I have been to my clinic...

CATherine wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:59:22 +0700, "badwilson"
wrote:

Karen wrote:
in article , badwilson at
wrote on 2/25/05 1:38AM:

Karen wrote:
in article , CATherine
at wrote on 2/24/05
11:24 PM:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:00:11 -0700, "Monique Y. Mudama"
wrote:

On 2005-02-24, CATherine penned:

One ounce of almonds (23 almonds) has 164 calories. That's the
same
as one slice whole wheat bread, 2 servings (50 grams) of fat free
turkey breast (Louis Rich), one ounce of low fat cheddar and
various
slices of vegetables (lettuce, tomato, etc.). If you use mustard
instead of mayo and some pepper, you have yourself a great
half-sandwich, which would keep me personally satisfied a lot
longer
than 23 almonds. But everybody's different.

That sandwich sounds pretty good. I use fat-free Miracle Whip or
sometimes mustard. I am also thinking of a cut-up apple or banana.
But
i also have a couple of large navel oranges right now. They are
delicious and not too messy.

There ya go! All it takes is some pre-planning the night before and
you're all set for the work day. You could even cut up or peel the
oranges and put them in a tub, that way you can eat them faster and
with less mess.
If you have a decent breakfast before going to work and pack 2 or 3
healthy snacks, then have a sensible dinner when you get home, you'll
find yourself feeling better than you've felt in a long time and won't
want to go back to the old ways.
Hang in there :-)
--
Britta
Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's
covered in fur!
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

Seanette Blaylock wrote:

You'd have probably gone into screaming rages here in Californa about
a year and a half ago. The grocery workers went on strike because the
poor babies were being asked to kick in up to $40/month for their very
generous medical coverage.

I side completely with the workers on that one! When my
brother belonged to the electrician's union (He's retired,
now), one of the benefits of union membership was that you
and your entire family had medical coverage. Gradually the
influence of the labor unions has been eroded away, so that
is often no longer true.

Infuriated me, when I was making less than
they did (on a job that required a good deal more training and
know-how))

Rather than complain because some workers are willing to go
on strike for three months in an attempt to RETAIN the
benefits they were promised when hired, perhaps the rest of
us should have the courage to insist upon decent benefits
before we take a job! I know work is harder to find, these
days (thanks to the people in power), but if EVERYONE
demanded a living wage and proper benefits, employers would
eventually be forced to comply. (In most cases, they'd
simply be restoring what was pretty much the status quo, in
the 1950's.)

America USED to be the best country in the world for the
working-man, but much of Europe passed us up a long time
ago. Aside from their universal health care, most of our
European counterparts pity us our two (or at most three)
weeks annual vacation. (I know some people get more, but
I'm talking of average, working-class, here.)

Seanette Blaylock wrote:
You'd have probably gone into screaming rages here in Californa about
a year and a half ago. The grocery workers went on strike because the
poor babies were being asked to kick in up to $40/month for their
very
generous medical coverage. Infuriated me, when I was making less than
they did (on a job that required a good deal more training and
know-how) and was being asked to pay higher grocery prices so I could
pay for their health insurance when I couldn't afford it for myself
and DH (believe me, I'd have had MUCH higher premiums than they were
being asked to pay). Heaven forbid the poor special widdle babies
should have to kick in even a cent for what they were getting like
95%
of their customers had to.


That was pretty infuriating! It was a boon for Trader Joe's and Whole
Foods, though.

-L.

"CATherine" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:00:11 -0700, "Monique Y. Mudama"
wrote:

On 2005-02-24, CATherine penned:
The doctor wasn't there but a Nurse practitioner was there. She is
great.
Very knowledgeable and helpful and answers my questions and gave me the
most
thorough heart exam I ever had.

She told me i only had to cut my salt, fat and cholesterol in half after
she
got my full life history! I told you she was thorough! She got all my
eating
habits. Since I usually only eat one meal a day, I wasn't eating as much
of
the bad stuff as i thought. A lot for one meal, though. Of course, she
would
rather I spread the consumption out into more, smaller meals.

