Oh LIn,
This weight loss is absolutely phenomenal! Good for you. It looks like you're really on to something for yourself with the half portions. I am so pleased I could scream. Weigh to go girl!
Thanks for the info about lemon curd. It sounds so British and a great thing to have on toast with a cuppa tea. Congrats again.

All goes well here. Our company fizzled out since they both ended up with viruses and didn't want to expose us. Thank goodness for that! I froze and put away the foods that we don't want to eat and held back 1 meatball apiece for my dh and me.
I sure thought I'd be eating bigger today and I have the points.
But things changed and I don't have to do that. Hooray. It looks like I am down a pound, but I'll let you know officially at WW WI
Good luck to us all.
Judy
234/207/199soon:lol:

WOOHOO LIN! WAY TO GO! I'm so happy for you. That's such great news. You must feel too cool for words. :cool:

And Judy too! I know, I know, wait for official weigh-in reports, but still wonderful anticipation! :spin:

Lemon curd on toast is DEFINITELY very very British. My DH *IS* British, and one of the first things he asked me to try to find out here was lemon curd. We have Dickenson's at the Vons across the street, so it wasn't very hard at all to find, but it made him happy as could be. He also asked for Marmite, but thank heavens I couldn't find that (it's this...black...tar-like...yeast extract...stuff that reeks and frankly disgusts me).

As you all know I'm not weighing myself right now, but I'm happily noticing that my lower ribs/diaphram area is starting to be more defined (instead of just a rounded bulge, now it's flat!). Of course, my lower tummy is still round, but it always has been and always will be unless I have a tummy tuck after we have our family. ;)

I have managed to injure my toenail (banged it somehow so it started to lift from the nailbed, had a hangnail and yanked it off in the dark...took half the nail with it. OOPS!) so I'm treating it kindly today. I desperately hope it's okay by tomorrow, I really want to get to my Spinning class! :spin: Love that class, it makes me happy.

Have talked with DH and am going to drop microbiology for this semester. I'll still have four other classes one of which is physics+lab, so I'll still have a full schedule, but we've decided it's best for me and my stability not to push quite so hard. Dropping one class frees up 8 hours a week! :eek: I'm going to use that morning time to go to Spinning :D and take care of our home, and of myself. It's a good choice for me.

I'm reading through Geneen Roth's books right now, and she's got a very touchy-feely approach to the anti-dieting philosophy. She and the writers of Overcoming Overeating are at opposite ends of the spectrum. The approach I'm comfortable with falls somewhere in the middle. I feel much more stable and healthy, NOT being extreme about it.

Have a good day, Turtles, I'm off to find some lunch!

Mousie,
I am so thrilled that you kept your head about you when you had problems with dh/ins status and that you did not eat. Every time we do not eat in emotional response to a miserable situation I feel it's as though we're building healthy life response muscles! Did it once, can do it again--and again, and again until we always respond to stress with coping skills instead of food.

We Turtles are kicking b... and I'm thrilled. Let's keep this rock rolling!

Judy
234/207/199soon;) :cool:

Hi, Turtles,

I checked in to tell you that I'll be sending off the recipe tomorrow. I have to revise the instructions because they're written in my own shorthand. You would never figure out what to do from those instructions because most of them are in my head!

I also will start a new thread tomorrow. This one has gotten long very suddenly. They do that these days. That's a good thing, I think.

Judy, congrats in advance. Even if the WW numbers are different, you get congratulations for adapting to your changed circumstances.

Mousie, dropping that class sounds like a good idea. Physics and microbiology both are time-consuming classes. It might be difficult for you to care for yourself as well if you had stuck with the original plan.

I'm glad to hear you're happy with how things are going. Your spinning class and also the way your body is responding to what you're doing.

It's so cool to sign on and see such great progress.

Happy turtlin'! :D

Lin
272/233/225 (next goal)/135 or so (ultimate goal)

I'm going to add on to an already long thread. I'm a horrible person. ;)

So, I've spent quite a few weeks writing and reading books about emotional eating, and really working through what emotional issues my body could be handling for me. WELL. Tonight I had such a flash of clarity! Suddenly I understood. It all fits into place. Everything, every bit, this entire year, everything DH has been trying to tell me, everything that has happened, everything I've been saying to myself, all the events of the year and my reactions to them...everything. I understand, now.

I was reading Geneen Roth's When You Eat In Front of the Refrigerator, Pull up a Chair! and had a journal on my lap, alternately reading a page and writing, reading and writing, etc. And something clicked, and I understood. Lightbulb went on, as it were.

I hadn't lived in the same city as my family in 3 years when we arrived here from London last year. In that time I've undergone intense personal changes, and I'm not the same injured daughter/sister they sent off to Chicago. A day or two after we got out here, I knelt down to tie DH's boots for him (it's something that I do, for him, that makes me a part of him--it's an intimacy) and we left the house. My sister in law, who was in the same room, reported to my mother that I had thrown myself at his feet and BEGGED to be allowed to UNTIE his boots and take them off. Um, why I would do this when we left the house the next minute, I'm not sure. But anyway. My mom came to me furious, SIL was furious, brother asked me not to do that "sort of thing" again, and I was facing losing my family. Through all the moves and everything as I grew up, the only thing I ever always had was my family. So I freaked out, and I started trying to act like the sister/daughter they knew, instead of who I had changed into. I have put on weight--so I'm like I used to be--and have been acting like the old me--quiet, apologetic, and fearful--like the me they already knew. DH has supported me through this painful year, even though his beloved wife was not acting like herself. He has tried to help me, but I had to see it for myself. This is one of those "find your own truths" things. Now I see what has been happening, and I'm going to change it. I'm proud of who I was, and who I know I still am inside. I'm not going to be afraid and apologetic anymore. DH deserves his wife back, I deserve myself back.

Look out, world, mousie is changing back! :):):):):):)

Hi, Turtles,

I don't know what happened! Yesterday I wrote a post that I was starting a new thread, and I started a new thread, but it all disappeared. So did a really interesting conversation between Judy and Mousie. Well, it's all lost in cyberspace.

Anyway, on to a new thread. We're up to number 49.

Happy turtlin'! :D

Lin