For the past few years here at Tamara Tattles, a group of us blasphemous ne’er-do-wells participate in The Lentil Season. Once upon a time, there was a particularly obtuse and annoying Catholic “real housewife” who referred to Lent at The Lentil Season. Since I sort of participate in Lent as a non-catholic (unless I’m in Europe), mostly agnostic, Southern Baptist by birth I adopted the name for the period of time from Ash Wednesday until the Saturday before Easter. This is a forty-six period every year. Yet every year I think the number of days changes. Because, brain damage.
Anyway, this forty-six day period is a good amount of time to, lose weight, regenerate one’s liver, or rid yourself of a bad habit, or begin practicing a new beneficial habit.
Also every year, a bunch of devout, know-it all Catholics descend from their high horses and explain Lent to me. Their rules make no sense. If you are sticking to the forty days of sacrifice to mimic the fasting of Christ before he was crucified thing, why do you get six Sundays off that require no sacrifice at all? Doesn’t cheating on Sundays of all the days seem sort of the opposite of fasting in solidarity with your Lord and Saviour? These are rhetorical questions. And yet, this paragraph right here will be a bat signal to all the judgey Catholic types to descend from their high horses to regale us with their biannual pontifications. Forgive them. They know not what they do.
The Tamara Tattles Lentil Season is very simple. One suffers without ceasing for forty-six days. There are no cheat day Sundays. The liturgical fasting on holy days here and there is optional, because quite frankly you are suffering enough. And I should point out again the whole extry six days in this heathen version.
On years I choose to participate in The Lentil Season. I give up either sugar, alcohol, or processed foods. This year, due to a drastic increase in the need to call people cunts, urge others to die in a fire, and my overwhelming urge to at least metaphorically punch some of you in the face, I decided it was necessary to deny myself all three of my vices. This of course has resulted in an even more disagreeable disposition.
But today, on this final day of suffering, I end the lentil season with a significant weight loss and increase in mental health. No really! I actually started The Lentil Season back in mid January. Because, my season, my rules. And after celebrating the resurrection of Christ tomorrow with a family feast, I shall return to the rules of this year’s Lentil season until at least the Sunday after the Summer Solstice. Because, let’s just say I haven’t quite managed to locate my summer body yet.
Meanwhile, a small group of supportive types and I have been whining and venting (me) and supporting each other (them) in a super duper secret comment section. So thanks to all who participated in The Lentil Season this year. And welcome to any others who would like to join us for The Lentil Season Sequel: Secular Summer Bodies. Part Deux of The Lentil Season lasts for 65 days (Including Easter Sunday, your one and only cheat day). If you give up alcohol and sugar and processed foods and walk at LEAST 120 minutes a week for sedentary folks like me. You should be down twenty pounds by the end of it. That is my plan I am speaking to the universe.
Also, I still don’t think I’ve eaten lentils yet. I keep meaning to!
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The very questions you raise got me in a lot of trouble in Catholic School. The answer invariably was “That is part of the Divine Mystery”. Huh? I knew then, and especially when the Mass changed from Latin to English that I would not be a life-long Catholic. I know what I am giving up, chocolate milk. I drink about a half gallon a day and with all that Hershey’s syrup, it CANNOT be good for me. I’m putting it out into the universe, I’ve given up worse things, let’s see how I do. Thanks TT!!
Well, I’ve nearly made it. Hours to go now. I held to the restrictions, lost some weight, and am hovering slightly above the nearer goal. So. I shall be along for the next part of the ride and I will need to abstain from the same things you’ve listed.
Thanks to all those here who encourage. It does make a difference and I’m looking forward to the new posts. They’re essential to staying the course.
I am so excited you did it Maxie! Thanks for suffering along with me. And today we reap the results of our hard work! Great job and thanks for all your support and for putting up with my crankiness!
I still haven’t decided if I am going to do anything too crazy tomorrow. DEFINITELY having my sister’s biscuits and likely a little bit of a dessert or two. Undecided on the booze still. Then right back to the SUFFERING with the Lentil gang.
xo
~tt
Biscuits and desserts are a must. I’m eating sugarsugarsugar and having some wine. So, is this the reason I’ve been cranked? Ha. XOXO backatcha. Happy Easter to All!
I found myself very pleasant to be around for the first month or two. But for the last few weeks I’ve been unbearable and feeling violent. JUST IN TIME FOR FORCED FAMILY FUN TOMORROW! YAY!
I am in. I lost 15 lbs so far.
YAY! the more the crankier! Um, I mean merrier.
I am game. I have being doing a well publicized and familiar weight loss program for a few months and have lost a serious chunk o’change of weight. BUT, I have a cookie “problem” so will commit not to have ANY cookies for this Sequel. Now, I need to get some goodbye cookies to shove in my face by midnight tomorrow. Good luck and Godspeed to us all.
YAY! Only 64 more days after cookie day. I’m starting to think I want a Foster’s Oil can tomorrow but I am already back in the house and the weather is crap today. I guess I will pick it up tomorrow if I’m still interested.
I didn’t lose but I didn’t gain. Last August I was sent to a hematologist and given a huge document to fill out concerning medical history. And the question that knocked ne back asked for my weight and what did Iweigh a year ago that day and I had gained 10 pounds. Not much, but being 4 ’11” and knowing my past history, I could so easily keep on gaining and hit or exceed my maximum again. So I did make an effort and have lost 7 .1 of those pounds, so my FitBit app tells me. But I want to los e those 3 pounds and a bit more… I do walk but my back and hip are currently giving me grief. So I am back for whatever Lentil is next.
I actually started walking because of the back thing. It has helped a good bit. But I just came back from a couple hours at the mall and the back did not care for all the bending over. I still do not understand why the giant sized bras and athletic tops have to be on the bottom of the racks. Don’t they know we are a top heavy people?
Ooooooooo…. how have I not heard of this till now? I thought I was a semi-loyal disciple of TT, but alas…
I want in. I let myself become 2 by 4, of the fatty-fatty type. Blubber must be surround my pre-frontal cortex, because I didnt quite catch how to sign up besides just commenting. Hand holding, anyone, puh-lease?
Welcome, my fellow fatty-fatty! I am almost down to just fat! Not quite, but close! 🙂 When you comment you should see in the comment part a way to click a box to follow comments for the post or follow the site for an email when a new post is made. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen that in a while, but I don’t comment a directly on the site much. I’ve changed the layout a few times so I may have to mash some buttons to see if that still works.
Here’s to getting down to “woah, she’s REALLY curvy!” by June! 🙂
Star with a twenty minute brisk walk. Authority give i had an injury to one of my legs. As my leg atrophied my weight happened to 185 pounds. Physical therapy taught me to appreciate every step. Believe in yourself.
You just can’t help yourself, can you?
Homemade manicotti with broccoli rabe tomorrow, forgive if you can and let go of your sorrow. With love from the bottom of my heart, which is over stuffed with a bunch of tree hugging hippy crap TCM tonight the Ten Commandments. I’ve broken a couple in the past. Yul Brenner and Anne Baxter sizzling as two strips of bacon in a hot skillet, on the silver screen, for all the world to see. Happy spring to all!
I pled with someone to please send me some of her tomato sauce RIGHT BEFORE I lost all reason and opted for a life of misery and despair. She even sent me some fancy pasta. I’m quite tempted to crack that mason jar open tomorrow. But I probably won’t. I know how much walking Easter dinner is going to require already. I do stare at that mason jar every day though. /sigh
Lord knows I need carbohydrates. Sometimes my workday feels like running the gauntlet marathon. I love my daily bread and or capellini , aka Italian ramen. Rock your skinny jeans and may all your jelly beans be pineapple. Also have a recipe for Dr. Bird’s cake. Temptation with half the guilt.
I wish I knew of this thread before giving up alcohol for none lentil reasons. But now i have decided to give up sugary drinks/juice so the crank is strong.
It occurred to me that Easter starts at midnight. So I have purchased a small bottle of Wild Turkey (sadly not 151 they didn’t have the little bottle of that) and shall have a small bourbon or two tonight and have another shots after dinner with the family. TWO count them TWO drinking events can happen in one 24 hour period with proper planning. 🙂
I wish I had given up alcohol for lent. Definitely need to lose some pounds and be less grumpy.
I’ve been doing my own version of the Lentil season relying more on portion control and no sweets. I do put sugar in my coffee… I’ve been eating a lot of salad and fish and have lost 9 pounds. Trying for 9 more.
I put these Atkins Diet protein shakes in my coffee. Tastes like a latte without the sugar. Plus I need the protein. 🙂
That’s a great idea. A gal never can have too much protein!
Yeah, the one thing I really need sugar in is coffee. And of course sweet tea. I haven’t really missed sweet tea much. My sister makes Iced green tea with no sugar that is really good once you stop expecting one of those 600 CALORIE! sweet teas from McDonalds. When they started putting the calorie counts up on the drive thru was when I stopped swinging through the drive thrus on sunny summer days. I still can’t believe the sweet tea was 600 calories that’s way more than a co-cola.
Oh maybe I will have a co-cola today. I drank bourbon last night and am over the whole alcohol thing. I don’t like my mental thinking process the next morning.
I am going to try the Atkins in the coffee. Great idea!
The sweet tea reminds me of Memorial Day weekend 2015, when you went to the In-N-Out Burger drive thru. The story was so funny. The girl at the cashier couldn’t get your order right. I think you got an extra large sweet tea to last for two days and hot dogs.
I don’t remember the story exactly, but I remember the date and how much you made me laugh. You really are a great storyteller.
I ended up having two Mexican colas. I was only gonna have one, but, hell, I had two. Soda and cake is my addiction. I need help!! Potato chips are a trigger too.
I don’t understand how it takes one slip and the pounds come back. My scale is a rotten fuck-face that just laughs and laughs when the pounds go up.
I am so happy for you that you are two sizes down. Great work! Also happy for anyone else who lost weight here. It really takes a lot of effort and dedication.
