WATERMELLEN

https://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=6277456   Way back in December 2016 over on the SparkPeople site I'd written a blog about the struggle to maintain weight loss as we get older.  And today, a good Spark friend BROOKLYN_BORN  dug out that old blog to comment on it at the ex-Sparkie google docs site.  When I weighed 240 pounds back in 2000 (that was a typo in yesterday's blog -- I first lost the weight which I've kept off in 2000 and not 2020) I could actually eat "more" calories because I was burning a certain amount of fuel lugging around that excess 90 pounds.  Yeah.  Those extra pounds were just like carrying around, 24/7,almost 2 big bags of dog food: and pumping blood through it, too!!  Well, pretty clearly with my weight creeping up and up back then I was still eating more calories than I was burning but I COULD stay steady at the obese weight while eating more than I could eat after losing the weight. And an...

Yes, here I am!  Another "refugee" from Spark People which is so sadly closing down its site August 17 2021.  So many of us liked to blog there: so I'm putting on my special watermellen shoes and strolling over to join those who've already swum to this particular life raft!  No no no: not implying that I'm capable of walking on water . . . the shoes aren't so special!  I'd need my water wings for that! (And . . . technical assistance with the new platform too, thanks OKM!!    This looks like a good place to continue my stories of Henry, our beloved golden retriever.  And all our adventures exploring our new retirement home on Prince Edward Island! Where right now and probably for a week or two more, the lupins are in bloom pretty much everywhere.  All right then -- a Henry story. We have been very lucky to be accepted as patients by a new PEI doctor.  And she has been diligent about ordering and following up on standard blood work.  But ...