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Love the pics Peggy!I think you guys are right - go with what I want.
Definitely go for the purple and blue Sarah ;)
Definitely, because you will get older and then you feel like you shouldn't even have long hair :-) I don't care it is just a lot easier to take care of for me :-)
Mariab wrote: "@Russalka.Natural tinctu..."
I've been meaning to check out henna Mariab. Just need to find somewhere to get it from here.
Peggy - I love your dreads!I had my hair down to my waist, but I cut it to my collarbone right before I broke my hip last March. Needless to say I was grateful I did. I keep it around shoulder length now. Hardly any grey in it. I hate going to the beauty shop every month, I'd rather buy a few Kindle books with "hair money."
I've thought about trying henna, but don't think would be good color for me. Unless can you just do it lightly?About getting dreads started - can break it up into various sessions. No need for 12 straight hours.
I also avoid the hair salon to use money on other things. In my case, time at the salon seems more like throwing good money after bad, ha ha.
I've been AWOL from YLTO for the past week or two. I have over 260 posts on this thread alone to catch up on! I don't even know what the criteria for the Toppler is other than it has something to do with Library Week.... Wait, I hope it is this coming weekend and not last! Crap, I better go check that before I start reading through this one... Okay, just checked the Toppler date, I'm good! Whew!We started a health challenge at my work last week. We have teams of 3-6 members and the team that loses the largest percentage of weight in 6 months wins $500 each. I'm not big, but I have gained over 30 pounds in the past 10 years (I used to be super skinny... too skinny actually). I'd like to lose 10-15 pounds and tone up so I'm using this health challenge as a little extra motivation. I don't think my team will win, but I'm going to try anyway! The team I think will win consists of all men... and we all know that men lose weight easier than women do. One of the men on that team is hoping to lose 100 pounds! He can do it, he has before, but he always gains it back. I know he's off to a strong start already, but the reality will come closer to the end of the six months. I can't see him sustaining the "diet" he is on right now for that long.
Wow 100 pounds that is unbelievable what is his diet??
Good luck Kimmy Diane! I have only worked in the fitness industry since I was 21, I am an exercise junkie, which is a good thing because I really like to eat :-) The funny thing is most people who exercise on a daily basis do like eating and that is why they exercise so much :-) when my daughter was a Girl Scout I sold over 200 boxes of cookies to my members :-)
Nice to see you again KimeyDiann, and good luck with the health challenge!The story about the guy gaining weight again is not surprising. Most people who try to lose weight gain it again. I think the general consensus among researchers right now is that all diets work, as long as you stick to it. All diets aim at reducing calories so it doesn't really matter which one you choose, best go for one that is easy for you to stick to. Usually people start eating normally again when they reach their target weight, increasing calories to what they were used to, and that's when you fall back to your original weight. There are very very few successful dieters.
(I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound demotivating, it's just a topic that interests me but I didn't end on a happy note ;-) I think it's great though to have such initiatives at work, it must definitely be much easier to do it with a group of people together!)
That's a great idea Kimmy Diane! Doing things as a team is much easier. And think that your place of work will be free of "temptations", since so many people is trying to loss weight. You even could organize some walking during lunch time or after hours, and share healthy recipes. What about if different days different people "host" a healthy lunch at work for the team? So many things come to my mind! Congrats to all of you for follow the initiative!
Peggy, you're absolutely right, I always tell people the best diet is the diet that works for you, something you can maintain throughout your life. You need to think of it as a lifestyle change not a diet. I like carbs therefore I will never ever not eat them :-)
You are right, Peggy. And it could sounds demotivating, but it's better to be aware of that to avoid fall in the same pattern. I think that the diet time has to be not only for loss weight but to acquire good and healthy habits, so once you are finally in the goal weight it's easier to continue having a more adequate life style. Doing exercise is an absolute must, but it seems that although is hard to stop eating, it's even harder to incorporate exercise to our routine.
Look at me saying all of this with my big butt resting in a chair in front of the computer! :)
Tasha wrote: "We often get a herd of deer grazing in our yard, they were here yesterday. I love to see them but I hate that they eat up my garden!! ..."I think you are supposed to plant marigolds around your garden to keep deer out. It may not be marigolds, it is some sort of flower though. I'm sure you can find it on google. :)
Good luck on your health challenge, KimeyDiann.The key is to find lifestyle changes that are sustainable. Most fad diets are not. We tend to jump into them whole hog, attempting to make huge changes instantly. You can maintain that momentum for a short time, but boredom, resentment and other emotional factors can easily erode our resolve. Losing weight is easy. Keeping it off is another matter entirely.