I know this is going to sound crazy but the vanilla flavor is best in coffee. I love chocolate so I want to choose that as much as possible but the Atkins (diet?) PLUS I think plus means… fiber maybe? Whatever it is makes a great cup of coffee. I generally prefer chocolate, And one week Muscle Milk was on sale and I am cheap and it was god awful.
Atkins Protein Plus Fiber Creamy Vanilla. you won’t regret it,
@ Barbara R-Great job 👍🤘👏
Good for y’all!
I’ve been a slug since Christmas.
I am in. I’m going to keep this browser window open and refresh it to see the new comments. So no alcohol, sugar, or processed foods plus walking. I need this badly! I can never stick to anything longer than 4 days other than the one time I successfully completed whole 30.
You can do it! When you comment here check the box below that says notify me of new comments. I am not sure if that gives you all new comments or just these though. But keep checking in.
And go get rid of all you crap. If you are going somewhere for Easter, take it there! Then go buy some mangos and blueberries. Both are good and in season. The mango take eons to ripen, but whatever. And some raw salad veggies including onions and celery, and a nice fat cabbage, So V8 and some organic chicken broth. You can eat all the fruits and veggies you want. More later.
Thank you! I want to try to fast as a kick-off, Mon-Weds.
If you haven’t done a total fast before, I’d suggest doing my cabbage soup and perhaps a protein shake with your coffee if you are a coffee person. And three days fasting is a bad idea in my opinion.. Email me at Tamara Tattles on gmail. We can talk about it.
I promise the long fucking two months with reasonable food will have better and longer term results. I’m old. I’ve tried everything and just like Bethenny Frankel, I KNOW IT ALL! 🙂
I would love the Cabbage soup details! I’ve been battling menopause weight gain and I’m excited to join in with all of you!
Hey everyone! I had gastric bypass surgery last July so I’ve really had to clean up my diet. Haven’t had any caffeine since the end of July but of course still have many improvements to make. SO for this lentils period I’m going to decrease eating processed foods & bread while increasing vegies, water, walking & sleep. Good luck, one and all!
I gave up nothing this year. God already kows my life is one long penance, it’s my purgatory 😂
Happy eating chocolate for jesus day to you all 🥳🥰
I’m in! That October wedding is still looming and I WILL NOT be fat in son’s wedding photos. I hate it yet exercise, eating in, and tracking what I eat works best on the scale. Hate it cause I am a semi-horrible cook who has to lose weight to be overweight 😜. Bring it on my fellow giver uppers and movers more.
I hope you’re enjoying your day of indulgence!! I’m enjoying my last hurrah with some wine and stolen bits of Easter chocolate from my husband and daughter. We rode bikes for about two hours today; and other than the chocolate, meals have been pretty healthy in a low-carb kind of way. Eggs and bacon for breakfast and dinner will be roast chicken plus last hurrah mashed potatoes. I’m really looking forward to having some company as I turn over new leaf #48,936,278,821
I failed at my lentil…tried to give up sugar and cursing. So, starting Monday, I will try summer lentil of cursing and sugar again. Plus start exercising. After my mom passed in September, I haven’t been taking care of me, so hoping this helps.
Thank YOU, T, for doing the summer lentil!!
YOU DID NOT FAIL AT LENTIL. You tried. It was not the right time for you. We all are JUST TRYING TO DO THE BEST WE CAN,
And Sweetie, If your mother died in September, you need to just get through that. When a woman’s mother passes regardless of the relationship it is life changing.
I think you trying for too much for Lentil THE SEQUEL lol,
If you don’t mind, I’d like you to do something else Here are my suggestions.
1) Curse your motherfucking ass off. Curse when you do not have to, Go to Starbucks and say “I’d like a fucking LATTE, Okay if you can’t do that just come here and say THAT WAS A FUCKING GOOD RECAP, But curse s much as humanly possible, If ever there is a time to curse it is when your mother dies, CURSE OFTEN AN WITH CONVICITON! This is NOT the time to stop cursing, It is the time to curse more.
I do not want you to give up a goddamn thing for LENTIL THE SEQUEL. I want you to eat whatever you want especially sugar I want you to drink whatever you want. I want you to take it easy on yourself, Nuture yourself
It would be great at this time if you could eat things that nuture you, But I do not want you to stop eating sugar. If there is ever a time in your life to eat sugar it is when your mama dies. I am so very sorry for your loss.
You do not need to be giving up anything at this time, You eat and drink and do whatever the fuck you want.
That said, you can still be part of LENTIL THE SEQUEL!
For the next two months this is the commitment I’d like you to make.
For at LEAST 120 minutes a week you will google or yelp to find out where all the parks near you that you do not know exist are. You will go to them for AT LEAST 120 minutes a week but hopefully for more. You will walk and or sit peacefully OUTSIDE ALONE and deal with your loss.
That is my suggestion. You are a part of THE SEQUEL no matter what you choose and you can talk to us here the whole entire time.
T, you have a forever friend in me. I sent you an email…I love your suggestions and going to do my best to follow. I think I’ve read this ten times today, and keeping it in my email to read daily. Having this support is just one of the nicest things that has happened to me lately. Sending many blessings up to the big guy tonight for good things to come for you. Even though I’m still kind of mad at Him. You are the best.
I’m still kind of mad at him too, sweetie. We have a lot more in common than you know. So, did you find a new park in your area yet? It’s time to get on that, Sometimes you need to walk and sometimes you need to just sit outside and take in the beauty of spring. xo ~tt
All in. I missed the Lentil season so now I need to catch up!
You are not to late for THE SEQUEL!
It’s was only lentil season?? What about Baby Jesus’ birthday! I know I am mixing my housewife religious holidays, but I can’t think of one without the other. I don’t remember what either of them call Easter, but I hope everyone remembered mommy’s deathaversery or whatever they want to call it.
So my Easter was a little long because it was my birthday on Good Friday (even if it wasn’t baby Jesus’). But tomorrow, all things start new again. I just feel better with no sugar, refined carbs or grains. I don’t drink alcohol, so that part is easy. So I am back in the saddle again. I’ve told my son we will work out together tomorrow. I kind of want my Apple Watch Earth Day Challenge badge.
Damn, I missed it…and I had just started a new plan in December! Would have loved to have been there to support you all and feed off your energy, but following now!
My giveadamn is broken. I’m going to follow for inspiration.
I am struggling today. Feeling very sluggish. Is it due to all the sugar I ate yesterday? Time to clean out the system. Any suggestions how to cleanse the body of Easter gluttony?
I feel like total dogshit today. Headachey, lethargic. BLAH. I think we are supposed to be drinking water. But all I want to do is sleep. I am just now opening my laptop and seriously considering going back to bed.
Perhaps cheat days are a bad idea.
I’d love to start Lentil the Sequel! I will confess though that my birthday is the 24th (those calories don’t count), I’m running a half on the 27th (carbs galore the day before or else I’ll die halfway through), and Italy for two weeks in May! Other than those two cheat days (weeks) I’m totally up for this!
💁🏻♀️I want to join Lentil the Sequel. My plan is to eat dinner on a smaller plate, cutting off eating by 7pm. I’ll also avoid Wendy’s and my favorite donut joint😢
Hi it was already a bad day. My husband is out of town for work and abandonment is my biggest trigger to eat for comfort. I know this about myself and yet whenever he goes away I get depressed, eat for comfort, and accomplish little. It wasn’t a total catastrophe but I ate two Girl Scout cookies and had about 4 oz of white wine left in the bottle. Tomorrow new leaf # 48 billion …2 I did ride bikes with my daughter after school for maybe half an hour 🙂
Today was a very bad day for me too. I think i had a hangover. I haven’t had one of those is ions. It might have been a sugar hangover. I dunno. I’ve got nothing done today.
Today is Easter Monday in Canada so technically, it’s still a holiday. I have no idea how one eats two girl scout cookies. I eat an entire sleeve at minimum. I’ve had an “emergency” mango Popsicle and an emergency coconut Popsicle and some of my magical diet soup with brown rice. I was starving all day. I was not starving once while on part one of THE LENTIL SEASON. I’ve had a headache all day.
Tomorrow will be better. And I’ll try to remember to post the soup recipe then. Y’all may not like it. But I do. It’s mostly a cabbage soup.
I am all in. I am a retired firefighter of 32 years but I don’t mention it in public, people look at me sideways….how is this miss piggy supposed to have been healthy and fit enough to ever do that??? So now maybe a good time to try again….
And I too are in awe..who eats two Girl Scout cookies?? And only 4 oz of wine? That’s allot of self discipline. (Besides over educated opinion)
Welcome Beetchy! You’re gonna fit right in with us on this journey.
I have REALLY bad news….I cooked last week ,we only ate 3 meals out (I hate cooking) and the scale LOVED it. Ugh…I am going to have to learn to cook cause eating in and moving works for making the scale do what I want it to.
Am I too late????
I don’t think I checked a box last time
Trying to join the Lentil Sequel! I did not see my previous comment so I’m trying again. Sorry if it’s a duplicate.
You are here. This is where the chatter will happen. I’m sort of off to a rough start so not feeling very cheery just yet. Easter totally got me off my game and I’m in a bit of a hole. So y’all talk amongst yourselves.
Hang in there ! It can take me a few days to get over a detox sort of hump so I feel you. Give yourself as much of a break as you can until you’re back on your game. May I recommend a Downton Abbey binge watch?
Also don’t know about you but for me being around family or even talking to one of them can mess me up for a week. You are brave to attend a family function.
I want to do this as well. if 62 isn’t too old.
62 isn’t too old for ANYTHING especially being healthy. We’re not really dieting here. We are eating things that nourish our bodies and not eating things that are bad for our bodies. And we are trying to waddle around a bit more. 🙂
Some of us have a bit of weight to lose that will happen when we eat nourishing foods and move a bit more. That’s an added bonus for those with extra weight.
Hi! Just checking in to report today has been much better! Thank you so much TT and Beetchyone for your funny and kind encouragement, which I needed and appreciate !!! I literally waddled for two solid hours today – took a weird route to a shopping mall nearby down a canal towpath and through a golf course, and all the way back home though my back was hurting and I thought of taking a Lyft. With hubby still out of town I just made a plate of some charcuterie, cheese, nuts, and berries for dinner; skipped breakfast and lunch. I hope everyone is feeling good.
