Roger - How do I join this group? Apparently I cannot figure out how to do this, and apparently it makes it really hard to get back here without going back to the old NS discussion boards and clicking on one of the links that people posted on the old Shorties discussion board during the move to here. That was how I got here last night, and then when I logged out I logged back in and could not find you again. I want to be sure that I can get here again without going the long way around, in case the old NS discussion boards get taken down and not merely hidden. The people at NS did a very good job of hiding them, and even after finding them last night by accident, it took a lot of poking to figure out what I had done that got me to them and therefore back here.

Hi
The new part for the lawn mower arrived and it started, so I will be mowing Tomorrow Morning. Mixed Blessing there.
Briggs and Stratton Phone support was helpful once I waited out the Que.

Have a Good Evening
Roger

Hi All
It was a beautiful morning today, Humidity in the Comfortable range, maybe 48% and 66 degrees. You can be sure I walked today, Heck, I almost sweated too. Then I came home, Ate the 2nd half of My Morning Banana, Mowed the Lawn and then had Breakfast. 2.75 Miles + whatever exercise the mowing provided.

Then as I was in the basement pulling frozen from the freezer to bring up to the kitchen for the rest of today and the next four days menus I heard someone knocking on the front Door. I had forgotten it was meter reading day. I now have today's and the next four days menus created. Tomorrow I will have to tackle changing the Fill assembly for one of the toilets. Oh Well

Have a Great Day
Roger

Lynmar101 wrote: »

Hi all.

Glad you found us RedWolf! Our backgrounds are so very much alike and if not for my doctors I'd have moved to western North Carolina.

Hi E! How's the ankle?

Roger, I'm having trouble keeping up with things as it is and when you get three 50 -80 lb 2-3 year old dogs you'd be surprised what they can destroy.
Good luck with the mower.

Another thunderstorm today. This keeps up we'll get out of the drought.

Had the Bean Bolognese tonight. Not as good as the fagioli but will be reordering it for sure.

Have a good day.

Hi Lynmar
I thought that was a Lunch Entree? I am getting ready to have a Southwest Fiesta Melt. I need to use up all the ones they substituted with those in my Frozen Order. I think I had 13 of them come in. You would think the Computer would kick it out to call and check if 12 of the same item is an acceptable substitution.

I would not be surprised at all. I was almost licked to death at the start of my Block by two Golden Retrievers in the next block. talk about high energy Dogs. I think She said they were 2 and 10 years old.

Mixed Blessing, The Good is that the Mower runs, the Bad is that the Mower Runs and I had to Mow as it was getting out of hand

Have a Nice Day
Roger

eku0 wrote: »

Roger, glad you got your lawnmower part. Glad support was helpful.
Hi Lynmar, don't know how you can handle 3 dogs, so much work
I'm good. Healing well. Need to avoid the gym for another week or 2 and put off starting the RA treatments til after vacation.
Have a good night, everyone.

Hi Vix
I did waste $5 on a set of feeler guages that I had opened to use in the repair, Then The B&S part came with a Sheet of paper to use to set the air gap and I did not need the ones I bought.

Have a Day
Roger

I made it here today without having to go to the old NS discussion boards to get here. If I can replicate it next time, or find a faster repeatable way to get here, I will be able to show up regularly.

I got a scale finally, but rarely remember to weigh myself. When I do, the scale is always slightly higher than when I was weighing myself at the doctor's office still, but I think that the scale is just inaccurate by reading a few pounds higher than it should. It is a very inexpensive scale. Meanwhile my clothes are clearly loser than they were a few months ago so I doubt that I really gained any weight, let alone five pounds. But the simplest thing seems to be just to adjust my starting weight to be five pounds heavier and use what my new scale reads to keep track of my progress. I have gone from an XXL to an XL, so I must be doing something right. I do not care what the absolute number on my home scale is. I just care that I am making progress for real and not kidding myself. From my non-scale progress, I am confident that I really am headed in the right direction. I am feeling better too.

