The easiest way to avoid regrets is to ask yourself this question, "If not now, when?" It's a powerful way to put life and our decisions about how we spend our time into perspective"

Friday Grats! Posted by Paula on 5/2/2025, 9:55 am Z

My five… Posted by Cindy on 5/2/2025, 11:22 am, in reply to "Friday Grats!" 1. Working from home today for a few hours due to a dr appointment at 10:30 and PT coming this afternoon with Ken. Grateful for a job that lets me be so flexible with my schedule. 2. Ken told me this morning that even though taking a shower still wears him out, he isn’t as worn out as he used to be when taking a shower before his fall. 3. Krista has her dad home! 4. It’s Friday and the sun is out. I need to mow as long as the weather cooperates. 5. My new bar shampoo that I have!! A friend told me about The Earthling Company and this fantastic bar shampoo that she gets from them. She had gotten a new bar and gave me the bar that she had been using and after using it for a week I ordered a new bar! My hair is very fine and I would always see hair coming out on my comb when I would comb it. Within the first week and a half of using it, I noticed my hair isn’t coming out any more! And I love the way my hair feels. Each bar last around 3 months! They also have a conditioner bar but my friend said she didn’t like it (not sure why) but I think I will order it and see what I think! I can’t believe how this bar lathers up! Love it!!

Cindy Posted by Beverly on 5/2/2025, 9:36 pm, in reply to "My five…" Thanks for the soap shampoo information !!! Good news that Ken feels so.e stronger in the shower!

Thank you for Posted by Delta on 5/2/2025, 7:26 pm, in reply to "My five…" your review of the shampoo bar. I have been thinking about trying it and hesitated. I am for sure going to try it now. What Ken said tells me that he was a very sick man before he fell. I am so glad that he got help before it was too late. It sounds like he is working his way back.

Mine Posted by Paula on 5/2/2025, 10:11 am, in reply to "Friday Grats!" Found this in my health portal this morning and got a call about setting up my pre-surgical appointment. They are proceeding as if it's going to happen. photo url Eating this way is so hard. I am triggered by everything. Grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations....every place I go (or even pass by) is associated with one or more binge foods I favor. Harry and David is advertising this multilayer chocolate cake with chocolate filling that is completely frosted with pink roses. Despite the fact that I prefer white/yellow/lemon/orange cake AND despite the fact that it cost $89, I was actually thinking about ordering it! I know it's the little girl in me who DID prefer chocolate cake and found it to be SO pretty! With regards to the cake, I was also trying to convince myself that I could cut it up and freeze it and just have a little on special days. First, when you are eating 1500 calories, even a small slice would be at least 400 calories, not leaving much for real food AND I have convinced myself in the past that I could do this, bought a huge cake and cut it in pieces for the freezer. Ate it frozen and realized I like frozen cake with buttercream frosting!The mind games I've played with food since I was a kid. Sweets are my favorite thing in the world! (Paris is a close second!). My very unattended gardens are so beautiful this time of year. Dropping Cosette off at daycare in a line of SUVsof other parents dropping off their 'kids.'

Paula Posted by Beverly on 5/2/2025, 11:35 pm, in reply to "Mine" I can see how overwhelming this... and how it make ya want to run to food. Food IS everywhere, yes. Hold on tight, sweetie. I love the image of Co getting dropped off at day care. fo

I so get the justification and other Posted by Delta on 5/2/2025, 7:14 pm, in reply to "Mine" self-talk when it comes to sweets. You know what, though? It is 100% in your head, and you can change it. After stomach surgery, I was on NPO for a couple of weeks that I remember. I was in ICU in a coma for more time before that, and I don't know how long it lasted, a week to ten days, I think. A long time without food in my stomach at all. Then I could only eat tiny amounts of bland foods for over a month. It wasn't ordered, just the way it was. I kept wanting to eat sweets, and they tasted awful to me. Just awful. Way overboard on the sweet and nauseating. I was determined to get back the relationship I had previously had with sweets. I tried eating different sweets for over a month, finishing most of them even though they tasted horrible to me, before my taste buds and stomach could tolerate small amounts of sweets. Of course, it eventually grew to a rabid addiction again. I was crazy not to leave things as they were when I no longer liked them. I wasn't craving the sweets, I was craving eating them and the feeling I got from them, not the food. I have had to do a lot of work on my thinking since then. I still haven't won, but now I recognize it and have some coping methods to shut down that inner child. Even so, they don't always work. The sweets still win sometimes. The sad thing is that a lot of health issues are showing up that are totally sugar-related.

I can certainly… Posted by Cindy on 5/2/2025, 11:33 am, in reply to "Mine" Understand the “little girl” in you wanting that cake! I have a little girl in me too! I love cake and especially buttercream! It’s just not fair that some people can eat all the sweets they want, and I can’t. I struggle with this a lot, but once I get the sweets out of my system the food noise quiets down a little. Stay strong and know that you aren’t alone. Waking up in Paris (or anywhere for that matter) without all the back pain, has to be your focus for now. Those delicious, high priced, high calorie cakes will always be there. You can order a slice from your favorite cafe in Paris!! Love you sweet friend.

It's my favorite thing to eat! Posted by Paula on 5/2/2025, 2:44 pm, in reply to "I can certainly…" Yellow or, preferably, white cake with buttercream frosting!

I’m not sure what my favorite kind… Posted by Cindy on 5/2/2025, 7:42 pm, in reply to "It's my favorite thing to eat!" Of cake would be. I do love lemon! But white, yellow or chocolate are right up there too! I can honestly say I’ve never met a cake I didn’t like. And it has to have a thick buttercream on it! Yum! This sounds terrible but when I was younger my favorite way to eat cake was to put a piece in a glass, fill it up with milk and eat it with a spoon! Is that terrible or what? It was SO GOOD! No wonder I used to weigh 329 pounds!

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