09/26/18 Wonderful Wednesday

Good Morning fellow travelers, all.

What? Oh, well- guess you have to deal with my pitiful opening offering-

140.2

I usually get up at about 5, but it took forever to get out of my closet this morning. The bed is piled up with rejections (weather has changed and am transitioning to fall wardrobe), all too big and ill fitting. Not, historically my problem. Wait- it is a frequent problem, but the other way around.

I resound the call----"****ly, where art thou?"

Good news for Dave, eh? Makes me smile to think pain may be vanquished. Life is so much more pleasant with out it. Do well, sweetie- heal well.

Here is a cool thought regarding the nefarious scale ---

"weight gives us a measure of gravitational pull only, and almost NOTHING about the individual in terms of health or WHO THEY ARE". -Paul Davidson, PhD

Kind of takes the emotional bite out of the picture, doesn't it?

Hugs and Smiles all around--- -b.

Weight 120.2 (minus .4 from yesterday), calories 881. I'm adding back more carbs, but still trying to stay relatively low in calories at least on days when nothing out of the ordinary is going on. If I feel that I'm eating my "normal" for a month and still stay higher than my old weight range, I think I'll adjust it. If my clothes were tight I wouldn't, but they still fit fine.

Speaking of which maybe you should change your name from Miss150 to Miss140?

DH has a coffee with his Alzheimer's group today. I don't know what I'll be doing - maybe I'll have coffee out somewhere? Today I have to finish figuring out the watch activation (you would think it would be simple but it isn't), call the hospital to fax DH neurologist records to the geriatric psychiatrist, and finish filling out a form and getting papers together for the attorney I'm meeting with about Trusts tomorrow. I hate all that stuff, but it has to be done.

Have a well Wednesday!

Cecily!!!!!

You're right, I haven't seen her post in a bit. I was hoping it's just because I'v ebeen in and out.

Paula-the JV dinner looked so fun.

Weight: 162.8

Stomach ick still hanging on slightly. Just not much of an appetite. Afraid it might upset my stomach.

I'm a little jelly of your stomach ick. Because I am dysfunctional like that.

Another day of non sugar consumption goals met. Just focusing on changing the one habit is proving to be a good thing for me. It's only one thing on which to focus and is not stressful. The second rule of only eating sugared foods for a 2 hour window is also a good one. I learned yesterday that the hours during which I chose for eating sugar are also hormone driven. Didn't know that quick energy is craved by the body at night, but it makes sense.

Where is Cecily? Hope she is well. I don't think her cruise was coming up quite this soon. I hope her dad is okay. Her absence is beginning to make me wonder if she's okay.

Had another really good workout yesterday. I realized how far I've come with pushups yesterday. We did inclined push ups (feet up on a yoga ball) which requires balance and ab work in addition to the chest work. On the third circuit set I stopped at 25, even though I could have continued to do an additional 5 or 10. Yay me! LOL!

Today is Tank's goodbye day. I am sad that he is leaving, but at the same time I know it's going to be a great move for him. He's going to be worshipped and he will revel in that attention. If it doesn't work out for him, then he will come back to us with no questions asked.

And so it goes....

I'm back! Got home Monday night to a new roof and no internet, which comes to me via a rooftop satellite that obviously was misaligned during the roofing job. Grrrr! It might ??? get fixed today. Or not. In the meantime I'm tapping with my thumbs on my cell phone. And I won't do that very long here.

Weight this morning was 136.8. That's not bad for a post-trip weigh in.

For now I'll just play catch-up reading the last several days of threads and wait until my internet is back online to post details of the trip and my lifestyle at home program. Spoiler ... the trip was great! Turns out Grand Rapids is a lovely town with some good art, beautiful gardens, devoted citizens and lovely fall weather.

More later.

Ann

Welcome back!

Glad to see that smiling face! Welcome back.

The last posting from Cecily was September 6 when she mentioned dragging through her workout. I sure hope all is okay.

Oh dear! I'm so sorry to worry anyone! I'm not sure how to explain, but I've been ostriching a bit about my eating and a few pounds gained and just generally feeling a little lost in the world and a lot lonely. Which you'd think would drive me here, but mostly drives me into reading and escaping into book worlds and staring out at the lake.

I had to back out of my Utah trip in November because of the blood thinner/period issues, but I do have an appointment with a hematologist October 9th so hopefully he can help. I'm bummed that it's an older "he" and that it sounds like from the receptionist that I'm one of their younger patients. I guess hematology is not something people my age need very much. But this whole issue is really depressing me and making life pretty unpleasant.

The weather has turned here in MI. It's a very windy 54 outside right now. I head back to CA next week. I'll miss it here, but hopefully a change of scenery will snap me out of my current funk.

I need to go back and read up on every thing I've missed. Again, so sorry to disappear and worry you all!