Survival Mode Put Us Back to Zero
A lot of you came here many moons ago when I left Sparkpeople. I loved the community of that place and the support I got there. It was at the height of us being on our game. That motivation you have in the beginning when you're consistently rewarded with weight loss, smaller clothes, compliments to keep your motivation high and you somehow begin to step out of being invisible to the public to people smiling at you, opening doors or striking up conversation. You start to feel human. You don't have to worry about going to restaurants or 'fitting' somewhere. You can go to a wedding and see those God awful thin folding chairs and while you still don't like them, you're not concerned. Many of your worries that fit people never had to think of, have faded away. We started for the long haul in our 30's and that's when we had the most success, losing 226 and 190 lbs respectively. When we went on vacation, as long as we came back and got rig...
I am not a fan at all of pickles on my sandwich or burger. Yet, I actually do like pickle spears by themselves. Oddly enough I find if you take the same pickle spear flavor and cut it round like the pickles you put on a sandwich - yarf!
ReplyDeleteBoy, there are a lot that come to mind, which is sad. LOL Topping the list are beets, quinoa, sweet potatoes, capers, olives, grilled fruit, most seafood, and carmelized onions (love them cooked, but once it starts getting into the sweet phase where it's kind of syrupy, I'm out). For whatever reason my taste buds do not like sweet/savory together at all. And funny enough, I cannot stand ketchup on meatloaf -- love hamburgers with ketchup, but when I see meatloaf cooked with that strip of ketchup...blech.
ReplyDeleteI like tomatoes, but they have to be really firm, like a day or two before truly ripe. Once they get soft at all they're only good for salsa or sauce.
ReplyDeleteMy motto is "nothing from the sea" (a quote from a tv show that I pretty much live by) but I think a lot of people don't like seafood.
One really weird thing is that I don't like ketchup on hamburgers, but I do like ketchup with fries/tots.