And thanks be to the grand universe that brought you to us!
I'm starting to recover. Did pretty well over the weekend, walked hours and hours every day. And then, home and exhausted, had a bit of a piggyfest this afternoon. That ol' debbil fatigue Must be prepared for him and be invincible for the rest of the month if I want to meet my goal.
Of course, now I'm in that mode I start thinking about everything I COULD eat tomorrow. So much food out there
But that's tonight. Hope to be saner in the a.m.
Goodnight, Queenlies! I vow I'll go to bed planning to wake up virtuous.
So glad things went well for you, dear Arabella. Can you find some peaceful minutes today to "reset" your inner balances.
I've started out today virtuous. I think my celebrating is done so really must settle down though I doubt today will be quite as good as I'd been the prior two weeks. Sigh.........................but I've done it before, I can do it again. And lots of good vibes flowing around me for support.
Gorgeous weather - doctor's appointment (derm.) so off I go to enjoy it all.
Yes, September 19th -- it's International Talk like a Pirate Day and -- coincidence? -- 6th birthday for DGS. I'm still tired and feeling not-quite motivated. Probably the result of those two humungous (and I'm not kidding) chocolate chip cookies I ate yesterday. Plus I was ravenous this morning.
I walked, did circuit training, some yoga. Will walk another 30 mins later. As for food, I'm keeping myself out of banned substances, drinking the water and making myself sit at the table to eat. O/w, just trying to get through the day.
K, on second and feeling a little more capable.
Autumnal equinox is early Sunday morning. Unless someone else wants to post a Halloweeny thread, I'll make one then. For we shall persevere. And we shall prevail.
Anagram, so much harder to get going again, isn't it. I'm trying to steal a few minutes here and there. So much wiser to actually take the time. It's not like I'm really getting so much done in this state anyway.
Let's take this day and do the best we can with it...
Hello! Just caught up, but no time for long communications. I have to make vegetable soup for the luncheon at the church...not just soup but I was designated to do vegetable, which I NEVER make. Stress abounds! Darn UCW!
I have had a lot of training this week...and I am tired. After work tonight, I will crash. Another wonderful reaction to the stress, besides a cold sore, is that I've been eating like a horse. The crack has become the Grand Canyon in the sidewalk. I am reducing it again...today is day 2!
Congrats Anagram on the milestone birthday, and the lovely parties! And of course the new low number!
'K...that's all the foggy brain allows...must go chop vegetables!
Thanks, ceara, but that low number bit the dust with the celebrating. However, I've done it before and I can do it again!!!!!!
"They" always assign me something I never make either so I have come to shun anything that assigns me cooking. Going to church senior luncheon tomorrow - count on me never to volunteer to work there but I may make a dessert sometime because I can do what I want then. Have I mentioned my oven went out while I was cooking chicken on Friday when my kids were coming? I SERIOIUSLY considered never replacing it - but of course I will.
Happy Birthday to DGS, Arabella. Fun kisses, etc. I've hardly spoken today so didn't get to speak like pirate (which I can't do well anyway) but cute day. I did talk to DD and did go to dermo office where I had 3 little spotties taken off. Glad I didn't know about the pirate thing at that point. Well, kitchen floor should be about dry by now so guess I'd best move on.
anagram-your surprise and non-surprise birthday celebrations sounded like they were wonderful, as you so richly deserve!
hi ceara, arabella, amarantha, and to all our residents in the royal kingdom.
we have had several beautiful days in succession, and have been enjoying every mild day. big heat returns friday, but this respite has been divine. i have now had my 2nd week of bladder biofeedback--definitely not fun, but the biofeedback nurse is so nice, and makes it as tolerable as is possible. 4 more weeks to go, but at least now i know what to expect, so know i can get through it just fine. have stayed op, and glad about that. this past year, with losing and regaining, i ended up staying the same. no more of that! i will only be losing this year--- no matter what! i really have to go over my food plan carefully and figure out what needs tweaking, so consider me tweaked. hope it is a good evening for all. take care.
Wsw...the tweaked one! Glad your bio-feedback is going well. Anagram, that number will come back...prolly real quick too!
