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[Dawn]

Yeah, too bad it's so much fun to put the pounds on and so much work to take them off!!

[happy]

Adrian wrote: "Hey chaps, haven't been around much lately as OS for a while then very busy with work and Xmas.

My wife is a GP with a keen interest in diet/nutrition etc. She swears there is only one sustainable..."

From my personal experience I would agree with her. Since I don't drink, alcohol is not a problem :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Adrian wrote: "Hey chaps, haven't been around much lately as OS for a while then very busy with work and Xmas.

My wife is a GP with a keen interest in diet/nutrition etc. She swears there is only one sustainable..."

I was taught that many, many years ago. Whenver you feel hungry, drink a glass of water. It trains the brain and body into that being the response to hunger and the cravings are less intense.

Welcome back, Adrian.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Smaller portions is the only way for me. With increased physical activity.

Like Marilyn, I never weigh myself. Never ever. I judge my weight loss from my clothes also.

Back in the day, when I used to weigh myself, as a woman, we have days where we can be on a diet and be eating little and feel like we have lost weight, only to get on a scale and see we've put it on or lost nothing. If you are a stress eater like me, seeing failures on the scales is enough to make me go, "well stuff it, I may as well eat some icecream!".

[happy]

One other thing about my wgt loss - it wasn't smooth. Esp after the first 30 or 40 lbs - the graph looked more like a stair case than a slide. There would be 6 - 8 weeks at a time with little or no wgt loss. Then all of a sudden I would lose 8-10 lbs in a couple of weeks.

[Allison]

Terri wrote: "May wrote: "Yes! My Resolution is to say “Hi” with a smile to one perfect stranger every day."

Aw. That's lovely. I do that, but its an Aussie country girl thing, I think. I am a bit like that sce..."

The Midwest of the US is like that too.
Bit annoying actually :P
You’re required to say it back, it’s exhausting :D

[Allison]

Dawn wrote: "Are there any New Years resolutions that aren't about diet and exercise?? :)"

Reading wise, get some chunksters off my tbr.

Diet wise....eat more donuts! (In my defense, I was replying before flipping over to this new page where you all are talking about diets! I wish you all luck!)

Anything else wise....never make any.

[Allison]

Jane wrote: "Improve my German."


Would love to learn but won’t make that a resolution! Tried Polish in 2019....wont make that mistake again lol.

[Allison]

Andy wrote: "For all those talking of diets etc...... An old tip.... Get the metabolic rate working early in the morning so your body will burn calories earlier & more effectively

The other thing is fluids, th..."

Sounds more like Japanese water torture.
I’m never thirsty. The last two months I’ve been trying to drink more water....ugh, it feels like my body is drowning inside itself! Why is drinking the elixir of life so hard?!?!

[Jane]

Allie wrote: "Jane wrote: "Improve my German."


Would love to learn but won’t make that a resolution! Tried Polish in 2019....wont make that mistake again lol."

I tried with Welsh but gave it up. I never could make a complete sentence but I DO know how to pronounce it, even ll and rh, so it wasn't a complete loss.

[Dawn]

New York Times had on article on health: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/op...

The gist is.............

I believe the best health advice can be boiled down to 48 words.

So what are these 48 words? In no particular order:

Don’t smoke (2).

Get vaccinated (4).

Avoid trans fats (7).

Replace saturated fats with unsaturated if you can (15).

Cook from whole ingredients — and minimize restaurant meals (23).

Minimize ultraprocessed foods (26).

Cultivate relationships (28).

Nurture sleep (30).

Drink alcohol at most moderately (35).

Exercise as often as you can enjoy (42).

Drink only the calories you love (48).

[Dawn]

I always wanted to learn German and French but I have never stuck with it.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I'll go with food writer Michael Pollan:

Eat food...not too much...mostly plants.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "New York Times had on article on health: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/op...

The gist is.............

I believe the best health advice can be boiled down to 48 wo..."

