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BIGGRAMMA

Hi all.....I know I have not been on much...but my great granddaughter is visiting and I have been enjoying her...She is going home tomorrow

Her daddy, my grandson, is living with me here in California...and she lives in Elko, Nevada......He does not have her very often.....suppose to get her the last 10 days of every other month....however he does not have the funds to go there all the time.....and gramma does not have the funds to send him there ....

He went in September...as a birthday gift from his dad.....and he went this month as a Christmas gift from his step mom.....

Hope everyone had a good week and will be having a wonderful weekend....:flowerforyou:

CALIECAT

Hi bigramma. Glad to see you. Glad to hear you having a nice visit with you great granddaughter.
How is you diet coming along?

I am still counting calories but spreading it out to 6 meals a day. So far it is satisfying me.

Have a nice day. Your friend Marie

BIGGRAMMA

Not really dieting...just maintaining...I am happy where I am for now....I am 50 pounds down from when I started my journey 2 years ago....:flowerforyou:

CALIECAT

Good morning everybody.

Bigramma, You have done a good job on maintaining you loss. Conrats. That is one of the hardest job, ever ended battle.

Jeffrey if you and your wife make your trip this weekend dto see your folks be careful.

Shar--with all the exercise you got in shoveling snow you ought to have a good weight loss for the blue team. I got a nice walk in yesterday in the nice warm sunshine. onna get up to 70 today and then Sunday another cold front Sunday nite.

Phoebe---My biggest supporter. We can do this.

Pat, been missing you. How are you doing?

Caralyn---Good morning Have a good day.

Alice my daughter is coming out today to help me on this computer.
I order a Country star design on the internet and I was unable to get it downloaded . So she is gonna help me get it on a floppy disk. So I can embroideery it on some towels for my other daughter who is gonna be moving in her new house. They have a gate
into the driveway which we call a Texas Star and she wnts some on towels for one of her bathroom. She said they want 40 bucks for a set at he stores.

Better get up and get my breaakfast and a cup of coffee.

See you guys later and Have a great day.---Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

Marie, your such an early bird! Do you go to sleep early? My aunt is like that. She has the most energy in the mornings. mine is at night. I havent tasted anything in two days. this could be an unofficial study-see if I eat less when my focus is Not on taste. it might be a new diet tool: nosepins-instead of clothespins-Ill be RICH! you can say you knew me when. or maybe not! have a happy sunday-oops I mean Saturday:-S

CALIECAT

Hi Phoebe

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Hope you get to feeling better, but not getting back to eating too much.
I am going to try to spread my meals out to 6 a day and still keep up with my caloie chart. That food chart is the grandest thing ever. It is gonna be in the 70 today so Sammie and I will have a little walk later. Alice was surpose to be out but she had to go in to work so she will be out tomorow.Did you get the E-mail from Gayla? Glad everthing went fine for Neil surgery.

Have a great day. Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

Hi Marie, yes I got that email. Gonna have to see my Dr. not improving. going back to sleep, talk to you tomorrow-if you arent too busy on superbowl Sunday!

CALIECAT

Good morning Phoebe. gosh I hope you are feeling better this morning. Jerry and I have been lucky this year so far. Usally we have one bad one a year.

Shar,,,, Do hope you are feeling better too. To much shoveling.!

Jeffrey---Hope you and your wife made it to see your folks. and that the weather is nice.

And good morning to Biggramma, Pat, and Caralyn.

And good morning to all our vistors this morning.

I am enjoying a nice cup of coffee before I hop in the shower and get dress. Will have a nice small bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. Alice will be out this morning and we will go out for lunch. Then i will cook Jerry some chicken and dumplings for supper. I will probale have a chicken salad. And then time for football. We are rooting for Arizonia. YEAH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY

MARIE

CALIECAT

Here is a pic of my grand-daughter's puppy, Prasley

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This is my dd family

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

That looks like an english spaniel-is it? who is in the photo? is it alice? did you get your star design? now that you mentioned them I am seeing stars everywhere! the big ones-texas stars! time to go

