I can't get my act together and I don't know why

Hanna60978

g!!  Way to go on the table!  This takes major self-discipline I know.  

I love this thread because it is comprised of cake, complaining about weight, and house mess.  I feel SO at home here! 

Althea I didn't get my Play-doh yet but I did get soaked in the rain - not on purpose.  But taking your advice I remembered I also loved donuts as a kid, so I am definitely swinging by the donut drive-thru once a week for a jelly-filled!  And a latte.  You are right!  Treats do make life better.  Oh, I need a donut and latte right about now.

Later girls, hanna

ps - I'm so jealous of people who get the Christmas decorations up early and put away early, or just even put away at some point before the next Christmas. 

Anonymous

Patrice:

i am pleased to report, i've been keeping my kitchen table exactly as it looks on page 11 of this thread.

LOL..loved it.  You know exactly what page you posted that pic.  SEE, you CAN remember Jack!

Shirley

wishiwere

My dear!  Just send me your addy and I'd be happy to share!   Nothing like being a glutten WITH someone else!  It's sad to sit here and enjoy them alone, you know what I mean?

Anonymous

I'm jealous of people who even put up Christmas decorations.  I'll ONLY do that if my kids and grandbabies come home.  And much less than before.  In fact, I want to get rid of a bunch of them!

Deb, I'm sending my cake to you so I won't eat anymore.  I just told my dh I was going to freeze it.  He said, you don't have to freeze it.  I do if I want to keep it away from my stomach OR I could send it to Alaska..don't think it'll make it....the icing would surely melt.  And, I've been too lazy to clean up so I could call some friends over who would be more than happy to eat some of it.

Of course we like to eat cake, cookies, foods that are bad for us.  Why?  Easy.  Because they are comfort foods.  Don't we like to be comfortable?  On second thought, why are these foods called comfort foods?  After I eat them I gain weight and am very uncomfortable.

Somebody's been lying to us.  It's a conspiracy to keep us fat.  Well, I just show them.  I'm not eating anymore comfort foods, NEVER AGAIN!

MissJoann

Being taken off HRT is ANOTHER one of my fears=my menopausal symptoms are horrendous! I have been on HRT for over 20 years and my yearly mamogram is tomorrow and I'm terrified it will show cancer (had a cancerous kidney removed last Nov. and went into a big black hell hole over it!) Was just starting to feel really good again when a dear friend was diagnosed with bc and then MY fears returned ten fold. I'm such a mess and not worth being around...talk about a pity pot.!

Hanna60978

You know what?  I just realized comfort foods were invented during the depression.  They were.  That is why they were invented - because they help with depression.  Dooh!

Shirley, I'm over here on g's thread to continue about the weird teenage girl next door.  I am not kidding, this girl actually does this stuff.  And I know her own mom is afraid of her because on the one time I talked to her before she went into her house and never came outside again, she told me so!  Well, I know the mom must be depressed. Maybe you could send her your cake.  She probably needs it more than us.   

And the conspiracy about fat is the worst in the diet company world. They show you pictures of meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, rigatoni and meatsauce, Boston creme pie (which I think of as more of a cake) and tell us we will lose weight on this stuff.  Yea, except the portions have been reduced to a tablespoon on a doll size plate!  Major deceit. 

So Shirley, if your dh's B-day cake is talking to you...saying, "Shirrrrley, come and eat meeee, I'm sooooooo goooood.." Just pick up your knife and slice the thing up and freeze it!!!!  That'll shut that cake up! 

wishiwere

 @ HannaB!

swimangel72

It helps my diet that my kitchen counters are covered with papers - there's absolutely NO room to start baking! Just to eat dinner, we have to shove all the papers to one side! Honeygirl your pictures are great - at least you can still SEE the flowers on your dining table and the color of your tablecloth!

Harley44

Honeygirl,

That pic looks like an after photo to me!!!

Wow!  All this talk about food, and I am gonna start to eat EVERYTHING in sight!!  I am feeling like I did, when I was on those steroids, when I was getting chemo!!

Harley

Anonymous

Wowzer! Who knew Hanna was a psychotic cake murderer??

Run!!! Run to Shirley's!!!!!

Miss S

honeygirl

Or you can run to Mels'! Love that pic Miss S.

OK , Shirley , you're not going to eat comfort food EVER again!?! Right , and I'm gonna grow a new nipple!lol I'm just jealous. I wish I could say that and mean it. Hey , tomorrow is the "proverbial" start my diet Monday , day. Maye I will this time. OK , left overs for dinner tonight , yeah!

Anonymous

Miss S, that picture is to funny!  It really tells a story.

So, honeygirl, you're starting your diet tomorrow?  And I'm going to grow a nipple on the missing boob!  LOL  I think we all should start on a diet whether we need to or not!  I think my dh's gonna cook tonight.  He found a very easy chicken recipe online.  Soooooo, I'm telling him HE can cook!

