Hi all,
Jaz---Got a ton of great pix!!! Man, your place is great. So ROOMY and comfy looking. Love the little porch. Fine place for an adventure. And wow, those winter beach pix were so gorgeous, I think I'd actually walk if that was my view. The whole place just looks so charming, and if it can be so in winter, it's only going to get better and better. My mouth is just watering at all those clam shacks and seafood joints.
And yeah, 5 miles from work, SCORE. After all that wretched driving for work and just in Atlanta in general where the traffic is famous for being treacherous. Oh honey, I'm so happy for you!!! Surely there will be challenges, and one can never outrun every bad day, but it just feels like this is a grand new page for you...an opportunity to start anew, experience it all, and if in 13 weeks you're ready to move on, wagons ho! Or maybe you decide to stay another 13 weeks and enjoy summer there. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES.
Nic---Boo on the furnace thing! Problem is, sounds like you never now if it will work from here on out, unless this less than reliable resource figures out if it's an easily fixed glitch.
YAY on your LC energy! I remember when you first lost all that weight, when you were first w/our thread and just motoring it off. I always thought, man, that girl loses fast. You would be on plan most of the time, go off for a day or so, get right back on and boom, you'd drop and keep dropping. I hope you start to get those rewards when you decide to take on the scale, and until then thinking you probably already feel that great bloat gone thing we forget about when we do one of our swan dives off plan and stay off for too long.
Y'know, you just get used to the bloat---which really is different than just the extra pounds, in how one feels.
Lori---I really admire how you've made the UD/DD thing work for you! You started out doing it vigilantly, and now you've discovered just how to tinker w/it to make it work for you w/a bit less vigilance---IOW, the least amount of pain to stop the gain. And w/all your exercise, the losses can continue even while tinkering w/the plan. This is where the "diet" stops, and the livable lifestyle takes over.
Trig---OMG, I had such a freaking big giggle over you getting back at the kiddo and scaring her in out of her pants for a change. I just loved the story about how she loves to pop up in your kitchen window, just to yank your chain. Like her mama, that girl has a real sense of humor---but haha, payback is always fair.
So great to hear your sweet zone continues, albeit w/a minute of struggle here and there. But really, not so much struggle, and really HUGE results. And you are also-freakin'-lutely happiest on ZC/Carnivore. And it's not just an eating thing, y'know? It's my sense that you feel SO much FREER when you have that girdle on, so to speak LOL, which is oxymoronic in a way but seems so true and good for you. Really, makes a lot of sense to me as I have come to know you. It's minimalist. No fuss, no muss.
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Well, clearly I am the black sheep of the thread right now. You gals are all doing so great---heck, Jaz even made it thru the quickest move ever that would totally unnerve me, ON PLAN.
I WILL grab on again, but no, not till after Xmas. Just too much going on and y'know, one gets to know oneself by this age. It just isn't my time right now. But it's going to have to be my time again soon come. And it will be.
Had a really FAB day today. So, there's this neighborhood joint just 6 blocks down the road from us that I have come to totally love. It's Kitchy as hell, so very cozy and affordable, and does amazing breakfasts at an amazing price. It's a "Cheers" kind of place.
Went w/a pal from the building for breakfast, and then we headed down to 7th street, a mishmash of restaurants, junk stores, art galleries, tattoo places, a really eclectic delightful street, now part of my neighborhood. Not that it wasn't always there, but funny the bubble we all live in, only traveling most days on our worn old paths closest to home. And this long colorful street is on the rise, WITHOUT becoming too gentrified and boutiquey to stop being interesting, or affordable.
So we went to this place after breakfast I can't even describe except to say it calls itself an "emporium." An old fashioned word that suits it to a T. It's huge and crammed full of dealers' booths of every stripe. There's real treasures there and plenty of junk, although which is which is of course in the eye of the beholder. It's all re-cycled, some vintage, some collector stuff, lots of curiosities and interesting things.
My pal bought me a hand blown glass snow man there for Xmas. He's is heavy clear glass, about 10 inches tall, w/a hole in the bottom I can stick one of those fake flickery votives in. I'm not much of a Xmas decor person, but this guy just grabbed my heart, and will look fab on my Xmas Eve dinner table arrangement. I LOVE setting a pretty table.
So, simple things today. A great pal, a good cheap breakfast in a place that just hugs you from the moment you walk in, and a $10 glass snowman. Bliss.
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