wednesday

Good morning everyone. how the heck are we today...well i am in a pair of jeans I have not had on since last summer.....guess my 2007 habits have helped some. it is cold cold cold here in arkansas. Tracy B....how are things in the world of PMS? I dont think you are being to hard on yourself...you are being cautious. Debra M......I was bron and lived in Michigan for 14 years...Mt Pleasant Laura.......girl........make some kolaches and come to arkansas....... so what am I doing.....eating buffalo chicken and getting ready to embark on the world of accounts payable.....blah. does anyone have odd eating habits??? i love to eat spaghettiO's for breakfast. lastnight once again no sleep....two hours...thats it. I will go weeks like this. Guess my new small body doesnt need sleep......help! My tailbone did not hurt, but I have damaged discs from being too big and that causes constant pain and pressure....so maybe I never felt the tail bone. I sit woth a heating pad to stay warm.....so does my Italian Greyhound. ok I am outta here.....to the land of being a wage slave. bye, Tammy

Good morning! I am at work myself. I am an accountant about to embark on some month end journal entries. Yuck!! I eat weird stuff for breakfast trying to eat protein. Lots of breakfast stuff is full of carbs and sugar so I had to learn to eat whatever necessary to get the protein in. And boy have I grossed out some coworkers with some of my meals. They really hate it when I eat tuna in the mornings. Today I had a morning star veggie corn dog. Hope you have a great day!! Wish I had your heating pad. It is 26 degrees here this morning. I am freezing my butt cheeks off. Very out of the norm for Mississippi where a cold day is 50. Melissa

Hey Tammy! Thanks for your support! So far so good today~we'll see by afternoon where things stand, LOL!!! Do I have odd eating habits?? YES!!! LOL!!! I drive dh crazy with it. I get on kicks too where I will only eat the same thing over and over and over until one day I just give it up and switch to something else. That's how I was with the buffalo chicken dip for months and now I haven't had it in sooooo long. I go thru phases of not sleeping too. Its terrible when I get in that zone b/c there are some days when I feel like I can't function due to lack of sleep. It usually passes in a month or two. Do you take anything to help you sleep?? I tried Tylenol PM and it actually made me agitated and wide awake! I had to laugh when you said you sit with a heating pad b/c that's exactly what I'm doing right now~at the puter, heating pad over my thighs, wrapped in a blanket with just my hands out to type, LOL!!!!!! I'm just not a winter girl!!!!! Hope you have a great day! Tracy

its crazy in here..............my god the heat is on 70 but is registering 63...crap it mucho freezing cold. Hey.....Melissa....where is Petal MS? I am in AR....about 12 miles from Memphis. Tracy......i need 5 heating pads..one for each foot and each hand and my lap..maybe a really nice parka and an old fashioned raccoon skin cap to keep mah ear warm. ok so I had some french fries from wendys...they sucked and I called in to complain to their corp office.....told the girl they taste like they were made on PA and shipped here. she didnt think that was too funny. I dont know why my receipt says Allentown PA when I bought them in AR???? I guess they are so nasty because thats the Lords way of saying no cheating today....ya think?? I would only have eaten about 4-6 of them. I dont like them as much anymore. so I will eat my southbeach diet turkey rollup thingy.....that sounds yummy...or not. yall need to forgive my typos....my fingernails are purple from the cold and when my hands get cold...fingers get stiff.....darn carpal tunnel anyhow. supposed to be gettin some snow...wi**** would come on. winter weather does not bother me unless the office or my home is cold..... hey ok we have hot flashes when we go thru the change of life.....I am having cold flashes....do yall think it is related???? maybe I need hormones.....maybe I need a shrink...... do various smells make yall sick? I cant smell cracker barrells food...makes me want to hurl. ok...lemme go find my healthy food.ick. i am not hungry. see ya tammy

Petal, MS is in the southern part of MS about 1 hour or so from the MS coastline. So, we were in an area that got hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. When we didn't have power for 2 weeks after that, I was wishing for some cool weather then because it was sure enough hot. Good luck on your search for healthy food. Stay away from the french fries LOL. I had a grilled chicken salad for lunch. I really wanted chocolate but my best friend pushed me in the direction of the salad. Give me strength to stay away from chocolate today. I hate PMS. Melissa

Do you ever try the sugar free candy at Wal Mart? They have sugar free turtles, baby ruth's, chocolate mints, et****ep some at my desk for those cravings.

Good Morning Ladies! Time for me to chime in. For breakfast: We have a cafe here at Health Net. They serve the same old thing normally. Eggs, hash browns, and usually some kind of breakfast sandwich, full of fat and carbs. Today they had chilaquiles, which is a Mexican dish made of a spicy sauce of some kind, corn torilla chips or cut up corn tortillas, and cheese. They are delicious, but I don't eat them much anymore because of the carbs. Well, today, they had eggs in them, and I could not resist! And they were delicious! Luckily you can get your own desired amount, so I took about 2 tbsp, and I did not finish them. I feel a little guilty, but since they had the eggs and cheese, not too much! (LOL) My crazy breakfast food is either a salad from the salad bar, or deli meat with cheese and either saltines (5) or Sun dried tomato and Basil Wheat Thins. I LOVE those crackers!! Some turkey pepperoni and a string cheese and my pouch thinks I am eating pizza! My hands are freezing, as usual. They are always freezing, even before the surgery. I guess bad circulation. But then again, I am in a constant battle with anemia. I always have to watch my iron. My mom made me some lentil soup which is delicious, and a pureed lima bean soup. Sounds gross, but it is also delicious, or am I partial to Mama's cooking? Both, maybe?? Then this past weekend she sent my oldest over with 2 bottles of Geritol Tonic, which could gross the paint off my car!, but I am faithfully taking it twice daily, as well as Ferrous sulfate, 325 mg 2 x daily, per dr instructions. Lately I am battling exhaustion, which is not a good thing since I will be starting my externship for school tomorrow night, and will be working a second job, if you will. 5 hrs a day, 5 consecutive days per week. I went to Culinary School this past summer, and to graduate, we have to complete 180 hrs at an actual restaurant. Not all of the students, like myself, have recent experience in a kitchen, so we have to do this. The last time I worked at a restaurant I was 19, back in 1985! I am scared as hell, because dummy me had to pick Slocum House, a very top rated fine dining establishment here in Sacramento, with a stellar rep and many awards for great food. So needless to say, alot is going to be expected of me. Wish me luck!! Have any of you had the iron and calcium deficiencies I am battling? Massive leg cramps from lack of enough calcium. I passed out from one of them and hit my head, large bump on the noggin! Luckily my Greg was rigt there to pick me up and tell me I passed out! The bump is still there, and this was 2 ms ago! They gave me Quinine for it, which I just found out is for treating MALARIA!! Outrageous! And will be taken off the market this year, according to my pharmacist!~ Gotta get back to work, Break is over. Let me know if you all have or have had these issues. I can take all the advise I can get! C Ya! Laura

hey I take ferrous fumerate as my iron...easy on the stomach and has a mild stool softener in it. my leg cramps went away when I started taking potassium with my vitamins. will talk later tammy