Serial Starters
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Lynn - beautiful photos of a beautiful day!!! You look great!!
Waving to everyone else.
Lana
forgot to weigh, on purpose 😬2 -
DH surgery went well. Much better than the last 2. He laid down to sleep off the rest of the anesthesia, had his "good ear" down in the pillow, but complained that he heard the faucet dripping!
That was amazing! So hope this surgery works!
Still trying to get back on the wagon as far as eating goes. At least I have committed and, so far, carried through with logging, even if the numbers are bad.
Had busy weekend with family visiting. We have a mini-"baby boom" gong on! I have grandkids, great-niblets all over the place!
Work is still up in the air. Old company is protesting, which could take forever. New company is having what they call a "kick-off party" this week for all current employees. Not sure what their definition of a party is - we have to take copies of our resume, get a quick overview of new company, then break off into one-on-ones to discuss our duties and how we proceed through the transition. That sounds more like an interview to me.
Well, back to trying to catch up on housework, etc. I feel like I have been gone for a couple of weeks instead of just a couple of days!
**waves to everyone**
*calls over CB for foot massage and non-caloric adult beverage*4 -
Lynn- great pics! Looks like a wonderful day! Congrats!
Kathryn- so glad DH surgery went well! Enjoy the babies!
Davis- fingers crossed for at least 1lb... maybe more! Good to see you
Lana- hugs
Sara- computer issues are never fun... especially at work... hoping for a better Tuesday for you!0 -
Applied to job where my former sup works, may be with another Manager, not sure - seems he is very "by the book" dont know if that is good or bad. Not there yet so I am collecting references.
9193 total steps.
Couch in Lana's Cboy bar for exhausted people to get a foot massage and vent for awhile.
Lynn thank you for the pictures, great dress!!
Kathryn, there is a sign in my workplace that says "a meeting is a party without cake" to which my reply is "a meeting is a drill without a dentist". Your kick off party sounds too much like an obstacle course. Make sure you have extra copies of everything and put your happy face on and use mints to keep your breath minty-fresh?? Kill them with peppermint. Hope your DH feels better.3 -
TUESDAY
Good morning,
I am not sure it cooled off last night.
Lurking from work.1 -
Toooooooosday!
Kathryn - Your DH's surgery sounds good, slight pun intended. Dripping faucet, eh? 👍🏻
What day is this "kickoff party" ?
Dawn - what is shaking in Missouri?
Sara - Are you on familiar enough terms with former supervisor that you can ask her if job is with her or with Mr. By The Book?
Regardless....sending good vibes out to you for something good to happen soon ✨
Waving to Suzu and Davis and Missy and Tess and Saltine and Tracy and Tracey and Lynn and Meghan and Robin and Eryn and everyone who stops by later on.....
Today is a classic Ugh Day: I should go to my WW meeting, but the scale is up. So I "negotiate" and struggle with whether to go, or to go in a few days from now in hopes the weight will drop down a bit.
Low key drama with distant DH continues, so I eat popcorn and potato salad and, in the sad evenings, I just don't care. Then I wake up in the morning with some energy, and I bemoan the number on the scale.
What a cycle. 🤦🏼♀️
I can hear Sara, though, and she might ask me what can I do for myself?
My short answer is this morning I will trade a walk on a trail for the WW meeting.
And have an on-program breakfast before the walk.
Lana
250.4 today
250.0 highest
179.0 goal1 -
Hello and Happy Tuesday
Back to work - ugh. Hard this am. But back at it. My 2nd daughter posted a picture of her and her fiancé and it said T-222 days until we are each other’s forever dates. So 221 days now until wedding number 2! Back to my healthy eating today!
Kathryn - glad to hear surgery went well.
Hello to all! Waves!
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Lana - job is not with her either Mr Bythebook or in her area but not under her.1
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Lana I would go to the WW face the rotten scale and ask myself, what can the class teach me or remind me of that will help me starting today - however if walking is your compromise then at least you are walking.1
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Lynn - Great pictures of the wedding and you looked beautiful in the blue dress!
