Hello to you!

Cold (40's) day here with drizzling rain.

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Today's Weight: 143.2 (3.2 to goal!)
Highest Weight: 205.0

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Merry Christmas to you!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Chilly day here in the south...just the other day we were in the 70's!

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Today's Weight: 143.8 (lowest in 7 years)
Highest Weight: 205.0 (early 1998)
Goal Weight...... 140.0 (3.8 til goal)

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Christians, I ask you to please pray for my Mom.

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Merry Christmas to you!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Chilly day here.
Cleaned house.
Visited Mom afternoon. She doing ok. She had gone to a Christmas party for the residents.
Went to a church Christmas party evening.
Spent some time with other friends afterward.


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Today's Weight: 144.0
Highest Weight: 205.0
BMI: 21.9

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Merry Christmas to you!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Sunny, cool day today. Hubby and I put up a Christmas tree and decorated it last nite.

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Today's Weight: 144.8 (lowest since 2002)
Highest Weight: 205.0 (in 1998)
BMI: 22.0
When I got on the scale this morning and saw new low, I realized I really can reach 140.0 goal weight (again). Thing is, not giving in to overeating food for comfort or for recreation or for any other reason. It has taken work and time but mostly simply not giving in to overindulgence to reach the current number. I have sweets (my fav) in the house but they are put away for a proper time to enjoy them in calories allotment. So they are not in plain view. No, I don't think I have 'arrived' re: temptation, but I have a different outlook now certainly. There are other things to do than overeat....ex: reaching out and helping others in need, letting them know someone cares and showing it as well. It has been a big fight this year to get rid of over 20 lbs so far. I remember when I was at goalweight in 2002 and what did I do??? I let it slip slowly away. Granted, I was under extreme stress at the time and allowed myself to regain a lot of weight I'd struggled in losing prior to that. I didn't realize the gift of the size and weight I was at that time, but I have a renewed appreciation today of where I am now, with all the struggle to get back here and I do not plan to turn it loose as I proceed on to 140.0 goalweight, nor after attaining goalweight. It is fun to put on size 8 100% cotton levis jeans and have very comfy, even room-to-spare fit instead of trying on a pair, and lack 4 inches of
the zipper meeting to zip! So I now wear size 8 and am happy I do. My eating habits have really changed this year. I not only count calories, I am using 'food-combining' as well. I try to balance high carbs with low carbs to keep glycemic index number from getting too high. I don't always do this, but I do this most of the time. Also, I walk a lot. Physical activity aids fatloss. 2 people can weigh the same, be the same height and have lots of other similarities, but the one who doesn't move much may be larger than the one who does. So physical activity as well as calories counting in staying within the limit of what works for you is important in getting to goalweight and becoming a certain size.

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Merry Christmas!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

The sun is shining brightly here in SC!

Will someone explain to me in comments how I can get the disallowed directory text off the left side if this blog?

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Today's Weight: 145.6 (new low!)
Highest Weight: 205.0 (in early 1998)
BMI: 22.1

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Merry Christmas to you!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Rainy day here.
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Today's Weight: 145.8...(lowest since 2002)
Highest Weight: 205.0...(1998)
Goal Weight: 140.0

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Merry Christmas to you!
Jesus is the reason for the season!

Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Cloudy chilly day here in SC.

Got call yesterday evening after I'd visited Mom earlier, reminding her that she will be spending Thanksgiving with Hubby and me and some of our family, wbich Mom is very happy about, that Mom had fallen because she tried to get out of her wheelchair unassisted and into her bed after she'd wheeled herself from the dining room to her room without anyone knowing. Nurse said Mom ok and said same today.

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Today's Weight: 146.2 (lowest this year)
Highest Weight: 205.0 (in 1998)
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Happy Thanksgiving to you! Don't forget to give thanks to the Lord for all His many blessings, something we should do EVERY day!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

We've been getting lots of rain and gusty wind from Tropical Storm Ida, which came into the states through the gulf.

Mom's doing okay. Hubby is also.

