Serial Starters

*** March 2 ***

March goals, eh?
1) No alcohol/eat reasonably during the divorce push
2) Walk 3 times per week

Maureen - Your son is moving back to Wisconsin? Are you still thinking Charlotte?

Sara - stay safe and sane at work!

Waving to Lynn and Missy and all who stop by later on~~

Lana

266.4 today
269.6 highest

Good morning, all!

TL:DR--Brother's divorced. I'm fat and miserable. Time for things to change. Setting goals.

My brother's saga is now paused. The divorce was signed by the judge, so it is final. (I say paused because it will never be over. He's a marshmallow.) She has until May 1st to move out of his house. Already saying she can't get it done by then. My Mother and I will have to goad my brother into sticking to his guns and changing the locks on May 2nd. It will require a locksmith and cost an astronomical amount to change locks on a Sunday, but it will be soooooooo worth it.

Moving on to me now. Sixteen days to my next Moose conference. I am physically miserable. Since I have been eating ALL the inflammatory foods, every joint in my body hurts, I get random electrical shocks that make me jumpy and anxious, not to mention the horrendous weight gain. This past year (literally since March 17th, 2020 for me) has been awful for all of us.

I spent 3 weeks in the office during May-June of last year, two weeks doing a training in a hotel conference room in October-November, and one week in Arizona to train some employees. Other than those times, I have been sitting at a makeshift desk in my den. Horribly depressing. I'm an introvert, but this is ridiculous. If it were not for Moose and bowling, I likely would not have survived this year. At the very least, I would have been fired because I would have lost my will to work. I work to afford Moose and bowling. Is that weird?

Anyway, I guess you can tell I'm lonely by the sheer amount of words in my posts lately. I'm also trying not to talk about my health with IRL peoples. Thank you all for being here.

Here we go: March 1st saw my highest weight in 6 years. I managed to eat decently for the day and lost 4 lbs.

Goals:
1. Stay away from inflammatory foods (for me: Potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, grain of all types, dairy.)
2. Attempt a mainly carnivore diet--green vegetables only on occasion.
3. Log my food!!!
4. Find a yoga routine to increase flexibility and balance (I've lost all of mine.)

SW 230.4 - March 1, 2021
CW 226.4
GW 200 - June 1, 2021
UGW 150 - We'll see how it goes

Decent day. Getting anxious about the house--don't know where to start for "staging," so I'm contacting the realtor tomorrow. Let him decide. Got in a decent jog and went to work, where no students showed up. Oh, well. I keep trying.

Good morning. Sunny, no wind, and 41, so back to WARM weather

Working now, so TTYL.

Lynn - that is so funny about your needing only to POINT at the collar on the table! 😁

Tracy, good job. And now I want a Snickers bar.

Nice day here; high 40s. I got chilled walking through ice water at the dog park--boots leaked. I thought, "I may never have to do this after this year's final thaw." What a great feeling.

I'm still dreading the staging stage (haha). The realtor will tell me what to do, but I still have to do it. Thank goodness for my friend Susan, who will work side by side with me and entertain me. I hate boring work. I hate it so much that often I just pay someone else to do it or let it go undone. Give me interesting work, and I lose all sense of time--don't eat, don't move, just work. I love that. It's actually better than reading a good book--just a bit, but still better.

My dogs are hungry and soaking wet still. They are in the foyer to dry off after the visit to the DP. They had such fun and my oldest son went with me. I love those walks.

Cheers to all.

Hey All
what a horrible meeting at the lawyer's. There is a pit in my stomach that I have not felt since I was undergoing chemo and couldn't eat. I am a mess. I went to the liquor store and got a small bottle of gin; then later, I went to the grocery store and got some champagne. I am beside myself. Sometime next week or the week after that a process server will give my DH the notice of lawsuit. He lives in an Ivory Tower gated community so we have no idea if he will even get served.

This all makes me feel sick. I will likely not be starting up the thread tomorrow.

Sara - I am channeling your magic powers. Thank you! ❤️

Lana

Thursday's image is sending hugs to all who need it: Lana with her sore soul, Maggie with her sore leg, and everyone else who has a sore something.

Hey Y'all~~
You ladies are THE BEST ❤️
I had a very good session with my therapist this morning. The sun is out. I'm getting my 2nd vaccine today, and then I plan to come home put on my jammies and watch feel-good movies.
Lana