I should have checked. Hold on if anybody's here. I've got to check in the mirror make sure I don't have nuts in my teeth because I just had a protein bar and that wouldn't be good. No nuts in the teeth. No nuts in the teeth. Come on you guys come let's chit chat Friday. Maybe if I put happy hour in the title you guys would run over quicker. That's where y'all are huh? I'm Ollie. Oh it's are you done working for the day? And I need to get that info from you. Hi Jermaine about your your drinking poo. What's happening everybody? Hi Lou. Hey hey. Oh that's alright. It's no big deal. Hi Rachel. I am testing out. We had the I had the Wi-Fi guy come out today because our Wi-Fi just stinks. Hello Cheryl from Michigan. So we're gonna test out the Wi-Fi. We've got everything running. Excuse me. Okay full disclosure. Ask me what I've done today. Hi Donna. Pete got some new school shoes. Alright. Yeah. So you guys are outside right now. That's so nice. I remember what it was like to be outside once twice. Three times my latest. Speaking of latest. There's Lindsay. Oh my gosh Esther. Okay hand to God this is the truth. I ran in the bedroom and just put on a little foundation because well because it was basically needed and I was like and doing this you know and then I thought I haven't seen Esther in a while. She would be nice if she came on but I haven't seen her around in a while. I hope she's well. I was thinking about you maybe just my thoughts out there in the universe. I'm so glad to see you. I'm so glad to see all of you guys. Well she's running in the house pizza crust you know what I have some pizza crusts. Maybe we'll make that for dinner tonight. I'm all over the place right now you guys. Hi Janet because this is unplanned. I've done. I've been super super super busy today. I got up and then the Wi-Fi guy came and I sat here for he was in there for like an hour. So I sat here for about an hour you know wait for him to be done. Oliver was with me. You know what's bugging me the most about the pandemic is this mustache. So then after he left I got up and I moved from right here on this couch into my bedroom. Thanks for the three thumbs up you guys. I know this is six three here three there. I appreciate thumbs up.  So then I went to my bedroom and I laid in my bed and I read in there for a while and then I came out here and this is a time lapse over like five hours. Now I thought well maybe I should feed the boy some lunch and I got up and did that. But guess what he had for breakfast today you guys in case you're not on my Instagram. Instagram? Do you ever say a word which just doesn't sound right for a second? Instagram. Is it Instagram? He had overnight oats. I made two s'mores overnight oats and he ate it. I'm so thrilled because we're all going through a thing when it comes to eating right now around here. We're not doing much of it except for Steve. Now me I know why I am. Oliver I don't know why he isn't. Guess what? He got his first pimple. Molly I love the over that. I love them all. Your creations my creations. We need to come up with a new one. So we've got and tonight and oh I just my friend that I took it in the kitchen. My friend Amanda a Twitter pated mama sent me a funnel the most beautiful funnel. It's coming on. It's coming hard. It's coming fast. In fact his mustache is probably a little bit stronger than mine. Hi Susan. DJI F. So real quick I want to touch on I have to really be careful what I do because I've noticed it's funny when you're stuck in a house with someone for a certain amount of time you start noticing things and he is totally doing everything that I do like Steve will go. So do you want do you want my money for dinner and I'll go I'm fine. Do you want hamburger for dinner. I'm fine. You know anything he says to me I'm like I'm fine.  No no I'm fine. It's just weird. So we're paying attention to that and also we got news from the school district. There will be no school at the school. I don't know. So everything's going to be an adventure. Hi Jimmy. How are you. How is everybody. I haven't said my way in result set. I know you all just hanging on the edge of your chairs. Molly we didn't talk about it today. Usually that's the first thing we do. He's in there right now. He has since didn't he likes doing he has electric piano and he puts on the automatic thing but he sits in the pretend like he's playing it. I don't know he's kind of cracking me up lately. Doing well staying busy. That is the best reply. Hi honey. That's the best reply I could hear because I wish I could say the same. I mean I'm doing well but I'm certainly not staying busy. That is a fact Jack. So let's talk about my my weekend review. Don't be yelling at the P girl. Do not yell at her. She doesn't deserve to be yelled at.  I'm under eating a lot and it's not on a purpose. I just haven't felt like eating. As the original 35 and 35 to come out for that. You guys know food is not my jam. I don't love love love food. I don't have to have to have food.  You know it's it's what I drank and it's it's in my jeans and not everybody was born then it's felt and lovely and I fall into that category. So I am not losing because I'm not eating. Let me you know it. Let's look on the app and see how much. An average of because I did look at it before you guys got out like today I have only had 10 smart points. Esther says wish I would under eat everything I see goes in my mouth if I you know what but no it's not a good thing because it's not healthy. I can feel it. I can feel I can feel it. It's not good for my blood sugar. It's not good for anything. But every day I'm averaging under six points a day. That's not good. I'm not eating. I'm not using my weeklies. And I'm being aware of it. I'm going in. I'm grabbing a plum. I'm grabbing a plum in time. I'm cutting up an apple. You know like with him. Come on over. Let's sit down. Cut up an apple. Have the peanut butter chocolate. But like I just don't feel like eating. So Nita why don't you just get to the point. I can't bring it up in here. I gained 1.2. And it's a huge drag and I just you know I want this to be a lesson.  Give her water. Look at my news. Look at my new sticker. How cute is that. Don't ever not eat to lose weight because it doesn't work. It backfires every time I had this happen last week and it's happening now. But don't be sorry to hear about it. It's okay. It's you know it's just a blip on the big radar of life. I've got we've got collectively all of us have way more things to worry about than a one pound gain. Now Esther I'm going to come back to you in just a second because I'm so happy to see all of you guys. Don't let those pounds gain up on you though like I have. It's been my fault. It's like what I just said was completely wrong. Well no it wasn't completely wrong. It was just kind of do worry be aware but just be aware. Okay don't let it be the be all end all right now at this particular time because I have got so I have had to back off and let the mindset go just a little because I wake up in the morning and I'm like oh you know you know how you have that pre wake up what's going on what am I doing today. Oh yeah I'm not doing anything it's pandemic. And I say not to worry about this pound but they've added up during this whole four months they've added up a lot so I need I don't know what