2018 - The Year of " I AM "
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hi ladies.. sorry im a little late replying; i was a sloth yesterday recovering from dayshift and accomplished nothing except stuffing my face. Vail your comment about how special occasions aren't the only time you are slipping up you are doing it day to day well omg that's me too and I have no idea why - like u and the ham sandwich, im not even eating because im hungry!! and im pretty sure i've used the excuse I dont want to waste it either - yet i'm happy to toss out a 1/2 head of lettuce or some dried up carrots without cooking them up and eating them... I have GOT to get a handle on this tho.. i'm hoping that the} " first snow and urge for the whole carb load/winter thing" has run its course now.. altho I realize that ultimately the choice whether to stuff something in my face or not is MINE, I do think some of that caveman "winter is coming must load up in case we starve" gene is still buried somewhere inside me and something I can't control... but I truly have to get a grip the scale is moving up and everything feels uncomfortably tight and I FEEL .. slumpy… ? is that a word? stodgy, lumpy, tired - and I WANT that feeling I had when I was at a comfortable weight and wanted to move and do things and not feel like it required too much effort - so I think that's going to be my motivation right now rather than the actual weight loss # thing.. im gonna focus more on remembering how much better I feel without this weight literally weighing me down! I am eating WAY too much even if it's "good for me" food.. and like some of the rest of us I have some social events coming up; a few lunches out, some xmas parties yada yada…so I am going to have to work really hard EVERY DAY in between those, as well as working hard at every other meal on those particular days when i do have an event... to remember that I am working towards getting to a better place for me!
there's about 6 weeks left in this year.. which means i have about 42 days still left for me to work hard and make em count. So that's going to be my "goal" as such - to remember that by the end of the year AND moving into a new one, I want to feel better physically and to do that, i'm gonna have to put the effort into getting there every single day. So I may have to impose on some of you for an *kitten* kicking now and then if I start to whine... feel free to say "read your own damn post woman", k???
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Day 52 working straight since Oct. 1st!! I am sooooo tired. lol Should have a couple of days off....then start it again, until we get it all transferred to the new company.... I can't say I will miss it any, but I will miss my room. It has been wonderful working with only myself and one other employee for so long...after this I have to work with a multitude of people....ie...women! YES, Drama!! Love each individually but not as a whole... they are so jealous and worried about someone not doing as much or them doing more than someone else... ok rant over! lol
I want to try to push forward these last few weeks, too ,Snoozie....
Seems like we are here every year trying to prove to ourselves that we will get to where we want to be... in the short time left, but I feel we can do it this year and keep it off next year!!
I plan on working on my" afternoon till bedtime "eating....It is the demon that keeps me FAT!! I do fine through out the day...but there is something about that timeframe that hates me!!! lol
I think I don't have anything to do with my time...(if you could see my house you would see differently), haha, I wish I had something to volunteer my time too, but it is such a small town, I'm not sure what that would be... I'll have to think on that one...
I hope you all have a great weekend! Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it,
Funny, I never thought much about y'all not celebtrating it, Vail....hahaha.....I forget a lot about what we learned in school lol like I had to google it...(" the Pilgrims hosted the first Thanksgiving dinner after their successful exit from England.) " I can't be held responsible for them though....lol
talk later,
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Gail - i totally understand your "afternoon til bedtime" eating... and i agree completely that a lot of my eating then (or the equivalent time frame with my shifts) has to do with being bored... or not exactly bored but having nothing to do .. and that doesnt count as housework for me either!! I could easily be doing chores around here but have no interest in that, instead i'd rather plop on the couch and then I start grazing for food... im not even hungry most of the time.. and I swear watching those commericals for hamburgers and chips and stuff is part of it... like a trigger in my brain! so I am working on that too.. I think that's one of the reasons i looked for the volunteer thing (but admit i didnt want anything depressing right now - i wanted something fun for me ... and why im trying to play as much pickleball as i can.. if i can find things to keep me busy that i enjoy (and let me make this clear.. scrubbing the bathroom floor does NOT count as fun) .. then my head isnt in the fridge or cupboard during those times. and i know its gonna be harder to motivate myself as winter lands.. today its freezing out gak... i am going to get my brakes done this morning and may hit pickleball on the way home at noon.. then i have a gig at the living arts tonite from 7-11.. and back to work tomorrow.. but i only have a week of evening shift then im on vacation for 2 weeks so that will be a challenge time i know.. icause i have a efw lunches with friends booked for then.. but i plan to be down some weight by then and hopefully that will keep me from going crazy at the feedings!