hey everyone.... finally feeling a bit better if still somewhat itchy. last four days of the steroids coming up now so hopefully things will continue to improve and i'll quit seeing new spots! shesh. stupid stuff is taking forever to go away but at least i've stopped looking like a burn victim.

hoping to get back on track fully tomorrow (sat). been extremely hard with all the annoyingness and just wanting to sleep to get away from the itchies lol

i know i've gained some, hopefully mostly water weight but it was a choice to deviate from plan so... back to the drawing board

hope everyone's doing well plan is to be around again lol fingers crossed

lots of huggs

~kel

eku0 wrote: »

Ha, interesting. They didn't have the Women's 1000 when I was on NS....guess there were a lot of us who didn't lose on 1200. It would surely help if I could have a man's metabolism for a couple of months!

Hi Vix
They do seem to do the womens and the mens plans differently. I'm not sure how well a 1000 calorie plan works with some of the entrees. The Meatloaf Sandwich Dinner is 290 Calories by itself. Add 4 servings of Mixed vegetables to the day and that is another 120 calories.

Glad You enjoyed Yourself
Roger

Lynmar101 wrote: »

Hi all

E, is that the wedding you were hoping to wear actual shoes when you go? If so I hope you can. Enjoy yourself! Remember ... no ankle twisting during the dancing.
When I first started NS they put me on 1000 because I couldn't exercise. I had problems with my blood sugar on it so they switched me to 1200, which worked out great for me.

Roger, thank you for the explanation.
I haven't been on the actual NS diet since I achieved my goal the end of last year. At that time I was on 1200 and had lost 30 lb. Now I more or less *try* to stick to the diet guidelines and haven't gone over goal weight since I achieved it.
Did you get the email about the free smoothies when you buy them? Buy one pack and get one free. I know you like them. Unfortunately they have too much sugar for me.

Have a good day.

Hi Lynmar
I did get the email. I am not going to avail myself of the offer however. I have been giving away the ones I had before they expire. I have a lot of dried fruit to use up too, before it expires. I have been using 99%+ fresh fruit as SCs.

Cheers
Roger

Hi, all!

Good to hear familiar voices again, and good to be back in touch.

eku0 wrote: »

Good morning!
Welcome back, RedWolf. Glad you found us. It's easier to find the threads if you join the group, then you just have to go to community and yours is at the top. I was a computer tech too, but in later years merged into management well before retirement, so most of my skills are gone, except for the innate ones! We have little red foxes here in MD that I like (I'm the old Vixen55/eek from NS). Sorry you've been going through a rough, stressful time. Hope you start feeling better and things ease up for you. As for the heat, I'm lucky enough to spend most of my time in air conditioning. We've been having lots of rain here, so thus far, it's an odd summer. I was 5'2 to begin with and have shrunk an inch or two. Try yoga if you can. I don't know if anything really helps, but it's probably best to follow the old axiom: diet and exercise.
Hugs to all.

t
Vixen, red foxes are some of the world's most gorgeous creatures, coats of extraordinary color and texture, unusually agile, nimble animals, one of the few animals that can successfully single track over long distances (one row of paw prints, left and right feet forming a straight single line. Try it yourself sometime on a line in a corridor or an empty parking lot. Almost like balancing on a tight rope.) Red foxes are nimble enough to single track for hours, most animals can barely manage a few steps if that. And foxes can manage to live close to man, eat his eggs and poultry, swipe food from his dogs and cats, and still stay out of trouble for long periods of time, and sometimes even unsuspected. Very observant, versatile, quick learners. Even when hunted by dog packs and humans on horseback, likely to escape to continue to enjoy life and raise young. Very admirable creatures. I have seen one around my house a few times back when I had poultry. I was much more likely to lose a few eggs to him or her than to lose poultry so I did not mind too much, and I lost more eggs to snakes than to the vixen or dog fox. Usually had plenty of eggs for me and my dogs. The fox usually came at night after I had already gathered eggs and brought most of my dogs into the house, and took the eggs that I could not find. I am a great believer in coexisting where possible.

