I am so glad to see I am not the only one not sleeping right now. Howdy, Laurie! :)

LMAO - You go girl... I think I will join in on this goal with you as a nonsmoking, but man would I LOVE a smoke person. When I hit 70 I shall start too. We are the same age... 34.. my bday is in July too so we can do it TOGETHER ( will you share Enrique?)

Have you ever tried CHEW? Seriously, if you havent you might want to... works for me only when drunk enough to over look the obvious grossness but still a very nice nicotine fix.

Ok... rambling.
Your blog is my hero lately... I tend to obsess/stalk it daily.

Hang in there 36 years should just fly by.

And really, any diet that starts out

"Foods you can eat everyday:
- One glass of red wine"

has to be a good diet. (Isn't the wine supposed to be good for sleeping, too?) Good luck with this. I have been looking for a good (read: realistic) weight loss plan, too. Truth is, in the massive priority juggling act that is my life lately, adopting a new eating plan hasn't found it's way into the show. (I will be watching closely to see which of your faithful readers will be the first to suggest an anti-inflammation along.) ;)

WORDS TO LIVE BY:
From LTC Lucky USAR...

RUN MORE...EAT LESS.

(He was run over by chicken truck while he was jogging....BUT he was in pretty dam good shape.)

Seriously you're my hero!
am a bit older but also embarking on new improved yoga-inspired, belly-dancing, health-filled no-smoking life.
yeah
Mona

crazy hippie?! dont dis my guru,man! i met him in person and he is kind and wise and.. short. although, i am a bit disturbed by the mushroom face cream he is selling through
*origins*. (hope he isnt selling out) i highly recommend reading *eating well for optimum health*.

yes, if by "crazy hippie" you mean... "i love this man!!"

I'm trying to do all of these same things, though still stumbling on the smoking, - and for the first time since I turned 21, I'm happy to be older than someone I didn't give birth to - because I WILL TURN 70 MUCH, MUCH SOONER THAN YOU! Of course Enrique won't be at the home yet, it'll have to be his much older, yet equally attractive, brother, Xavier flicking his bic...

I haven't read your planned diet but I recommend you go as unprocessed as you can get. ie fruit, salad, etc. I'm trying that. No restrictive diet or endorsed products. Just try to buy fresh stuff where possible.

How do you eat a handful of grapefruit?

You are what you eat, Laurie!
Do tacos fit into this eating plan???

Oh my Lord, you are funny.

Good luck!

Not sure if you really care about the fresh tomatoes v. tomato paste/sauce battle, but being an anomaly in THE SOUTH (i.e., I hate 'mater sammiches fer lunch -- and all other things "'mater" for that matter), I set out on a quest to prove that fresh tomatoes are evil. I ran across a study that showed that we absorb the nutrients (I think they were specifically looking at licopene absorption) better and over a more sustained period of time when they are delivered in the paste/sauce form. All hail processed tomatoes!!!!

Yes, I am a total dork for knowing this.

Geez. I don't know if I could give up the coffee! Does it count that I am down to about one cup a day?

Good luck with it! I think it's wise you have a goal (only 36 years to go!)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets rose cheeks!
Btw, I ate a whole pizza yesterday but my excuse is that it was one of those thin crust ones and it is freezing cold here! And I'm on a diet, too.

Yeah! Good for you. And you don't need to give up the wine, either.

I used the wet rock too, in the nineties. And you know what? The wet rock people make it in a roll-on now too. And it totally works.

YAY SMOKING AT 70! That's going to be me too!

I quit last year and I long for 70.

But I am so much healthier now it's disgusting.

Umm, when does your self-help book come out? First the finances, then the smoking, now the eating healthy? I think I'm ready for a Crazy Aunt Purl life make-over!

I am also an ex-smoker. I no longer feel like I have to start smoking again when I'm 70. And I don't stare longingly anymore when people smoke in front of me. It took a long time though. I just decided to try a wheat free diet. Not sure how long it will last...I'm shooting for a week. You can't honestly expect me not to have gravy and stuffing on Turkey Day.

Ooooohhhhh my GOD! A REAL carne asada taco! AND a tamale! I am so jealous. And so drooling. The South is not known for it's mexican food and that's the understatement of the year. Thank goodness we're going home to CA for Christmas so I can get my semi annual fix. I've already instructed Mom to double her tamale order so I'll have some to bring back to North Cakalakee. Have I told you how jealous I am?

