LiLee's Journey to overall happiness
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Those persimmions looks good but I can honestly say I don't think I have ever eaten one, what do they taste like???
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And I would happily hand them over lol.
I love vegetable gardening and haven't been able to have one for a couple of years so I got extra excited for how many persimmons we got this year
Plan on letting the kids plant a few pumpkin vines in the front yard this spring. I think that will be super fun for the kids and myself if the bugs don't destroy them (and we get a ton!). Can't have any sort of vine in the backyard b/c our biggest dog is a digger and destroyed watermelons I tried to grow the last time I had a garden lol.
DH keeps saying he wants to redo the raised beds for the gardens, but he's a pretty bad procrastinator so we'll see if that gets done. If not, then probably won't have a garden next year either.
Would definitely help w/ the diet if I could though. Fresh tomatoes and cucumbers (2 things I usually grow) are AMAZING fresh out the garden.0 -
NOM NOM NOM I love persimmons! Donna, they're kinda hard to describe because they're so sweet but kinda like citrus meets plums but like, buttery? Maybe that's the wrong word but either way, they is GOOD
I love fresh food from the gardens, but Mama didn't pass along the green thumb gene. I hate it and suck at it, so there's that LMAO
We had a veggie garden AND an orchard at the aforementioned house that I'm pining over
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They sound amazing.....
I love gardening......0 -
I'm sorry vol! I didn't see that you had posted before I did!
When the persimmon is ripe, it's very mushy so it's basically like eating a jam but one that still has the little fruit fibers intact. Sort of like a really good baked sweet potato. How it's all soft but still has those stringy fibers in it keeping it together? Hope that makes sense.
Flavor is like pure sugar w/ a slight.. I dunno... just a slight persimmon taste. I don't think I could compare that taste to anything else I've ever eaten. It has it's own flavor, but it's mostly just super duper sweet.0 -
Things are going good here!
I've been tracking for this keto challenge I've been doing and so far so good. Some days are a little more calories, some days aren't. Kind of all over the place, but overall not too bad I think
So excited for Thanksgiving next week and the weekend after! Eating ALL the leftovers!
Also eating some marinaded pork my mom gave me. Looks like gochujang marinade. Gochujang is jokingly called Korean ketchup even though it tastes nothing like ketchup. Guess b/c they put it on a lot of stuff lol. Anyway.. it's a hot pepper paste that usually has a lot of sugar in it, so we're saving that for our Thanksgiving weekend cheat. Fix some rice with it too! YUM! I can't wait!
And yep... things are good here though. Need to go to bed a little early tonight I think. Just struggling to wake up in the morning right now for well.. ttotm reasons.
Alrighty.. time to go put up some more Christmas stuff!! 0 -
Cheering you own for your Keto Challenge. Are you doing weekly weigh-in? I love gochujang, we bought a big container. It's totally yum😍 What are you are planning for Thanksgiving?1
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jade- Do yall have something sort of like THanksgiving in Australia? Just curious
Yep, weekly monday weigh-ins. Kinda wish they picked Fridays instead, but oh well.
I'm not doing much for it, just tracking and that's it.
I looooove gochujang w/ cucumber slices. Use it as a dip and nomnomnomnom. Used to be one of my fav snacks as a child.
Well DH informed me yesterday that inlaws want to do Thanksgiving at our house. This will be their first thanksgiving without DH's grandfather so they're grieving a bit and just aren't up to doing it at their place.
I don't really mind though. We've had it at our house before. Crowded but doable
There's nothing like guests coming over to ignite that flame under your butt to finish the cleaning though lol.
I'll be cooking the turkey I guess. I was already planning on fixing a turkey, but just for us b/c I'm GREEDY!! rofl
But I suppose I can share too.
I'll probably fix a few desserts as well but everyone else will bring everything else. I love MiL's stuffing so I'll be looking forward to that!
I don't plan on being low carb from Thanksgiving til Sunday. Plan on eating ALL the leftovers plus some, then getting back to keto monday Holy crap I'm going to set a world record for how much weight can be gained in 4 days! 
Oh AND last night, DH informed me that his church is having a Thanksgiving get together this Friday and of course he volunteered me to make some stuff for it....... thanks a lot DH![:\](https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
He's lucky he's cute!
Making
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25642/white-chocolate-raspberry-cheesecake/ again
This chocolate pudding pie that I THINK I may have made before, but if not oh well b/c I'm making it now.
And cook's country pumpkin-praline pie (you can look up recipes on google. You have to pay for it if you go to the actual cook's country website, but other websites list the recipe for free)
I guess it's a good thing dessert recipes don't really need to be tasted to make sure they're ok... or else I'd be SCREWED today lol0 -
Alright.... I'm not very good at food photos, but here are some anyway! lol Wish I could get the pretty slice of pie photo but oh well.
2 pies down and the cheesecake to go (after I get my daughter from school)
It smells so good in here /cry
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Omg totally drooling over the pies....totally....so awesome0
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Alrighty... cheesecake is done. I hate doing the double boiler thing to melt chocolate, but it's worth it in the end.
