Oh, it's been a mad, mad whirl here and not slowing down yet. I wake up exhausted and between coffee (for which we do most gratefully thank the gods), and the stress of knowing the day approacheth, get myself worked up to that "beyond tired but too wired to stop" mode. Which actually works pretty well for getting things done. Too bad I can't make it happen more often. Went at an aerobic pace for much of yesterday. Didn't officially exercise, but I think I probably did okay as far as cal-buring goes. Today I've done the first part of yoga and am going to walk in a few minutes, downtown and ... through the stores, natch! Nope, not done yet but can see it may be possible. I want to come home and give the house a lick and a promise so that it feels nicer. Then... looking forward to actually getting in a little relaxation. I'm getting work done ahead for Monday so I can mostly just stay out of the office for a three-day weekend.
WSW, respiratory problems and sugar attacks (as in: sugar attacking us, as it will ) seem to be the order of the season. Glad you're feeling better!
Amarantha, good for you getting off the cr*p!!! I'm going to try to stay completely off the wheat and mostly off the sugar. Then, on the 26th a return to total wheat and sugar abstinence for me again. It is, indeed, amazing how much better one feels on real food as opposed to -- say -- chocolate bars.
Wildfire, good luck on that shopping -- may you have a transcendental, magical Christmas shoppling experience, one of those ones where everything just comes together.
Eydie, hope that toe is better. Menus look good!
K -- more stuff to do. Love y'all! Let's be kind to own sweet s'elves today!
Hey!!! Did we change threads? Go off and get a new job and you guys leave me in the dust!!
I'm SO busy I can't even begin to tell you. I LOVE IT!!
Let me give you a recap of what's been going on though. New job, (LOVE IT), got sick, (Strep Throat), THEN bottom wisdom teeth decided to go crazy and now I have to have them taken out. So I've been very sick lately. I've missed 20 hours of work, but they've understood. I'm just staying a little later whenever I can to make up.
AND...
I've lost 13lbs (Ok it's now more like 8 since I started actually eating again). I couldn't eat a drop of food for a solid week because I couldn't swollow or chew. I still am in pain from my wisdom teeth, and cannot open my mouth very wide, but I am getting some food now. Whatever will fit through my slightly opened jaw. I'm fine though, they'll be coming out the end of next month (I've had the WORSE case of Strep they've ever seen and gum infection too. And I've never had Strep before so I thought I just had the flu. I let it go for almost a week!!!)
Anyway, I'm bustin tail trying to get everything done so I can get out of here early. (I'm the only one in). Guess I'll go check up on everyone's posties.
Well, I am finishin' off Day 3 o' the new Sugar Busters and did not even succumb to a plate o' Christmas cookies on the counter in the office today.
Froggie, we didn't exactly change threads ... this was an emergency Solstice challenge not meant to displace the other one but I guess we migrated ... ... I'm thinkin' we should have a new thread from Christmas Day to New Year's Day ... so's not to lose the momentum ... if everyone agrees ...
CONGRATULATIONS on the 13 pounds loss, but sorry you were ill.
Not fair ... I had pneumonia and GAINED weight ... but then I never lost my appetite!
Arabella, you are so totally right ... life sustains itself much better when not subsising on candy bars ... who'd have thunk it?
E, thy menus and exercise logs look great ... you are doing so well ... I hope you keep postin' your logs ...
Wsw! Hope you are feelin' better ... I think we both need to be gentle with ourselves ... that's my plan anyhow ...
Wildfire, good plan to eat the greens first and then enjoy the pizza ... that's something I never could do ... resulting, of course, in more pizza than if I'd not had a salad.
lentil soup
6 stuffed grape leaves w/ tahini sauce
2 mini. spanokopitas
spinach salad w/ peppers and feta
1 small pc. fruit-sweet. cheesecake w/ berries
decaf. w/ 1/2 and 1/2
small glass sparkling cider
water: 5 glasses
calories: ?
exercise: 15 min. yoga
2nd day in a row that I've overeaten at night and gone to bed miserably engorged!!! It's funny, it doesn't seem like I'm eating that much at the time. Tonight will be the test. I'll be at my mother-in-law's and I'll try not to overdo it.
Cross postin' from my journal ... just to explain why I opted out of the challenge thread I previously posted ... Merry Christmas s ... I have to resume workin' soon, but will be back:
The Altar REBORN, Part II, Sugar Busters
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not gonna do my focus on weight challenge for the week before New Year's!