You are all so right. It's all about lifestyle and long-term changes :)
Good luck with the challenge, KimeyDiann!
Thanks for all of the good luck wishes! You are all absolutely right, it has to be a lifestyle change, not just a temporary diet. I've been trying to eat healthier for a long time but it hasn't really made a difference. My husband and I are both working on it a lot more carefully now and plan on long-term lifestyle changes. We are both eating healthier and we have added body weight exercises into our routines. We can both already tell a difference! They man I was discussing earlier that plans to lose so much weight... His "diet" consists of slim-fast shakes, tuna on lettuce, and not much else. It is extremely low calorie and unhealthy. That is why I say he won't stick to it. And he admits that after the challenge is over he will gain the weight back. That sort of yo-yoing weight changes has to be bad for you!
Like I said, I'm not big and I'm technically the "correct" weight according the BMI charts. My main goal is to be healthier and stop the slow and steady weight gain I've seen over the past decade. I just turned 30 and everyone says it gets harder to lose weight after 30. I was reviewing the stats from my yearly physicals over the past few years and there has been a steady 2-5 pound increase at each check-up. I know I can't keep ignoring it.
@Berit: Do you have any recommendations for workout plans that can be done at home? I know joining a gym will be a waste of money for me because I'll never go. If these April Showers (more like thunderstorms!) will let up I'm hoping to get back to running again. We've had rain every day this week and forecasted for everyday for the next week! Ugh. Last Saturday was beautiful and I was able to participate in a ColorRun (a very colorful 5k), but I walked it.
I think it depends, some people do really well with some of the videos that are out, I am not a video person I like variety. At home I have a bike, which I love! And I have weights I use, I also walk, I love the gym because of the social aspect i'm waiting right now for my friend to get here to go on a walk with her :-)
Hi KimeyDiann, good to hear from you. Re: men losing weight more easily than women...
we have a standing joke with a friend that when his wife goes on a diet, he loses weight : )
Weirdly true tho.
That's too funny TJ! My best friend is pregnant and around the time she found out, her husband had decided he needed to lose weight. She told him he was absolutely not allowed to lose any weight at all while she was "getting fat carrying his child." LOL.
I think most guys gain weight with their baby mama!
My best friend told me after my son was born that if I ever got pregnant again, she didn't want to be around because she gained 10 pounds during my pregnancy. I kept dragging her to the restaurant for hot turkey sandwiches and blueberry pie with ice cream. As it turned out, we both moved to different cities. But then she got pregnant and wasn't able to get revenge. Hehehe!
Stanley Cup Playoffs (NHL) start tonight! Woohoo! Would love to see the Washington Capitals and the St Louis Blues in the final!
That's so funny about the sympathetic weight gain or whatever you might call it :)I just stepped onto my back porch and saw my first lightening bug of the year! This is really early for them. I was so excited I had to come tell y'all.
Ooohh! I love lightening bugs :) we get them behind our apartment! They are so cool! Glad you got to see them already, TJ!
Thanks, Stephanie. I think it's maybe because we had a fairly wet winter and spring. The blue bonnets are amazing this year for same reason. Here are two photos taken in past week or so by two different friends out reveling in the hill country bluebonnet profusion. Both are professional photographers.
Cool photos!! Love the cows!! So cute :)
Just finished watching Chicago win in double overtime over Nashville. Great first night for the Stanley Cup playoffs!
Oh, the blue bonnets are so beautiful!
The blue bonnets are really beautiful!
The color is incredible! Thanks for sharing, TJ.
Sounds like a great game, Susan! My Caps lost to the Islanders last night :( I have the Caps winning in 6 games though :)
@TJ.Very beautiful. I miss the gentle ongoing of Spring from softer climates.
By us flowers and plants impose one another, competing for space, birds and insects and attentions...