Happy turkey day to my lovely friends in the U.S. Vail you and i will have to settle for PB and J sammichs hahaha..
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Hello Hatters! Just checking in. Thanksgiving was wonderful! Lots of family and games and food! I’m dreading the weigh in when we get home on Sunday but there’s not much I can do about that today. On the road today and tomorrow and then I’m home for four whole weeks before we drive back to Kansas City for Christmas. I’m hoping 2019 will start out with a few months at home to get back into a good schedule for going to the gym! Have a great weekend everyone!1
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So.....my niece just contacted me and she wants to come visit and the two of us take a trip to Asheville to see the Biltmore all decorated for Christmas. It looks like I spoke too soon and I won’t be home for four weeks. Oh well...2019 will have to be my chance to get back on track. I’m not complaining; I love spending time with my niece! I’ll just have to do the best I can!2
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Morning Suzy... I thought i replied here after your TG post... apparently im losing what little there is left of my mind lol.. i'm so glad you had such a wonderful time - that's what TG is supposed to be all about, not worrying about the number on a piece of plastic! Too funny on the home for 4 weeks.. oops no i'm not! But how awesome that your niece wants you to go with her to see the tree - time with family and memories made rank at the very top of the "scale" in my opinion - and that's really the far more important scale in our lives, right? So have a wonderful time and perhaps try to get a pic to share with us!!
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Ok i'm on a second cup of coffee; i took the day off work even tho after tomorrow i'm on vacation for 2 weeks lol.. there's a dinner at the LAC tonite for the volunteers and I figured what the hell... I was going over my calendar for my vacay and realized I have booked a lot of get togethers with friends - which is a good thing but they are all of course lunches or dinners or wine therapy but i've decided i'm not going to stress over food; i'm just going to remind myself I don't have to eat the entire buffet and that the real reason i'm there isn't the food but the friendships and time together - just switch my focus! So now that i've freed up my mind from any stress or thoughts about the food aspect I am free to enjoy and be happy I am going to get to spend time with them!
One of my friends and I have also decided to get out and about more - so we're going downtown next week to one of the open air markets to wander around and see the big tree in the square etc - even tho I travel downtown Toronto every day for work, I just go there and back; so we're going to play tourist in the city a few times lol... Thursday night we're going to a show at the LAC called "choir choir choir".. if you've never heard of the group, they make choirs out of audiences everywhere.. they did a big one in times square with 1500 people..and have done a lot of that sort of thing.. and its supposed to be a really funny show in between them teaching us to sing one particular song LOL.. and neither my friend nor I can carry a tune btw... not one note.. but we figure a few glasses of wine before hand and we won't give a damn haaaaaaaaaa.. so should be a fun night (and the tickets were free from the LAC so win win!)
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I sometimes wonder what it would be like to not think about food so much. There must be people who eat without any concern about how much or what they’re eating and still have healthy lives. Right? I have a nephew who’s metabolism must be like a high speed train. He eats all the time, never exercises and is skinny as a bean pole. I’ve spent my entire life fully aware of what I’m eating and beating myself up for it. Then there’s my niece (by marriage) who’s extremely OCD and sets timers for when to eat, measures and weighs every single morsel and spends two hours a day exercising. She’s in great shape but it completely rules her life. There’s gotta be a happy medium.
Have a great time with your friends Snoozie! Sing your heart out! (Wine makes everything and everyone sound better!)1 -
Hi hatters....
just back from pickleball .... overdid it a little bit but it's all good lol....
omg last night at the Choir thing.... was such a hoot!! we had SUCH a good time... and it only took them 2 hours (and several glasses of wine for me and my friend) for them to turn us into something half decent LOL.. these guys are hysterical and so frigging talented.. the one guy in the hat was teaching each section their parts (the harmonies and such) and using his hand to go up and down to remind us which notes we were supposed to sing) and at one point he was leading all 3 different sections at once.. and the other guy.. holy hell he could hear a wrong note sung anywhere in the place - in 700 people lol... they were hysterically funny while teaching us too... i'll post the link to the youtube video (it went live for our final performance lol.. its long and blurry but if you're bored take a look - we learned john lennon's "Imagine" - and for a whole bunch of people who can't sing, we did pretty good
https://www.facebook.com/choirx3/videos/1122596727901870/
So... yesterday i had my doc appointment - it didn't go well... A1C still up so she is goign to change my meds from metformin to something else.. cant remember what its called.. so that bummed me out.. then discovered that even with an iron supplement my iron is way too low.. (red blood cells) so she is sending me for an endoscopy (camera down the throat.. yuck) cause since i no longer have a period i shouldnt be this low, especially with having taken the supplement for the last 3 months..) and then for some reason i appear to be leaking protein from my kidneys.. my last # was 0.5 three months ago.. and it was something like 3.7 this time??? huge jump... and i've never had any kidney problems at all... so WTF... omg.. needless to say i was not a happy camper... and it kinda bummed me out the rest of the day..
