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Hello all :wave: :wave:
I'm still here! Been crazy busy :dizzy: I'm on day 12 of my no soda challenge!! :carrot: :dancer: :cb: I rode my bike on my trainer on wednesday, I really liked it but my tail bone didn't. OUCH! I even put a gel seat cover on the the seat. I'll have to get used to it. Good luck to all! And Merry Christmas! :ginger: :mrsclaus: :tree: :coolsnow: :hohoho: :snowglo: :gift2: Tina :) |
Day 14 SWN and Day 13 WALK
My cat died yesterday.:( I don't know why. She wasn't sick. I found her under the bed. The only thing I can think of is that since she was a kitten she has had a heart arrythmia and maybe that finally did her in. She was 13 yrs old. :( |
Swimming, your tailbone will toughen up in time, but not until you've suffered a lot. :lol:
Curly, I'm still looking for a plateau-breaker for you, although I notice the scale has moved a little for you. Have you tried the Fat Flush Diet? You do it for two weeks, and there's a lot of mumbo-jumbo about specific supplements and no pepper and c**p like that, but it's basically lo-cal and fairly rigid, and you will lose weight over the 2 week process. And you won't starve, although you may be bored half to death. And it's no good if you don't like cranberry juice (NOT cranberry cocktail) and lemons... If you can't buy or borrow the book, let me know and I'll email you the basic daily diet I followed. But it's too strict for Christmas, I think, maybe a good New Year's start. And for Marble, who's all bunged up, this week's issue of the awful supermarket rag Womans' World has a 3-day fruit fast that would probably get something going. Or kill you. :lol3: Red, I'm not ignoring you - there are so many posts that require my pompous, know-it-all answers, I just don't have time for the usual socializing. :rofl: And I still have that dratted headache - maybe I'm not eating enough... I'll try to post better tonight. Right now I really should get out since the snow has stopped and before the shopping hordes get off work. |
Apple Blossom - I am so sorry about your kitty.:hug: I think it is even worse when you don't have any warning that they are sick.
We had to put my (12 year old) kitty to sleep right before christmas about 5 years ago and I still get sad about it. :cry: I am sending you warm thoughts, and I hope you are okay. |
Apple>> sending hugs.. its so hard to lose a family member...
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Morning all
Apple, so sorry to hear about the puss cat. It is so hard to lose a much loved family member. Thinking of you.
I've lost what day I am up to. I think today is 12. I'll go back later and look but I'll get this post done if it kills me before the thunder and lightning returns as it will before too long. Our weather patterns are a bit weird this year. Poor Carla - she has a big horrible headache. Could this be because you ARE ignoring Red?? Swimming - that's the reason I hate the bike with a passion. None of the seats on any of the variety of bikes fit this butt. Red, I don't find you terrifying at all - after all I have spoken to you by phone and seen your pic on your biography and you seem to have all the usual accoutrements in all the usual places. Pacificist - well maybe!!!!! Me, I like the feeling of swinging that piece of 4 x 2 with the nails in the end to get the point across. Some folk you literally have to punch the information into! Okay, so I am a bit of a taniwha (dragon, witch, monster) but I am loveable. By all means use my name to emphasise the point. :welcome: to Trixie o whose post seems to have got lost in there and who has joined up on a NO SODA thing as well. Right time to go and get up my ISP who insisted on me doing a toolbar update which now very annoyingly keeps insisting my details are wrong. Here goes with yet another whingeing e-mail which will not get properly answered and which will be followed by yet another survey to find out how well the problem got solved followed by ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BEING DONE ABOUT IT. Bah Humbug. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Better go get some breakfast, the dragon's blood pressure appears to be rising. |
DH just called - it seems I don't have to worry about the contents of the evil gift basket anymore - our stupid head dog pulled it off the kitchen counter and ate ALL OF IT while DH was outside checking the mail and chatting with the neighbor. So, Sammy is now at the vet's office, so that they can induce vomiting so that he doesn't die from all the stupid chocolate and cookies he wolfed down in 5 freaking minutes. I can't decide if I am angry because he is a BAD DOG or scared that this is going to make him really sick.