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Today's Weight: 146.8 ( lowest this year and lowest since 2002). Have been wearing size 8 non-stretch levis jeans very comfortably for months now. New goal is 145.0 before Thanksgiving. Ultimate goal is 140.0.
Highest Weight: 205.0. (1998)
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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Foggy and pretty morning here, around 75 degrees fahrenheit. We may get rain later today.

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Today's Weight: 148.8 (yayyyy!!! Not quite to newest goal yet, but close! Just happy to finally be in the 140's again!!! Am continuing to enjoy wearing size 8's again!)
Highest Weight: 205.0 (early 1998)

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Hubby and I are resting after coming home from church and visiting afterward.

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Today's Weight: 150.0
Highest Weight: 205.0

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Hubby and I had a meeting this morning, then we went to the next larger town over and priced materials to repair our fence after eating lunch together at a buffet restaurant.

Came back home to see that Mom had called, want us to come to the nursing home no doubt, nevermind we were there twice yesterday...she was upset her watch battery had gone out and wanted us to take it and get it fixed and bring it back to her yesterday, which Hubby and I did. I called and talked to her nurse, who said she is fine and taking a nap.

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Today's Weight: 150.2 (Finally made goal set 3 weeks ago to lose 2 lbs. in 1 week..... Took a little longer....now new goal is 148.2 within 7 days...by next Friday!)
Highest Weight: 205.0 (in early 1998)

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

It is a beautiful, sunny morning in the fifties here in SC.

Hubby is off work a few days so we plan to spend some time together as well as visit Mom at the nursing home today.


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Today's Weight: 150.6 (almost at new 150.4 goal!)
Highest Weight: 205.0

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

It is a beautiful, cool (54 degrees) autumn morning here in SC.

Mom and I had a pleasant outing yesterday. I bought her a Thomas Kincade calendar that has different paintings and sayings on each individual day-page about the size of one's hand across. We had lunch at a farmers market and I wheeled her around and bought her some fruit she picked out. Before taking her back I got us ice cream sundaes w 10 cherries each (we love them), at a drive-in restaurant. We spent over 3 hours together. We laughed together and acted goofy and had a good time.
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Today's Weight: 150.8
Highest Weight: 205.0

Exercise in moderation (1/2 to 2 miles walking, cycling, etc. 3-4 times a week with weights on), high-protein small breakfast (around 300 cals or so), high-protein OR low-carb biggest meal of the day lunch (around 700 to 1000 cals), low-carb small supper (around 150 or so), late nitesnack preferably liquid, as in decaf tea or coffee and sugarfree jello (around 50 cals). All low sodium. This adds up to 1200 to 1500 cals/day but does vary.

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Fixing to go to the nursing home and get Mom and take her out on our weekly outing.

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Today's Weight: 151.4
Highest Weight: 205.0

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Nice day today in SC. Was out and about a little, taking care of some business.

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Today's Weight: 151.8
Highest Weight: 205.0
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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Pretty, sunny day in the 80's here.

I've been back and forth to the nursing home, visiting Mom as well as I took her out to lunch at the Cracker Barrel Restaurant, my treat, this past Thursday. We had the turkey, dressing, and gravy and sweet potato suffle with cornbread and biscuits and tea. After we ate, we looked in the store part of the restaurant where they already have up Christmas displays and Mom bought me a pretty Christmas mug, red, with holly trim around the edges and she bought herself a pretty snowman soft figurine that is now set on her shelf by her window, which is by her bed.

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Today's Weight: 152.2
Highest Weight: 205.0
Struggling just to hold on to where I'm at, nevermind get to 150.4.
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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

It is a pretty, warm, sunny morning here in S. C.


I visited a sleepy Mom yesterday at the nursing home and sat with her as she resumed her afternoon nap I'd awakened her from.

Today's plan, Lord willing, is go to a nearby church (not the one we attend) and buy 2 fish dinner boxes (they are cooking and selling fish dinners today) for Hubby and me. He is working today so his will be for his supper. Mine will be either lunch or supper, not sure which one yet.

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Today's Weight: 152.0. (Yep, already working on the 150.4 within 6 more days, Lord willing. Still doing extra walking and calories counting, as usual.)
Highest Weight: 205.0. (In 1998...and went down 50 lbs. within a year to 155.0.)

