Like Minded Lushes August 2011

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The suicide conversation is too wierd, a gal I went to high school with committed suicide a few days ago . . . you just never know what people are thinking . . .

faithikins

My nephew's dad who died last week was suicide (though I didn't mention that in last post) also hence the rough week cals/drinks wise. I felt more for my nephew losing his dad, as he was my sister's ex for a reason. Also I've been there and I think it sucks hard if someone didn't reach out, despite their flaws. I think you have to be so in distress (though I was and needed 3 yrs off work) but I still couldn't due to guilt of leaving loved ones and sisters who have been mentally ill/depressed behind as I'd ruin them more. To me suicide is so beyond help, which is truly awful. I wonder their mindset. Was it so overwhelmingly sudden? Had it been thought of for a while. Damn men mostly, as they don't reach out. They suffer the most I think due to pride and not asking for help.

RIP to your friends.

No one understands unless they have been there, if you have, in a way it is comforting they are at peace. Controversial topic, but like I said, been there in a massive way. I didn't think I'd hit 30 yet here I am 32! YAY!

kblue2007

Suicide, so sad and such a heavy topic!! I'm sorry for all those who lost loved ones and friends!!!!! Faith, I'm glad you were able to put things in perspective and that you are still here today!!!! :flowerforyou:

Last night, I went off the deep end...........too many pretzels and too much wine, considering I was already over calories from lunch!!!

Monday-5oz
Tuesday-12oz
Wednesday-12oz
Thursday-1 SUPER HUGE (and Strong) margarita and 12oz of wine
Friday-3 vodka with crystal light lemonade and diet pomegrante/blueberry juice.

I have left a really big deficit to kind of make up for yesterday and killed at the gym this morning. Hopefully, the scale will move in the right direction tomorrow :happy:

amysj303

hey, kblue, I had a huge marg last night too! and then came home and had two miller lites. why? I don't know...
If we go to the baseball game tonight there'll be beer for sure, and not so great food choices...

tashjs21

:frown: Sorry for your losses. :flowerforyou:

An old coworker of my Mom's committed suicide on Monday. It was really shocking as he had recently gotten married. :frown: It is so hard to understand.


I did really good last night. I went out to Sushi with a friend and didn't bring my usual bottle of wine! (it helps that the friend is preggo and wouldn't have been drinking with me. :laugh: )

Sun 0
Mon 0
Tues 1
Wed 0
Thurs 0

Friday--Hoping for only 2 glasses of wine.

surlydave

<peeks head in>

HELLO LUSHES! Did you miss me? Most of you are probably thinking "who the F is Surly?" Lets just call me old school Like Minded Lushes. Do you realize this thread has been around for an entire year? Props to Yvonne, RJ, and whoever else had a hand in that.

Just thought I'd say hi. I've been riding the wagon all week (long story), my first time going 5 days without so much as a single beer in longer than I can remember and lo and behold look at the scale move!

It's good to be home. :drinker:

surlydave

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I did really good last night. I went out to Sushi with a friend and didn't bring my usual bottle of wine! (it helps that the friend is preggo and wouldn't have been drinking with me. :laugh: )

Lack of funds also helps (yes I saw THAT post lol). And sorry, I believe you were also original LML!

tashjs21

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I did really good last night. I went out to Sushi with a friend and didn't bring my usual bottle of wine! (it helps that the friend is preggo and wouldn't have been drinking with me. :laugh: )

Lack of funds also helps (yes I saw THAT post lol). And sorry, I believe you were also original LML!

:laugh: That did help!

tashjs21

<peeks head in>

HELLO LUSHES! Did you miss me? Most of you are probably thinking "who the F is Surly?" Lets just call me old school Like Minded Lushes. Do you realize this thread has been around for an entire year? Props to Yvonne, RJ, and whoever else had a hand in that.

Just thought I'd say hi. I've been riding the wagon all week (long story), my first time going 5 days without so much as a single beer in longer than I can remember and lo and behold look at the scale move!

It's good to be home. :drinker:

Congratulations on the scale moving!!