Don’t overdo it! Two hours is ALOT. And you are not eating enough protein.
well today we walked about 25 mins. myself and my 2 dogs, a peke and shihtzu so they were trotting along. I walk fast (for me anyways ). I also signed up for imperfect produce that has come into my area. they deliver so I can curb inpluse purchases at the grocery store by not going.
This is a great plan. I’m still in the whole and haven’t completely given up alcohol again yet. I’m also not walking. I am still losing weight though because I’m also not eating. I not going to force myself to participate this week as I need to just work through this bout of depression.And yes, I know walking and skipping the wine would expedite that. I’m just choosing to wallow for a bit. Sometimes you just have to feel the feelings.
When I’m depressed I like to ride it out. Just try not to stay there too long. We need our TT nice and healthy to keep us rolling. I’m still trying to decide what to give up..I love the modified version of Lent. May not be completely successful but so far I not too bad. Great job so far. I love this group.
Hi everybody. I rode bikes w my daughter today. This kid learning how to ride a bike is working out pretty good for me! : P I’m trying to wait a week between weigh-ins because usually either I don’t lose weight, get mad, and pig out, or I lose a couple of pounds and decide I can afford a glass of wine, which turns into 3, and suddenly everything good is out the window. Brain no work so good. It drives me crazy that I recognize these patterns and still feel powerless to break out of them. ANYWAY. Really it would be best to wait a month … yes, that’s what I will do.
While I didn’t Lentil 1, I have eschewed dairy, refined carbs and sweeteners since April 1 (except for birthday/Easter and 1 day we got cinnamon rolls for my son’s sleepover). I started Pilates mid February. I do miss cheese, but I feel so much better. I also am not afraid of what the scale will tell me at doctor appointment tomorrow. At least I have lost most of my winter bloat and am back to looking cute chubby in a few outfits. I hope to stay mostly on plan for next 4 weeks until I am a fat middle aged bridesmaid! Boo! Then another good 3 weeks until 10 days in Europe and all bets are off…So not a real Lentil 2 but a pretty good attempt.
I was never able to give up cheese so I just have feta which is fairly low cal and low processed. I have these two tiny little dishes from Paris that I put a bit of feta in one and the other may have a few blueberries, or sunflower seeds or walnuts, or FIVE tortilla chips made with brown rice. That is my allowed “cheat.”
All of those sound good and not “cheats” to me. I always like it when you tell us about your fancy dishes and stemware. I will probably add some dairy back in to see how it affects me when I can finally wear my cute summer clothes.
I’m sitting here eating my soup and remember I promised to tell you how to make it. Then I realized that normal people live with other people and can’t always just eat their own stuff. I have the luxury of no having any temptation in my house.
I love soup and could live off soup forever probably. This is a variation of the Dolly Parton Diet soup.
Ingredients
V-8 Juice and kind. Big bottle
Organic Chicken Broth (comes in a cardboard container on the soup aisle)
A head of Cabbage red or green or some of each
A bunch of multi-colored peppers
Onions
Celery chopped up leaves and all
tomatoes fresh or canned. I like diced organic with jalepenos and or cilantro
Some or all of the following
canned diced tomatoes
canned organic beans ie red kidney, black beans, pretty much whatever you like
diced jalepeno peppers from a jar. I but three or for jars at a time and use these generously because I like spicy food. You can find them near the pickles Mt Olive makes them.
Chopped Garlic ( buy huge jars of it in the produce section usually under a counter
Tumeric (great for inflammation.) In the spice section ( I also take this in pill form for aches and pains)
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
Just chop it all up, toss it in the V-8 and chicken broth, add water if desired cook for 15 or twenty minutes in a large pot.
I keep the large pot in the fridge for days and spoon it into a small pot. This is so you don’t keep cooking the veggies and making them mushy.
I also make a pot of brown rice and keep it in a container in the fridge. Brown rice is good for you but high in calories so I measure out some cooked brown rice into the soup when serving. Just a spoonful or three.
I also have canned salmon and chicken and sprinkle that on top of the rice when I need extra protein.
Also because I like things REALLY SPICY WildVine makes a Siracha ? sauce with probiotics. The only place I have ever seen it is at Sprouts. It’s next to the refrigerated WildVine kimchi type stuff.
I think the chopped jalapenos are key. But you can skip them if you don’t like heat. I could eat this for months. But I am strange and really like soup. The less you cook it the better. You have all the vegetable colors of the rainbow in there. It’s very low calorie until you add the rice and/or protein. I never limit my portions of this. It’s my go to when I am hungry and there is always a big fat pot of it in the fridge.
On days I am REALLY HUNGRY, I make a bowl of brown rice, put a bit of the soup/veggie mix on top and eat it with a small amount of organic tortilla chips. That is very filling and the CHIPS!!! are a very rare treat for me that make me feel like I am having a special treat.
Sorry I am not commenting much. I’m emerging from THE HOLE (of depression) again and have given myself through the weekend to GET IT TO GETHER! I’m not really fucking up Lentil much. Just not walking and having a bit of wine. Back on track soon, might even waddle this weekend. I reckon. Maybe.
I meant to point out that you don’t want to put the Wild Vine probiotic siracha sauce on until right before you eat it. If you cook with it in there the probiotics will die. Treat it like a hot sauce you put on at the table. There is lots of stuff in there that is supposed to be good for your belly.
Okay a few housekeeping Things. The little FT on the black box bottom right corner was not working to bring me here. I’ve fixed it now, so if you want to know how to get directly to this post, you click the FT at the bottom righthand corner of the link box.
This IS NOT A PRIVATE THREAD. However, once things roll off the front page, and they have people only know we are here when they see it in the recent comments section.
EVERYONE is welcome here. It is just that people will forget all about caring about the secret fat girl club unless they wanted to join in the first place. Also apologies to those who are not fat. Anyone wanting to make healthier decisions is welcome in this commenting section.
Moving on since I always feel close to you guys, I’d like to ask a favor.
I don’t spend that much time actually ON FACEBOOK. So I need your help. If you could promote my links on any Facebook groups you are on for Bravo shows or Killing Eve or any news stories etc I cover here by dropping a link into your groups if that is allowed, I would really appreciate it.
Also, if you have any social media like twitter or facebook or Instagram if you could use the buttons at the bottom of posts to share my posts (or repost my IG ,,,not sure how that works) I will be forever grateful.
In the next couple of years I am going to probably relocate out of the country and while I will still have my sources and will still be giving your the Bravo tea. I will also be talking a lot about my own “retirement” lol or move to a slower paced country. I will probably lose a lot of my audience and just want to build things up a bit now so that hopefully some of y’all stay with me until social security kicks in in a decade or two! lol.
So any help you could offer would be great. Relevant Facebook GROUPS are always good.
xo
~tt
Ok, I’m in with y’all for Lentil Part Deux. I’m starting this weekend. I didn’t do so well for Lent this year, but then I never really liked beans. I’m glad y’all are doing it again.
My main focus is on getting the walking in. I’m not moving enough, so that one is my big commitment. I already don’t eat processed foods, so that one is easy. I am banishing sugar and bad carbs. I’m not going to completely give up alcohol, because my job requires I got to a lot of social functions and everyone would give me the stink eye if I suddenly stopped drinking. So I am going to limit my drinking to social functions only, and then a limit of 2 drinks. I am also going to focus on drinking more water. I don’t drink enough water. I haven’t worked out how much water I am going to drink just yet, so that part is still TBD.
So there, I’m in.
Hi Tamara and everyone here.
TT ~ I took your advice and I am drinking the Atkins vanilla shake in my coffee. I stopped coffee for a while, but coffee curbs the appetite, so I figured now is the time to start. Thanks for the advice. It taste good in my coffee.
I had soda for 2 days a few days ago. I need to stay away altogether b’c I feel like I’m addicted to cola. I’m not suppose to eat sugar for health reasons too. I’ve been dieting for about a month or so, and haven’t lost any weight. I want to lose 15 to 20 pounds… It depends on if my fuck-face scale is lying to me and is accurate.
Oh, for the beans in the soup or any dish, I really love butter beans, they are buttery and smooth…. They taste real good with broccoli and garlic (sun dried tomatoes if you wish) cooked with olive oil. I love black beans in my Mexican omelettes..delicious. I also like chickpeas in my salad.
I walked the past two days. I can’t do it a lot b’c it hurts my back. I’ll walk every other day to ease my back pain.
I’m glad I found the post, I couldn’t find it under FT. Everyone keep up the good work!
The secret FT shortcut to here seems to be working.
I would like to stress that NO ONE NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE HERE.
I’m supposed to be the leader or whatever and I’m having a mental meltdown and not yet on board.
SHIT HAPPENS.
Just because I a choosing one path doesn’t mean you need to follow .We are just all sharing our journey.
We set our own goal for June 23rd.
If you want to gain weight by then THAT IS FINE TOO.
We are just all commiting to a June 23 end date to reach goal. And for most of us it involves having a “summer body” 🙂 but for me that may have to be summer 2020 🙂 BUT WE WILL GET THERE TOGETHER!
I’m really struggling with what to give up…the stuff y’all eat sounds delicious. We have a variety of foods at home, so much temptation. Ages range from 5 months to 71 so we have a little bit of everything. I think the soup idea would work for most of us..salad fixings seem to go bad. Going to cut back on cheese. No more chocolate rabbits, even if they are 75 % off…only one rum and Diet Coke till the bottle is gone. One step at a time.
FYI in case you missed it, clicking on FT in the bottom right corner of the black link bar brings you straight here.
I’m still defying my own plan. Things I have not done this week. WALK. AT ALL. Stopped drinking. Because I feel like Kombucha tea and merlot mixed makes a healthy sangria. And it is quite tasty, Given a damn. Because I’m in some sort of defiant bitch mode and am having a lot of odd aggression issues.
I’ve recently attempted to provide support to a rape victim. It’s been a bit difficult for me. I’m not blaming my dietary/exercise failures on this. I’m just saying I’m a bit personally triggered lately and have learned to cut myself some slack.