CALIECAT

no Phoebe this isn't Alice this is Kathy and her husband Ricky ,Mandy and Blaine Alice would not let me used her picture. Wait till she leaves.---Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

has she left yet? LOL!! that is funny, probably be what I would do too.
budda just jumped onto the keyboard, had to fix his typing errors..
waiting to get in touch with doctors office, phone number is busy, they must be swamped.
I want to try to get an appt with my primary care doctor instead of with the walk in clinic doctor.
two birds with one stone that way.
I'm feeling better, but not well, a good nights sleep did it I think.
see ya later

CALIECAT

Good morning Phoebe. Calie likes to get up and help me on the keyboards too. She somehow makes my post dissappear. Glad you are feeeling a little better It got a little cooler here last night but yesterday was wonderfull.

I fell off the wagon yesterday for the first time. We went out and had Mexican food and I got their special which was cheese esnchiladas. black bean soup and pinto beans and get this a fried hot fudge sundae. It was heaven. and then made chiocken and dumplings for jerry and had a nice side plate of it. But I am starting over again this morning

Hope this fine all you other guys just fine.

Marie

jeffrey71

Happy Monday Everyone!

We had a good visit with our mothers this weekend. Glad for that! Pretty quiet outside of that. I have a doctor's appt this week to see if I can get off of my BP medicine. Nothing much until this weekend for us. Weather has been quiet and it actually got to 41 here yesterday! It was a heat wave! Sounds like everyone is doing fine. You all take care!

Jeffrey

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

Yep pretty quiet here today, Marie, when do you go to your eye doctor again?
I got my meds and I feel better, not well, but well enough.
had a baked potato with Olivio and steamed vegetables, one breadstick.
It was good, hit the spot.. still not quite right in the stomach, food turns me queasy for a while after I eat.
We are going to get cold here, in the twentys, then cold- for us- 40 and low 50's.
Jeffrey, I know you will feel quite a sense of accomplishment if you can quit the bp medication. I would feel it too.
.just had to stop to fix Pudge's typing errors.. haha.. everyone wants their attention.
talk to you all tomorrow

CALIECAT

Phoebe----I don't go back to the eye docter for 2 more months. Right now I only have one appt with docters this month. YEAH! and she is going to do blood work again. I had a lean cusine t v dinner.

Jeffrey glad you and your wife had nice visit with the folks. I know they look forward to you two coming down. Do both of your mothers live in the same town?

Hello everybody!!!!! Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

here we are a beautiful sunny sky day, cold but lovely, what are we gonna do?
hmmm... go to the chiropractor
hmmm... laundry
.... refill meds.
what is wrong with this list?
There is no exercise on here.
I've been reading.
I've realized I am guilty of making room for a lot of things, but not physical activity.
I actually put other things in ahead of it, sort of a 'must do' before all other things kind of list.
That must stop. Whether I like it or not is no longer an issue, I must make it a most important part of my daily life.. a walk, a video, yardwork, whatever, must become what is foremost on my 'to do' list.
Jeffrey, I think I got this from you, and my reading, thanks!!
see ya later!

CALIECAT

Good morning all,

I have been busy with laundry.

I had a nice bowl of oatmeal for breakfast , for midmorning mini meal I had an apple and string cheese.:bigsmile: :bigsmile: I got my food chart all down for today and still running over on my carbs by about 6 . Gonna have to do some changes on it. I was so bad When Alice and I went out to eat . I got to get back on my regular food.:devil: :devil:

Gonna go to Walmart and pick up a few things in the drugs dept. so I wan have to do it when we go grocer shopping tomorrow. :huh:

As far as exercise , I have done one of the exercise chair and Jeffrey's limber up exercise

See you guys later

Get with it Phoebe!!!!!!!

CALIECAT

supper is over withh had 4 0z Roasted chicken and a bowl of okra and tomatoes. Have plenty left so i will make some gumbo tomorrow.

We had a beatiful day here and have promise of more to come.

Hello Lafla---- hope you find your way over here. got your mail just fine.

Did you all see in Woman World magazine about the Banana diet? Very interesting. You only have a Banana for breakfast and then you have your other 2 meals and a snack. .