to do or what to say and that's not true I'm not going to worry about it. Esther says mine is like 66 points I gave up counting. I need to cancel my WW because I won't be going to meetings and just to switch to online until this is over. Esther I'm doing the same thing my friend the zoom is just not enough for me. Can we talk about is there anybody here that goes to zoom meetings and has uh oh goodness gracious and Nina has members that do there's a couple things a lot of them leave their sound on and they're responding to the coach while she's coaching oh it's where she's talking they're going oh yeah yeah oh yeah me too. So you love the zoom Anna I'm so happy for you that you love the zoom and then we have the ones that um they can't be bothered to sit up while they're in their zoom meeting they're laying in bed uh looking uh less than attractive which I don't care for that's not my problem sit up sit up and look at your phone you're a dumb person but every time they're just flat with their phone over their head I don't know no Lindsay you did not okay we gotta shout out the channels right now let me do it where I remember if I forget anybody please say um Nina give me a shout out because I like my shoutouts when I get them so you guys go see Lindsay at the mom logs okay sitting on the toilet I wonder if that was me I've been tempted but I know how to use the little dots and turn the camera and the editing and all that stuff off and I you know what Esther I don't like the zoom much either um uh last time lady put it on lower table we set up yeah you know there's a lot of those weird awkward moments as well so Anna yay for you I'm glad you enjoy it that seriously I mean it I bet she didn't know the camera that's that I think the problem is some of the like really really like in their 80s don't have the full I don't know I'm not judging I'm not judging I'm telling you what goes on in my meetings that makes it so that I don't love them and I'm not I'm not getting the same things I get in person now when the meetings come back I will go oh Lindsay I want to take it a couple screenshots so go see Lindsay at the mom logs who else do we have on here that has a channel let me back up and see um oh Molly of course go see Molly at classically Molly and I think you two are it right now right if anybody else comes in please let me know because word of mouth is the best that's how I got all my all my subscribers every week they spend the first 10 minutes helping every they do see we don't thankfully that would send me over the edge and it says I thought they all muted everyone but yeah I did get background noise too I just like to visit the other countries has anyone seen the clip of the zoom office meeting where one of the guys was doing something totally inappropriate I haven't but I'm not surprised I've seen the silly Geico commercial or whatever this thanks Lou anybody who comes in here that has a channel that I may not be aware of or if I miss you call out Lou hello Lou G give him my link Patty's here hi Patty I'm only gonna be here for a few minutes too I was literally so over myself in the boredom of today that I just thought get on it's Friday let's see maybe a couple ladies have a cocktail maybe you're still drinking your water like me maybe you're having some coffee maybe you just want to show off because today is a disneyland 65 anniversary and that's just about the saddest darn thing and that they're closed today disneyland has only been closed a couple times in this is just this is probably the first disneyland birthday I haven't been to in I don't know six years at least I don't know on and off honey says mine is really slow because they unmute everyone one by one so they can reply oh see no maybe my zoom isn't as bad as others because what we do they leave everybody on and everybody has the option because a lot of folks sit and do their zoom meaning while they're working so those people put theirs on mute of course I put mine on mute because I'm always yakking with shorty in the other room um 10 years ago Donna man for me it's only been a year but it feels like 10 years ago when when that's your jam when that's your go-to when there's your pals one thing was kind of nice today uh when the gentleman came to fix our wi-fi hopefully it is fixed he got up to the top of the stairs and of course he had his gator on and I hear him go Anita and then like that I recognize his voice and it turned out to be a gentleman that I worked with at Lowe's when I worked at Lowe's when I was the lumber cashier he was in what what he was in plumbing or something super nice guy so that was a happy uh happy stance to have a friend come and see how messy my house is small world you know what I do have a small world sticker Lou I should have brought it over it's so so cute hi Kristen Kristen you asked me a question that I wanted to answer on youtube and I'm having it but I will Patty says mostly ladies my age are older so do they have the technology down Patty or are they all sitting on the toilet too people are funny aren't they but you gotta laugh you gotta just kind of like be like this is such a weird time for everybody somebody's gonna do something there's 30 up there was 30 of you guys in here now there's 29 and if anyone to say hey and let us know how you're doing if you missed it again this week because I am severely under eating and I don't want to pass it along to you but just you know uh thinking about how I'm going to do his schooling I sit and I I manifest and I internalize everything that I'm worried about instead of talking to somebody because I don't have anything to talk to so then I don't eat um and I want to see and I was Disneyland with family 25 years ago and did not enjoy it ah it was with my step sister my age but totally opposite temperament I want to go back oh yeah oh I'm so sorry to hear that you know one of my best friends in life hates Disneyland and you know it's just with me it's uh I grew up there it's it's just in great it's in my blood peoples honey's leader is great but what I really enjoy is chatting to the other ladies and you can't do that on zoom well we honey we go in a half an hour early so that anybody that wants to chat we can do that that's good patty so yeah and you know what I feel bad because yesterday on my instagram my coach messaged me not about the meetings or anything oh it's her birthday I messaged her wish her happy birthday she came back and um I told her that I was going to cancel the meetings and go to online that you know that everybody knows me I am a rah rah shish boombah when it comes to normal life wwe watchers um you'll rarely hear me give you a negative unless it's something I really really feel strongly about but here is where the big bub bub bub but comes in I believe and I understand their company their company needed they have to make money I understand that but I believe that there's a huge difference between sitting online and yet yacking with the rest of the Brady bunch who either can or can't figure it out and being there in person and I think they should have given the people who do like to go to meetings a price cut that's just my opinion um I don't know about you guys but you know hi Jessica uh okay so I have to be honest uh financially for us nothing has changed thank the good lord if that's