I do all those things except for 'exercise as often as you enjoy'. But that's only a temporary thing because its too bloody hot to exercise outside at this time of year. :)

I don't drink any alcohol and I only drink water or hot beverages like tea and coffee. No juice or sugar drinks. Only water. I've been doing that for about four years now.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

In other words, the Japanese water thing, must not work for me because I drink water in the morning before breakfast. Hasn't helped me any. :(

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Seeing as we're all on diets, let's reminisce about our Christmas treats. ;-)

These were the treats I baked for our Christmas table.
Photo 1: Christmas Fruit Cake on the cake stand. My husband's attempt at a gingerbread house in the Australian pitched roof style ;-) in the background.
Photo 2: Mini Puddings, iced biscuits/cookies and two kinds of Fudge in the foreground. My traditional Xmas fudges - Chocolate Cherry Fudge and White Chocolate Peppermint Fudge.

Now go and drink your glasses of water and pretend you didn't see this.

[May]

Wow, Terri, they look delicious! Too bad you can't deliver!!! ;)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

So Christmas 2020 at your place, Terri?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Haha. Good for your health that I can't! That fudge... so bad for us. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Margaret wrote: "So Christmas 2020 at your place, Terri?"

Sure. I roll these same goodies out every year. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh, except for the cookies. That was a new recipe I got off Lisa. (Aussie Lisa who joins us in AM when she's reading HF)

[happy]

I'll have to start saving so I can afford teh ticket :)

[Mark]

Terri wrote: "Haha. Good for your health that I can't! That fudge... so bad for us. :-)"

My blood sugar is rising just looking at the photos Terri.

Mind I was very good this Xmas, we didn’t rush out and buy loads of chocolates and sweets this Christmas.

[eduardo]

Wao!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

happy wrote: "I'll have to start saving so I can afford teh ticket :)"


Might be some cheap deals on. We'll probably lose a lot of tourist trade because the fires burned everything.
Some cheap flights to get tourists to come might be on the cards if anyone does want a holiday downnunder. :)

[Marilyn]

Our tv news showed the arrival of a new contingent of American firefighters arriving at the Sydney airport terminal to a rousing applause of the Aussies there; some were even crying. It went on and on. As an American I would like to say thank you guys very, very much. It was much appreciated over here.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

If I could have been there to give them a cheer and a hug myself, I would have. They are heroes.
(As are the Canadians and Kiwis and whichever other countries have sent firefighters to help us, we need our allies in a time like this for sure).

[Carlos]

Maybe this is the time to call Quantas to visit the family on Sydney. May as well get a cheap deal. I am not a firefighter material, but, for Thor! I could chear them on.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Carlos wrote: "Maybe this is the time to call Quantas to visit the family on Sydney. May as well get a cheap deal. I am not a firefighter material, but, for Thor! I could chear them on."

Great idea! Just keep an eye on Qantas (then there are the other companies too). :-) I am sure throughout this year they will be having deals for overseas customers to give the tourist industry a kick.

They pasued this brand new Aussie Tourism/Kylie Minogue song because of the bushfires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP-39...

It was brand new and targeted at the UK (the Poms), but then the fires struck hard and they have paused it until our country is in a better state to welcome tourists again. So i would say that's a good indicator of how things are paused with all aspects of the tourism industry right now.

[Allison]

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend!

Saw a few articles on Facebook where planes are dumping thousands of pounds of carrots and sweet potatoes for all the starving animals. This just has me beyond saddened 💔

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

That's true, Allie. And there are also big food drives to collect fruit and veg and people are stringing them onto thick string and going out into the bush to hang them all around the place.

Terribly sad.

[Allison]

Terri wrote: "That's true, Allie. And there are also big food drives to collect fruit and veg and people are stringing them onto thick string and going out into the bush to hang them all around the place."

❤️

[Dawn]

How is the weather for everyone??

We're having a bit of a winter storm here in Southern BC. Arctic outflow winds are making the temperatures around -10 (14F). With wind chill....-22 (-7.6F). Add some snow....
Totally not our kind of thing here, we're more about the rain!

My car doors froze shut, I had to crawl in the trunk (of a mini cooper!) to start it and then crawl out again. It took 20 minutes to thaw.

And now I have made it to work but the freeway is closed due to blowing snow (totally makes sense, I was driving 20kms (12 miles) and still couldn't see). Hopefully it opens again so I don't have to take the long way home.

[Jane]

We're lucky here in Binghamton, NY. It's like March weather today.
Dawn, I sympathize!