See you buddies later----Marie

CALIECAT

Where have you all gone? Miss everybody.

We have a very nice day yesterday, nice and warm. today is more of the same. Got our onion bulbs yesterday and ready to get them in the ground. way to early to plant anything else.
I am at a standstill on my weight. I think I am maintaining a lot of fluid. I guess i need to increse my water pills. Will give the doc a call later. Was very active in the house yesterday. Plan on being outside more today. In that beatiful sunshine.

For breakfast I had a baanana., soup for lunch. with salad and crackerss, chicken gumbo and veggie tonight..

Have a Happy Day

Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

HI Marie, and anywho else.. does that banana thing really fit in with your diabetes? Just wondering.
I had an adventure with cats yesterday, think I will save it and email you and Gayla with it, maybe I've talked too much off topic here, and folks got disinterested.
I will mention this here and in the email..
I was at a new vet. yesterday.. a couple came in with a chow dog. She was very friendly, when they took her back to get her weight, her 'mom' told me about her dog's diet.
The vet first weighed her about a month ago at 130lbs.. he recommended she lose weight, and gave them the plan... a green bean diet!! She has eaten nothing but green beans for a month! For treats, he said to give her a large pickle!! Well, she was down to 95 pounds yesterday.. how about that?
I told them, I was going to Wal Mart on the way home, they sell large cans of green beans..for me!! :laugh: Now, nutritionally, greens beans are good stuff, along with a multi vitamin, it is doable, if we have the will power! I like green beans better than a lot of the lean cuisine style entrees.
The mom said her dog, Baby, Loves the greens beans, so she is happy, the said she has more energy now.
It is cold all day here, only up to 31, but the sun is out..it was still snowing tiny bits this morning, the cats liked it.
We had sausage biscuits this morning I ate a mini sausage and a biscuit.. these are mini biscuits, thin and about half the size of the grands biscuits. Got to see if they are in the foods diary thing.
getting busy this morning, cleaning floors, then cleaning scrapbooking area.
take care all, stay warm,

CALIECAT

Phoebe, That diet should fit in reaal good. ! whole banana has 27 carbs and that is my limit for breakfast . Well 30 carbs is. And the rest is just a regular low cal diet. I so have to keep up my carbs.
I get 30 for lunch and 45 carbs at night and a 20 carb snack. I am going to try it for a week. Oh I love green beans too. Got to look up a recipe for gumbo to used my left over okra and tomatos and chicken.. Maybe drop a few frozen shimp into it to.

I hope all the rtest of you are doing fine. Marie

jeffrey71

Hello All!

Sounds like everyone is doing well! Glad to see that! I have really cranked up my workouts and I am so sore today! Got the dr visit this evening. It should be a good one. Not much else to report on my end. Still trying to talk my wife into 2 kittens that I seen on line at a animal shelter. She is getting weaker! LOL If we get those that will be 4 and enough! Those of you that can get outside and enjoy the weather. It was 1 degree here this morning but we are supposed to be up to 50 on Saturday. Check in later!

Jeffrey

shar140

Hey all, sorry I haven't been around - I've been sick with a cold for a week now!! Some of the snow did melt here, but not all of it - and then we got a little more yesterday. It is really cold, too. So I haven't been able to exercise or even get out to walk the dog!

Also, I was laid off from my job last Friday (along with about 60 other people last week). So I have been busy applying to more jobs. If any of you know of anyone hiring mechanical engineers, let me know!!

I guess the stress of being sick and having no job do have some benefit - I was able to lose 2-3 pounds the past 2 weeks! :laugh:

Phoebe - my sister had a beagle that got up to 50 lb - he got put on a diet of half diet dog food and a can of either green beans or carrots on top (so he'd have to eat the veggies to get to the dog food! :laugh: ), and he was able to lose weight!

Hope all of you are doing well!

CALIECAT

Hi Shar---So sorry to hear you lost your job.
Maybe something will show up.Gald to see you back.
we need to put Sammy on that diet. Jerry my dh weight hime every Monday morning. He is up and down by 1 lb. He need to lose about 5 lbs.
Congrat on your weight loss. All that snow shoving.