And by slack I mean that Merlot with the fruity kombucha of your choice is a health drink, It has sort of replaced coffee and protein shake. This is not good.
I am not looking forward to weigh in Sunday and only hope I have not gained.
/confessions of a terrible cult leader.
Nope Not a Failure
Also, I’d like to suggest that SOMEONE HERE needs to confess to buying and consuming some sort of RAMONA drink… One must confess HERE not in my email box.
Stay tough everyone. Yes the button makes it easier for me as. Just recently I have joined in conversations online. Look forward to hearing what works and why. Been trying to get healthy for years. Some of these tidbits are sure to stick. No chocolate rabbit last night, so that is progress….
Just to say I’m still here and don’t worry we can wait for you to get back in the driver’s seat. I did my walk to the shopping center and back again today. I almost don’t want to tell you guys … I’m doing a water fast. Yes I am that desperate. I watched a couple of documentaries about fasting and I’ve been clicking around the interwebs and feel I must give it a try. I also have health problems (autoimmune plus so much more!) and I want to be free of all medications – fasting has curative benefits as well as weight loss. For anyone trying to lose weight there is evidence that if you give your body a long break from eating, even if you keep eating the same things, you will lose weight. For example eat only from 11 am to 7 pm each day. (This is intermittent fasting). My best to all.
Ok, I am back on after having a shitty couple weeks! Trying to do a low carb, low calorie deal with little or no wine, ugh. I’m over halfway to my goal, after needing to do this for 10+ years. Just need to suck it up and stick with it…June 23 let’s do this!
I feel exactly the same way! I’ve hesitated commenting because my attitude stinks. I’m below one goal (by decimal points) but I have 5 (honestly 15 but I’d be happy to nudge the 5lb stalemate) but then everyday seems to bring a new struggle that food and wine normally, albeit temporarily, fix.
My allergies hate my body. The winds here make my eyes puff up and tears flow in seconds. All I want to do is walk OUTSIDE! I walk my rear off at work but I need sunshine and fresh air. But my body is literally rejecting air in my face.
I feel ya Kipper. All I did is have sunroof open a bit yesterday. I didn’t think it was that big a deal. At 1 am I had to take a shower and wash my hair. I must have had pollen all over me that had transferred to my pillows. So 30 minutes of sunroof and 10 minutes of a quick walk left me in misery that my tripled up allergy meds couldn’t do anything about. My dog would love a nice long walk with in the pretty spring air. I probably won’t be ready to join him for at least another 3 weeks.
Well Sunday is our official weigh in day. I’m down almost two pounds despite the slothfulness and wine. Perhaps having a piss poor attitude burns calories? I’ve eaten pretty much nothing but the soup this week. I like the soup. So I’m not wishing for other things. Except for every fast food ad on TV seems to be selling the most tasty things! lol. I don’t eat a lot of fast food in general but for some reason the fast food ads are really speaking to me. Thankfully, I’m much to lazy to get in the car and drive to any sort of processed food that is killing us all sort of establishment. I’m about 17 pounds from my 6/23 goal so that is still very doable.
Of course, I’m going to need Lentil Part Three to get down to a more culturally acceptable size. Le sigh.
Today was going to do my 3 mile walk. Hubs is a runner who has a hard head and a hurt knee. After a mile I see him on the road and pull the “not feeling motivated today, will you walk with me?” Intent here was to get him to give his knee a rest. Well it worked, except instead of 3 I ended up doing 4.86 (yes..folks here understand why the .06 is more than stopping at .80). I need a nap!
I’ve been trying to figure out how to become healthy for 51 years. Start puberty and growing and parents and society say your fat. Put on speed like pill s, We on and on. I graduated from hs at 5’10” and 180lb..any who today I quite smoking 12 yrs ago, and don’t drink. Drepression meds start ed not working after 19 yrs. In the process of that. I like to walk only with my dogss. Every day I try to go for a walk. I’m waiting now for muscle relaxer and Aleve kick in so I can dull the back pain. I doc told me one for every lb over is like 10 pound weight. …..now question how do cook lentles. ??? I’m trying to get protein for plant source. TT I mixed brown rice a nd wild rice to gether.
Hi. You can make lentil soup- chop an onion and sauté it in a soup pot. Put broth or water in with lentils. Let’s say 2 cups of liquid per cup of lentils. You could put in carrots in too if you like and if you have some tomatoes that are about to go bad cut those up and throw them in too. Add salt. Simmer it for maybe half an hour until lentils are tender. Puree it with a stick blender or in a regular blender if you don’t have a stick one. Voila, enjoy
Ive only had this with the orange lentils. Not sure what brown or other ones would be like.
Thank you I will try this.
Thanks to all for sticking this out and coming around to encourage everyone else. It really does help.
I’m blubbery and I could not be happier. Let me explain. I usually have hard fat. Like a beach ball in my tummy. I also don’t lose ANY weight for the first month or so ever. But once it starts coming off (I’m approaching 30 pounds in) it gets all blubbery. And that is when it starts dropping off!
I’m already getting mentally ready for LENTIL Part TROIS! 🙂
But for now I am day drinking and my Porsha spinoff recap will either be very drunken or very late. I have little tolerance at this point.
I should also point out that my imaginary husband is Greek Orthodox. So today is Easter cheat day again. What? It makes sense to me!
Day drinking cures everything. It’s worth the splurge.
Wow TT congrats on dropping 30 lbs!! I did weigh myself yesterday and I dropped 3 lbs and changed my middle number. This morning I was down 2 more. So obv I haven’t stuck with my plan if weighing once a month! I’m sure it’s all water weight so I still have a looonngg road ahead.
Thanks. I really don’t see it as I gained 60 or 70 pounds since quitting teaching and taking up sitting on the couch watching TV shows for a living. 🙂 Though as I walked into the kitchen today, my giant old man PJs were falling off. I actually had to tie the drawstring so that is progress.
I buy a lot of canned organic beans because I need lots of protein. The other day in Kroger I saw organic lentils So I picked up a can to throw in the mix of my cabbage soup. It’s really all I eat. I did recently buy a bag of organic air popped corn. I like soup and crunchy things like crackers. I need to go eat a mango I have two of them ready to go. I don’t know if it is my anxiety or what but I prefer to drink my calories preferably alcohol.:(
Mango daiquiris are heavenly.
TT I just read something online about “the whoosh effect” – sounds a lot like what you’re describing with the squishy fat! You should google it. It also explains how you LOST weight after your “self-sabotage weekend” 😛
I don’t need to read about it. I’ve been experiencing it for years. 🙂 In other news, today has been a crap day. I’m back on the plan though still didn’t walk today. But having anxiety and depression issues. I didn’t even THINK about walking until it was too late.
I made your soup, or a version of it. Now I have to stick it in the freezer as I am headed to California for five days.
Stuck at 23.4 weight loss for a few weeks. I think the soup will help push past the plateau. As long as I don’t go nuts on my trip. Plan to do lots of walking. Didn’t even pack a bathing suit. Sigh. Next year!
So glad you’re keeping this going. I love reading everyone’s tips and personal successes and frustrations.
I am so impressed. Keep it up!
Man, I am sorry. Please hang in there. We need our leader. Fasting has made my moods sooo much better (Day 3 onwards). I feel all enlightened and shit. I even called my dad today and apologized for yelling at him recently. My husband bought me CBD gummies. Hahahahaha! Well I’m not eating them now cuz fasting but maybe you might like to try them for anxiety? I think they did chill me out a little. Sending hugs.
Hello all. I fasted for six days and lost 12 lbs. On Friday I decided I had to eat. First food felt like a ton of bricks in my stomach. Had a regular dinner (cheeseburger I admit) and that felt fine. After eating yesterday I regained 3 lbs, so net is 9 right now. Very busy tomorrow and can’t post so I thought I’d check in today. I’ll look forward to seeing your updates tomorrow night, wishing everyone good luck!
This group is about making healthy changes to our diet and exercise regimes for long term stability. Most of us are aware that extreme diets,like fasting are not healthy at all. In fact, they are extremely bad for the body.
I’m down almost three pounds this week. However, it was not done in the proper way either. I’ve had way too much wine and not enough healthy foods this week.
This week I am going to focus on eating more of my vegetable soup. All of the different colored veggies and beans make it a nutritious meal that includes “eating the rainbow.”
I’ve had an increase in anxiety and depression proportionate to my decrease in walking. I’m back on the circular issue of not feeling like walking do to the anxiety and depression returning and knowing that it is not going to be controlled again until I start walking. Also the merlot isn’t helping.
So while I did lose this week, it was not done in a healthy way and is still a “bad” week. I really need to get it together. The flux in barometric pressure this week was also not helpful to my mental state.
Even as I type this I feel slightly silly and possibly tuning into one of “those” women…..bullet journals have made a huge difference for me. Just having the ability to color a box for each mile I walk….one lap around the neighborhood is a mile. Since it has been working I added brushing, flossing, and rinsing with Listerine both am and pm to my coloring. PS….I brushed my teeth before…flossing and using the Listerine wasn’t as consistent. As someone who was NEVER crafty this is a new experience for me. I know…maybe not SUPER crafty…yet SaraK crafty.
Whatever works for you, go for it!
I am out of town for a wedding. I did okay except for the drinking aspect. Oops!
Headed home on a red eye tonight and will be digging my own “rainbow soup” out of the freezer, and not hitting the scales for a few days so as to avoid kicking myself for having a damned good time the past few days. 😉
Oh, and there was a Sandra Bullock siting at the wedding venue. We all made asses of ourselves.
Finally trying to get back on the protein today. I needed coffee to try and wake up. So back to the protein shakes in coffee and adding extra beans and rice to my ever present cabbage veggie bean spicey rainbow soup pot.
I am the worst cult leader ever. Today I just don’t give a fuck. I’ve had a lot of shit hit the fan recently and I am not handling any of it well. None of it (other than my ad rep leaving my company) is really major. But it has just been a drip, drip, drip of annoyances that have me OVER IT. The good news is that I am not turning to food. The bad news is I am turning to alchohol. The even worse news is I’ve lost my walking mojo. It was actually getting to be quite fun. And it’s all gone to hell in a handbasket.
