Another slow day on the boards! I wish I could make checking in mandatory. Who asked about Azure? You're right, we don't know what she's doing now that she's all graduated. I hope she checks in one of these days.
I wanted to get the thread started, but I don't have a lot to say. We had a fun weekend, made a few bad food choices, but it's monday so I'm starting over. Which is, of course, why I never make any progress- every Monday I start over, but I'm enjoying the summer and will buckle down again in the fall when it's too dark and too cool to go out on the boat after work.

Welcome back, Aud. I hate it when I talk to myself here on the boards. Are you back at work after vacation? Too bad about the virus. I just shut off all my firewalls on my laptop at home so I could print something using the wireless network. Hmmm. Might be a good idea to turn them back on. I don't think I ever did get the printer to work, anyway.

I had DH put a jumbo pack of chicken breasts (bone in) into the crock pot so for dinner tonight, we'll have some version of a chicken casserole. Probably we'll have two versions - one low carb and one not. I gave DH notice last night though. We have a big trip planned for November, so he HAS TO go low carb and start exercising on the first of September. He'll lose 30 pounds in those two months and feel way better. Me too (maybe).

So Faye is busy being a tour guide, Lilly is probably registering for college, but where's snappie and calmie?

Hi All: Jumping in quickly. This is the third time I've typed this post and had my laptop lose connection. Quite frustrating. Could not get back onto the internet this last time so I'm using the other computer. We had the transformer under the street blow up last night about 6:30 so no power on the whole street. Then when the utility company started jackhammering and removing street to replace it this morning (2:30) they hit a water main and a sea of mud and water flooded a neighbor's garage and backyard. Water and electric were not back on until late this afternoon but having washed up with bottled water and gone to work with flat, dirty hair and wrinkled clothes I was alas not here to enjoy the experience!!!!

I will check back in when the laptop issue with our wireless is resolved. Quite frustrating.

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WB Aud! Sorry to hear about the virus, I've had to clean a few of those off my husband's computer because he has this bad habit of turning his firewall off.

Sorry you felt like you were talking to yourself Lynn, I should have responded sooner.

I'm here...kinda. Drinking my morning , updating my journal for yesterday and scanning the forums before my day gets hectic. Just really busy this week with spring cleaning (omg I cleaned my windows yesterday and had to break out the disposable gloves and bleach!).

It's going to continue after the house is sterile because I have relatives from Tokyo area coming to visit next week.

I'm so short on time I'm even being horrible and not getting to my journal to update it until the day after...bad snappie.

Let's see...yesterday was frustrating. I got in my car to go grocery shopping, started it, and there was a big THUMP sound. I waited...it didn't make any more noise so I put it in gear and tried to back out...my power steering is GONE. Husband came home and looked at it and it was more than just fluid or belt so he took it to a service repair this morning. We're waiting to find out how much it is going to cost.

This week I have a lot of housework to do and my weigh-in on Saturday, but I've been peeking at the scale every morning and I'm down to 168 as of today.

I am having alcohol tonight for the first time in about a month as it is my anniversary and hubbie bought a bottle of Dom Perignon.

It's thundering outside and supposed to rain tomorrow . Hope everyone else is having wonderful weather and a good week.

Hey there, Aud!

Man, some good weight loss progress you guys have been making - Go Team!

Meanwhile, I've enjoyed a FABULOUS 3 days on Samui with my friend...but I have to admit that in the week she's been here, I've now TWICE had dessert. But the thing is, we're on holiday and I'm whisking her off to lots of fabulous restaurants - I don't regret either instance of dessert-having (****, it's only happened once before in the past six months)...just so long as I keep it to a very occasional indulgence during the holiday, rather than starting to let it happen in 'normal' life.

Meanwhile, she brought me an icecream ball thingy, so we can make icecream! We experimented yesterday, while at the beach, and it was YUMMY! And sugar-free! Nom nom nom!

Didn't get any gym-use in over the past 3 days, but I managed to get my *** out to the pool on the 2nd day bright and early, and swam for a bit. (50 lengths - of a very small pool, granted, but I figured anything was better than nothing.) My swimming this morning, however, was derailed by the fact that the pool was full of kids. Grr. (Still, I did enjoy the little paddle in the sea. Not exactly any kind of excuse for exercise, though.)

Car trouble, computer trouble, I'm suddenly feeling lucky!! It's actually been a nice summer here so far. Lots of hot weather, but enuf rain to keep stuff green and keep the lake full. I don't have a vacation scheduled for the warm weather months, so I'm using that as an excuse to take some afternoons off here and there. Life if good!

I don't even have to do housework since we don't have any out of town visitors coming. My house is pretty bad, but I'm the only who knows that, so why clean? We had my sister and my best friend from childhood here in May so I don't expect any more company this summer. I probably will clean eventually though. There's a point where even I get grossed out!! And I have a high tolerance.

