the gynocologist recently found a ruptured cyst in my uterus which he said is no problem, nothing you can do to prevent it, blah blah blah.

I am 90% sure I have endometriosis, since I have like, every single friggin syptom- but I'd have to get a surgery just to be officially diagnosed, and there's really not that much they can do to treat it.

Sometimes I think I should have a baby- 9 months no period,
then breast feed the baby for a year- no period!
And then buy one of those suction cup milking machines and just milk myself for the rest of my life- no period!!:)


...crap. I just looked it up. You only stop getting your period for 6-12 months while breastfeeding. Still, with the 9 months pregnancy and even just 6 months of lactational amenorrhea, that's 15 beautiful months!!
Maybe I could be a surrogate mother...

Well, not that I would ever be one to suggest ruining a glass of perfectly good whisky ...

oh, there's the solution!! Switch to a fine Single Malt ... you never, ever put ice in those, and you won't even notice the ice is gone after the third one.

Some crazier Moms out there keep breast feeding for years. I bet if the demand was constant you could push back your next period for a loooooong time.

wolf- I took a chance on a $13 bottle of blended crlllaaaappp recently. Yeah this needs ice but it still leaves me hunting and pecking on the keyboard...

can't you stop periods with some Pills?

mangos. hommous. Utterly irrational on the second one, living on hommous on toast at the moment. with the occasional mango.

Get yourself a nice, dark pumpernickel for the hummus.

Crunchy chickpea laden Heaven.

(I've been doing one slice hummus, once slice natural peanut butter when I don't feel like the chocolate frosted sugar bombs.)

How selfish of you to take away your coworker's main source for evil gossip. Without your weight "problem" what would they talk about?

well, if I became a surrogate mother, they could all huddle and whisper :3some: that I was selling my baby on the black market, or that I was just stuffing my shirt to get better tips and I wasn't really pregnant :headshake

I tried a few different birth control pills in high school. I started getting anxiety attacks :worried: , I gained 15 pounds:donut:, and I was having black outs at work:dead:, where I'd almost faint and then snap out of it. Even though I'm cutting down on smoking,
the pill + cigarettes= stroke...
Have you ever read the health risks/side effects on the insert that comes with the pill?! :eek:
Hell no, not for me...

and it's okay if I go off topic and try to hijack a thread if it's one I started, right? :blush:

Stacey, honey, I don't want to sound like your mother, BUT why not just QUIT SMOKING??? It would be soooooo much better for you in the long run and no more worrying about counterfeit cigs! It's a perfect plan! :)

Addicted to....
 

Salted in the shell peanuts.

not addicted, but...

Strawberries are in full swing here so I go for fresh strawberries in plain WHOLE MILK yogurt with maple syrup and vanilla.

repeat.

Smoothies for breakfast have also been my quotidian fare lately.

I AM quitting smoking- gradually. I am now on the lightest cigarettes in existence. They have the lowest amounts of nicotine and tar you can buy. It's like smoking air. I'm still trying to get used to them and back down to my regular 20 a day. When I am fully adjusted, I plan on switching to the lowest dose nicotine patch.

It's all part of the one year plan to quit smoking that I formulated un January- and it's going very smoothly. I was on lights. Then I switched to superlights and smoked those for about 5 months. Now I'm on the superest lights.

Getting there, I'm getting there...but I'm still not gonna take the friggin pill when I quit!

Now, does red wine count as a food addiction? Or do I belong in the alcoholic thread?

Oh, yeah. I forgot. You do have a plan for the smoking. And as far as the red wine thing goes, only you can answer that question. I know I'm an alcoholic because when I drink my life gets f*cked up. Badly. It's a big clue. ;)

Respectfully, maybe not.

For me, alcoholism was like hypothermia--the first casualty was my judgement. After that's gone, it's "anything goes". It wasn't always a stupefying bacchanal, but when the safeties are off, who knows what will happen. Sometimes, it was "who knows what happened?"

I sense staceyv was asking in a humorous way, but it's a real question for many. "Do you think I need help?, because I can't tell." Also, alcoholism can range across a spectrum of severity. As can the symptoms. There's still considerable stigma attached to the word, and everyone here knows the power of denial. It can be pretty easy to ignore the signs, even big ones like having your life pretty f*cked up.