Waves all - Suzu!1 -
WEDNESDAY
Good morning,
Boss stayed at home yesterday - it is at least one day a week. Wow just shake my head. She will never have a job like this again and she is too young to retire from the company, so I am just standing out of the way. Audit is another mess. I found out how I was making one mistake, but it is not the only one and at this point my job is to get out of there, so while I care about my work, I dont care. Did not get one of the two internal jobs I applied for, it was already "spoken for"- but after the interview I am not surprised. Oh yeah the guy in the cube behind me is such a twitcher and banger that when he complains that I am making too much noise, I dont know how he can hear me.
Change subjects - It is Wednesday - does anyone need to get back on the wagon?? It has a comfortable couch where we can vent - but you must adopt a healthy habit this week. Mine is drinking more water. I was drinking too much tea/coffee and heartburn caught up to me.
Lana the largest earthquake ever noted (not recorded too old) was in Missouri - so if they are having tremors it is not surprising.
Laying low to get out of the way of other people's karma at work.
Wave to all who follow. Lurking.
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Sara - I wonder if your super takes off once a week for a medical problem/treatment, or is a caregiver for someone who is in that situation. A lot of women in my breast cancer group had to work through treatment.
I did not know that about Missouri - I just used an old expression from working days.
My mother always kept her mouth shut about people who were bothering her in the work place, and as a result she was often unhappy. It may be too late with your next door neighbor, but saying something nicely might help you get what you need.
This morning it's time for walking with the ladies. I am SO tired, but I am going. My breakfast is in the tracker!
*tossing hat and towel onto favorite lounge chair for later*
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Lana- things are shakin in Mo...lol... today was a great day! I got a raise! A whole dollar! I just passed my 2 year mark.. i'm so excited! Things haven't been great at work. But, i'm poor, so i'm happy with raise. Found out interesting news about shelter Mgr that fired me... he's leaving! Yes! He accepted a position at another shelter he's been working with. He won't last long there, they won't put up with him. I feel sorry for the animals at that shelter. Hopefully, he'll be in and out so fast, he won't have much effect on them.
Good for you, getting out and walking. Rainy week here... so, getting walks in when I can.1 -
Well, the "party" did not happen. Old company filed protest and a stop work order was issued to new company today -- 40 minutes before the "party" was to happen. I had to contact everyone and tell them it was cancelled. That was fun.... not.
Wanted to make cookies for party this weekend but DH got distracted and forgot to put butter out to soften for me so all the time I spent watering flowers to spend time while butter softened was all for naught... well, am sure the flowers liked it. I was not too thrilled that I am now behind schedule on that.
Tonight was disastrous on calories. But I did log them all.
Think "the change" is coming on for me. Started to have what I guess are hot flashes and lovely night sweats. Ugh! As if being female wasn't fun enough.....2 -
Hey all. The title of this thread drew my eye right away because I am a chronic serial starter. This is my third or fourth time on MFP losing the same 30 pounds (of the 80 or 90 I'd like to lose). I'm really good at focusing on weight loss for about 3 months, then I take a break to travel or for some disruptive life event and a year passes before I realize I have gone completely off the rails and have this gross gut again. I'm about 2 weeks in this time and just getting into the "my hunger is deeper than the Mariana trench and no meal plan on this earth can satisfy it" stage, but I'm cautiously optimistic that another week and some scale progress will buoy my spirits a little bit.
So hi new friends. Nice to meet you all!2 -
THURSDAY
Good morning,
Lapesadilla - Welcome we have another night owl/early bird. Stop by and post when you can. We have a variety of posters here some post daily some fly by quarterly.
Dawn- dollar raise!! Hey that adds up. My raises if I get them are less than a dollar, but I will celebrate yours. I am surprised the man at the shelter is working at all, but there are only so many fast food jobs......
