Like Minded Lushes August 2011

faithikins

Have had quite a lushy week. :laugh: Followed by McDonalds hangover cures. Bad, bad, bad. I think I will be out of Kim's competition this week. Good luck Kasi

WHAT! You just got back in... don't give up! I'm not doing so great either though. I think I might maintain but nothing great. Damn drinks... they really cause some serious chaos for weight loss!:grumble:

I know. I had abdominal pain for about 10 days and spent hundreds of $ on no answers, a new manager at work which has killed my motivation and everything has just felt so glum and crap. It's like I've been self sabotaging especially today. I had maccas today for the third time this week just because I'd had a really **** day at work and I was fed up. I haven't exercised all week because I feel run down and tired. When I get home I just want to be a blob and take my mind off work.

Hopefully next week I can get back on track, though I have two birthday dinners involving restaurants with awesome food. :frown:

kblue2007

That sucks Faith!!! Hope you feel everything gets better for you soon!!!

Monday-5oz of wine
Tuesday-12oz of wine
Wednesday-16oz--Husband is working late, soooooo I drink

chuisle

Kickball league? Never heard of such a thing! I wonder if they have it here... I love that game! It's so much easier to kick a big ball with your foot compared to that damn ity-bity ball with a stupid stick

And I agree... I think you did break a Lush Law!

Haha, yeah, they are pretty big in my area for young people! The league's subtitle is "we like big red balls" and my team is the "rubber busters" (all the other teams are innuendo too). You drink beer the whole time then go to dollar beer night. It's going to be a lushy few months of Thursdays!

I love Halloween too! Mostly because its an excuse to get dressed up. The last two years have been pretty epic. If I knew how to post pics I would show yall!

Just_Dot

So, is this group trying to drink less in order to lose weight, or lose weight without drinking less? I'm in the second group, though I've already met my fitness goal. I am still slowing losing more and I'm not unhappy about it. But I'm not giving up my wine, or the occasional other alcoholic beverage.

Um, both? Some people are doing the first, some are doing the second, some are doing a hybrid of the two. It's really just for people that drink and still want to lose weight, get healthy, etc.

I didn't have anything last night...which was weird.

My little boy started Kindergarten today!! I'm all and :sad: and at the same time.

So my count thus far:
Sunday=0

I'd really like to cut my weeknight drinking to 2 nights a week (minimum) and then have free reign on the weekends. We'll see how that goes.

Just_Dot

((((((((((Faith))))))))) Keep on, sister. It will get better.

tashjs21

{{Hugs}} Faith. [img]Sooo last night...the AC stopped working and it still felt like 90 degrees outside at 9pm (it was 80 in the house) So I had a rum and coke to make me not care. Sunday 0 Monday 0 Tuesday 1[/img]

amysj303

Sunday=0 drinks
Monday=0 drinks
Tuesday=4 bud lites

Not sure about drinking tonight, but definitely margs tomorrow!

I love halloween too, I have a pair of white-out contact lenses and they are so fun and look so freaky, I was a zombie last year and a vampire the year before that.

I tried a new drink last weekend, whiskey and ginger ale. I never like whiskey before but this was pretty tasty!

Aprilstar480

Faith, they couldn't figure anything out regarding your stomach pains? They checked for appendicitus right? I had one for almost two weeks that they couldn't figure out until it actually ruptured! It was pretty ugly. I'm sorry to hear about your co-worker. It reallys sucks when you have a negative person around because it super hard for you to rise above them and be positive.

Amy, My youngest starts Kindergarten in Sept. I'm so excited for him. He has 3 older siblings so he has been looking forward to school for the last couple of years. My biggest concern is daycare though.... I hate the idea of half days. I mean really, in this day and age how many parents can afford to be stay-home moms and dads or $400+ for half day of daycare. I understand these little guys can't sit though a whole day of lessons but damn... It's really got me stressed out obviously:grumble:

NeedANewFocus

this is an awesome thread! never knew there were so many people with a starving love for drinking, in a "healthy" way. I've always been somewhat of a heavy drinker. I recently just completed a thirty day no alcohol cleanse, by choice, and feel amazing. I had a few drinks last weekend at a wedding (i'm quite the light weight now). I felt more in control and didnt lose track of my other healthy goals.

