For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15
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Hello, Friends...
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Hubby 
and I went to the farmers market this morning and bought fresh squash, scupponong grages, tomato, okra, cucumber, and peaches.
Then we visited Mom
at the nursing home and I took down her hair I had washed and rolled yesterday and combed it out.
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Scale showed weight is 155 this morning...The weight I was at when I first came to DD 18 years ago....Smile! At that time I had lost 50 pounds before finding this wonderful community of friends at DD, so I guess this means that at least I am maintaining...
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 50 lbs lost so far, only 5 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15
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Hello, Friends...
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Hubby and I visited Mom at the nursing home again today and I washed and rolled her hair. We had a good visit then we left and went to a different grocery store which was a lot like the one we went to yesterday...
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Scale showed weight is still 156 this morning...
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 49 lbs lost so far, only 6 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15
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Hello, Friends...
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Hubby and I just got back from the grocery store. We are noticing price increases along with smaller packaging in different foods but no matching reduction of price in smaller amounts of packaged food for sale. Meat prices are ridiculous and apparently meats are being held at their very high prices in hopes of getting top dollar while the colors of the meats darken with age in the open displays in the grocery stores.
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Still doing well with praying and counting calories. Hubby suggested I stop eating for the day and pray between 5 and 6 pm, asking the Lord to help me not eat anymore for the day (and the Lord does and I thank Him for it), to prevent nite-time snacking (which was causing me to feel miserable the next morning after eating snacks late at nite) and this is helping with the scale showing 156 this morning...
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 49 lbs lost so far, only 6 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15
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Hello, Friends...
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Hubby and I visited Mom at the nursing home again today. Good visit. She doing pretty well. We usually visit her 4 to 6 times a week. She is 87. We do what we can to make sure she has all she needs and is comfortable and plenty of iced water and extra ice and snacks. She almost cleaned her lunch plate when she ate her lunch today. Smile.
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Otherwise, still praying, still counting calories...Still at 157...
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
Wow, you visit her almost everyday ! How sweet of you!!!
87 and i'm sure really happy when you come! You are so thoughtful of her. How close is the drive? I hope it's very close.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15
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Hello, Friends... Hope you are having a happy Sunday.
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Hubby and I visited Mom at the nursing home today. Good visit. She doing pretty well. I just don't understand how a lot of families can put their loved ones in nursing homes and then ignore them. You don't see a lot of visitors, just a few and only sometimes...
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Still praying, still counting calories...Still staying same but not complaining...
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Hope you are having a blessed day in the Lord.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
Not sure why I'm saying this, but maybe the weather needs to cool down a bit before the numbers will come down. It seems to me that the body has a harder time "letting go" of the pounds when it's sweltering...
you are right, many families don't visit...your mom is a lucky one!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Everyone.
Still staying busy, working outside in the yards...but not as much in this heat...and it has been very hot here in South Carolina...
Praying and counting calories continues...
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Hope you are having a blessed day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Everyone.
Staying busy, working outside in the yards...pulling weeds, setting out new plants, putting in new mulch... In this heat, a real workout.
Staying on track with prayer to not overeat past allowed calories.
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Hope you are having a blessed day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Everyone.
Hope you are having a good day. I am back on track with prayer and counting calories. I am happy you all are doing so well, too.
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Hope you are having a blessed day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Everyone.
I thank each of you for your encouraging comments to my post yesterday. The support here at DD is wonderful.
I am hopefully back on course (prayer and not over 1700 to 1800 calories daily) and rowing again toward island 150. I see that you are making progress, too, having read posts today. Happy for you!
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Hope you are having a blessed day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 48 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Everyone.
I have been enjoying reading your posts.
I have been overeating again. Didn't want to post my new higher number but I am doing it anyway. I know that to maintain, my calories need to not be higher than 1700 to 1800 per day and I have been having 2000 to 2500 calories per day lately. The only thing that I have found for me that works is to simply pray and ask the Lord to help me not eat anymore for the day after I have had my allowed daily cals and I have not always been doing that lately, thus allowing myself to pig out in front of the tv at nite. So, there is my confession. Like some of you have said in your posts, I, too, have no enjoyment in eating lots of doritas and ice cream and donuts. After having 'one' donut, I am quite happy and that is only 200 calories but I go on to have 3! Same with ice creams. Forget doritas. Once I start on them, I don't seem to realize how much of them I have consumed until I can't eat any more of them.
So much for island 150... I seem to have lost my 'resolve' again to discipline myself to get to that goal. I keep telling myself I am going to 'start anew' but haven't been following through. So, I am going to try again. Do what I know works for me...which is PRAYER.
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Hope you are having a blessed day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 47 lbs lost so far, only 8 lbs to go!
What is it with eating and tv at night that we find so comforting? I also have that problem with "just one". Maybe it would help to divide 1 into 3 parts. That way you feel like you get 3.
After not posting for a couple weeks, I also really didn't want to post my new weight number yesterday.
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It's not easy to maintain......GREAT JOB!!! How do you cook okra...the only time I had it...it was slimy.
We bought this okra to cook in w fresh butterbeans (snip off ends after washing and put in for the last 20 mins of cooking w the beans). Also, okra is good fried (snip off ends, cut up in half inch pieces and put in hot oil in pan and fry til light brown and add sprinkle of salt if desired). I'm making myself hungry for okra as I key. Smile!
BearCountryGG on 08/18/2018:
Okay...sounds good...I'm not sure what went wrong the first time I cooked it....but I never tried again....sounds easy enough.
Donkey on 08/18/2018:
You make maintenance look easy :-) I didn't realize that Mom's hair had to set overnight. I bet that makes having a fresh "do" makes her feel fabulous - I know it works for me with just a trim!
Very nicely done at the Farmer's Market!
Horn_of_plenty on 08/19/2018:
GREAT job maintaining for 18 years!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's gotta feel soooo good! AMAZING, MARIA! that is a wonderful, wonderful accomplishment. My wish is the same as yours, to maintain for life.
also, sounds like you have a great Farmer's Market by you...i was less impressed with the one that is supposed to be awesome but not in NYC that i went to right at Rockefeller Center if you've heard of it. Lots of fruit and veggies of very poor quality. Even baked items were not great. Maybe it's partially due to the farmer's needing to travel at least 2hrs into NYC to bring their stuff...and they get hot/damaged along the ride.