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Jump right in! Always room for one more. We'd love to hear your story! Lots of support and encouragement here! WELCOME!!

You think that's depressing!? LOL! Happens to us all the time. But then we ARE old enough for the Sr. discount! And how about when you go to buy "adult beverages" and they say, "you don't have to show your I.D." Why couldn't they just not ask for it instead of telling me they're not going to ask for it??? That just rubs it in! You're so old we don't need to bother looking at your I.D.! I want to go see "It's Complicated", too, but when we're down here we only like to go when the weather is bad... so we've only been to one movie since we came down in Oct!! Just can't go to a movie on a beautiful day like today... 72 degrees, sunshine!! Now I AM considering K-Mart... mostly because it's right nextdoor to Starbucks!! HaHa!! Really.. I want to go see what Christmas stuff they still have left. Probably 50-75% off now. You can fly in to Palm Springs. Or Ontario and rent a car. Our DD & SIL are coming down mid-Feb and flying in to San Diego. Last year they flew in to Vegas, but that's a few hours drive. Ontario is about 1 1/2 hr, San Diego maybe 1 1/2 - 2 hr drive. Can usually find a rental for about $50 or so a night...definitely under $100 here in this park. Or probably no more than $500 for a week. Monthly rent is in the $1500-1600 range depending on unit. Don't hold back like that... just let yourself GO!! Tell us how you REALLY feel!! LOL

You need to enter this photo in a contest! It's really a GREAT picture!! I think I'm tired of welcoming inthe New Year now! Another party at the neighbors' this afternoon. More wine, more meatballs, etc.!

Impressive! I looked at your blog and subscribed to updates. You are a "go-getter"!! Glad your recovery is going well enough to resume your exercising! I am wanting PS very badly! Not at goal, though!

Sweet!! GREAT picture!! Put a picture of Costa Rica on the front of your refrigerator!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! New year, new decade!! Exciting!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I have over indulged!! I think I drank most of a bottle of merlot all by myself because EArl was being very careful since we had to drive 5 miles down the road to get home!!!

How to Stay Young 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'. 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' 4. Enjoy the simple things. 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, and hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is. 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

How to Stay Young 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'. 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' 4. Enjoy the simple things. 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, and hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is. 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

How to Stay Young 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'. 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' 4. Enjoy the simple things. 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. 7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, and hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. 8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. 9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is. 10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Here's a really deep question! If you needed to buy some toothpicks and you were in Walmart, where would you look???

I don't know if I can bring myself to mix my wine w/crystal lite!! I'll just sip slowly. I tend to be a gulper!! That's not good! I was accused of being a lush with those margaritas the other night... but I pointed out that I was the FIRST to be served, so it was okay to be the first with an empty glass! Those BEER margaritas were TOO good! Stop telling my secrets!! LOL Strip Tease Dancer... better watch my wine tonight for sure lest I get carried away!! HAHAHAHA Yeah... watched it good yesterday and down 1.8 lb according to my Wii. So it would have been worse than it was if I'd had to weigh in yesterday! That was just back to exercise, my small omelet for BF, Healthy Choice chicken/rice soup for lunch and dinner... well, I passed on the blueberry mashed potatoes (LOL), but.. did have a small serving of instant mashed potatoes (made w/water and not milk, and a little margarine, and no blueberry pancake mix) because we were having this pretty dry pork loin slices out of the freezer that i think were cooked in WA!!! Which means it was a in the freezer a couple of months (!), and overcooked in the first place! So I said... heat it up in some FF mushroom soup with veggies and make a little bit of mashed taters. I wish he'd cook a little rice now and then. That'd be good too on those nights when we need a little bit of carbs. Anyway, it was back to exercise and eating normal yesterday and it made a difference. Today... lunch was Costco samples and we're skipping dinner since there will be finger foods at the party tonight. We had a light snack... a few little tiny cubes of cheese and a couple of small slices of pheasant sausage that Jacki gave us as we were leaving the other day.

Wow!! Didn't realize we have lurkers and visitors!! I better be careful.... this is the only place I share my really personal stuff!! For me... I think I've gotten a little cocky at my success so far and over-confident maybe, and a little complacent. I need to get back on track big time. I looked at my little TOPS log book today and saw that I have gone up & down for the past two months and have made no progress since the end of Oct. This has to change! I have to make time for riding the recumbent bike and not just do water aerobics. I was doing it a couple of times a week when we first got back down here and then I got busy with all this other stuff and I quit. It felt really good when I went with DGD over the Christmas weekend. And I rode for 30 minutes instead of my usual 15-20. I had a chance this morning between TOPS and water aerobics, but already had my swimsuit on and didn't wnat to ride in that. So I came back to the RV, read some more of the paper and got on LBT! Then I got in trouble with EArl because I was 2 minutes late to the pool! Yeah, have to watch the wine tonight!! AND tomorrow night!

Preach it, Sister!! Right on! Glad you got over the "blue funk"! You scared us there for a minute! We all are entitled to a relapse now and then! I find I am much more vulnerable to sweets than I was last year, even last month!! Too much stuff around this year. DIL had Cookies everywhere... funny, they didn't really tempt me too much because THEY did taste too sweet. The only ones I liked were the little what my Mom used to call "Mexican Wedding Cakes"... little round ones. She used to roll them in powdered sugar, but these weren't. And they weren't very sweet and had walnuts in them. I did have a few of those, but they disappeared quickly. What kept talking to me was the fudge! I didn't eat a ton of it though. She had them cut in little bite size pieces. But I probably had 2-3 a day while we were there! The bad stuff was mashed potatoes, stuffing, spaghetti one night. Oh... and the oreo cookie pie!! So, I guess my chocolate addiction hasn't gone away. I don't crave it if it's not around, but if it is... it's hard! Tonight... NYE party! Finger foods & probably not many sweets. I will just have to discipline myself! We're taking a crock pot of meatballs. Another party next door tomorrow night! HELP!! I will have to be STRONG!!