That said. I know I am going to get back on track. Just not today.
So how are y’all doing? Is anyone on the healthy feel better plan still out there with me? I know we had the one person who stopped eating food and walked nonstop for forty days and nights and lost eleventy billion pounds show up. That seem to kind of stop the train for those of us just trying to make a few changes for better health. I need y’all to come back.
Hey. Still here and still on it. Progress is, as ever, slow. But at least it’s progress. This thread really helps me deal with the constant temptation to give in. I’ve had this weight loss goal for so long and now I’m sticking it out due to the community you’re providing here. You’ll get back on track, TT. If I can, anyone can because I’ve never been able to stick it out until now. Hope things simmer down soon.
Thanks Maxie! And yes, progress is slow but slow progress STAYS GONE. That is why I was so annoyed by the starvation diet fan. I try to be supportive of all avenues to healthier lifestyles but some things are just the opposite of what we are doing. There are thousands of sites for little girls to do that.
I am so glad that you are seeing progress! Even on days like today where I’m just NOT FUCKING FEELING IT I still have my greatest weight loss ever that happened with y’all and I believe in what we are doing.
I had a really great stretch where I literally thought no one would believe how well I was doing. So I thought it important to share the crappy stage here and there as well.
For me, the slowdowns that run in stretches are the hard part. I have to watch what I’ve let creep up, like portion size, or where I’ve slacked with exercise. Ugh, it’s so hard to be so numbers-oriented when it comes to food. Good luck. I’m in this with you.
I honestly have it so easy because I have nobody. So I don’t have to feed others or share in eating decisions . That must make things so much more difficult.
I can only suggest two things. Only put calories in your body that are healthy and good for you. And WALK. Not to Canada and back:) Just take a walk around the block . That’s all we have to do.
And ii’s hard.
I am going to be back on track with you soon.
I’m here too y’all. Believe it or not, I actually bought some lentils today. I’m eating them tomorrow to kick start my adventure. Sorry you dealing with all the shit, I don’t blame you for not giving a fuck. Some people are so dang petty. Nothing you can’t handle though. We are with you.
Thanks. I am so glad some of you are still here. I WAS DOING GREAT! and now I am struggling. Mostly with alcohol. UGH. when bad things happen… I kind of freak out and drink..
I can relate to the struggle. I’ve been good about adding more vegetables and fewer bread and pasta calories. I was so good about walking (and I can do a fast walk) for a half hour every morning, to now rarely doing it, and I don’t have a dog to walk. I’m better with walking in the summer, when I wake up early it isn’t still dark, and I’m not walking when it is still dark.
I hope you get back on track, with healthy eating and walking Banjo.
Guilty with an explanation is sometimes a plea people make in court. I’d like to plead guilty with an explanation.
Nine or so years ago, I was rescued by my first dog. I confess I sort of planned to leave him outside to defend the house. My home had been broken into and I was afraid. He quickly set me straight on how things were going to be. He house trained ME on knowing when I needed to take him out or let him out. He has a prompt dinner time. He taught me what foods were acceptable to him and what were not. I literally started eating oraganic foods more often for him because I wanted to give him the best. Why wasn’t I doing that for myself?
Well, he is ten now and coming to the end of his life. There are nights where I am sure the end is very near. Then he’s great for a few days and I feel dumb for worrying. I also fell and injured my knee a few days ago. I could barely walk through the grocery store.
Yeah, these sound like excuses. I’ll get back on it soon.
Also, it’s apparently monsoon season in Atlanta. That was cool when I was in Saint Lucia and it rained a lot in my high priced room with three walls. Not so much here.
I understand both of your are pleas.
What is up with the falling? I fell last winter, tripped on my super long robe, broke my wrist. Last night I was sitting with my legs crossed and my left foot fell asleep, I got up figured I could walk the 10 steps I wanted to make, taking my time and being careful, um no, I tripped over my dead foot even though I was lifting my leg high (size 11 dangling…ugly image) one step I made wasn’t high enough so my foot bent forward as I tried to buffer the impact off my foot and take the fall with as many body parts as possible. My left foot is sore on the top, pain is maybe a 2/10, I have a silver dollar size bruise on my R knee…
Ironically, Dad had an orthopedic appointment today, he fell and broke his L patella weeks ago (healing) and my daughter had an orthopedic appt today for stress fractures to both tibias (healing). I was fine after an ibuprofen, made both appts… but what the heck?
It’s not Monsoon season here yet but it rained on and off yesterday and today. Everything is greening ip despite the cold (sleet and hail today)
Anywho, weight is stable but I want to see a nudge down. I feel super blubbery/flabby skin, so just walking isn’t doing it for me. I need to do some weights or something.
Gonna add. I get texts or calls daily asking me to work to help cover short staffing but I really needed to take my days off this week. I am always scheduled for 4,12 hour shifts every week, Sat. thru Tues…it’s not like I don’t already give a lot to my place of employment. I have to be home too…I work out of town so it’s hard to just drop and go. I often pick up extra shifts and ot stay late at work when I can, sometimes neglecting my home life but either way, the guilt is crippling. I feel like I’m failing and letting everyone down in every part of my life. I do truly love my job but I love my daughter and miss her so much when I can’t be home. Thank goodness we have these blasted phones and she’s that kid that is open and communicative. I feel too pulled and pretty isolated because I don’t have any real me time and when I do now, I just want to sleep or watch TV and hang out with you guys.
Sorry if too much but it’s off my chest for now, another busy day tomorrow before I head back to work Saturday at 6a. Thanks be for extended Lentil TT, I need it.
Never too much,Kipper. I love all your comments. And apparently old people fall down a lot. I hate this.
I had another rough busy day in the world today but your kind words at the end of it? Thank you,
TT. Off to read the Project Runway recap that wasn’t up this am before I headed out and I can’t wait, “lit’rally”!
Salad for supper, LCHF, filled me up fast and should keep me under my carbs for today. I want to break this stall.
Rain, hail and gloom here in the WWWest again today but the green is much appreciated and I love it!
Thank you everyone here for listening and sharing. Kisses and hugs all, we’re gonna get this no matter! See you at the PR recap.
I know how much you love Banjo. I also know a part of you wants to be able to travel again. Some of my favorite posts on here are about travel, even the airport from hell bits.
I want you to know, I did a walk this evening, thanks to reading this Lentil Season post and getting motivated.
I am still on keto. Two TINY fudges. My roommate fudges a few times a week. She has lost two pants sizes. My pants are a TINY bit looser. I told my shrink (he suggested it for depression and it is working for that) that I wouldn’t despair until I reached 3 months. I think I need to eat more and more often and drink more water. Between the mega dose of thyroid meds, the keto, and most recently, the CBD oil drops, my mental state is better than it has been in YEARS. Maybe DECADES.
I am currently drinking my way through all the alcohol in the house and Banjo is worried about me for a change. Banjo has no idea dogs are even allowed on furniture. I kind of need steps to my bed now. I keep meaning to buy them. I love a high bed. If I had them I would force him in my bed right now and make him sleep with me.
Today I woke up to a plethora of …unsettling comments on a now deleted post. Subsequently, I’m having one of the worst days of my life. I keep begging people to keep their tragedies off the site. I can’t cope.
Hang in there. Don’t let the assholes win
TT ~ Did you get a new mattress? I hate high beds! When my mattress (old short one) was hurting my back, I bought a new mattress ( I use a King size). Now, in the store, I didn’t realize high mattresses was a thing. I just thought it was like my old one. When it was delivered, it felt.. so.. strange! I felt like it overpowered the room and overpowered me. I felt like I was like a little kid in this huge bed. I still hate it. My end tables are so short now compared to it. My bed is too damn high!
Back to diet.. I am not doing too good (on and off), but happy for anyone else who is. Tamara, sorry you’re feeling down. Hope you’re feeling better soon xx
I’m not doing great.I haven’t weighed or cared in days. My comment section has turned into some sort of sexual abuse group or discussions about parents dying or other horrible things I cannot deal with that and it may be time for me to bow out of this whole site..
I want this to be fun place. Not about that shit at all. I should never have mentioned anything.
Oh Tamara,
I have been reading your site since almost the beginning, so I know what’s going on with how or why you are not doing good. I have been a little worried about you. I follow you on twitter too, so knew you weren’t doing well with all the talk of abuse. I also know you don’t want any depressing stories about diseases, dying etc.
This is not a support group, well this lentil post is, but a fun one to help each other be healthy and happy. We all have had bad things happen to us, that’s life, but it shouldn’t be spoken about here mostly b’c it triggers you and you want the site to be fun. I get it.
Isn’t all this in the commenting rules? I wish you could put a damn sign up on each heading saying no tragic personal business at all, never!! – until people get the hint not to talk about these things.
You have helped me and so many others with your insight, humor, knowledge etc.. I don’t really give a shit much about most of the shows. I come here because I love your wit and I get you. I think a lot of us here get you and we all love you. I love how you rip into people, even if it’s me, you’re the best at it. You’re one of the funniest people on the internet. Plus you’re very unique, strong with a big heart.
Hate to see you so down. Anything I could do to help, I would. And so would a lot of people on here that know you well. If you need to take a break, do it!! Do whatever you want. We will all support you. xx
Do you need another cat lady cleanse? I’ve been walking and eating leafy stuff. I don’t like to see that you’re not feeling your best.
I am a newbie here since 60 days in. No one at home is a fan and I am so occupied with grandkids I don’t have a social life, so this site is my go to for fun. Love the recaps and comments and I too think TT is definitely the best read for me and makes me laugh out loud with your wit and humor. Please take a break girl. We need the hell out of you. No one else compares. And cho too. What a pair.
I’m with the rest. No one understands why the HW recaps and comments could possibly mean anything to me except you and the people you bring together here. Without that, I’d feel a bit crazy. No one has been able to motivate me to stick out the weight thing until now, and it’s really improved my overall outlook. I’ll try to further restrain in comments because I get your point that it’s way too much taken altogether. Take what you need. Let us know if we can help.