Hey Jeffrey , now you really need 2 more cats. Oh that poor litter box.

Calie use the doggie dog. and when it is pretty she stays out a lot. And catches birds and bring them in for us to see. Jerry is about ready to take her to the shelter, But he won't.

Going to get out tomorrow and plant some onion sbulbs. We had a weak cold front come in last night and they got us down for a very nice weekend.

Have a good day. Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

hi all,
Shar, so sorry you got laid off.. so many are getting that nowadays. I don't know what a mechanical engineer does, but the other day, the president was speaking, and two ceos spoke before him.. IBM, and Honeywell.. one of them said the country is desperate for engineers. Hope that means you!! My sinus infection is still hanging on, but mending.. had to get antibiotics to move it along though. Several friends of ours have the same sinus stuff.. must be in the air.
Marie, enjoy your gumbo -sounds great. Saw some good recipes in Family Circle with lots of veggies, casseroles, etc.
Jeffrey, oh my two kittens, they are the most fun though.. I'm still trying to catch some.
goodnight everyone, got to do so searching on the net.

jeffrey71

Shar- I am very sorry that you got laid off. I know how that feels. Let me see what I can find in my data base to help. I have quite a few contacts around. But congrats on the weight loss! Find hope where you can.

I trust everyone else is doing great! I got taken off of all my meds but my BP and it was lowered. Doc thinks my issue with BP is genetic. I was adopted so I have no clue. Anyway my med cost has gone gone from $160 to $4! whoo hoo! I have to have some blood work done in 2 months to see if I can stay off the meds. Again it is genetic but nothing serious. Crestor is expensive and so was my lotrel. I have a total Cholresterol of 102! Anyway now I have to maintain! My past problem was my good Chl was too low.

Pj and Marie good hear from you both daily! Take care! Stretch!

Jeffrey

CALIECAT

Phoebe... Hi---- I get the family circle magazine. Need to go back thru it.
Gettin ou to plant some onion plants today. It was stil;l a little too cold to get out yesterday sbut warmer today.

Jeffrey---Yippie on getting your med bill down . that is just great. So proud of you. You have work hard for it. and it is paying off. CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :happy: :happy:

Shar--- Hang in there. hope you find something soon. I got laid off when I was 60. My job went to Mexico. I never did go back to work. My brother and I got into printing caps and t-shirts in my front room. And later on we rented a shop. I left it with him and he is still going strong with it. He is the same age as my son. He does embroidery, screen printing, Has a big place now with 3 0r 4 emplyees.

Hello dto all who may drop in

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Marie

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

Hi Marie, hope you got your onions in the ground.
Jeffrey, I am so proud of you! :flowerforyou: You have accomplished so much, and you are so upbeat, you are a real inspiration.. hey, do you look like richard simmons.. LOL.. That IS a joke!!
Getting off of all of those meds is so amazing.. saving money is a bonus for sure.

We went to the local office of the department of veterans services today. Jims sis called last night, wanted Jim to get right on it.. a friend of hers applied for his agent orange stuff and he told her it was going to be stopped.. well it isn't going to be stopped, but we are glad Jim is getting going with it.
Once we learn more about it, such as where he will need to go to see the doctor, etc.. we will see what other benefits he might be eligible for.. we have heard much about low cost prescriptions, but we hesitated, coz we didn't want to change doctors.. we will see.
It would be nice for Jim to get involved with some local veterans group, if he wanted to that is..

I ate a good lunch today, vegetables and baked chicken. They have such good food at this little restaurant.. a buffet, but not a mega buffet, salad bar with fruit and fresh raw vegetables., soup, and dessert. all with beverage for about 6.00.. can't beat that. I love the green beans there.. yes, don't laugh.. I ate them, and wondered if I could eat just them.. na.. I'd want a bite of cornbread.
Anyway, they had peach cobbler today, I got some for Jim, and then I went back and got just the peaches for me.. yum.. warm peaches are so good..
so dinner was potato soup, I had about a cup. but of course, the homemade biscuits are the part that gets me everytime.. I had one.. but I wanted two!!
so, another quiet night, that's ok, take care of yourselves.