So "we" are:
Sozobe
Dagamarka
JPB
Mac
Noddy
Mushypancakes, maporsche--where are you?
Here!
Emotional and weary, but here.
Have been hitting the pool rather aggressively. Since there are no more beautiful <right addictions in my life, need a way to relieve stress.
Going crazy.
Exercise. Sweet, sweet exercise. Don't want to talk much lately. Only move, eat, drink, and sleep.
Massage and mineral treatments coming up. Feeling like a sleek creature.
Mushypancakes, yousleek creature--
Welcome aboard.
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Yesterday I didn't manage my full routine of exercises, but I did a few and I watched my caloric intake.
This morning I was very hungry at breakfast time. This is a good sign.
Yesterday I did do my exercises and did a good job of watching what I ate until around 9:00pm. I spent the next 2 hours in the kitchen helping stressed-out younger daughter try to understand the finer points of the current mortgage crisis for her economics class. We need to find a different room for stressed-out study sessions.
Location, location, location.
Location is all.
Going to the gym today and also vowing to limit alcohol intake to one day per week. No more beer here and there. I'm at the age when one beer here and there also means one pound here and there. Sigh.
I replaced beer in the house with wine or gin in the house and lost 5 pounds in two weeks.
This only works if you drink a lot of beer to begin with, though.
yeah, i can see that. i'm sure that would work for me...but cutting alcohol out altogether should have an even better effect.... a detox of sorts.
Dag--
At least you know the enemy.
My alcohol bloat is peeling off--three pounds since Monday. Unfortunately my kidneys are removing most of this liquid in the dark hours of the night and this makes for disturbed sleeping.
Life is full of checks and balances.
I was drooling hungry for breakfast this morning--in spite of breaking limits last night with the last of a doggie bag from a rather pretentious Italian restaurant.
My formal exercises were a bit skimped, but I gave my study a vigorous cleaning, bending and stretching and actually moving furniture.
Forward!
I was down 0.6 pounds at yesterday's weigh-in.
Current weight 173.2 - grand total 116.2 down.
mac11, that is wonderful! Wow! Good going... you must be delighted. Haven't you surpassed your goal weight?
Thanks, Mame. But no, I haven't made it to goal yet. To get to a healthy BMI, I need to be below 160.
Mac--
Are you working by "As long as it takes." or "Hoping for a new wardrobe for Christmas"?
In either case, congratulations.
There's no way to force the weight off, short of liposuction - and that's not an option! It'll take as long as it takes.
I enjoyed Olivia Goldsmith's (First Wive's Club) novels when I was in the mood for light reading.
She died of complications after a "routine" cosmetic liposuction session.
Go mac!
I over-scheduled yesterday and ended up not having time to go to the gym -- went today though. It was fun, eased right back into things with no problem.
Man, I am so looking forward to being able to do this on a regular basis...!
(I had the window open for a bit and missed Noddy's post -- eek. I've heard of the book, I don't think I know that the author died. I know that liposuction is dangerous. Slow and steady [exercising, eating reasonably] is the way to go...)
Perfection's not on the agenda. Sensible/ish eating, walking, dancing ... slow but steady.
Mac, your persistence and drive amaze me. You rock.
I've done good and am on the right track. So my stupid period has to come along right.
Yeah.
Feeling pissy about that. Will get over it.
It's a bad time for watching oneself isn't it. It's sneaky and not very nice.
Pretty stressed-out lately, but trying to stay on track.
Lots of pressure to work late, work weekends, and travel (and not nice
travel, either). I'll do nights and weekends, but I'll avoid travel as much
as I can.
Meanwhile I have to summon up the discipline to force my self to get out
and exercise and to stay away from those damned vending machines.
But I'm still holding under 168.