Ma’am….I’m going to need you to chanel your inner Evelyn Lazoda (sp) Basketball Wives….and let those negative…depressing comments and commentators…know…they are “non-mother fucking factors”. Just saying it out loud is enough to make me smile and feel more in control. I am also totally blaming you….and warming up my interweb pet attorney degree…because of you and the extended Lentils….I am walking 3 miles each day. Chick…that means so far I have walked 39 miles and will end up with more than 90 by the end of the month…..cause of YOU!!!
You are awesome and I need you out here. Even on your bad days you make this smart ass (better than dumb ass) little ray of sunshine smile. Hope I can do the same for you….cause you are with it.
SaraK, how awesome that you’re doing 3 miles a day. Tamara has inspired me too, I hope we can do the same for her. I’m doing more of a one to two mile walk, and eating things like romaine, broccoli, and cabbage. I need to make some of her rainbow soup.
Thanks you guys. I’m sorry I haven’t been here. I love you all. I am just going through a lot of shit now. I am having a hard time, I’m sorry I missed Sunday weigh ins. I’m just dealing with a lot. I’ve been in FULL BLOWN PANIC ATTACK mode since people started posting very graphic comments in a now deleted post.
I can’t believe I was “triggered” but I was. Then a series of unfortunate events happened, I do want to go into it all here, But I am not in a good place, AT ALL. I hope this all passes and I can get back to walking (not three miles a day! WOW) and I’ll be back as soon as I am able.
I miss you. Please get better soon.
Hang in there, Tamara! I do know how hard it is to avoid the sinkhole and there are days I think I will let go and be sucked back in and I sure am not making real progress but still treading water. I follow a great day where I succeed with the return of sloth mode. Today is one of the slothy days here.
Just hoping for some really good days to come your way and that they come really soon.
Pose returns to FX on June 11…
I finally broke down and took a Xanax today after a week or so of non stop panic attacks. It knocked them right out. I haven’t taken one in well over a year. I try to save the few I have for public panic attacks. At home I try to just power through and drink. But I’ve never had a week like this before. Just so many overwhelming things happening back to back to back. Any one of them, except maybe the first one (a lot of triggering comments just before Mother’s Day) I could have dealt with but every day it was something else.
I’m better today and hopefully will get back on track tomorrow with the walking if it doesn’t rain. At the least I’ll take Banjoy for a twenty or thirty minute walk at the park. That’s the plan anyway.
In other news, I bought this bag of quinoa at Trader Joes. I don’t think I’ve been to Trader Joe’s in over a year. But I finally made some for the first time tonight as my addition of the day to the never ending soup pot. It was kind of blah on it’s own but it’s great in the soup. I also added some multicolored peppers today. I wanted to buy a purple cabbage but they were all as big as my head! I think the secret ingredient in my soup is a lot of jarred diced jalapenos, trumeric, black pepper and garlic. But it really is a different soup every day. Whenever I eat two or three cups throughout the day I try to see what color or grain is missing and add some of that. I need to make brown rice again. I made more quinoa than I should have. I need to google and see if Banjo can have some in his food mix.
Maybe if I am up to it I will go to the new Lidl grocery story not terribly far from my house. It’s some sort of German organic grocery that is small and supposed to have great fresh bread and cheap organic produce. Has anyone ever been to one? I’m also pretty much out of my electrolyte water which is probably a large contributor to THE CRAZY.
I had a complete drunken meltdown last night and laid down on the floor and cried with Banjo. Poor Banjo. I actually think I needed to do that. It was rather cathartic.
Thanks for all the support. I am pretty much all alone in the world and rely on my imaginary Internet friends a bit too much.
I am NOT looking forward to Sunday Weigh IN. 🙁 Because, beer.
xo
~tt
We have Lidl here and I really like them. Great prices, and you’re right – really good fresh breads from their bakery. I especially like their croissants. I don’t eat lamb, but a Greek friend of mine who eats a lot lamb raves about Lidl’s. Plus you can find some fancy European products that you can’t find in a regular American grocery store. Oh, and don’t forget to pick up some of their German chocolate!
Glad you are feeling better. Nothing wrong with a good cry, sometimes you just need to let it out. I go to Trader Joe’s frequently but never her of Lidl. It sounds like a place I’d like.
Currently sipping on the electrolyte water. All of the fiber I’ve been eating is giving me, um, intestinal issues, and electrolyte water keeps me feeling okay.
Not really a fan of quinoa. I get quinoa/brown rice pasta sometimes. Will have to try it in soup. As for seasoning, turmeric and garlic are both supposed to be good at reducing inflammation in the body.
What kind of beer? I Will add that to my list and toast to you when ever i drink one. P.s. we are Not imaginary
I drink different kinds. I’m on a Coors light kick ATM.
I ate half of a grass fed beef steak plus broccoli today. Wish I had eaten it in the van Sonja was in. Is thinking that I ate a vegetable and beef, so not too bad. Only did about a quarter mile today while holding a shopping bag and looking at things I can’t afford. Wish I had expensive glasses to drink the Riesling out of, but only some cheap winery glasses from a trip through wine country. (I recommend it.)
Hope you are feeling well.
I was replying to you Belladonna, hopefully this time it follows your comment.
Wouldn’t that van ride be fun? With or without Sonja? I’m in!
It sounds like you had a good low carb day with added charge card responsibility!
I want to know where you got your “cheap” vineyard glass and why you recommend the tour? Sounds very fun!
Hours from now I have a weigh in I’m dreading but I’m gonna do it!
Hope the weigh in goes well for you. The wine tour I went on was in Temecula Valley. Was a fun day, with a designated driver, because by the end of it you have had a lot of wine tasting. 🙂
Hey y’all. I’m sorry for my absence. I haven’t completely abandoned y’all. I’m still struggling a bit. Yesterday “the big pot” was almost completely depleted. This means lots of chopping which I suck at (ZERO KNIFE SKILLS HERE) and a trip to the grocery store. I have at least three grocery stores within a five miles from my house. I’ve been to 2 of them in the last week and there are so many people I can’t get down the aisle. And long lines. It;s like a snow event was announced or something. And many things like SANITY WATER are sold out.
Anyway, I want you to know I’m still half way on the plan. I made a pot new pot of soup with the bit left over so I can cook it in the little pot today. I’m still eating well when the anxiety is not too bad (it’s hard to eat at all when you have anxiety but I’ve not gone back to the no alcohol thing since Easter. And the WORST part is I’m not walking. It’s in the 90s! this week but I could still walk SOME.
I’m still having anxiety and night terrors. I never went to bed last night. I’ll probably crash soon, I need to get the Project Runway post up but I’m afraid I may sleep a few hours past when it comes in.
Banjo is still doing okay. But his um daily routine has changed. He has always been the best dog that followed whatever whacky schedule I did. He has a steel bladder and has very rarely woken me up to go out. He poops about an hour after his 6pm or so dinner. which is OF COURSE right when I am am starting to recap some Bravo show. But since I am not so on top of my game lately, he has become a morning pooper. I have got to move his feed time back a few hours and I keep forgetting.
I’ll stop blabbering now. I need to try to get to either Trader Joes for a few essentionals or Sprouts or the new weird German orangic food store this weekend. I’m going to go broke if I don’t venture outside my cone of safety (which is tiny at the moment) to buy a few cases of water.
But then again Jesus must have had a reason for turning water into wine, right?
I need to get back to weighing every day. At least I have y’all to account to for Sundays. I’m not losing but I haven’t gained back yet. Or maybe I have, I haven’t weighed since Sunday. I am going to TRY to get a walk or two in before our next weigh in.
I have a local friend that is a chef and I begged her to send me a mason jar of her sauce after she sent me some previously. I have no shame in begging her for food because OMG it is good sauce.
Anyway she also sent me some Capunti from Trader Joes. It’s organic and you can read about it here. Go get yerself some y’all. I just threw about ten into my Rainbow Soup of the day pot. I might have put a tablespoon of the sauce in the little pot too. I haven’t cooked the soup in the big pot yet. I’m using it as the base for the daily small batches.
https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/droolworthy-calabrian-sausage-ragu-and-homemade-capunti-with-jason-stoneburner
Love your tid bits of info. I Will be by a Trader Joe’s in a couple weeks. Definitely on my must do list. I’m making me some soup tomorrow. Enjoy the heck out of your reads and all your groupies input.
The pasta is DELICIOUS. But VERY FATTENING so if you are trying to lose weight like me Make the low calorie veggie soup with as many different colors as possible with a V-8/splash of chicken broth/ good water base in a big pot and don’t cook it. Then each day make a small pot out of the big pot and you can add the pasta like a small serving.
Other days add, a half can of organic chicken. Or salmon or some protein. Then just let is warm up on very low for a long bit. I dump in a shit ton of jalepenos Tumeric, Harissa , Garlic , and black pepper and such to taste. I like it. I added black olives with my past today Good stuff.
I just need to get back off the wine, but things are scary right now
Found the magic that is Old Elpaso Taco seasoning and shells….So it has been a fiesta here at the casa. Yeah…I know how to cook 3 things. Now 4. Made “surprise” on Sunday (you may call it hamburger casserole, here it is a surprise that I cooked) and learned that you should NOT put heavy things on the top shelf of your fridge or it will break. I took that as a sign to confirm that I do not belong in a kitchen. To top it all off, after walking 4 miles the past 4 days (had to make up for days I did none) gained 2 lbs. boooooo.
Ok, I’m back on the wagon with y’all. I fell off for a while there because of a lot or work stress (just extremely busy, nothing terrible). I was working around the clock, so I didn’t have time to do things like eat or exercise. Lost my appetite due to the stress, and my stomach would get upset when I did try to eat. So I did lose weight, but it wasn’t in a healthy way.
Now work has calmed down a bit, and I am trying to keep the weight loss going in a healthy way. I’m eating right (and actually eating!) and getting my walks in. I’m concentrating on getting enough water too. I’ve been back on track for a couple of weeks now, but wanted to make sure it stuck before I came back on here and announced it. It feels good to be back at it!
