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Good morning, lovelies! It’s great to read all your check-ins, news, and goals. I live in Vermont near the Connecticut river in an area that didn’t flood. Yay! Let’s hope August has better everything. I’ve wrestled with my weight on and off since puberty, it seems. Post menopausal issues have joined the party and I’m in a…

CW: 188.4 Holy cow! It seems I blinked and voila! 75 more entries by all of you lovelies! OK...I'll just say here that I've had a busy week with pretty good control on meals, and still not quite as much exercise as I'd like. I'm weighing in a day early because I'll be up early to go to the 6 a.m. swim class...at least I'll…

I have a funny "green horse" story for you. When my OH was in England just after college for 1.5 yrs working at a horse farm, they were thrown off and kicked in the chest, necessitating a prolonged stay in hospital. En route to getting medical care, they discussed the likelihood of a concussion because of the details of…

CW: 189.3 Happy Caterday! Just a quick base-touch before getting to some chores which will help me feel better in my living spaces. My food choices this week have been better. More veggies, many fewer flour products, and generally feeling pretty good. I'm hopeful that the scale will start reflecting some of these changes…

Eegads! How did it get to be Wednesday already? I guess flooding in the rest of the state has something to do with my distraction levels. My food logging has been steadier and I'll be exercising at the indoor pool at my other job this afternoon. In the meantime, I'm feeling pretty stuck with my "to-do" list with little…

CW: 190.4 Down from 190.8. I’ll take it! It would’ve been lower if I hadn’t eaten a salty supper out last night. Mt choices were good but I’m sure fish tacos have a lot more salt than I’m used to! We’ve had a great day visiting 3 of my oldest adult friends. Oldest as in longest known, not aged. We haven’t always been in…

Hello everyone! It's already July. Well, here I am in Vermont. I live with my OH and 3 cats near the Connecticut River which runs between New Hampshire and Vermont. Most of my adult life has followed a similar path to many of us here with yo-yoing pre and post childbirth, restrictive diets, and all that. Now that I'm in…

CW: 190.8 It’s been a busy day…I’ll catch up with you in the morning.

I hear you on that issue. I retired from drinking alcohol 11 1/2 years ago and haven't looked back. It's well worth the effort to prevent the slippery slope from taking us all the way down to full addiction and alcoholism. So many of us in the world have the family make up for it that it makes a lot of sense to nip it in…

Happy Solstice! I was up early to do Aquarobics class at 6 a.m. with 3 other women and will go to work at 10:00 today. I could benefit from some of Liselyn's coffee but she's over 2 hours away so, I'll have to make my own in the French press. Better than coffee in some other locations! Have a good day, lovelies. Enjoy the…

@jugar CW 189.8 It’s certainly been a busy time and I’m looking forward to calming that pattern down now. We’ll see how it goes! Have a great Sunday.

@jugar Good luck with the snug pants and trek to NC and OH. I'll see you from MA via FaceTime on Amy's phone. It will help with the whole process being with Anne and then Dad during/after the service. keeping fried foods and flour is sure to help. I'll join you in that endeavor. I'll post my weigh-in this week, too, since…

Great segue into my brief take on boredom. OH and I went to the ocean to astate park in NJ (a +5 hour 1-way drive this weekend. On the way back, I was so crabby-bored that I tried to make suggestions about anything and everything, getting crabbier with each rejection. We stopped for gas and I went in to get a coffee but…

CW: 189.3 It’s so much cooler today that I can actually think. Huzzah! One thing that I notice in my new job is I’m hard pressed to drink enough water and I don’t always have more than a banana for lunch until I get home at 2:45 when I either eat lunch or just a snack and then an early supper. Things will settle down but…

The older student struggles are real! I worked my butt off during the early part of the pandemic (started a degree in a Physical Therapy Assistant program) and had to take Statistics online for the 2nd half of the semester. I swear the prof passed me out of pity. Sometimes, the info was easy to digest and at…

Congrats, Liselyn! Jasper looks so relieved. Sweet boy. Have a grand time spoiling him. Just a quick check in. Did a lot of little things including changing out cat litter, vacuuming the bathroom ceiling fan, and swapping over the flannel sheets for cotton, putting the wintery things into a bin that'll go into a closet. We…

CW: 190.3 If I can change the batteries early enough tomorrow (and there's a positive "lower" weight, I'll let you know first thing tomorrow. Otherwise, we'll go with this one. It's not lower but it's not up by that much. I can give myself a little bit of grace and chill. I have 2 major house projects afoot which actually…

PSS: The word in my post should've been "recipe". silly autocorrect!

PS: @Jugar is "doolally" a bit like doing "Eff-all"? What a fun word!

Oh! I have a receipt for ripe tomatoes for you to try. Chop 2 hardboiled eggs; add 1 or more cut up ripe tomatoes; stir in cut celery for more crunch, sprinkle with tumeric, mix together with either 1/4 avocado or 1 tsp mayo (or less - seriously, the tomatoes provide plenty of moisture). I also added a bit of ground pepper…

Oh, such great updates! I had a stressful day today that made me think I was in the Twilight Zone. Anybody remember that TV show? I drove one of the “Meals on Wheels” lunch delivery routes which covers many more miles than two other routes I’ve covered so far…it seemed like an invisible force held my car by the tail pipe…

What a great name for a short story or teen grunge-band! @alydanbeads I hope you have a better week. I've been driving a lot this weekend with one tiny "walk", dare I say "meander" at my step-mother's house in Massachusetts. It was great to see Dad in his new Memory-care-digs although 3 more people on his floor have Covid…

CW: 189.4 Finally, some green! @eggfreak I've never heard of Insect shield. Nice to know they're around, even if in Massachusetts. Anything to help with the massive explosion of ticks is fine by me! Drought times evidently assist with knocking down the tick population but where I live, there are so many meadows and forests…

Monday! The ides of May and we have a frost warning through tomorrow. If we had a super freeze that hit hard for 2 days, just think how many ticks would die! Ok. Maybe not that good a plan since lots of little plants would be killed, too. Alas, I’ll just have to keep applying DEET to my body and permethrin to my clothes…

PS: I love seeing the pics, @jugar. It's been too long since seeing your place in person!

How odd to finally have a non-sideways photo on my account! When I added it, I didn't see any cropping tools but I think you'll know who I am by proximity to the camera lens. It's been a beautiful week weather wise, which has been hugely helpful during these first days without our brother. He used to call himself "UB",…

The last 24 hours have been the strangest in my life. I suppose losing a sibling does that to everyone. I’m sure I can speak for the two of us remaining (@jugar) that your kind thoughts and prayers are much appreciated. Although he and I weren’t as close as our amazing sister (@jugar), it’s still unsettling to be left so…

CW: 190.8 I agree @carlsoda eating more than needed *does indeed* catch up with us! Sigh. All I can do is move some more, keep my water up, guilt-trip less, and stop whingeing about what I did or didn't do. @ashleycarole86 your thumb issue sounds like "trigger finger/thumb" which is when the tendon is inflamed. some…

Huzzah! I’m so glad you’re staying, Sylvia. I was waffling and wavering the last month or two myself, but would hate to lose you and the others, so, I’m sticking around, too! My weight loss journey has been similar to many here with ups and downs over the years; pre and post 2 babies; 2 divorces; death of a dear friend;…

CW: as of this morning after colonoscopy prep and just post, 188.2. We’ll see how it changes next week - as in goes lower, again! My new job starts on Monday and I plan to restart my daily meditation practice. It’s very useful to keep me on an even keel. Happy end of April, friends!