but i thought about things in bed last nite... and decided that i wasn't going to let it freak me out... oftentimes with this sort of thing i prefer the "ostrich" method.. what i don't know doesn't exist.. but.. now i do realize that its better to find out whats going on with the kidneys and blood now.... and the new diabetic med should according to my doc, bring down my A1C much better... so its a positive. of course my mind did go to the kidney thing being from the diabetes.. but she doesn't think its that... she may decide to put me on a bp drug next time if its still high (cause even tho my bp is fine the med helps the kidneys function) so i go back in 5 months by which time i should have had the endoscopy and hopefully the A1C will be down too.... so im in a much better head space today!
That said it's still a bit of a wake up call with regards to my eating habits .. so i think im going to fous more on the eating better for my T2 and less on the weight aspect for the moment..
ok i've babbled enuf and i have to go get some groceries as mother hubbards cupboard are actually bare lol..
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So excited about the choir night!! I know you will love it.
Finally had 4 days off!! Would you believe we may have come back to work more tired than ever. It was like we didn't get enough time to really unwind and relax...so this week has been rough. Last night I went to bed at 7 and woke up at 12:30 , luckily I was able to go back to sleep after wandering around the kitchen...no food eaten then I swear!! but I did think about it....lol
Biltmore sounds lovely. I know you will enjoy that time with your neice , Suzy.
We are still working like crazy to complete this part transition by Christmas time. They say it has to be finished by then. I think it is a case of "them" making decisions that have no real idea about how long something takes.
Anyway....
Hope all is well with every one else.
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Snoozie!!!! I loved the video! Imagine is one of my all time favorite songs. I tend to get emotional when I hear it. My daughter’s choir in fourth grade sang it at their recital. She was attending the International School of Amsterdam at the time and to see all those young people from all over the world singing about unity and peace just filled my heart to overflowing. It must have been a joyous feeling to be in that crowd!
I’m so sorry about the test results. Anytime we’re told that something isn’t “normal” it send our minds to very troublesome places. Reading your post though, if she doesn’t want you to come back for five months then it can’t be too worrisome, right?!?! I hope the endoscopy goes well. You have the right attitude...eat for health. I’m convinced that if we do that then a by product will be weight loss. Hopefully the new meds and healthy eating will be what you need for all the other issues.
Gail, having to work so much at this time of year would be so stressful! Good for you for not grazing your way through the kitchen in the middle of the night! Hang in there! I hope work lightens up soon.
Vail, was that a “new” pound loss you recorded? Even if it wasn’t, you’re doing great! This is the time of year that most people put on weight. (Me included, unfortunately).
Susan, are you still with us? Hope you’re doing well!
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Gail - i don't know how you're still standing.. it seems rather inhumane to have you all working so much without a day off more often
and yes isn't it always the way that those making the decisions have no clue about how things actually run …. every time we get a new boss (and where I am it happens often as we're sort of a training area for every new promotion) the "new broom" decides things have to change and no matter how much we tell them.. been there, done that, won't work... ahead they go.... and god forbid they would ever admit it didn't work no no must forge ahead with stupid.... sigh... hang in there girl and as suzy said huge congrats on not doing the graze at 12am!!
I did forget to mention that the scale had been moving up at my end too.. more than I realized til I couldnt fit into any pants comfortably enuf to sit all nite last nite so I had to go with ones I swore I would never put on again.. grrrr! NOT impressed.. but hoping refocusing on healthier eating will have a side effect of making it head the other way!
when do u go to see the tree with your niece Suzy? how cool is that your daughter was in such a prestigious show?? and while I don't normally get emotional for that song, at this time of year it really does remind us of whats really important.. i'm thinking maybe we should the heads of all our countries together to sing that !!! maybe smarten em all up at bit!! lol
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Snoozie, we’re going to Asheville, North Carolina on the 11th. The Biltmore is a mansion/estate/castle type place built in the 1800’s. They decorate it for Christmas and it’s spectacular. You should google it. We went in the spring a few years ago when the gardens were blooming with thousands of tulips and such.