what you do I'm grateful for my husband he he works he's we are not going without and I could afford to do it but I don't want to I think it's way overpriced for zoom that's just just my opinion I say hats off to everybody who's doing what helps and what's good for them speaking of what helps what's good for them Amy was on this morning on YouTube I was so happy to see her and there's somebody I want you guys to go over and um drop by Christy at planning us healthy anybody who has hasn't been around hi Tracy Charlene um Christy over at planning is healthy was very sick and she did get tested she has COVID now I think she's coming to the end of it but anybody who hasn't been over to give her any love go give her some love she is just one of the most genuine kindest friends I have been lucky enough to make online with her I just adore her and so let's give Christy some love even though she's not here we're gonna give her a shout out usually I don't shout anybody out if they're not here because then I forget and then I feel bad and then I lose sleep and then I'm up and then I'm not eating and it's just no good Donna says have been gaining since uh I have been gaining since laid off in April this week up to the exercise it's smartened up my food choices right I'm Donna not oh no I'm not quitting either manage 15 miles on my bike yesterday who are you you are Donna strong and brave here's a drink for Donna that's an awesome that's an awesome report yay and that lifts everybody's spirits and hearts and minds right when we hear and see good things are happening to good people I love hearing it it's not about me when I come on here live I can spout something out I tell you my talking but I want to hear from you guys more importantly I'm glad you shared a needed germane says because it's very important that people see that an actual example of why under eating is not wise and it isn't wise you know again I'm not gonna eat because I have to go to that wedding or no you got it you gots to eight Charlene is online uh Jessica's people who have online only can still go to zoom meetings really I didn't know that Kristen says I had to switch to online I have not been losing but I have been maintaining drinking too much alcohol Kristen why I haha pull up a chair sister pull up a chair Esther we are doing okay one week a month layoff many have it worse right but spending it on a meeting right that's it it just doesn't feel right you know when I see Steve leave the house 4 30 the morning with his mask on and when I see and smell him come in the house at night with his mask on I can't thank you Lou there's Christy's channel link you guys go over and give her some love tell her needers sent you um in good conscience spent 45 dollars to sit a month to sit here and do this when I can do this with you guys for hi Jill how you feeling Jill Jill's another one who's been dealt some crummy cards this year um let's see oh thank you Molly how should I bring it out guys thanks Molly I'm trying to get enough questions to do a Q&A with Steve we're gonna sit here and do a Q&A so I have what have I have on my community post at YouTube I have a spot for questions and then I have a spot on Instagram should I have him put him in here too Molly so if anybody has any questions about anything I'm dying to do one of these with Steve because I want to see what his answers are I mean they'll be truthful but I just want to see because sometimes I think something's gonna come out of his mouth and it's something different so I'm looking forward to the questions you guys thanks Molly ah yes Jermaine she's just the best she's just one of those people you know what you're getting in you know it's she's just the best I love my martinis and skinny margaritas I love my uh neatas my needed drinks I like vodka with ice you know the ice I like coconut pineapple Susan says I don't care to be on camera I have to show our entire spring 2021 dress line on a zoom meeting for all the north from buyers I'm all freaked out oh don't be freaked out my friend let's see let me read that again to make sure I don't be on camera okay what are you freaked out about what what is the one thing or two things are all the things that are freaking you out because we are here to help aren't we guys let's help Susan through this I think it sounds exciting but I understand if you're like an introvert and it's not something you're not comfortable getting all out there what have you I don't know what's involved now if you're doing the under our line I can fully understand Cheryl uh he's an electrician Kristen he works but he's not like the guys that you see that drive around in the vans and they have their slogans he works on the McMansions down by the beach like he like uh his last job was for a tennis player these people with money are just so it's in you guys would be some of the stories he comes home with it takes him like five years to build one huge McMansion or mansion he came home this story once that somebody's pool the whole pool okay just imagine mansion pool was like this much too close so they they redid the whole thing they redid the whole they just money here out so he spends like years at a time on those houses so that's what he does uh other than grocery shop and estuary's been home don't know if I'll know how to socialize anymore ester when chris came here today to do my wi-fi and then especially when I realized it was somebody I knew oh my gosh I was talking to his poor ear off I'm like okay I'm backing out of the room now I'm gonna leave and leave you to be do your job they do Lou they just really do it's some of the crazy things and and it's him so frustrated he comes home he's like because he's a perfectionist you guys know him well enough he does everything right you know he's that guy he's like my dad he's gonna do it right he's gonna do it perfect there's not gonna do it at all and unfortunately the framers and the other you know contractors what not don't all have the same worth ethics oh these are questions for my q&a I'm so dumb okay I'll save them for my q&a thank you Charlene oh my gosh I'm such a nimwit sometimes Jessica that's the beauty of the zoom is going in your PJs even though sometimes I weigh in and I can't my biggest thing I can't wait for is hi Judith um to just be back on their scale and not have to deal with this scale anymore because it's never accurate or I don't know if it's accurate or not it's never got the same reading I do not like it hi Patricia how are you it's midnight over there so it's quiet the crickets are out the birds aren't chirping yet it is only what time is it here 335 335 so that's it I'm trying to think if there's anything else um kitty dogs laying over here today I've had to eat all I've had was the overnight oats this morning with my leapshin and then I had a turkey sandwich with it was just it was three points two for the bread one for the cheese and um Susan has not answered us yet maybe she's typing I think that's an excellent idea oh Molly thank you so much I just love you so much she's the best um Susan yeah I'd like like Kristen said just be you um because I can say hopefully this trade doesn't fall Jessica that's true I know you I've read every single comment you've ever left me and you have you're very witty you're very sharp you're very funny all that