you can't eat; but if you're a sleep, you can't do a lot of other things, too.
8. The Prolinn (or The Last Chance Diet)
When: 1970's.
When one thinks of miracle liquids, it usually doesn't consist of ground animal remains, the likes of horns, hides, hooves, tendons, bones as well as other delicious slaughterhouse treats; or maybe it does. With all these goodies thrown together with artificial flavoring, coloring and the necessary enzymes to breakdown the, er, ingredients, Dr. Roger Linn stood by this invention of his, claiming that all one needed to lose weight was to drink this, um, stuff. The thought of this alone should make someone not want to eat ever again, so that in itself sounds like a better way to Thin Town than drinking cow hooves. But, hey, to each his own.
9. Breatharian Diet (or Air and Sunlight Diet)
When: 1980's.
Eating food is just silly and a waste of time when you're a Breatharian. Just skip breakfast and go straight outside and inhale deeply – feel full yet? Perhaps, you need a bigger gulp, and a few more at lunch, too. Breatharians believe that when human beings find the "purest sense of harmony" in the world their bodies no longer need food, sleep or water. Yes, not even water. Not to be a judgmental, but Breatharians sound like they're probably a cranky lot. Think about how you feel at 3pm on a Tuesday when you've skipped lunch and haven't slept since Sunday; not pretty.
10. The Cotton Ball Diet
When: Now-ish, it's said
It has long been rumored that models have been consuming water-soaked tissues to keep their weight down: all the taste and none of the calories. Oh, wait; none of the taste, none of the calories, AND you feel full. Along the same vein is The Cotton Ball Diet – and cotton balls are high in fiber! Not the kind of fiber you should want in your body, but fiber of some sort nonetheless. Unfortunately, most restaurants don't have cotton balls on their menus, so this is the type of behavior you'll have to engage in at home. Ideally, in a closet or under your bed, because if you can eat an entire bag of cotton balls and still be able to look yourself in the mirror, that's just indicative of a whole other world of issues.
While history shows us that at one time more to love was indeed the mentality (think: the extremely voluptuous Venus of Willendorf, 30000-25000 BC), we, as a society have, over the years strayed from this thinking, especially during the month of January.
Sure, actresses like Christina Hendricks are helping, but then there's the all-new, pint-sized Jennifer Hudson, and of course we still have that Kate Moss concept of beauty lingering: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
And nothing feels quite as good as hewing to your New Year's resolution -- which is likely the same one 9 out of 10 Americans swore to their full-length mirror they'd see through this calendar year.
But, just for one full-fat moment, let's celebrate the insanity! Because we've all gone on at least one ill-advised diet in our times, and we swear on our non-skinny jeans, there are just some things humans shouldn't do to slim down. In fact, we compiled a top 10 list of the craziest diets of all time.
1. The Vinegar Diet
When: 1820's to early Victorian Era.
While a lot of women of this era simply starved themselves to achieve the en vogue "frailty" look of the time, others opted for this diet that was made popular by the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Along with a talent for wooing both women and men with his sweet-nothings, Byron also suffered from severe bulimia and anorexia. To keep his weight practically skeletal in appearance, along with a tea and raw egg mixture, he also consumed mass amounts of water and vinegar which would result in vomiting and diarrhea. Yum, kissing a poet who constantly smells like vinegar sounds like a blast!
2. The Chewing Diet
When: Edwardian Era
In 1903, San Francisco art dealer, Horace Fletcher put his Chewing Diet on the map when he dropped 40 pounds from literally over-chewing his food. The idea is to chew each bite of your food AT LEAST 32 times. After each bite is chewed to the smallest miniscule possible, one must then tilt their head back and allow those former full bites to "trickle" down their throat. However, should any part of the bite still be too large to swallow at that time, it is supposed to then be spit out – classy, right? Yes, you're at a restaurant, and you're filling your white linen napkin with half-chewed food particles. Don't be surprised when suddenly your invitations to dinner parties start getting conveniently lost in the mail if you go this route.