I can totally relate! I need to chew on it whenever I drink something.

pistachios = crack

I can't stand the darn things. I barely tolerate them in middle eastern dessert items that involve lots of honey and crunchy bits.

coffee.


While technically a necessary bodily fluid (like blood or saliva) coffee isn't actually a food, I do enjoy not going without it for more than an hour or so.

Mountain Dew - the caffeine and sugar calls to me.

toasted sandwhiches = i am on my third for today.

cheese and tomato = yum and easy
bolognaise, mash potato and grated cheese = drool!
ham and cheese = ok in a hurry
milo and butter ~ with ice cream on after its toasted = desert sandwhich
Peanut butter, honey and banana = TASTY!!

pistachio is good!

there is a pistachio farm up the way from me and they sell items from their home, the lady makes an amazing relish.. Red Tomato and Pistachio Relish.. OMG!! yum on a well done t-bone steak.

What's milo?

oh!! you have never had milo!!

Maybe its an Aussie thing? It has the consistency of coffee but it is chocolate, primarily used to flavour milk, can beadded to almost anything (ice cram, bread, drinks etc.)

yum!
www.milo.com.au

The US is not one of the 30 countries in which the product is available. The website says it's fully of vitaminy goodness, and also mentions malt as a component. Near as I can figure, it's like Ovaltine, because the consistency you are describing is very different from Nestle's Quik powder.

My parents will no longer buy any Nestle products. Nestle is closing their 3 St. Louis plants next year, and my stepdad will be unemployed after 42 years with them.

Is it like Marmite? I tried that stuff once...

I think I was wrong on the Fanta thing...I was actually thinking of Shasta. Maybe they were the same thing???

I like to eat buttered toast with molasses on it. yum. I dunno what it is about molasses, but I love the taste.

I am sorry to hear about your stepdad, Syc. If it makes you feel any better, their cocoa powder sucks for making cake. I like Giradellis.

Milo and Marmite appear to be two totally different food items, though I was originally thinking of Marmite myself when Sun said Milo.

Shasta has always been American to my knowledge, but did have 950 flavors...I don't see it much these days.

Thanks, Case. He'll be alright...he's essentially retiring early (he turns 61 in September), and he's getting a pretty decent package from them.

Yes, shasta was the kind my grandma had all the time...and in about a million different flavors. Fanta...I remember orange...but I can't remember much else about it. Fanta was the stuff I had in Czech that came in Raspberry flavor.

The only time I every really saw Fanta was at fountain machines (usually orange or strawberry)...I did see a bunch of varieties in Indiana about 15 years ago, though.

I just had a Green Tea Frappuccino from Starbucks...Goddamn, that was good!

Fanta now has the most annoying commercials before movies.

And the gals could look better, IMO.

Damn you! Now it's stuck in my head :(
"Wanna, wanna..Don't cha wanna..."

Shasta was a great cola, better than RC, I thought.

One of my all-time favorites, though, is A-Treat (for you northeastern pennsyltuckians). There was something about Sasparilla flavor that made it so much better than even Stewart's root beer ... which is a damn good root beer. Fun restaurants too - when we were about 15, we got banned from the one sort of near us on Rt. 31 in central jerz for setting off two stink bombs at the counter. Those were the days.

Isn't Marmite the British equivalent of Vegemite? Foul-tasting, salty vegetable (so they claim, I think it's ground up babies or something) paste?

I mostly remember Shasta as a kid in Illinois, particularly as a diet soda. It probably had all those yummy cyclamates in it. I don't remember seeing it here in Pennsylvania, though. Possibly because we had our own regional cheap soda company ... mmmmm Frank's Black Cherry Wishniak!

The Shasta website has a wealth of information on Shasta history, flavors, and even a special Hispanic section.

I occasionally buy A-Treat because they have Blue soda. The best Blue Soda, though was Blue Sky Soda, came in a glass bottle. Last saw it in the late 80s. This is NOT the same Blue Sky Soda that you can get at the hippie grocery store, which is all kinds of organic crap with no chemicals. Weren't nothin' real in my Blue Sky Soda ... it was a most awesome (to some frightening) shade of electric blue, and tasted particularly blue as well. Blue Pepsi came close for flavor, but not for color.