stuff and that'll come through in your presentation I don't know if you're gonna be doing any talking or not but just be you be the you that we all know and love and you can't go wrong that is true Jessica I have been known to step on it before getting in the shower speaking of showers don't not not to worry I have a shower but I just find as this thing goes on uh let me turn this off I'm just getting lazier and more restless if that can even be possible I have a whole kitchen is clean have I done it no okay Kristen said I had a peach premier peach premiere protein I didn't know that that was a thing with blueberries as a shake I am having a whole wheat pasta carbonara with turkey bacon and peas in it that sounds delish I don't know what we're gonna have whatever Steve makes let's see what did they have last night I think they have ravioli so we'll probably have burgers but see that's the thing it's like he's gonna ask me what I want for dinner and we're gonna go through we have the whole routine oh I don't really care and he even said did I miss your weighing results you might have I gained Jessica because I'm not eating enough plain and simple you know I'm gonna try my tracker again do we have rollovers on green because if we have rollovers on green which I think now that I think about it we do um see this day I did not have a blue dot why didn't I have a blue dot on this day oh because I was this is perfect example and you guys I'm a master tracker I track everything everything look at this is this is I had 21 points left this day now I can assure you I was eating fruits and zero point foods um but clearly that's not that's not enough but I I'd have blue pointed I was gonna say blue plated remember it came out they'd have the blue plate special I know Jessica and that's that's not good let's see I'm trying to look to see what my average is of leftover points I'm having a day and now since my wife is fixed my phone isn't working it just doesn't make any sense um so I I've got to start working on that okay so Susan is here she says I just don't like to see myself on camera I have to show about 50 new dresses and talk about the product sell it think qvc Susan so is that something you tape ahead of time but you said zoom because that's a lot to have to go and change and come back in I would imagine by outfit number five you'd be pretty taxed and warm and you have to tell us but it sounds very interesting your job sounds very interesting and there must be a reason that you have that job that I can imagine you would come across how they want you to come across which is it's live now how in the heck do you do that uh you're gonna need to be like in the Arctic Circle when I think about changing clothes I immediately think heat but I think that's that sounds so interesting and you said was it from did you say Nordstrom's me sees Donna says I've had rollers every day this week but I've eaten three solid meals each day weird you're doing it right though Susan um your picture is with Oprah did you meet Oprah could you maybe get her on the horn hello Oprah it's me Susan and I need some advice because this is what I have to do because it looks like you're pals with Oprah layer them and take them off one at a time 50 outfits that's a lot honey says it's not easy to eat if you don't feel like you need to I would just carry on doing what you're doing because really I'm not doing great honey I'm so up I'm so up now I have a decade I've never said my actual weight I think maybe I did when I got back to my down to my 50 pounds oh I oh I thought I heard somebody come in here oh no there's nobody in here okay um but I'm borderlining a decade that I shouldn't be now I'm nowhere in my 200s or anything like that but hi Suze everybody say hi Suze he's not here Donna he's not coming anymore he made an announcement on my instagram today hey you know what bubs the announcement that you made today was on my instagram I think you need to do it on my youtube because this is where everybody asks for you and you can just make it short and sweet just let me know because people ask about you all the time the camera's over here come on over here what do you pull it on over here I'm not your cameraman so I'm sorry short I decided one day I woke up and I said I'm old I'm getting older now pull your hands down so we can hear you seems as if it's like a family channel to me kind of I just I'm growing up I don't want to be on the youtube channel anymore okay I'll be on my channel but I don't want to be on the youtube channel okay say goodbye everybody everybody thanks for all your kindness not don't kick that please now that I'm old and grown I'm moving on to greener pastures right what does that mean Nana it means you're moving on to do other things you'd rather do please don't do that okay all right bye everybody they're saying goodbye and that they're gonna miss you honey I love the words of of positivity that you're giving her that's awesome yeah he woke up one day and decided he didn't want to be on the family channel um have you guys in here I want to hear from you guys I know I could talk forever I'll sit here and talk for it he has his own channel he has his own gig um I could talk till the cows come home especially right now because I haven't talked for weeks it feels like and I like to talk and I love you guys for hanging out and cleaning your toilets and washing your dishes or kicking back with a beverage of sorts and while I do it but I definitely want to know how you're doing good bad otherwise if you feel like you need to talk to you because I get it and I am here for you any new food finds in my last oh hi Cindy thank you for everybody just come in and say hi you don't have to talk if you don't want you could talk all you want a man's got to do what a man's got to do you're right jimmy you know it's funny is I guess he heard about no I'm not all up on the YouTube's is the kids like to say um I'm barely up with my own community right now I have no idea what's I guess there's drama in other communities that I'm hearing from my younger friends but I guess there was some issues with a couple family channels and they weren't treating the children well I don't know he told me this and so he's hi Barbara so um he doesn't want to have anything to do with that sort of what's the adjective I'm looking for it upset him and the stories he heard that that hi Tony you guys made it you made it for my my way in um so I find that an endearing quality that he sees my channel as a family channel which it is clearly not my family just pops in from time to time but he doesn't want to be affiliated with that sort of whatever it is it's going on so I said absolutely hello Sally welcome from across the pond we have a couple of you Esther it's not here tonight yet she might be sleeping Patricia's here from Scotland so I think you're you're you're new to life right look at all you guys I'm so glad you're here there are families that do use the kids for profit no privacy okay that's what he was saying that um something to the effect of the parents were doing whatever they wanted to do with the kids um for no money and I did we did have a nice heart to heart we sat here on morning talked and I shared him thank you Lou that that's nothing like what we're doing here that he comes and goes as he likes