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Happy Birthday, a little late!!! Sounds like you're doing really well! I think letting all the other stuff go and focusing on yourself is really a great idea. Let your example speak for itself!!!

Last year, my brother tried to change his diet based on my success, but he has since let things slip. When he saw me on Thanksgiving, he said my continued weight loss made him wish he'd stuck with it...of course then he proceeded to fill his plate with all the fat-laden goodies. But you never know, he may decide to come back! I can only change myself, and be there to point the way for others if they are interested!

Keep up the great work!

All I got is this:

Happy Birthday!

You totally rock.

Anna I got a laugh out of your line, "I need to focus on my crap. So this week I will. It's all about me," from a couple of posts back. I can so relate.

And KirstyKay, wow look at you go with the weight loss! I can see why your brother feels wistful and wishes he'd stuck with it. Hope he can.

Selling Christmas trees sounds like a good way to get in the spirit of the season. And that wonderful evergreen smell................

kirstykay, thanks! It is about me for now. It's too easy to focus on others.

Nomikins, thank you. I'm trying to rock anyway.

Birdy, once again, while I know that SAD is addictive and that is some of the reason I am drawn to it I also know that I am stuffing feelings. Last night I did it with legal food..mostly. I ate breakfast and lunch like I posted then....2 br rice veg rolls, miso soup, hot choc w/soymilk, 2 med baked pot, 2 frozen fruit bars, lentil dip and baked chips (I made the dip ff). That's alot of food. Was I hungry every time I opened my mouth? No. I was definitely not dealing with feelings. This is embarrassing but it is what it is. So, I realized that I'm not feeling well and I'm tired. I've been dealing with stressful issues at work, home, and my wonderful Unitarian Universalist Church and though I'm grateful to have been able to deal, I need to find ways to rejuvenate w/o stuffing. So I'm at home on my couch and plan to read, rest, etc. I am already feeling better emotionally at least. It's like something in my stomach is settling (not all that food smarty) and I feel peaceful.

Not that I'm not enjoying my food. This morn I had oatmeal w/ No beef broth powder in it left over from Thanksgiving and some nut yeast. Dang, it's good. Makes me think I'd better go see what's in that broth. Probably MSG or something...

I'm glad you're focusing on taking care of yourself. When you're in a helping profession it can be so easy to focus on everyone else's needs and neglect your own -- and ultimately, if you don't take care of yourself, you won't be able to help anyone else.

toadfood, so true. If I don't take care of my health no one will. In fact, for the most part others will encourage me to get sicker. They will tell me to eat SAD and worry that I'm doing too much exercise. We know I'm not. In fact not too much lately. I currently have an ear infection I think as the left ear and side of my throat hurts. Wake up call to take care of myself because I've been a whiny sniveling sick person lately.

I am eating well, have cut down big on the caffeine and am not drinking much alcohol. Today I am back down to drinking just green tea.

Yesterday I did well with food, oatmeal, oats, potato, 1 fr fruit bar, veg soup. More of all of that planned today.

Ow, your poor ear. Are you going to the doctor? Your food sounds great. I hope you feel much better soon.

Toadfood, I am hoping it goes away. Hate going to the doc.

I am doing good food. Today has been: oats, apple, split pea soup with spinach, zucchini, and carrots, radishes, chard and spinach over lentils and wild/brown rice, and br rice veg sushi.

No exercise. I did good to clean the nasty out of the fridge and groc shop. I really really want to run but until I lose the pain on the left side of my head it's not happening.

Really, I just want the weekend.

Dang I feel good this morn. I haven't been perfect but pretty good this week and I feel so so much better! What idiot would prefer SAD to this way of feeling? oh yah, me... But not today folks. I love love love how I'm feeling. I've cut back the caffeine, only a little alcohol which is usually what I do, and have ate mostly on plan and I feel great! I would be soooostuuuupid to mess it up this weekend. So, I got my Friday night planned- ww lowfat vegan no soy pizza. Perhaps a beer or two w/ my buds. Lots of veggies and the rest will be MWL for the weekend. I plan to lose over the weekend! I WILL!!

Ear/ throat a bit better so I'm thinking some running this weekend. Looking forward so much to the weekend. Ahhhhh, the weekend.

Yay -- it's nice to hear you sounding happy and looking forward to good times.

Glad you're beginning to feel better! Your weekend plans sound great! Hope you have more time to rest and take care of yourself.
Peace

DUDE. You are totally channeling me. This is my thought process and just about exact plan as well. Cheers!

toadfood, kirstykay, and nomikins, hey! Nomikins, I know, huh?

So get this. It's hilarious! My body is giving me the finger! Yah, flipping me off when I eat bad! My bird finger on the right hand hurts when I eat something I'm not supposed to. Not sure yet what it is but it's either whole wheat, alcohol or oil. In the last 2 days I've had a little oil- less than a tsp yesterday (4gr), and prob about a tsp the day before when I ate out. I had whole wheat bread and a couple of glasses of wine. So I wake up with this finger hurting again in the middle joint. I think I have Rheumatoid Arthritis like my mother and grandmother. At some point I'll go find out but right now I'm just laughing my ass off at it. Life is so wonderfully humerous I gotta say. If you aren't laughing you aren't paying attention.

So I did my plan last night with the ww lowfat (2gr in a small individual size pizza and I ate 2)no cheese pizza, wine, and some no oil choc pudding with oats and nuts on top. Not too shabby for my Friday nights. No fried chicken, didn't even consider. (That Meet your Meat video has done it's job once again.) I'm thinking next Friday I can do better but I'm pleased. I don't feel the need to eat crap today. In fact, I enjoyed the heck out of my breakfast w/ wild rice, broth, lentils and lots of spinach w/ ms dash garlic and herb and nut yeast.

Feeling so content again this morn. Think I might run today. It's beautiful out. Plan to cook up some butternut squash, bean and cabbage soup and some kind of potato, sweet potato and vegetable curry. Life is good. I can't believe I sometimes think this isn't the good food. Dummy.

Hey Anna,
I hear ya on the thank-god-it's-the-weekend. What a week. I haven't been sick (glad you're feeling better) but it's sure been stressful. Tonight I get to go hear the incomparable Chick Corea and his band!

Tomorrow I'm making your delicious split pea/quinoa soup!

Have a good weekend!

Birdy, I don't remember my split pea and quinoa soup. I'll have to find it because I'm luving split pea soup these days.

Watching Sunday morn and an actress was talking about opening her fridge and knowing that things have worked out for her as it doesn't for many around the world. I think this periodically and feel grateful and spoiled and stupid for not embracing in a whole way this gift I have to be able to nourish my body. It struck me anew when she said it today.

Having a good weekend doing just that- nourishing my body. Hanging with my boy, cleaning house and cooking for the week. Trying to just be ok with what I'm doing and not obsess about all I won't get to. Ongoing battle for me.

Yesterday made a spicy southwest kinda bean, greens and butternut squash soup. Then made another spicy- curry garbanzo, potato, cabbage and carrot soup. It just kinda happened that way. It's good though I had to put a splash of soy milk in the curry because it was too spicy for me. The boy likes it. I will also make some calmer broccoli and brown rice though to have a break from the spice.

I'm going to exercise today. I will! I will!!!