Like Minded Lushes - November

OMG...wine is delicious tonight, so was dinner...good night

Lushes, on top of this week's weight loss I have this morning done 25 mins brisk walking and 90 minutes gardening (including moving some paving slabs and putting up two pieces of trellis). As a reward I have made myself a cottage pie and a rice pudding for dinner tonight which will be accompanied by a gin and tonic - real comfort food!! For those of you across the pond, cottage pie is made by cooking ground (minced) lean beef with onion and carrot in some beef stock, with some tomato puree and a dash of worcester sauce. When cooked it is put into an ovenproof dish and topped with some mashed potato; then finished in a hot oven to make the top nice and crispy. Today I have done a mixture of parsnip and potato mash and have not used any butter or milk in the mash. There is plenty of gravy with the meat so that will soak into the mash very nicely. All of this and I will still have some of my exercise calories (around 400) left at the end of the day.

Happy days!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: :drinker: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:

Pam

Good afternoon here Just ordered pizza to be delivered, ok so it's about as high calorie and full of fat as you get but I figured I deserve a treat after surviving alcohol free so far this month. Chinese next week for my son's birthday too but after that no more naughty meals until Christmas. I am hoping to dodge as many of the Christmas meals out at work as I can, that's one draw back of having 2 jobs I'm expected to go to a minimum of 2 parties.

Love this thread!

Yesterday was good for me - two glasses of white wine with lots of ice. And a serious hike up a mountain.

Pam, your pie sounds delish. My husband's a scouse and I was born in London. When we became vegetarians it was one of the things we missed most so we came up with a version using vegetarian crumbles - maybe not quite the same, but a decent enough substitute.

Sounds great; its just lovely that now the cooler weather and darker evenings have arrived it's lovely to indulge in proper comfort food regardless of whether one is a vegetarian or a carnivore!!

I feel bad for I have already prepared myself for lushness tonight by hydrating. Maybe it is due to the long 12 hour days I work and this is my friday:embarassed: :drinker:

Hey at least you've been sensible, that's far better than I ever do, enjoy your drink

Im about to get off from this long 12 hour day... Trying to decide if I am going to workout before lushing or just take the night off. Hmmm:ohwell: Let the lushing began.. Have a good one Lushes!!

Hey there lushes! Good morning and a beautiful Sunday here in So Cal.

Sometimes I look at the calories I have left over then eye the alcohol on top of my fridge and think, just 1. Then I remember I would rather have a Skinny Cow ice cream then 1 drink LOL much more satisfying.

I do have a lovely wine sitting on top of the fridge that has mulling spices that came with it. I went to a boutique wine tasting in Solvang over the summer ... the place was called Sort This Out. I also have a merlot from that same bottling company. I am saving those for when I hit goal ... COME ON 140!

Oy. I just posted on my blog about this, but our cheat day was a fail...or a success, I guess.

Between 5 adults we killed a 1.75 bottle of Tuaca (our shot of choice in the neighborhood.) I was also drinking the ginger vodka/diet ginger ale. I only had one slice of pizza for dinner last night and I didn't eat a ton yesterday so I was hurting.

I'm good now...after some tea and some potato soup. However, I think this killed my desire to have any more cheat days this month.

Have a great Sunday! I'm grilling a 20 pound turkey and making cranberry-apple stuffing for my Dinner Club's annual pre-Thanksgiving feast. I'm sticking with water and iced tea.

Hmmm, potato soup sounds like a great hangover receipe. That would surely be less calories than a Big Mac, fries and shake.

We had two contractors out to give estimates on the kitchen remodel yesterday and I forgot to check in here - rats! That means my count will start over. Oh well, not like I have gotten serious about this or anything. Just wish I could find some motivation to get off my behind and away from the bottle. Good for all of you that have stuck to the Sober November pledge or are at least trying.

Good Monday morning ladies (are we all ladies?? I think so?) I had a great weekend drinking wise. Didnt' overdo it so much that I ruined the next day. There are lots of Monday mornings that I have a "food hangover", meaning I feel like crap b/c I ate so much crap Sunday b/c I was hungover. Not the case today. I'm getting ready to wrap up W1D3 of the c25k program. I feel like it's going to be a good week! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Happy Monday!:flowerforyou:

Lushes,

Sunday, 0 drinks...I'm in for the long haul now

fsuxo...I had a day like that on Saturday, heavenly....

Christy - it is so good to have an occasional day like you did. You will feel so much better and will tackle the normal regime with renewed vigour having had a bit of R & R.

Robin, so sorry to read your post; will be thinking of you on Wednesday and hope all goes well. As you say, this too shall pass and I am sure something will turn up for you on the work front. Someone with a 'can do' attitude like yours will have employers begging for you to join their organisations. Keep the faith,

Pam

I had wine on Friday night, bloody mary Saturday lunch, beers saturday night, one glass of wine with dinner Sunday night.
I was sick last week so no Gateway to 8k, but I tried a run Saturday and managed 20 mins, walked for 2 mins, then jogged for 10 more so hopefully I can pick up with week 8 this week but will have to be on the treadmill-too cold and dark now:(