I think the recipe calls for you to make the raspberry jam yourself but pfft. I just buy seedless jam. Much easier. Just heat it up a little in the microwave to loosen it up some so you can swirl it a little better. I guess I could like decorate the top more but I like the way it looks as is
No idea how anything came out, but hopefully they all turned out well and will be enjoyed tomorrow. I guess I could go, but uuugh I really don't want to. They always have their food things in a too small room that's connected to their kitchen and I hate it. Not that anyone is mean or anything, I just don't like feeling like I can't move around freely if I wanted.
Anyway, enough about my 40yo anxiety problems here lol
I did taste a little bit of all 3 of them. Just the teeniest of tastes when I was cleaning up everything.
Everything seems to have come out pretty good
UGH But I'll have to buy a new large springform pan again. I bought a 3 pack from walmart not too long ago. Had 3 different sizes. Used the big one once... ONCE and it's already leaking b/c it's not closing on the little bottom part like it should. Awesome... thanks walmart!!
Anyway... I finished off an entire bag of spicy pork rinds, had 2 low carb yogurts w/ some whipped cream and a chicken breast and wing. And 1 coffee.
Not an omad day at all lol
It was mostly OMAD though. It was just the coffee and pork rinds once I got home from the store and finished the first 2 pies. Everything else was dinner along w/ the rest of the pork rinds after.
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Oh and I had some lily's milk chocolate chips. Saw them at walmart and grabbed a bag.0
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During Dec, we celebrate Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year Eve and New Day of course From my understanding, Thanksgiving is celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. As OZ is down in the Southern Hemisphere, our harvesting time is 6 months away. During that time, we will be celebrating Easter and ANZAC Day. OMG, drooling here....those pies looks yummylicious
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OMG your pies look amazing....
I got some of those pans last year at walmart too and mine did the same thing ---so frustrating!!!!
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Welp, this morning sucked for DH
Went out to go to work and one of his tires was completely flat.
Big chunk of glass stuck in the tire. Some a-hole shattered a bottle or something glass on the road in our neighborhood. I saw it when I was coming home from picking daughter up, but guess I got lucky and didn't run over any of the bad parts. DH... well...
Now to just wait for something else to break b/c bad crap always seems to come in groups.
Gonna be paranoid about the tires on my van now.
jade- Thanks for the info!
vol- Yeah I'm gonna have to get my next one from somewhere else. Target or maybe even Bed Bath. Anywhere BUT walmart
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I love cheesecake and that looks delicious!!!
Sorry about the flat tire, that really sucks!!!0 -
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG those pies look amazinggggggggggggg
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OMG, that cheese cake is to die for 🧀🎂 Hope your tire is fixed and no more bad stuff👍0
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Welp.... friday night was off the keto wagon and so was yesterday. DH didn't end up going to the church thing so we had everything I made at home..... hell yeah I'm gonna eat some of it! lol
And DH had to get all 4 of his tires replaced. Or well.. not HAD to but they found glass in all of his tires. Nothing huge, but the price difference for just one tire vs just getting them all replaced wasn't that much more so he got them all replaced. Just building up more debt. We're already having to put building our back porch on hold another year. Eventually we'll get it I guess. Eventually....
Anywho... so yeah. I can tell that I'm bloated up some from the cheating, but meh. I'm not worried about it. Looking forward to all the holidays and really looking forward to making some scale goals next year I'm SO ready to get this weight loss going again!
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Oh wow! So interested to see your fruit from the persimmon tree. What a beautiful colour too.0
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Yes, we also had to change our tyres. Only had to change 2 but found out 4 tyres is much cheaper after calculations😉 That cheese cake looks yummy🤤1
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Welp, this is turning out to be just a cheat week /facepalm
Not completely regretting it, but also not just going to go back to eating horribly. Scale may be up (definitely will be) by the end of it all, but I'm just not going to feel bad about it anymore.
Will I be happy about weight gain? No... but I'm also not going to stop living my life b/c of some pounds gained back.
While losing the pounds again has definitely been a struggle this year, I'm just done letting that get me down.
I know it will come back off again b/c well.. this is my life now. There's no more going back to how I used to eat before. At least not permanently. Days and weeks like this are going to happen again and again and I just gotta bounce back from it and keep going.
Oh... 2020 better watch out b/c this is all just reinvigorating me to go harder next year.
I'm enjoying the rest of this year. Still keto for most of it, but not going to beat myself up over not being perfect either.
And once the new year rings in? Oh... It's ON!0 -
It's currently 5am.
Got woken up at about 2:30 b/c our old dog pooped in the room. Nothing like the smell of poop to get you up
It's not his fault though. He's an old old man and can't hold it in all night sometimes.
Anyway, couldn't get back to sleep so here I am!
About to spam yall with more Xmas stuff! lol
Outside is pretty much done. Think I'm going to put some lights on the bushes but other than that, this is it. I'd like some lights on the house, but hubs doesn't feel like doing it and I don't want to either so... oh well lol.
