;Posted on 12/31/2012 6:00:32 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 12/31/12
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
abstemious;adj.
1. sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. 2. characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life. 3. sparing
Etymology: 1615–25; < Latin abstēmius, equivalent to abs- abs- + tēm- (base of tēmētum intoxicating drink) + -ius -ious
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Wow, I just got an email that one of my colleagues in my department passed away suddenly. What a shock.
I have 3 friends who tried a vegetarian diet to lose weight. The first is a couple...he lost the weight immediately. She has changed shape, she works out almost every day in a gym or water zumba. She is shaped different, but has tons of muscle...not that attractive in a woman. The 3rd is my niece, working on her masters...she dropped 12 lbs. that have been clinging to her. She is drop dead gorgeous, by the way. I have been considering it.
Ha Ha Ha!
I am so sorry, FRiend. Was this somebody you knew well?
We weren’t close, but he was in my dept and we sat through many a meeting together. He was an upbeat guy with a good sense of humor, especially about some of the absurd situations we have to deal with. He was probably in his 60s.
I am sorry for the loss of your colleague.
That’s a young age. The news must have come as a shock.
(((HUGS)))
Happy new years eve! I was about to turn in my homework earlier, but I had to run to the general store for some cornmeal, and the fog/mist is so thick that it is like 0 visibility...
If I were Hillary Clinton
I wouldn’t waste any time-
I’d file for workers comp
On emperor Obama’s dime
While she’s not abstemious
And never was-with travel
This injury is work related
And has caused her to unravel
For throwing her under the bus
Obama and his merry mobster crew
Would learn if you screw a Clinton
They’ll just put the hurt on you...
I would like to be the casemanager assigned to that comp claim just to see her employer howl as his experience rate goes through the roof-she would get all the goodies-temporary benefits, supplemental benefits, reasonable accommodations like extra time off for exercise after flights, and a bonus if she returns to work early, which it appears that she will. And she could be honest about the whole thing-a first for her...
That’s terrible! Prayers for the family.
What do you do for protein? I can’t imagine it’s practical for the long term. I still think weightwatchers is the healthiest and you do have to control portion size for meat but vegetables and fruits are pretty unlimited(other than corn potatoes etc)
Have you noticed that over the last 30 or so years the number of people with a terrible allergy/intolerance to some damn thing has increased about 1000%? No way I’m buying into that-I’m more inclined to think it is hype to get people to buy some expensive drug or specialty food item.
I’ve eaten the same way since I was a ranch-raised kid-a mostly veggie diet, with lean meat and fish the next item, very few carbs and zero processed sugar-but the veggies are all fresh, no cans and seldom frozen-carbs are from whole grains or starchy veggies, and nothing is processed, unless I’m starving. I guess it is sort of an Atkins/South Beach diet, and unlike many hispanics/latinos no one in my family is even close to overweight, and no one has food allergies.
Maybe all the processed food is responsible for the food allergies-it takes chemicals, after all to process and preserve foods.
A +++ that’s a great idea!
My condolences on the loss of your collegue-that is awful, and he was way too young.
You have a point there.
Another possibility is that, since the allergen changes, then becomes extremely popular, then is replaced by a different allergen, is that it is media-driven and not biological at all. It also is a way of demanding attention from others. (I am sure that some allergies are real and are dealt with appropriately by their sufferers, but that is not what I am referring to)
Years ago, I attended my M-I-L’s Passover Seder, attended also by a Vegetarian cousin. The meal was served “Family Style” which meant that one could take whatever foods one wanted from big dishes in the middle of the table.
Cousin M was not content to merely serve herself vegetables and enjoy the meal. She would loudly snort with disgust and avert her nose as the meats were passed around. That was followed by a pontificating lecture against “cruelty”. Needless to say, the Haggadah was not read in its entirety, nor were any songs sung, because Cousin M had diverted ALL the attention to her SELF.
Sinus pain is Dreadful!
I pray you get well soon!
One of my best friends who is a major carb lover lost an astonishing 160 pounds in 18 months on weight watchers, and he has kept it all off, too-he was morbidly obese at 345, and had been for years-he says it has changed his whole view of food.
I’d worry about getting enough protein, too-early humans ate plenty of meat with their green stuff, and didn’t have much in the way of flour from grains till they started milling them.
I’m guessing that not too many Neolithic humans were overweight, either-it is when you bleach, smash, and process the food in some way that you get few nutrients and a bunch of useless calories....
Thank you!
It is a perfectly ethical and legal way to pay the Obama bunch back for all the crap they have thrown at her since the primaries-and do you think, as an attorney that they failed to provide a safe work environment by putting her on a plane without exercise for all those hours, never mind the constant emotional stress with not enough time off?
You are so right about that-and my mind goes right to those otherwise invisible parents who want their kid’s whole school to be peanutless brcause their little darling might get a whiff and expire. I say let the kid be homeschooled or wear a hazmat suit to school-it isn’t anyone else’s problem.
Or, how about the mediocre, previously unnoticed office drone who wants a perfumeless/deoderantless office, lest they expire from a whiff? It is the allergy du jour...
I am allergic to some odd things. The worst one is cigarette smoke. NY has gone smoke free in our stores and restaurants, so I can avoid it easily enough. If I am stuck someplace with smoke, my sinuses go into overdrive and drain into my stomach at an alarming rate...then I am sick for days and take to my bed to “sleep it off”. Takes a couple of days to clear up all of that. My doctor laughed when I told him I was allergic to smoke...he questioned me for a few minutes and declared me allergic to it. Coconut has made me puke since I was a child and first tasted it. Once in awhile I would eat a cookie without knowing the contents. Yep, I can still puke from it even if I can eat it and can’t even tell it’s in there. Won’t use any lotions with coconut oil either. Very weird allergies.
Those are the same people who want Tchaikovsky banned because his CHRISTmas ballet is about a NUTcracker. (Horror!)
However, if they but knew he was GAY, all is forgiven.
(I know. I’m BAD)
Maybe if people were more abstemious, they would avoid such labels:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2973557/posts
Happy New Year! (Hope you’re all abstemious tonight.)
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