Party on MFP fam! :drinker: :flowerforyou: :glasses:

jbanne

Just saw this topic Title. Fits me to a T. Love my "adult beverage" and I am just getting back to using this website, stopped for no good reason. Beverages are a downfall for me. I did WW about 4 years ago and always left a few points at the end of the day for one beverage. Now, I just log everything and I am noticing that the summer is a killer to have a cold drink on a hot day, especially when my husband is enjoying one.

Since back on this site, I have started to have one glass of wine, which is half wine/half sparkling water. Fizz fills me up and I get to enjoy a little wine in my wine glass.

Hope this stays up and running because I have decided, today, that I am going to make losing weight my full-time job for the next 10 weeks. Once there, if I get there, to keep it off through the holidays and hopefully beyond! I need a game-changer and hopefully focusing on what is going in my pie-hole will help me globally!

faithikins

Faith, they couldn't figure anything out regarding your stomach pains? They checked for appendicitus right? I had one for almost two weeks that they couldn't figure out until it actually ruptured! It was pretty ugly. I'm sorry to hear about your co-worker. It reallys sucks when you have a negative person around because it super hard for you to rise above them and be positive.

Amy, My youngest starts Kindergarten in Sept. I'm so excited for him. He has 3 older siblings so he has been looking forward to school for the last couple of years. My biggest concern is daycare though.... I hate the idea of half days. I mean really, in this day and age how many parents can afford to be stay-home moms and dads or $400+ for half day of daycare. I understand these little guys can't sit though a whole day of lessons but damn... It's really got me stressed out obviously:grumble:

Thanks everyone for the support. My nephew's Dad (sister's ex) died too on a night I was already drinking so I royally drank quite badly. It was just a really **** week. No ideas on the belly pain. My appendix is already out. They gave me antibiotics in case it was some sort of stomach/bowel infection. I tried by doctor's orders, laxatives/enemas in case it was my IBS playing up. The pain has eased off now, though I still don't know what it was. They found a cyst on my ovary only 2.2 cm during the ultrasound, but the pain was over my bowel area. Who knows? I have more test results I need to get but now the pain has eased I don't want to spend more money going back to find out. :laugh:

Hopefully be a lot less lushy this week if at all.

Kat120285

Sunday=0 drinks
Monday=0 drinks
Tuesday=4 bud lites

Not sure about drinking tonight, but definitely margs tomorrow!

I love halloween too, I have a pair of white-out contact lenses and they are so fun and look so freaky, I was a zombie last year and a vampire the year before that.

I tried a new drink last weekend, whiskey and ginger ale. I never like whiskey before but this was pretty tasty!

Jameson and ginger ale is delicious. I usually stay away from the hard stuff unless it's date night and I feel like a martini but recently we've just been getting bottles of wine.

Just_Dot

Ugh, Faith, that sucks!!

Kasi, our school does a 1/2 day "Kindie Enrichment" so after he's done (at 12) he'll go eat lunch and then be with the Eagle Care teachers. It's a bit looser than the actual classroom, but there's some structure. He's been at day care 3 days a week for the past couple of years so just paying $9 for the before school care and $18 for the after care (includes snacks) is a HUGE pay raise over the $700 a month we were paying!

rjadams

The weather is great so I am drinking diet lemonade and vodka. The new job is kind of stressful right now so I am not doing much to be good. I love halloween too. love to decorate and love to create costumes. the last party we went to, we went as stick people. (Just like a 5 year old would draw. I have been a gumby (there were 8 of us) I was "Wilson" from Home Improvement (i had a fence in front of my face all night and I just peeked over the top) I have been a civil war Zombie and no one knew who I was. I strapped my self down and put a sock in my pants and didn't speak. I wore brown contacts (my eyes are blue) and I had rotten flesh (latex) make up so no one even thought I was a girl. It was fun.