I’m so glad all of you are here. We all have our setbacks but we are all committed to doing things in a healthy way. I am so far in the hole I haven’t even been weighing. Health and happiness are on the back burner. I’m just struggling a lot lately. Thanks for sharing your stories, I was SO ON THIS for so long. I did make new soup yesterday, It’s not that good. I don’t know where I went wrong, Will have to work hard to motivate to go to Lidl thanks for all the tips. I may splurge on a croissant. I may buy some lamb. When I can get there. It’s out of my comfort zone at the moment.
I need all of y’alls inspirational stories to get me back on track. xo ~tt
Hey lady,
Sometimes it feels as though we are on parallel tracks! After the wedding in early May – I came home depressed about being the FATTEST ONE there. Even with the weight loss. That sent me spiraling a bit. I was in full on self-loathing mode as I could feel the pounds creeping back. That hard-fought loss just seemed pointless. Knowing full well that a 20-something pound loss triggers self sabotaging, I STILL self sabotaged.
But, like you, I just kept trying to right this ship. About 10 days ago, I decided to change it up and signed up for WW. I needed the support and the accountability and a different approach. Lost 7 lbs the first week. Even though it’s mostly water weight, I am at the lowest I have been in a long time.
The heat and humidity makes it hard for me to hike or walk, so am gearing up for indoor activities and considering joining a gym. Thing is, I am not rushing headlong into taking on a lot of new activity, just trying to keep moving every hour and considering my options.
This morning, it hit me that the old adage of loving yourself actually means something. Don’t hate on yourself. Just find new ways around the obstacles. These habits didn’t come about overnight, and they won’t go away for good in a few months.
Not sure if this helps or if I sound like an annoying asshole, but I am with you on this path. Not giving up. You can do this. And so can I.
Same, I have had a lot of self sabotage nonsense the past month, I hit the 50lb lost mark and lost my mind. I am working in it. I have done much better this week, but still have so many things to figure out. This is a long circuitous journey for me, but I’ll get there. Like you said, it took a long time to make the bad habits, and it will take a long time to undo them.
What is that about?? It’s scary to read so many stories about folks who have massive weight loss and then gain it all back.
I read something years ago about set points and if it malfunctions, your set point is fucked.
All I know is I am getting too old to keep screwing around with this, and am trying to focus on stories of folks who have maintained weight loss for decades.
Lost another three pounds this week but, for some reason, I am so cognizant of my squishy belly.
Best of luck to you. Appreciate your insights!
I got my ass out and walked this morning. Am I supposed to be avoiding carbs, because I made brown rice using beef bone broth. I tell myself it isn’t as bad as it’s brown rice. Still trying to eat more green stuff, including the broccoli I bought yesterday. Should have also bought the mustard greens. The last time I cooked greens was rainbow chard cooked in olive oil with onions last week.
I hope you realize that a hiccup doesn’t mean you give up. We need news about everything you’ve planted.
I agree, I admit when I’m having a bad day I avoid these comments because I’m stuck in my head and want to stay there. Bad habits are hard to break with the self sabotage deeply rooted in this brain.
I haven’t had any long stretches of carb avoidance but I will say when get to a day 4 or 5 it is easier to avoid the carbs and the wgt drops. I have been stuck for a bit until last week , had a woosh and have kept it off all week.
At work this past week I forced myself to bed early not eating late or binging on prime video. I have always been a night owl but I have to be to work so early it takes a toll. I felt so much better being more rested at work and also didn’t have the desire to eat self soothing “comfort foods ” someone always brings in goodies to share. Our staffing is an issue right now, left work after 10p last night after 4 other 12 plus hour days in a row so the desire to be lazy and eat what I want as a “reward” on my days off is a thing for me (today)!
I am going to take today “off” rest, catch up on my DVR and fingers crossed start Vida, I saw the 2 young stars on WWHL last week and thought it looked good, now apparently it’s a must see, lol.
Food today will have carbs but in moderation
Tomorrow night I want to see “Rocketman” with a large popcorn…then back to work Sat. am!
Hugs everyone! Thank you TT for this forum.
Thanks y’all. I enjoy reading these comments. It’s just SO HOT to walk and Banjo cries every time I leave the house and I have dog mom guilt.
I just got out to get dog food and Kombucha and water and wine. I’ve been a bit better at eating my soup. It has quinoa and some brown rice in it at the moment. I need the protein. I haven’t been doing the coffee and protein shakes at all. I have plenty. I dunno. I just get on a kick and then fall off. I need to get back to weighing. I’m afraid to do that! 🙂
Thanks for sharing your triumphs and setbacks here.
What I know is that if I eat a lot of carbs, as in rice/potato/bread/pasta, I feel awful if it isn’t balanced with protein. As in I really feel sick. I don’t know if it is because I’m limiting the processed food and it just hits me if I eat it or something else. I would include beer in the processed carbs, you’re going to feel bad after drinking it, and not just the alcohol.
I’ve been interested in getting a vegetable fermenter. It’s tasty and good for the gut. If you don’t like sauerkraut, it’s probably not for you. I’m really leaning towards keeping the gut happy. I think it improves your life more than supplements.
Totally agree. And I love sauerkraut and kimchi and am drinking Kombucha right now. What is this vegetable fermenter you speak of? Tell me more even though I am trying to divest myself of all THE THINGS so that I can GTFO of here and find a new country with healthcare I can afford before I am too old to get into the system.
You’ve come this far, so even if you cheat, the war isn’t won yet. My battle of the nighttime munchies, is the thorough flossing and brushing, and a rinse. After that, no snacks. I try to do that early. My teeth are all shiny and my breath smells good, no need for food.
I am going to try this tonight!
Fuck I posted a long thing and my Privacy policy got in the way. Short version, Felt better today. Made salmon dish I will repost tomorrow using the “rainbow soup” Kinda out the FT girls on Twitter so we may see new people is they find us hiding in plain site,
xo
~tt
PS Banjo is doing better.
My body is rebelling. I’ve done the walking, the eating better, but I have cankles. One more sprout and I’ll have hooves. This is temporary, right?
Everything is temporary, love. Keep fighting the good fight. I hope to join you soon. Still self-sabotaging here.
You’ll get over it. Self Sabotaging is our game. Thanks for telling me to fight the good fight. You’ll come through too.
Good news, I think I have a tomato plant growing. So much good news on your open post!
I love these not so secret posts. Because when a new comment is made people can see on the front page, and while they are always welcome, it’s like having friends for me. I’m not so good with real life friends. But, y’all are great.
I’m also probably doing chard wrong. I didn’t have a proper souther upbringing. I cut out the big stems, then sweat it in olive oil, drizzle it with vinegar. I know I will probably have to hide in a corner in shame.
Honey, we don’t do chard. I don’t even think I’ve ever eaten it. I’m not sure what you want?
Choice one is always TURNIP GREENS. and a turnip if you can get one. Just add water and some pork product, fat back, streak o lean..etc and boil.
Or Collards. second verse same as the first.
Chard is some sort of Yankee thing. What is wrong with you girl? 🙂
Yankees are free to weigh in but you will be wrong. And Californians? SIGH.
Don’t hate me because I’m a Californian, and I won’t hate you for having Dukes. Looked for a potato salad recipe, and there it was, and I was “why am I being deprived of this loveliness?” So Best Foods mayonnaise. I know, it’s an atrocity.
Sorry that I thought chard was southern. I won’t ask you how to cook kale, because that is very northern. So far north it isn’t even yankee territory, and across a very large pond. If you ever get the urge, stamppot is good.
I don’t know what chard really is. Is that the thing with the red stems? Chard? Kale? I have no idea. But I do know about potato salad. And Step one is to order some on Amazon.They MIGHT ship it to California.:) Then I might have to explain pickles to you. LOL.
We’re having cabbage steaks tonight. My daughter is here and she is annoyingly healthy. Fingers crossed!
Seventy-five percent humidity today. Our very own steam room in the great outdoors. By far the best reason to move west.
Listening to Dax Shepherd’s podcast. So much more satisfying than watching middle-aged women screech at each other.
Was feeling good yesterday and then I tried on some clothes in my closet for a work trip…..pity party table for one please. Even though I have lost….some of them were still tight and I went to my go to place…nope not the kitchen….to Belk.com. It’s a Southern thing. Over $600 later, I get up this morning, use my friend Spanx…and what do you know…I do have 3 outfits that I really like and that will work. I want to be work appropriate NOT to fit in and look like everyone else. Thank goodness I can return things I don’t need to the local store.
Moral of the story….shape ware is my friend, never leave friends out of the party or you will regret it. 🤪
Embarrassing story about the first time I tried any kind of shape wear. I’m in the fitting room, and tried to pull it over my head. I got stuck with my arms over my head and thinking I’m going to need Firemen to get me free. Helpful woman in the shop tells me, you step into it. I got free, and now can fit into my clothing again.
😂😂
I had a super stressful week…starting to think my clients are working my nerves on purpose. Went to food to comfort my anxiety, just like I always have and binged a bunch of cheese/bread/wine. Helped at the time, but now I feel sick. Damnit, why do I do this to myself???
I feel your pain loglady! I have been super stressed at home and work these past few weeks. I really need to go to bed right now so I can get up to work super early tomorrow because we’re so short on night shift. I finally reached my goal a few weeks ago but just finished cramming nachos into my belly and had Church’s fried chicken and mashed potatoes (not enough gravy…at all) for lunch! I am definitely a stress/comfort eater!
I won’t weigh myself now for at least a week because tomorrow is going to be sleep deprived, overworked and worried hellish kinda day. So, I’ll be finishing up my fried chicken tomorrow. Oh, forgot to mention the baklava I ate today, um, yes, delicious!
OMG if I had fried chicken and mashed potatoes in front of me right now, I would scarf it down. Thankfully, I have too much anxiety today to get in the car and drive to Popeyes.
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes. It was comfort food. Then I bought some kind of cinnamon roll bread at Whole Foods. I might as well have mainlined fat. Is still under my ‘damn you’re fat’ weight.
