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Diet Pals - 10 to 17 May
Comments (33)Hi everyone! Great to see folk coming back. The Atkins is really popular in the UK too. It seems there are now a few of us at work slimming down and I can see results everywhere. I caved last night to about 1 cup of popcorn. Tonight is movie night and PIZZA HUT (I thought that was NEXT weekend!!!!) I'd better behave myself today. I know a slice of pizza is about 7 points (a whole meal)...so I will start with the salad bar (skipping the pasta portion). Going to get some flavoured water to sneak into the movie and skip the high priced coke. Might even bring a bag of sliced, crunchy NO CAL veggies (yep - good plan) - like celery, peppers and carrots. Going to drink lots of water BEFORE going out to fill myself a wee bit. Pizza Hut and I are squaring off today - I HAVE TO BEHAVE. For those of you stalling - that has been my weight loss for the last few months and still the same - 1/4 to 1/2 pound and then stay there. I know part is my body and part is my eating but I am eating better, losing slowly, changing shape and generally feeling better. Got home last night and my stepping machine was at the back door from my ebay purchase. Today is my Saturday morning stroll - library, grocery - with my wheelie shopping bag - NO BUSES - and then carry on to visit two very young friends (5 & 7) to get my hair and makeup done (lots of fun). Finally drag my wheelie cart back home to get ready to go out to P.H. and movie. Keep in mind my neighborhood is HILLY, I will be carting a large box of laundry soap and other things that are usually heavy and library books. Will be very interesting over the next month to see how I get on with that stepping machine. I need to change my physical routine to get my metabolism going again. Even the lightest setting is not easy and I can feel the muscles I forgot about. This will be great since we are back into windy, cold weather again. YEACH. Candy - glad to read your post - you are doing great! It's good to see the Atkins on here too as the results are encouraging. I am not much of a meat eater and prefer more fruits/veg. Keep us posted you are helping us think about choices. Teresa I have heard about the South Beach diet. It sounds similar to Atkins. Great choices there too. Do you feel better as well cutting down on the carbs? Looking forward to hearing more from you too! Yellowhair - never hurts to reassess your habits. We will have to maintain our successes after all of this, so looking at your routine and checking yourself is probably something we will all have to do. Planning empowers you towards making that goalpost. Last week was last week. You are still here, still making progress. If I showed you my graph of weight loss since xmas it goes down, up, sideways, down, up, up, up, down, across - basically all over but in the LONG HAUL slow loss and it is moving down. That's fine with me. I mentally started this thinking - at least 6-8 months before getting close and then another 6 months of making sure I have healthier habits without thinking about it. Overall I am targeting 18 months of 'taking better care of myself'. We deserve this. We have looked after our families all these years, it's time to look after ourselves. Best part is, our efforts seem to cascade around us and everyone else seems to pick up on better habits to. It is true/proven that the meals we serve our families are the meals that set things - they eat what is infront of them. Really, no offense to the guys, but I feel the fellas see us as their 'mom' when it comes to meals. If we put a balanced meal in front of them - they just eat it. Also, Kathy posted a very interested link on an earlier Diet Pals thread about spreading the food around on the plate instead of piling it, using flatter soup bowls instead of large deep bowls - mentally folk generally thought they were eating the same amounts when in reality they were eating less. Is this a strategy/tool we can use at parties or events out? Instead of piling up the plate from the buffet - flatten the food on your plate, spread it out - eat slower, put your fork down - chat with your pals, drink some water and by the time you finish your meal the food should be registering in your bloodstream and you should start to feel satisfied. Do your homework - today I searched on nutrition portion control - here's a link with good reading. Have a fabby day - I have to get moving! McPeg Here is a link that might be useful: Portion Control...See MoreA really nasty eBay snag
Comments (22)All's well that ends well. A bidder from Hong Kong and one from Indonesia were bidding against each other for the last 10 minutes of the auction, and in fact had been bidding all week. But in the last second (literally) the price jumped by a significant amount, and a new bidder won the auction. She has lots of feedback, all of it good. I'm happy. Whew! Of course, I haven't gotten paid yet. But I'm optimistic....See MoreO.T. Harry and Meghan
Comments (43)Thank, chase! You are correct about all of this. Diana was called "Princess DI" by the press. Her correct title was HRH the Princess of Wales. After the divorce, she became just Diana, Princess of Wales. She lost her HRH title which bothered her and her brother enormously. Camilla could be called HRH the Princess of Wales, but is not called such due to potential bad feelings in the public about her "replacing" Diana as Charles' wife. But in reality,, that is one of her titles. One is BORN a Princess. One does not become one with the title in front of their baptized name, through marriage. All this info is readily available on the internet - one need not be born into British aristocracy in order to know the proper titles. Why the press insists on remaining ignorant (and yes, I am including the British press!), is beyond me. And there constant talk about the Queen bypassing Charles and making William the next king is on the level of every single celebrity pregnancy having an "It's Twins" headline on the papers at the grocery store check-out. It is not Constitutionally possible for this to happen. Charles would have to abdicate which might well bring down the monarchy. Monarchs are ordained by God at birth, not by the popular press....See MoreAny Anglophiles out there?
Comments (57)My knowledge of Britain is NOT from reading books or watching TV, although I do both. I have visited there many, many times over the past 34 years, my daughter spent a year there in a girl's boarding school, my son spent his spring trimester of his boarding school senior year, doing an internship there at Lloyds. And, as I said, my late husband has many English relatives, with whom I stay in contact with. My knowledge is far from 2nd hand or from media. Obviously, we move in different circles when in Britain, but yours is not more "correct" than mine is. I am well aware that the world of Miss Marple and Mapp and Lucia was gone after WWII. Even though the class system is still alive and well in parts of Britain, there are now grandchildren of people who lived in the East End in squalor and may have even been Cockney, who are now buying houses in English villages that cost between 400,000-700,000 pounds. There appears to be only a very small republican movement in Britain today - most people are quite happy having a monarch and while some might like to see the Royal Family a bit smaller (when it comes to giving them allowances), they still want them to open their local schools, town halls, etc. As I said, my late husband's relatives have met all the Royal family many, many times. No, not at a garden party along with thousands of others, but at small, private social events in private homes. One has traveled with some on business trips to the US and other parts of the world, in his role as a company chairman. And two are very close friends - in one another's weddings, godparents to one another's children. So, you have your friends, and I have my friends and family, and clearly they are as different as we are on GW. That does not make you "right" and me a dreamer, longing for a lost Empire....See MoreAnglophilia
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