Sorry about the tummy pains Faith. hand in there

Amy the bittersweet moments will just keep on coming and they never stop. Its all good watching our babies grow up even though it hurts too.

Welcome to all the newbies. This is an awesome place to talk about a love that gets totally trashed on in most healthy websites. I hope you stick around for a while.

Love to you all,
Mamma Lush!

yvonnej1

Hey lushes,

Commiserations to those teachers starting back, the school holidays have not long started here in the UK and I've just started 3 weeks of leave from work :-) Been so excited at the thought of spending time with my kids and so far I'm loving it, although I expect to find it harder to stay on track with my diet etc as I find it easier to stay away from temptation when I'm at work.

I've only had 2 glasses of wine so far this week but happily I have found out over the last couple of weeks that I can still drink alcohol and lose weight now I've dropped the amount of carbs I'm getting from food :-)

ItsMeTime

Ugh not an awesome week so far...

Monday- 0
Tuesday - 0
Wednesday- 5 and JUNK FOOD!

Kat120285

A bottle of wine each night so far this week :noway: no hangovers though. Who know's about tonight and forget tomorrow (family get together) cannot wait. I absolutely love getting together with my family and we don't do it nearly enough :ohwell: but I always cherish when we do It'll be a night full of wine, pasta, meatballs, good bread and hopefully homemade apple pie

Still have my friend who commited suicide last week on my mind. Suicide will always be something I'll never be able to wrap my head around.

tashjs21

Last night was good simply because it was too fracken busy to drink anything.

Sun 0
Mon 0
Tues 1
Wed 0

Going out with my preggo friend tonight so probably won't have anything. (saving it up for tomorrow night :laugh:)

chuisle

So begins the lushing soon....tonight with kickball league followed by dollar beer night, then two days of music festival. The BF and I got two 30 packs and two bottles of burnetts (for summer brew) for the weekend. Think it will be enough!

Have a fab weekend, friends!

jennyonthespot

Does anyone else have a much lower alcohol tolerance since joining MFP? I become a sloppy mess whenever I let loose on the weekends! Its sad. I generally stick to vodka soda with lime so as not to completely trash my calorie count, but that doesnt always work out too well...

amysj303

Does anyone else have a much lower alcohol tolerance since joining MFP? I become a sloppy mess whenever I let loose on the weekends! Its sad. I generally stick to vodka soda with lime so as not to completely trash my calorie count, but that doesnt always work out too well...

Yes, I think I realized that I don't need much, before I was drinking a lot, like I had to keep up with my husband, but he outweighs me by quite a bit, so three drinks should be plenty for me. That is what I had last night: 3 beers.
Definitely having a marg tonight. this place has these killer "cadillac" margaritas. $10 but so yummy and strong. I think I might jog there...

crazycat59

Hello lushes! Happy Thursday! Well, I know it can be done. Me NOT drinking for days in a row. July 28 through Aug 2. I also lost 4.5 pounds. Then I came back home...lol.... and had 4 or 5 tequila and lime drinks last night. I guess I need to go up North more often (I don't drink when I'm there, my son appreciates it.). Quite frankly, I don't remember eating supper last night. Oh boy! :ohwell:

Faith, do you think it could be GERD? I had tests that included checking out the colon, also looked down the throat and stomach, and finally a cat scan. After all that, and bunches of $$s, my gastro dr. prescribes anti acids. 60 mg of over the counter Omeprazole tablets. And IT WORKED! I had pains for the last 7 yrs or so and finally got it figured out. For now.

Well, it's cocktail time. I'm going to have to thin out the drinks a bit if I want to remember dinner tonight! :laugh:

Rock on!