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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Hubby and I are hoping to, Lord willing, go on a mountain vacation next month to celebrate our upcoming 20th wedding anniversary.

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Today's weight: 152.4
Highest weight (1998): 205.0
Still wearing size 8 jeans but would like to fit into them even more comfy so goal is to be at 150.4 within 7 days. That should be easy enough. Have still been doing extra walking on treadmill as well as pushing Mom in her wheelchair on our weekly outings when taking her shopping/and or/out to lunch.

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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Today I went and got Mom and we went to Cracker Barrel, her treat, for lunch. She is doing well, thank the Lord.

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Highest Weight (1998): 205.0 (Weighed 155.0 within a year.)
Today's Weight: 152.4

Okay, up 1 and yes, I DID consume 3500 extra calories since last posting BUT I've also been walking more, too.
I'm still down 15 from highest weight this year.
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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you.

Looks like we've got rain on the way. This will probably help cool down the high-90's temps we South Carolinians have been having lately.

I went and got Mom from the nursing home yesterday and took her shopping, which is what she chose to do on our weekly outing. She got 8 tops and a pair of pants. We had a nice time together.

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Highest Weight: 205.0
Today's Weight: 151.4
I have been doing a lot of walking on the treadmill as well as other places and keeping a close tally on calories during the day. I am down 16 from my highest weight earlier this year. I can now wear ALL my size 8 100% cotton Levi's jeans, a 7 year goal attained. Although the new scale I bought recently registers my weight at 151.4, Mom's old scale I was using before this one registers my weight at 147 (highest on it earlier this year was 163).

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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you.

Went to church this morning and this afternoon visited Mom, who is doing well, at the nursing home.


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Highest Weight: 205.0
Today's Weight: 151.8.
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Another pretty, sunny morning here in SC.

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Highest Weight: 205.0
Today'sWeight: 152.8
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Hubby is back to work today. While off work a few days, he and I took Mom out to lunch and shopping the other day. Hubby and I enjoyed sort if a 'mini-vacation' together, traveling to the next town over and walking around, etc.

Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you!

We are still having very warm (90's) weather here. Sunshine/Afternoon storms this week.

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Highest Weight: 205.0
Today's Weight: 152.8

Still doing more protein, as in having it with most meals. Still counting calories. Finally let go of the nitetime food binges. Do NOT miss them, either, as protein is helping me stay feeling full.
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Hubby is doing well. So is Mom...I visit her a lot...took her to the optimologist (sp?) the other day and she got nice, new eyeglasses, thanks to the Lord.

Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!
Love, Maria

Hello to you.

Pretty, sunny day today here in S.C.

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Highest Weight: 205.0
Today's Weight: 153.8

Have been including protein most times when eat. Also moving a LOT lately.
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Yesterday was church and also my Aunt and I had lunch together at Cracker Barrel, her treat. Later I visited Mom at the nursing home. I took her fresh peaches again that she likes, and we sat on the front porch, talking and she ate most of the peaches.

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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Hello to you!

This has been a busy summer thus far. Hope all is well with you.

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Highest Weight: 205.0
Today's Weight: 155.0
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Recently, Hubby was off work a few days and we, with the Lord's help, installed a new back door with locks and chains, replacing the original door that was broken in on a while back. It took us 2 days to do the work, but was cheaper than hiring someone to install the door and hardware.

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Mom is doing pretty well...still visiting her as well as taking her out to lunch, etc.

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Hope you have a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Hello to you!

It is a pretty, sunny morning here in South Carolina.

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Today's Weight: 153.6

Highest Weight: 205.0

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Later...Mom called this morning and I went to the nursing home and wheeled her out onto the front porch and we sat in the rocking chairs, talking for a while. She was fine...just a little bored, I think, when she'd called, asking me to come over. We had a good visit.

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Hope you have a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Today was a warm, rainy, summer day.


Yesterday, Hubby and I took Mom out to lunch at Golden Corral Buffet. Afterward, we went shopping and got her three shirts she
picked out that she liked. She is doing well. We had a nice outing together.