Gorgeous photos TJ. Blue bonnets are different to bluebells?Been looking at flights today. Friend of mine looks like she may be getting married in Trinidad next year. My choices are:
LA/San Fran - Miami/Houston/NY - Trini
Vancouver - Toronto - Trini
Santiago - Panama City - Trini
Thinking of doing one way there and the other home. More places visited in the same trip then. Anyone been to Santiago, Chile or Panama City before? Worth visiting?
Stephanie wrote: "Sounds like a great game, Susan! My Caps lost to the Islanders last night :( I have the Caps winning in 6 games though :)"It was quite exciting considering that the Predators were leading the entire game and the Blackhawks had to pull it together to force it into overtime. And it's only game one, your Caps can still take the series. :)
Rusalka wrote: "Gorgeous photos TJ. Blue bonnets are different to bluebells?Been looking at flights today. Friend of mine looks like she may be getting married in Trinidad next year. My choices are:
LA/San Fran ..."
My vote would be for Canada, not that I'm biased or anything. Unfortunately, neither Vancouver or Toronto are anywhere close to me. Oh wait - what time of year?
Haven't been to any of those Rusalka (except San Francisco, which is great!!), but it sounds very exciting! If you do two I would definitely go for the last one as of them, simply because I think it will be very different from the two others. I loved SF, but I know from my colleague who is from Toronto that that is an amazing city as well.
March - April, Janice.We're leaning towards San Fran as one option as we have good friends who stayed/travelled with us a few years back who live there. I'm the same Peggy, Santiago appeals to me as it's so different to anywhere I've ever been and I studied the revolution in uni and read Isabel Allende. I know nothing about Panama City.
We were thinking of going to Mexico with friends in Nov 2016 though, so we can always do a few other parts of the States/Canada then as well. But when my first options were LAX or Vancouver, I was all like BC! Sign me up!
Ah yes, BC! Almost went there coming summer, but plans changed. Maybe next year :) Or one of 10 other destinations on top of my bucket list.
Toronto is wonderful. San Francisco too. I'm quite fond of NYC as well tho. But the less familiar Santiago is beckoning with come hither smiles :)
I feel untraveled :-( of those places I've only been to the cities in California, other than that I've been to Jamaica and the Bahamas and of course Mexico, I need to get out more :-)
@TJ- What place is that? I want to go there!@Rusalka: Ooh, Rusalka, travelling for you!
@Everyone: On that note, let me share here that world travel has always been my dream. And I have been planning to go on my first ever month long Europe backpacking trip as soon as I'm done with my PhD but sadly that would be either in December/ January. I have been advised they aren't the best months for Europe travel. Anyone has any experience with the same? It would be almost impossible for me to go at any other time though.
I am highly biased towards Vancouver seeing as I live around there and I think it's gorgeous! LA has some great museums, wonderful old theaters and Hollywood is cheesy but totally worth it. Grauman's Chinese theater with all the hand prints is cool. Several years ago we went to watch Singin' in the Rain at the Grauman Egyptian theater which was fantastic.
San Fran has so much it's hard to pick but I loved Alcatraz and Pier 39. Such awesome food on Pier 39, I live on the coast and I think I had the best salmon ever at a restaurant there.
New York and architecture go together for me. The library, Chrysler building, Empire state building, Brooklyn bridge.....and the view off the Rockefeller building is stupendous.
Santiago is three years away for me, we're hoping to do as much of Chile as possible including Easter Island.
Now I want to go to every place you've mentioned, right now!!
Pragya, I've been to Europe in January and it's great. If you don't want snow just stay south but we never found it a problem getting around or managing to see everything we wanted. I still want to go over in December and hit all the great Christmas markets and see the decorations.
LOL! All those places you mentioned in LA, I've never been to any of them, and I have lived here most of my life :-)
Rusalka wrote: "Gorgeous photos TJ. Blue bonnets are different to bluebells?Been looking at flights today. Friend of mine looks like she may be getting married in Trinidad next year. My choices are:
LA/San Fran ..."
I haven't been to San Francisco myself but my parents have and they both loved it. Personally, I would go for the option that includes Toronto because I went there once as part of a school trip to Canada and it was a wonderful city. Also a friend of mine recently moved out there and she is really enjoying living there.
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Go with what you really want to do. Later in life will be enough obstacles -also for small things- (like too old for THAT) and you will regret not having done it.
@Russalka.
Natural tincture like Henna is wonderful for colour and brigh, and gives you hair a silk texture as well