You are soooo my IDOL! Quit smoking now so you can smoke again at 70. Brilliant!

So, does King Taco make fish tacos on whole wheat tortillas? (And only canola oil for frying of course!)

I was a chipper (occasional smoker, in case that expression is not national) until I divorced. During the divorce I became a full-on smoker. There was a billboard near my house that read something like, "3,000 young people start smoking each day." I desperately wanted to get up there on a ladder and change "young people" to "new divorcees."

Anyway, I quit, and you will too, and I did just what you're doing: I promised myself I would smoke again. Although I decided on eighty.

You do make me laugh.
And I did look up the anti-inflammatory diet...
my mother (who died of something not smoking related) -- gave up smoking for purely monetary reasons, she always said that if they went back to 35 cents a pack she would go back to smoking. I am glad they stayed out of her price range because I might have lost her sooner than I did.

I understand why there were no totino's party pizza's on the list (oh how I love me a totino's) but, pardon my 1980's growing up self...where's the beef? This diet would totally work for me, except for the beef thing (and too much cabbage, because I would have to live in the bathroom, TMI?) I need me some beef, and also don't eat fish.

I do the calcium/magnesium thing. Read it in a "peri-menopause" book. Calcium for my bones which may turn into styrofoam. Magnesium to combat the c___________ that occurs with calcium. (I can't even write the word out in public.)

what really concerns me is that i just downloaded a shopping menu from a knitter who follows a hippie, and oprah doc, and a chrochet dude. what does this say about me? don't answer that.

I wonder how you know if a fish has been "line caught" if you didn't catch it yourself? (which..yeah, not gonna happen here!)

But I like the idea of wine and chocolate!

Dear Laurie -

I'd like to apply to be your first full-on CAP life-makeover candidate. I am envisioning something along the lines of MTV's Made, but perhaps using the Internet(s) and a digital camera rather than a video camera/crew. I think for me it could be a year-long project, we could then write a book, get on the Today Show and I could meet Matt Lauer. Actually, maybe that's the goal: rather than "I want to be Prom Queen" the CAP Goal could be "I want to be on Where in the World is Matt Lauer"...

I would even be willing to out my crush on a fellow I like to call Boycake, just to add that heightened sense of angsty-drama.

I am serious. Actually, it's funny, but you should make sure to read my blog in the next couple of days, because your post here underscores the fact that perhaps we are parallel universe twins.

Oh, but my application is contingent upon being able to go to that diner in Kerrville ove Thanksgiving. That's non-negotiable. :)

Thank you for your time,
W.

My dear, if you follow this diet and don't smoke I see one flaw in your plan: when you're 70 you won't be in a nursing home, you'll be on a cruise to Tahiti with your girlfriends! Or a safari in Africa. Or on a trip down the Amazon. In any case, make sure Enrique has some vacation coming and tell him to bring his friends.

You're a funny writer, keep it up.

Can I say just how hap-hap-happy this entry makes me? Sitting, as it does, right above the one about King Taco. Heh.

I'm still trying to whittle away my ass with low carbing, but admittedly... I'm not all that strict with it. I do get to eat a lot of bacon though, and life is just better with bacon.

I really have to learn to stop reading you when I am drinking tea. The keyboard, and my motherboard, will otherwise just fritz out one day when I spit tea on it laughing so hard.

I've never really smoked, but always figured I'd start around 75 or so, just to avoid the being 90 and in diapers phase....go hard, go fast.

As for the wine.....man can't live with outit, and I know women DEFINTELY can't! Drink on!

I quit around the same time as you and you have inspired me to continue not smoking, thought you should know.

"I can see myself now, wearing rhinestone-studded Keds and a matching warm-up suit. My hair will be silver and about three strands thick. "

oh my god, you're funny. I think the vision would be even more complete if you add a visor and an appropriate holiday sweater, e.g. Christmas,turkey, Halloween. Also, perfectly done nails, in lipstick red. LOL

I say it's all about fresh foods (none of that processed stuff), portion control, fiber, and exercise. Of course, I still need to quit smoking.

Genius!

Good for you! Very exciting. Can't wait to hear about all the fun you and Drew are going to be having soon in sunny LA!

Yeah... don't ya'll love the irony that yesterday I ate two tacos and a tamale and here is my healthy eating plan? BUT. IN MY DEFENSE. The salsa had tomato sauce in it :)

Hey Laurie,

What do you think of a Diet-a-long, like a Knit-a-long? I'm game. Except that whole fish thing. I'm allergic to fish. Do you think I can subsitute beer for the fish? Or hard liquor?

