How did I miss this post.... Winners: Red Haven Peach - Still my favorite peach so far Muscadine grapes (All of them) Blueberries (All of them) Violette de Bordeaux fig (Always delicious).. but it dies back to the ground each year.... Black mission fig (Always delicious) American plum (Magically delicious jelly) Yates apple Horse apple Loosers: Brambles - Bitter.... All of them (Black, Rasps, Boysens, etc..) 2013 is going to be their make or break year.... Sugar queen peach - Worthless rotten ball of bugs.... Dug it up. Esophaus Spitzenberg apple - Fireblight destroyed it. Still on the bubble: Rebecca's gold Pawpaw - 3 years old and 12" tall... It's going to go away next year if it doesn't kick into grow... Pakistan mulberry - This is going to be it's last year if they don't taste better.... Concord grapes - I think it's too hot. Don't get reliable ripening. Fuzzy kiwis - 3 years old and no flowers... Roadside dug up peach - Small, green, and very bitter/inedible fresh till it's fully 100% ripe... but bugs and rot don't bother it... Ripe flavor is getting better every year.... "Elberta" peach - I don't think it's actually an Elberta... No fruit this year. Methley Plum - Reliable, but I'm not real enamored on it's flavor... I classify this plum in the "A bird in the hand" category so to speak... Italian prune - Too hot in full sun. Transplanted to the shade and it seems to be recovering. 2013 is it's make it or break it year... LSU purple fig - tastes "Grassy" until LATE in the season, then it's barely on par with all the other marginal figs... I don't like it - except that the kids like eating fresh figs off the tree early - and this gives them some fruit.... Thanks

In my opinion, I think they are starving to death. Yes, the bedding is food for them, yada yada yada, but I think they need some food. Some coffee grounds and a piece of lettuce isn't going to cut it. If you don't eat much fruit or veggies, do you have any friends or family members that do? Any time I go to a family get together, I take home produce that is going bad in their frig (with their permission). If someone at work is eating a banana at lunch, I ask if I can have their banana peel. I explain that I compost, I don't go into the whole worm thing. Some grocery stores will give you produce that is going bad and they're going to throw away. Going to a picnic? Take a couple gallon ziploc bags and put the watermelon and cantaloupe rinds in it to take home, along with any leftover veggies from veggie trays. After Halloween, ask your neighbors if you can have their pumpkins when they're ready to throw them away. Cut them up and put them in your freezer for worm food. Worms LOVE pumpkin. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. I started out with one worm bin, and now have 6. Deanna

This is what my doctor told me once. When you reach a certain point, the risks of being that overweight far outweigh any benefit from losing weight slowly. A quick drop of a large amount of pounds (say half of what you want to lose total) is a good motivator. Then work on that last bit at a slower pace. When you have over 100 pounds to lose, dropping say 50 pounds quickly is better than staying almost 100 pounds overweight for a longer period of time. The hope is as well that as long as these people keep up the "new life style" they have a better chance of keeping off the weight and staying healthy. Having said that, I cannot watch that show because I find it degrading and exploitive. Even just the commercials showing people dreaming of pizza and ice cream. You know, some of us are overweight and DO NOT eat all that junk food or lie around waiting for somebody to bring us the remote. If they brought me into a room filled with doughnuts and sweet treats and potato chips and ice cream and told me I could eat anything I want, I would ask for a salad because I don't eat any of that stuff ROFL.

I think both Mark and Kelly have shown some real growth this season. I believe that Mark learned something when he went home and got to see himself the way others see him. If he's faking all the tears and softness, he deserves an Academy Award. As soon as Kelly weighed in this week and knocked him below the yellow line, he still yelled out a 'good job Kelly'. And trust me, I despised him earlier on. I don't like Roger at all and it doesn't seem like the other contestants or the host think much about him either. Maybe Dan idolized him but the maturity level on the ranch skyrocketed after Dan left and Roger didn't have anyone left buying and selling his fratboy/college football player malarkey. I think he's a bully but since he's always been a candidate to be the BL due to his size, he was given a soft edit. I think they need to reconsider what makes the BL the BL. By going just by percentage, it's unfair to those contestants who just don't have as much to lose as others. That's why I kind of like the gameplay aspect of it (which was way overdone this season) since that's the only chance some of the other contestants have but when it comes down to the final 3 or 4, there's an unfair playing field since the smaller players just can't lose the same percentage of weight and still be, well, alive and well.