Eek! I'd rather you eat more small meals, too =P Your blood sugar won't
spike as much and your stomach will also shrink, allowing you to feel full
with less food. Me, I couldn't survive on one meal a day. I'm on the
five or
six meal plan =P

It is kind of hard to have several meals a day in my job, let alone
noon. I find I cannot do my job with a full meal under my belt. So the
most I do is peanut butter/cheese crackers or a candy bar. I tried
carrots and celery but they were not satisfying and left my stomach
rumbling.


My government dept hires persons to do things that you do. I know the
difficulties,
You need to have a breakfast. It need not be too much, perhaps a half glass
of fruit juice and a round of toast and do an extra round of toast with a
bit of cheese or something on to take with you to eat at 10.30.
Then you need lunch. Make a sandwich while you are doing your toast in the
morning and waiting for it to pop out of the toaster. Maybe a piece of ham,
beef or pork - if you aren't a veggie - inside two pieces of wholemeal bread
with salad in it. Eat this at lunch time around 1 p.m.
Peanut butter is out. It has loads of calories and is full of fat. I love
cheese myself, but now I only eat it about twice a week because it's full of
fat too

Then eat a nice dinner in the evening without going mad for fat. A large
baked potato, with a little sliced cooked meat, lots of salad including
cooked beetroot, with a little low fat mayonnaise and a couple of rounds of
wholemeal bread will fill you quite well.

On the other hand..if you feel inclined, at the weekend, eat naughty fried
things. Stuff yourself and enjoy it. ;-)))
Life is too short to deny ourselves everything all of the time.

Tweed

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:06:20 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:


"CATherine" wrote in message
.. .
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:00:11 -0700, "Monique Y. Mudama"
wrote:

On 2005-02-24, CATherine penned:

You need to have a breakfast. It need not be too much, perhaps a half glass
of fruit juice and a round of toast and do an extra round of toast with a
bit of cheese or something on to take with you to eat at 10.30.
Then you need lunch. Make a sandwich while you are doing your toast in the
morning and waiting for it to pop out of the toaster. Maybe a piece of ham,
beef or pork - if you aren't a veggie - inside two pieces of wholemeal bread
with salad in it. Eat this at lunch time around 1 p.m.
Peanut butter is out. It has loads of calories and is full of fat. I love
cheese myself, but now I only eat it about twice a week because it's full of
fat too

Then eat a nice dinner in the evening without going mad for fat. A large
baked potato, with a little sliced cooked meat, lots of salad including
cooked beetroot, with a little low fat mayonnaise and a couple of rounds of
wholemeal bread will fill you quite well.

On the other hand..if you feel inclined, at the weekend, eat naughty fried
things. Stuff yourself and enjoy it. ;-)))
Life is too short to deny ourselves everything all of the time.

Tweed

This is a lot of food. Six slices of bread in one day plus meat and
potato and salad. Maybe my stomach isn't as large as I thought it was.
Bread is very filling. And so is potato.

This morning at 10:30am I had breakfast at a friend's house. Four
small (4 inches) homemade tortillas, a generous helping (about 1 and
1/2 cups) of diced potatoes and scrambled eggs (mixed)(I passed on the
green chili) and a little over-cooked bacon. No lunch. Here it is 6pm
and I am still too full to think of food. Maybe by bedtime I might
feel like some juicy peaches.

Yesterday I had dried cranberries and half a juicy pear and for supper
I had lean pork loin with a bit of herb salt, lettuce and tomato salad
with fat-free dressing. Toast with a skim of peanut butter and jelly.
I was full. Potato would have been too much. The night before I had
mashed potatoes with creamed corn and lean meat. I was stuffed without
eating any bread. I don't eat much bread.

I think I will carry dried cranberries and maybe one little sandwich.
Or a couple oatmeal cookies.

