Hi gals.
Trig---Full bathroom in the RV! Yeah, now that's what I call great camping. Really is a home on the road, and every fascinating place you put down stakes for a bit.
When I was growing up we camped a bit. None of the fancy stuff available today, but we had a 12 man canvas tent that was quite luxurious for the times. Screens all around it, and a "room divider"---back was for sleeping, front was for playing games or eating if it rained, or just hanging out. My mother, not the camping type at all, but a very good sport, made those trips unforgettable w/her fireside cooking. She would bring homemade pies and cookies, maybe a lasagna. Or, she would cook amazing things over the fire. Dang she was good at that. Such sweet memories. She made a camping lover out of me, even though she wasn't always so wild about it herself.
MM---If you read far back enough, like a little over a week, you'd see that I too hurt my wrist in a fall. Lucky me, I was due at my brother's house that night for dinner, and both he and my SIL are doctors. Got the wrist examined, diagnosis sprain at least. Possibly a slight fracture, but treatment is the same either way. Soft cast. AND I got the soft cast, which my SIL had on hand from her Carpal Tunnel surgery.
Close to two weeks later and it is much better, but not totally there. I intend to wear the wrist cuff for support for at least another week. Baby that wrist, ice pack a couple times a day helps. It is easy to re-wound it, as I did. Went over a pothole driving and the wheel threatened to go left into oncoming traffic, so I jerked it back hard w/sprained wrist hand. No time to think. Not serious, but hurt and got sore and a bit swollen again. And that was WITH the cuff. SO again, while it's tempting to think it's so much better keep babying it and keep the cuff on till you're sure you're healed. I'd hate to think of how bad it could have hurt had I not been wearing that cuff.
(((((Lori)))))---Don't worry about chatting about feeling a bit down. You hardly ever complain, and the blah blues get to all of us some days.
Seems to me you are on the down side of a cycle. Before Scotland you had an exercise goal and your worked it hard. Exercise is a great reliever of the blahs. I think after all that effort it is quite natural to let go a bit, plus you completed the goal, which takes away our edge. AND, you're in exercise transition having given up the routine of boot camp, and looking for new ways to work your body.
And, LC eating can get very monotonous for many of us if you don't keep up the effort to make it interesting. And that takes energy. SO BEEN THERE, pal. IMO, doesn't matter what they call it---low bio rhythms, blahs, whatever, it is cyclical. But Your good cycles seem to run very long, and I think you'll turn around and you'll be there again. Hang in there hon. This too shall pass.
Jaz---Fellow Cheshire Cat checking in, LOL. Loved every word about what "Plan of Correction" means. She is a lucky woman to get so many chances. Heh, I swear I am well behaved sometimes simply because I just know I'd never get away with what she has, and I know many places where she wouldn't have either. Yeah, don't understand why she is still there, except again, in corporate these days HR goes pretty far to avoid any law suits, particularly if you're a woman or you're older, or both.
On the iced coffee thing. Don't know what just plain coffee iced would be like, because cold brewed is much more roasty tasting. It's not hard to do, ha, specially if someone else does it for you. But Lori does it, and she can tell you how. But I'll tell you one thing, my cold brew shakes w/the vanilla protein powder, and cream and a couple of drops of sweetener is every bit as good as any of those in a Starbucks cup, lots cheaper, and LC.
Can't remember---know you have issues w/cheese. Can you do cream? Also, I know you had an adverse reaction to the protein powder you sent me (thank you again, loved it) but the one Lori recommended to me, might be different for you. MRM is the label. Also, sometimes your body needs to adjust to these things, although often my shakes do prompt a bathroom visit, but I welcome this as it's not out of control, and on LC one often struggles with the opposite.
HAHAHA. I'm now the protein shake pusher it seems. But really, after re-reading Dr. Eades yesterday I was reminded of the importance of both protein AND saturated fat in a LC woe. The cream is great for the latter.
Have not seen "I feel pretty." Fun concept though. From your description, I get the your question about "fat shaming." Which no one should do to another, but let's face it, most of us do to ourselves at one point or another. I don't think anyone should stand in judgement over this, but I do think we all simply feel better when we're hauling less around. Thing is, shame is the last thing that works when it comes to weight, imo, either from others or ourselves.
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Bit of a blue/blah day myself. Work is at a standstill, as I finished all those small new projects. And now I must look for more, and boy, do I hate that. Will grab myself by the boot heels next week and make some more efforts. But I have to remind myself, this is why we are changing our lives and moving---to be more free of the worry and pressure.
Although not entirely free. We are going to have to keep cutting expenses, and we've already made good efforts towards that, but we're going to have to keep on going. My Achilles Heel is I love to go out for a bite w/my pals, I just really like eating out. Have to either do it less or find a way to curtail what I order. My other soft spot is travel. Will somehow find a way to make room for at least some of that, but it will mean cutting down other places.
Used to have a love affair with clothing. But when I cleaned out my wardrobe and gave away over half of it, I saw how much I really don't need more, and right now, other than the on sale $8 top at Target, I'm not buying a thing.
Finally, our new home. Yeah, I want a couple things to make it special. Still arguing w/myself over that.
Anywho, other than all those worries and thoughts, it was a good enough day. Also, an on plan day. Jaz---my sweet spot used to be between 20 and 30 net carbs a day, but you're right, for now it's between 30 and 50 Net carbs. Funny though, I lost the great bulk of my weight exactly there. Getting to my low took going down to 20 NCs a day. I think those days are over for me, at least as a lifestyle, but one never knows.
These days instead of counting carbs as obsessively as I used to count calories, I'm looking for what WORKS right now. I know it cannot be what once was, or I'll blow up like a balloon. I know being a carb hound NEVER goes away, and I have to keep it on a chain.
It's the length of that chain that changes, and that I experiment with now, in challenging times.
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