Lori who am I looking for on FB?

It is so nice to put a face to the name. 🙂 My profile photo is a portrait my late mother painted of me in Gustav Klimt style.

I agree w/Lori! Are you wearing traditional clothing in that painting? What a great artist your mom is!
Sherry

Good morning everyone,
Thanks for your good wishes Salma, and your suggestions Makica.
Losing weight has made a big difference to my general health, so that has been a great help in managing the me/ cfs
Well you must have looked WOW Milena. I went to find you on fb, came across a you in black bathers, and another you with no pic, but couldn’t see the photos. Fb must be alive with connections this morning!
Best wishes everyone.

So even though I’m not tetchy and new to FB, I think successfully sent friend requests on MY new Facebook to Milena, Noreen & Makica. Lori- there’s a lot of Lori’s w/ your last name! Friend me pls. Because I can’t find you! Milena, pls re-friend me on my Facebook & take my hubby off now that I have an account

Sherry

Got it Lori! Did you get my message back? I can’t really see you well in profile pic. So funny, I did picture you with shoulder length blonde hair in my mind! As I said, so fun to see you girls finally after all these months! ?

Hope you will all still chat on here, as well as FB?
I am struggling a bit with FDs so trying to be careful and mindful for now, try again next week. Hope you are all doing better, Sherry you are doing so well , go you!

Good Morning!

Oh sure…this will still be “home”. FB is just another way of connecting. Apologies for my profile picture. I really do need to update it. It was taken at Niagara Falls a number of years ago, but I still look the same(in my mind) 😉 I’ll work on a new picture.

It is great to see everyone and get to know you thru your pictures on FB. I don’t post a lot on FB, but read quite often.

Anyway…back to boot camp this morning, working a 1/2 day and then off to the golf course! A beautiful day in November is not to be missed. I don’t even care if I don’t play well…a bad day on the golf course is better than a good day at work!

Eating was not great yesterday. Not excessive calories, but I don’t think I had a single veggie! I’m a work in progress.

Make it a good day!

I sitting here having a break from work, watching Rick Stein making Pasticada, beef with figs and prunes. At the same time checking the masterchef chocolate mousse two ingredient recipe – – chocolate and cream – thinking of doing it at Christmas, thought son is doing his raspberry roulade for Christmas dinner – or the custard dessert I saw earlier on my kitchen rules – and planning a lamb dish for the weekend, and thinking of my list of wine for Christmas, of course some decent stuff as I am teetotal for the six weeks before. And I can’t decide whiether to get hubby to buy me something for supper when he goes to the shops, or just have a bowl of muesli, or just call it a fast day.

We women can certainly multi-task.

James Martin, Manu Fieldel, Pete Evans, Marcus Fielding and George, the wee guy from Masterchef Australia!!!!

And I’m not talking cook books.

James Martin – he is a god – Manu is French, Pete has the most blue eyes, Marcus – dunno why, the beard? – and George – my guilty pleasure!!!!

Salma I wholeheartedly agree that this is home for FAs.

Milena I am in total dark about Masterchef Australia. I don’t watch television much. And if I do it’s not food related because I have a very low threshold in this kind of temptation. I would be either raiding the fridge or ordering something from a restaurant. *totally ashamed*

But anyway I had a good FD yesterday. Will have another tomorrow and then of to Slovenia and the beautiful seaside town of Portoroz. Did I tell you girls that the hotel I stay in has breakfast until noon and they serve champagne all morning. I love that. Go through your days with a haze. hahahah

Hope everything is going well for all of you. My new pants are falling of my b..t, but I think it is due to the material stretching and not me shrinking unfortunately. Haven’t been doing my Yoga or Pilates for 2 weeks now. Will go back to torture when I come back from my vacation. I never skip my workouts but I am a bit tired of everything. Need some change.

So dear ladies be smart, you don’t have to be good. 😉

Love m

Hello!

Having a boring afternoon at work. Waiting for month end figures from Corporate so I can continue with closing the books and doing reports. I was hoping to get an email this afternoon with what I need, but nothing so far. 🙁

Had a fun day on the golf course yesterday. Another beautiful day today and wishing I was back out there. Winter will be here all too quickly and will, no doubt, drag on for an eternity.

Didn’t really worry about my eating yesterday with all the activity(boot camp & golf), but am trying to be extra vigilant today. I did go to boot camp this morning, so burned around 400-500 calories. I’m really tired today, but hope a good night’s sleep fixes me up as I want to work out tomorrow morning too. I’ll take 2 days off over the weekend.

Hope you’re all having a fabulous day!

Cheers for your second Fast Mrs Jake.

Hi Salma I hope you had a good time at the gym, and best wishes for being in retreat mode.

Cheers to you, getting ready for your retreat too Makica.

Hi Sherry, hi everyone!

