Ok!!! Let's see if I can write a message today!!! yesterday I wrote it three times and it always appeared blank.... Dear Godmother: I am soooo happy that you are having an exciting life... if somebody deserves a good life is you... I am so proud of you and your accomplishments... I hope your commute will be shorter very soon... Best Regards Alejandro from Guadalajara Mexico

Tiff, I love rice and it helps me with my fiber and the constipation issue. I only cook brown rice at home so, I eat brown rice 95% of the time. I normally do not use the instant varieties, just the long cook ones and I make both short grain and long grain. I did pick up some susmi rolls from Costco for the Super Bowl. Of course, they are made with white rice. I can eat 3 of them and then feel full. I do not experience any side affects that have pain associated with them. I think I have a pouch of steel, nothing bothers me as it relates to pain. Occasionally, it seems that I will react hypoglycemically (is that a word) with white rice. Now, brown rice takes a lot more to fill me up. Usually, I can eat a cup of BR with nothing else. I usually drink after I eat. I just heard that instant white rice is almost pure starch (nothing good and grainy is left after they process it) with is fastly converted to sugar. Sorry you had such a horrible experience! Wishing you safe travels ... God Bless! Jen

I am a carb addict, sugar is a very scaring thing. I find that still I flirt with it, dance around it and tetter on the edge of the abyss. Let me tell you it has an alure like no other. I have to tell about my one night stand with an old lover.... I had dinner at a friends, she likes to pour the wine while we cook. We had been to Christian workshop where the man speaking when on and on about a cake his wife made. Is he crazy? Does he not know that hundreds, no thousands of ladies left that arena with cake on their minds. I don't remember the details of the semon, but I can tell you about the cake he described. Well my friend (a foodie) had to bake that cake, I won't describe it, I want this to be"G" rated, well I had a couple of glasses of wine and when the cake was served, YEE HAW, I dove into that cake like it was an olympic pool from the high dive. I went from a little punchy drunk to drunk dump... I was on the floor wishing I could die. People in AA call alcohol Cunning, Baffling and Powerful, I say sugar is all that and more. Just think if the serpent would have offered Eve a Twinkee or a Snickers bar, where would we be now.

I love italian wedding soup!!! If I could eat it everyday...I probably would! April

Hey April I'm doing ok. I hung with my daughter all weekend, went out with my friends at night and ate too dang much yesterday when I crashed a couple superbowl parties. Back to another Monday! I've had a weird eating day but here it is... Breakfast: 1/2 C. Italian meatball soup.. too lazy to cook breakfast Snack: boiled peanuts Lunch: 4 hot wings, 3 broiled shrimp, few peices of raw broccoli w/ lite ranch Snack: 1 Stuffed jalapano pepper Dinner: Shredded bbq pork on botton bun only and 1/4. C. potato salad Snack: Protein shake That's it for me! Kay