but that's his his big boy choice oh that's right honey's over there too I'm sorry I always forget honey I don't know why Jessica went to a New York meeting today and she said we need to embrace the s u c k it was funny but I totally get it you know about if you take it outside if you want but that one do the life okay or go in your room but it's too loud when you do that in here Pally boy um see I didn't oh that's what I started to say is I told my coach I was going to be there this morning and I was awake and then there was the 10 o'clock meeting and I was awake I just didn't please Oliver please if you want to do your sword find a place where my iPad isn't picking up the sound of it okay please I'm not on here for long why don't you go get your bike out why don't you go for a little ride grandpa's gonna be home pretty soon oh Barbara not well I'm up one what did I say 1.2 uh because I'm grossly under eating I just don't feel like eating and uh he doesn't want to be on anymore um so yeah I need to you know what I should do is um I I just don't feel like it Barbara it's just like uh and it's annoying the hell out of Steve too he's like you gotta eat I'm like no I don't want to eat okay I'm gonna I'm gonna get mad in about one minute let's see Kristen says I feel the same I had my shake nothing but coffee and water before that well the other day I was chatting with some of my friends and um uh I was telling him you guys I just I'm not hungry I'm not eating I think it was last week when I hadn't a last week ate two from not eating and Brianna from over at even the divine is like have a protein shake and I'm like Durr and um he hasn't come out with his sore in weeks and I am not snacking Sally either it's just I I had to force my turkey salad today oh you know what I'm not gonna ask you again and I know but I know that you don't want me to get like angry in front of my friends with you right and I don't want to get angry at you in front of my friend this is one hour that Nana's having to herself this is it and that's all I want okay that's it yeah I could do that Barbara that's an idea um and it does taste good I know Jessica Oliver you know what if you want to come and sit with me and be in the video and talk you're so more than welcome to but it's just distracting for us when you're back there with your sword you know what I'm saying it's not that I don't want you here I totally want you here but not swinging a sword behind my head I don't know maybe I was Mary Queen of Scots in a previous life or something but it's just making me nervous do you want to come over and have a seat over here Oliver I know Suze Judith he knows that oh just if anybody's new here and you're like why is this lady being so mean to her grandson trust me I'm not being mean um he and I have been together 24 seven since this pandemic well he goes to his dads but today we've been together all day all I wanted was to carve out a little hour for myself and I don't think that's asking too much and I think you know he needs to learn that I'm a person too I may be Nana and in his eyes my job and my only purpose for being here is him I need to show him that that's just not true you know Donna I thought about that too I've actually been craving something uh he is honey he's a hand bone as you guys who know us we're not fast food eaters um if we're gonna have anything that's not good for us we'll order pizza um but we we don't eat fast food basically because it makes Steve sick every time in the past when we would have fast anyways I am not a fast food eater and I've been wanting a Big Mac for some reason I have no clue I don't know if I saw a commercial um I don't know what but a Big Mac just sounds so good and I'm so tempted to just have it and track it and move along plums have been my jam though I've been really loving my plums but yeah when I sit low there's 40 of you guys in here and it's the same six of us talking anybody want to jump in and say hello is there any any help that we as a collective group can give anybody's having trouble like me who's not eating enough somebody I know a lot of folks are really snacky you know Donna I might do that tonight I'm gonna talk to Steve and see what's on the Friday night game plan I wish that my town was responsible to trust them to social distance right I would go I don't know if you guys remember Friday nights we would go to um our favorite Mexican restaurant which is open but I keep reading every Friday night that it's just like they're not social distancing I guess I could get it to go but Mexican food isn't good for on the go speaking of Mexican food Barbara says this is a mixed food I made Alice Springs chicken tonight Sandy shared the recipe an outback dish oh is it good what's in it Barbara I thankfully I love chicken I can eat chicken till the cows come home um has anyone been cutting hair for hubby's kids Rachel wants to know so good yeah that's a good question Rachel I have not Tony says I completely understand I take care of my grandson every day to all be patty special soft special things check cuz I'm not obsessed even you wrote that really fast huge Jessica but it's you know like my it's not my normal thing to have if I wanted something that isn't ww or something you know what I'm saying it's like I would gravitate sort something else Lindsay over mom logs cuts her boy's hair well that's got to be um challenging your main cuts her husband's hair boneless breast bacon cheese oh yum okay now is there something we could put instead of miracle whip because miracle whip crossed these lips once and the taste buds on the other side of these lips were not happy campers I'll try and get a video for you all video I lost Rachel oh are you gonna cut somebody's hair oh no I could never cut anybody's hair Diana from Memphis and I want to eat everything this week I love that I absolutely love that you know what I love about that because you like Diana from Memphis and I went to we went and ate everything this week you didn't go oh man we ate too much this week yeah say it loud and proud that's for sure Susie cuts her husband's hair but when I worked I did hair oh so it doesn't count when I'm heavier I don't feel like eating I think it's guilt you think so Donna I don't because I don't have any guilt over that it's my guilt is over my drinking and some stone um honey says I only know about this regarding children but perhaps to say for adults if they don't feel like eating sometimes can cutting back on milk drinks can help let me read that again honey I know right right because they're filling up on their milk and whatnot I have nothing to cut back on except for why water could protein shakes dull the appetite oh I absolutely think protein shakes can dull the appetite absolutely you put the right stuff in there you betcha Donna says food is her drink drink is my food see so I know that somebody out there can relate I know Lou can relate because she and I have talked about it before a couple other people have to you know it's just Judith says my husband and sisters that I cut his it looked like something blew up on his head Molly get the big Mac I knew you were gonna say that I was just waiting for it to come across I think I will but I want a Bob's big boy I shouldn't be talking about food though because that might trigger somebody and I