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Hello and to the November 2017 Ups & Downs Support Group thread! I am WAY behind on emails since I have been MIA again for awhile, but I thought I'd start the new thread since y'all were still posting in October. Everyone is welcome to join right in and post a little (or a lot) about yourself. We are here to support you in any way that we can through the ups and downs of weight loss and life in general.
I will try to get caught up with everyone and post an update ASAP!
Kathleen!!! I am happy and relieved to see your post. Thanks for starting November.
Holly, I think you will always resent if you pay more than your share. I have a friend who has resented her two sisters since their mother's funeral- long story short, they got the house, car, bank accounts and she got 1/3 the funeral bill.
Lisa, I think the main thing with the diet is to always eat protein with a carb to keep your levels balanced, and eat smaller meals more often. Be careful with grapes as they are very high in sugar.
I met with the contractor who will not be able to get here until January. I am doing one bathroom over completely, and changing a half bath to a 3/4 by adding a walk-in shower. I am getting rid of the tile floors and replacing them with laminate, and he is going to have to put in sub floors for some reason. I chose new toilets, sink and vanities, flooring, lighting, etc. I was hoping it would be done quickly. Oh, well.
I am still trying to stay positive, but the loneliness sets in with the darkness when we change time. I have been exercising a lot as it does help my mood, I am volunteering more and joining a second bookclub. I have also been baking a lot- not such a good thing- - I have gained three pounds in two weeks....
It has been very cold on the Cape the past few days...no snow yet, but I thought for sure it was about to snow yesterday.
Hi Coop.
Hello to everyone else.......I would love to hear how some of our original members are....Fi, Li'l Turtle, etc. I hope they are all doing well.
Take care, my friends.
Monica
Last edited by EasySpirit; 11-15-2017 at 06:19 PM.
thanks Kathleen! so good to see you here hope to see you again SOON!!
Monica wow i don't know what else you can do to occupy yourself, you are doing everything you can to help yourself and that is great!! Hey, are you going to go with heated floors for the bathrooms?? I don't have that wonderful luxury but have experienced it and it is heavenly in cold weather!!
Hi Lisa and everyone else!!
Monica, I know I saw Fi posting on other threads after she left ours. Yes it would be nice to know if Li'l Turtle is OK! and everyone else!!
had a doctor's check up yesterday, I still could lose some weight according to his *&$5^#@$# charts!! but my BP is 120/80 and heartbeat, lungs are good.
OH!!! good news about my brother's apartment!! the agency said that the next tenant has NO furniture..so we can leave EVERYTHING!!! bed, 2 bureaus, 2 bookcases, table, TV, A/C...isn't that fantastic???
gotta get ready for work. Oh and it's 22 degrees and white outside, boooo. Lisa come get our snow please
I wanted to pop up to say hi! My tablet broke, so I'm having to use an old one while it's fixed. It's being painfully slow, and my laptop isn't much better. I'm reading along might not do personals for another week!
Hi Coop, come back when you can. We'll keep the homefires burning.
Monica, I can't keep track of all that. I just keep the carbs as low as I can, try to keep the sugars down as much as I can and eat protein. I'm not a huge veggie person but I'm trying.
Holly, hey girl, how are you doing? How's work? How have your moods been?
Kathleen, thank you for starting the thread. How are you?? Miss seeing you post.
i need to look through my things and see if I managed to bring any chair exercise dvds with me.
My mood today has been kinda down. I really miss Jennifer a lot. It's hard not knowing when I will see her again. When I think about that I start to cry. It's just really hard not being able to get in my car and go see her. It breaks my heart.
I'll post again soon.
Last edited by lisaloveshearts; 11-19-2017 at 01:05 AM.
Hi Coop! sorry to hear of your tablet being busted, and how frustrating is painfully slow typing?! very! look forward to hearing from you, when you can
Lisa Oh it is so hard to be far from your children isn't it!! a hug for you My mood has been pretty good, every day I try to focus on the good in life, and how I'm trying my best. I do NOT like the white outside but I am glad I have brand new studded snow tires and all wheel drive to combat that.
ALMOST done with my brother's apartment, my husband and I went over on Saturday after work to do another 2 hour stint, it involved 5 trips across the street and down the alley to use the dumpster/cardboard recycling bins there. If my sister did a trip on her own it would be great.
gotta get ready for work and I might have to shovel a path outside, yeah there's more than one inch and we like to keep up with it, once you walk/drive on the snow it packs down and it's there til May have a good day!!