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Today's Weight: 154.2 (This is on the newer scale, which weighs about 5 pounds more than the older one I was previously using. Also, I have FINALLY begun wearing my non-stretch size 8 Levi's jeans again, which has been one of my goals for the past 7 years. I am continuing to monotor calories and get extra walking done.)
Highest Weight: 205.0

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Hope you are having a nice evening/day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Hello to you!

Hubby and I just returned home from pricing new tv's in different stores (his tv doesn't come on and stay on)...Then we ate out at Golden Corral....

Also we visited Mom, who is doing okay.

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Today's Weight: 155.8 (yayyyy cause this is on new higher-weighing scale purchased recently.)
Highest Weight: 205.0

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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Hello to you.

Mom is continuing to improve from her fall at the nursing home. She is still very bruised, however, and her arm is still having to be kept bandaged.

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Today's Weight: 158
I bought a new scale that weighs about 5 pounds heavier than the scale I was using...although it weighs just about the same (slightly more) as the one at the grocery store. But I have gained a little.
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It has been very warm and humid here. Hubby and I planted a new flower garden last week, with colorful day lilies, yellow lantana, red cannard, and other flowers in it, surrounded with red mulch.

Hubby is working today and I have been cooking mackeral stew (also cooked Hubby's supper, roasted steak and baked 'fries' potatoes) and washing clothes.

Hope you are having a wonderful day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Hello to you.

Mom had a bad fall at the nursing home this past Monday. Thank the Lord, no broken bones but she is very bruised and swollen along
the right side of her jawbone as well as some skin was sheared off her right forearm and it, too, was badly bruised. She is slowly
getting better, though, and I took her on our weekly outing the other day and we spent a couple hours together....we went to the local
farmer's market in the next town over, which we both like to do. I have been going back and forth daily to visit her since last
week.
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Today's Weight: 153.0. (Yaaaaaay!)

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Fixing to walk on treadmill.
Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Hello to you.
Our home was broken into last week and some things were taken, including my laptop computer. Happened while we were not at home. So we are okay, thank the Lord.
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Today's Weight: 155.0
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the
Lord.

Love,
Maria

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Hello to you! Just got back home a little while ago. Hubby and I have been gone since this morning (he is off work today). While out we got a few things Mom sent for and took them to her at the nursing home. She is doing real well, thank the Lord. We also looked at some used vehicles for sale. We ate lunch at Golden Corral. I did real well with not overdoing it but nitetime is when I am usually tempted to overeat.

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Highest Weight 205.0...
Today's Weight 159.0...(UP, UP, and AWAY!!!)
Goal Weight 145.0 (Changed from 140.0).

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Is Jesus Your Lord and Saviour?

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Hello to you! Just got back from worship services at church a little while ago.

I thank the Lord today for His Presence in my life and in the lives of many others. I know that He is REAL. I am thankful for the gift of everlasting life through Jesus, God's only begotten Son. If you don't have Him in your life, today is the day of salvation! Please ask him to be Lord of your life and save you today. Jesus is coming back again...Are you ready to meet Him?

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

The Last of the Cake...

Hello to you!

It has been a beautiful day here in South Carolina and other than take care of a little business up town, I've stayed home and RESTED today....and OVERATE. I 'DID' finish off the cake Daughter baked for part of my Mother's Day gift and it was a LARGE ICED DECORATED- BEAUTIFULLY CAKE and Hubby only had one piece that was NOT big, he said. Well...I ENJOYED IT!!!

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Highest Weight: 205.0

Today's Weight: 154.5 (GAINED!)

Goal Weight.......140.0

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Today's Food:

Breaky began with one of my favs that I craved: FRIED BREAD 200, and scrambled eggs 160, coffee w creamer 10 and sugar 15 and cold tea w sugar 15 (400) YUM! It was GOOD!

Lunch: Frozen entree turkey/peas/mashed potatoes mic'd 280, tea w sugar 15, (695)

Afternoon snack: The REST OF THE CAKE 500, Popcorn (what's giving in to cake without giving in to popcorn, too?) 100, tea w sugar 15 (1310) (SHOULD HAVE STOPPED HERE!!!)

Supper: (WHAT?)....1 whiting fish baked 265, slaw 50, long green string beans 50, baked potato strips 50, tea w sugar 15 (1675) HAD I STOPPED HERE, AT LEAST I WOULD NOT BE HAVING ANOTHER GAIN!!!)

