Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
Hey, it’s all about losing weight… I’ve lost 63.2 lbs since the beginning of December 2006 and with my humungous salad with lunch, free food and maximum string beans with my dinner… it’s coming off very easily! Here I am 5 monthes later… with results!
Laura, Karen and I have dropped an entire person… together a total of 180 plus pounds!
They shoot… score!
Roger Freberg
It’s alway nice to be on a successful diet… I’ve been on millions of them over the years. However, the biggest challenge with most diets is that you run out of will power after such a short time. Jenny Craig has been great since I have a couple of great ways to fill up… an enormous salad with lunch and a lot of veggies at night. Top this off with a real dessert and it works.
My dietary plan is simple… I eat the same thing virtually every day. Cereal with fruit for breakfast, salad and turkey burger at lunch, veggies and meatloaf for dinner and chocolate cake for dessert. Oh, there are a few thnigs we’re allowed during the day… like sugarless jello and yogurt… so I never go hungry.
The ‘maintainence’ plan sounds good… so it seems like somethnig I can live with…. but that is still a ways off.
Roger Freberg
Okay. Ima gonna give you my secret to massive weight reduction for the big guy… a big salad!
Most women get their daily fat overdose from dropping a bottle of Marie’s Salad dressing on their itty bitty salad… they don’t realize the thousand or so calories of fat they just added to make it soooo yummy. Then they wonder why they aren’t losing weight?
The key is to have a certain type of big salad — one with a lot of ‘free food’ — and Jenny’s thinning but good 60 calorie dressing.
Here’s some of the cool stuff I drop into my salad:— cherry tomatoes,
— sliced hearts of palm,
— 8 jumbo olives,
— wax beans,
— diced onions,
— button mushrooms,
— bean sprouts,
— artichoke ‘bottoms’… shaken and not stirred with the Jenny Craig dressing
— Seasoned with Susie Q seasoning —
and topped off with a half dozen Asparagus spears!
Yummy!
For all the big guys out there… it helps you get through the afternoon…
Roger Freberg
What is it about going on a diet that makes you believe that you have always been slimmer? Yes, Laura and I have looked like this most of our married life (35 years this year)… but recently, well… let’s just say that Laura doesn’t want any ‘before’ pictures up… at least on my blog. Karla took this picture when we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Wednesday.Today is ‘weigh-in’ day at Jenny Craig and this is a nice discipline… a fun routine where the proverbial ‘rubber meets the road.’ Will I be slimmer and by how much? Some folks and competitors say the ‘weigh-ins’ are just wrong… but those are folks who think of an entire pie as a single serving. You can’t lie to yourself when someone is looking over your shoulder…. besides it is fun.Karen’s weigh-in was yesterday in South Pasadena. She’s closing in on 60 lbs lost. Our weigh-in was this morning. Laura dropped a pound today and I slimmed down 3 more… As a family we have lost over 160 lbs and I have dropped about 55 lbs. (61 lbs counting my pre-Jenny drop).I’ve got 30 more to go.
Ask almost anyone and they can tell you what they felt was an important fashion statement over the years. Some of my male relatives say it was the miniskirt or the bikini… hunting buddies say it was the foam beer can holder or velcro… everyone has an opinion…. which makes it fun.
Edith Head of Hollywood fame must have been the person in mind for the person of “Edna’ in the “Incredibles”… and our family has laughed and quoted this scene far too much:
Bob: Weren’t you in the news? Some show in, Prayge… Prague?
Edna: Milan, darling. Milan. Supermodels. Heh! Nothing super about them… spoiled, stupid little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. Feh! I used to design for *gods*!
Edna You need a new suit, that much is certain.
Bob:: A new suit? Well, where the heck am I gonna get a new suit?
Edna: You can’t! It’s impossible! I’m far too busy, so ask me now before I again become sane.
Bob:: Wait? you want to make me a suit?
Edna You push too hard, darling! But I accept!
Edna: It will be bold! Dramatic!
Bob:: Yeah!
Edna: Heroic!
Bob: Yeah. Something classic – like Dynaguy. Oh, he had a great look! Oh, the cape and the boots…
Edna: [throws a wadded ball of paper at Bob’s head] No capes!
Bob: Isn’t that my decision?
Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids.
Bob: Listen, E…
Edna: November 15th of ’58! All was well, another day saved, when? his cape snagged on a missile fin!
Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb…
Edna Stratogale! April 23rd, ’57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Bob: E, you can’t generalize about these things…
Edna: Metaman, express elevator! Dynaguy, snag on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex!
[shouts]
Edna No capes!
Remember: “No Capes!”
Roger Freberg