The reason being: I don't have to. Easily lost a pound after half a week o' feastin' and half a week o' Sugar Busters! Cals since the no refined sugar restart (I'm on Day 5) were good, but that only happened because I wasn't eatin' the junk and the Demon Sugar.
Sugar Busters does allow for a little refined sugar, although the original book, which I am poring over, even though I've read it a thousand times, has a 3 gram per serving limit on things like cereal and bread that incidentally contain refined sugar. The Sugar Busters followers online now have extended that to 5 grams ... neither is acceptible to me, although I DO modify the plan somewhat to fit my own needs ... but the original book has a question and answer section added in the second printing wherein the authors respond to a question about how much refined sugar can be eaten by saying, "Preferably none!"
I hold with that! NO REFINED FREAKIN' SUGAR!
So, I have logged my weight, refigured my cal goal and will lose a pound by the start o' New Year's just as easily ... so long as the Sugar Demon doth not get me!
And he won't.
Merry Xmas to me!
With the Demon gone, I have a chance to get to my goal weight in 2006 ... and get over this pneumonia ... it is my belief that the REFINED SUGAR I was ingesting in the past few weeks was simply feeding the infection.
Merry Christmas!
Dh and I have been enjoying a quiet day except ffor aprx 2 hrs this am when DS called and then came by. But, he left after a few moments as he had someone waiting for him. He tried to play lots of sympathy cards "Can't afford to eat now that I have to pay rent" but when asked if he was still using, he says yes and that's not the problem. So, at the last minute, we packed up the turkey and ham from DH's job, a bus pass worth $100 as well as 2 movie passes instead of the amt cash we were going to put in the card.
We did put a $20 and it may or may not be used in an illegal manner .....
DS seemed shocked that he was handed a turkey and a ham .... especially since he didnt ask for more $$.....
DH on the other hand, seemed like a big weight was lifted by NOT givng DS cash. So...
There you have it....
On the upside, DH and I have seen for the first time, the first and second Harry Potter movies.... Awesome...
Glad to see everyone is doing well...
Will try to come back later...
And fo rthe food, so far... doing ok... not stellar but ok !~
Hope all s are havin' a Merry Xmas, Happy Christmas, Joyous Solstice, and etc.
I worked on stories for work today, a tradition going back, I realized 11 years, to the Christmas after I got my Sweetie Dog. Had been working at the paper on Christmas Eve morning and some co-reporters and I went out to the shelter (they had 320 dogs out there ... what a rush) and got her. We brought her back to the paper and put a newspaper T-shirt on her, the next day (Christmas) I was behind as usual and I brought her with me to the newsroom and kept her in a box with me while I worked.
Not much has changed but she's an age oldie now and I thought a couple of times this year I was going to lose her, but she's bein' her ol' sweet puppy self today and I have fed her two clementines ... she loves fruit of all kinds.
I have asked her to remain with me through 2006 and she said she would, so I'm good ...
hi all! hope everyone had a merry christmas! i seem to have a new resolve today, and plan to hang on to that. wildfire- i was never able to open the website you sent me for your irishman's pic, unfortunately. thanks for sending url, though. hope everyone has a pleasant remainder of their holidays. while inspired, i am going to head out and get some good healthy groceries. take care, all.
Hi, wsw!!! glad to hear thou has that new resolve ... soon it'll be 2006 ... wow, stay inspired and enjoy your shoppin' trip ... guess you're back by now, but anyhow ...
this is another cross postin' ... I'm not feelin' well again ... A Nemo's cake demon got me again! Posted details in a blog I'm doin' ... too grim to post here ... anyhow, feelin' better as think the pneumonia aftermath had got me in its grip and needed somethin' ... that's my theory anyway!!!
needed to hear that "part of the process" reminder, amarantha. last night, my bedroom closet (one and only) started leaking water from the ceiling, so while waiting for plumber got everything moved out of closet in to living room, which was very physically challenging for me. anyway, plumber will be back this morning, since needs to get in to condo. above me to find out where leak is coming from, so he can fix it. anyway, grateful at least that it is a pipe that is considered the condo. assoc. pipe, not for my unit, so the management company will fix it, but it is a long process. had leak in living room which took a long time to repair. --plus my closet smells moldy and icky, and that will take a while til it dries out and can get rid of that odor. i have also been awake all night-from overdoing yesterday, and wish i could just take a nap, but the plumbers will be here in a couple hours, so there really isn't time to get dressed and nap. oh well! today, i am going to stick to my most basic, safe food plan, since exhausted and stressed, and don't want to tempt fate. i really babbled on a long time here, but will hang on by my dainty fingernail and get my day started now with a meditation tape before i jump in the shower. thanks for listening to the plumbing "perils of pauline." hope everyone has a good day. take care.
millet patty
brown rice and red beans w/ cheese and hot sauce
a few tortilla chips [had this at a restaurant]
maple-sweet. oatmeal cookie [as big as my face!!!!]