definitely don't want to do that that's why I don't talk a lot of food on my channel um I notice on other channels they talk a lot of food and I try not to do that here because I don't want to trigger anybody into eating something if they're feeling low or they're feeling vulnerable I don't want to be the cause of that that and food isn't the be all end all Kristen says drink is my food when I'm hungry I want to eat and drink I have a bloody Mary and a bloody Mary you can you can work that into breakfast lunch dinner snack brunch and make it sound fancy fanciful good thing on what you're me not talking about food I don't ever want to trigger anybody I'm just here to help and talk and see how you guys are doing and thank you I appreciate that I appreciate a lot because I've it's something that I've kind of struggled with because you know back in the day when I was really just consumed with watching a lot of YouTube I'm just not right now for some whatever conversations make you hungry right it's a conversation such as we're having now it's the same thing as a commercial when it crosses our television screen it's putting the idea in there and even if we're talking about celery maybe not celery celery um it'll lead you to think about other foods like let's see what's a well I was just gonna say what's a big trigger for me and let me tell you no I'm not gonna do that to you guys excuse me yeah some conversations they just that's all you need so um let's see four o'clock I don't know I don't know what's ahead of us I can't thank you guys YouTube has too many food shows too much a trigger speaking of food shows I am Jessica I'm finishing up on my third one um because that's when we'll eat at Cindy what show do you think that Steve Johnson has on all the time and then he then I get up and I go and I sit in the bedroom he's like comes in he's like what are you doing here I'm like I don't want to watch Guy Fieri and 45 different ways to make things thanks but no thanks thank you Judith you know yeah absolutely honey that's the only way yep Jessica is it really warm back there Jermaine I have the air conditioning on here too here's the thing with what when I come on live there's so many different ways that I'm going back to when I watched a lot of YouTube I would pop in on whoever was live and there are some lives where the person whose channel it is they'll do all the talking and then that's that goodbye I bid you do have a good evening there's other channels where the person who's doing live will just sit there and just read comments there's other channels where all they talk about is food that's all they talk about and I just want to try to mix all of that up into one batch here so that it's about all of us it's not just about me anybody who's watching anybody who's sitting in the background watching might need help with something or an idea you know this what this this crowd is about this is what my group of friends here is about and that's why I treasure them so much. Cindy you did did you get what did you get did you get one from the same girl that I get in from or a different one tell me I'm excited to hear Susie says just so you know I'm in the exact same headspace as you I know honey we're always on the same page but that shouldn't surprise you no not at all Barbara you've discovered TikTok oh my gosh that is one rabbit hole I have not gone down yet I don't even begin to know where to look for TikTok. Christa says my bottom hurts from watching YouTube I need to move I love watching you and others you recommend yes and one of the flower ones Cindy that's so great I wish that Rachel who's the owner of the company knew that that you got from my idea I mean I don't get it pain by numbers germane yes that's what I've been doing for the pandemic I started off strong but then I just kind of it's about friendship and support and that's what makes it unique honey you always come up with these beautiful things that I want to take and just hang on my wall you're like having my own personal hallmark it is about friendship and support little quicky videos on everything a little bit of this a little bit of that right Barbara I just want to make sure everybody feels involuntary not like you're on the outside looking in we're all here together oh Cindy that's so I'm so excited about that I showed you guys last week I hung two of them I've got Frida sitting over here and I got one bird I got to finish up I think I'm going to do it do it tonight oh Barbara Barbara's channel you guys Barbara pass right here she's our painter she's she's my personal painter um the king hired her to do my portrait she lives in the east wing we let her come out from time to time but we let her have a camera and she does paint back there and we let her view or pre art show her painting on youtube so go join her and look at listen to okay here's the thing you guys if you don't hear another word I say if you're having an anxious day night can't sleep any of those things go to Barbara pass channel even if you uh just listen to her voice just the way she talks while she's painting and she's describing things it's so soothing don't pay any money for a meditation channel or iPod or ear pod or any pod pod pod just go listen to my friend Barbara and look at her too because she's like so easy on the eyes Susie I think that's the best idea ever because she every time we're on here she comes up with something that just wows me Cindy says when I'm done I will take a picture and post on Instagram please do are you on my Instagram and if you are tell me what name you're under because I don't think you're on under Cindy are you I honestly think the big mac or something heavier would turn your hunger switch Molly I'm gonna have something good tonight because Molly said I could hi Ellen oh Kristen the real housewives you know what they are a totally totally gifted I'm not gifted guilty pleasure I love watching those crazy broads man Molly's the best isn't she okay so I don't know and you just formed such an opinion on some of the things they do Lindsay says Anita did you share Barbara's IG on your stories the other day did I share Barbara's Instagram I don't think I did thinking I'm missing something right now and I think I'm Barbara has Instagram too you guys is what Lindsay's trying to tell me and I'm she's throwing it out there for me to get and I'm not getting a look at this yes yes she's in Ohio yes Lindsay that's her she's right below you now that's beautiful Barbara Pask my painting in my bedroom of Oliver did she paint it for me and sent to me goodnight your main thanks for popping in thank you so much friend I appreciate you guys all so very much and Steve does too because now this is a little less talk you know what I have to tell you guys honest to goodness truth he sits right here okay so here we have our love seat right he sits right there I sit right here I swear I did I did a video on it once and it's on my Instagram if you look and he just tunes out midway I could be telling him that honey I the garage below is on fire we need to get out of here now and he'll just nod he just stops listening at some point so yeah Barbara at the Lindsay here at the mom logs she's she's by you too she's in the same state and she's got a great channel too Judith that's why we watch I just snorted okay Cindy