Christina, I cannot do a diet-a-long because the moment I feel pressure, I cave and eat a bacon double cheeseburger.

I am a weak, weak woman.

I guess there is no excuse. I live in Seattle where you can find salmon swimming through the puddles on the side of the road. If you run over them with your car, are they considered "line caught"?

I still feel like I should pay you something every day when I read your blog. My best friend would tell you that somehow I have become the most serious person on the planet and she truly wonders why my brain doesn't just collapse from the sheer weight of gravity I lend to every single thing. I don't remember how I got here; but every day I do read your honest, clever, amusing observations and glimpse briefly at the lighter spectrum of life that is just as real as its' opposite. Don't stop writing. I did and look what happened to me! Thank you...

I am lazy. I know full well I could just google this and read and read and read till my head exploded, but I'm just going to post my question here. Does anyone know why this is called the "anti-inflammatory" diet? I have Crohn's disease (inflammation - and sometimes destruction - of the intestine (large or small)). I see anything that says "anti-inflammatory" and my little Crohn's antenna goes flying up. And now I am wondering if this diet would be of assistance in beating the ever-loving hell out of the Crohn's.

Aw crap. I'm gonna have to google, aren't I?

Laurie, you are my hero. Really. I recently decided that I desperately need a budget, but I have no idea how to budget. So I came here! For your easy-to-understand-budget-excel-spreadsheet! And now you're teaching me about anti-inflammatory diets! And I even got the answer to a knitting question I had once here! Screw google, anytime I have a question, I'm coming here.

Good luck - I'm doing the quit thing in early 2006. Just working my way up to it.

I think the baby aspirin is to prevent heart attacks. At least, that's why my grandparents take it (on the advice of their doctor).

Good for you, Laurie. I wish you the best on this endeavor. As for me, I'm just not quite ready to give up the cigarettes and lattes. Though, I must admit, the thought of smoking like a fiend at 70, just because I lived that long, is almost tempting enough to get me to try.

i too wait to be 70. but i have SO LONG to go.

this is why i still eat.

but i'm considering trying a better way of doing that too, now that my great-butt jeans don't fit that well anymore.

Good luck... I love Dr. Oz's plan and think you will do well with it. I am a calorie counting fan because I am not one to function if I know there is something I can-not have. If you count the calories you can have it. This has ruled out things like Krispy Kreme doughnuts because the calories aren't worth the enjoyment, but that is self-induced probabtion against a food, which I can handle.

I use the http://www.calorieking.com website, you can find almost anything on there and it will tell you how good/bad it is for you. Surprisingly enough, I am eating plenty of food each day AND losing weight. Sometimes I even feel like I eat too much!

Yes I understand more than you know.. I too went through a divorce like I have never seen during those years! My life will never be the same. And I too could stand to lose a few pounds!
So now to get a better life and attitude! Glad to see I am not alone!

I smoked for 20 years and quit at 35. That was 4 years, 7 months, and 3 days ago. Now I'm 40 and I am horrified by how bad my clothes and apartment must have smelled. Not to mention my hair (which I don't really have much of anymore).
As for chewing tobacco, that's a bad idea and a worse substitute. Mouth cancer can leave you without a jaw or chin and then you'll never be able to fold sheets or get pillowcases on your pillows.
Don't get me wrong. I loved each and every cigarette I ever smoked. But I wouldn't light one up again for anything. My knitting would be stinkified :-)

My acupuncturist met Dr. Weil a few times before he became famous. Back when he was pushing mushrooms, the *ahem* medicinal/recreational kind. Anyways, she asked him about chocolate and why he includes it in his diet recommendations. His answer was that as long as it is really good dark chocolate and you don't eat too much at once it is ok, the good effects balance out the bad and that besides he just loved chocolate too much himself to write it off forever. Gotta love an honest hippie!

Laurie,

I can't cook either, but when I use this book I can fool people into thinking I can (which is far more important to me than actually being able to cook):

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767900146/104-6330058-1972769?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance

Don't be put off by the whole vegetarian thing - you can easily add your line-caught salmon and whatever meat your heart desires to these dishes. Seriously, it's an awesome book.

Good luck! Have fun smoking at seventy!

Ha! Oh, Enrique. Maybe you'll get one sooner, the houseboy you've always wanted. Then you can just ask him where the hell the rasberries, blackberries and wine are.