[May]

Dawn, that’s sounds like a gruesome day!! Hope it & your weather improved!!!

[Dawn]

It has been interesting, and not all on one day at least. The car froze on Monday. It's been good since then.

The temperatures are way too cold for me though, I am happy that I have so many pairs of gloves. And scarves.

Also, very happy I decided to buy winter tires this year, they have been very helpful.

We'll be back to rain next week thankfully!!

[happy]

We've been in a snow storm every other day or so pattern for the last week. Not a whole lot has accumulated in the valley's (I've got about 2 inches on my lawn and it all melted off the drive way) but he ski resorts are getting pounded. Temps are ranging from the mid 20's at night to mid 30's during the day - however Friday is supossed to hit 50 F adn then a really major snow storm this weekend

[happy]

Mother Nature is playing games with us here in the Utah Mountain Valleys. The day after hitting 55 F, I woke up to 6 inches of snow on my front lawn and it is still snowing! It is supposed to get down to the low teens tonight. I looks that in spite of the "Ground Hog" in PA, winter is not giving up easily :)

A good samaritan snow blowed my driveway and side walk while I was on my walk. Neither I nor Mrs Happy have any idea who it was.

[May]

Good people still abide among us!!

[Laura Tenfingers]

It's going to be 100F (38C) here today, same as yesterday. I wouldn't mind a frolick in the snow right about now! 😁

[Dawn]

Weather has been curious around Southern BC too. A week of snow, a week of rain, a day of torrential rain (washed out roads/railways, lots of flooding), a day of sun (went kayaking) and now...snowfall warning....

[Tamara]

We had 65f in Kansas City on Sunday. Just beautiful, spring-like weather.
We've got snow flurries this morning (Tuesday). And it's supposed to snow a bit tomorrow when thousands of people are expected to be lining the streets for the parade to congratulate the KC Chiefs for their super bowl win.

[Dawn]

happy wrote: "while I was on my walk...."

How is the walking going?? Back up to the mileage you wanted yet??

[happy]

Just about - walking between 5-6 mile/day, 5-6 days a week

Walking yesterday was an adventure - the snow was drifted in such a way that when I made a turn, I lost the sidewalk, stepped half on the curb and half in the gutter- fell and slammed my thigh on said curb. I got the beginnings of a nice bruse today :)

What a wierd storm - the Airport got more snow (just a hair under 9 inches) than the ski resorts: 4-8 inches. Normally the Ski resorts will get 3 or 4 times the snow as the airport

[May]

Sorry about that fall. Glad you only looking at a bruise & not a cast!! Be well!!

[happy]

I am very grateful for that fact :) like I said - wierd storm - snow normally doesn't drift enough to hide the outlines of a sidewalk. Luckily I was almost home :)

[Tamara]

happy wrote: "I am very grateful for that fact :) like I said - wierd storm - snow normally doesn't drift enough to hide the outlines of a sidewalk. Luckily I was almost home :)"

I'm glad you didn't break any bones, happy.

[happy]

Tamara wrote: "happy wrote: "I am very grateful for that fact :) like I said - wierd storm - snow normally doesn't drift enough to hide the outlines of a sidewalk. Luckily I was almost home :)"

I'm glad you didn..."

Believe me, so am I :)

[Doubledf99.99]

happy wrote: "Just about - walking between 5-6 mile/day, 5-6 days a week

Walking yesterday was an adventure - the snow was drifted in such a way that when I made a turn, I lost the sidewalk, stepped half on the..."

Glad you didn't break any bones, falls can be pretty bad. I fell in 2012, did a controlled fall, but landed on my thermos that was in my back pack, ended up with a fractured rib.
With the China virus in the AO, my walking and movie going has pretty much ceased. I'm up to 975 miles since 20 May, was hoping to hit 1000 miles by 20 Feb, but it looks like that's not going to happen now, just hope this virus outbreak peters out by mid march or early april so I can get going again.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dave, I just had a quick look at your wonderful photos! Your wife's cross stitch is an absolute beauty! I recommend our other crafty A&M members to check it out in Dave's photos. Wow. 50 pages and 7000 stitches per section to make that incredible piece. What a labour of love.