If only we could get all the heads of state from around the world to that sing along. Just for a moment to have peace on earth.
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suzy i did google it because i'm a sucker for xmas lights anywhere - i searched biltmore nc xmas lights holy cow.. there's this one room with 3 fireplaces on one wall - all decorated - just stunning!! I'm assuming you can tour the inside as well as the grounds for the xmas trip? its gonna be gorgeous!!
even stretchy didn't cut it for me last nite - my "jeggings" were still too tight to sit in.. then again we were standing and singing for most of the night so i might have been ok lol.. tomorrow my friend and i are going to a holiday market in a town about 30 min away.. supposed to be a nice one but only open from 12-4 so no lights to see.. Niagara Falls always has the calvalcade of lights tho so i may pop down there when i'm off over xmas .. oh right next week we are going down to the toronto christmas market so there will be lights lol
im doing a show at the LAC tonite - called All is Calm - its the true story of the one Christmas day during world war one when all the troops on both sides put down their weapons and shared food and photos of famliies and played soccer/football... hope i get to work inside cause i'd like to see it
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Just catching up again, sorry! I haven't been 100% and kind of dragging myself to work and through the day - I'm sure the winter doesn't help!
I loved the video, Snooozie! You all sounded great and it looked like such fun! I smiled at "sisterhood"! I'm sorry your results weren't great, but it's great that you can see the positives, and I hope the new drug is helpful. I understand you worrying about kidney function, so hope that turns out to be OK. I don't have great kidney function tests either, and have chronic kidney disease, have had various tests and so on, but I'm lucky that it does not seem to be much of a concern. I hope all goes well with your endoscopy. I'm glad that this is all being monitored and treatment adjusted. I hope you got to see the show and enjoyed the Christmas market!
Gail, you do sound so busy - I hope you get some time to rest. And well done for not eating when in the kitchen at night - lol!
Suzy, yes, kind of a new pound, thanks! But due taking antibiotics which affected my appetite and also had to be taken on an empty stomach. My appetite is coming back now, although I'm trying to hold on to some of the loss! I have been baking again - I really need to stop that. I think I'm roughly about 10 pounds lighter than I was back in the summer, which isn't too bad. I just need to get below my previous lows and into new territory and that isn't happening! The Biltmore looks spectacular! I hope you have a wonderful time!
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Vail i'm sorry to hear you've been under the weather yourself... but glad you appear to be feeling better at least appetite wise! LOL @ the baking... seeing as I depend on home made baking being supplied to me by all my friends over the holidays, I don't think I can help with telling you to stop yours omg on being 10lbs lighter than you were in the summer?? THAT is awesome .. well done YOU!! and I know exactly what you mean about wanting to be in new territory.. that WAS my goal but with the recent gain I have to focus on the health part more and just hope that doing that will have the side effect of weight loss..
I have noticed tho… that is it so much harder now to lose weight than even 5 years ago... the middle age spread seems to be going wild specially round my middle... grrrr0 -
It's definitely harder. It's so frustrating!2
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Yes it is. I’ve read a huge debate in the forums about whether it’s harder for women after menopause. I know what I believe but there are others who claim that menopause has nothing to do with it. I completely wholeheartedly vehemently disagree! Lol!1
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im guessing a lot of those saying menopause has nothing to do with it.. are under 30 LOLOL! But whatever anyone's beliefs I personally am convinced that the hormone upheaval, sleep loss, anxiety, and all the other goodies that accompany menopause DO make it harder - physiologically our bodies are changing same as they did at all the other milestones in life.. it changed during puberty, periods, pregnancy etc... so nobody will convince me that all the changes going on inside us during the average 10 yr span of pre/peri/post menopause dont affect our attempts at weight loss. I'm not saying it can't be done, im just saying I DO believe it's a whole lot harder now.. and since I DID it 5 yrs ago I KNOW it's harder now... so I stick my tongue out at the non believers lol...
