Maintainers weekly chat May 30-June 5

Mudpie · 05-30-2011, 05:42 AM

Good morning all! Happy Memorial Day to the Americans! Good day and rest of the week to everyone else!

Dagmar

BillBlueEyes · 05-30-2011, 06:47 AM

Yep, it's a holiday here and the weather is starting out looking good.

I need a day of serious on plan eating. My face fell into a plate of desserts at a wedding reception yesterday - just no good reason to do that. The joy of the bride and groom didn't require me to overeat, and the mothers of the couple were way too busy to note whether I ate or not.

alinnell · 05-30-2011, 09:30 AM

Monday, glorious Monday (can you tell I have the day off?)!

Day three of golf this morning. Yesterday started out a bit blustery but today is calm and cool. We start out at 59 degrees and should end the game around 65. It should warm up into the 80s this afternoon--time for a nice barbecue.

I am currently 8 pounds down in my quest to regain my goal weight. That's about 1/3 of the way. DH is 7.5 pounds down and we're both enjoying the diet immensely. So much in fact that he can't wait until August when we attend the family reunion--he wants to be down about 20 pounds or more by then. I'm glad he's finally losing! I've done it alone far too many times.

Time to hit the road to the course. Everyone have a great holiday or Monday--which ever you celebrate!

traveling michele · 05-30-2011, 08:33 PM

Allison--

on the 8 pounds! That is great! It is always nice to have a buddy for support and motivation. With medifast, do you eat their meals or cook your own? Just curious.....

Thanks Dagmar for starting the thread! Looks like us Americans have been busy and quiet today.

Hi Bill! I have a major sweet tooth too and desserts are always my downfall. Good luck getting back OP.

Speaking of desserts....
My weight is being so strange lately. I like to weigh 123 and not over 125. I was up to 132 about a month and a half ago and panicking. Went to the doctor, my thyroid was low (I have Graves Disease) and we started different meds. I was thrilled to get back to 123 but I'm still dropping. Today I was the lowest I've been in my adult life ever-- 120.2. What do I do? I buy dessert! I bought a nice dinner for dd and I tonight including cupcakes. Hopefully my weight won't skyrocket tomorrow but I decided I could have one meal off plan and see what happens. I'll be right back on track tomorrow-- promise! I think dd will be excited because she is tired of eating my healthy meals all the time. It has just been her and I this weekend as dh drove to bring older dd furniture, etc.

Dh went to Sears today and bought older dd a very expensive elliptical and is putting it together. She says she isn't a gym person and swears she will use it every day. I'm praying that is true.

I only have 2 more weeks of school with kids and one week without and I'm off for the summer!

Cannot wait! Way too much to do at school though and trying not to feel overwhelmed.

Dewey and I are still working on housetraining. He's doing pretty well but it is a long process. We took a "big boy" walk today on the leash. He's still getting used to it. The last time we tried we made it one house away. This time we went around two culdesacs and then back to our house! He is crashed on one of the new dog beds I bought yesterday at Costco.

I am starving and want to make my yummy dinner but dd is gone to look for clothes for two musicals she is in this week and she ate a late lunch. Guess I'll scrounge up another snack.

alinnell · 05-30-2011, 11:08 PM

Michele~I'm following Medifast as closely as I can. That means the 5 packets of food per day plus what they call a Lean and Green once a day. That gives me something that I can cook and oftentimes include DS without having to cook a separate meal for him. That means about 1000 calories a day, which I know is low, but with the stuff they add, it seems to be healthy. I actually feel good on this program and like the food (for the most part).

Mudpie · 05-31-2011, 05:59 AM

I took on a new puppy on the weekend. She's a sad little thing right now and terrified on the walk. She came from a horse farm, where she ran around all day with a bunch of other dogs.

Now she sits all day alone in a big house in the city. I really need the work but part of me says she would have been much happier staying on that farm. I hope she adjusts to city life (she's way older than the usual for "starter" puppies) without too much further stress. Her new family is getting pretty frustrated with her ( and it's only been 2 weeks).

And we went from cold rainy spring to scorching muggy heat overnight. Literally from a high of 14C to 30C in one day. All the dogs who can't go in the water were cooking yesterday (the new puppy has an ear infection so she was one). Not a great start to my relationship with her.

I feel really bad dragging her around but that's about the only choice I have with her right now. Strange how dogwalking can be such a complicated thing sometimes.