I have an unscheduled morning...don't know what to do with the luxury of it! I think I will get the heathens out and then go for a walk....with my BOT on the walkman...listening to the Quickie by Patterson.
First and formeost! Happy Birthday Anagram!! How lovely to have a Sept Birthday! And yes, yes, yes, you will get over the birthday extra food hangover posthaste....
I hope everyone else is doing well... I quickly scannned just the last page and got a little hint .... WSW!~ YIKES, I sure would be embarrassed too....
You make me proud... to be determined to give it a try is very inspiring!
WoodNymph.... I love it "Talk like a pirate day!".... I am thinking I'd love to add the days to my Good Morning thought... Do you have a website with the days named?
Ceara... Been thinking of you. DS has been earning his keep doing massive yard work... Even got some beyond saving bushes down the ground, ivy trimmed way, way back, etc, etc and what a pleasure it is to see everything trimmed. I am toying with pansies and maybe even some mums... just for fun.
And for sure, going to try the spinach under the lights again in the house. Its really motivating to try when the recalls keep happening.
Hello Empress, I know you arent far away.
SO. I guess today is a good day to start again. yes, I'm right. Let's do it.
Have also been fighting the good fight...scale has remained the same, but still up 8 from the ticker...but it is down 5 from where I was September first... guess I should update that ticker....
Anyway, I may have a boob squeeze this morning...if the machine gets fixed. So in case they are calling, I'd best get off-line.
Day 1 - I think I'm going to make it the rest of the way. Lovely weather and I just want to focus on that but have to go write calories down. Did do pool today.
Happy Last Day o' Summer! Where the heck did it go? So many things I wanted to do and didn't get a chance to... like losing weight! I DID, however, manage to not gain...as of this morning I am officially THE SAME.
*sigh*
Am awfully eager for Hallweeny type challenge...I love a new beginning! It's the sticking to it part that seems to escape me lately. Must work on that...
Anagram! Belated birthday wishes! What a wonderful weekend celebration for you!
ceara...I had my girls squeezed earlier this week...always fun, that test! Speaking of breasts, my daughter and I plan on participating in a Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk in October...We're becoming quite the marchers for a cause...did the Scleroderma walk earlier in the summer and Anti-War in the the spring...give me a cause, I'll walk for it! (so, howz about the cause of making myself healthier and smaller, hmmm?)
Arabella...I'm looking forward to what you can conjure up for Autumnal Equinox new beginning...
Hi, Kaylets, Amarantha, wsw!
Time for me to Will be glad when this is class is over... Tonight I'm heading down to mom&dad's...that situation worsens each day. Many opportunities for stress eating. I am trying to squeeze walks in where I can.
Have a good weekend all...see you on the next thread!
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Lovely day here, warmish and mostly sunny. I've sworn to help with painting and etc. but will try not to do too much because I'm still feeling wonky from doing too much the past two weeks. It makes me feel a little feeble but what can you do -- if I push too hard I won't be any good to anyone, incl. self.
I'm going to have to put a big push on to make progress this month because I'm still in bounce-up status. At least the bounce-up numbers get progressively lower. And I shall persevere. But I do want to be able to record a loss for the month so I'm going to go super-healthy, low glycemic index for the last week push. And try to fit in non-tiring extra exercise every day, like 5 mins here and there on the mini-tramp. Tomorrow I'll post the new thread with my commitment. (Of course, if anyone else feels inspired to start the new thread, they have my blessing!) I'm quite excited in a low-key, tired kind of way
Ceara, five down from Sept. 1 -- Good going! Hope your unscheduled morning was blissful. How did your veggie soup turn out?
Kaylets, Arrrrrrr! I don't have a source for that kind of date. I'm sure there must be one out there, though, so I'll see if I can find one. It was also the 25th birthday of the smiley emoticon the same day, I think...
Ohhhhh! Did you grow spinach under lights in your house last year? I've thought how neat it would be to set up lights to grow a few things that lend themselves to that. Some herbs, if nothing else.
Amarantha, be the Hag i' the Hut? We need her!
Anagram: "I did talk to DD and did go to dermo office where I had 3 little spotties taken off. Glad I didn't know about the pirate thing at that point."