I planned getting together with all my non work friends during this vacation time, which of course has involved wine and almost daily lunches and/or dinners out... so my only weapon at the moment is trying to order healthier options which aint always possible, and to be careful with my other meals every day... I have resorted to hopping on the scale daily to help make sure I keep an eye on the "cumulative" effect. i've done a fair bit of walking the past few days while out at holiday markets and festivals but its definitely a slippery slope and i'm just trying to keep my footing as I go..! one day at a time! and as suzy said about finding the happy balance from one extreme to the other with our relationship with food, i'm not stressing big time over any of it because the time together with friends is a gift - but I am just trying to be mindful of not going overboard either just because i'm getting together with friends isn't a licence to pig out …just to enjoy 1 -
Hi, girlz!!
Awesome updates from everyone. read rather quickly......
sorry , if I made it sound like they were making us work straight... We did have to support ,the first month of October, but the rest of the time was our decision to work to get to the goal date... We only work a few hours on Sat or Sun or both, but it still gets tiring.... not too much left to do though.
hope everyone is doing well...
Our brand new G-baby girl should be here soon!! at least by the 23rd.
So excited, and I got to buy some tiny baby clothes......can't wait to bombard y'all with pictures and antidotes.... lol Besides my work mates, you are my best virtual friends! lol
Break time is over, so back at it....bye
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Ooooh...a Christmas baby!!! Yay!! That’s so exciting!
Reading your comments about time with friends and trying not to overindulge...you saying that it’s not a license to pig out...got me thinking, Snoozie. That’s exactly what I do...I interpret social get togethers as “free for all’s” when it comes to eating. Like those calories won’t count because it’s a party or a special occasion. THAT is the thinking I really need to change. For example: I’ve been doing great for three whole days (doesn’t sound like a huge accomplishment but getting my butt back on this wagon has been a huge struggle) and my niece gets here in five days. I’ve been looking at her visit as a forgone conclusion that I’ll be over eating because “it’s a special occasion!” I need to be looking at it as a continuation of my healthy eating with a few glasses of wine added in. It’s NOT about what I’m going to eat, it’s about spending time with her, building memories. Five years from now I won’t remember what I ate but I will remember what we did and saw and said. How do I make myself stick to this when I’m faced with a menu of incredible food or desserts? I’ve got to try to instill a new way of thinking: it’s not about giving myself permission to eat what I want, it’s about feeling good about making healthy choices and enjoying the company around me.
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Suzy i am the same with the licence to eat thing .. and honestly yesterday I yet again met friends at 3pm for drinks and of course they wanted to eat dinner too... now admittedly I planned all these social get togethers over these two weeks im off with my friends while im on vacation because its the only time I really get to see everyone...
but when I sat down in the restaurant I honestly felt like an oompah loompah.. I thot if I eat anything I am going to just explode... I have eaten so much this week with all the outings that I was seriously uncomfortable - my pants were so tight and my belly protruded over them and I couldnt find a loose enuf sweater or shirt that wouldnt show it... I actually slumped in the booth a bit cause it was more comfortable.. and I actually ordered just an appy of 2 little chicken sliders .. i really didnt want anything at all ... and everyone was like "have some of my fries" etc.. and of course I ate some of the guac and chips and some fries... even while the whole time I felt physically like i was going to explode.. blah... I swear if I could bottle that feeling and bring it out at will I would have no problem not mindless eating! i have lunches mon/tues/wed next week... and i have decided i will be qutie happy just ordering an appy or a soup and concentrating more on the people im with than the food on my plate .. altho one is a chinese buffet type so i will deal with that at the time.. but for the next few days i am going to WAIT for hunger before i eat anything at all, because i can't remember the last time i actually felt hungry.. definitely needed this wake up call!!
and as for your post above:
"For example: I’ve been doing great for three whole days (doesn’t sound like a huge accomplishment but getting my butt back on this wagon has been a huge struggle) and my niece gets here in five days. I’ve been looking at her visit as a forgone conclusion that I’ll be over eating because “it’s a special occasion!”
I need to be looking at it as a continuation of my healthy eating with a few glasses of wine added in. It’s NOT about what I’m going to eat, it’s about spending time with her, building memories."
I loved THAT last paragraph (and 3 days is amazing btw!) but i took a pic of that last paragraph and am going to make it a screen saver on my phone!!!!
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I’ve often thought that if I could only remember that over full, uncomfortable feeling then I would never over eat again.
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Love this!!
...and yes to wishing you could remember it...especially at super!