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Apple, my condolences on your kittie, it must have been a terrible shock. I hope you can take comfort in knowing she probably just went to sleep all cozy and comfy and somehow didn't wake up. So now she's purring away in peace up in the big cathouse in the sky, while you come to tems with the loss. Here's some :hug::hug::hug: - our supportive arms around you.
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Morning, all. I am NOT in a good mood this morning as I have to go in to work early. They have arbitrarily and without warning moved the deadlines up. It is so ridiculous.
Must try to get my crunches in today and NOT forget them. Yesterday I ate chocolate and it wasn't until I was lying there this morning (things dawn on me at the crack of dawn) that probably the reason I ate the chocolate even though I usually am unmoved by the stuff, was because my body was wanting the caffeine. How sly of it?! Well, it's not going to get it today! :nono: Apple -- I am SO sorry to hear about your cat. :cry: What a horrible shock that must have been for you, to find her under the bed like that. I am so sorry, really, because I know how empty it feels when you lose a loved furry one. Like carla says, take comfort in the fact that she is surely at peace and watching over you. :hug: Fish -- And, what is this with your silly dog?! It sounds like he knew your dilemma and was helping you out. I do hope he is ok. I don't think it'll be a problem at all, after all, it wasn't poison he ate and if they can induce vomiting, which they can, he'll be ok. The vomiting will probably take more out of him than the food would. How did he get through the wrappers, I wonder? Or was everything open and loose? Does your dog have a real sweet tooth? It sure sounds like it. Shad -- Hi there. thanks for giving carla a kick. I am feeling very neglected. You know, I actually wished I DID like beating up on something. It would be a great release. As it is, I have no release really other than crying and weight training and that I don't want to do anymore because I am trying to get rid of all this muscle. It's strange but swinging things around just depresses me. I guess I am just a very inner kind of person. Sigh. The only thing that really makes me feel better is being with animals, especially the horse and the dogs. Cats actually don't do that much for me, though I have three of them. I think cats are actually MORE like me and that's why they don't give me that much. But, I DO love them. Sigh again. Poor Apple. Good going on sticking with your challenge. Today is my Day 2. I WILL get through it. swimming -- You'll have to look into getting another saddle for your bike. I don't think it's your tailbone hurting. That would be next to impossible unless you are doing some pretty strange sitting! There are all sorts of good saddles for women out there. It's not so much the size of the posterior, it's the width of the pelvis. A women's pelvis is wide and the seat bones are far apart, thus making most bike seats very uncomfortable. They are totally NOT made for women...figures. Check out this place for bike saddles made for women by women. The Liberator is great. You see the width of it? Yet, these are saddles made for women who race and so. It's not about fat. It's the bone structure. http://www.teamestrogen.com/categories.asp?catID=24 Phys -- "Hooray for talking about bread" ?!?!??! I don't get it. Are you really into bread or something? :lol: ID -- Definitely get sugarfree peanut butter. I would eat nothing else. And when I'm doing no sugar challenges I stay away from all artificial sweeteners too. They're bad stuff as it is and just make it harder to train your palate OFF the sickening sweet of refined sugar. carla -- I feel totally ignored. :( Birdseed? Just what ARE you eating? ees -- Your post rather confused me. All those quotes. I need things very simple, especially these days.... ;) But I do know you were giving derry a great pep talk. Thank you!! Yes, as carla says, there is nothing wrong with wheat unless you have an allergy. Normally, I just try to stay away from refined flour. And I never bake. If I did I would try to use wholewheat flour I suppose or any other flour, buckwheat, rye. I'm glad to hear you're beating the preperiod cravings. :cp: trixie -- :welcome: Excellent! Get that soda out of your life!! :spin: So glad the challenge is helping you. What a save that was!!!! :eek: stage -- :bravo: marb -- How are you? Moving right along? Great on Day 9! In your post to carla you mentioned SM. What does that stand for? I tell you, all these acs really get to me. I just heard from mez again, so, yes, leave it to say, that "physically" she is ok... I will send her your warm wishes. Well, gotta go. Hello to anyone I missed. Wish me well, ok? I need it. :kickcan: |
day 12>>>1142 calories
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Flour - for baking - hmmmm.
