Wow, that's really cool. I think I should try it, too.
Hi Barb and Annie.
I got on the scale today and it's the lowest number I have seen in a long time. I'm taking Gummy Nature Made for her multi with Omega it has Chromium in it. Chromium is supposed to help with weight loss and prevent diabetes.
Annie that sounds great about the gardening. I hope your mom gets better.
I'm trying to not eat sugar. However, it seems it's always there wherever I go. Yesterday I took my daughter to a play rehearsal. A girl baked cookies and everyone was eating them. I kept telling myself I wouldn't eat any. Then she tried to give me one and I said, "No thank you. I am full" Everyone asked, "You're full?" I felt good that I didn't take and eat the cookie. Later though I felt bad that the girl was so nice to offer me a cookie and I said No. My son talks about this girl a lot and it was the first time I met her.
Barb I'm glad to hear you are starting to feel better after the dog bite.
I was down a pound yesterday compared to last week's weight. It's small, but the right direction. I'm eating more lightly overall.
We've also still been gardening, despite it being hot. Lots of weeding, a few new plants put in to replace ugly or dead ones as we find them. Last week, I planted a flame-colored calla lily (the bloom is yellow with red edges) and liked it so much that we went back to the nursery this week and bought another to plant next to it. We'll have a real calla-lily bank there some day, if they handle being planted in the middle of the summer.
My mother has picked up a cold, apparently some kind of virus has appeared in their assisted-care center. She's now on oxygen, a Z-pack and cough syrup for her croupy cough. The problem is, she is loopy. Reaches out her hands to touch things that aren't there, says things that aren't sensible along with things that are. They're going to change the cough medication, so we'll be able to see if she's loopy from it or just loopy. (At 94, a cold can do a lot of things.) My sister says she's not fading away, she's instead acting like she's on an acid trip.
I spent some time yesterday making pasties -- we always have liked Cornish pasties but since our son is a vegetarian, I couldn't make them with meat. So instead I chopped many veggies -- red potatoes, celery, broccoli, leeks, red peppers, carrots -- and fresh parsley and mushrooms and even tossed in some corn, and stewed those all briefly while making a white sauce to fill in for gravy. Seasoned that with sage and some "tofurkey" bits, (so it did taste a bit turkey-like), and added more spices, put the gravy in with the veggies and then folded the mix into pie crusts and cooked them on a baking sheet. We ultimately had nice, hot vegetarian pasties for dinner. My husband enthusiastically said "I could eat this every night of my life!" but since it took me two hours of chopping stuff and cleaning up, I told him that the only way that would happen is if he learned to make them. But it was fun to do.
I've been seeing the dentist after a couple of years of stalling. I've so far had a consultation and a cleaning, but I need a small filling and then she wants to replace an old crown. It's time. This summer is for getting things like that done.
Have a great week!