I made a good low carb dinner last night. I had all those cooked chicken breasts so I cut up a couple and mixed one with Lipton Noodles and Sauce for DH and DD. Then I sauted a bunch of mushrooms and onions, threw the cut up chicken in and added sour cream, celery salt and pepper. I also had some Cauliflower "rice" so the chicken mix went on top. It was so good that I ate two servings, so I'll probably do it again tonight. Maybe tonight I'll get the second serving in the freezer like I had planned. It's nice when the low carb dish tastes better than the high carb one. I feel a little guilty, but also very smart!!

OMG we just had the worst earthquake I've felt in the 4.5 years I've lived here in northern rural Japan.

I'm tippled from the Dom (anniversary!) and just had to clean up a ton of glass from my dining room where a glass vase fell and broke. Not fun. In addition a vintage dagger I have slipped out of its case and damaged a collector's edition book of poetry.

I'm heading to bed and hope my excitement is done for the evening.

Fay, sounds like you are having a blast! I wish I could go on holiday about now...

Lynn, the dinner sounds awesome. I wish I could give up on the housework too but I'm OCD.

Yeah, slightly intoxicated so I'm heading to bed before I break open a bottle of wine. Who knew 3 glasses of champagne could get this old girl drunk anyway?

Hi ladies, I'm still around. Just very busy lately working my ample butt off at the gym. My weight is going down surprisingly well. I think it just took getting back to LC eating for me. I haven't missed a single day at the gym in the past 13 days. Plus, I walk my dogs a mile each day. I can tell my clothes are starting to loosen up a bit. Down a total of 4.4 lbs. now since getting my act together again.


snapless, how scary, an Earthquake. We are in tornado alley here, so we too are at Mother Natures call sometimes.

Aud, let's go. You can drive . I don't know if I posted this on LC chat or not, but we learned Monday at the Child Support Enforcement Agency that we won't be able to get a single penny for the whole yr. last yr. when the XW refused to pay child support. Guess that means we financed her Plastic Surgery. According to the CSED we would only have been able to receive that back support if we were poor and drawing Welfare on Shelbey. To me it's more a matter of principle than a matter of money. After all she owed us $9,792.00 in arrears, Pocket change, Huh! Being the evil B--ch that I am, I hope she enjoys the new boobs, and hope she throws a clot. LOL. (JK, maybe).


Lynnar, I read your post about us being careful not to ever mention any of this to Shelbey. I definitely won't mention it. Shelbey was completely in on the whole thing. She lied to us and begged us not to go to the CSED and sue her mom for child support. All the while, she knew she was going to Las Vegas to take care of her mom post-op. (Her oldest sister Samantha is the one that let us in on the fact that the XW had all the plastic surgery done the day before Shelbey's trip out there).

Fay, glad you are having a good time with your friend. I also have a hard time resisting restaurant food and dessert.

If noone else has tried this, I learned that fried chicken thighs are great with just black pepper and garlic seasoning. Fried crunchy and with no batter. Me and my DD love em.

Hi Lilly, while I totally beleive it's best not to discuss the EX with her daughter, I don't think I gave you that advice. I don't know how did. I'm sure it's best though. You can imagine how torn the kid would be. I had a friend whose husband was in court with an ex while teenage kids watched. In fact the husband and new wife (my friend) were pushing the kids to testify and the kids just didn't show. I remember thinking at the time - those poor kids. I suspect it did a lot of damage to their relationship with the husband who had been the "good" parent for a while. Although I can also imagine the amount of self control you and your DH must have in order not to bad-mouth the selfish jerk of an ex.

Suzzane, an earthquake? That's very scary. I'd be drinking with Aud if I was there.

Aud, I should so be on Day One! For some completely unknown reason, I ate a bag of movie popcorn last night. I totally blame DH, of course. I had every intention of going home and eating more mushrooms and chicken and cauliflower, but he's been bugging me to go to the movies with him. So I said, if we want to go to a 7 o'clock movie, I don't have time to go home and fix dinner. So we ate out. Unfortunately we ate at a place that had a great happy hour. I just couldn't turn down a cold (cheap) beer. Or two. My food was OP, but I have this thing for popcorn. It's been six months since I've had any. I thought - maybe just a little - and then I ate the whole bag.

I guess I'm wondering if I should just give up and start again when the summer's over. I haven't been OP long enough to actually lose weight in about 2 months. I haven't regained, so that's something. Is it better to flip flop on and off the LC WOE or should I wait until I think I can commit full time and start again with induction?

I am supposed to get my car back today with the power steering fixed, that means I can go shopping! I think I'm going to head out to the Japanese mall tomorrow and get some good coffee beans too instead of the standard commissary Folger's.

