Wanting Homegrown Fruit

I love fruit (vegetables...not so much). We have an acre of property that I would like to plant a couple of fruit trees on so I know how they are grown before my family eats them.

I'd love to have a couple of Plum trees in my backyard but I know my kids would like peach trees. They love peaches. They're good fruit eaters (but vegetables...not so much).

I don't know anything about growing trees but I do ok with other plantings outside so maybe I could grow a few fruit trees. Indoors, that's another story - I kill all indoor plants. I'm not sure how it happens but it does.

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I've Lost 4.8 Pounds

Well, it WAS 5.7 pounds but it is the holidays. Give me a break. I lost that in the first four days of my "diet" too but by the fifth day, I couldn't stand it anymore and I cheated. That led to constant cheating. Thus, no more "diet" did I follow. I have managed to keep some of the weight I had lost off though the past few weeks, despite the holidays. Plus, I have to keep hiking up my pants so even that small amount of weight loss did make a small difference.

I have lost 1/4 of what I wanted to lose in total weight though so that isn't too bad. The diet the doctor gave me to follow just included too many foods that I could not eat without gagging (certain vegetables and fish). I think I am going to modify it a bit to include more foods (proteins) that I like with the veggies I like and cut out the foods that I couldn't stand, that discouraged me from this diet. Obviously, it was working (even if some of the foods was making me want to vomit). This diet isn't a "diet" so much as a different way of eating healthier foods, while cutting out oils, butter, and dairy. Definitely not a bad thing.

Here's hoping to more weight loss in my near future!

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