okay yeah and make sure you tag um Ellie Cree so that that way for sure I'll probably see it oh I feel so much better I should have gotten on here earlier I always feel better after spending time with you guys you're the best the best of the best and I hope Rosemary gets her painting soon I am gonna cut out now thank you so much for the 15 thumbs up that you guys gave me I appreciate it so much Esther says we have the same thing every night he sits in a couch with his computer and I start talking I can see him glides over Esther it's just like and then I'll just like I'll be in the middle of something like really important and then I'll I see him like and then I'll just stop talking to see if he says we'll go on and he never does Barbara Jill I'm always happy to see you friend I'm always thinking about you I'm always thinking about all of you when you guys are having any kind of struggles health struggles any kind of struggles Susan please let us know how things go please let's keep this updated I'll pop on here why not I know I do this Nina you do this every time are you gonna do it again you say how you don't want to bug us but come on live and then come on live and then we talk and we have a good time and we laugh and we scratch and it's all good so just keep coming on right that way I can pull us all in here together good Jill that's such great news all right seriously virtual hugs and love to you guys all and if Steve goes golfing Sunday I'm gonna come on live and he and I are gonna do the question and answer thing I hope so thank you guys thanks Suze I just you guys are so good for my heart and my soul yes I am the cheese that stands alone you guys I'll have the most fabulous evening too see you soon can I find a little ex


Rice is life for almost half the planet's population. Each day, millions of poor around the world depend on it for food and employment. About 70% of the world's 1.3 billion poor live in Asia, where many depend on rice for their very survival. But rice also touches the lives of many more people in Africa and South America, and their numbers continue to grow. By 2025, there will be another 650 million rice consumers in Asia alone. That's another 32 million new miles to feed every year. And Asia's farmers will have to produce the millions of tons of extra rice needed using far less land, labor and water. Competition for these vital resources is already intense, forcing rice farmers to produce much more with much less. It's a tremendous challenge, but it's not the only battle or the most important one. That's because most of the world's rice farmers and the landless laborers they employ are also trapped in poverty. A better future for them and the world depends on rice. Without plentiful rice supplies to keep retail prices low, the food security and livelihoods of millions of poor are all under threat. And then there's the environment. And poor farmers continue to feed the world's millions of rice consumers with rice sustainably and safely. History suggests they can. The lessons and successes of the Green Revolution show what can be achieved with good science and give reason for hope. Protecting and sustaining the environment should always be an essential part of any nation's food security strategy. That's because rice covers most of Asia's best agricultural land and uses vast quantities of water to vital resources that are increasingly in short supply. Rice farmers can no longer use the 3,000 litres of water they may have needed to produce just one kilogram of rice. Fortunately, modern rice varieties that are more water efficient are already starting to reduce water use. Those that have built in resistance to pests and disease have also started to significantly cut pesticide applications. And high yielding varieties have saved thousands of hectares of rainforest from being converted into rice paddies. But farmers still need help, and the best and latest technologies to grow the extra rice that future generations will need. The International Rice Research Institute, or ERY as it's known, has been helping poor rice farmers and consumers since it was founded in 1960 by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in partnership with the Philippine government. For more than 40 years, ERY and its many partners have been using the best science to develop new technologies to help the world's rice growers. These are freely shared by ERY with its national partners as international public goods to help improve the lives of almost 3 billion rice consumers. By introducing modern science and farming technologies to the rice fields of Asia, ERY and its partners around the world helped launch the Green Revolution. The advanced and intensive production techniques that followed were major successes, providing the food security foundation needed for Asia's modern prosperity and stability. Now the challenge is to help rice farmers escape from poverty while still providing the affordable, nutritious rice the world needs. ERY's research program addresses these challenges using a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach that involves every major stakeholder in the rice industry. It places special emphasis on vitally important strategies like sustainability, capacity building and environmental sensitivity. All ERY technologies are also considered international public goods because the Institute is committed to keeping them freely available within the public domain. ERY works as well with a private sector to secure access to even more technologies that could help poor farmers. At ERY, the tools of biotechnology and rice genome research are offering exciting new opportunities to solve many of the problems that confront rice farmers. By focusing on the genetic building blocks of rice, scientists have accelerated the development of new rice varieties that help farmers improve their lives. But biotechnology is just one scientific tool that ERY uses to fight poverty and food insecurity. From traditional plant breeding to natural resource management, from the social sciences to training and extension, ERY is committed to providing exciting, innovative and sustainable new options for poor rice farmers everywhere. But the most important and essential of all ERY's research starts here. The International Rice Gene Bank is the well-protected and carefully managed home of more than 100,000 samples of wild and cultivated rice from around the world. It's taken more than 40 years and the friendly cooperation of many governments to create this unique facility as well as the work of hundreds of dedicated collectors. It's the last line of defense between Asia and possible famine. And has helped nations such as Cambodia and East Timor rebuild their rice industries after years of war and social disruption. Each day, researchers from around the world access this priceless resource through a 30-year-old international network that is a vital foundation of international food security. The Gene Bank helps them develop more productive rice varieties that can resist such age-old problems as pests and disease, and perhaps one day even drought and saltwater. Another fundamental reason for ERY's success and impact is its many partners and networks in the world of rice. The Institute has spent almost half a century building a global network of partnerships