Lana I think you are too kind when you try and give my Sup reasons for having bad time management. Coworker of mine with bone cancer is working through her Chemo treatment- with time off after infusion. The best thing I can do is get out of that department and leave them to themselves.
Kathryn - sorry the cookies did not get made. Can you make them today? Peri menopause can rob you of your sleep you may have to look into ways to promote better sleep. Lavender helps. Your work place sounds as whacked as mine. With no "party" what does that mean?
Wave to all who follow. Its Thursday and I am lurking from work.1 -
Good morning all!
Welcome Lapesadilla!
I feel like today I got hit by a truck. thinking all the weekend caught up with me. Going to hit the bed early and Sarah - great idea about Lavendar. Do you use oils? My sister sells DoTerra, which are way expensive. I try to support her at times, but am not afraid to buy others as long as they meet my standards.
Lana, Kathryn, Dawn, Suzu, Tracey and Tracy and all the others - HELLO! Hope all is going well.
I did the walk to the scale. Got to the lowest I have been for a long time - 183 for the wedding. A bit up from there, but now wedding number two is my new goal. Here we go!
CW 186.4
HW 207
GW 170
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Lynn- frankieandmyrrh.com sell the aroma therapy Lana posted a couple pages back for the side effects of menopause and other aromatherapy, luckily at the moment my Lavender spray is coming from a local farmers market. You have been successful at losing weight - and I have only gained it - how do you do it.
Off to the salt mines.1 -
Good morning All~~
It's a beautiful day here, but I missed my window of opportunity to go walking. I got caught up with bookkeeping chores. Dang. It'll have to be the pool today for exercise, and jeez am I lazy in the pool.
Holy Nightmare Batman!
LaPesadilla means the nightmare! Heavens to Betsy! Well, welcome my dear!
Fight hunger with plenty of clean protein at every meal and cut out soft drinks, sugars, corn syrup, and breads and pasta and candy. Those carbs can make you hungry! Whole grains, vegetables, and fruits are your friend.
Dawn - Congratulations on your raise.
Interesting about Mr. Grinch moving to another shelter.
Lynn, you are doing great! You'll pass 183 soon!
Kathryn - Sorry to hear about work. That must be so stressful.
As for making yourself comfortable at night, you will find what works for you. My bed has a cotton mattress pad; the sheets are cotton. I put a really soft, smooth, pretty cotton beach towel on my side of the bed, and a similar hand towel on my head pillow. It's really important to have a cool bed. I wore nothing when sleeping because then there was no clothing to become and stay wet. I kept nearby a change of that beach towel and hand towel in case I wanted to change it in the middle of the night.
I tied a big pink ribbon onto my top corner of the comforter, so that, after tossing it off of me because I was roasting, I could feel for it and find it easily in the dark when I was freezing again.
My sister and I both found that any stressful thought or dream would bring on a hot flash. So being able to meditate or talk yourself down, was helpful.
During the day, I would do something minor such as stubbing my toe, and then say to myself: 3, 2, 1, bingo....here's the hot flash. I would drop something, and again 2 seconds later, there's the hot flash. Even a worrying thought would bring one on.
I kept an Ace flexible reusable cold pack in the freezer, and during the day at least, I would grab it and put it on the very upper part of my back, just below the neck at the first sign of a hot flash. That would shut down that hot flash almost immediately. At work, I kept small water bottles in the freezer, and kept one on a coaster on my desk: hot flash came.....I would hold bottle on the back of my neck or up against one side of my throat.
What a dance, and I'm doing it all over again in my 60s because my anti-cancer meds further suppress estrogen. Gah.
Oooooops, that turned out to be very long. Hope some of it might help.
Lana
249.4 today
250.0 highest
179.0 goal4 -
Good morning, all!
Tomorrow is the start of my weekend Girls' Trip. Now, I'm dreading it. We had an organizational meeting last night to be sure we take all the supplies we need and work out the travel arrangements.
They (one in particular) have already started in on me about my food. I have packed a bag with sufficient snacks heavy enough to be a meal if necessary. My food safety comes before my socialization. That makes some people confused or even angry.