I had one of those moments where I realised just how off I've been - it's a funny story, but upsetting at the same time! Our home insurance expired last November. In January I panicked because I hadn't renewed, so I sorted out insurance pronto. Yesterday I received a renewal quote - turns out I HAD sorted insurance last November, got quotes from several companies before doing so, then completely forgot about it all & took out another policy. I've had 2 insurance policies running on the apartment & I wasted the equivalent of $150.
When I think about it, I haven't felt right in years. The last time was about 6 years ago...
The good news is my tablet is fixed & I'll pick it up at the weekend.
I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving tomorrow!
Bleh, I feel like every time I come back here it's just to say that things are getting worse, and worse again, and to hope that "this time" I'll be able to get back on track. I can't believe that last year at this time, I was at the lowest weight I've been in over a decade, and now I'm back reaching towards my highest ;_;
I'm so disappointed in myself. And so disatisfied with my life...but feeling really stuck. I need to at least be on track with getting healthy again in order to engage in my life properly. It's just hard. Wah. :P
I hit 265 at the start of October. I have been about fifty/fifty good days and bad since then and made it down to 251 last week...but then payday hit and I started binging again, and I don't even want to look. Ugh. UGH.
I would like to commit to getting through the rest of the year without some trigger/binge foods because I've learned a hundred times over that I cannot manage them reasonably yet (maybe ever...and maybe who cares...because they're terribly unhealthy foods anyway. Grr.). I just have very little confidence in my ability to fix things right now. I can't believe how far backwards I've fallen.
Sorry for just swinging in to whinge. I'm hoping tomorrow will be okay and I can report some positive progress.
Bookmark, I wonder if you'd benefit from a diet challenge to help break you binge habits. Something like "I quit sugar" or the "8 week blood sugar diet" - even just following a whole 30 plan? It could help you hit the reset button.
I'm a bit of a binger myself, but I did a month on Whole 30 & haven't fallen back into the bad habit since. This is the worst time of year for that sort of thing though!
Coop, I think it's kind of unsettling that you said you haven't felt right in so long! Do you think that's something a health professional should know about? Or do we 'chalk it up' to what all of us experience, the CRS disease : and I had a nice Thanksgiving, thank you!
Bookmark, I am sorry you are feeling so out of control about your life, that is not a fun feeling at all! please feel free to come here to vent whenever you need to.
Last edited by VermontMom; 11-23-2017 at 08:49 PM.
holly I guess I'm hoping the nutritionist will help me feel right again - my doctor wouldn't know where to start if I went in complaining of feeling "off".
i a so incredibly tired tonight. I slept until 430 pm. It is now 550 pm and i'm ready to go to bed for the night.
I haven't posted lately because I've been ill. I have not had a period in almost a year.
I started my period last tuesday and have flooded every day since. It's been bad. I've been flooding through everything. Everytime I move, it lets loose. I have not been able to leave he house at all. I have to sit on pillows. I have 2 pair of jeans that get washed twice a day. I have to bathe every single day. I bleed all over the bathroom floor. Sorry to be so graphic. I just want you to understand. Today it seems to be a little better but I'm still unable to leave the house.
Now you know why I am so sleepy.
I love you all. Post and let us know how you are all right.
Last edited by lisaloveshearts; 11-26-2017 at 09:01 PM.
holly I guess I'm hoping the nutritionist will help me feel right again - my doctor wouldn't know where to start if I went in complaining of feeling "off".
Yes, that sounds like a logical hope, that the nutritionist can help you, Coop! Yeah, I think any doctor would be very challenged to pinpoint feeling 'off'. But that's no way to live, is it!
Lisa, Oh man that is such a bother!!! and how it restricts you from leaving the house. Drink lots of liquids if you can! and hang in there
and HELLO to everyone else!
I had to shovel some sn*w (it's a four-letter word to me ) today and some more is coming down now. bleh However I was driving with my all wheel drive and my brand new expen$ive studded snows and had no trouble at all. woo hoo for that!!!
We are *almost* done with my brother's apartment!!! and thank goodness the rental agency is NOT breathing down our necks at ALL even though I am sure they are super eager to rent it to someone else ASAP.
The sale of the store is still a go! I am super-duper curious about the new owner and his plans. Will I still have a job there??? it sure might be nice to see what it's like to work there without the RB!
November 2017 Ups & Downs Support Group Thread
to the November 2017 Ups & Downs Support Group thread! I am WAY behind on emails since I have been MIA again for awhile, but I thought I'd start the new thread since y'all were still posting in October. 
Everyone is welcome to join right in and post a little (or a lot) about yourself. We are here to support you in any way that we can through the ups and downs of weight loss and life in general. 
hope to see you again SOON!!
but my BP is 120/80 and heartbeat, lungs are good. 
it would be great. 