3. The Tapeworm Diet.
When: Turn of the century
Why chew your food only to spit it out, when you can infect your body with a parasite? Once upon a time tapeworms were sold in a pill form so they could wreck havoc on their host's body all in the name of being thin. Once the tapeworms firmly attach themselves to your insides they proceed to suck up all the nutrients from whatever food is being consumed, resulting in not only being able to eat more and more, but continually lose weight. While a decent size tapeworm can lead to a weight loss between one and two pounds a week, it can also create massive internal infections as well as cysts on the brain, eyes and spinal chord if it's allowed to grow out of control. The only way to stop the tapeworm is to take an anti-biotic and eventually pass the wormy li'l devil. However, due to its possible lethal effects, The Tapeworm Diet, or rather the selling of the vermin for such purposes, is now illegal in the United States.
4. The Cigarette Diet
When: 1920's
Long before anti-smoking campaigns started, consumers were introduced to cigarettes as not only a way to look cool, but to suppress your appetite. Yes, it's a fact that cigarettes will kill your desire to eat a lot, but in 1925, Lucky Strike's magazine ads actually read: "Pass me a Lucky – I pass up the sweets," and "Light a Lucky and you'll never miss sweets that make you fat." Lung cancer from cigarettes was apparently a way long off at this point, because not only were they used to stay slim, but pregnant women were inhaling them as if it were going out of style.
5. The Slimming Soap Diet
When: 1930's
If smoking and tapeworms aren't cutting it, just shower more; at least you're not going to kill yourself by being overly clean, and you might even get more friends. In the 1930's, women were jumping on the slimming soap rage and swearing by the ability to wash away their fat. If only it were that easy, none of us would leave our showers ever. With products like "Fat-O-NO," and "La-Mar Reducing Soap" women couldn't get enough. However, the soap, despite their labels, was basically hand soaps without any proven scientific results. And when you take into consideration all that washing that was going on, it's no wonder women's skin didn't start falling off, chunks left and right, from being so obscenely dry from all that soap and water.
6. The Drinking Man's Diet
When: 1960's
Liver and kidneys be damned! Robert Cameron's diet, and book of the same name, was released in 1964 – obviously to lovers of the sauce the world over. The Drinking Man's Diet focused on weight loss via carbohydrate control while consuming gin and vodka in surplus, as they are low-carb substitutes to so many other things you could be consuming. So the next time your boss is ticked off because you come back from your three martini lunch with your speech mildly slurred, just politely explain that you're on strict diet that requires you to drink alcohol at every meal; but no worries, because once you reach your goal weight, you'll kick your drunk lunch days to the curb.
7. The Sleeping Beauty Diet
When: 1960's
Sleeping Beauty slept for a hundred years, but didn't age a bit; seems a bit far-fetched. She was also able to able to sleep all that time, and no one mentioned her weight after the fact; one would think she would have woken up looking for a donut and not a prince to save her. Perhaps Walt Disney's animated version wasn't the inspiration for The Sleeping Beauty Diet, but it was made popular with Jacqueline Susann's 1966 book, "Valley of the Dolls." While the three female characters in the book were popping "dolls" of all sorts, it was the has-been, overweight actress Neely O'Hara who resorted to the diet under a doctor's supervision. Basically, she was drugged to the hilt and slept for a week. If you're asleep, you can't eat; but if you're a sleep, you can't do a lot of other things, too.
8. The Prolinn (or The Last Chance Diet)
When: 1970's.
When one thinks of miracle liquids, it usually doesn't consist of ground animal remains, the likes of horns, hides, hooves, tendons, bones as well as other delicious slaughterhouse treats; or maybe it does. With all these goodies thrown together with artificial flavoring, coloring and the necessary enzymes to breakdown the, er, ingredients, Dr. Roger Linn stood by this invention of his, claiming that all one needed to lose weight was to drink this, um, stuff. The thought of this alone should make someone not want to eat ever again, so that in itself sounds like a better way to Thin Town than drinking cow hooves. But, hey, to each his own.
9. Breatharian Diet (or Air and Sunlight Diet)
When: 1980's.
Eating food is just silly and a waste of time when you're a Breatharian. Just skip breakfast and go straight outside and inhale deeply – feel full yet? Perhaps, you need a bigger gulp, and a few more at lunch, too. Breatharians believe that when human beings find the "purest sense of harmony" in the world their bodies no longer need food, sleep or water. Yes, not even water. Not to be a judgmental, but Breatharians sound like they're probably a cranky lot. Think about how you feel at 3pm on a Tuesday when you've skipped lunch and haven't slept since Sunday; not pretty.
