Ladies! Hello!
I hope your weekends are going well. Sue, sounds like you will cetainly be busy! lol Dolphingirl, congrats on that loss! Animequeen, WLECOME! Lilion, drink lemon with your water and that should help expell any stubborn water... not sure about if that would work in the Midwest climate, but its worth a try?
Today...
it's raining or 'spitting it down' as the Brits say. We have had such fantastic weekend weather for the past month or so... ah well... Hubby says I'll be doing my 6 mile walk on my own if it's raining, so fingers crossed lol (he's asleep now. good thing b/c he'd be moaning if he were looking out the window). I really enjoy the weather here! As Angela would know form experience State College, PA (my last residence in the state) was very 'gray' - all year round. The summers were gray and humid. The winters were extreme with the amount of snow that fell (I have pictures if anyone's interested - I didn't want to ever forget so I took picture during the last snow storm of my last winter lol). And it seemed to rain heavily CONSTANTLY. The weather over here in England is quite mild in my opinion, nothing very extreme and a rainy day could turn beautiful with the blink of an eye. The sky really moves here. Anyway, my favorite thing is NO SNOW! When some flakes do fall from the sky, they're gone in an instant. I really hate the heat though... 2003 there was a freak heat wave in Europe and I about died when I was in London on vaca. Hubby still laughs about that one.
OK, enough about the weather. My scale says I've lost another 1.25 lbs which would give me a running total of 2.25 so far this week (quietly... yay!) WI day is Tuesday, so we're going to remain calm and quiet and see what the scale gods reveal.
The best thing is I have managed to slowly get myself back on track with food and with my sore hamstring. It was rough but chilling out on aerobics and increasing my stretching this week was the best I could do for myself. Patience is something I struggle to learn.
Guys, thanks to everyone who has been cheering me on! I'll get through this vaca and I hope to come home with a loss! After all, walking is one of the easiest exercises and can be fun! Also, I'm sure I can allow myself some treats here and there and still eat sensibly. I'll just have to remember maintenance **** whenever somebody orders 10 pancakes from IHOP!
So, hubby
and I
had a stupid argument last night. All our arguments are stupid. We never seem to argue about 'real or important' things lol This time around it was b/c I referred to a friend of mine as 'rich' and he had to go on and on about how he's not rich b/c it's his parents. And I said, well we just have different definitions of rich, so drop it, but nooooooo.... he was on a 'you're wrong!' kick... then I guess to punish me, he changed out of his walking gear announced he was tired and went to bed around 9 (we were all ready to go ona 2 mile walk) ugghhh... I wanted to strangle him, but I just started writing, calmed down, went on my own 1.5 mile walk around 10.30 pm, came back, did some aerobics, wrote to a friend, and tidied up. I was so energetic! He woke up around 1 am, in a wierd mood, but I was nothing but kind until I went to bed around 2. This whole 'issue' has two elements: 1. whenever we are going to spend some time apart, he seems to get irritable and starts an argument about something completely unrelated which screws up the few days we have together before being apart. I hate that. Every time... it never fails! I think he has attachment issues. 2 I love and adore my husband and I love and adore one of my best buds 'C' but they don't really 'click' and being around them both makes things awkward, so in the past all I could think to do was keep them separate as much as I could. Well the tension hasn't gone anywhere (even though I'm 3,000 miles away from C). The friend who I said is rich is C's husband 'J.' If I even mention C or J around hubby, oh the mood! I feel like I'm walking a tight rope here... Any suggestions? The worst thing is, I don't really like hubby's friends, but I just leave it at that. Whenever he mentions them I say, 'that's nice' and I encourage him to spend time with his buds. Why isn't he able to do the same for me?