Archive for 'Journal' Category
Holiday Hints
15 December 2011Tis the season, again. A time for festivities, buying things none of us can afford, time for decorations and getting out the hand-full of CD’s we have of the same songs covered over and over again by different artists. Tis the time of year for those old but wonderful classics about the talking snowman getting [...]
My Wake Up Call!!!!
11 November 2011Why is it that us women are never happy with our bodies? My whole life, I just wanted to be ‘skinny’. It is all this pudgy, freckle-faced, dark auburn haired kid wanted as I lusted over Donny Osmond and The Bay City Rollers. As an adult, when I became “overweight” (was 216 lbs when I [...]
This Is For You, Mom!
5 October 2011This is for you Mom: I will resume the usual “The Losing Side” Blog in a few days with “My Big Wake-Up Call” but first want to pay tribute to my Mother, Carol Ivester Coleman Bates 5-27-1944 to 9-12-2011. I was sitting at home with my wonderful husband Paul on an otherwise normal Monday [...]
Movie Star Thin? ‘Ain’t’ So In!
14 August 2011It is so hard to believe four years has come and gone since I underwent Laproscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery. After my emergency surgery in the wee hours of July 2, 2011 (also my beautiful granddaughters 1st birthday), I realized the reason I ulcerated and tore a hole through my stomach [...]
Intestinal Armageddon!!!!!!!!
16 July 2011First, I am so sorry there has been such a lapse in posting a new blog. I will explain in a moment. I was getting ready to post a few weeks ago and decided I would try to post a recipe with most of my new posts and also my goal was to post two [...]
Cookout’s, Picnics & Get-Together’s!
27 April 2011Warmer weather is upon us and with that brings lots of cookouts, pool party get-together’s, picnics and other assorted festivities revolving around food. So you may think, “If I am ‘dieting’, I will be miserable watching everyone else eat!”. It just does not have to be that way! We went to the first cookout of [...]
Say NO! To Processed Foods!
3 April 2011One, two, three strikes and you are out! I think it was no coincidence that the last several weeks in our marathon ‘Craigs List’ sales, two of our buyers were health freaks. So I am my Dad’s daughter and make friends wherever I go. The point is, the one who bought our old sofa does [...]
Products!
30 March 2011I am going to do something I have never done since I started this blog, promote some products! The first; the best smoothie (you can make, easily, yourself). That would be the yoplait smoothie mix you buy in the frozen section. You can either make 2 and add a cup of milk the whole package, or [...]
Hashimoto’s Disease
24 March 2011Little did I know that when I went hunting for something, I would stumble on the news that this blog had been awarded one of the top 10 Hashimoto Blogs for 2010!!!!! I was thrilled, excited, felt like, “Hey, I *can* write and tell a story. So I will dedicate a post to this disease [...]
Way Overdue, But Finally!!!!!
26 February 2011The following Blog contains some graphic details related to a surgery, auto accident and intestinal issues. If you are uncomfortable with this subject matter, you may choose to skip these parts or not read altogether . Thank you! **************************************** One beautiful Granddaughter, One Partial Hysterectomy, One Very Hot Summer, One Very Warm Autumn, One car [...]