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LESS Alcohol ~ FEBRUARY 2025 ~ One Day at A Time

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  • NonnieDoiron
    NonnieDoiron Posts: 411 Member
    Womona wrote: »
    @NonnieDoiron i can only imagine. Does (loudish) music in the background help? Hugs. Welp, if you’re ever looking to lose weight, forget Ozempic to curb your appetite. You can just sit next to your MIL and get the same result! Can you rent her out? Maybe get some extra income as a magic weight loss guru? Haha!

    OMG!! LMAO!! We have tried the loud music, but then it had to be way too loud to drown her out. It’s awful! The past few nights we’ve been able to avoid having family meals. But, tonight I made dinner for my daughter’s 15th birthday, and I switched seats with my husband. It was A LITTLE better, but I could still hear her.

    I think I’m also just done with having her in my house. Not only is she disgustingly loud when eating, but she’s rude as F**K!! It’s been a real battle this week for me not to just go off on her. Today, I went and sorted my clothes in my closet just so I would cuss her out.😡
  • EricONeill4928
    EricONeill4928 Posts: 3 Member
    I am new to this but I have been using mfp for years. Any suggestions or tips are appreciated.
    Thanks
    @SurferGirl1982
  • Michieb125
    Michieb125 Posts: 1,020 Member
    edited February 17
    @Born2Run1958 gosh your efforts are so inspiring! Those bloodwork numbers are something to watch - maybe continue what you are doing on your personal health journey and retest in 3 months? I bet you will be see a turn around - hang in! Many of us are 60ish - I believe it’s small changes over time that matters. All the best.

    @itladyee thanks for your comments! I’m exhausted from last week and today is my reset and relax day to myself! I’m looking at a reset for nutrition as well - I need to cut the snacks! Your own grand babies sound wonderful. It is sad how Covid stole pieces of our lives. Thankful that’s behind us! I can’t imagine my stepdaughter living with my husband and I for any amount of time - a recipe for disaster. Congrats on setting a boundary and making it work for your marriage.

    @globalhiker ohhhh, I love a trip to a Medspa - hope it was fun and boosted your day!! A break from the gym is so needed once in awhile.

    @MissMay - I hope you are incredibly proud! You are indeed in the “rarely drink category” - your testimony proves that intentional choices are a key to success.
  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 1,897 Member
    NonnieDoiron wrote: »
    Womona wrote: »
    @NonnieDoiron i can only imagine. Does (loudish) music in the background help? Hugs. Welp, if you’re ever looking to lose weight, forget Ozempic to curb your appetite. You can just sit next to your MIL and get the same result! Can you rent her out? Maybe get some extra income as a magic weight loss guru? Haha!

    OMG!! LMAO!! We have tried the loud music, but then it had to be way too loud to drown her out. It’s awful! The past few nights we’ve been able to avoid having family meals. But, tonight I made dinner for my daughter’s 15th birthday, and I switched seats with my husband. It was A LITTLE better, but I could still hear her.

    I think I’m also just done with having her in my house. Not only is she disgustingly loud when eating, but she’s rude as F**K!! It’s been a real battle this week for me not to just go off on her. Today, I went and sorted my clothes in my closet just so I would cuss her out.😡

    Yeah it’s a grind for sure. I know she is with you for the duration, but even so, I can see how it gets super irritating. Was she always rude? I think the filter just comes off the older we get. She is certainly not at her best now! But I really feel for you. Deep breaths. I love how you and your husband can vent to each other!
  • MissMay
    MissMay Posts: 3,891 Member
    @Womona I hope your vacation is wonderful.

    Two of my least drinking vacations both took place in Las Vegas (which is notorious for its drinking reputation)
    My last vacation in Hawaii was a span of 12 days with moderate drinking on some of the days and AF on some to.

    You will need to disclose your vacation spot to us now 🤣😅😂


  • MissMay
    MissMay Posts: 3,891 Member
    @NonnieDoiron I am feeling your pain with your MIL bad eating habits and so forth.

    Such a non negotiable issue for me when people have outright bad table manners.

    I met my husbands family first time for a Thanksgiving adinner. Was seated across from his Father and next to his teenage Nephew. Both of them kept their heads 2" from their plates and basically shoveled the food into their mouths without lifting their heads.

    Once alone with my husband I remarked how they both looked and sounded like dogs in a kennel and I could not be seated near either of them.in the future.

    Thank goodness manners were taught in our simple low income Midwestern family when I was growing up.

    Keep busy and out of her way.
  • NonnieDoiron
    NonnieDoiron Posts: 411 Member
    AF - 15
    A - 3

    @Womona MIL has always been a little rude, but we didn’t have to deal with it unless she was visiting. Now, that she lives here, I think it’s just come to the surface as to how rude she really can be.

    I grew up in a home where the man of the house made his plate first at the dinner table. You didn’t serve yourself until Dad had his plate made. Still the same way at my parents home. I’ve been trying to do that here, but I will go to dish out the food and she picks up her plate and shoves it under the serving utensil I’m holding EVEN WHEN I’M HOLDING ANOTHER PLATE TO FILL!! 😳

    Whenever I’m cooking, she makes her way into the kitchen. She has a walker and is not a petite woman, so she takes up a lot of space. She will get in my way and meander around the kitchen. She’ll start doing dishes and wiping down counters. I have to tell her I need her out of my kitchen before she will leave, and then she acts like it’s a surprise that she’s in the way.

    She constantly cuts me off when I’m speaking. It’s happened so many times I can’t count. We will be at the table, I’m talking about something that happened that day or read. She will interrupt me to get on my daughter’s case about chewing with her mouth open or something stupid like that. Not that my daughter should chew with her mouth open, but she can wait until I’m done talking. And she makes a big production about it every time. I now just stop talking and stare at her, but I don’t resume talking when she’s done unless I’m asked to by someone. I’ve been hoping she’d get the passive aggressive hint, but I have a feeling I’m going to have to get aggressive about it.

    Anyway, thanks for the ranting space.
  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 1,897 Member
    Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »
    Womona wrote: »
    Thursday we go on vacation. I’m sure it will be 2-3 drinks a day, doubtful I will be AF. But I want to pace myself and drink lots of water in between.

    A completely AF vacation is my Everest. I really enjoy cocktails when you don't have to get up the next morning! But, of course, you pay for it a bit.

    So true! It’s harder to avoid the day drinking- a cocktail at lunch? Don’t mind if I do! But yes we pay on the back end.

    @MissMay we are going to the Cayman Islands. Can’t wait!

    @NonnieDoiron oh my God, what a pain in the *kitten*! I wonder if she would do that if you served family style? As for getting in the way in the kitchen, no situational awareness! Geez. I dunno, you may have to be more direct - “I wasn’t done speaking yet.” Either way I’m already exhausted for you!
  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 1,897 Member
    Two glasses of wine tonight at dinner with the girls. Lots of fun! If I drink tomorrow night, it will only be one. May be AF. We’ll see.

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