SNACK: (TO CALM EXTRA STRESS TODAY)...very large chocolate cone of ice cream 350, peanutbutter crunch bar 300, baked chips 130, tea w sugar 15, water 0 (2590)

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Exercise: Walked uphill 20 minutes on treadmill.

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Hope you're having a blessed evening in the Lord!

Love, Maria

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Mom Comes Home With Us For A While

Hello to you! Our first orange daylily is in bloom...so pretty!It has been a very busy day here. First, this morning, Hubby and I went for a long walk in our neighborhood and visited a neighbor-friend. Then a little later, Hubby and I left out to go get Mom and bring her over here to the house for a while...she'd been wanting to come. I fixed her a chicken salad s/w, some watermelon, and a pineapple smoothie (which she drank all of...but had 2 teaspoons of sugar added to hers)...She called and talked to some of her friends on the phone while here. We had to take her back after she was with us a couple of hours, so she could do her afternoon therapy (she'd already done her morning physical therapy)...Hubby and I are back home now, resting a little while before mid-week church service tonite.

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Highest Weight: 205.0

Today's Weight: 154.0

Goal Weight:......140.0

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Food today:

Breaky: Coffee w creamer and sugar 25, lite wheat toast w a little margerine 65 (90)

Lunch: Watermelon 100, chicken salad s/w on 2 lite wheat breads 200, tea w 1 tsp. sugar 15 (405)

Supper: Turkey/green peas/mashed pototoes entree (frozen kind) that was mic'd 280, med. corn on cob 150, 2 teas w 1 tsp. sugar each 30, baked veggies 50, popcorn 100, some of Daughter's cake (I had a BIG sweets craving) 685 (1700)

Snack: More of Daughter's cake 400, baked potato chips 130, tea w sugar 15 (2245)...(ewwww!) Too much cake again today!!!!!

Exercise: Hubby and I walked about 1 mile in neighborhood.

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Evening update: Hubby and I went to church and after the music, we left and went to a hospital in another town and visited my cousin...Christians, I ask you to please pray for him...also visited with his sister, who was there with him.

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Hope you're having a wonderful day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

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Taking Care of Business

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Hello to you! It is a beautiful, sunny, warm (75 fahrenheit) day here in South Carolina.

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Hubby (who is off work today) and I went this morning and took care of some business, then ate lunch out (buffet and I was good with calories) and afterward, we visited Mom at the nursing home, who is doing real well. We took her some chocolate milk and a box of prunes. I also took her some more of her things...more stationary, etc.

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Before we came back home, we stopped by the library and I got a few videos to watch on t.v.

I hope this color is more legible...if yes or no, please let me know.

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Highest Weight: 205.0

Today's Weight: 154.0

Goal Weight: 140.0

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Today's Food:

Breaky: Coffee w creamer and sugar 25, iced tea w sugar 15 (40)

Lunch: (Small amounts of).... beef, rice, cornbread, corn, onion, cucumber, tomato, soft serve vanilla ice cream, peaches, banana, and also had a glassful of sweet tea (640)

Snack: Corn on cob 150, tea w sugar 15 (805)

Snack: lf bologna s/w w 2 lite wheat toasts, lf mayo, and onion 150, sunflower seeds 80 (1035)

Supper: Mixed veggies baked (about 2 cupsful) 125, water 0 (1160)

Exercise: Playing piano

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Hope you're having a wonderful day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Sorting Out and Storing Mom's Things for Her

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Hello to you! It has been a rainy day today. Hubby is home and we've been getting caught up on a few things that have needed doing around the house and outside. I went through a lot of Mom's things that we brought home from the first nursing home she was in and also from the hospital...had to decide what to store and what to throw out...threw out stuff mostly like partly-used personal stuff she'd had in the hospitals. Got a call today from Mom's wound-care nurse that one of Mom's feet (not the one that was the worst) is completely well! Thank You, Jesus! And thank you, Christians, for your prayers!