The inflatables are up! Our darth vader one died though. Boo
I'm going to make it a new tradition to buy a new inflatable every year! At least until we can't walk through our yard any longer b/c there are so many! Muahahahaha
Kids wanted to pose w/ Inflatable Santa lol
Indoor cheesy decor! lol
Our 2 Yodas at the front door... just b/c
I'm going to have to move the picture frame. My youngest will definitely knock it off. I love the little weird moving/singing toys though (they don't really sell them like they used to though. Boo). The yeti and green monster are my favs. I've had the green monster one for gosh... maybe 9 or 10 years now.
And we got our christmas tree yesterday! YAY!
Got most of the ornaments on it. Not a lot on the bottom part.... the ones that are are the ones that aren't breakable lol. Our tree last year was even worse. Ended up with no ornaments on the bottom half b/c my youngest couldn't keep his hands off of it and pulled off every single one he could reach. I'm sure it will be the same this year too lol
Still haven't completely cleaned the house. Yesterday was spent cleaning though. Magic erasers... where have you been all my life?? Used up almost our entire stash of them scrubbing crayon off the walls and still didn't even get all of the spots JUST in the living room. It's amazing how blind you become to certain things. Like.. I've noticed the scribbles on the walls, but just got used to them being there. But then yesterday once discovering that the erasers do work on that... I noticed just how many places my kids had written on and BOY there were a lot.
Our house was looking like an abandoned crack house minus the drugs rofl.
Don't get me started on the hallway leading to my 2 older kids rooms though. The walls aren't painted there so can't scrub them down. UGH it looks terrible. And my daughter's room. I swear... most of the scribbles are from her.. although she's tried denying it before even though she literally tagged her graffiti with her name... in numerous spots ROFL.
Oh kids.... so cute... so destructive
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OMG so super cute........kiddos too.....you are certainly in the spirit for sure!! We still have to get our outside done but rain is coming today so I guess this weekened we will get it finished...... 1
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OMG.... your Christmas decorations - AMAZING 😍😍😍❤️😘🎄👍 Your kids are so cute too🤗🤗😍1
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Your decorations and chil'ren are ADORABLE!!!! You're so cute and creative! SUPER jeal!!!0
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Wow sooo Christmasy!!! I love it 🎄☃️🎅0
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I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving. And if you don't celebrate it, I hope you've had an amazing week so far! Yay friday!!
Holy crap though. I've eaten ALL THE CARBS. ALL OF THEM! lol
And 100% sugary foods make me feel fricking TERRIBLE.
Didn't feel anything off when just eating say... rice or stuffing, but as soon as I eat a dessert? I feel terrible.
And while I know a lot of people are fine just watching portions.... it does NOT work for my brain.
I'm full, but my body keeps telling me to go eat more more more more more. My body just does not feel satisfied even though I am full. I want MORE.
It's amazing to me that I wasn't bigger than I was.
But anyway... lots of leftovers to get through. Delicious leftovers
Oh and impromptu trip to the movies yesterday too w/ the kids and family. We all went to see Frozen 2 and... well... don't waste a theater trip to see it. It's not good. The story was ok and interesting, but the songs are terrible IMO. Disney movie songs are supposed to be catchy, but these were just.... boring. You know how in some plays, they sing and it's just them singing what they're doing to crappy music? That's how it was in the movie. Nothing catchy or memorable at all. I could not tell you how any of the songs went.0 -
Don't worry about the carbs or calories...its Thanksgiving, my dear! Enjoy it with your family. Now its done and over with, hop back up onto the OMAD wagon and soldier on. DD watched Frozen 2 too and she said its OK. But of course, she prefers Frozen 1. Are you guys celebrating Christmas with a family gathering too? 1
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Yep, we usually get together with family for Christmas too It's usually at inlaws home, but since this will be their first Christmas without DH's grandfather, I'm not sure where they'll want to have it. I'd be fine doing it here, but it's up to everyone else.
Back to my new normal now. I had my week filled with eating how I used to and BOY did I learn a lot. Like just how awful sugary treats make me feel. How TIRED I was all week for no reason other than my diet change.
Oh well.... it certainly won't be the last time that happens lol.
BUT now I'm dealing with 2 very sick children so actually have a reason to be tired now. Both my boys have chest colds. We still have a baby monitor in my youngest's room and his coughing during the night has been waking me up. Poor baby threw up all over himself last night. And yesterday both of them threw up on themselves too. It's been LOTS of fun here lately lol.
I'm sure I'll come down with it. No matter how much you tell a child to cover their mouth when they cough.... they still manage to cough multiple times right in to your face. SIGH
Anyway... DH surprised me with a fitbit type of watch. I had mentioned MAYBE getting one, but I really hadn't planned on getting one any time soon and he just up and bought me one during his little black friday online shopping spree. Lol... so much for doing some research on them. Oh well. I looked and he didn't spend a lot thankfully (22$).
Also got myself an early Christmas present. Another thing I hadn't planned on getting any time soon, but DH saw what I wanted and told me to just get it so I did.
My new over the sink dish drying rack! YAY!
I think I'm officially considered old now since this has got me so excited lol
Ignore the dirty dishes in the sink :P
Jewelry? Nope.... Fun gadgets and gizmos? NOPE
A dish rack that will free up a little bit of counter space?? /Drool give it to me baby!0