Most of the stress was settling back into my house in North Carolina after being away at school in North Dakota for almost four years. So not that something bad was happening, just a lot to figure out. I moved back in early March but had made various preparations that got me through the first bit. (Three month supply of medicine where possible, that sort of thing.) Had to find a new doctor because my old one considered me a "new patient" and was not taking new patients, something I had not anticipated, and in a rural area not too many choices available. And with the Affordable Care Act and more people having medical insurance, a lot of doctors were at capacity. So that kept me busy. But I now am probably happily settled with a new primary care nurse practitioner (often better than an actual MD or OD for primary care and even for non-surgical specialties) and my necessary specialists. Big relief. Also found ways to shop for most of what I need online since I live 11 miles out of the nearest town of about 9000 people and I do not have a car, do not have a drivers license currently, and would have difficulty driving if I had a car and license due to disabilities, including a torn ACL and medial meniscus in my left knee on top of fairly bad arthritis. The bus service has improved significantly around here, but only allows you to carry what you can hold in your lap for what may be an hour bus ride, which means nothing heavy or bulky. So shopping on line for everything from dog food to toilet paper saves enormously on hassles, once I figured out who and where to order stuff from. That sort of thing. Stressful while dealing with it, but not really something bad happening. Just something that made me really glad that I was doing NutriSystem for more reasons than weight loss.

Because I am living in a rural part of an agricultural state, most of the year getting fruit and vegetables is easy and quality tends to be excellent. Surprisingly, North Dakota is also a major source of excellent fruits and vegetables. The ND season is short, but the soil is so rich it seems like you can see the plants growing right before your eyes. Raspberry and blackberry canes literally grow a few inches each day! I have lived in North Carolina over twenty years, and it feels like home now.

My house is air conditioned and better insulated than many NC houses, with two window unit ACs, but in moving stuff back here and getting settled, I managed to put stuff in front of one AC in March, thinking that I would get the stuff put away before summer and then I did not. So I have one small window AC and three ceiling fans to cool four rooms and a bathroom (590 sq ft) and we have had more days in the 90s for over a month than days that stayed cooler than that, so while the indoor heat is not killing, it is also not really comfortable in the afternoon and early evening. So now I am even less likely to get stuff put away until fall. Next year both ACs will be accessible and summer will be more comfortable.

So that is what has happened in my world while I have been missing in action. Slow progress, but progress is good even when slow.

eku0 wrote: »

Lynmar...weddings are always fun. Hope you're enjoying the weekend and it's not too hot.
Roger, it's really hard to keep to 1000 calories. I do most days, some I go a little over....it slows me down if I go over. However, if I was a furnace it would be considered very efficient, using less fuel.

Hi Vix
1000 calories a day would be a killer to keep to for me. Right now I am doing a 1800 calorie plan but working it to keep it to 1700 calories, more or less. If I were not doing all this walking I suspect I would be on the base mens plan of 1500 calories.

Congratulations on sticking to a 1000 calorie plan.
Roger

OldRedWolf wrote: »

Hi, all!

Good to hear familiar voices again, and good to be back in touch.

eku0 wrote: »

Good morning!
Welcome back, RedWolf. Glad you found us. It's easier to find the threads if you join the group, then you just have to go to community and yours is at the top. I was a computer tech too, but in later years merged into management well before retirement, so most of my skills are gone, except for the innate ones! We have little red foxes here in MD that I like (I'm the old Vixen55/eek from NS). Sorry you've been going through a rough, stressful time. Hope you start feeling better and things ease up for you. As for the heat, I'm lucky enough to spend most of my time in air conditioning. We've been having lots of rain here, so thus far, it's an odd summer. I was 5'2 to begin with and have shrunk an inch or two. Try yoga if you can. I don't know if anything really helps, but it's probably best to follow the old axiom: diet and exercise.
Hugs to all.