Some are upset that I won't be bringing alcohol for my own use. It's totally BYOB, so it's not like I'm depriving someone else of their consumption. Plus, we will be going to the Lodge on Saturday night and I will likely have a drink or two at their full bar there. I only drink when I feel like it. Right now, I don't feel like it. Is that wrong? Am I being a party pooper?
Other than that, we are taking games, music, and swimsuits. Most of that should be fun.
I've lost track of my days, but I know I have been back on my proper way of eating since Monday, maybe longer. Finally shed that last pound of my binge gain.
Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend! I will be logging in whenever I have service just to make sure I keep my streak, but I may not be able to keep up with posts over the weekend.
Cheers!
Tracy
SW 222
CW 152
GW 145
UGW 100
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Tracy your diet is medical and byob is just that, let them wallow in their own calories/booze. Stand firm for your health and have a great time.2
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okay squirrel fix for the day3 -
Tracy, I do hope that you have a good time. Evidently the organizational meeting got a little twisted, eh? People can get weird whenever someone (you) doesn't do exactly as they are going to do. This is the Girls Weekend version of Thanksgiving when a health-conscious family member doesn't want to eat the stuffing, potatoes, gravy, butter, rolls, and multiple pieces of pie.
Enjoy yourself!
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Sara - the squirrels are cute!!
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Lana- thanks for all the great ideas. I have found that Clary Sage as an essential oil works pretty good for regulating hormones. I have not had them hit me hard though - my body is still fluctuating back and forth. The ribbon and blanket idea is fabulous.
Now for my long post:
Sarah- I was able to lose some weight for the wedding because #1 - it was my daughter's wedding and I am vain and wanted to look as good as possible in the pictures
but my father also had a triple bypass/valve replacement open heart surgery and I looked at him and decided I did not want to go in that direction. I honestly do love veggies and fruit, whole grain bread, etc. I just have to force myself to prepare it. I turned to mostly whole foods - no processed food. I listed what I thought were my main binges (to me that was salty snacks, wine and chocolate) I removed them from my menu. When I wanted them I made myself stop and think about why I wanted them and if I did not have them would I be deprived. And finally I asked myself would I rather live lean or eat my main binge. All of that I got from a short educational program here and work and it worked for me. When I wanted those things I reminded myself that I really wanted to look good in my dress at the wedding while I talked and danced. So I created a vision.
So there you go - long story It is a bit amazing though how easily I fell off that routine. Last couple days I just want to eat junk.
Tracy - people can be so weird sometimes. Likely...they are fully aware they will over indulge this weekend and are a bit jealous that you have a plan to keep on track? Have fun and don't worry about what others are thinking! Enjoy the friendship -those are important.
Later
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Sorry Lynn, you did ask, essential oil both Lavender oil and "blends" one that works really well has Rosemary as well as Lavender and I did have one with clary/sage - the post Lana posted "in fun" this company has a wide variety and while I havent ordered any, I will let you know when I do.1
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Thanks for all the encouragement! Trying to get out of my own head is the longest part of the upcoming trip.1
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Two possible cboy sightings today wowie how did I get so lucky?
One was a late 20-early 30's waiting in lobby for interview, tie/shirt/suit. Couldnt resist and told him "nice suit", young men in suits??? So rare anymore.
On afternoon walk in parking lot UPS driver stops and asks me if he has the correct address. I told him a good place to park and to check at the front desk for packages..... If you remember the Village People, he could have been in that group with at little weight training.
Okay here is a third - going to complex office to pick up some water the guy above the manager was leaving and I held the door - he had nice shoes on so I told him. Trifecta!! Just my lucky day.
Not that I am ungrateful, but job news would be more appreciated.
9888 total steps. will give my feet a rest.
36 state jobs applied for total
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Saturday is my weigh in day. I have been doing pretty good. Its hard waiting a week.
I am glad to see everyone's moving forward and not getting discouraged.5
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