I envisioned a whole Monty Pythonesque scene with you talking like a pirate and the dermo staff not knowing what the heck was going on. "Arrrrrrrr! Ye scurrrrrvy sons o' sea cooks'll be removin' these wee spotties double-time er ye'll be walkin' the plank."
WSW, my tweaking pal -- we shall prevail! Still loads of time to make good progress this year and we shall do 'er. Re: biofeedback -- the anticipation is always the worst part, isn't it. It'll soon be over. Hope it's helpful!
Katrinabgood, how goes it, Lovey? Hope things are settling down a bit. What kind of career do you have in mind? You definitely need to get out of current job. Even just the working nights thing makes life too hard. Hope all's well!
Oooh -- triumph yesterday: Went to birthday lunch for my sister and had chicken skewer with rice and salad. Refused fabulous chocolate cake, the remainders of which were offered up at the end of lunch. I took the remainders home for DS. Had a few thoughts of chocolate cake and ice cream but popped the cake into the freezer, did Reiki instead and felt very peaceful and good.
K, guess I'll finish this and get out for a little woods woggle. Let's make this a good one!
To catch up, happy really belated now, Anagramatic! Huzzah!
Hi to wsw, Ceara the Sword Bearer, Arabella the Wood Nymph 'n all other denizens dwellin' herein or passin' through, mentioned or un ...
Re the 19th, I was amused by an interview with Dave Berry I was listenin' to on that day on the radio whilst drivin' 'n he mentioned Talk Like a Pirate Day and that in reality pirates did not talk as we thought they did with argh 'n all that but that an actor (can't remember who) talked that way in a classic old old film of "Treasure Island" and talked that way only because that was the dialect he spoke naturally being from wherever it was they talked that way and thusly for the remaining decades of the past century (Berry didn't put it this way, exactly, I am now extrapolating) this was the definining way to "talk like a pirate."
Of course if one were nit picky grammar wise, the day would be called "International Talk as a Pirate Talks" or some such thing, but oh well.
Anyhow, to update all queenlies here re my current thinkin' on the diet challenge front, here is my entry from a new blog I am keepin':
Ah, how we here in the halloween challenge hut want to find the Overlord (aka the Overload Bar) but Diet Wise Woman hath rousted all Halloween Challengers outta their little hut beds this a.m. with the news that there is a Successful Diet Saturday Super-Duper Fiesta in Diet Village this weekend and if we could all just HOLD on 'n be good and banish Overlord-like thoughts from our heads , we might win a prize at the Ceremony o' the Golden Scale Fiesta Weigh-In on Sunday.
So we are all a'rettin' up the hut 'n plannin' a shoppin' trip into the Village for puppy food for the critter 'n HEALTHY food 'n while there we will sign up for the Delightful Diet Fiesta Saturday Challenge wherein all diet folke 'n folkettes who eat in the 1400s-1500s on Saturday will win a share in the collective Diet Fiesta Prize Fun Fund! Oh, the joy, KALOO, KALAY!
Must be prepared for him and be invincible for the rest of the month if I want to meet my goal.
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and feeling a little more capable. 
hope it is a good evening for all. take care.
Speaking of breasts, my daughter and I plan on participating in a 
Will be glad when this is class is over... Tonight I'm heading down to mom&dad's...that situation worsens each day. Many opportunities for stress eating. I am trying to squeeze walks in where I can. 
Last Saturday in the Summer Palace
Lovely day here, warmish and mostly sunny. I've sworn to help with painting and etc. but will try not to do too much because I'm still feeling wonky from doing too much the past two weeks. It makes me feel a little feeble but what can you do -- if I push too hard I won't be any good to anyone, incl. self. 
And try to fit in non-tiring extra exercise every day, like 5 mins here and there on the mini-tramp. Tomorrow I'll post the new thread with my commitment. (Of course, if anyone else feels inspired to start the new thread, they have my blessing!) I'm quite excited in a low-key, tired kind of way 
Good going! Hope your unscheduled morning was blissful. How did your veggie soup turn out? 
We need her! 
I envisioned a whole Monty Pythonesque scene with you talking like a pirate and the dermo staff not knowing what the heck was going on. "Arrrrrrrr! Ye scurrrrrvy sons o' sea cooks'll be removin' these wee spotties double-time er ye'll be walkin' the plank."