t
Vixen, red foxes are some of the world's most gorgeous creatures, coats of extraordinary color and texture, unusually agile, nimble animals, one of the few animals that can successfully single track over long distances (one row of paw prints, left and right feet forming a straight single line. Try it yourself sometime on a line in a corridor or an empty parking lot. Almost like balancing on a tight rope.) Red foxes are nimble enough to single track for hours, most animals can barely manage a few steps if that. And foxes can manage to live close to man, eat his eggs and poultry, swipe food from his dogs and cats, and still stay out of trouble for long periods of time, and sometimes even unsuspected. Very observant, versatile, quick learners. Even when hunted by dog packs and humans on horseback, likely to escape to continue to enjoy life and raise young. Very admirable creatures. I have seen one around my house a few times back when I had poultry. I was much more likely to lose a few eggs to him or her than to lose poultry so I did not mind too much, and I lost more eggs to snakes than to the vixen or dog fox. Usually had plenty of eggs for me and my dogs. The fox usually came at night after I had already gathered eggs and brought most of my dogs into the house, and took the eggs that I could not find. I am a great believer in coexisting where possible.

Most of the stress was settling back into my house in North Carolina after being away at school in North Dakota for almost four years. So not that something bad was happening, just a lot to figure out. I moved back in early March but had made various preparations that got me through the first bit. (Three month supply of medicine where possible, that sort of thing.) Had to find a new doctor because my old one considered me a "new patient" and was not taking new patients, something I had not anticipated, and in a rural area not too many choices available. And with the Affordable Care Act and more people having medical insurance, a lot of doctors were at capacity. So that kept me busy. But I now am probably happily settled with a new primary care nurse practitioner (often better than an actual MD or OD for primary care and even for non-surgical specialties) and my necessary specialists. Big relief. Also found ways to shop for most of what I need online since I live 11 miles out of the nearest town of about 9000 people and I do not have a car, do not have a drivers license currently, and would have difficulty driving if I had a car and license due to disabilities, including a torn ACL and medial meniscus in my left knee on top of fairly bad arthritis. The bus service has improved significantly around here, but only allows you to carry what you can hold in your lap for what may be an hour bus ride, which means nothing heavy or bulky. So shopping on line for everything from dog food to toilet paper saves enormously on hassles, once I figured out who and where to order stuff from. That sort of thing. Stressful while dealing with it, but not really something bad happening. Just something that made me really glad that I was doing NutriSystem for more reasons than weight loss.

Because I am living in a rural part of an agricultural state, most of the year getting fruit and vegetables is easy and quality tends to be excellent. Surprisingly, North Dakota is also a major source of excellent fruits and vegetables. The ND season is short, but the soil is so rich it seems like you can see the plants growing right before your eyes. Raspberry and blackberry canes literally grow a few inches each day! I have lived in North Carolina over twenty years, and it feels like home now.

My house is air conditioned and better insulated than many NC houses, with two window unit ACs, but in moving stuff back here and getting settled, I managed to put stuff in front of one AC in March, thinking that I would get the stuff put away before summer and then I did not. So I have one small window AC and three ceiling fans to cool four rooms and a bathroom (590 sq ft) and we have had more days in the 90s for over a month than days that stayed cooler than that, so while the indoor heat is not killing, it is also not really comfortable in the afternoon and early evening. So now I am even less likely to get stuff put away until fall. Next year both ACs will be accessible and summer will be more comfortable.

So that is what has happened in my world while I have been missing in action. Slow progress, but progress is good even when slow.

Hi
The ACA has been bad in many ways for many people. I gather in many areas despite people having coverage they can not find a doctor that will take them.

The News this morning said that in New York State 1/3 of the population is now on Medicaid due to the ACA.

1/3 ! Wow.
Cheers
Roger