My family did drink Shasta... but they were also really into Slice... and the flavor that my mom and her parents just thought was the coolest was Diet Apple Slice. It was actually pretty good, or at least I liked it at the time. I'd love to try some now.

I want Apple Slice back. With Sugar, not the diet version. There was another apple soda on the market at the same time called Aspen that is also sadly gone.

There is a NEW apple soda out, but I haven't tried it yet. Jolly Rancher (the candy company) is starting a soda line. It just showed up in the 7-11. I bought a bottle of Jolly Rancher Watermelon today, but it's still in the fridge at work.

I'm going on a diet. Starting now. I just need to figure out which one then I'll be fine. I can't go on like this being addicted to pasta salad and grilled cheese and Big Macs. I'm starting to look like a potato with toothpicks for arms and legs. Not Very Attractive! Big Cleansing Breath---Ok---low fat? Adkins? South Beach? Weight Watchers? So Many Choices! I hate low fat, though. Maybe South Beach.

I gots A-Treat up here. I'll have to look for Blue Soda. Even though I refuse to eat blue food on the grounds that it's not natural for food to be blue. Hell, even blueberries aren't really blue, they're purple!

I can even find A-Treat in the old glass bottles, though those are sadly disappearing.

Brian

Wolf ,Blue sky soda , but blue M&M get sent back ???????
I am corn-fused ,,, I thought BLUE was EVIL and un-natural !!!!

Just the blue M&Ms ... because they are supposed to be tan and went bad, remember?

Blue Sky soda is supposed to be blue.

Brewer's Outlet. ;)

At this point, it seems to be bacon mater sandwichs. If all the rain don't bust them open. 1.9 inch the last shower of the day.

Blue berry pie and ice cream Yummm

Pete counted 4 empty ice cream containers in this weeks trash... we don't have a problem.

Ya know what's good on blueberry pie? a slice of Cheddar, melted oh-so-delicately over the top crust...AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Blueberries!!

I love cheese and I love pie, but the whole cheese on pie thing makes no sense to me.

Hostess Cup Cakes.
I saw recently they were offering yellow cake cupcakes. I almost spit up.

Grated chedder on hot Apple pie w/ice cream is great.!

I put sharp cheddar cheese in my apple pie!

Hostess chocolate cupcakes (and not Dolly Madison crapola either). Nothin' but Hostess baby. For an added treat, stick them in the freezer and that greasey white frosting gets rock hard. Ok, now you've done it, I'm off to Circle-K.

I'm with you Hobbs! No Dolly and certainly not that skank, Little Debbie, either.

*gasp* I can't believe you called Little Debbie a skank! Her snack cakes and treats are bursting with sugary goodness! She's been a life-long friend! She's a tea-time boon companion!

Little Debbie is a poor substitute for the Real Sugary Deal known as Hostess. Hostess has the Mostest, you know.
And anyway, look at the chick's hair. And that hat. Dear lord...

Really Debbie. Loose the hat, buy a new hat. Anything. Sun hat, tuke, sombraro, truckers hat, anything! Blahhhh!

There is a reason you can get so many Lil Deb's for the price. Because they taste like poo. Agreed: Hostess is the Hostess with the Mostest. (But home made sugary goodness kicks all butt by far.)

Little Debbie is only good for peanut butter bars, nutty bars, and star crunch. The rest is crap.

Hostess... I like the chocolate frosting on the choclate cup cakes and whoever said before, they are AWESOME frozen.

Dolly Madison... never.

Now my favorite are the snack cakes made by Colonial... especially the carrot cakes. MMMMM, good stuff.

Tastykake kicks Hostess ass.

Ooooo, hmmmm. Tasteykakes are quite yummy in their own right, especially the yellow ones without the filling. I love the frosting on them. Egads!

Plaintain Chips. Thank you Goya. May I have another?

I second that. Hands down best baked shit out there.

TWO WORDS: BUTTERSCOTCH KRIMPETS

Not jelly. Butterscotch. Preferably a tad warm so the icing is all melted and gooey.