Well there is the refined stuff we all know and which gives the best results to sweet biscuits, cakes etc. But there are others. Now these are some that we can get around here - they make a slightly heavier style products but are perfectly fine for breads, muffins etc. Wholemeal, Wholemeal with husks, Stoneground (also wholemeal type flour) Rye, Maize/ corn flour - not the nasty white cornflour stuff this is bright yellow and somewhat similar to polenta. Rice flour (makes a fairly plasticy type of bread - but that might be my cooking) Organic Spelt. (An old style/ type of wheat which is rich and heavy, tastes nutty and has lots of 'bits' in it.) Semolina flour. Think that is about it. Want to bake? You don't have to go with the norm. Strive to be better than the norm!!!! Sorry getting on my :soap: again. Gotta go. |
Day 14 done, both challenges. In spite of going to a craft fair with lots and lots of samples full of chocolatey goodness. (If they had been offering samples of wine, I would have been sunk. :lol: )
Red, I must say I'm getting a little worried about you - it seems you've been sick/blue/fed up for too long. So now I'll devote ALL my attention to you until you beg for mercy and plead to be ignored again. Why do you want to get rid of your muscles? :?: I'm confused! Surely you need lots of physical strength for the riding? Or do you really want to lose bulk but develop longer, leaner muscles? Maybe pilates and yoga - not that I can do either with my ultra-stiff joints. Marble's "SM" was a reference to my toxic stepmother. We were competing to see who had the worst relative(s). She won on quantity (terrible ex-husband, inconsiderate daughter), but I won on quality... In fact, that's the subject of today's rant, which I'm cleverly slipping into my Red-focused post. I called the horrid SM today (she's old and lonely). When I said no need to have sweets on hand at Xmas, I'm trying to lose weight, the response was all "Haven't you lost that yet?" (Imagine appalled, disgusted, shocked tone of voice.) And when I said I had 66 lbs to lose, and had already lost 23, no praise or kind words or congrats. Just "I've lost 5 pounds. But then I don't eat... :blah::blah: Me me me :blah::blah: me me me..." :bomb: Petty complaint, I know, but I've spent the 30 years since my father died being nice to a woman who has almost always found a way to make me feel bad - the same woman who had my brother and me sent off to boarding school in a foreign language just slightly over a year after our mother died suddenly. All out of some misplaced sense of loyalty. And now she's too old and lonely to desert (not many people like her, and the few who did are falling like heavily-smoking flies). End of rant. It's just a pain because I was feeling so good about finally getting the weight control on the right track. And sad :( that I should be this bothered by these things at my age. :shrug: But we were talking about you, Red. Sorry about the digression. :sorry: What's with the early starts at work? Don't they know you've been sick? Maybe the early start means you'll finish early enough to spend extra time with your horse - she must have missed you while you were away and then sick. Speaking of horses, does yours get extra carrots :carrot: :carrot: and apples for Christmas? (Or, more likely, she gets some every time you see her.) Gotta go. :wave: I'll try to post better and cheerier tomorrow. Meanwhile Zen is getting restless waiting for his bedtime snack. I swear he eats more than me... |
And by the way, Red, don't think the irony is lost on me: I spent half of a post supposedly devoted to you ranting about MY problems with someone ELSE who's as self-centred as I was being... Time for another session with the shrink. ;)
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No Desserts/Treats Day 4
No Chocolate Day 15 *No Soda Day 33 * Challenge Completed* Goal December 25th. Opening night is over, now I must get to bed! |
Before anyone wonders where I've disappeared -- just haven't had time to post. One day left on crunches challenge after I took a pause day on Friday because of being too tired to do them. Haven't started a new challenge yet, but probably will today or tomorrow. :)
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