Milestones (Amy's diary)

LaMaria said:
If you ask me watering your lawn with anything other than rainwater collected on your roof should be illegal.
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I understand, way too much water is wasted on lush lawns.

We do have some lawn, just planted it this spring. Most of it is "cabin grass" a native dryland grass mixed with native wildflowers, after getting it established it will take a lot less water, like once a month or less. The result is a courser grass that will turn brown in summer but greens back up in fall and spring. It only needs annual mowing.

We have a smaller area of regular grass, beneath our apple, pear, and cherry trees, we have to water more there, and the dogs appreciate having some softer grass. Without some watering our lawn would be sagebrush.

In Utah most people have 2 water sources, the regular drinking water and a secondary irrigation water. In residential subdivisions the irrigation water is usually piped and under pressure. Our irrigation water comes from a ditch, we flood irrigate. You pay one annual fee for the irrigation water, it is not metered so no limits on how much you use, that leads to a lot of over watering. Since we are time limited with our flood irrigation water we do have some limit, the residential users on pressure irrigation have no such limits.
 
...and still people with more money than sense talk about making a dry, frozen, airless, planet habitable for a handful of them and their play things instead of fixing the one we've already got for everyone...
 
LaMaria said:
...and still people with more money than sense talk about making a dry, frozen, airless, planet habitable for a handful of them and their play things instead of fixing the one we've already got for everyone...
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You ever see the old movie Zardoz? Kind of reminds me of what you are saying.
 
aiminglow said:
loved your engineer's-definition of sublimation - I'll remember that!
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I also appreciate yours, just another definition. I can see a sort of connection.

Hey what is your name? I like calling folks by name, sometimes I just abbreviate the user name, but aiminglow is a hard one. If you like the privacy of not using your name you could make one up.
 
I have thought about asking the same thing :blush5: I'm the same with calling people by name & feel rude when I don't. Amy would be a good offshoot of aiming low :D
 
Oh dear! My name has made things more difficult that they need to be - sorry about that!
I called myself "aiming low" because in so many fields one is recommended to "aim high!" - but here, in terms of weight, we're doing the opposite. It was a sort of goony little mildish joke. :)
All the names are fine, but I'll go with the first, and be Amy here - pleased to meet you all! :seeya:
 
I really like a certain brand of plain cracker, called "Plain Crackers". I like(d) them because they are so plain and simple.
Then today I read the ingredients list on the box:
Wheat flour, vegetable oils (palm oil, hydrogenated rapeseed oil), butter, salt, leavening agent (sodium bicarbonate), malt extract (barley), malt flour (barley), yeast, misopowder (soybeans), dough conditioner [starch, yeast foods (ammonium chloride, calcium carbonate), flour treatment agents (alpha amylase, protease)], flour treatment agents (papain, xylanase).

Now I am utterly flummoxed.
The box, by the way, reassures me that it is "French butter used".
 
aiminglow said:
The box, by the way, reassures me that it is "French butter used".
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Which is probably why they used to little. France isn't known for its butter; wonder why they chose French.
I try to stay away from palm oil and hydrogenated any oil and the last three ingredient sets on that list make you wonder why they wouldn't just use proper flour in the first place.
 
Hi, Amy. Just popped in to say Happy July :) I wonder what milestone you will achieve this month.
 
Hi! :) And yes, July! - which makes it two months since I joined here. I was just pondering that actually, and having a sort of check-in of the things I've learned, and the things I've changed, and what the effect has been on my weight.

Things I’ve learned: well, first how welcoming the community is – and also how much you all know about nutrition and fitness! I'm learning bits and pieces of that knowledge - for a start, lots of words I’d never heard before, like ketosis, and Oz tag! :D And maybe can eventually learn other things, too like what potassium is, and how much might be needed per day.
But I’ve also been learning how lazy I am, compared to lots of people here – especially lazy in keeping track of exactly what is eaten (and the calorie/nutrition content), and what exercise I do. (Answer: very little – about half an hour of gentle start-the-day stretches, tai chi etc, plus a good deal of incidental walking without counting steps.) I think that’s beginning to s-l-o-w-l-y change – I hope so, anyway.

Things I’ve changed so far: Being here has reinforced the knowledge that I should treat myself with respect and gentleness – thanks, all those who’ve hit that note in their writings here.
How does this impact on weight loss? Well, for one thing yesterday I thought – “oh, that’ll go off if I don’t eat it – what a waste of good food” but then thought “no, stop! That’s treating myself like a garbage bin, and I won’t do that. Put that food in the bin!”
Relatedly, being conscious of what I eat, and making things I like (the cucumber soup, for example), for myself alone! (Amazing!)

And the weight? Nothing great to report here. I’ve held the line, and continued to lose, but so slowly – just three pounds in the last month. My next goal is still seeming a long way away, let alone the final goal. :(
Oh, but I have one good thing to report: this morning I fitted into a top I’ve had for five years and never fitted into before – someone made it for me, but made it too small. So an “aspirational wardrobe” item is now an actual wearable garment! :)
 
Great to hear, aiminglow. I love the second paragraph - so important to be kind to yourself and you seem to have a really good heart from what I've seen of your posts. I believe if you keep that attitude and stick with it, it'll come.
 
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