Whatcha Eating Today VSGers? Wednesday, 8/1/2018

I'm so sorry Mer**** is never easy to witness. I saw my grandma lose my uncle and even though he did it to himself with drugs and alcohol, it hurt my grandparents non the less.

stay strong and when you need to vent please vent here or somewhere.

Thank you. Drug addiction takes from so many people.

Oh Mersh, this is so hard to hear. Just protect yourself and let your grandmother know how much you love her as often as you can. Some people can't change and you just have to step away as much as you can.

Your words are always so kind Liz, I love reading your replies to my posts.

I'm so sorry, Mersh. I can't even imagine what you AND your grandma are going through.

Please keep getting it out here, whenever you need to. I think we are all good listeners, we all have big shoulders, and we care about you. Let it out rather than keeping it in where, as you know, it will fester until it spills over.

Big hugs to you and to your grandmother. Sending you both my most positive thoughts and some prayers too.

Happy hump day! I have yoga, then some shopping and Justice walking. Not sure what else.

QOTD: Only 1? I can't say housecleaning in general? If I had to pick one, I guess it would be floor mopping and vacuuming.

2 Years, 4 months post-op (maintaining at goal for 20 months)

Always lots of coffee...

B: eggs, cottage cheese and Canadian bacon

L: Tuna salad, pickles and cottage cheese

D: Grilled chicken

S: Siggis yogurt (need to use what's there before making more homemade, but I will be making it myself from now on - I also have 2 more containers of cottage cheese to use then I'm trying homemade cottage cheese)

Funny - I'll come vacuum for you - I love vacuuming and ironing! I'm a weirdo.

LOL! A friend of mine sat next to me at a session on reducing stress once and when we were told to list activities that reduced our stress she had housecleaning at the top of hers. I still kid her about it and honestly her house is always 100% clean.

Happy August everyone! Like Gwen August feels bittersweet. We have our family vacation to Universal/Islands of Adventure this month which I'm so excited for but now I'm closer to heading back to work/school in September and since I'm starting out in a new school I'm not really looking forward to it. So I have made it a full month in my regain/loss journey. Down 10 lbs and feeling the best I've felt in a year. I still have a long way to go and hope I can rock this month as hard as I did in July.

QOTD - Laundry for sure! Having 8 of us in this house I feel like that is all I ever do. Doing a load of laundry doesn't bother me as much as the folding and putting it away.

B - coffee and protein

L - leftover steak

D - Boneless pork chops and veggies

E - 35 min elliptical, Arm exercises

Only having half that number of people I feel like I'm always behind on laundry! I can only imagine with 8.

You're doing awesome, I'm glad you're feeling so great!