Ceara - 2 lbs to go to current goal - H'ray! Clutha, that's the joy of the palace - you get to set the rules in your own reign. And my rules fluctuate like mad sometimes.

I'm with you, wsw. This heat melts me in every way but the way I want it to. Supposed to be a bit better here tomorrow. Sister is having a little "tea" today (but at lunchtime) for several friends and me. So my menu will be a little different today. She's loosely basing it on a luncheon we had a couple of months back at a tea room. I know I'll be having a limited number of mints she told me she made (they are so good but I WILL limit them - I KNOW I CAN DO IT).
She's apparently wanted to do this for years but now since she's recently retired AND got a/c this year, she's doing one of her "want tos".

Must go plot the rest of my day or at least do SOMETHING else, then shower and go. Expecting it to be a good one and wish you all the same.

anagram-congrats on the 7 lbs down! hope you had fun at your sister's tea today.

hi clutha-it's always a tough call, isn't it?! sometimes, i have to give myself a little more wiggle room than others. i vote for going with the wiggle room, but i'm often not the best at giving myself a break.

ceara-so, it's day 7 for me. hadn't realized til you asked. i kept re-starting this last one, but definitely it has been full steam ahead for me since 7/28. i sure do sympathize about the mosquito onslaught. they are terrible here!

arabella-i know what you mean about wanting to shake things up a bit to move blasted scale. i think i, too, need to change things around a bit on my food and exercise plan. it's just not right, i say! hard work should pay off the way we want it to! ah well.

the heat remains eye-"crossingly" relentless. i went to my doc appointment this morning, and took a frozen bottle of water with me, and it was completely lukewarm by the time i got there, and it is only about 10 minutes away. oh, and that was with the a/c blasting away in my car. i know that i am lucky to have a/c both in my car and home, though, believe me! well, have a good evening, everyone! take care.

Cheers for the advice - I've chosen not to count it as I didn't want it and certainly wouldn't have had it by choice - I was trying to be polite I think!

Sounds like you have a great getaway coming up, Ceara! Enjoy.

Sissie's tea was delightful. I know pretty well all her friend who were there. She based the whole thing fairly much on the tea room experience we had a couple of months ago with her own menu, of course. Included cucumber sandwiches and other little finger foodies. She even clotted cream (she said it was faux clotted cream) for the scones she baked and made those delightful mints (I limited myself to 3, I did and they were tiny but potent).

So I perceive that I did no damage as I ate meagerly the rest of the day. What with the cherry berry tea and the honeyapple iced tea and all the little pieces of food, I felt I had dined splendiferously.

Did not exercise though so it's off to the pool this a.m. So, getting it into gear.........

WN. yes, creamy little minty things. Yesterday's were yellow. Basically just cream cheese and confectioners sugar with a little flavor/color. I've made them in all sorts of colors and shapes for various occasions. These were sister's first try.

Good new/bad news. Just talked to doctor's office re blood work. Apparently sometime in the last six months I've had mono. Nothing active but still showing up. I'VE BEEN TELLING HIM I'M FATIGUED. Like three months ago when he put it down to my RA (which can also be so fatiguing). Nothing to be done now but recover, they say.

Then my thyroid is down further (from 1.86 to 1.14 in three months which is down from 2.2 in 04 and 3.3 in 03 - spot a trend?) - no increase in thyroid med offered so I talked at length to person on phone (his very nice wife) and she's going to talk to him about it. Range is .4 to 5.5 or something like that. At the rate I'm going I'd be there in three months anyway.

Of course, an antidepressent was offered (not pushed) since I am still grieving. I'm passing on that at the moment. I think the two things above are more responsible for my fatigue than the grief as I can deal with that by thinking on the joy. But may consider it as a way to feel a little better while I recupe from the mono if he won't up the thyroid med.

So I've got RA, dropping thyroid function, old mono and grief going on. I'm going to have to find me a little "reward" just for not eating a ton the last six weeks. If I could only think of something I want - well I can think of one thing but I can't have that so I have to put my thinking cap on.

It is FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!

Just a quick drop by posty. Super duper busy with the mums out of the office. I wanted to wish you all a wonderful weekend! I'll be back on Tuesday!

Samooches!

Terri

ceara-have a lovely vacation at the cottage!

anagram-you certainly do have a lot going on! any one of those single issues would be enough to have to deal with, let alone all of them at once. i definitely think you deserve a big reward for not eating up a storm over all this. as one small possibility, how about another massage, and perhaps manicure and pedicure also to pamper royal self? take it very easy. mono really does take quite a while to recover from.

and to all our our lovely queens, hope everyone is having a good afternoon. no let-up in heat here down in "furnace central." arabella, when you said it is cool there, it sure sounded nice. i am imagining delightful cool canadian breezes as we speak. so far, day 8 going on target. have also been very productive today, what with catching up on some dreaded paperwork, and also did a bit of de-cluttering, which always has a positive effect on me. well, need to venture out in to that "furnace" and get some errands completed. thinking of you all. take care.

Dr. did up thyroid med a tad after I talked to his wife (who works there) and she gave him message that I asked him to. She even said I sounded so much better after I heard that. Yes, fatigue is very familiar to me too and I felt it was coming at me from all directions.

Sis is basking in glow of her little gettogether. It's all so nice when you finally do something you always wanted to do.

I did that today too, sort of. I finished up (almost) a little painting job I've been meaning to do for a year and a half. Ten and I did part of it when she was here and I did most of the rest today. Could not find switchplates I bought to do a little decorating on. Aaargh! I didn't just drop them with the painting stuff as I wanted them not to get lost or broken. Now I can't find them so can't quite finish up. May pick up some more while I'm out. And out is where I plan to go shortly - just a little rest first Nice to have such a good excuse!

"too cool" - now that sounds. It was fairly pleasant here this morning and temps are now just about "normal" for here.

Doing day four of third challenge, I think. I'm trying to get used to this eating at the 1600 calories level because (if I ever get to goal) that's about what I'd have to eat forever. Sheesh! but I am speading it out over 5 or 6 minimeals a day. I've had about 700 so far. Don't plan to use my approximately once a week "go over on the caloies" all at once this challenge so maybe tomorrow.

Did get to pool yesterday. Don't know what, if any, exercise I'll get today besides walking mall... C 'ya.

Wow - the palace hasn't been this quiet in a good while.

Another day ok. I might have been a tad over yesterday caloriewise, not sure, but close. I'll count it as my "off" day.

After thinking for all these days, I've decided my next challenge needs to be the "not eating after.......".
I'm going for 8 oclock to start and once that's subdued, I may try for earlier. I'm trying to eat in 5 or 6 meal segments so it may be tough. So I'm going to call today Day 1 on that challenge and will do my best on the rest of it but count only the one specific thing. One thing at a time. I've continued doing well on the fluid thing and think I'm fairly well set on calories for now and exercise about 5 days a week. I know it won't last forever but then I'll rechallenge on those things. For now, it's not eating after 8:00.

Looking forward to a full house tomorrow...............