WEEKEND LAUGH - Please read with tongue in cheek.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks
than Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than
Americans.

3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks
than Americans.

4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than
Americans.

5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and
suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

CONCLUSION

Eat and drink what you like.
Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

  

  Member Comments About This Blog Post:

SCOTMAMA 5/30/2009 11:31AM

Hmmmmm. I'd say it's not the fact that we "speak" English, as most of those people can also, but I'd say it's because we LIVE in America -- land of "fast food" and plenty of it. I do think that our downfall has a lot to do with eating fast food, and also lack of exercise. In the other countries you mentioned (I've lived in Japan) people walk, walk, walk. I know that is true in some of the other countries also. Here we ride, ride, ride to eat, eat, eat! Report Inappropriate Comment

BIBLESTUDY 5/25/2009 9:44AM

Very cute!!! Thanks for sharing! Makes me wonder if it is not true!!! LOL Report Inappropriate Comment

JUDY1676 5/24/2009 2:48PM

How true! What might kill you today will probably be proven to be good for you tomorrow! Judy Report Inappropriate Comment

LAINYE 5/23/2009 1:37PM

Ola! That is about it for my spanish! and I am not too good in other languages either! Report Inappropriate Comment

ROSILEIGH 5/23/2009 12:09PM

I love that blog Report Inappropriate Comment

The Tummy Team

Thursday, May 21, 2009

I'm starting now to plan for the long weekend. My holiday weekend will be longer than most because Joe is off work for 5 days. Joe the wonderful cook, lol. Of course, I'm a pretty good cook, too, and I'll be doing the ribs.

Last night I made one of our favorite casseroles. I was worried about that but I've decided that I have to learn to live amidst real food and still be thin, so I figured out the calories as best I could, planned my food journal and served myself with a measuring cup.

I ate really slowly and drank lots of iced water with it. It worked, because I didn't eat more than I had planned and my scale was down this morning.

Now I really have to focus on planning and eating like that from now until Monday, with more vigilance than usual.

Now you might think I'm a little flaky, lol, and you might be right, but I often think of my body as composed of little teams that hopefully all work together to keep me well.

Sometimes I pity the poor guys in my tummy.

*Can you just hear the little guys working in your tummy? Watch-out! There’s a load of sugar coming down! What! Where does she think we’re gonna put that fat stuff? We’ve already stuffed her gut to the max. Guess we’ll have to start sending it to boys in the basement. They’re not gonna like it since they’re already having to shore up with cellulite cells. Can’t that woman find an apple?*

Seriously, our bodies are quite magnificent. If you find an illustrated anatomy book and really read how it all works, it just makes you realize that the human body is nothing short of miraculous. If we had to BUY one, it would cost millions!

Fortunately, we get one for free. Unfortunately, we don't pay much attention to it until it starts to creak and groan.

Here's another "flaky" thing I do - Every morning while I'm taking a shower, I talk to all the cells in my body and thank them for manifesting in perfect harmony, according to the divine plan of Our Creator.

So, the guys in my tummy are my friends and I'm hoping to learn to treat them with more respect. I want them to have a good holiday, too!

  

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BELTONWALKER66 5/22/2009 9:44AM

Thank you for the "laugh out loud" and what a great idea! From now on whenever I think about eating those Lay's Potato Chips, I'll remember to think about those guys in my tummy and try apple slices instead. No, I don't think you are Flaky! You have a very wise unique way of thinking healthy! Report Inappropriate Comment

FUN - with food on the side.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

You know how you order your salad with dressing on the side? That's so you eat more veggies and less fattening dressing.

You know how Chinese food comes with mostly rice and veggies and the meat is used more as a condiment? That's how they stay thinner and have less heart disease - not much red meat.

Well now I need to know how to focus on the FUN and the PEOPLE - that's the main event. And the food is on the side.

I managed to do that last night. Once a month my Girlfriend Group has dinner at a local restaurant. We go to a different restaurant each month. This month was the Olive Garden.

I scoured the online menus and nutritional info at the Olive Garden and picked my meal and planned my day ahead of time.

I've eaten fresh fish all my life, Texas style- deep fried - and NEVER eat fish in restaurants. But last night I ordered the Parmesan Crusted Tilapia at the Olive Garden and it was delicious! I was very impressed!

I ate nothing else. Drank ice water. Pushed the breadsticks across the table and handed them out to others.

I filled my mouth with LAUGHTER and yakkin', lol. We talk a lot, you know. Long time girlfriends.

So my focus was on listening to them and talking to them and laughing with them. The food was just dressing.

This morning my scale did NOT go up!

Eating out and socializing a lot are difficult to manage when you're trying to lose weight.

It takes a PLAN and you have to really commit to it. But the reward comes later when you don't feel stuffed and when the scale doesn't go up.

Making FUN the main course, doesn't add any calories to my day!

  

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LAINYE 5/20/2009 9:37AM

What a great blog today! You have the right idea, and you carried it out with great rewards. Keep up the good work. Lainye Report Inappropriate Comment

BIRDLEGS29 5/20/2009 8:28AM

Wonderful idea! I love your decision to have food "on the side". After all, these social occasions are really about the PEOPLE we enjoy so the food really should be secondary. Jean Report Inappropriate Comment

Was it a GOOD day? Or a BAD day??

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Wow, yesterday I wanted to eat all day long.

I had visions of ice cream, blackberry cobbler, huge portions of Mexican food.

Came really close to cooking a huge portion of pasta.

You name it; I wanted it.

And somehow, SOMEHOW, I managed to stay withing my calorie goal for the day!

I kept resisting.

I kept visualizing getting on the scale in the morning and see those digital numbers show a little less.

I took a walk. (My back wasn't hurting - a minor miracle!)

I chewed gum.

I drank ICE water.

I cleaned out the closets and did everything I could to stay busy.

I never did give in to one of those urges to stuff my face.

I DID IT!

Gee, it feels so good.

  

FEELING on track.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Something I learned when I began this journey to a healthy body is to change my perspective. Is my tummy grumbling to be fed MORE? Do I crave that hand-to-mouth-action of continuing to shovel food in my mouth? Are people around me eating scrumptious desserts and dinners with heavenly aromas, causing me to feel that I should eat AGAIN?

Well, THESE FEELINGS are simply SYMPTOMS OF WEIGHT LOSS; symptoms of getting healthy. THIS is how I'm going to feel when I'm ON TRACK; accomplishing my mission; making the switch to a healthy way of dealing with food.

It will get better, get easier, feel more like the norm, as time goes by. Such a wonderful transformation and gift to mySelf, hmmmmm?

Because, remember what it feels like when you give in and EAT way more than you should or indulge in too many sweets, etc. It doesn't feel good. You don't feel triumphant, you feel guilty and fat and stuffed.



Often, changing your point of view transforms your problem/struggle into more of an interesting journey or adventure with a chance for another small success right around every corner.

'Do something. If it works, do it longer. If it doesn't work, do something else. But we must do something."

Above is a quote from F. D. Roosevelt. I thought it really applies to our weight loss journey. Once we've been at it a while, even if we've been successful, we get a bit complacent. Truth is, we always have to be "doing" something to stay on track. Sometimes we can go back to our first weeks on track, when we were really motivated, and use what was in our food journal back then to help get us going again NOW.

NOW is really all that ever counts, isn't it?