Diet pop is empty calories and crackers and some

• Okay. I'm starvin! Started on Jan 1 to not diet, but to cut my portions in HALF and sm - Starvin
  • Also one thing I've found - GINNY
  • I'm so with you! I did join WW, and it seems to be the only thing that works for me. - sm
  • 6-week body makover - mamawtypes
  • What has worked for both me and my husband... - typingal
  • Hard to do but it's working is eat only when hungry & stop when the sensation is gone. Really - listen for your hunger/satisfaction signals. nm
  • carbs are bad - pony
    • Not all carbs are bad. - froot loop
      • very true - pony
  • Here's what I did and doing again. - tbpmt
    • Failed to mention replace high calorie foods with low calorie.... - tbpmt
  • Diet pop is empty calories and crackers and some - Linda
    • Diet pop is NO calories! nm - PammyB
      • I just think it is funny that you guys - luv2type

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I only WISH I were an empty nester!!  Those kids just won't LAUNCH!! Well, not completely true.  Four have launched, one is still not terribly old, and the older one still with me is at least getting on through college. I actually have three in college right now.  (I've been single for 20 years.)

Used to take my youngest places, sometimes take my grandson. But if I want to do something, I just go.  Have driven thousands of miles alone on trips. It makes me feel young and free to get in my car and just drive while I listen to a book on CD or MP3. 

If you are actually a senior or retired, bet you could do some of those touring things and within a trip or two come up with a really great traveling companion. 

I have a close friend who will be traveling with me once I can finally launch the kids and retire.

I went through the "empty nest" 3 times.  I have 2 boys and 1 girl.  My daughter is very close to her brothers, as she is the 'baby."  We both cried when my first son got married and left the state.  We played his favorite songs and cried together, but we got over it.  Boys seem to be able to leave easier than girls.  I hear from my sons every month or so.  They live in Oklahoma, and my daughter and I live in Ohio.  My daughter is 25.  I moved to Ohio when she was 19.  When she got married, I went (and paid for) to the wedding.  That was the first time I met her "husband."  I missed her so much that my heart ached.  We were so close.  I was living here in Ohio with no family or friends and just typed all day long and that was it.  Well, one day my daughter called me and said they were coming to Ohio to live, as the job market was not good in OK.  Her husband had been a jockey and broke his ankle, and could not even ride any longer.  They came here and lived with me for 6 months until the upstairs apartment came available. She had a little girl, Autumn, 2 months before she came to Ohio.  They still live upstairs.  I see them everyday.  She had another baby, Summer, who then died of SIDS at 3 months of age.  We helped each other through the toughest thing in our lives.  She then had twins last December, Wynter and Breanna Spring.  The were born at 33 weeks, 3 pounds and 3.4 pounds.  I now watch them every morning and afternoon while she takes and picks up Autumn from school.  I am watching them right now while she is shopping. 

I am telling you this to let you know you never know what life has in store for you.  I would never had thought my daughter would be here with me, and I would be a part of her every day life.  I love it.  My grandchildren love it.  My daughter loves it, and even my son-in-law loves it.  Life can really bring you lemonaide sometimes.

And my husband is trying to tell me that means I already have everything.

Hmmm......

When my mother was dx as being diabetic, I started using sweetener substitutes, thinking that would be better than real sugar.  Dr. Gott, a physician who responds to letters much like Dear Abby in our local newspaper, had a patient write in that when she went on vacation and no longer used the sweeteners during that time, her leg pain went away. When she got back from vacation and started drinking her diet sodas and artificial sweeteners, her pain came back.  She was able to determine that she has an "allergy" to the stuff.  I only drank one diet soda a day and one cup of tea with artificial sweetener a day, but I thought I'd try this with my leg pain/issues.  Hard to believe, but it's made a world of difference.  I've been 3 weeks without the stuff and can't believe the difference.

Dr. Gott is a supporter of the no flour, no sugar diet. If it contains flour or sugar, to not eat it.  A lot of people have wrote to him with success with being on the diet. I did it for a while, did great, but like all diets I didn't make it a lifelong commitment. 

I tried this several years ago when it had another name. This is not a good deal. You are only able to eat a small amount of fat content before the diarrhea explodes and it does, really orange runny and you cannot make to the bathroom before you are really in a mess. I was watching a program just now where they were showing the amount of fat allowed with this drug and they showed even green beans had fat contents - this is not a drug that most would like.

I was also taking this med for weight loss.  At one time it was a combo of two drugs, they called them ... “Fen-phen” diet pills.  Although I did not take the combo I took the one you were inquiring about.  It made me very jumpy, but also brought out an underlying condition (diagnosed by the same doc I got the pills from), and messed up my metabolism, as well as give me High blood pressure, due to the damage the pill had caused, the two issues I have cannot be reversed and I have been living with them since that time.  Mind you, this was about 12 to 15 years ago when the combo came out.  My advice is this, do your research, talk to the docs, read, read, read, and then if you think that you will be able to work with the side effects, and  the benfits outweigh the risk, you should do what you feel is right for you. 

Yes I did lose the weight, about 60 pounds at that time but like one other person stated I gained back plus 80.  It is like a HYPER drug for your metabolism.  Please be careful and good luck. 

My sister had horrible migraines about 20 years ago to the point where she thought she had a brain tumor.  She found out that she has a  lot of allergies to food, MSG being the worst one.  She has to read labels very carefully and the big thing to stay away from is turkey.  Turkey has it's own natural MSG that would put her in bed for a day with a headache if she ate it.

I hope you find a remedy that works.

My son is having some dental issues and I would like to switch him over to sugar-free drinks...anyone know of any contraindications to an 8 YO consuming artifical sweetners?  He doesn't drink many soft drinks, mostly Gatorade and sweet tea, milk and water, but I'd like to put Splenda in his tea instead of sugar.  Thanks, y'all!

I saw a report on that on TV several weeks ago.  Evidently, the thinking is that if you're drinking diet soda you'll feel free to eat more high-caloric foods ?!?!  The only thing I've heard that's concrete about diet soda is that it can cause loose bowel movements and the carbonation saps phosphorus, which could be detrimental to bones. 

This is probably the lamest of all the scare tactics that the Food Police have come out with yet!  I believe there are factions out there who won't be satisfied until everybody is eating nothing but veggies and drinking nothing but water. 

The next lamest one I've heard is that air conditioning causes people to be overweight.  Why?  Because when you're hot you burn more calories! 

I stopped listening to "experts" a long time ago!