Dagmar

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traveling michele · 05-31-2011, 10:51 AM

"Operation Cupcake" was successful I suppose as I'm up 2.2 pounds overnight. Now to not keep going upward!

paperclippy · 05-31-2011, 11:02 AM

Hi guys! Kind of a crazy weekend here with lots of family stuff. DH's uncles were in town for his grandma's 85th birthday, but his grandma is in the hospital so it was pretty nuts. I don't remember if I posted before about his grandma -- she had a blood clot in her arm that completely blocked an artery and had to be rushed to the hospital for surgery. A couple days after she'd been in there they found out she also had broken her ankle in three places and we have no idea how long she had a broken ankle for (she had been walking around on it at least a few days and apparently hadn't noticed it was broken). In any case she's doing much better now and is getting moved out of the hospital and into a rehab center, then will be moving into a retirement home (which she had been planning, but not quite this soon).

Still having tendon issues all over. I thought the thyroid med change was helping, but I guess not so much. It helped a little, but not that much for the pain issues and more for other things. I think I will go back to the rheumatologist. Now I just need to decide whether to go to the same one I saw years ago or a different one. On the one hand, the first guy has all my records. On the other hand, he couldn't figure out what was wrong with me back then.

saef · 05-31-2011, 11:17 AM

I'm full of irrational exuberance over the warm weather & all this sunlight. It's summer & I want to abandon my laptop & go wander through a meadow wearing a white cotton eyelet sundress or something. (Probably I am thinking of some Estee Lauder advertisement.) I keep telling myself not to be so happy without any visible cause, that there's nothing really to be happy about, so snap out of it, that life is all about constant work & delayed gratification & vague anxiety. And I keep waiting to have something heavy fall on me, to darken the world. It will be a work assignment that I can't possibly complete, or a physical illness, or someone I love getting hurt.

But in the meantime, there's a really loud cardinal singing out in the courtyard, it's supposed to hit 86 today & one of the climbing roses next to my patio is blooming. I forgot that June was like this. How could I forget?

JayEll · 05-31-2011, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by saef

I keep telling myself not to be so happy without any visible cause, that there's nothing really to be happy about, so snap out of it, that life is all about constant work & delayed gratification & vague anxiety. And I keep waiting to have something heavy fall on me, to darken the world. It will be a work assignment that I can't possibly complete, or a physical illness, or someone I love getting hurt.

"And how is that working for you?"

Jay

midwife · 05-31-2011, 12:04 PM

Saef, go for a walk! I have this fantasy that you can just skip right over to Central Park (which I have only seen in movies).

paperclippy · 05-31-2011, 12:34 PM

Midwife, I think your next vacation destination is going to have to be NYC...

midwife · 05-31-2011, 01:33 PM

Sigh.
That would be so awesome.
I always get these conference brochures for NYC in December and I think that would be so great, but the dates always conflict with birthdays and other obligations.
I did go to New York, New York in Vegas and that must be nearly the same, right?

Mudpie · 05-31-2011, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by saef

I'm full of irrational exuberance over the warm weather & all this sunlight. It's summer & I want to abandon my laptop & go wander through a meadow wearing a white cotton eyelet sundress or something. (Probably I am thinking of some Estee Lauder advertisement.) I keep telling myself not to be so happy without any visible cause, that there's nothing really to be happy about, so snap out of it, that life is all about constant work & delayed gratification & vague anxiety. And I keep waiting to have something heavy fall on me, to darken the world. It will be a work assignment that I can't possibly complete, or a physical illness, or someone I love getting hurt.

But in the meantime, there's a really loud cardinal singing out in the courtyard, it's supposed to hit 86 today & one of the climbing roses next to my patio is blooming. I forgot that June was like this. How could I forget?

Thanks! You just made my week with this. No matter how hot or miserable I am I will have this vision of you in your gauzy white dress, skipping through a verdant field full of small yellow buttercups, gazing up at an azure sky filled with fluffy white clouds, out of which falls a Steinway grand!

Dagmar

saef · 05-31-2011, 05:21 PM

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I did go to New York, New York in Vegas and that must be nearly the same, right?

Ummm, kind of, but kind of not really.

Come by real soon, now, before it gets hot & stinky here. Like, within the next few weeks. Already the subway stations are becoming stuffy & somewhat aromatic.

And go see "War Horse," a play that just came over from London, and which is pretty schmaltzy, but has these really astounding life-size horse puppets. Steven Spielberg is supposed to be making a movie of it. But how could the movie be as good when it probably won't use puppets for the horses? They are the best thing about the whole production.