Beauty

[aprilskies]

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I can certainly relate to that needle headed in the wrong direction.  I can't tell you how many 'first day of healthy eating days' I have gone through.  I finally had to face what I had known for a long time and that was bread/sweets were such a trigger for me.  Once I gave them up I have lost 6 lbs and eating so much healthier.  With the carbs, I just had no portion control and just went crazy once I started.  I pray I don't think carbs will work for again.  That was definitely the definition of insanity for me.  My health insurance has a food/fitness app to make me accountable and that  has really helped also.

On another note, I did order some Dr Denese products.

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Yup, me too, every day tomorrow is the clean eating day. It never comes. Getting rid of triggers helps a lot. 

I have not touched junk food in two days.  I don’t feel so bloated, what a concept. It is really a day by day thing because I get tempted so easily.  I am not eliminating anything, but I am trying to make the right choices and if I do have something, it has to be in moderation.  But right now I am not trying to reach for junk during the week.  I even have a package of cookies open that have about 10 left.  I usually would have eaten them all with the notion of getting them out so I can start clean the next day. And that wouldn’t be the only thing.  It is craziness. I can’t even imagine the calories I was consuming. 

I am not going to worry about the scale for now.  I get disheartened when I think I am behaving and making progress only to have the scale deceive me and then I get sidetracked.  For the near future I am just going to focus on my choices and I think the rest will catch up and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.  It is no excuse to go crazy.  And It doesn’t help that I am not active. 

I have 25 to lose and I don’t want it to go higher.  The struggle is real. 

Great at job on losing and changing your choices. 

[just bee]

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I can certainly relate to that needle headed in the wrong direction.  I can't tell you how many 'first day of healthy eating days' I have gone through.  I finally had to face what I had known for a long time and that was bread/sweets were such a trigger for me.  Once I gave them up I have lost 6 lbs and eating so much healthier.  With the carbs, I just had no portion control and just went crazy once I started.  I pray I don't think carbs will work for again.  That was definitely the definition of insanity for me.  My health insurance has a food/fitness app to make me accountable and that  has really helped also.

On another note, I did order some Dr Denese products.

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@Beauty$Junkie

So are you saying there's something wrong with eating an entire loaf of bread in one sitting?

[just bee]

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I can certainly relate to that needle headed in the wrong direction.  I can't tell you how many 'first day of healthy eating days' I have gone through.  I finally had to face what I had known for a long time and that was bread/sweets were such a trigger for me.  Once I gave them up I have lost 6 lbs and eating so much healthier.  With the carbs, I just had no portion control and just went crazy once I started.  I pray I don't think carbs will work for again.  That was definitely the definition of insanity for me.  My health insurance has a food/fitness app to make me accountable and that  has really helped also.

On another note, I did order some Dr Denese products.

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Yup, me too, every day tomorrow is the clean eating day. It never comes. Getting rid of triggers helps a lot. 

I have not touched junk food in two days.  I don’t feel so bloated, what a concept. It is really a day by day thing because I get tempted so easily.  I am not eliminating anything, but I am trying to make the right choices and if I do have something, it has to be in moderation.  But right now I am not trying to reach for junk during the week.  I even have a package of cookies open that have about 10 left.  I usually would have eaten them all with the notion of getting them out so I can start clean the next day. And that wouldn’t be the only thing.  It is craziness. I can’t even imagine the calories I was consuming. 

I am not going to worry about the scale for now.  I get disheartened when I think I am behaving and making progress only to have the scale deceive me and then I get sidetracked.  For the near future I am just going to focus on my choices and I think the rest will catch up and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t.  It is no excuse to go crazy.  And It doesn’t help that I am not active. 

I have 25 to lose and I don’t want it to go higher.  The struggle is real. 

Great at job on losing and changing your choices. 

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@aprilskies

So are you saying there's something wrong with eating an entire package of cookies in one sitting?

[just bee]

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@just bee

Laundromats, yuck.  Like having to use someone else’s toothbrush.  Gives me the heebie-geebies.  At least you have one.  We don’t have any left in our town.

My condolences on the demise of your washer.  And my commiserations on having to buy a new one.  That’s almost as bad as having to use a laundromat.  I think whoever designs and manufactures them now has never washed a load of clothes in their lives.  At least they haven’t washed rugs, towels or sheets.  Mine always end up unbalanced so that the machine tries to walk out of the laundry room.

February?  I, too, can only think of one ‘F’ word.  Gutter mind, that’s me.

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@geezerette

Taken!!!  January already nabbed it.

[just bee]

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Grrr. Laundromats. I feel ya, @just bee

February:

felicitous

fixed up

fresh

festive

fair

flourishing

fulfilling

fancy

How's that?

