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I started out three years ago in the upper 170's, where I'd been for several decades (I'm only 5'2). Got down in the lower 160's and stalled there for almost two years, gaining and losing the same four pounds.

Then in Jan. 2013 I learned my blood sugar had crossed into the diabetic zone. Talk about motivation. I got serious about tracking and exercise again, and also started on the Wheatbelly plan (no sugar or grains, very low carb, lots of good fats). Now I'm back in normal blood ...
I started out three years ago in the upper 170's, where I'd been for several decades (I'm only 5'2). Got down in the lower 160's and stalled there for almost two years, gaining and losing the same four pounds.

Then in Jan. 2013 I learned my blood sugar had crossed into the diabetic zone. Talk about motivation. I got serious about tracking and exercise again, and also started on the Wheatbelly plan (no sugar or grains, very low carb, lots of good fats). Now I'm back in normal blood sugar range and weigh 156. Still 20 pounds above normal BMI, though I'd settle for losing another 10.

I only wish I had done this years ago.
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Member Since: 10/14/2010

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My Goals:
Leave Obese BMI - DONE
Leave Overweight BMI - about 20 pounds to go

Lower my blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure. Live to be an old, old grandma.

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 Aiming for 30 min aerobics 5 days per week, not always getting there. Currently using chair aerobics, walking, swimming, dancing.

ST on gym machines once per wk, doing arms at home with DVD and hand weights.

Currently following Wheatbelly plan - no grains, no sugar, lots of good fats.

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I work as a graphic artist, we live on my husband's family farm in the midwest (we don't farm it) but I'm from the east coast. We enjoy camping and in my spare time I cook, read, occasionally paint portraits, and watch way too many movies. I have a daughter, 24, and a shifting menagerie of cats.

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VTORIA3
5/24/2013 11:22:48 AM

Now that you mention it, I remember too, being unimpressed with oregano as a fresh herb....it doesn't seem to deliver much in the way of flavor. So your comment about it being more flavorful dried seems to make sense.

Hope there are no rogue wild things that attack your garden, or mine, this year.

Do you have today off for a longer weekend?

Congrats! to you....you weight loss.....you weigh less than me now....so happy for you friend as you have been working hard at this!

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VTORIA3
5/24/2013 8:09:01 AM

Your garden sounds large and fantastic! It is so fun to watch everything grow....unless of course some wild thing takes a liking to something, like the year the squirrels were going after my lettuce, and last year they went for the tomatoes. Hope it's a banner year for growing and harvesting. LOL.....I don't know why I didn't think to put in an oregano plant. emoticon



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VTORIA3
5/22/2013 9:39:01 AM

Just returned from a 5 mile walk. My how those new walking sneakers eliminated my back, knee, hip pains. I LOVE my New Balance Cross Trainers! I'm so glad they made all the difference.

What did you plant in your vegetable garden this year? I only have 5 tomato plants this year, but I put in 2 rows of sugar snap peas, 2 spaghetti squash (no luck so far), a cucumber plant, and a sweet red pepper plant. I also have a lot of herbs this year: basil, rosemary, thyme, pineapple mint, chives, cilantro, parsley, tarragon, dill. I am very much looking forward to using them in my recipes.

I have turned more grass into garden than I want to think about. I hope to get a reward....we shall see.



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VTORIA3
5/22/2013 5:12:50 AM

I can sure appreciate that you are liking how your capris fit this year, especially since I am poured into mine. (Vicki, hint, hint....ok, I get it). I am reading "The Beck Diet Solution." It is giving me a workable plan to deal with my behavioral issues; already I see a difference, as I had slipped back into some unhelpful ones re fitness and health.

Wishing you a terrific Wednesday!





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MARITIMER3
5/17/2013 6:26:17 PM

Your comments about health care in the U.S. are scary. Peter believes that when we travel in the U.S. we don't need extra health insurance; I'm going to tell him what you've said, and perhaps he will understand why I want to buy it.

Have a good week-end. Is it a holiday for you? In Canada's it's Victoria Day, honouring Queen Victoria who reigned for more than 50 years back in the late 1800's to early 1900's.



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