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I hate being overfull and uncomfortable! But it's very, very rare for me ... I have creative ways of managing to eat too much, and it's mainly by nibbling, spread out over time, so I don't ever get "full", but can pack quite a lot of food in in total. That's partly why I've tended to go for diet methods which involve limiting when I can eat, rather than what. (Fasting, not eating outside mealtimes, etc.). I have been really bad at sticking to mealtimes recently - I've had the "excuse" of not being well recently, and then being at work and being surrounded by food - not actually valid excuses.
I've still been baking, despite saying that I need to stop. I had a packet of dried cranberries that would be past the best-before date in a couple of weeks. So instead of ignoring the date, or throwing them away, I soaked them in brandy, and made a stollen out of them. It was so delicious, and I have to tell myself over and over that homemade does not equal healthy! I'm going to take it into work so that I don't end up eating the whole thing. There is no way all that butter and sugar is good for me, and Xmas isn't an excuse!
I admire your attitude, Suzy. You are quite right. I have taken on board the fast/feast mentality and the idea that it's fine to break diets for social celebrations. But the thing is, that's supposed to be for rare social occasions, a few a year, not finding an excuse to do it every other week. I know that sometimes I'm eating because I feel I should, socially, and other times I'm using social occasions as an excuse to not worry about what I'm eating.
Very exciting about your grand-daughter, Gail! Only a couple of weeks to go, hopefully!1 -
Hiya hatters!!
Well the food fest is over as of yesterday; and while I did eat way too much over the past 2 weeks, i got to see absolutely everyone I wanted to before the holidays which is a gift in itself for me. The two I met yesterday - we met in 1981 and 37 years later, we still get together at least 2 times a year. We've been through most of life's ups and downs together over the years and although we're miles apart now; the friendship has such deep roots it doesnt really matter the distance. So I am a happy camper, albeit a fat and stodgy one right now! I got on the scale this morning just to know where i'm starting.. it wasn't pretty but I am not stressing over it just wanted to know my starting point. I'm back to work on Saturday and I deliberately left today and tomorrow free of commitments so I can get caught up on the cleaning and groceries (the cleaning around here should burn a million calories lol). Anyway.... that's me!
Suzy - I think you are in NC with your niece right now enjoying the beauty of the gorgeous xmas - i looked at the online pics again last nite of where you are - cant wait to hear all about it ! and I stole your "jeans/leggings" picture for my facebook page - it was just too damn appropriate for me right now and yes.. i did buy a new pair of "jeggings" to get me thru in comfort !!!
Vail - my friend gave me a little tin of home made cookies knowing its my favourite thing - a few shortbread, gingersnaps and snowballs so I can't say anything bad about your baking LOL.. my sister has been baking up a storm but giving them all away to neighbours and/or freezing them to keep from temptation... she's a better woman than me!! i have all the stuff to bake my favourite cookies but i have so far resisted, probably because i'm too stuffed to move to be honest … but i will have to have a few on hand for xmas eve so I may need a care package sent to this side of the pond please??
Gail - how excited are you for the arrival of the new GB?? talk about the best xmas present ever I hope with all the time you've spent at work you will get some time off over the holidays to enjoy the little one's arrival - and we can't wait to see the pics believe me!!
ok.. i'm going to start making my list of everything i have to do.. but i am going to go to pickleball this morning because i haven't been able to go for a few weeks and it shuts down next week til after the holidays.. on wards and upwards!!1 -
So, still here
142 ishh days (show up) for work
Jamaica in February
Key West in May
Va beach in July
Working on not being the biggest girl on the beach
Wish me luck
Talk to you soon
Go Team Go
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Hello Hatters! We’re back from Asheville. We were really worried whether we’d be able to go because of the terrible winter storm that dumped a foot of snow there over the weekend but it worked out just fine. Biltmore was even more beautiful with snow on the ground. I managed to not over indulge in food or wine and we did tons of walking, so hopefully it evened out. I’ll know tomorrow when I climb on that scale. We had a great time no matter what the scale says; building memories that will last a lifetime.
Hi Carol!! Your plans for 2019 sound awesome! I guarantee that you won’t be the biggest girl on the beach. You’re working towards a goal and have time to make some progress. Regardless, you’ll have a fantastic time!
Ha! Snoozie, your onwards and upwards made me laugh....I hope my weight isn’t going any more “upwards” than it already has! How wonderful to have friends from 37 years ago that you still see!
Vail, I may not bake at all this Christmas. I’ll just eat it all...even though I make a killer ginger molasses cookie! Okay....maybe just those. Lol!
I’m sending a picture of me and my niece in front of a small tree at Biltmore.
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