She cooked and put all the food in the back of the  van 
(fresh caught fried fish,brown butter potatoes, string beans,
broccoli and carrots with cheese sauce,meatloaf and noodles with cabbage)

and we drove to my nieces house about 2 miles away.
My mom said to serve the food from the van

and eat in the yard

 she wanted a tailgate party.

to ride the Lehigh River Gorge Bike Trail .

The trail follows an abandoned railroad corridor along the Lehigh River.

We took a shuttle bus to the top of the gorge
and rode the trail 25 miles back to town.
It was one hot day but the trail was shaded almost the whole way
and there were waterfalls every so often
that cooled the air for about 1/10 of a mile.

Dave got a flat tire and she helped to fix it,
everyone on the trail was friendly.

The Mountain Laurel were blooming

I think we saw every shade of green that there is on the trail.

It was a beautiful trail , it's a 2% downhill grade, I had envisioned coasting on a leisurely ride but we had to pedal the whole way,
it wasn't a hard ride but I was tired.

I want to go again in the fall.

The bottom line was that I ate more than I needed.
I ate too much of the wrong thing,I ate at the wrong times
and I ate for the wrong reasons.
I did not generally eat because I was hungry,
I ate to keep unresolved issues repressed, I started doing that when I was 10
and those issues did not surface until I stopped emotional eating.
Slowly they surfaced ,one by one and I was able to work through them
once I stopped emotional eating.
I had to learn how my body felt when I was hungry and when I had enough,
not when I was full because by that time I have eaten more than I need.
With slow metabolism I do not need as much food as I want to eat.

It isn't only about dealing with the reasons for emotional eating and eating less,
it's about moving more and making changes that you can live with.
sit less, walk more,
drinking more water,
finding a food plan that works for you
and  a workout partner,
it's about a whole lot of other things I have yet to learn.
  
After losing 90 lbs I am still overweight, I have another 70 lbs to lose.
 I bike 6 miles a day ,
I got my glucose level to normal and am off of the Metformin
I see a light at the end of the tunnel with this life long weight issue,
it isn't easy but I feel a lot better and I almost have ankles!

I did a previous photo post HERE
More Info about the Pagoda  HERE and HERE

I also enjoyed writing and reading the works posted for
the blog ring
Grown-ups with Content WORTH being Featured

I generally made about 90-100 comments a day for three-four years,
I was on xanga for hours at a time.
there were a few years on Xanga when you could not go anywhere
without seeing my comments,
I was all over this site at any hour of the day or night.
It was out of hand and I finally went to counseling for a few months for my addiction to Xanga
and put some boundaries in place .

I then narrowed my Xanga time down to a few hrs in the evening
and about 50 comments a day.
I was still addicted but tried to keep it under control.
Two yrs ago I was diagnosed with diabetes
and I had to change my lifestyle as I knew it.
I limited my computer time to an hour a day,
I got off my ass and got moving.
I got a stepper, hand weights and a bicycle,
I cut out sugar and pasta and cut down on carbs
Now I have my blood sugar under control am working towards a goal weight
I got off the diabetes med and feel a lot better.

I wasn't willing to give Xanga up because I love this community
and all my friends here but I did have to step back
in order to make changes in my lifestyle to be healthy.

I hope Xanga is around for years to come,
I want it to be a part of my healthy life.

Have you ever been addicted to Xanga, Facebook or the internet?

How did you find Xanga?

How you have enriched my life!
I have been sharing my daily life on here since 2006.
You have provided a place for me to share my pictures, stories,
thoughts and emotions, struggles and joys...my life.
I have become a better photographer because of you,
wanting to show you my world.
You helped me to see myself in a different way
I used to hear the records of the past in my head, that song told me
that no one cared whether I was around or not
but you told me you cared in a way that I could believe,
you made me feel wanted.
You actually made an effort to come see what I posted
and have given me many comments, recs and kind messages.
You were there at 2 in the morning when I pulsed asking if anyone wanted to talk.
You give back to me, you make me laugh,
you have made me cry tears of joy and sorrow
and you have pushed me outward in thought, reasoning and understanding.
You are a place of support, entertainment and encouragement.
You have been stressful, touchy and mean here and there
but I try to learn from those times.
Maybe now would be the time to complain about all the drama
but I think it is more beneficial to tell you how you bless me.
Through some of that drama you have taught me more temperance
than one would think a blog could,
some of that came from seeing how others
have handled themselves in trying situations
 and some from not replying to snippy/mean comments
in the same way they were made.
You gave me a few of my very best friends and you gave me a second family.
You connected me with some wonderful people, a few who have changed my life.
You brought the world to me and showed me how other people think.
One can read a newspaper or watch the news but reading opinions
and ideas posted in the daily blogs of people around the world
gives one more of a front row seat of what is going on;
not just in one's hometown, state or country but globally.
I have been exposed to more culture, human sexuality, theology,
people of different  religions and lifestyles, philosophy
and poetry in the last five years than I had in my whole lifetime.
I guess you could say you have taught me much
about the human condition.
You give me something to look forward to daily,
a place to belong .
Thank you.
I love you!

This is what I wanted to say today,
tomorrow I will begin a series of Xanga Memoirs.

You can tell, I spend a lot of time pushing kids on swings.

Relaunching Xanga: A Fundraiser

and not jumping ship with my blog but here is my contact info just in case...
email is aseedsower@yahoo.com
facebook is Beth Forney Glick
If you want my cell phone number message me and I will send it to you.

That made me laugh...
I shipped my drawers.

I saw this pic of me and my mom on the back porch from last summer,
, we look like hillbillies or Laurel and Hardy.

It made me laugh because my mom looks like a midget next to me and
I look like Cousin Lulu from the Culhanes on Hee Haw.
We always joke about that when my sister and I sit on a sofa together.

Anyone remember The Culhanes ?

The adventures of the Culhane family, depicted as all they did was sit on an old-fashioned sofa in the parlor, which focused on
Cousin Clem Culhane (Gordie Tapp); Cousin Junior Culhane (Junior Samples);
Cousin Grandpa Culhane (Grandpa Jones); and Cousin Lulu Culhane (Lulu Roman) who would sit in deadpan character and comment
about their daily antics and the latest gossip.

That photo was from August, here is a pic of me on the swing taken yesterday, I was all red and sweaty because I had just got done riding my bike.

I know my good points and my flaws
 and I do not think it hurts to be open about my flaws and joke about them.
Some people see it as poor self esteem
or an inferior complex
I just see it as accepting who I am.