Hello!

[DiannaG]

Thanks to Lisa and Carole for your support - I really do appreciate it! I'll check out the links you gave me Carole (thanks!)

Just to clarify a few things though... the big thing is that I DO NOT have my mothers support. She'd be extremely happy if I continued to gain weight and followed in her footsteps.

About a year ago, my daughter and I moved into my parents house to help out with the cooking and cleaning and general housekeeping... since my mother had limited mobility, the house was being neglected and my parents were eating mostly take-out food each night at dinner. I moved in and started fixing healthier meals (Mostly baking and broiling the meats) and my mother HATED my cooking. She's one who used to save the bacon fat to use in her cooking... she used a bunch of vegetable oil in all of her cooking... most things were fried... ICK. Any veggies were cooked so long that they were mushy and had lost their nutrition... ICK again! (sometimes she even fried the veggies!)

Okay, she told me one night that she wanted me to make spaghetti for dinner... but I had to cook it HER WAY. And she wrote out the directions... one of the steps was "brown the ground beef for the sauce, DO NOT DRAIN, add Ragu sauce and heat until hot and boiling" I drained it anyways and told her that I didn't. (ewwww)

Anytime I would announce that I was going to start eating less carbs, suddenly she'd want me to fix more items with carbs in them. She'd want pasta a lot for dinner - or some rice and potato dish...

that's just the way she is!

And as far as the exercise goes, I'm getting it!! I mentioned that I've begun working at a daycare, well in the afternoons I go back to do some heavy cleaning in the classrooms... the sweeping, mopping and vacuuming are really tiring me out!! I'm already down about 5 lbs in these 2 weeks since I started!! (and that first week I was eating like I always do, and lost a couple of pounds!)

[DiannaG]

I recieved my book in the mail yesterday - I'm about a 1/4 of the way through it, so far. Good Stuff.

I glanced through it before I started reading and it looks like I'll need to go out and get some vitamin supplements soon. Right now all I take are Vitamin C and Fish Oil.

[imagood1]

Diana -- we'll have to stick together. My mother lives with us (has for a little over a year) -- she is diabetic but because of her age the endocrinologist isn't real strict with her. As I'm sitting here she just took her blood sugar reading and since she's at 84 she's going to have a molassas cookie...

I've just got to the point where what she eats doesn't bother me - I cook meals for her & the hubs and I modify things I can eat. We are all having chicken tonight but I'm having parmesean chicken and they are having fried chicken. They are having mashed potatoes and gravy -- I'm having cauliflower mashed with butter and a little cream (looks and tastes like mashed potatoes) we'll have broccoli as our veggie and a salad.

As long as I don't make a big deal about it she doesn't say much - in the beginning I would ask her not to eat sweets around me (I'm diabetic also) but she continued to - so I figured what the heck - she's making me stronger by doing this...I don't let her bother me!

Good luck!