ChLoE1130

Love this thread!! This was a rough week....went through almost a bottle and a half of merlot monday-thursday and I'm sure the weekend wont be any better! did pretty good with eating all week though on the plus side

SoCalWoman

Dropped in to say HI to all my lushie friends!! :drinker:

No I didn't fall into the bottle of my Grey Goose!!
I did however, have a pretty nasty hamstring injury, which had me sidelined for quite a few days. I don't think I put on *too* much weight during that time..but it sure has been slow going getting back into the groove of things.

I'm taking it slow so as not to re-injure myself.
Heading to the pool now to get in some exercise.

Wine tonight for sure!!
TGIF and I hope everyone is doing well!!

yvonnej1

<peeks head in>

HELLO LUSHES! Did you miss me? Most of you are probably thinking "who the F is Surly?" Lets just call me old school Like Minded Lushes. Do you realize this thread has been around for an entire year? Props to Yvonne, RJ, and whoever else had a hand in that.

Just thought I'd say hi. I've been riding the wagon all week (long story), my first time going 5 days without so much as a single beer in longer than I can remember and lo and behold look at the scale move!

It's good to be home. :drinker:

It's good to have you home :happy:

zippo32

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

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.

Well said. Thanks for the thread btw.

girlontheseesaw

Well I think I'm keeping it moderate, but the notion of cutting out alcohol for more than a day is more than I can bear!

What's my running total this week?

Monday - 1 G&T
Tuesday - A small beer
Wednesday - Half a bottle of wine
Thursday - 2 Dark n Stormy (ohhh how I love these)
Friday - Half a bottle of wine

Sorry to hear some of you have been through a sad and stressful time. My drinking has no 'cause' - apart from a desire to wind down after work or time with my manic 4-year-old :-D

rjadams

<peeks head in>

HELLO LUSHES! Did you miss me? Most of you are probably thinking "who the F is Surly?" Lets just call me old school Like Minded Lushes. Do you realize this thread has been around for an entire year? Props to Yvonne, RJ, and whoever else had a hand in that.

Just thought I'd say hi. I've been riding the wagon all week (long story), my first time going 5 days without so much as a single beer in longer than I can remember and lo and behold look at the scale move!

It's good to be home. :drinker:

It's good to have you home :happy:

Ditto!

For those of you who don't know, Dave started this thread. I took it over when he was too busy after a couple of months and have kept it going. (until I had no computer and Amy did it for me this month) Essentially this thread is his baby. So here's to Papa Surly!

Kat120285

When I started it was Mamma Lush (RJ) but it's good to meet Papa Lush (Surley)

Cheers to both of you. Had a wonderful evenging with Gramma, Uncle, Aunt, Mom and boyfriend. Love, love LOVE family get togethers =] still thinking about Jeremy and looking at his picture just scrambles my mind even more but I at some point have to come to terms with it.

I truely thank you all for being here, and though I've not met you in person, I love each and every one of you for all that you do for me =]

cheri0627

Well, I went out to the bar for dinner last night, and I only had one beer.

So I'm now at
Sun - 0
Mon - 0
Tues - 0
Wed -0
Thurs - 1 23oz Belgian triple
Fri - 1 23oz Belgian ale
Sat -

Well, we're planning on going back to the bar tonight. It's UFC night and my husband wants to watch. I'll probably bring a book. This means I'll probably have 2 more beers. Maybe more.

But I do feel like I've had a really good week otherwise weight wise. I've had 4 really good workouts that I think burned a lot of calories. I've eaten pretty well, too. I guess I'll just have to wait until Monday and see what the numbers look like on the scale, right??

rjadams

Last nighI was sweet tea vodka and diet lemonade. sooo good. Well it looks like summer lasted all of one week. it is gray and cloudy and cooler again.

I am starting to settle into the job but I still don't have a clue as to what I am going to be doing:ohwell:

have a great lushy weekend all

Kat120285

Lots of wine last night. Dos Equis at lunch today and going out to dinner tonight.

Dedicating a super long workout to our 31 U.S. fallen heros. R.I.P. Prayers go out to the families involved.

yvonnej1

First time in my life yesterday I opened a bottle of wine that was soooo bad (not corked) that I threw the rest of the glass full away, trust me it must have been bad, I've drunk some poor wines in my time as I can't bear to throw alcohol away :blushing: . Then opened some red, but even that didn't go down well. Have managed 2 glasses of rose tonight which is rather delicious but my lushy mojo seems to be hiding again at the moment.