--
CATherine

On 2005-02-25, jmcquown penned:

I'm honestly not sure what celery does
other than make soup taste better LOL

Jill

Fiber! I don't think they add flavor to anything, but they do add texture to
otherwise mushy foods.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2005-02-25, CATherine penned:

A new hire can get ins after the 3month probation period. But I am a 12 year
veteran. I can get it only during Open Enrolment in November; which goes
into effect for the following January. I guess it takes that long to process
the paperwork. I have gotten the "catalogs" for the two plans my company
carries; Kaiser and Cigna. I will spend the next few months trying to study
them. I know little about insurance or how it works. I want to make the best
choice for my needs as well as my limited budget. I have to consider co-pays
and premiums.

I believe that Kaiser is typically an HMO; I have always been able to choose a
PPO, and I much prefer those, even though they're more expensive.

With a PPO, you get insurance coverage, though lower, even if you see a doctor
outside of your network. That's important to me. I don't know if this is
typical for PPOs, but I've also always been able to see a specialist without
having to get authorization from my regular doctor first, and that saves
valuable time.

But all of that is just my preference.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2005-02-25, CatNipped penned:

The surgery is helpful, but it isn't "magic" - you do have to work with it.

I'd been overweight all my life (the only one in my family, so it wasn't
eating habits). The way one doctor explained it seemed to make sense. At
the time I was born "fat" babies were "in". Fat babies were equated with
healthy babies and were "cute". My mom used to practically force feed me
when I was an infant. This doctor said that from age 0 to 2 was when the
*number* of fat cells are created and after that the fat cells only enlarge
or shrink. So if you force an infant to be overweight you are burdening
him/her with way too many fat cells for life. That person is then required
to eat on an almost starvation diet in order to keep the fat cells small
enough to be a normal weight. I think that's why I had to go on an 800
calorie a day or less diet in order to lose weight. Then as soon as I'd
start eating normally again I would gain it all back and then some!

That's an interesting theory. I do know that DH was about the fattest baby
you ever saw, but he's not overweight now and has a metabolism I'd kill for.
But as always, a counterexample can prove the rule.

Even though my stomach is the size of a golf ball, if I ate high calorie /
high fat foods often enough, I would not have lost weight (and my medical
statistics would not have changed so drastically).

I'd imagine your stomach would eventually stretch if you kept eating too much
food. At least, the amount of food I can eat depends on how large my typical
meal is.


--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2005-02-25, Howard Berkowitz penned:

If emotional and schedule factors get me back into regular exercise, I can
say, from experience, I replace fat with loss and muscle mass. If I had
gastric bypass, my concern would be that I could not easily get the protein
I need for muscle growth, and also the carbohydrates I need to keep my sugar
reasonable during intense exercise. Yes, there are some potentially
reversible bariatric surgeries, but I think there's a better long-term
situation. I work at home and have a decent home gym; it's a matter of
emotional health and discipline to use it.

Not to be insensitive, but I don't see why bypass is even an option for you.
It sounds like you know exactly what you need to do to get your body into
shape, but it's just hard to work up the motivation (believe me, I
sympathize!) ... Is it that your medications change the equation and make it
harder to take the right steps?

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message
...
On 2005-02-25, CatNipped penned:

The surgery is helpful, but it isn't "magic" - you do have to work with
it.

I'd been overweight all my life (the only one in my family, so it wasn't
eating habits).

That's an interesting theory. I do know that DH was about the fattest
baby
you ever saw, but he's not overweight now and has a metabolism I'd kill
for.
But as always, a counterexample can prove the rule.

Even though my stomach is the size of a golf ball, if I ate high calorie
/
high fat foods often enough, I would not have lost weight (and my
medical
statistics would not have changed so drastically).

I'd imagine your stomach would eventually stretch if you kept eating too
much
food. At least, the amount of food I can eat depends on how large my
typical
meal is.


Did you see Catnipped's video? If she has been overweight all her life,
she certainly is not now. Lori, what is your secret?