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.
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.
He is very smart. He knows where he is when we are driving him to the park.
They are beautiful dogs, very sweet but they can be stubborn!
I just heard a doctor say that insurance companies may start approving some of the new drugs that are out now for weight loss.
I also heard that her say that some people aren’t using these drugs appropriately.
These drugs have to be taken for a certain amount of time before they are effective.
People don’t see immediate results and they are stopping them too soon.
We have our grandpup over while my daughter is visiting her ‘long distance’ boyfriend until Tuesday.
Oh, he’s very attentive when I am spoiling him with scrambled eggs, cheese or treats, but when I call him over so I can measure the summer bandanas that I am sewing for him, he can’t be bothered to move off of the sofa! Grrrrrrr…
I found this cute fabric a beach scene on it. I am making it reversible with a check fabric on the other side. Two looks with one bandana!
I have made several bandanas for our daughter’s dog, my nephews dogs and friends’ dogs. They look so cute wearing them.
People make it sound like your a failure if you quit smoking and start again, same with dieting. I felt as more of a learning experience every time I quit I learned something, then I would try again . I think it's like that with dieting,
Never feel like a failure, when you slip , just take what you learned and start over, when your mind is in the right place again!
He had willpower that’s for sure .
So I'll keep my disfunk eating habits. Lolol
Chocolate pudding, kids push up yogurts, that are more like sugar Twizzlers, and those red fish. And extra protein boost. Is pretty much my stress diet.
It's about for me keeping something going in no matter what. So next time stress closes your throat , just keep trying till you find something you can get in and keep down
I am one of those people who simply can’t eat if I am stressed. Just the sight of food will turn my stomach.
I get sick to my stomach if I try to eat when I am overly stressed. I completely lose my appetite.
I can’t force myself to eat anything because I feel like I would throw up.
Take my coffee away and then I would be very upset! 😝
That ain't no fun either. When ever I start putting on a few pounds, I'm like no worries, I'm sure something will stress me out soon
Sence we where talking about eating healthy,
Skinny pop popcorn, is surprisingly good too
I knew I was (not celiac) but a bit wheat intolerant. Read about building the gut genome. Started eating more a variety of fruits and veggies and am now TOTALLY addicted to fruits and veggies. Go figure. I can't get enough of them, even to kimchi and Wild Brine's red cabbage and beet sour Kraut.
They say out gut has 5 POUNDS of good bacteria in a healthy genome. Mind have begun to scream for fruits and veggies even more often than Trader Joe's Classic Potato Chips, hee hee!
But whatever. Life's short. I am eating what I want to eat, and on I go. Until I don't go on, that is. At 81 I beat them all; the rest is gravy. Literally.
We all have vices or bad habits we try to change.
Mine is nicotine, I've beaten it , mostly pretty much only because if I smoke now I'd be so 🤢 . But I still crave them from time to time
I think the key for me is to not be mad at yourself when you slip up, and not give up, when you fall off the horse, you dust yourself off and get back on.