My diet and exercise program starts tomorrow too. 

wishiwere

Geepers! I need the exercise, but the diet for me is more I need to learn how to eat healthy.  I eat junk and forget to most times, so I've been having problems keeping my weight up.  While on chemo I made myself eat so I would get through it all heathy.  Now I'm back to not eating well.  Dh is on the road most days/nights, so it's just me and I don't eat at meal times, just when or if I get hungry.  So..... I guess my diet will be to actually eat at regular time and then actually eat good food, which is a hassle in itself.

The exercise?  Oh man!  I wish there were a way to count cleaning and gardening calories!  I hate 'formal' exercising!   Always ran the sprints rather than long distance in sports too!

Do we have to start tomorrow? 

wishiwere

Geepers! I need the exercise, but the diet for me is more I need to learn how to eat healthy.  I eat junk and forget to most times, so I've been having problems keeping my weight up.  While on chemo I made myself eat so I would get through it all heathy.  Now I'm back to not eating well.  Dh is on the road most days/nights, so it's just me and I don't eat at meal times, just when or if I get hungry.  So..... I guess my diet will be to actually eat at regular time and then actually eat good food, which is a hassle in itself.

The exercise?  Oh man!  I wish there were a way to count cleaning and gardening calories!  I hate 'formal' exercising!   Always ran the sprints rather than long distance in sports too!

Do we have to start tomorrow? 

Hanna60978

I say yes.  I want to be that cute little exercising tooth up there. 

I want to throw away my cakes and really try, for once in my life to try to get some kind of abs.  I REALLY want toned abs.  Even semi-visible abs.  Just not the flabs I now have.

I am going to keep that cake psycho picture in my mind the next time I see a cake Miss Shapen! 

My boobs are deranged at this point. That's just a fact.  Surgery is on the horizon so they will hopefully get into some kind of shape to wear with camis.  But my truly greatest desire is to have a beautiful stomach.  Flat enough that I could wear one of those exercise crop tops and latex exercise capris.  With a flat stomach, I might even get courage for a pierced belly button!!  But for that I would need toned abs - otherwise be laughed out of the piercing parlor.   I don't want my flat and weird hair anymore.  I heard getting highlights would plump it up and the chemicals don't touch your scalp.  I want to be better. I believe it all starts with Shirley's little exercising chicklet tooth up there --

I need willpower.    

Bren-2007

I have a brand new ab machine on my porch.  Does that count toward achieving great abs??

I'd kill to have my 40 year-old body back. I was HOT.

I just bought my jeans at Layne Bryant to compensate for the belly hanging down and over. It's really unusual looking. I had major surgery on my abdomen a couple years ago.  8 cm cyst on leftover ovary.  Well that incision is huge, runs from the pubes to belly button, north and south. A couple years ago I noticed that my belly likes to be pudgy in that area.  I asked my ob/gyn what I could do about it.  She suggested lipo.

At this point, I'd need my whole body sucked out. I'm only 52. I still have lots of HOT years left in me, but my blubber won't cooperate and go away!!

My surgeon quit weighing me!!  The last two times I've been there ... no scale for me.  I guess all it takes is a glance, scribble in the chart ... there's no hope for this one's belly flab.

I'm hungry now ... yogurt or chocolate???

honeygirl

OK ladies , I just threw out all the bad foods in my fridg. I am going to do this. I can do this. I want to do this. I know I will be a real bitch the next three days until I "detox". My o/h will just have to live with it. Tomorrow night chicken and a salad. This is my first goal , tomorrow day one. I can do this. I even cleaned off my treadmill that had turned into a drying rack for my delicates! OK , baby steps...

wishiwere , it is hard weather you are trying to lose or gain weight. Good luck to you. I hope you get those abs! And a piercing!

Shirley , you are so lucky your hubby cooks. My o/h doesn't do anything around the house. Hope the chicken was good.

BinVa , I wish they would stop weighing me in! It is so depressing watching the numbers go up. Good luck with your tummy bulge. Maybe lipo would do the trick.

OH gsg , glad to hear the kitchen table is still clear. Ok ladies have a good evening. Mel

Anonymous

Honeygirl and Hanna, don't know if I can speak to you again.  Here you go get healthy on us!  How dare you! LOL

I've got an ab lounger that I fully intended to use as did my dh.  Of course I know it takes changing my/our eathing habits as well as exercising.  My dh would not change that much, I'm afraid.  It's really much harder when you have someone else in the house that also eats and I don't mean a cat or a dog.  Anyway, I can't use the lounger.  I have a back problem and it hurts when I push on the foot thingy to "lounge" back.  Our kids laughed at us for buying it.  Why do you think they'd do that?  Not nice.  Dr. said not to use it if it makes my back hurt.  Said to do leg lifts to strengthen my back..I think it would also help the ole abs a bit.  Anyway, dh can't use it either.  He's had a neuro stimulator put up his spine, and he can't do anything repetitive.  So, here the ab lounger sits in a bedroom.  I do have a treadmill, and a beginner's yoga dvd, and a lymphadema tape..LOL..for self massage, and stairs I can't run up and down because my knees now hurt..think it's the AI or age?  It's got to be the AIs...not age..tell me it's not age!  My sweet granddaughter asked me about a year ago when she was four yo, Mimi, are you old?  THAT SUCKS!  I answered, Yes, Mimi's old.  My daughter said, Hannah, don't ask questions like that.  I said, Why not.  I always thought my grandmother was old.  Damn, kids are honest.

