I am nearly 52 and I cannot operate a food processor. I'm tech savoy too. Yet it won't work by putting it back together. I have determined if i want to use riced cauliflower it will have to be purchased pre-riced. Though chopping it manually does require manual effort which is good. Just the pain of standing that sucks. I'm still leaning toward manual chopping though.

Walmart didn't have frozen veggies which means I'll have to actually go into the store on Monday. This reminds me of a time I went to the grocery store with a friend much smaller than me and she complained of being cold in the refrigerated section. I laughed at her. Then I lost 40 pounds and got cold in the refrigerated section. I told her so she could laugh back.

Now i think it would be quite nice to be cold in the refrigerated section. I hate being cold, but i think i could do that once or twice a year.

Thanks Book. We can both get back on track today. I ate fine yesterday but didn't spend anytime posting. I'm in a better spot mentally. My problem didn't exactly get resolved but I have a new plan to deal with it in the future so only time will tell if it helps.

I left my phone in my mom's car on Monday though and the weather was shite last night so I couldn't go get it. I can't wait until spring.

I just found out that a friend of mine passed in November. I haven't talked to her since 2008. I had always put more into our friendship than she did so I let it go. Now I wonder if I missed the point. The friendship we offer is about what we offer. Not what we receive in return.

When I knew her she was morbidly obese and had health issues because of it. I'm not sure if she ever lost weight or not but it surely did irreversible damage. I don't know her exact age but she was in her early to mid 50s.

https://youtu.be/UrIiLvg58SY?si=Bg-a0WKQ4zBW1FVr

Thanks Book

It's freaking cold but I have my phone back. At least I won't have to go back outside until Monday morning. It will be cold then too

listening to the videos I found for the tranquility post has caused me to need a nap... I'm tooo OLD for naps.

I will repeat... you succeeded in keeping a limit!

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... it wasn't that big of a deal, but since it upset you, I apologized. Then you had to poke at it again. When I asked you what else you wanted me to say... the reply was 'i guess there is nothing else to say.'

so why did you have to poke at it again?

just venting because to say this out loud would only make an argument over what was already not even worth mentioning to begin with

ugh..

So the dishes need to be washed. I set up some Ed Sheeran so i can grove while I do them. Not even lifting anything, I reach for a dish and my arm just nopes out. Maybe it's because I've been stretching and that pulls muscles against the tumors but still irritating.

So the boyfriend got called into work so he didn't finish the dishes. I guess i can forgive

So if you don't do anything else, you should stretch. Being able to move is a blessing. A blessing that I don't have 100% of yet one I have taken for granted nonetheless.

So STRETCH and protect your ability to move.

Now the bumpy part. Me and the floor are not friends. In my current state (i have no idea if i can reverse this or not). If I try to get into the floor my legs will cramp and I will scream as if i am being murdered cause it feels that way.

So I have been stretching for around a week now. I started at my head for a few days and gradually worked down my body. It doesn't feel good because your muscles are pulling at each other in unbalanced ways. I haven't gotten to the part where it stops aching yet. I seem to remember that the ache will go away when it's fairly evened out.

But I tried to add the top of my thighs to the stretching routine today. This mimics getting into the floor. My right leg protested but I managed to get the stretch without it cramping after a couple of tries. However the muscles in the back of my thigh of the left leg thought they only have two positions... fully extended and fully contracted >.<

I know how that feels minus the exercise part... Sometimes our body just holds on to water and waste in ways that cause frustration. It's a damned situation either way... If you weigh yourself every day, then you will see the ups and downs and get flustered because you want the scale to go in the down direction only. But if you weigh yourself once a week, you worry about the progress that you might not be making. It's hard to trust the process.

We just have to soldier on!

The c on my keyboard was sticking. so I bought another keyboard to be delivered today.

I just figured out why the key was sticking and resolved it

I'm going to answer this three ways to cover all the bases. Due to the change in mfp there's not really a way to interact with people by being friends unless you message them directly. That is why I created this community. It's kind of the same thing, that you have to pass messages along. but at least here more than one person can see the progress you share.

1) Friends outside of mfp. Go to your home page. Click on FRIENDS in the dark blue line. Click on the blue ADD FRIENDS button on the right side of the screen. Fill out your name in the FIRST NAME, LAST NAME boxes and add their email to the large box. Then click on the blue INVITE FRIENDS button at the bottom.

2) Members of mfp to be added to your friends so that you can send them private messages. Click on the users name. Click on MYFITNESSPAL PROFILE next to their image icon on the right side of the screen. Click on the ADD FRIEND button.

3) To this community. From my home, Click on COMMUNITY. Then click on GROUPS. Under my groups click on SPEAK FRIEND AND ENTER. You can then copy the url and paste it into a message to the person you wish to invite.

hope this helps.