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Food today:

Breaky: Coffee w sugar and creamer 25, piece of cake Daughter baked for me 300 (325)

Lunch: Cheeseburger (Hubby bought for me while we were out a little while earlier) 400, tea (from same place) sweetened w sugar 100 (825)

Snack: Baked squash/zuchini/onion 100, tea (made at home) sweetened w a little sugar 75 (1000)

Supper: Some of Daughter's homebaked cake 900 (1900)

Snack: Watermelon 100 (2000)

Exercise: Cleaning out a room that had some of Mom's stuff stored in it and relocating most of it to a closet...about an hour's work...also vacumming carpet.

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Happy Mothers' Day!

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Hello to you. Hubby and I just got back a little while ago from going to church today, then eating lunch at Golden Corral Restaurant Buffet, then visiting Mom (who is doing well, had her hair permed yesterday but since it was too curly, she wanted it rolled again, so I rolled it for her...She had on her new beige palm tree jogging suit I bought her for part of her Mother's Day gifts and I took her photo....and Hubby, she, another resident, and I sat outside in the shade on the front porch for a good while and sung gospel songs, excluding Hubby who preferrs to just listen) at the nursing home and also Hubby and I visited Hubby's Uncle, who resides there as well (and seems to be doing well, too).

I just a few minutes ago had some of the homebaked cake Daughter made for me for part of my Mother's Day gift (btw, Happy Mother's Day to all the ladies!...Mother or not, you are still wished a happy Mother's Day!) and it is DELICIOUS!!!

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Today's Weight: 154.0

Highest Weight: 205.0

Goal Weight: 140.0

Today's Food:

Breaky: Coffee w creamer and sugar 25, 1 lite wheat toast w a little margerine 65, peppermint candy 20, butterscotch candy 20, water 0 (130)

Lunch (buffet): About 1000 calories...which included a little desert (some of the following were in very small amounts...steak, creamed potatoes, brussel sprouts, yeast roll w honey butter, sweet potato, pizza, veggies, hushpuppy, chocolate cake, orange soft-serve ice cream and tea sweetened with splenda) (1130)

Supper: 1 lite wheat toast w a little margerine 65, ...2 pieces of Mother's Day cake Daughter baked for me 500, tea sweetened with splenda 0, water 0 (1695)

Snack: lf popcorn 100, water 0 (1795)

Exercise: Wheeling Mom around the nursing home parking lot.

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Hope you're having a wonderful day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

Third Post

Hello to you! It is a pretty, sunny, warm (90 degrees fahrenheit) day here in South Carolina. This morning, Hubby and I went to a large farmers market and bought fresh tomatoes, yellow squashes, zuchinis, cucumbers...and also we purchased some red mulch for the flower garden.

After we left the market, Hubby drove us to a store in the next town over and surprised me with something I've wanted for a very long time....a SNOW CONE machine!!! He got it for me for my Mothers' Day gift. So SWEET of him! Then, we went to Golden Corral Buffet Restaurant and ate lunch together. I had about 550 calories, which is a large lunch but I used to have twice that much, and most of what I ate there today was veggies and no desert.

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Today's Weight: 155.0

Top Weight: 205.0

Goal Weight: 140.0

Today's Food:

Breaky: 1 lite wheat toast w a little margerine 65, coffee w creamer and sugar 25 (90)

Lunch at GC buffet: Veggies 100, sunflower seeds 100, t.i. dsg. 100, fruit 25, bread 50, noodles 25, rice & gravy 50, mashed potatoes 25, a little chicken meat 25, sweet potato 50, tea 0 (640)

Snack: Sunflower seeds 80, tea 0 (720)

Snack: 1 glazed donut (at a friend's home) 200 (920)

Supper: lf weiner 40, pineapple smoothie 120, water 0 (1080)...a little low on today's calories but rather than try to 'fix it' tonite at almost 11 p.m., and maybe go overboard, guess I'll just have a little extra calories tomorrow instead.

Exercise: Walked about 1/2 mile w Hubby at Farmers Market.