Aunt Purl? I love you. If you weren't a girl and I wasn't already bound, I'd say "marry me." We'd so UNDERSTAND each other and stuff. Thanks for the great list and for doing all the dirty work for us when it comes to creating a budget spreadsheet and going through a Tivo'd Oprah. Love you, love you, love you...BTW, I've been a total blogstalker for a LONG ASS TIME, but now I decided to post.

YOU'RE A GENIUS. I still smoke on the odd occasion, but even that's bad. If I can hold out another 43 years until my next cig, then *maybe* I'll really feel like I'm living for something! It'll be like Christmas!! Oh I can't wait!!

I see on your list (don't worry, no craziness) that you say look for "whole grain" not "whole wheat"... Whole Wheat is OK, as it's a whole grain. Don't fall for "multi-grain" only... that could mean 5 kinds of refined flours.

Also, watch the sugar in those pre-made "whole grain" things... I've found that the sugar in my diet was really the problem as far as mood and size and even HUNGER... refined sugar, corn syrup=evil. Eat natural sugars like fruit and honey.

Good luck... better diet DOES really do wonders.. I seriously feel younger and have less wrinkles since I started eating better. As my current favorite bumper sticker says:

EAT WELL
FEEL WELL

!!!

Why does the fish have to be caught on the "line?"

How can you find out if it was net or handcaught vs. the line?

So you plan to retire in the south, eh? Where else would the attendant call you 'Miss Laurie'?

Good plan. Keep up the good work. You got the budget thing going. I'm sure the diet thing will work too.

P.S. Laurie: Did you watch Lost yesterday? Scintillating, I say!

Enrique? What happend to Armondo?!?!?!

Never give up wine! Haven't you ever heard of Resveravine? It's a very stong anti-oxidant that is made from RED WINE.

I never smoked cigarettes; I smoked cigars! I'm not known for doing things half-assed. I did quit though, and after 2 years tried to smoke one; I had to lick my ass to get the taste out of my mouth! But now that you've brought it up I definately want to start smoking Captain Black pipe tobacco out of a burlwood pipe when I'm 80.

I hate to be the one to say this, but you may want to schedule some "alone time" during your first week of this diet. The transition into eating broccoli and cauliflower can be....er....a bit gassy. Take this from a vegetarian who occasionally eats fish ("pescetarian"), and never, ever any cauliflower. *shudder* Some veggies are more conducive to social interaction than others. Beware! That said, great move! Taking control of your diet feels so good, especially when you get really good at cooking healthy stuff and you actually shout "tofu spinach enchiladas!" with glee. Or, maybe I'm just a but wierd. I'm okay with that.

Good for you girl. Check out this website for good fish recipes. http://whfoods.com/recipestoc.php#recipes

I have never smoked so I don't think I will start when I'm 70. I guess I will just have to find something else for the cute young nursing home attendant to do for me. With my luck he will probably be gay so I guess I'll send him out for a bacon cheeseburger and extra crispy onionrings.

It has long been known among my friends that at my 80th birthday party, all I want are Nat Sherman MCD cigarettes, booze, and drugs. Oh, and ice cream. I too have found it easier to not smoke, knowing that I can smoke all I want when I turn 80 (and chase the cigarettes with Brandy Alexanders). And I can quit going jogging with the dogs then, too (although I fully expect that even the little puppy we have right now will have passed on by then, barring major advances in doggie medicine...maybe I should get the dogs on the Oz diet?).

Oh my goodness, you call it North Cakalakee too Nicole! It’s just fun to say… North Cakalakeeeeee! Wooo! I thought just me and my friends call it that. Huh.

CAP, good luck with the new eating plan. It is hard, but I find out more about myself and food every time I try something different. At this rate I will be on a reasonable diet by 2036.

Ok..I just skipped to commenting..so sorry if I repeat anything.

Noelle - I highly recommend you see a naturopathic doctor to help you work on an anti-inflammatory diet that will help you. I've worked with a few and have to do a similar diet to help with my allergies and migraines and I can't begin to tell you how much it has helped. I cried the first few months because of all I couldn't eat...but after a few months it was easy. And not being in pain all the time is awesome!

