New Year New Challenge, What Is Yours ?

[bargoo]

fitmom, Welcome !

[fitmom]

Thanks, bargoo. It's been awhile since my last post, lol. Good to be back.

[bargoo]

Still holding at 5 pounds down....gonna keep on , keeping on.

[ICUwishing]

2# of water off since Monday. I'll stick to ticker updates on Mondays, since I need the kick in the pants to get through the weekend. As midwife says, this is the easy and encouraging part. I ended yesterday at 1226, which offset the guacamole splurge.

silver - weddings are such fun, and I am certain that by July, you'll be able to wear whatever you darn well please.

fitmom, welcome back!

bargoo, great start and even better momentum!

We simmered 3 minced tendrils of the Buddha Hand in some white wine, with garlic and shallot. To make a long story short, there is a bitter last note that was uncoverable. Our thought is that we should use less, simmer with only chicken stock, and maybe put it in cheesecloth so that we can take it out earlier. Taste tests were telling us that the bitter note came on after about 5 minutes. The lemon/citrus essence is absolutely a knockout ... we just have to get the other part under control.

[alinnell]

I'm holding steady at a 4.5 pound loss (don't read ticker--it doesn't do half pounds).

Getting my hair cut today which will be interesting. I'm trying to grow it out (have been since September) and it's finally hit "that" stage where I can't do anything with it. It's tempting to just cut it and go back short, but I want it longer. I think the way to go is to do some sort of a wedge cut in back but I don't know what to do in front.

[paperclippy]

Came in right on target at 1377 yesterday. Down to 137.6 today, under red line.

Allison, I was there a few weeks ago. Hair too short for a ponytail, but long enough to get in the way and be annoying. I ended up giving up on growing it and cutting it shorter. I kept it a little longer in the front but had the back trimmed all the way up again. I'm getting it cut again this weekend and I think I might trim up the front too. Short hair is just so much easier.

[bargoo]

Congratulations to all you losers ! Keep up the good work !

[silverbirch]

Originally Posted by ICUwishing

I am certain that by July, you'll be able to wear whatever you darn well please.

Thank you, Becky, very much indeed for your confidence in me. Your language and your tone of voice really made me sit up and take notice. (We don't talk like that round here! ) I may put it in my sig!

[ICUwishing]

silver - I am very flattered! If I can help you as much as you've helped me, that's a good thing! To be honest, I have edited several posts to clean up extremely blunt/bordering on profane/blatantly profane language. It's a result of attending a nearly all-male university, and spending more than two decades in automotive manufacturing. It is a good thing also that my style of language is not common.

allison, I try to grow my hair out about every five years or so, and always come back to "really short". I have prematurely gray (wire) hair that is about three times the quantity of normal, with wild waves. It's too much like wearing a blanket on my head. I've had a cut for a few years now that doesn't even require blow-drying, which means I can sleep later in the morning. I should try to post a picture of my college ID so everyone can get a laugh. I think 3/4ths of my head shot was hair!

Second massage appt tonight. My shoulder is cooling off nicely!

[silverbirch]

Originally Posted by ICUwishing

To be honest, I have edited several posts to clean up extremely blunt/bordering on profane/blatantly profane language. It's a result of attending a nearly all-male university, and spending more than two decades in automotive manufacturing. It is a good thing also that my style of language is not common.

Ha ha!

What struck me was the swagger of what you said and I liked it. I am quite assertive but I don't swagger. I suppose when people are using bad language they do this. Between Christmas and New Year I was on a train with men coming off the North Sea oil rigs. The air was blue and some of them carried themselves in this kind of way.

I'm mulling over how swaggering might suit me. I do actually know lots of swear words, if that might help out, but am not planning that approach in the first instance.

1:7 was the women:men ratio at the university I went to, back in the Dark Ages. Things have changed now, thank goodness.

A reasonable food day, friends. Thanks for helping me hold the line.

[midwife]

Hmm...perhaps we could all use a little more swagger in our lives and a few more words that would induce blushing in women of softer characters!

[ICUwishing]

Stopping to think about it for a minute - everyone here on our thread has EARNED the right to do a little swaggering. We're doing something that, per those dang statistics, "shouldn't oughta be able to be done", in maintaining weight losses. Those of us on this thread in particular are probably an even tinier minority - in catching a backslide before it becomes a major issue! Stick out those chests and throw back those shoulders - we are an ELITE group!

[silverbirch]

Originally Posted by ICUwishing

Stick out those chests and throw back those shoulders - we are an ELITE group!

Yeah!




(And I won a fight with a small custard tart tonight, so there!)

[Mudpie]

You're all in the "Cesar Millan" groove now! Calm and assertive = a little swagger. Shoulders back, head up, and breeeathe!

I use many of those swear words in my mind at the beach with the dogs. Not today though - everyone was a lot calmer, reflecting the calmer, saner handler - ME!

I worked out call and response in the car with Hap today. She is a great vocalizer with many different sounds and volumes. Today she made a noise and I approximated it back to her. She stopped and looked . . . and made a different noise. I repeated it back. Bella (who sits up front with the boss dawg) got very intrigued by this but she rarely voices anything. Hap shut up and then Bella made a little tentative howl. I howled back. Bella did it louder and Hap and I joined in. We sat at a red light howling our heads off.

Then I looked out at the intersection and realized that all the pedestrians could HEAR US HOWLING!

Good evening all!

Dagmar (boss dawg and chief howler)

[bargoo]

Down 7 pounds ! Started Jan 1.