Pam

yvonnej1

Does anyone else have a much lower alcohol tolerance since joining MFP? I become a sloppy mess whenever I let loose on the weekends! Its sad. I generally stick to vodka soda with lime so as not to completely trash my calorie count, but that doesnt always work out too well...

Since I cut back on my drink and sorted out my eating I have way lower tolerance, especially after I have gone through one of my giving alcohol up a month stages. I get halfway through a glass of wine now and it goes to my head, I'm such a lightweight!

Just_Dot

Whoops! Totally forgot the rest of my counts for the week...

Sunday=0
Monday=1/2 (I let Hubs finish my Blue Moon)
Tuesday=3 (shots of Tuaca)
Wednesday=3 (2 shots and one beer)

I really shouldn't drink tonight if I want to stay within my 2 weeknight dealy. There's a work Happy Hour tomorrow at the Platte River Grill--they have a FABULOUS!! patio and quesadillas...we don't have a sitter, but if we can get one, we'll go.

amysj303

A bottle of wine each night so far this week :noway: no hangovers though. Who know's about tonight and forget tomorrow (family get together) cannot wait. I absolutely love getting together with my family and we don't do it nearly enough :ohwell: but I always cherish when we do It'll be a night full of wine, pasta, meatballs, good bread and hopefully homemade apple pie

Still have my friend who commited suicide last week on my mind. Suicide will always be something I'll never be able to wrap my head around.

I know what you mean! It breaks my heart to think of someone being so sad they don't want to live anymore. I cannot imagine being so hopeless.

scraplink

Can I play??!! I'm new to MFP message boards and this is the first one that feels like home

I am turning 40 in March and I'd really like to do it in the "healthy" zone rather than the "over" zone. I'm either going to be "fit by forty" or "fat forever" so I'm opting for the former.

I have a blended brood of 3 stepkids and 2 bio all of whom live with us during the school year. We will have a senior in high school and a kindergardener this year . . . I think I need a drink already . . .

Seriously, I firmly believe that too much drinking is part of my belly problem, so part of my diet is cutting back, but I don't want to cut it out entirely. So I'm trying!! Vodka & diet dew is my poison of choice when dieting (appletinis when not) . . . none so far this week, but the night is still young and my gf is on her way to scrapbook with me . . .

rjadams

welcome Scrap.
Kat my DH's best friend for 45 years committed suicide 8 years ago. He still tears up when he thinks of him. It is a very hard thing to wrap your head around.

It is still summer here. wow! we have had a whole week of real summer. I love being able to drive my convertible with the top down. but it also means refreshing vodka's with diet lemon when i get home. oh well. Job is starting to settle in (I finally got a phone today and had my Ergo eval so I will get a decent keyboard and chair and stuff.)

I hope you are all having a great day.

Kat120285

welcome Scrap.
Kat my DH's best friend for 45 years committed suicide 8 years ago. He still tears up when he thinks of him. It is a very hard thing to wrap your head around.

It is still summer here. wow! we have had a whole week of real summer. I love being able to drive my convertible with the top down. but it also means refreshing vodka's with diet lemon when i get home. oh well. Job is starting to settle in (I finally got a phone today and had my Ergo eval so I will get a decent keyboard and chair and stuff.)

I hope you are all having a great day.

That's terrible =( it's definitely a hard thing to come to grips with. This is the 3rd person that my boyfriend and I went to school with that's commited suicide and I still don't think I'll ever understand it. One of the boys was a childhood friend of my boyfriends, it was tough seeing him in the casket but it was more upsetting seeing how upset my boyfriend was.

cheri0627

Well, I had a beer tonight. It was technically only one, but it was 23oz of a Belgian Triple. (My bartender loves me a little too much some times.)

But I did stop at one. Usually, I will have more than one. A lot of nights I will have three.

But I did do O-lifting tonight, so that burned at least some calories.

faithikins

I am supposed to be being really good this week, but my lush has taken over my body as I actually have a rare 2 day weekend baaaahhhh! :grumble: