aalwysl8 -- don't feel like you have to do what we are doing to lose weight. Some of us were experimenting a couple of months ago to see if we would lose weight faster if we did the program as it was done originally -- just fruit for breakfast and dinner and the big lunch of beans, veggies and lean meat. It really worked well for us -- that is why we call it the Express Train. We sort of relaxed it a bit for about a month and then came back to it to see if we could speed up our weight loss again a little. It's something that works for us and we invite anyone to join us who would like, but by no means does everyone have to do it.
Julie -- we took a train ride through the Smoky Mts. on our vacation one day. It was so beautiful with all the autumn leaves and the water falls. I have a couple of pictures from it that came out nice. I took one of the conductor walking along the track that is artistic looking. I really liked that one. It was a total accident, though, so I can't take credit. I was trying to get a picture of the leaves on the track and he happened to get in the picture. At first I was like, "Oh, you walked into my picture
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" Then when I looked at how great that made the picture I showed it off to my husband.
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Come to think of it, I never mentioned to him that it was a total accident and he is not married to an artist.
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Well, the fishermen got back from fishing and they caught quite a few speckled trout. I'm sure that means my husband will be frying fish tonight.
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I'm not eating them! I'm eating fruit tonight anyway.
Oh, I got a couple of those "personal" watermelons. They are a little priceyer than I'm used to, almost the price of the big ones a month ago, but I missed watermelon so much. I see the local store has cut watermelon for sale, but the amount you buy is hardly a snack! I pass those up.
I've been enjoying pears lately. They have so much flavor. I guess each season will bring us some favorites. I wonder what a whole year of LDL will be like -- for one thing, I'll be totally svelte by the end of a year. I feel slender already. I'm curious about where I'll end up. Already it is good. I am serious that I look better at 143 lbs. than I remember looking at 135 lbs. in the past. I don't know what it is about LDL, but good things happen to your body.
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