@Katmary71 Love your new kitty and her cute name , Georgia. 😀I have never heard of a thornless blackberry bush. When I was 11, I was riding my bike with my sister on the handlebars, and we crashed into a very thorny blackberry bush and were bloody messes.

Hello everyone! I almost forgot to post again. Must be this crazy life I’ve been living. 🙄 Not much has been going on. I’ve been watching a lot of Dr. Stacy Sims' videos on protein and strength training. I’m getting my head ready to really hit this weight loss thing for good. I want to get through Thanksgiving since the family is coming here and my niece is cooking all the foods! But after that, I have no excuse not to get on with losing the weight I put back on over the last few years. I have never in my life had this much free time to do whatever I want, and it would be a real shame not to take advantage of it. 🤨

@Katmary71 - Oooh so cute, you can virtually dress up your cat! While DD and I were shopping yesterday, we saw a cat adoption event. She wants a second cat, so we stopped in. What sweet volunteers wanting to help- answering questions, providing guidance, etc. Anyway- I thought of you. I'm glad you have some free time on Saturdays now, but pat yourself on the back for the good work you did. No cat for her yet- she has some things to resolve before she's ready.

Lisa

WEIGH IN DAY: Sunday Nov. 23
SW 175
PW 148.2
CW 147

worked OT at work yesterday completely forgot to log in. Whoops!

Username: gemwolf110 

Weigh in day: Sat

Previous Week's weight: 217.8

Today’s Weight: 217.8

Hi 👋

So, I haven't done much of anything the last couple of days. I've been feeling some kind of way, while trying to fight whatever bug hubby had.

Today, I'm going to try and accomplish something. It'll be hard, lol… it's football all day 💚💙💚💙 Go Hawks!! 💙💚💙💚

I have been on Amazon a lot, I found a foldable sewing table with storage, and a few other things. It's supposed to be here the day after Thanksgiving. Yaay 😃

Y'all have a great day 😀

5 pages behind. Yikes. Going to limit my responses…

@laurelfit57 – Hugs and prayers for your mom and entire family.

@FushiaKat – Congrats on taking first place with your contest room! Oh how fantastic that you can finally wash your hands of that stupid trike!

@trooworld – Glad you survived that awful patron. Hopefully she won’t need to research anything for years to come! Sorry to hear about your depression difficulties. I get it. Congrats on wearing your embroidered jeans! WOOT WOOT! Sounds like Violet is taking you for a ride! Sucker! Hahaha! That Swamp recipe looks so yummy and so easy to veganize! Thanks for the idea!

@bobboyardee – I really liked the story expansion in Black Phone 2, too! Hugs. I feel ya. Emotions suck.

@TeresaW2024 – Hugs. @micaroo4 made me tear up . She’s so right. You’re a human BEING. Just breathe. I think the social aspect of TOPS will help.

@19shmoo69 – Hugs for you and your wife. Prayers your son’s body utilizes the new meds and the seizures stop.

@Katmary71 – Congrats on your newest furbaby! Georgia…how sweet! Georgia on my Mind 😊 If you want real costumes to put on her, I suggest the outfits made for those goose statues. I used to put them on my little Stormie Pumpkin and she loved them! She was a little black kitty, too 😊 I am so sorry someone left blue marks on your car. Hopefully there weren’t any dents. People can be simply awful.

@Cornanda – How exciting that you’re into your “too small” bin AND smallest size jeans! That is awesome! Huge pat on the back for you!

@DrewsAnna – Congrats to your grandson and team~ How cute!

@Veta2018 – That is awful that your uncle was treated like that. I can’t believe the hospital didn’t assign a social worker to him to take care of his transition back home. That is just appalling.

@txcritter69 – TOPS stand for Taking Off Pounds Sensibly. I’m glad you were able to decorate for Christmas. I’m sure your mom would love that you kept her spirit going in the décor.