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@KaySD

There's another F-word.  We never think about "fun."  Clearly, we're way overdue.  We just have to get better about having fun.

Okay, who's volunteering to go out there and have some fun?  (Cue the crickets.)

[just bee]

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Ooh, @rnmom, really happy to hear you have lots of storage now. Good for you!

I feel the storage I have "should" be enough, but somehow isn't. There's a part of me that still suffers a hangover from my upbringing, when nothing was extra and nothing was wasted. I had to eat every bite of food because of the "starving Armenians." What a hoot. Well, I've figured out that the valuable part of that lesson is to cultivate appreciation of what I have, not guilt about others. And I'm okay not being a minimalist. The part I don't like is overbuying in the first place. 

The good news is, that's what this Compact group is for, and I appreciate all  of you!

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@KaySD

I got home from work this morning and after I gave the dog his breakfast, he sat and stared at me.  I looked at him and called him a starving Armenian.  He had no idea what I was talking about.

Confused, he left the room.

[just bee]

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@just bee, you asked, "I don't know why books are so hard to part with."

That's easy--it's because they're books. Books! BOOKS!! If you really love books, you couldn't have so many shelves that you wouldn't long to fill them up. Just having them there is such a lovely thing. I like the way they look, the way they feel, the way they smell. They're friends of mine, rich veins of information and fun, patient companions waiting to be consulted. Every reason I wanted each of them to begin with is still there. After food, they are the one things I always give myself permission to buy, no matter how stretched my budget is.

That said, I've given away a zillion books. Some are dull or otherwise unappealing. Some, like your political ephemera, are seriously past their sell by. A few I can't remember when or why I acquired. And others are just too lightweight to take up space in my head, let alone my house. So they have to scoot to make room for others (after a Marie Kondo type pat of appreciation). I'm going through a little purge right now, and hope every one of them finds a new friend. 

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@KaySD

When I went off to college at 17, just the thought of writing in a textbook made me queasy.  I couldn't do it.  I couldn't even use a highlighter.

Eventually I broke down and desecrated them.

[just bee]

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@just bee

Laundromats, yuck.  Like having to use someone else’s toothbrush.  Gives me the heebie-geebies.  At least you have one.  We don’t have any left in our town.

My condolences on the demise of your washer.  And my commiserations on having to buy a new one.  That’s almost as bad as having to use a laundromat.  I think whoever designs and manufactures them now has never washed a load of clothes in their lives.  At least they haven’t washed rugs, towels or sheets.  Mine always end up unbalanced so that the machine tries to walk out of the laundry room.

February?  I, too, can only think of one ‘F’ word.  Gutter mind, that’s me.

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@geezerette

I'll tell you one thing.  That laundromat washer did a better job on my clothes than my useless GE HE low-water piece of...

I swear my clothes are cleaner when they go into the ____ thing!  I've never been fond of that machine.

And it's true about the disappearing laundromats.  There's like one left on our side of town.

[KaySD]

Well, @just bee, if you're going with "fun," I'm in.

My amazing neighbor has been on a mission to clear out her garage, and ordered a 1800JUNK truck for tomorrow, is holding a garage sale in our adjacent driveways next week, and has ordered a truck to pick up what doesn't sell. AND, did I want to participate? Do I ever! So I tore through my mess to pull out the junk for tomorrow, and started the process of selecting and cleaning stuff up for a garage sale. 

I've been thinking about doing a garage sale for, well, a long time. But having all the bases covered, an dsomebody else organizing it all, has moved me off the dime. If I make any money at the sale, great. if not, there's the donation truck coming. Now that's what I call fun.

I'm chuffed!

[rnmom]

Oh my goodness, you ladies make me chuckle! I have so much fun reading this thread!

Kiddos decided not to go to the store with us last weekend after all, so the most exotic thing I bought was a container of strawberries. My younger son has eaten a few of them. My older son at least tried a small piece of one but that's as far as he's gotten. I'm still struggling with their pickiness. I tried a new recipe the other night because I'm so tired of making the same thing over and over and my younger son wouldn't eat it because there was ketchup on it. Ketchup! I totally forgot that he doesn't eat ketchup. That's the kind of nonsense I'm dealing with. So you can see why rutabagas are out. 

@just bee-I got to Rite Aid and picked up a couple of the Wet N Wild liners this past week, I haven't tried them yet but I will soon. Bargain price of $.99, and they're long! They'll last forever if they're any good.

@KaySD-awesome deal with the garage sale! I used to have them every few years but I got so tired of all the work involved to make a few bucks. And since we moved to our new house we're set really far off the road, back in the woods, and it's just not a really convenient area to have a sale. So now as I accumulate stuff I just donate it. No fussing with sales, but they can be fun, especially if your neighbor is doing the bulk of the work! Have fun!