The repairman is here right now fixing our hot water (finally!) from when it broke during the earthquake. We got off lucky compared to some people with only a single broken vase, a damaged book and a broken water pipe. I heard of one lady on base who's entire (glass) entertainment center fell over and shattered, and another guy who's TV fell off the wall and landed on his computer (ouch?!). First thing I'm doing is taking a shower!

Then back to the cleaning grind. I try to do a thorough ceiling to floor cleaning of my house at least once a year (in a home in the states this would include touching up paint on walls but here it is whitewashing them) and it usually takes me about a week. My goal is to have the house done by the 31st, what with me taking 2 days off on Monday and Tuesday.

Monday is dental exams all day (yay?) for the family and Tuesday is my annual mammogram. Not looking forward to either day.

Talked to one of my two best friends yesterday and I wish I could be there for her - she's going through a really messy custody proceeding with an addict ex. While I like Japan and have enjoyed my time here, I miss my family and friends badly.

My middle sister is the only negative person in my life and if I weren't related I'd have nothing to do with her. I can't remember her ever being happy for me about anything good in my life. This is the same sister who told me (gleefully I might add) the last time I saw her that I was "finally fat like her". All of my life she has been an incredibly negative influence...and well, I always just always blew it off and tried to be her sister until last year when our brother died. She made me so angry with her self-centeredness, disregard for people in real pain (brother was dying of cancer) and her blatant lies which made my other best friend so angry she blew up. This best friend is my sister-in-law also as she married my brother (the one who died last year) and is one of those people who rarely ever gets angry...and my sister had her so mad she was in tears. I guess I was willing to take the abuse to me but not to the people I love. Anyway I'd tried to just not talk to my sister afterward. Rather than a huge ugly confrontation I just avoided her. She sent me email that I received this morning. What do I do? Do I just tell her that her obnoxiousness has finally pushed me over the edge of wanting anything to do with her?

Lilyb: I'm from Houston and lived in the Dallas area for 12 years so I know all about tornados, it's the earthquakes that are relatively new and they freak me out in a way a tornado never could. At least with a tornado there is some indication or warning of the possibility of one, these just happen with no warning.

Sounds like you are doing great! Keep it up!

Lynn: I'd try to stay on LC as much as you can. Maybe go back on Induction when summer is over but definitely try to stay on now. Don't want those pounds creeping back on.

Aud: Glad to hear you are feeling great! I'm the same as you, I actually feel better (no headaches or anything, in fact, I have way more energy and feel healthier immediately) as soon as I get on low carb. Carbs are my addiction and my downfall, but they also make me feel bad. Sometimes I really want a bag of Ruffles but I remind myself how BAD I feel when I eat like that.

Have a wonderful day all!

Hi my Lovelies! We are back to scorching weather here. I'm really, really dragging today. I had a meeting last night that went until 10 and then didn't wind down and drift off until almost midnight. Back up at 4:30 ad DH was leaving for the airport (taking the first flight out to Denver and the last flight back at 11 tonight). Driving, driving, driving today then a meeting at 1:30 and a meeting at 3:00. Snappie I want to wash my grubby bod!!!! (but thought I would check in first.).

Lynnie: Nothing wrong with taking a break from the plan (probaby not a popular opinion but c'est la vie). I think sometimes when life is getting in the way too much you need to change course for awhile so you can return with renewed committment.

Suze: Yikes. That sounds unerving to say the least. I think you should safely store that dagger in a drawer!!! The anniversary Dom sounded good though!

Auddie: Your work schedule would make me nutso. Oops. Survey says I already AM nutso. tee hee.

I'm indulging in an iced coffee with cream right now. Mainly because I feel like I have been having wine too often. I know this because I caught myself going right to the fridge and opening it to get a glass of Chardonnay when I got home. There is none so then I caught myself considering a trip to the store just to pick some up. It made me sit down here and consider my sliding a bit. Not really any off plan foods but certainly not enough fresh veggies, salad and water, water, water. BAD SC!!! I have an iceberg wedge salad chilling in the fridge while the chopped boiled eggs are cooling. "On my honor, I will swear to do my duty to God and my LC plan"...oh wait, that sounds a bit like the Girl Scout oath.

NO...I have not gotten back on the bike. My excuse today is my short walk on a trail system (maybe 20 minutes) and the heat. (Ignore the fact that the bike is in my air conditioned master bedroom). Hey...maybe NOT having a glass of wine will have an impact on my desire to exercise. Of course, I should already know that.

Love to all.

SC

Whhooooppps. HI AUDDIE. We got our water and power back on at 3:00 ish the day after the grand event. I guess that means I should do the dishes and get back to the laundry. On second thought...nah.

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