10. The Cotton Ball Diet
When: Now-ish, it's said
It has long been rumored that models have been consuming water-soaked tissues to keep their weight down: all the taste and none of the calories. Oh, wait; none of the taste, none of the calories, AND you feel full. Along the same vein is The Cotton Ball Diet – and cotton balls are high in fiber! Not the kind of fiber you should want in your body, but fiber of some sort nonetheless. Unfortunately, most restaurants don't have cotton balls on their menus, so this is the type of behavior you'll have to engage in at home. Ideally, in a closet or under your bed, because if you can eat an entire bag of cotton balls and still be able to look yourself in the mirror, that's just indicative of a whole other world of issues.
01-17-2011, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by trupeach1
Jim left and it makes me so sad when he leaves. I have to keep busy to keep my mind off it. I pulled the sheets off his bed and they are now in the dryer. I always tell him to leav his room for me to clean it so I have something to do. However thsi time I have tons of my own cleaning to do since he moved the furniture for me.
I have done good diet wise today.
I had cottage cheese with crackers for breakfast. It was a late breakfast and I have not had lunch. It is almost 3 so I am going to have an early dinner then around 8 I will have lunch......did that make sense???????
I am not hungry so I am having chicken noodle soup for dinner with a blueberry corn muffin. Later I will have a salad with cheese,oranges, cranberries and raspberry dressing. It is the last of the chicken soup so tomorrow I will make a pot of either split pea or bean soup. It is very filling and since it breaks down slow you don't get as hungry that soon after eating it. I will also make whole grain bread. It is suppose to snow so it will be the perfect day to do it. I will make food for a few days so I don't have to think about what to eat it will be ready in the fridge. 3 bean salad to snack on, garden salad, chicken salad and soups. Back to my oatmeal for breakfast, no more ham and eggs or french toast now that Jim is gone. I think I will bake biscotti too I love them with afternoon tea. I will get back into the habit of afternoon tea. Jim was here 3 weeks now I have to get back into the swing of my diet.
I WILL LOSE 30-35lb so help me cupcakes.
I have done good diet wise today.
I had cottage cheese with crackers for breakfast. It was a late breakfast and I have not had lunch. It is almost 3 so I am going to have an early dinner then around 8 I will have lunch......did that make sense???????
I am not hungry so I am having chicken noodle soup for dinner with a blueberry corn muffin. Later I will have a salad with cheese,oranges, cranberries and raspberry dressing. It is the last of the chicken soup so tomorrow I will make a pot of either split pea or bean soup. It is very filling and since it breaks down slow you don't get as hungry that soon after eating it. I will also make whole grain bread. It is suppose to snow so it will be the perfect day to do it. I will make food for a few days so I don't have to think about what to eat it will be ready in the fridge. 3 bean salad to snack on, garden salad, chicken salad and soups. Back to my oatmeal for breakfast, no more ham and eggs or french toast now that Jim is gone. I think I will bake biscotti too I love them with afternoon tea. I will get back into the habit of afternoon tea. Jim was here 3 weeks now I have to get back into the swing of my diet.
I WILL LOSE 30-35lb so help me cupcakes.
So glad you are getting back into your routine! That will help a lot.
Missy
01-17-2011, 12:52 PM
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Location: Trussville, Alabama
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http://www.walb.com/global/story.asp?s=13853180
This is a link to a story about my cousin's son, James, that is still missing. You can see "who" you've been praying for. The pond/lake is 1,700 acres, not 1,000 like we had initially been told. So, they have a lot of area to search. They are still searching 24 hrs/day, but have yet to find anything. Your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated. Hugs to all, Sandy
This is a link to a story about my cousin's son, James, that is still missing. You can see "who" you've been praying for. The pond/lake is 1,700 acres, not 1,000 like we had initially been told. So, they have a lot of area to search. They are still searching 24 hrs/day, but have yet to find anything. Your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated. Hugs to all, Sandy
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