I recognise all those people from Australian Cooking Shows. What a busy Christmas you would have if you got your list of wishes Milena!. (PS We can even put in a claim to Rick Stein these days!).

I love cooking shows, although not so much the competitions. We have a great channel SBS which showcases multiculturalism. I am so excited about their new channel (33 for Aussies) that is all about food. There will be shows from all over the world. It begins in a couple of weeks.

Haven’t got a Christmas wish, but I hope I can get together with family! I might even be up to decorating my house, and doing cards this year. Oo but it is coming quickly.

Oh and Susie, hi! Didn’t mean to leave you out! Hoping the FDs get easier! Best of luck on that!

In continuation of the bad batch of cookies saga: person who gave me the recipe when confronted said, ” oh, I know I told you that was a typo and it should have read, “1 Tablespoon of ground cinnamon and cinnamon oil to taste if desired, not 1 Tablespoon of cinnamon oil”. Um, Nooooo, you didn’t tell me that, as I forget a lot of things but not cookie recipes just given to me a few days ago! I could probably make a lot of money selling my cookie diet: eat one of theses suckers before each meal and watch your appetite and weight disappear! ? I’m still trying to get the cinnamon coating off of my tongue!

Ok Lori, I’ll check out the new photo! I’m curious, did anyone else envision the people that shared their FB photos looking different from how they were in real life? My idea of Milena & Makica were sort of close too!

Hi Sherry

showed that photo to hubby’s brother, he didn’t recognise either of us – that it was a mutual friend and his wife!!! Must say I had said earlier he looked like the same guy, amazing what a moustache can do, I had bought him a fake one, but he grew his for a few days and I dyed his tache and his hair with hair gel and eyeshadow,

I’m blond with a completely different shaped face, not one of the neighbours recognised me!!!

Hubby wants to take me out in the frock at Christmas, will post a pic then

Good Morning!

Made it thru day 3 in a row of boot camp! I got my 4 sessions in this week as planned. I’m looking forward to 2 days off for a bit of a break. I’m not sure what, if anything, I’ll do this weekend. I do love just puttering around the house. Often, on a cold, winter weekend, I’ll come home from work on Friday afternoon and not set foot outside till I go to boot camp Monday morning! I guess there’s something to be said for being content at home.

I have been eating pretty much to plan this week, but didn’t step on the scale this morning. Not sure if I’ll make it till the end of the month, but we’ll see. I feel thinner, so why step on the scales and have that good feeling ruined, right? 😉

Hope you all have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Ha! Cinque, you crack me up. The remedy may be needed for my 10 year old son in the future though! He’s the only kid out of the four that amazingly never needs his toe nails cut! We think he bites them off! I hate to even say it, it’s so disgusting! He of course swears he doesn’t but can’t explain the lack of growth! The crazy & weird things kids do! Yes- I should get my friend back, but I’m too nice & she’s obviously embarrassed and just trying to cover her back!

Milena, you guys looked so cute and your hubby looked as though he was enjoying wearing his get up! He must have really liked you in that dress if he wants to take you out wearing it again!

MM, I meant to tell you, I definitely see why people told you that you looked like Meryl Streep in thr French Lieutenant’s Woman- there’s definitely a resemblance! Do you appreciate your red hair and fair skin more as you’ve gotten older? My 15 year old,who’s a red head ( bordering on strawberry blonde), likes her hair (its uniqueness) but hates her fair skin. I told her there’s a lot of people who’d love to have her hair & complexion! I’m so glad you’re feeling like you’re losing again! You will get there- I just luckily had a unique set of circumstances that helped me lose relatively quickly- definitely not my norm.

Lori, you too! You sound like you’re back on track! You’ll know when it feels right to weigh again. I still need to get on FB & check out your new pic! I’ve had a busy couple of days & haven’t been on the computer.

Off to early bed. Unfortunately I’m catching the cold one of the twins brought home ( that one almost always has a finger up her nose, so no wonder) – again TMI re: my kids! ?

Sherry

Good morning all! I’ve been up early for a Saturday. Was awakened at the crack of dawn with what sounded like my neighbors staging a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg. Deer hunting season. So far my two dogs are taking it remarkably calmly.

Sherry, I was exactly like your daughter. I loved the red in my hair, so much so that when it would go blond in the summer I would dye it to make it red again. But I hated being the “fairest in the land” when all my friends were sporting gorgeous tans. I learned early on not to even try to tan since the only result would be freckles. I also found tanning boring. Now, while my lover mourns the summers he spent as a lifeguard and treks one more time to the dermatologist to get spots removed, I thank my lucky stars (and my grandmother’s genes) for my fair skin. I also found the Meryl Streep comparison helpful. I’m afraid I’m not up on my actresses these days (perhaps Laura Linney?) but there must be a lovely fair redhead or blond out there to be your daughter’s role model of beauty.