HEY!! KNOCK IT OFF!! Stop with those bad words.. fake, imposter, failure!! Pull yourself together! A minor setback... the holidays are killers! But we're going to get it back off! I was up a little over 1 lb today... so already lost 1 lb of my gain. So.... I'm 201.6 this morning.... same thing I weighed on Oct. 29!!! But... today is a new day and I'm going to get the rest of this weight OFF!! You will get those lbs off!! YOu work hard, you stay on task better than I do and better than most of us. You're going to be FINE!! Now stop that whining!! Ya hear???!! It's OKAY! You have that challenge to work on... forget the 5 lb under he wants... but you can get back to your 138 in not time. Today is a NEW DAY and tomorrow is a NEW YEAR and a NEW DECADE and we are all SO MUCH healthier than we were 3 yrs ago!!

Next 5 day forecast... daytime temps 70-73, nighttime temps 45-50... that's F. C'mon down!! Palm Springs is 10 miles away. Desert Hot Springs is sort of a "suburb". They refer to the little towns from Palm Springs down past Indio, Coachella... as "the desert cities" and they're kind of all in a row along interstate 10 for about 30 miles or so. Am I on track with that, Janet???

Grande (16 oz), SF, FF either caramel or hazelnut w/ an extra shot (that makes 3 because they put 2 in a 16 oz), 140 degrees. :biggrin::biggrin:

Yeah... knee replacement 8/25... a little over 4 months and I'm doing great! WOW!! Sounds like you are keeping very busy! That's very good! Boredom is one of MY biggest enemies and I'm sure I'm not alone! Congrats on the singing role!! Drop the Taco Bell thing, for sure!! LOL They WILL survive without your $$$. No, I'm not sure about Starbucks if I quit that!!! HAHAHA... SF, FF!! Whenever I can get it!

It's hard, but you're WORTH it!! BIG HUGS to you, girl! New year, new start... you're going to do it! We are ALWAYS here for you! So excited that you are back and ready to start again! We spend our winters in a very active adult community also. We do water aerobics every morning, and there's a well equipped exercise room I can use, not to mention lots of safe walking space, including out in the desert. It's GREAT to have such great opportunities for exercise, isn't it! Another thing I'm doing this winter is making changes in my daily routine so that I keep busy and don't just spend every afternoon/evening sitting in front of the TV and the computer. That has meant learning something new... taking beading classes, and contributing something to the community by volunteering in the activities office once a week. And i sing in the choir, so that means spending one afternoon at choir practice. Another thing I am doing since I have a new knee.. is take every opportunity I find to climb stairs.. up and down! Trying to strengthen my legs, and it gets me some more exercise. Every little bit of effort that we can make to improve ourselves body, mind and spirit, has an important impact! Keep up the good work and CONGRATS on your new resolve to make this work! You're off to a new GREAT start! Wow... yeah, you're in Florida!! I hope you can join these gals for their weekend getaway in Feb!!! That would be GREAT!! Unfortunately, I'm heading north for that weekend or I'd be there with bells on!!

Oh, my gosh! So sorry to hear about BIL's sis! That's terrible. Yeah, I think Earl is going to tackle this the right way this time! So far I'm impressed. Now, if I can make some progress getting him to quit the ciggies! LOL! That reminds me, my youngest sis bought herself one of those electric cigarette kits last week. She was so excited about it... 54 and smoked since about 14. She knows three people who were able to quit by using the electric cigarettes. So she started with a low dose nicotine cartridge and is planning to wean herself down to where she can switch to another flavor... She bought banana flavored cartridges for later. No smoke... just water vapor that looks like smoke, so you can smoke them anywhere! We saw them at the mall one day a few weeks ago.

BRAND NEW START, Judy! You can do it! Start journaling what you eat, ramp up the exercise and keep coming back here!!

I think I was comfortable enough to leave the house within days! Like maybe 2 days... but, about the jeans... do you have some nice comfortable sweats you could wear?? That's what I would do. You're probably going to be a little too swollen for jeans for at least a few days or a week maybe. What??? No details??? You're no fun!! LOL Glad you finally gave birth to that boulder! YIKES!

You're welcome here no matter what kind of band you have! WELCOME! You are in "Bandster Hell"!! LOL! It will pass! Just have to hang in there until you get a couple of fills and have some restriction. My doc told me 1/2 cup 6X a day. So, 2 oz per meal sure doesn't sound like much! That's pretty extreme, and especially only 3X a day! Don't see how you can get enough protein/calories with only that much! First I had to do 2 weeks of clear liquids, 2 weeks of "full" liquids, then 2 weeks of "mushies" before I could go on normal food. And on liquids, I could have protein drinks. My memory is not so good, but seems to me I had 8 oz protein drinks. I assume your "soft food" stage is similar to my "mushy" stage. I did mashed potatoes, FF refired beans with a little cheese, scrambled eggs, that sort of thing. Let me suggest one more thread for you to follow that might be helpful. There's a "mentors" thread called "I'm here to help" where you can get lots more input, encouragement and support. Keep in touch!

So far he's not getting insane. His usual BF-1 egg, 1 toast, 2 bacon (I think). Lunch was 1 35 cal bread and 45 cal hot dog and a lot of dill pickles. If he sticks to this pattern the weight will come off and he won't get grouchy.