Milestones (Amy's diary)
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Can't help you with the guava question either!
Yes I think a lot of people in our society would have trouble dealing with anger. I don't actually feel anger that much. Don't know if I push it down and smother it with anxiety instead??? But maybe joining a gym with a punching bag might help?
Thanks for trying, anyway, about the guava, Emily and Liza! I'll scrounge around further on the internet! The truth is out there (I hope.)
But actually I'd rather not be angry in the first place. (sigh) Or maybe be more like the poem:
"...the blows that a life of self-control,
spares to strike for the common good,
that day, giving a loose to my soul..."
I mean, I would like to channel such anger as I do feel constructively and achieve something good with it. (The poem is Robert Frost "Two tramps in mud-time").
But actually I'd rather not be angry in the first place. (sigh) Or maybe be more like the poem:"...the blows that a life of self-control,
spares to strike for the common good,
that day, giving a loose to my soul..."
I mean, I would like to channel such anger as I do feel constructively and achieve something good with it. (The poem is Robert Frost "Two tramps in mud-time").
I love Robert Frost. Don't know that poem but will look that up.
Well yes, anger isn't a pleasant feeling! But yes I suppose if you could channel it in a good way, that would be the best.
Sometimes I do surprise myself when anger, or a feeling akin to it, helps me speak up for something I believe in. It helps override any shyness I tend to have.
Well yes, anger isn't a pleasant feeling! But yes I suppose if you could channel it in a good way, that would be the best.
Sometimes I do surprise myself when anger, or a feeling akin to it, helps me speak up for something I believe in. It helps override any shyness I tend to have.
Okay - now I've pulled myself together and done some more internet digging, and have found my way to a highly academic paper ("Physicochemical and nutritional values of red and white guava cultivars grown in Sudan" by O.M.Ali Dina et al.) which reassures me that while the red one is the best to use in making juice, they're both pretty good nutritionally - high in protein (for a fruit) and surprisingly high in Vitamin C. So I can relax and go and have one now.
It's one which has stuck with me for years - not that I can recite it, but some of the verses (as the one I quoted) are there in my mind.
Yes, anger helping in speaking up in a good cause is the constructive use I had in mind.
Oh, good!
It's one which has stuck with me for years - not that I can recite it, but some of the verses (as the one I quoted) are there in my mind.Yes, anger helping in speaking up in a good cause is the constructive use I had in mind.
Petal001
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Do you get angry a lot Amy . You do not strike me as an angry person.
I have not heard of that fruit either .
For years the only fruit we had in Ireland was apples oranges pears and banana , plums maybe . Then more exotic was grapefruit and maybe melon in occasion. Of course seasonal berries then in summer .
I have not heard of that fruit either .
For years the only fruit we had in Ireland was apples oranges pears and banana , plums maybe . Then more exotic was grapefruit and maybe melon in occasion. Of course seasonal berries then in summer .
Nice take on anger, Emily!
I like it!And, no, I don't think I do get angry often, but I did note it recently, that I came home crabby, and ate - hence the question a few days ago, as to whether anyone else had noted anything similar.
Apples, oranges, pears, bananas, plums, grapefruit, melon and all the berries makes for a pretty good round-up of fruit, Petal!
What an array they would make, all together!I'm not too sure I like these guavas I have now, either, Cate! They're hard, and a bit tasteless - I think I'll leave them a few days to ripen.
For ages I got guavas confused with feijoas. Guavas (for those who don't know them) are big and roundish, feijoas are about the size and shape of a small Roma tomato. Feijoas are soft, and can be eaten with a spoon but the white guavas are hard, maybe even a bit too hard to just bite into - I eat them sliced up. And guavas have disconcertingly hard seeds, hard enough that I'm careful in eating them, in case they might break a tooth - they probably wouldn't, but they feel that hard to me.
It's a bit difficult for me on this site today - the ads are going wild! ("How high is your IQ?" I'm being asked right now.) It's making it very slow to read and to post.
Tell me about it! I'm getting ads that cover more than half the screen and even when I click to make them go away the same size field remains, with Google offering to tell me why I'm seeing these ads
I'll be turning my ad-blocker on again if it continues.Yes, that's happening to me as well, though Google isn't deigning to offer to explain to me!