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Evening update: After Hubby and I visited friends, and met her Mom and Sister who were down, we came back home and I left a little later and visited Mom at the nursing home, who is doing well and I assured her the beautician was still coming to put a permanent in her hair...something Mom has been wanting done...at the home. I gave Mom a large package of fresh strawberries and she and I had a couple of them together while I was visiting before I left to come back home. A little while after I got home, Daughter came over and brought me a Mother's Day CAKE she baked for me! (I didn't even know she could bake a cake!) It was decorated beautifully, with Happy Mother's Day, Mom written on top of the white icing in red on it and also I love you and her name under that. SWEET! She also gave me a beautiful, cute Mother's Day card and 3 more gifts in a pretty gift bag...a coffee mug with a rooster on it, a rooster wall plaque, and a little flowery garden wall plaque, too. She stayed and visited a while.

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Tonite has been partly spent taking up a top I bought yesterday at the thrift store and also changing a pair of jeans I bought there into capris jeans...what some might call 'pedal-pushers', hehehe.

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PRAYER OF SALVATION
Lord Jesus, I confess that I have sinned against You in the way I have lived my life. I am truly sorry and I want to turn from my selfish ways and follow You. I hand my life over to You, knowing that You have paid the price for my sin by shedding Your Blood and dying on the cross for me. Lord I ask You to forgive me for all my sins and take control of every area of my life. I receive my salvation now according to Your promise: "All who call on the name of the Lord, will be saved." Thank you Jesus.

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord! Don't forget to go to a Bible-believing church and worship tomorrow, that teaches about God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Love, Maria

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For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Hello to you! It is a pretty, sunny day here today and very warm...
80's fahrenheit....

I went to the nursing home this morning and Mom was doing her therapy so I went into the dining room where one of my friends was having a Christian program with piano playing and singing for the residents, and I joined her in singing and playing the piano, songs to the Lord!

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Today's weight: 155.5

Highest weight: 205.0

Goal weight: 140.0

Today's Food

Breaky: lite wheat toast w a little margerine 65, coffee w creamer and sugar 25 (90)

Lunch: Grilled barbequed chicken 300, slaw 50, splenda tea 0 (440)

Snack: snack pack of nekot (peanut butter) cookies 240, splenda tea 0 (680)

Supper: Chili hot dog w beef weiner and onions 400, splenda tea 0 (1080)

Snack: hot dog on 1 lite wheat bread, 40, lf weiner 40, onion, ketchup, mustard 20, splenda tea 0 (1180)

Snack: Pineapple Smoothie 140 (1320)

Exercise: Walked w Hubby about a mile in neighborhood carrying weights.

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Hope you're having a wonderful day in the Lord!

Love, Maria

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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16












Hello to you!


Turned out to be a beautiful day today after a morning beginning with a loud thunderstorm that ROARED through before Hubby left for work.



I went and got Mom this morning and took her out to an early Mothers' Day lunch at Cracker Barrel in lieu of taking her out on Sunday when the restaurants are usually overcrowded on Mothers Day...she chose the special of the day, as did I...turkey and dressing...yum. We had a window seat. After we finished eating, she wanted to go shopping, so shopping we went! I bought her a gorgeous palm trees (with rhinestones on the top) beige pants outfit and she bought herself another beige pantsuit with with stripes and embroidered flowers on it. We had a nice time together.


After taking Mom back to the nursing home, I went to the grocery store before coming back home and since there were people cooking outside, who were cooking different meats on a grill, I bought Hubby's and my supper...grilled, barbequed chicken...also went inside the store and bought cabbage slaw and came home and made slaw (actually just added a little lowfat mayo and stirred)to go with the chicken for our suppers. It was good and the chicken was cooked so tender and seasoned 'just right'.

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Today's Weight: 156.5

Highest Weight:205.0

Goal Weight: 140.0

Today's Food:

Breaky: 1 lite wheat toast w a little margerine 65, coffee with sugar and creamer 25 (90)

Lunch at Cracker Barrel: Turkey, dressing, tossed salad w a little t.i. dsg, sweet potato soufle, 1/2 cornbread muffin, and tea sweetened with splenda (700)

Supper: Grilled barbequed chicken 300, slaw 100, splenda tea 0 (1100)

Snack: Pineapple smoothie 120 (1220)

Exercise: Walked uphill on treadmill 20 minutes.

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Hope you're having a blessed day in the Lord!

Love, Maria