Here's the pic of the little stinker and the other stinker, grandson.  This was at their house.  I know, this is a bitch and moan thread, and it should go on the other thread with pics.  But, believe me, after we get back from Grant's b'day party in a couple of weeks and after spending a weekend with them I'll be bitching, moaning, groaning and sleeping!  I received this via email from dd.

 

 

gsg

Shirley:  Count me in on starting a new diet exercise regimen today!  I ate out last night and did have a steak and baked potato, but didn't add butter and no dessert.  (Of course, I came home and ate a bunch of potato chips.)  Two of the people got martinis with 3 olives on little swords and I thought of Hanna.

Hanna:  Your posts ALWAYS make me laugh.  I'm so glad you joined this board.  If I ever get a belly button ring, it'll be for the sole purpose of putting a hook in it and holding my bra up. 

BinVA:  I'm 52 as well and have shopped at Layne Bryant since chemo.  I'm still hot, but it's hot flash hot....not the good hot.  Welcome to my new normal.

WishIWere:  I can't even relate to having to *make* yourself eat.  Wish you could send some of that my way. 

Honeygirl:  It's a very good start throwing out all the bad stuff.  One of my big problems is my husband...when I throw out the bad stuff, he always brings a new load in.  He sabotages me. 

Swimangel:  Until my kitchen table got cleared, we were forced to eat dinner in our bedroom.  

MissJoann:  Good luck on your mammo today!  We here all know the anxiety you are feeling.

Harley:  I've often wondered why my steroid-induced appetite never really subsided.  It's like it reset something in me so I'm hungry all the time...or at least I think I am. 

Harley44

gsg:

I know... I am hungry all the time, but I can't seem to find the food that will satisfy my hunger, so I nibble all day long!  I only know ONE thing, it's gotta STOP!!

MissJoan:

Good Luck on your mammo today!  I'll be thinking of you, and praying for an "all clear"!

Harley

swimangel72

BinVA - I too used to be a hot mamma back in my 40's......never had a fat tummy, not even after 3 c-sections. But alas, when I hit 49 and menopause struck, it was all down-hill from there and my stomach started hanging down! So I thought the tummy-tuck part of the Diep surgery would be an added bonus - well, it still doesn't feel that way now - because of my stupid open incision - but also, I STILL have love handles on the sides and on my back. No doubt I still have fat BETWEEN my internal organs too! So no amount of lipo or plastic surgery will get rid of that - just good 'ol fashioned dieting. I need to return to my Saturday morning Weight-Watcher meetings, but somehow, I'm NEVER successful at WW until I can start exercising (which for me is swimming a mile.) So.....Catch '22.......at least until my incision heals. Fortunately I'm not a big cake and ice-cream person - Cookies are my downfall and so I try to keep them out of my house - which was working until all my friends sent over "get-well" baskets full of goodies - I gained back the 10 pounds I lost in the hospital, sigh, but I'm trying to watch the scale.

Anonymous

Patrice,

I don't want to be rude, but I'm a little confused. You're gonna put a hook in your belly button ring to hold your bra up? You must have some seriously low hanging chi chis if your belly button is above them. Not that there's anything wrong with that.... I mean, I have to be careful when I'm wheeling around in my computer chair or I'll run over mine!

I'm just saying.....

Miss S

gsg

Miss S: 

There's a good reason why I can no longer wear bermuda shorts.  I figure by the time I get around to putting the belly button ring in, its only useful purpose will be to hold the bra up.  What's that song we used to sing as kids, "Do your boobs hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow?  Can you throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier?  Do your boobs hang low?"

I'm getting this visual of you running over yours with your chair.  LMAO!  That's pretty much the equivalent of giving yourself a mammogram without the pictures.

yellowrose

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wishiwere

GSG, Miss S, Harley and all!  Thank you for the chuckles this morning!

Do you boobs hang low! Heck, I have no idea where mine is hanging!  In some jar in a science project no doubt! I just wish they'd quit poking it and making the nipple itch! Danged if that phantom isn't over working this last week! 

badboob67

LOL...I'm waiting for my left (remaining) breast to hang low enough so that I can stretch it horizontally across my chest therefore eliminating the need for a prosthesis. <snicker> I'm almost there....

Diane 

wishiwere

gsg

Diane:  LOL.  Kind of like a combover...only a boobover.

Isabella4

Combover reminds me of a little stone mans head I had set in the wall of an extension I had done last back end.

It was the head of a very fat little bald man, just had it set in the exterior rendering of the house, just for a laugh, the workmen thought I was soft in the head I think, and while they were up the walls concreting they gave my little man a combover with a dollop of cement.....and named him Arthur (??) I was mad at the time, but I look up and laugh now!

Isabella.

Anonymous

Patrice, just for you (since you sang "the song" for us ).

http://www.flowgo.com/funny/1279_groovin-granny.html