1 handful cashew and unsweet. carob chips [I see a pattern developing...]
1 veg. sausage [I was craving protein!]
Water: 4 glasses
exercise: none [2nd day in a row]
I'm starting to feel despondent that i can't really exercise aerobically because my toe still hurts. I want to get back to normal!
Received a fancy new scale for Christmas. I love it but I can no longer deny the fact that I weigh about 5 pounds more than my ancient scale said I did! Must get to work on shedding this weight!!! I'm having a hard time gaining momentum.
Fly-by -- all goes well, but busy. I've got a lot of work to get through before Friday but then am hoping for a 3-day weekend, mostly. No weight gain over holdays and am thinking I may actually get a loss one of these days to let me update ticker.
A -- love the idea of a forerunner of spring thread -- maybe we can put some day/week challenges into it?
Plumbing problems are the worst, Wsw! The plumbing in my house is a nightmare. Sorry this happened to you, but glad you are coping.
There are products that you can get in Wally World or a hardware store that will dry your closet out in a jiffy. Maybe you can get someone to go pick one up for you. There are different brands (the plumber might know or the managment company). They are crystals that usually are sold in a pail that has holes or you take the top off. You just leave it in the closet and it sucks moisture out of the area. I used these extensively in a place I lived in once in Indiana where we had floods and it rained all the time and the roof leaked and the washer overflowed ... believe me, it's a good idea to keep some of these around.
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Originally Posted by wsw
needed to hear that "part of the process" reminder, amarantha. last night, my bedroom closet (one and only) started leaking water from the ceiling, so while waiting for plumber got everything moved out of closet in to living room, which was very physically challenging for me. anyway, plumber will be back this morning, since needs to get in to condo. above me to find out where leak is coming from, so he can fix it. anyway, grateful at least that it is a pipe that is considered the condo. assoc. pipe, not for my unit, so the management company will fix it, but it is a long process. had leak in living room which took a long time to repair. --plus my closet smells moldy and icky, and that will take a while til it dries out and can get rid of that odor. i have also been awake all night-from overdoing yesterday, and wish i could just take a nap, but the plumbers will be here in a couple hours, so there really isn't time to get dressed and nap. oh well! today, i am going to stick to my most basic, safe food plan, since exhausted and stressed, and don't want to tempt fate. i really babbled on a long time here, but will hang on by my dainty fingernail and get my day started now with a meditation tape before i jump in the shower. thanks for listening to the plumbing "perils of pauline." hope everyone has a good day. take care.
Good morning, Queenlies!
Too bad I can't make it happen more often. Went at an aerobic pace for much of yesterday. Didn't officially exercise, but I think I probably did okay as far as cal-buring goes. Today I've done the first part of yoga and am going to walk in a few minutes, downtown and ... through the stores, natch! Nope, not done yet but can see it may be possible. I want to come home and give the house a lick and a promise so that it feels nicer. Then... looking forward to actually getting in a little relaxation. I'm getting work done ahead for Monday so I can mostly just stay out of the office for a three-day weekend. 
) seem to be the order of the season. Glad you're feeling better!
(Ok it's now more like 8 since I started actually eating again). I couldn't eat a drop of food for a solid week because I couldn't swollow or chew. I still am in pain from my wisdom teeth, and cannot open my mouth very wide, but I am getting some food now. Whatever will fit through my slightly opened jaw. I'm fine though, they'll be coming out the end of next month (I've had the WORSE case of Strep they've ever seen and gum infection too. And I've never had Strep before so I thought I just had the flu. I let it go for almost a week!!!)
Yo!
Tonight will be the test. I'll be at my mother-in-law's and I'll try not to overdo it.
s ... I have to resume workin' soon, but will be back:
I'm having a hard time gaining momentum.