Laurie - Good for you!!!

mmm where are the corn dogs? whole grain corn dogs?! (actually i don't really like corn dogs. i had one at the eastern states exposition a couple of years ago and was really disappointed as it tasted nothing like i remembered it as a kid. anyway. but corn dogs just sounded funny.)

i'm on a plan -- or will be shortly -- i've gotten way too enormously fat and gross and now i'm getting old too -- 43 in almost a month! that's my parents age! not mine! -- and i feel like ass.

i raise my daily glass of red wine to you -- good luck.

and am i the only one who noticed that dr. weil looks like santa?

CAP - you can't drink coffee!! Argh. Also, you are supposed to drink green tea, and the aspirin is anti-inflammatory. Supposedly your skin gets irritated BELOW the surface. I don't know. I think your're OCDness will help, though - my OCD friend is good about staying on these diets. Oh, and I also love me some Mehmet Oz. Hottie!

Go Laurie! Go anyone else that's joining her!

Re: "line caught" vs. anything else: the point is to avoid "fish farm" fish, especially salmon--and even more so "color added" salmon, ick. The omega3s and "good fat" and all the good stuff in fish in general won't happen on a farm, as it's what they get from being out in the ocean. Ocean caught mahi-mahi (is that what you meant? Cuz "mahi" (I thought) only means, um fish or um, dolphin...mahi-mahi is dolphin-fish and is in no way related to dolphins, honest) is yummy!

Or did you mean ahi? (Tuna?) Eating too much tuna is bad due to mercury content. Aim for SMALLER adult fish as they won't have collected as much mercury in their systems.

And if you don't like fish: A high in protien substitute would be soy (as in tofu or tvp), or good ole' fashioned beans, but you might invest in bean-o if you haven't already headed "crabby's" warning; all this healthy eating will do a number on your insides that are used to "other foods" (read as potato chips and pizza).

My ex was a vegetarian. I've got recipes up the wazoo.

My mom and I both started the paleolithic "Neanderthin" diet in September (you wouldn't like it -- no wine or chocolate!), and it's working out well. I'm no longer obsessed about where to get my next sugar/cracker/simple carb fix for the first time IN MY LIFE. And it's really helping with her fibromyalgia, which is why we started it in the first place.

I've never smoked, so that's not my lost and lamented vice. I think, though, that when I turn 77 or so, I'll eat a different-flavored pint of ice cream every day, then work up to a half gallon. Enrique can buy stock in Ben & Jerry.

Honest to God, you are the most hilarious read in blogville!!

What?!? No more King Taco!?!
You are so wise for being so young! Go for it, Gorgeous!

How the hell do you go from King Taco one day to steel cut oats the next?

I have a friend who's resorted to the drinky poo and chew, post divorce. I'm happy you don't have your lower lip puffed out to chicago with a wad of wintergreen grizzly. It would not be befitting our beloved auntie. You look smashing, btw. When are you going to write a book?

oh man, you made me laugh, like i have not laughed today..Now i know where to come for my daily laugh...
Youre a trip woman!!!

Reading your diet list just made me think, "hmmm, I wonder how many almonds I could fit into a handful?" I have pretty big hands (for a girl), and fingers made strong by knitting (yay knitting!) so I think I could just make a huge clenchy hand and get at least 3/4 cup of almonds in one hand. Anything that doesn't fall out after 5 seconds is fair game.

I saw that same Dr. Oz thing on Oprah - it was certainly interesting, but a little bit too much like a Ron Popeil commercial. Steel cut oats are my FAVORITE! I make them with half water, half 1% milk. All water is gross. And you get a lot of exercise cleaning the pot. Good luck!

Yeah Laurie! I am always thrilled when others adopt a healthy lifestyle! I myself am an inconsistently healthy person. One day I eat leafy greens, the next I eat a cheeseburger. And I bum cigarettes when I am really, really drunk.

I'm working on it.

Hi!
I'm on the Hacker's Diet myself.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html
So far so good.
Oh yeah and I'm trying to eat healthy foods on it. Lots of salad and organic stuff.
Good luck to all of us!

Ah, dearie... I was older and hence less resilient than you at The. Time. Of. My. Divorce. and believe that you, too, can get over it. with our without the smoking, drinking and EATING. (God knows I love WHOLE pizzas and cinnamon sticks etc.-- and am looking forward to exploring Hill Country Cafe with Wenders next week... do tell how you know about it!! Anyway, if you want more friends/audience, be sure to stop by www.3fatchicks.com
Good wishes and more blessings than you can count.

the baby aspirin is for preventing heart attacks, keeping blood pressure down and preventing blood clots...

happy wining!

also, if you are going to take the baby aspirin, make sure you are only drinking the one glass of wine. alcohol+aspirin = hemophilic bleeding!