Hey, everyone. Depression hit me strong a couple weeks ago. After getting caught up on about 12 days here, it sounds like a lot of us have been struggling. Mine is a combination of general depression, seasonal depression, medical issues with Oliver’s medicine (he is now weaned off Keppra, but the new med dose doesn’t seem to be strong enough as he’s been either twitching or having mild mini-seizures daily). He just had a 24 hour EEG and MRIs. He’s walking with more confidence now and is able to correct himself when his right side wants to give out. The PT said he’s doing great, so now he’ll be working with a speech therapist. He has been concentrating so much on walking, he stopped saying some words. He still jibber-jabbers, but only a few real words come out. Anyway, last weekend was super rough on my mental health because I got into it with Syd. Too much to get in to, but basically she’s not telling me where she is when she gets out of work early. It’s just appropriate to let me know since I have her son. I don’t appreciate thinking she’s at work and a friend sends me a picture of Syd sitting at the bar of a local restaurant. Let me shut up about it. Anyway, I need to go back to seeing my therapist every other week. We had pushed it to 3 weeks cuz I had too many things going on. I need to see him sooner than that. So glad I get to see him tomorrow. Anyway, my struggles the past 2 weeks means I made really bad food choices. Lots of faux meats in the air fryer – chickie nuggies with plant based ranch, chickie poppers doused in hot sauce and ranch, and fishless. Lots of stupid Just Egg and snausage patties. Basically, the only veggies I’ve eaten in the past couple weeks have mainly been from V8 juice. Gained back all that I had lost prior. I babysat my son’s daughters on Friday. Little Amelia is 9 months old. She stared at me so much. It sounds odd, but it was like she was studying me. Making sure she ingrained every line, every pore, into her memory. My sweet little MeMe. That little heart warrior is perfection. Not sure if I gave an update, but the hole in her heart is 99% closed up and the coarctation completely healed from surgery and the left section that was too small has completely caught up to the rest of her heart. No one can tell me that God doesn’t still perform miracles. This child was never supposed to live past 2 weeks. She is the tiniest fighter! The doctors said she does not need her special formula anymore and will not need any more surgeries! They said her next check up will be in a YEAR! I’m sitting here crying about how awesome that news was. She is one of 5 reasons for me to get healthy. I want to be on this earth as long as possible – to see them all grow, graduate, marry, become parents, find their passions, EVERYTHING!

Thank you all for being here. Thank you for your support. And thank you @trooworld for reaching out and checking on me. To see your message this morning helped me feel better.

Now let’s get out there today and DRINK OUR WATER AND EAT OUR VEGGIES!

19shmoo69

Sunday

P. W. 222

C. W. 222

Sleepygirl79 Sunday

SW 232.2  

PW:226.6

CW: 227.2

Congrats to @digger61 @sleepygirl79 and @bobboyardee for making it onto the leaderboard !

@txcritter69 I'm sorry it was a hard day for you . I hope the Christmas cheer helped. That's good that Diesel is doing better.

@Veta2018 Congrats on the loss !

@vegan4lyfe2012 Thank you . She may have given me a souvenir (see below). I hope you are right! I know you get it, and I hug you for it. Violet is definitely taking us for a ride lol. I discovered her stash: her bed had a hole in it and she was pulling stuffy material from it as she needed it lol. You are welcome! I'm sorry about what you are going through, and the stuff with little Oliver. That's great that the hole in Amelia's heart is almost completely closed up and healed! We are here for you, Jennifer, through good and bad. Please feel free to come on here and vent when needed. Big hugs!

Hi all. I didn't do too much yesterday, just went for groceries in the morning, and then went to coffee and read. In the afternoon, I made my work Gochujang Caramel Cookies from the NY Times. I haven't tried them yet, but they look good. I also made High Protein Instant Pot Spaghetti, which I've made before and really enjoyed...it's very simple to make (involves NO chopping!) and tastes good. I only have to work today and tomorrow this week, and I am looking forward to the time off. I woke up with a bit of a sore throat and stuffy nose, hopefully it's just from sleeping in the air conditioning or allergies, however when the researcher was here, she was coughing!

Water intake yesterday: 8 oz

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