I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Remember all of those Sports Illustrated swimsuit covers of the past?
Now, they are changing their image and placing women of all sizes and ages on their swimsuit cover.
It’s about time! Isn’t the average size of a woman a size 14 these days? It certainly isn’t a size 0 wearing a string bikini!
I saw where Gail King is on the cover. She’s almost 70! She was so funny in the interview.
She said that she was going to watch what she ate. They told her, “Oh no, just be yourself!” So she ate a cheeseburger the day before the photo shoot! LOL 😝
Some seasons are more active than others.
The gulf coast has certainly seen many hurricanes. Sometimes they are back to back in some areas.
Even tropical storms can do a lot of damage. It doesn’t even have to be a full blown hurricane.
A while back the city cleaned out drains. You would not believe the amount of Mardi Gras beads that were in there! 😝
Our streets flood with just a heavy downpour. It doesn’t even have to be a hurricane with massive winds and rain coming down.
Streets started flooding in areas that didn’t historically flood. So, flood insurance is a must for certain areas.
Being below sea level is not helpful either. Plus, we receive a fair amount of rainfall each year.
way - good for you. Found a London Fog trench but only in beige or black. I may buy the black. True London Fog doesn't come in colours I think.
Love the purse colours but how do you keep track changing your purses? I keep the same black one for years., Derek Alexander - lots of places to store things,
need - genetics definitely make a difference. But two of my kids are obese and neither parent is/was. Both their father and I stayed a similar weight for years with a little gain as we got older.
My 23andme DNA testing results addresses weight. I do feel like genetics plays a role in our weight.
There are lots of factors that influences our weight. It’s an ongoing struggle for most people.
Menopause was miserable for me. Others don’t experience symptoms that are severe. We are all different.
Hormones in general control so many things.
Buy yourself a new colorful trench coat or blazer , great idea!!!
I’ve taken to colorful purses, as I don’t have to worry about fluctuating weight !!
I’ve had a bright teal , and a light blue , they’ve since worn out .
Now I have a kelly green , and I just bought a lovely lavender for $20.
I find them all on clearance .
I was always thin until menopause .
A guy in my neighborhood who traveled about 80 percent of the time, had a heart attack due to eating the wrong food, while he was on the road.
He ordered all the wrong food in restaurants. He didn’t exercise at all.
His doctor told him to change his diet and exercise. He started going to the grocery store when he traveled.
He bought ingredients to make healthy salads in his hotel room. He was careful about what he ordered when he went out to eat. He lost weight and is now maintaining a healthy weight.
And working longer hours at a desk job .
My son has been working ridiculous long hours . Probably stress eating too .
My husband traveled alot for work , eating out did it for him most likely.
Metabolism does start to slow down at 30 as well though. This is why people whose habits don’t change still gain weight .
My mother in law was obese since she was 30 . She dieted and exercised in her late 50’s and up and lost alot. Now she can’t keep weight on , it’s falling off , she’s frail, thin and elderly .
I’ve gained the past year , new asthma meds with a steroid . Hard to get the weight off .
Mom’s doctor kept saying that she wanted her to gain a few pounds.
That wasn’t going to happen though, because mom never ate an entire meal at once.
She would take a bite here and there. She didn’t have a healthy appetite.
It is true in a way , I’ve known people who lost 20 or more pounds during a stint in the hospital .
Insurance has been covering it 100% .
However he recently received a letter that our mail away pharmacy for our RX plan is having trouble getting Trulicity in stock due to shortages .
You’re right. It’s complicated. All of it, insurance issues and how meds affect us.
Mom used to say that meds will help in one area and hurt us in another area. So, there is constant monitoring of how much they affect us.
I spent a fortune when I was going through fertility treatments. Nothing was covered back then by insurance. Not sure if it is now or not. I know that they were pushing for it to be covered.
It was frustrating because someone could get a nose job covered by insurance, by saying that they had a deviated septum, but I couldn’t get coverage for a legitimate medical issues.
In California we are learning that insurance companies can simply throw up their arms and leave. That's what is happening with both Farmers and State Farm. Simply leaving our fire ridden state. They are now sending drones over homes and finding any little thing they can to cancel policies. Some just not renewing. We will soon find our homes uninsured, or insured at enormous cost to all.