I like this Dr. Weil, but did he really need money so badly that he started his own line of cosmetics I saw at Nordstrom. Sell-out!

Neil -- I think it's Dr. Perricone you may be thinking of? isn't Dr. Weil a total hippie? me = so confused also maybe too much red wine,. night.

How big is the glass of wine?

I did the south beach diet thing and am still doing it sort of. It wasn't as painful as I thought. At first it sucks but if you get past the first 2 weeks you realize that you can actually do it and there are some diet treats that don't suck too bad. I like it beacuse it is made to work even without exersize. The best part is when your fat pants becaume ridiculously too large and you have to retire them. I want to be able to run into my ex and have him think-Damn she looks good, what was I thinking giving that up?-That is the best revenge. oh and don't do the chew thing-It gives you lip cancer, no one wants a big cancer hole in their lip.

Laurie,

You made me laugh very hard, because Dollie once bought me a rock that I was supposed to wet and rub in my armpits. Heh.

TO: LAURIE
FROM: HQ
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Yep, tried the rock deodorant. Got a fungal infection under my arms. Nuff said.

um...I rubbed a crystal under my pits too.. (hanging head in shame)

Purl in a Bonnet. Yeah. I'd pay to see that.

It sounds like a good plan to me, darlin. I'm trying to healthen up, myself, but I will not give up the wine; it's good for my heart. (I pick and choose which medical studies to believe. I also like the one that says women who are a little bit overweight are healthier, in general, than thin fit goddesses. I'll keep my extra ten pounds then!)

"Healthen up"? Did I steal that from Homer Simpson or what? Maybe it was the good-for-me wine.

I too survived the crystal deoderant... in fact knowing me I might still have it around here somewhere... maybe I will look for it after I finish eating a whole pizza! ;) Oh the feeling!

You made me smile this morning - I needed that as I am dating and I hate it!

Thanks!

OMG....glad to know I'm not the only one who has found solace in the medicinal effects of eating an entire pizza.

Keep knitting & blogging. And don't smoke - even after you're 70! Have you considered the equally deadly but marginally less unpleasant option of skin cancer? Enrique can baste you frequently while you roast your smooth, wrinkle-free 70-year-old skin to a rich golden brown.

You'll get skin cancer and promptly drop dead, but at least you won't smell like an ashtray. Just something to consider. Cheers!

I've lost 30 pounds in five months. The best diet on the market: total stress. You wake up stressed, go to work stressed and cannot get to sleep without the help of a cute, little white pill called Ambien. That's my diet...oh, and a tall glass of iced coffee to wake up in the morning...red wine to wash down the Ambien at night. This beats Atkins and everything else that's out there. If you try this, you'll remember me.

Totally OT, and completely guilty of enabling here, but Aunt Purl, I found a website with Noro Transitions for $14.99 (I saw it and remembered your scarf and your love for this yarn)
http://www.woolneedlework.com/Yarn/Transition_by_Noro_Yarn.shtml

Now now, that pizza is only good when followed shortly by Ben & Jerry's. Enrique, oil me up kiddo, I'm aiming for a poolside lounge chair next to C.A.P.!

Congrats!! I was just discussing the state of "MY" big, fat, a-s-s with a friend a couple of days ago...it's a horrible necessity but exercise (in some form that I can fit in somehow when I already get up at 3:30 AM and don't get home until almost 8:00 PM with two kids, full time job, husband,etc) AND eating healthy must become real goals....ugh. I think you're an inspiration girl - good for you!

Who is this other Dagny? *pout*

I just wanted to be the 100th message

I enjoyed this immensely:

"This column brought to you by my ass, and the letters B, I, and G"

I'll be right there with you smoking at 70. I am going to stock up on smokes now. I have a feeling they might not exist or be legal by the time we are 70. I am making a time capsule that includes Diet Coke, Jim Beam, Marlbor Ultra Lights, processed Chez Whiz and Wheat Thins.

Geez, Louise at all the comments. You must have struck a drunken, inflamed, nicotine addicted nerve. I have been trying to do that Dr. Weil, Perricone, Oprah thing, too. All hail new diets.

Or is it...a new diet? Aww, hai-ell.

Best of luck.

Ok, I am a lurker. But I must ask, how the heck am I to eat 5 handfuls a day of skim milk? Sounds messy! ;)

my mom has been trying to get me to rub my pits with a wet rock for years!

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