Yup, I do the same thing sometimes.  There are times, like Nicole said, after just 3 bites I'll get my full signal....and I'm just like "really??!!"  Sometimes I will wait a few minutes to see if it was for real, which 90% of the time it is for real and I wind up with what feels like a brick sitting in my chest.  You would think that after 6 years I would learn that when I hiccup, that's it.  But, I'm still stubborn sometimes......I thank God every day for my tool (am also thankful it still works!!!) and the wonderful people I have met along the way.

Hi there!!  Good to see you both, too!

Good to see the boards still active.  That's great!  I need to come on and be here more.

I do remember and it's nice to see you again!!!

Folks, I am reading these and finding much in them that I can relate to and while we are all different, I do believe that we share similar traits and that is what ultimately caused our obesity to begin with. . .  so hope you enjoy some of the information, it is more brain food. . .

Building levees

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 02:37 AM PDT

So yesterday, Yoni's (the obesity researcher -- not the musician!) quote was talking about our environment supporting our national weight gain.  He used the analogy of building levees (as in changing the environment) instead of giving people swimming lessons (teaching them how to navigate a food-ridden environment).  Swimming is hard -- people get tired when they swim -- and then they start to sink.

So think about your environment:

Your desk drawer.
Your kitchen cupboards.
Your break room.
The stash of whatever in the back of your closet, purse, glove box in your car....

Are you making easier to eat than not eat?

Are you shopping and preparing at the beginning of the week so it is easy to make smart choices when the work week rolls around?

If you are -- rock on!

If not, why??

It's hard.......??  Well, I've said it before -- it's all going to be hard in one direction or another but....

If you say "not right now" to the entire chip aisle, you won't have to say "not right now" EVERY SINGLE TIME you open your pantry door.  There will be no chips to stare you down!  And if there are no chips to stare you down, you won't be thinking about chips when you walk away, when you're sitting in front of the TV after a bad day, or in the evening when you're bored.

You've just created an environment where it is easier to go without chips than to eat them-- you've built a levee so you don't have to swim.

If you don't cave to the lure of the drive-thru (you know...."just for a soda"), you don't have to stare down the menu board advertising a snack wrap and a cookie for $1.  You can't control where drive-thru's pop up -- but you can eliminate them from your driving pattern (honestly, what are the chances you're going to dehydrate on the way home from work -- not likely, friends! Not likely!) 

Let's face it -- there are oceans and oceans of food to navigate in the course of a day -- your swimming skills are going to have to be refined.  But give yourself a break!  The opportunities to build levees in some parts of your life are there -- build safe havens so you don't drown in your own bathtub (house and office)

 I'm 51 and he is 54.  He needs a stress test.   

We got our taxes and I can get my global fee paid now.   so that means prob sept or oct.    
All these feelings anxious, nervous, guilt for his roadblock... mannnnn.....

Thank you....  

Best I can do is to help him stay on track...  Maybe this will be better cause with me being a big sissy with pain, I am really going to need him and it will give me time to heal before he has his surgery and then I have to help him while he heals....

I really needed that boost.  Thank you  very much Laureen...