Lori, I loved your “jeans of truth” I read on another site! I have my own pair and will forevermore call them that now. Right now they zip, but only because there’s a wee bit of spandex in the fabric. My goal will be reached when they zip easily and sit lightly. Not there.

Cinque, I have the violet problem too. I love the flowers in the woods but they are soooooooo invasive! I’m perpetually waging war with them in all my flowerbeds. So far they’ve pretty much occupied one bed and keep making sorties into the others, where I beat them back. Like the wars of old, we call a temporary truce during the winter.

Off to get my hair done today. I get a glaze in an attempt to tame the frizzies. Perhaps I’ll have her put a little bit of red tint in it this time, just a little, and relive my glory days.

No fasting today, but back on for tomorrow. Sherry, hope your cold is not too bad. Lori, would still love to connect on Facebook (Noreen Herzfeld) but not sure who to friend.

MM

Oh, gee, how did I miss that? I’m going right out to check now!

MM, Sherry – Red haired actresses – Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Amy Adams, Isla Fisher Elena Satine – not all with very fair skin, but still lots of red haired women. What about gorgeous red haired men?

Hi all,

A lazy Sunday over here. I’m just starting to beat this cold and feel a tad better thank goodness! Lost a bit more weight as if this morning – down to 125.4. It would be a lovely Christmas miracle if I could get down to 120 by then. We head back to Hawaii the day after X-mas so it would be wonderful to look a bit better in the ‘ol bikini by then ??!

That’s a good list of red haired actresses Try try again! Thanks- will relate them to my daughter!

Cinque, your real name fits so you! I think if you as being peaceful/joyful!

Hi to everyone else & happy start to the week tomorrow!

Sherry

Good (early) Morning!

I got up with the cat at 3:30. Can you say long day? Sigh…

Heading to boot camp in a couple hours. I’ll probably be ready to fall back to sleep about the time I have to leave!

I had a very lazy weekend. I should have gone out for a walk yesterday, but instead, I sat inside reading all day. Feeling a bit “tubby” this morning as we had lasagna and garlic bread for dinner last night. That’s the most carbs I’ve had in a long time. Back on plan this morning. Still haven’t stepped on the scale. Maybe this Friday…….or maybe not! We’ll see.

Planning a very low calorie day today, more than 500, but less than 1,000 calories. I’ll burn 400-500 at boot camp. Have a great day everyone!

Hi girls,

I hope you all had a great weekend.

Lori ti is so weird that the month end is always the hardest on the beginning of the month when we all wait for the numbers.

Cinque your name is lovely!

Sherry hope the back i better and love the cinnamon oil story! LOL

Milena I need a blond pic of you or you will stay a Morticia in my mind forever.

MinnesotaMiss I have scale in my hotel room. It is of by 7 kg. I love it! And I like the fact that you have a lover not a “friend” or a “partner”. 😀

Salma dear food is so gooooood here. I am not fasting. To be honest. Until next week I am on holiday from fasting.

So….
I’m on my retreat with beautiful sunny days and tons of healing tears. Here is why. I am still doing my loving-kindness meditation but I have added forgiveness and gratitude meditation. All this in trying to find the cause f being this unkind to myself piling up all this weight and not being able to let it go.

But the most surprising thing is that at one moment you are supposed to think about what you most like about yourself and I was dumbstruck. I don’t like anything much about myself.

What do you like about yourselves? If you are like me is that the problem? Maybe before we expect any real success with 5:2 or any other WOL we need to learn to love our own body and mind, life …..

This being said I would be ostracized by anybody around me because I am supposed to be the one that made it in all that matters in todays world. But did I?

To be honest the most difficult thing is to forgive myself and let it all go. I forgave everybody else. Why can’t I forgive myself?

Sorry for being a bit philosophical but maybe there lies our problem in shedding these kilos!? We need to be loving and kind to “us”.

Love m

Hi everyone, it is early Tuesday morning here ( but not 3:30am early I am glad to say).

Makica I had to go through something similar and I found there were two layers: one was that I didn’t like anything about myself, and the other was that I felt it would be terrible to say something nice about myself, even if I could think of something nice to say. I felt that if I said anything nice I was saying I was perfect in that attribute, and if I tentatively thought of something, I immediately thought of all the times I acted the opposite! Oh dear!

Luckily it just takes a bit of practice. Your warm, interesting, and interested presence here makes me sure you can come up with a lovely list of things you like about yourself.

Salma you are right, it is very much a women’s thing, especially us mid fifties types! So glad you heard all your workmates reflecting your wonderful attributes.

Lori better give the cat some sedative! I hope you get a good sleep tonight.

I had a good Fast day yesterday, and I’m looking forward to a lovely non fast day today!

Best wishes to you all.