Lolitas Chattin' La Vida Low Carb: Mon 19th - 25th
Morning all! It's half past eleven in the morning in Bangkok, and it's my Weigh In Day. And I'm down to 205lb!!! Hip hip hurrah! That's my May Target hit - I've been aiming to average 7lb a month (half a stone in UKspeak) and so far I'm still on track, which is just FANTASTIC. I'm now 14 stone 9 - when I started out on this weightloss journey in January I was 17 stone 2. 1 can't REMEMBER the last time I was in the 14 stone something range - and it feels so much more hopeful and manageable a weight than 17 stone something - I mean, yes, I'm fat, but I'm not can't-fasten-the-safety-belt-on-the-plane fat anymore. And I'm changing it. By my birthday in August, all being well, I should be heading for 13 stone.
I still haven't told my parents I'm doing this.
Man, I can't wait to see their faces at Christmas.(By then, insh'allah, I should be between 11 and 12 stone. I've not been in that range since High School.)
Meanwhile, this week I was bitten by a street dog. Oh joy. I'm having a course of rabies and something else shots at the moment, and trying not to freak out about my leg falling off/me foaming at the mouth.
Also, I continue to be increasingly smitten with this bloke in my drama group. Dear God in heaven, but he is annoyingly adorable. Just - depressingly and frustratingly so. Ack. Head go boom.
I, unfortunately, had to come home and face up to the consequences of my not so great eating last week while I was away. I had a good on plan meal for breakfast this morning so I'm feeling good about that. Also get to pick up the babies this morning. And back to the grind of work.
Ouch, Faye, I always heard rabies shots were really painful. Congrats on the stones lost though. Wish I had somthing that good to report.
Have to be fast posting. DS21 just called and wants me to meet him at Wal-Mart to buy him a bicycle helmet. This is strange since I fought for years to make him wear a helmet and finally gave up when he graduated from high school a couple of years ago. Now, he wants a helmet. I actually don't have any money, but I think this is a good time to use a credit card!
Had a fun weekend doing pretty much nothing. Just a little cleaning in prep for our next company, but nothing major. We've been taking care of the neighbors dog and I can't help but bring her down to our house for little visits in spite of the fact that our dogs pick on her. She's very submissive and our dogs are bullies! Even the little one. I kind of like the neighbor's dog better!
Gotta go buy a helmet. See ya.
Great stone job fay & YOU GO in your shorts soulB! Bet it's good to get home petra!Hoping Tammy is feeling better.
DD10Tess & I have been chilling all weekend with the FLAVOR FLAAAAAAAAAVE Marathon scalmie! Looks like the layoff/strike is winding down its CLOCK b4 her & I could get into Tila Tequila dangit!
BEGGED both daughters to wear bike helmets for years now lynnie - dd21Molly now wears hers automatically - too funny!
nasus - not sure why everything is reminding me of my Mom lately . . . but when you mentioned feet, it reminded me of the visiting angel nurse who did my Moms . . . who couldn't BEAR to have her feet touched - the nurse just did them SO quickly and expertly - Mom actually looked forward to it! Bless You.
eating op this day. Did well. am still thinking about dinner and it is 7 pm
Aud it seems that the feet is one area that I keep on going to. especially with diabetics it is so important.
Fay go girl I like your stones It sounds so light!!! better than 200 lbs to be 14 stones. how do you figure a stone???
I had a pedicure done once and I started yelling and laughing when the gal started to scrub my feet with hte scrub brush I had to stop. then one week later I dropped a 25 lb weight on my toe 3 years ago and it is still not the same. I still have a split toe nail that will take a year to grow out. UGH so no pretty toenails for me.
It's always tough getting back to work after being off and today was no exception. It was sort of grueling getting through it. Actually, most of the patients were still here from when I left. Only a couple new ones.
The doggies are thrilled to be home. I don't think they fed Tammy the way they should have at the kennel which I'm disappointed about. I think she may have actually lost a few pounds which is the last thing she needed. Kobe is stretched out on the bed right now. I'm sure he has missed that over the past week. I'm taking them to get their pictures taken professionally tomorrow night. We're doing it outside so I hope the weather cooperates.
Aud, I asked a guy who commutes to work via bike about helmets one time and he told me "It automatically makes you a serious rider." I guess he means the image of a bike rider in spandex and a helmet compared to some kid in cutoff's riding to his part time job. So far DS hasn't shown any interest in spandex, but I wouldn't be surprised if that came next. I paid for his helmet, but he bought his own "hydration pack" which he wears on his back with a tube to drink out of clipped to his shoulder. I was impressed with his seriousness. But then I heard him tell DD23 that his friend warned him that if he fills his hydration pack with beer, it's hard to get the taste out of it later.
DS has a history of obsessing with a certain activity for a while and then completely giving up. I remember for a while it was basketball. They would all go play in a park and "pick up" games. Then he did paintball. I remember that phase because I came home one afternoon and found hot pink dots on all the trees and outdoor furniture in the back yard. Luckily paintball paint washes off in the next rain. I'm kind of hoping that the bicycle lasts long term. I used to love bike riding back when I was 21. DS and I don't really have a lot in common, so I like that he's found something I remember. I still ride my bike (the same one I bought way back in the day), but we have to take it somewhere to ride. The roads around my house are narrow, curvy and steep. So I don't get to go very much.
I have it on my list to call a foot doctor today. I think I have an ingrown nail or something, but like aud's mom, I hate having anyone touch my feet. Any chance of a house call, Nasus?