And lots of them are horrible ads, too - I just had one about rats in my home (no!) and a frequent one is about my (non-existent) liver problems, with a very graphic, poky-looking liver.
Oh, well.. to more edifying matters... I had a gorgeous long walk yesterday, including going past three women in three different places working in their gardens - one watering (with a watering-can!), one harvesting tiny lettuce leaves - this was in an outdoor pot, not in the ground - and one fiddling with seedlings, I thought, but I didn't want to be peering intrusively. But it was so cheerful to see home-gardening happening. Almost inspiring!
It was quite a House-and-Gardeny area, though - I passed another house with a big (not that big - I suppose about one storey high) ornamental tree, looking rather pine-like, but with its branches ending in flat, plate-like clumps of foliage/needles. No idea what sort of tree it really was.
(Oh, earlier this week I hit the two-month mark, for maintaining at this interim goal-weight. I'm very happy with that.
)yes those ads that cover the whole page are very annoying!
oh crabby eating I do quite a bit--because i get crabby when my blood sugar is low. I'm improving on that in recent years (now i get more spacey rather than crabby) but I used to get very crabby if I didn't eat every few hours!
LOL!and a frequent one is about my (non-existent) liver problems, with a very graphic, poky-looking liver.
oh crabby eating I do quite a bit--because i get crabby when my blood sugar is low. I'm improving on that in recent years (now i get more spacey rather than crabby) but I used to get very crabby if I didn't eat every few hours!
wonderful! sounds great!
Again--wonderful!!
Today I´m getting half-page ads with the rest of the screen blue (plus the WLF menu bar). Refreshing the page makes the ad go away but I still only have half a screen
Naturally grown that way? I have a hard time picturing it.
alligatorob
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You should be, that is a real accomplishment. As I have said I believe maintenance is harder than losing weight. It always has been for me.
Your walk sounds great, about all I see on mine is snow and ice, nothing green. Though the snow can make our mountain views kind of dramatic.
Keep up the good work.
I really like this site so I want it to make some money and I allow ads on here. Won't last much longer with the current ridiculous ad level though.
@liza - I didn't ever think of myself as potentially having a lack-of-blood-sugar reaction! Probably because I've a couple of times found myself being carer for people who had serious problems that way - to the extent that I was carrying emergency energy bars etc for them, and having to help them to find a place to sit, etc. Thanks for giving me a nudge to think about this!
And thanks @alligatorob and @liza , too - I'm not finding it hard, though I'm up-and-downing a bit across a three-pound range.
@liza , @Petal001 , @alligatorob - it was a gorgeous walk! For seeing the people as much as the gardens - I left out that I walked through a park, as well. I love seeing people enjoying and using parks! Mind you, seeing snowy mountains would be pretty darn good, too!
@Bflat - I feel like LaMa - that ads don't hurt me (usually!) and that's the pay-off to fitness.com for running the site. But right now they've been beyond annoying - I've got the blue half-screen right now, like @LaMaria , though the nastiest ads have gone. I've been holding myself ready to do a print-screen if the full-page blockout comes back.
I strongly suspect not - I think it might have been more in the topiary line. I'm not even too sure about the pine identification. I'll try to go back that way with a tree-savvy friend and hope for better wisdom.
Thanks, Petal! It's making me feel really strong and ready for another step!
And thanks @alligatorob and @liza , too - I'm not finding it hard, though I'm up-and-downing a bit across a three-pound range. @liza , @Petal001 , @alligatorob - it was a gorgeous walk! For seeing the people as much as the gardens - I left out that I walked through a park, as well. I love seeing people enjoying and using parks! Mind you, seeing snowy mountains would be pretty darn good, too!
@Bflat - I feel like LaMa - that ads don't hurt me (usually!) and that's the pay-off to fitness.com for running the site. But right now they've been beyond annoying - I've got the blue half-screen right now, like @LaMaria , though the nastiest ads have gone. I've been holding myself ready to do a print-screen if the full-page blockout comes back.