and collaboration that is unrivaled in the international rice industry. First and foremost is ERY's relationship with the world's rice farmers. ERY is linked to farmers through the national agricultural research and extension systems in rice-producing countries. While NGOs provide innovative alternatives to ERY's traditional partners, further boosting the overall impact of important new technologies. Who pays for all this? ERY is funded by the governments of more than 15 nations as well as several private foundations and international organizations. Surprisingly, many of ERY's most committed donors are western nations who are not big rice producers or consumers. But over the past decade, competing donor priorities have caused ERY's budget to shrink by almost half. Still, for the cost of just one jet fighter each year, the Institute continues to play a key role in the food security of almost three billion rice consumers worldwide. And to extend its impact even further, ERY has turned to the internet. The Rice Knowledge Bank is one of the world's first digital extension services for rice farmers. It's a comprehensive digital rice production library freely available to anyone, anywhere, anytime that builds on the impressive achievements of the ERY Library, one of the world's largest collections of rice-related literature. But this is just the latest training innovation from ERY. More than 14,000 rice-producing personnel from around the world have gained from the training courses offered by the Institute and each year, hundreds more continue to benefit. As the world heads into a new millennium, ERY and its partners remain as committed as ever to achieving even more impact and helping the world's rice farmers improve their lives. For many, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals are a roadmap to a better future for the world's poor. But so much more needs to be done if we are to achieve these goals. Using the best science and the most sustainable technologies, ERY and its partners are providing a better future for those poor rice farmers who may otherwise be left behind.


Welcome to The Anxious Morning, where each weekday morning we take a look at ideas, concepts, and lessons designed to help you understand and overcome your anxiety. For more information, visit us at TheAnxiousMorning.com Disclaimer. I have to remind you that this newsletter slash podcast is not therapy or a substitute for therapy. This is not a peer-reviewed journal article. It is merely a fast overview designed to clear up some basic points of confusion in the community. When in doubt, ask your mental health care provider. If you've listened to me for any length of time, you'd have heard me say over and over that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT is the gold standard for treating issues like panic disorder, agoraphobia, and other related anxiety disorders. I stand by this statement, but I see questions about CBT enough in the community to know that some clarification is needed, so we'll look at these questions from time to time. CBT, cognitive behavior or behavioral therapy, is at this point more of an umbrella term than anything else. There are quite a few different therapies that fall under this umbrella. CBT by itself is becoming less of an accurate description of treatment, at least in circles occupied by clinicians that are keeping pace with changes in the field over the last 25 plus years. If someone told me that they were doing CBT, I might ask them for more specifics now, because I'd be curious as to which variant of CBT they were working with. I get asked quite often if XYZ therapy is CBT or not. So let's just take a minute or two and do a very cursory review of which well-known and widely practiced therapies fall under that CBT umbrella. Note that this is not an exhaustive list. There are bound to be other therapies that I miss here, especially those that might be in their emergent stages and not necessarily widely referenced yet. Just because I do not include a therapy in this list does not mean it doesn't belong. ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, MCT, Metacognitive Therapy, MBCT, that's Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, and FAP, Functional Analytics Psychotherapy, which is not to be confused with Psychoanalysis, which is not this. That's the beginning of a pretty strong bowl of alphabet soup, isn't it? I know this can get confusing. From time to time we'll dedicate editions of The Anxious Morning to a basic overview of these and maybe some other forms of therapy just because being an educated consumer is a good thing. But why is this so confusing within the context of CBT? Because what many people call CBT is an older type of therapy that emerged to glue the idea of cognition, thinking an inner experience, to the basics of behaviorism that tended to discount those things. That therapy was based on the idea that we should be able to control thoughts themselves and therefore change behaviors. Old school CBT was concerned with using tools like fact checking, thought records, and thought challenging to use thinking to change thinking. The idea was that if you could get a handle on and transform your thoughts, you would ultimately change your behavior. That was certainly an improvement over Scinarian behaviorism, but when talking about that kind of CBT, keep in mind that you're talking about a form of therapy that isn't necessarily being replaced, but augmented and changed over time by the newer, more process-focused therapies I listed above. Therapy isn't ever-changing thing. The more we learn and the more research is performed, the more evidence and data we can use to modify how we approach mental health, including anxiety disorders. It's natural for things to evolve over time. This is a good thing. We want that. So if you're asking the question, is this CBT this short article might be a starting point for answering that? If your therapist or potential therapist is practicing one or a combination of the therapies listed, then yes, this falls under the CBT umbrella. If your therapist is practicing old school CBT full of worksheets designed to catch and change thoughts, that's also CBT, but an older form. Often the older and newer forms will be combined, which is totally fine, and at this point in time, kind of expected. So to use a phrase I'm told I use quite often, there you go. I can't answer every specific question about CBT in one morning newsletter, but this is a start. If you'd like to see more of this thing, let me know in the comments and I'll be happy to arrange that. I bet I can even drag some of my super smart therapist friends in to help us with that if we want. Are you listening super smart therapist friends? Do you have anything you want to add? If you're enjoying the anxious morning and you'd like to get a copy of the podcast delivered into your email inbox every morning, visit the anxious morning dot email and subscribe to the newsletter. If you're listening on Apple or iTunes, take a second and leave a five star rating, maybe write a small review. It really helps me out. And finally, if you find my work useful and you'd like to help keep it free of advertising and sponsorships, you can see all the ways to support the work at the anxious truth dot com slash support. Thanks so much.