OT--new food regime....oatmeal and tea

Have you tried Jasmine Rice? It has a delicate flavor as opposed to the regular white rice which tastes like nothing at all. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I know exactly what you mean. My mom cooked it to death too. Runny over cooked oatmeal has always been just gruesome gruel to me. DH cooks it totally differently and I love it. Debra in VA See my quilts at

My own diet consisted of getting a job with longer hours and lots more movement than a desk job. I lost 11 pounds in 3 weeks without changing any of my eating habits. Slow but steady. This is good.

Next comes the bad. Due to my job I have caught some retched illness that causes dizziness and I've dropped 8 pounds in a week because I just can't stand to eat. I don't want to look at or even smell food. What little I have eaten I've had to force myself. I'm very tired of being dizzy all the time, and I really don't like the 5 days of lost pay from not working, but I can say it does take weight off really fast. I'll take the weight loss any way I can get it though, and I'm nearly 20 pounds down. Note: I'm not advocating this as a diet plan, just sharing my current experience. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Maria, you may also be experiencing a little muscle building period too. Think of fat lost, but muscle slowly building up so the weight balances out. That is why sometimes you lose inches even though your weight stays the same. The really good part about that is that muscle burns energy, and fat is just stored energy, so now you have a little more muscle to burn fat rather than store it up. Debra in VA See my quilts at

If it was heavy as lead and mae of cast iron, it thar pan's first cousin! ;)

Ugh! NOT a good way to lose! ((((((Debra))))))

Jasmine rice has a higher glucose index which causes big spikes in blood sugar. Not the best choice for dieting. We've switched to a mix of Basmati and brown rice and it takes less to fill me up, and i don't have the blood sugar crashes afterward.

thanks Kate, have looked online, still looking. this is not new to me. we've used olive oil for yrs. i've been using a bread spread substitute here for about a yr now that is supposed to actively lower my cholesterol. not had it checked since then so i hope it works. also only used the low low fat, high protein, high calcium milk here. dh got me some WW jam and cheese yesterday. i've put them away til i get thru the first couple of weeks on my own minimal regime. i'll get there just gotta do it my way. i am pretty aware of what is good and not good for me so i should be ok. i also know i need certain things to make this work. thanks for the support. foggy cheers in auckland, jeanne

to date i'm lucky, no meds for me. i turned down beta blockers from idiot of a cardiologist a few yrs back. he was rude as well as told me they wont take a pix of my heart til i have a stroke or heart attack. eh? oh well. i'm better now than i was then so i'm doing something right. foggy cheers, jeanne

this makes a good old cast iron frying pan into a nice new wok!!!! rofl, jeanne

good grief, Debra, that is surely not the way to lose weight. i hope you're feeling better real soon. hugz, jeanne

iirc, the parker name on that monument was my grandfathers dad? uncle? or next generation back, not too sure as i cant read the date on the monument, if there was one, must of been tho, eh. cheers, jeanne

have been using olive oil here for yrs now. also lots of tomatoes eaten in this house, they do well for the italians, lol. have eaten yogurt since i was about 20yo. its my favourite food actually. yes low fat one. i'll get there this time. i've set myself a task. it must be gone!!! away fat away fat, be gone!! i quit smoking all those yrs ago and this is easier to do. cheers, jeanne

omg, i tasted rice cakes once. never again. they tasted like cardboard might taste. ewwwww. sorry. i was ok til '93. then i put on about 20lbs in one yr. no idea why then. wasnt menopause. could of been finding the puter and what fun it is? hmmmm. nope, not that cuz i wasnt online back then. oh well. i'll get there but will be long and slow. sigh... retraining dh will be more trouble. lol. he did bring me home WW jam and cheese. he was trying to help me. maybe after i get over the initial hurdles. for now they are both put away. hugz, jeanne

i love vegetables. i'm one of those who finish the vege on my plate and if i leave anything its meat. right now we're mostly eating chicken or fish or no-meat meals. ds is vegetarian so some nights we go without any meat cuz its easier to make one dish that works for him too. you're doing well with the heat then. its too cold here to live on cold food now. maybe in summer i'll try it tho. as soon as it warms up here today i'm gonna try those exercises too. lower body is what i need the most. argh. its puter bum big time here, lol. cheers, jeanne

have made note of those things, thanks jess. hey, i'm on msg'r today, stop whining, lol. hugz, jeanne xoxox

hey thanks Maria, i found sparkspeople.com, joined it and will be doing some of those exercises soon as it warms up here today. its too cold and foggy outside now for these old bones to start being used. but i will get into the lower body ones today. i promise. argh. its been a long long time but i got a bad case of puter bum here that needs addressing asap. cheers, jeanne i must do it, i can do it, i will do it!!!!!!

ah yes, good old muscle. if i'm real lucky i still have some of it i can build up again. gonna be a long uphill battle. wheres my fatigues, lol. cheers, jeanne

not completely just the red meats for now. we eat chicken and fish and ds is a vegetarian so some nights we all eat that. i still recall the complete proteins 'star' i read about in a book yrs and yrs ago. i'll get there. i have to. cheers, jeanne