I had a pretty low key day today at work. Got a chance to catch up on some of the paperwork. The dogs and I had our pictures taken tonight professionally. When I've had their pictures done before it's always been more formal. This photographer likes more casual pictures so these will be more interesting. I think I kiind of like this. It was hard to find someone here who was willing to do pet pictures. I've also never had my picture done with the dogs but I had her take a few with me in them tonight. May make some nice Christmas pictures.
Gee, FAY, that is so great about your weight loss. Congratulations! But jeez, those rabies shots! You sound incredibly brave about it. I have always heard that rabies shots are tremendously painful and they give you them right in your abdomen. Is that true?
I am trying again today to get back on programme. I have started out with smoked salmon and delicious spicy chai tea. My exercise has been good -- An hour of cardio yesterday with 1/2 hour of it doing the rowing machine, which I have recently become very obsessed with -- its the hope of some upper arm definition that keeps me rowing.....
Now that my TATE talk is behind me, I am trying to settle down to hte next task; namely, to revise the thing for publication and to give, in a longer form, to a conference I am going to at the end of August in Toronto. I alsowant to have two chapters of the book done by then. It all requires a lot of self-discipline, which I know is linked to eating discipline as well. When I wrote my first book, back in 1990 --ohmygod, 18 years ago -- I kept to a very strict schedule and also went to Weight Watchers, and lost 25 pounds...boy I had no idea then how much fatter I would be 18 years later! Anyway, I am hoping for no big shock this summer -- just slow and steady work on food, book, and exercise...
Boy,do I envy you all your dogs! I live in a big housing estate in London where we aren't allowed to have pets... and I miss it... I mayhave to get a fish or something. ugh.
Good WI morning! I haven't been able to stay at induction levels at all, but I am staying pretty low carb, so I was NOT looking forward to my WI. I've managed to "forget" to wiegh myself for the past couple of weeks. So imagine my delight when I found myself DOWN two pounds! I'm not changing the ticker which is only fair since I didn't change it when I was up, but it's such a relief to realize I didn't mess up my measly weight loss by goofing off lately. Every week there's some reason I'm not doing induction, but I have no real desire to go off the LC WOE either. It's just a few nuts here (because I missed my regular meal time) or a taste of bread there (because I can't pass it up) or a drink after a long day. I know it's not the right way to do it, and I fully expected a gain this morning, so I am very happy!!
Faye, I guess I heard what Ruby did about the shots. I hope we're wrong!
Petra, you'll post the new pics, right?
Ruby, Yeah, I'd miss the dogs that I complain about so much. It's nice to have them around, but pets do tie you down. I'd like to think I could just take off without worrying about them.
Nasus, I actually got myself an appointment with the foot doctor right away which surprised me. I thought I'd have to wait and think about it for a couple of weeks. I guess this is a good thing....
Where are you Calmie? And Aud? Things are too quiet without you!
Great Idea about the Christmas Cards petra! Thinking that would be cute this year with DD10Tess & her Beloved Ginger - who is an awfully cute Westie, when she wants to be! I saw an ad for a photographer awhile back who specialized in Pet Pics - but bet I'll never find it again now.
Yes lynnie, where is Our Scalmie????? Wanted to confess that I LIED in my last Post - I HAVE made important quality time to add Tila Tequila to my Reality TV obsession - WOW - what a total h00t!
I felt virtuous by doing crunches as I watched part of the Tila Marathon last nite!
You'll get back on track rubyJ! I'm with you wondering WTH fay is!!!!! Come tell us about the shots GF!
I bought all these Avon Footsie stuff one time to really do a job on my Mom's feet . . . OMGosh it was hysterical - because SHE was HYSTERICAL . . . laughing . . . kicking . . . jumping around asI tried to even BEGIN!
Yep, there's a definite art to doing feet, nasus - *giggling at the memory*
Hey there, folks! It's 1.15am and I'm just back from the first night of our show - Student Preview Night, so it WAS an audience, but still not really the start of our 'proper' little 6-night-run. It went very well, I thought. Lots of laughs!
The rabies shots, I'm happy to inform you, no longer need to be excruciating and stabbed into the abdomen. These days it's a course of normal injections over the course of a week or 2. Also I'm on a course of tetanus shots. My bite is infected (joy) but I'm on antibiotics & hopefully all will be well, please God.
Loving the whole acting thing. Really glad I'm doing it & that I'm getting to make such excellent friends. Wish I were thinner sooner, but glad that I've lost 35lb already - that's nearly a third of the way, so yay for that.
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Yay for no painful shots in the stomach!!!! And lots more Yays for 35 lbs!
Just have to report that I went to the foot doctor and she cut off a chunck of toenail so I have my foot jammed back into my shoe with a giant bandage and I can't tell if it hurts or not because it's still numb. Totally unprepared for minor foot surgery in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon, but what the heck. I wasn't even sure it was an ingrown nail when I made the appt, just knew it was kind of sore. Not really really sore, just kind of. I did have the feeling that it was going to just keep getting worse, so now I don't have to worry about that.
Lolitas Chattin' La Vida Low Carb: Mon 19th - 25th
Looks like the layoff/strike is winding down its CLOCK b4 her & I could get into Tila Tequila dangit!
I saw an ad for a photographer awhile back who specialized in Pet Pics - but bet I'll never find it again now.
Wanted to confess that I LIED in my last Post - I HAVE made important quality time to add Tila Tequila to my Reality TV obsession - WOW - what a total h00t!