There's never an easy answer to anything out there. Everything has "side effects".
I get it. Siblings have their ups and downs in life.
I got to the same point where you are. It’s not worth arguing over. It’s either going to come out in the wash or it’s not.
I was very fortunate that my brothers and I found healing in our relationship later on.
Most of the time the people who are bothering us, don’t give a crap about how we feel and they don’t waste time on caring about us.
So, why should you care about what they think? In the end, you have to do what is right for you. For some people that means calling someone out, others it means to ignore it.
I find it sad if people are hurt by others so deeply that the relationship is permanently damaged, but that happens sometimes.
nacy - It is hard. He is very bright and I am sure he does understand, but he hasn't yet decided that his health is more important than his desire to eat like that. Hopefully after he has tried everything else, he will work on his eating habits, but I am not holding my breath. He is 55 so he's not that young. It all went on after he and g'f stopped smoking about 10 years ago, They both gained weight. Before that he was always skinny.
((((hugs))) to you for this hard week. Treat yourself to something!
Sorry that you are having a rough time. It’s never easy being a caregiver.
I watched Super Size Me documentary a long time ago. It was a great documentary about how junk food negatively affects our health.
Morgan was only 53. He died from cancer. Wasn’t his girlfriend either vegetarian or vegan? I remember her saying in the documentary that she didn’t want him to eat McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
My coworker said that she was very depressed and anxious when she was going through her breast cancer treatments.
She was placed on meds and gained weight which made her feel more depressed.
I felt badly for her because she said that as long as she was taking the meds that she didn’t think she would lose any weight.
need - as far as I know most antid's cause weight gain in most people who take them. My dd is an exception, fortunately. At the end of her life, mother went up sizes when she was medicated for depression and dementia. I had to buy new sets of clothing for her. I'm not sure that dieting helps a lot with that. It's a bit of a catch 22 - get depressed, take antid's, gain weight, get depressed...
On another subject, some of my clothing took a bit of a beating during the move - two rain coats, in fact missing a button each. I'm past sewing on buttons, but R might do it for me, One coat was mother's and one is a lovely London Fog gaberdine belted trench coat I have had for over 40 years so it doesn't owe me anything, but still looks good, That fabric never looses its pizzazz. Maybe it's time for a new one and in a bright colour!!!
He is younger and will hopefully change. My dad diabetic, lived on white bread, pasta, and potatoes, couldn't get them to understand for nothing why they should cut way back on that stuff.
My oldest is in the hospital with kidney stones, it's not a surprise, runs in the family from his dad's side
He will be fine.
Funny though, my first instinct is to not tell mom, my sister's instinct would be call mom and tell them he might be getting a kidney removed. I just don't understand why she does that!
Some people are on meds that interfere with a person losing weight.
I think it’s sad that a person will go on meds for their mental health and it causes weight gain, so they have to deal with that too.
A woman that I worked with told me that when she was going through cancer she started taking meds to help her cope.
She started gaining weight and her doctor told her that weight gain was common with the drug that she was taking.
Huskies are awesome dogs, and definitely very stubborn and independent, but they do it with a smile.🐕
Alva - you mentioned Ozempic. Oldest son, who is diabetic, is on that. It hasn't helped him so far and he hasn't changed his eating habits - reuben sandwiches and fries are not a good choice for a diabetic - mainly bread and potatoes. He is trying everything except changing his eating habits. I said it a few times but not any more, Both he and his g/f are obese and suffering the consequences and it will only get worse as they age, but mother (me) has to keep her trap shut unless asked. It's not always easy when you hear the litany of woes that are due entirely to bad eating habits.
The cost is amazing. Right now there is Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro.
I have seen some people experience side effects, while others don’t. Drugs affect everyone differently.
My primary care doctor’s nurse has lost 50 pounds since she started taking Ozempic. She says that she feels better after losing weight and is not having side effects.
I barely recognized her when she walked into the room and I said, ‘You lost a lot of weight!’ She shared her story with me.
I hope insurance companies will start paying for these drugs and give people who are struggling with obesity a chance to lose weight.
Given the cost of it I find this utterly shocking.