Kat120285

Decent amount of wine last night. Shared a bottle with the boyfriend at dinner then came home, he had whiskey on the rocks and I had 4 glasses of wine.

Had 2 blue moons at lunch today which consisted of a large bison burger, fries and a fudge brownie. Totalled the cals from the nutrition menu and was actually only 21 calories over for the day. Then again, that's a lot for one meal and I'd like some wine tonight so if you're going to eat like a pig (me) and fend off the poundage, you need to work out hard, and so, I'm hopping on my bike for 3 hours and watching MADMEN =]

cheri0627

I was bad last night. I knew I was going to be drinking, so I kept my calories for the day low. What I didn't think I'd do was have quite as much as I did. I wound up having 4.5 Belgian beers. Oops. Once I was a little tipsy, I just kept drinking.

Lots of water is planned for today, as is trying out UFC Trainer with my husband. We'll see how it goes.

MrsJax11

I haven't logged any food for Friday or yesterday...and Friday night...the question is how many bottles, not glasses were consumed. Hopefully the recovery from the insanity binge will keep the lushiness at bay!
The kids come back to school tomorrow, and I was back at work last week. I still got a few workouts in and did a bunch of mowing....so, not so back. However, I feel like a giant, bloated turd from all of the wine Friday night!
Back on the program for me!
Have a great week all!

amysj303

Friday I poured a glass of white wine when I got home from work and forgot about it! I went to the Rockies game and had three big beers there, then to gigglin grizzly and had a marg, just sounded good.
Friday=4 drinks
Saturday=1/2 bottle tempranillo with dinner, and a bud light
Sunday= not sure yet, I need to run but it is too hot, so I might go to the gym, if I wait for it to cool off I might start drinking and then I definitely won't run..

yvonnej1

I'm still enjoying one of my random fits of self control. Opened a bottle of wine last night and stopped at 2 glasses, had 1 more glass out of the bottle today and have put the rest back in the fridge. :smokin:

kblue2007

I didn't do too bad this weekend.....well I consider not bad because I actually remembered how much I drank :laugh:

Friday-3 vodka with crystal light lemonade and diet blueberry pomegranate juice
Saturday-3 beers and 4 mango vodka with sprite zero
Sunday-2 vodka with crystal light lemonade and diet blueberry pomegranate juice, 1 rum and pineapple juice concoction, and 1 beer
Monday-wine for sure...12oz :happy:

chuisle

Oh. My. God.

So lushy.

7-10 beers on Thursday (dollar beer night) plus a shot of vodka.
9-12 drinks on Friday (started at 3 pm with summer brew and continued through the evenings)
9-12 drink on Satuday (same as above)

So lushy, so tired!

I love the music festival but my liver hated it.

surlydave

For those of you who don't know, Dave started this thread. I took it over when he was too busy after a couple of months and have kept it going. (until I had no computer and Amy did it for me this month) Essentially this thread is his baby. So here's to Papa Surly!

Aww, thanks for the love. You know, it's not really that I was too busy, it was that I realized I wasn't even trying to abstain. Not to make it to Friday, not even to make it to Wednesday. So I felt like a bad influence, brain child or not. Anyway, I am glad to see the Lushes are alive and well. It's funny because I have met people over the last year who will tell me about this thread.

Anyway, I am miraculously on day 8 of sobriety. My scale is down 7 lbs from last Monday. How scary is that?!! Best wishes to my old friends and my new ones!

mcdebbie

Awww, did you have to tell us that? We keep thinking (well I keep thinking) that I can still drink and lose weight. :sad: Congrats on the 7 pounds, guess I should give sobriety a try.

tararocks

just found this thread-describes me to a "T" I try to keep my drinking to one or two nights a week, however at least one of those nights I drink enough to average at least one a day. My other downfall to this is that my stomach does not appreciate it and craves salt and grease, specifically McDonalds the next day and ALL day long. i did go through about 3 weeks with no drinking, and i didn't think I notice a huge change in my loss, however, Ive been at a plateau for awhile now and im thinking maybe the alcohol is playing a part, but its summer and I;m social, and jsut when i think its going to be a quiet week, i have three friends birthdays, and other things going on where beverages will be flowin....ahhhh cheers:)