I'm starting to think I'm going to have to shake things up a bit to get the scale moving -- add more exercise, more veggies and cut down on other portions. Gee, doesn't that sound like "Eat less, exercise more?" Ah well, a radical plan but it might just work
I've moved my stability ball into the office and am using it as a chair. Quite comfy, really.
Punkinseed in Onederland!!! Congrats!!! I know you're going to love it there, forever. 46 pounds is AMAAAAZING!
Anagram, seven pounds down is seven pounds down -- WTG!!! I think the way you've done it is extremely admirable, too. Incorporating healthy habits, as advertised!
Ceara, you're having a lot of clothes-related NSVs lately -- kudos! I've got some nice things that I should be able to wear in another 10 pounds.
Clutha, no way! I think you only have to count it if you drank the whole thing -- an accidental taste has no calories!
WSW, I'm with you on the heat -- surely to gawd you'd think it'd melt off a little bit! Like hot flashes, you know -- if we're putting out heat, shouldn't that be burning calories? But nooooooooooo, it's actually harder to lose weight.
Greenish for GO!
Another hot day yesterday...cooler today...and damper. Good thing I did not have any sugar restrictions...had an absolutely huge bowl of ice-cream in the pm....no dinner though...wasn't hungry. I wonder why? Actually I'm still not hungry. And I had a huge glass of wine...slept like a baby.
Tally:
1. water **********
2. Road walk ******
3. No food after 7 pm. **********
4. 2 glasses of wine/week.-1-
5. multivitamin **********
DH and I expanded that front bed last night...got the hibiscus (hibisci? there were 2) planted before it got too dark and the vampire mosquitoes ate me alive....my legs looked like I had measles when I finished. I dislike using bug spray. So, the rest of the perennials go in there this morning between showers of rain
Clutha you do what you feel is best....if guilt drives you to have more then ease your mind and start over...I had a taste of hubby's beer the other night but I did not count it as a wine...it was a mouthful. I leave myself some wiggle room with the restrictions of 2/week because social situations arise and I just get tired of explaining. The no eating after 7 is tough sometimes too...
Arabella...you rise! Man, you beat me this morning! Glad you are feeling a little perkier!
WTG Anagram....7 gone is wonderful dahling! Sounds like you did the the painless way...and very healthfully I must add.
Wsw how many days are you on?
Punkin! You are doing marvellously....onederland! Now you get to do decades! You had better be proud of you!
Ok....I really need to get going and do something besides talk and type..I if walking is in the picture this am....was REALLY hot yesterday...worse than the day before. Today it would just be wet. I think I may wait until after 7 tonight.
Ceara - 2 lbs to go to current goal - H'ray! Clutha, that's the joy of the palace - you get to set the rules in your own reign. And my rules fluctuate like mad sometimes.
I'm with you, wsw. This heat melts me in every way but the way I want it to. Supposed to be a bit better here tomorrow. Sister is having a little "tea" today (but at lunchtime) for several friends and me. So my menu will be a little different today. She's loosely basing it on a luncheon we had a couple of months back at a tea room. I know I'll be having a limited number of mints she told me she made (they are so good but I WILL limit them - I KNOW I CAN DO IT).
She's apparently wanted to do this for years but now since she's recently retired AND got a/c this year, she's doing one of her "want tos".
Must go plot the rest of my day or at least do SOMETHING else, then shower and go. Expecting it to be a good one and wish you all the same.
anagram-congrats on the 7 lbs down! hope you had fun at your sister's tea today.
hi clutha-it's always a tough call, isn't it?! sometimes, i have to give myself a little more wiggle room than others. i vote for going with the wiggle room, but i'm often not the best at giving myself a break.
ceara-so, it's day 7 for me. hadn't realized til you asked. i kept re-starting this last one, but definitely it has been full steam ahead for me since 7/28. i sure do sympathize about the mosquito onslaught. they are terrible here!
arabella-i know what you mean about wanting to shake things up a bit to move blasted scale. i think i, too, need to change things around a bit on my food and exercise plan. it's just not right, i say! hard work should pay off the way we want it to! ah well.
the heat remains eye-"crossingly" relentless. i went to my doc appointment this morning, and took a frozen bottle of water with me, and it was completely lukewarm by the time i got there, and it is only about 10 minutes away. oh, and that was with the a/c blasting away in my car. i know that i am lucky to have a/c both in my car and home, though, believe me! well, have a good evening, everyone! take care.
Cheers for the advice - I've chosen not to count it as I didn't want it and certainly wouldn't have had it by choice - I was trying to be polite I think!
Well I had a chicken sandwich and a small dish of ice cream at 11:30 last night...so the streak has ended...prolly something to do with "I'm on vacation now" and the glass of wine prior....wine gives me the munchies and lowers the inhibitions....scale is still the same though...2 lbs from the next decade.
Anyway, am leaving very early tomorrow am for the cottage with the parentals....they eat later there, so will strive not to eat after 8 pm and just watch what I eat. I will walk there...there are HILLS on their road up there...and bears at the dump which the road goes by....more exciting walks I see.
So....got all the plants in yesterday and prepped a spot for 8 more...yep I'm goin' back today for more! It is a border of bugle weed...various varieties one of which is that nefarious chocolate chip one. They were all lookin' verra happy in their new homes...lots of room for their feeties...Planted the toad lily too....I hope it likes it here because it is a very cool looking plant!
Ok...got a breakfast date, quick trip to Costco, funeral (cousin of my desk clerk died...tragic car crash), out to get those plants, pack (am laundering now), take some jars to someone to name a bit...guess I should make a list at brekkie.
I will check in from afar...they have a laptop with dial-up...shouldn't be much slower than the dial-up here! You all are doing great...I'll be around....Punkin is it Friday yet?
Sounds like you have a great getaway coming up, Ceara! Enjoy.
Sissie's tea was delightful. I know pretty well all her friend who were there. She based the whole thing fairly much on the tea room experience we had a couple of months ago with her own menu, of course. Included cucumber sandwiches and other little finger foodies. She even clotted cream (she said it was faux clotted cream) for the scones she baked and made those delightful mints (I limited myself to 3, I did and they were tiny but potent).
So I perceive that I did no damage as I ate meagerly the rest of the day. What with the cherry berry tea and the honeyapple iced tea and all the little pieces of food, I felt I had dined splendiferously.
Did not exercise though so it's off to the pool this a.m. So, getting it into gear.........
Shall not proclaim day but WILL say that I don't intend to work this weekend, not even to check my work e-mail (which, I have to admit, is something I'm awfully prone to doing even when I'm "off"). I also intend to putter away betwixt and between today so the house is nice for the sacred Friday collapse ce soir.
Ceara, I'm glad to hear that you'll be able to report in from away. Lots of Queenlies tootling away from the Palace on summer sojourns elsewhere. You mind those bears, now! I've never quite met one. Although DS and I did smell one pretty close by when we were hiking in the woods in Newfoundland. We did start singing very loudly, stomping our feet and clapping our hands. Didn't see the bear, or smell it either when we were going through the same spot on return.
Just checked out the toad lily online -- verra nice, indeed!
Clutha, I just realized you're in Scotland! I've got ancestors there -- MacLaines, and others I can't recall at the mo. -- and my husband does too. He's a Malcolm.
WSW, yes, the AC must be a blessing! Is the heat starting to lift at all? It's actually cool here today. I think I'd have been chilly if I sat outside earlier.
Anagram, my mom used to make mints, a creamy variety -- are these the same? And she made them all pretty pastel-y colors. They were very yummy, mmmm... And somehow, mint is so refreshing that one COULD eat more of them
Alright, if I don't get on this stuff I said I'm going to do I'll find the day slipping away and without getting through it. Love to all and AVANTI!
WN. yes, creamy little minty things. Yesterday's were yellow. Basically just cream cheese and confectioners sugar with a little flavor/color. I've made them in all sorts of colors and shapes for various occasions. These were sister's first try.
Good new/bad news. Just talked to doctor's office re blood work. Apparently sometime in the last six months I've had mono. Nothing active but still showing up. I'VE BEEN TELLING HIM I'M FATIGUED. Like three months ago when he put it down to my RA (which can also be so fatiguing). Nothing to be done now but recover, they say.
Then my thyroid is down further (from 1.86 to 1.14 in three months which is down from 2.2 in 04 and 3.3 in 03 - spot a trend?) - no increase in thyroid med offered so I talked at length to person on phone (his very nice wife) and she's going to talk to him about it. Range is .4 to 5.5 or something like that. At the rate I'm going I'd be there in three months anyway.
Of course, an antidepressent was offered (not pushed) since I am still grieving. I'm passing on that at the moment. I think the two things above are more responsible for my fatigue than the grief as I can deal with that by thinking on the joy. But may consider it as a way to feel a little better while I recupe from the mono if he won't up the thyroid med.
So I've got RA, dropping thyroid function, old mono and grief going on. I'm going to have to find me a little "reward" just for not eating a ton the last six weeks. If I could only think of something I want - well I can think of one thing but I can't have that so I have to put my thinking cap on.
anagram-you certainly do have a lot going on! any one of those single issues would be enough to have to deal with, let alone all of them at once. i definitely think you deserve a big reward for not eating up a storm over all this. as one small possibility, how about another massage, and perhaps manicure and pedicure also to pamper royal self? take it very easy. mono really does take quite a while to recover from.
and to all our our lovely queens, hope everyone is having a good afternoon. no let-up in heat here down in "furnace central." arabella, when you said it is cool there, it sure sounded nice. i am imagining delightful cool canadian breezes as we speak. so far, day 8 going on target. have also been very productive today, what with catching up on some dreaded paperwork, and also did a bit of de-cluttering, which always has a positive effect on me. well, need to venture out in to that "furnace" and get some errands completed. thinking of you all. take care.
I woke up at 4:30 or so and decided to get up to enjoy my quiet time. Sat in the dark and drank tea and looked out the window, meditated, lay on my stability ball to stretch out my spine. Started reading last Sunday's NY Times. After DH had been awake for a bit we went over to the gym. I did 20 minutes on the elliptical trainer on a "hills" interval course. Wow -- intense! And then did 25 mins. circuit training. Plus 25 minutes walk to get to the gym and back, home for a set of tai chi. I think I'm exercised now If not exorcised.
One of the women from my writing group hosts afternoons for writing together the first Sunday of each month. Tomorrow will be the first one I've been able to make and I'm quite looking forward to it. We just work on whatever we want to work on and start by reading a few minutes of something we've got done already. Which means I'm going to have to write something today and think about what I'd like to work on tomorrow... 'Tis a good thing -- our usual meetings we do guided writing (topics chosen by whoever's facilitating that week) and it's been a long time since I wrote creatively otherwise. Hmmmm...
Anagram, thank you for the descriptions of your tea. Everything sounds good -- like faerie food, really
Well, no wonder you've been tired! My heavens! RA's bad enough -- add mono and grief to the mix and ... I'm just amazed how well you've been doing. And I already admired you enormously for your valiance!
Everything is so much harder when you're tired. I have my bouts of fatigue and it's just like I'm a different person -- less outgoing, less motivated to do anything, less optimistic. No joie de vivre, no life in my life. I hope your doctor will up your meds!
WSW, I can still spare you a few more cool breezes today. Yesterday afternoon it was so cool I put on long pants and a long-sleeved denim shirt. And closed all the windows and doors downstairs. Unheard of! I don't mind the cool days, but here there's always the fear that the summer's over. Which is not what I want at all Sooooo... can you send me some of that excess heat?
Punkin, it was GREAT to see you proclaim Friday yesterday, pure joy! And samooches right back atcha!
Well, I think I'll go freshen up the bod and see about getting some brekkies. Love to all!
why, yes, arabebella, i will be happy to send some of our excess heat to help warm you up. it would be nice, wouldn't it, to actually be able to even things out a bit more. well, i too woke up awfully early this morning, but wasn't nearly as productive, although i seem to be rallying more as the day is progressing. also, plan to do my tai chi tape this afternoon. anagram, your sister's tea party sounded delightful. i love afternoon tea, and it reminds me that it is about time that i host one, which i haven't done in much too long now. one of my favorite, and usually most successful, ways to relax, in fact, is curling up with my favorite poetry and a cup of my favorite tea. as stressed as i have been lately, too, that is another reminder to me that this would be an excellent thing for me to do this very afternoon. however, before i get to that, i have a few things i need to take care of, so i will get moving.
Dr. did up thyroid med a tad after I talked to his wife (who works there) and she gave him message that I asked him to. She even said I sounded so much better after I heard that. Yes, fatigue is very familiar to me too and I felt it was coming at me from all directions.
Sis is basking in glow of her little gettogether. It's all so nice when you finally do something you always wanted to do.
I did that today too, sort of. I finished up (almost) a little painting job I've been meaning to do for a year and a half. Ten and I did part of it when she was here and I did most of the rest today. Could not find switchplates I bought to do a little decorating on. Aaargh! I didn't just drop them with the painting stuff as I wanted them not to get lost or broken. Now I can't find them so can't quite finish up. May pick up some more while I'm out. And out is where I plan to go shortly - just a little rest first Nice to have such a good excuse!
"too cool" - now that sounds. It was fairly pleasant here this morning and temps are now just about "normal" for here.
Doing day four of third challenge, I think. I'm trying to get used to this eating at the 1600 calories level because (if I ever get to goal) that's about what I'd have to eat forever. Sheesh! but I am speading it out over 5 or 6 minimeals a day. I've had about 700 so far. Don't plan to use my approximately once a week "go over on the caloies" all at once this challenge so maybe tomorrow.
Did get to pool yesterday. Don't know what, if any, exercise I'll get today besides walking mall... C 'ya.
Wow - the palace hasn't been this quiet in a good while.
Another day ok. I might have been a tad over yesterday caloriewise, not sure, but close. I'll count it as my "off" day.
After thinking for all these days, I've decided my next challenge needs to be the "not eating after.......".
I'm going for 8 oclock to start and once that's subdued, I may try for earlier. I'm trying to eat in 5 or 6 meal segments so it may be tough. So I'm going to call today Day 1 on that challenge and will do my best on the rest of it but count only the one specific thing. One thing at a time. I've continued doing well on the fluid thing and think I'm fairly well set on calories for now and exercise about 5 days a week. I know it won't last forever but then I'll rechallenge on those things. For now, it's not eating after 8:00.
Looking forward to a full house tomorrow...............
Good morning, Queenlies!
Ah well, a radical plan but it might just work 
Actually I'm still not hungry. And I had a huge glass of wine...slept like a baby.
gone is wonderful dahling! Sounds like you did the the painless way...and very healthfully I must add.
Punkin! 
if walking is in the picture this am....was REALLY hot yesterday...worse than the day before. Today it would just be wet. I think I may wait until after 7 tonight. 
to all 
Sooooo... can you send me some of that excess heat? 
Nice to have such a good excuse!