Know this is early yet had to share….Since the first of the year have been trying to move more and eat less. While the wight loss has been minimal, 10 lbs in six months, so has getting the hang of consistently moving. I committed to doing 3 miles a day in May, did it, so have kept it up in June. Doesn’t have to be all at once, 3 times a day, one mile counts as well. Well, today was the yearly bloodwork. Peeps… my cholesterol was down by 18 points (we had Mexican last night). My liver stuff is down by almost 80 points (don’t be jealous of my super hot strawberry thing I have on my liver). Here’s the deal…even when we can’t SEE where keeping those Lentil commitments is doing any good….it is! Keep up the good work, we got this bitch!
Yay SaraK! Your lab results speak volumes, congratulations! Quick question, what is the “super hot strawberry thing”? It’s probably something super obvious but I need help.
It’s is what I have always heard it called here in the South. It’s where a bunch of blood vessels are at to top of the skin so it makes a noticeable red spot on the skin. Had one removed through lasers on my forehead (vanity). 🤓
Great job Sarah K! I am glad y’all are still updating. I am trying REALLY HARD to motivate to get to bed at a reasonable hour so I can go at least walk around the farmers market tomorrow. I need to try something to dig out of this hole that is not getting back to doing a damn near perfect job for the first Lentil season. Even if my motivation is a tiny tomato pie… 🙂
Welp, I gained 5 lbs back when I went off the rails a few weeks ago. Got somewhat serious last week, although I was ravenous the whole time. I still lost 1.4#, so at least we are going in the right direction. I’m going to try to crush it this week!
Going t o make a lot of soup tomorrow. It s so hot and humid the best index say 110 Sat and Sun .Brutus my peke and I hate heat, can’t breathe.so will go to the local pet store or home depot to walk. It will be air conditioner. Found out even eating healthy I’ve gain 10. I’m diabetic and when blood sugar out of whack you gain.
I bet you could eat the soup cold????
I do it all the time!
We get HSA dollars if we meet certain wellness numbers, blood pressure, sugar levels, and BMI. The really good thing is you don’t hate to HIT the BMI if you didn’t the year before….just go down by 2 points….well…it’s official…I earned my money!!! Yes, I still have to lose weight to be “overweight” yet I got rewarded for making my way there. Keep it up peeps….we got this!
Is this a program for your state? If you don’t mind me asking, how much money do you get?
It’s with my employer. We can earn up to $600 yearly (Can’t spell and wasn’t sure if annually meant by the but or yearly so just the one I was sure of) 😜
WW is my new god. Down 17 lbs since I started and took my bra extensions off, AND fit into one of my “save-it” bras.
I go to meetings once a week. Like church for me now, but I work from home and need to pry myself out of the house now and then so I don’t lose all my social skills. 😉
Buy plenty of folks do it online with great success, and some show up to meetings when they are closer to goal. Lots of options for everyone.
Great job Katherine 2.0! Bras are such a challenge! I hate them but The Lord knows I’m vain enough to keep the sisters looking correct even when it’s killing me a little physically and emotionally every moment, of every day. Hearing about your conquests? Keeps me motivated.
Right now I’ve been switching between night and day shifts, we’re very short staffed right now so I’m working too much. I haven’t done this for years. I’m trying to either stick to calories, 18 hour fasts or low carb. I haven’t really been successful, I don’t even know what day it is or if it’s day or night half of the time and then eat too much, not enough or crap. With all this, holding my own again just above my “goal weight”. I should maybe reconsider my goal weight, but I don’t want to!
Good Lord. I’d be a mess with that schedule. More power to you, lady for hanging in. Hope your schedule works out soon! Happy Fourth to you!
Congratulations Katherine on your 17 lbs weight loss! WW really seems to work for you.
So it’s July 4th tomorrow, and that means picnics, barbecues, etc. for a lot of people. I’m at my goal weight currently, so will sabotage it tomorrow by eating a hamburger with a bun and potato chips, and probably a beer or two. No problem, one day is okay. Right? 😛
Heck yeah! Sounds like a plan. Enjoy! Will be chowing down on my turkey burger, and thinking of your potato chips. 😉
I agree with Katherine 2.0. I hope and pray someone brings me a plate…and ice cream.
Congrats belladonna! We’re here if you need help but I suspect you’ve got this!
Happy Independence Day everyone!
Is it impolite to bring your own burger to throw on the grill? I like to shred veggies to add to a turkey burger. I also make potato salad with half sweet potatoes, and half of the mayonnaise replaced with low fat greek yogurt. I make a cobbler with a lot less sugar. I’m used to it (after a while with lower sugar, fat, and salt, you really notice how much is in prepared food) but people who are used to the high fat/sugar usual picnic fare won’t like it.
I’m glad no one asked me what my ‘goal weight’ was, because after menopause it shifted a bit. There’s reasonable and then starve yourself into bad health weights. As SaraK said above, eating better and exercising have effects on the body not necessarily visible but they are there nonetheless.
I hope TT can reduce the stress in her life, and everyone here posting, because that is very damaging to the body, probably more than extra pounds.
Happy Independence Day to Kipper and all!
What in all the levels of hell is happening in SoCal?Felt aftershocks all day, now heard a gunshot. What I eat in the next few days is stress eating.
I get it, lived in SF many years ago but also have experienced earthquakes in Indiana and Arizona.
It is an unnatural feeling. I will say my first experience vs my last has changed a lot. First experience in SF, I accused innocent bystanders of moving/rocking things then I ran to a bathroom, locked myself in, irrationally. Once I realized what was happening I was embarrassed. Truly an unnatural experience, the earth moves, under your feet.
I’ve lived through tornadoes…a bunch, hurricanes and I now experience really scary fire seasons. Blizzard’s that’ve required the National Guard to dig us out as a youth were actually fun, we had Cross country skiis that got us to empty supermarkets. Earthquakes are my most favorite no ability to control life event. I hate them. They are the perfect example of mother earth telling us, you have NO control.
BTW, I’d move back to SF in a second if I could afford too, troubled city and all. I absolutely love SF.
Kipper, never lived in SF, just visited. Took BART from the bay.
Yes, an earthquake is a very unnerving experience. With a storm you at least have a buildup before it happens. The earthquake has no warning, just suddenly everything is shaking. Not even close to as scary as being able to see a wildfire burning a hill behind your house.
One of my more thrilling moments was having tornado warning sirens go off while I was sitting in a bathtub in a hotel in Ohio. I was like, oh no, I’m going to be flying through the air, naked.
A favorite moment was learning to drive my husband’s old Ford truck by doing donuts in a snow filled parking lot in PA. It really did help me learn to control it in slippery conditions.
My stress eating involved Braunschweiger on rye crackers. I know, gross. I need to make some TT soup.
The TT soup is a great help. Made some last week and dropped two pounds after a little plateau.
Those earthquakes seem horrifying. We had a small one on the East Coast several years ago. I distinctly remember feeling as though the house shifted on its foundation and running out of the house with the dog. I had no idea what had happened.
Given where I live, my first thought is that we had been bombed. I was astounded that no one else was in the street. Most of my neighbors were retirees.
Something on the scale of what California had is unfathomable to me. I would be so rattled, I think I’d move.
You know whose fat ass needs to get back on the TT soup? This bitch! And after watching that Women’s World Cup game, I AM INSPIRED. And the happiest I’ve been in ages! THIS IS A GREAT DAY TO GET BACK ON THE HORSE!
I love you guys for being here in out secret spot!
xo
~tt
USA, USA, USA!
I love Braunschweiger too!! With little slivers of onion.
Was making food (ha) and heard the blinds rattling and thought someone was breaking into the house. Still had a knife in hand. I was far away from the epicenter and still had to grab onto the counter. It was a big one. Was feeling many aftershocks yesterday.
More stress food, shredded potatoes for hash browns. They are soaking in water.
Don’t blame you. Well, not to desert you, but it’s kind of echoey in here, so probably won’t be around. Did have a 6.8 lb loss this week. Down 19 in 6 weeks. Getting closer to goal and loving the energy and the WW plan. Fingers crossed.
Good luck, ladies!!
I’m quiet because I am still off the wagon and had TACO BELL today. Its been so long since I went through a fast food driveway I didn’t even know what to order.
So I’m gaining a bit back and doing absolutely nothing to get back on the wagon. It is really hot and walking on the trails are up the mountain are ill advised.
So… I’m just reading the good news y’all have and trying to get inspired.
I know check in day is Sunday and yet weigh in day is Tuesday. Finally finally got a full pound down this week. Who hoo. While it is slow going I refuse to allow myself to think that I am anything other than freakin awesome. Losing weight will not make me more smarter (that was for you English teacher TT) or more vivacious. All it will do is make the person sitting next to me in coach.
We are a pack of super fantastic peeps out here. Thank you for the encouragement and I hope you get as much out of reading the comments as I do.
Congratulations on your pound loss but more so for your positivity. My weigh in day is Tuesday as well. Sigh.
I mad half a recipe of Oatmeal cookies at midnight last night. The good news is they didn’t come out that great, I think I used too much bourbon vanilla.
I’ve regained five pounds of beer gut.
I am a terrible lentil season part 2 person. 🙁
Hang in there.
I’m up five pounds. I blamed stress eating after the earthquakes, and that was true at first. I need to get back to healthier eating. I’m also a horrible person because I cooked a huge bunch of rainbow chard in my Instant Pot. I sautéed onions first, then dumped in de-veined and chopped chard. Three minutes in the pot, and they are less chewy, but they need something like bacon. I also used rice vinegar. I’m pretty sure Tamara will never speak to me again because of the horror.
All I can say is, don’t hate me because I was raised in a barn.
Tamara, we can do this, despite set-backs.
I know we CAN but I am stressed about being up late because I have to GO INTO THE WORLD today. Argh. Talk me through thIs I suddenly have so many posts in the hopper and I HAVE TO GO INTO THE WORLD! did i mention that?
I went out into the world yesterday, and today I’ll have to call people to do things in the house. Nothing causes me more anxiety than men working on stuff “in the house.” Deep breathing, remembering you will get through it, you’ve done it before.
Sooo very close to a major milestone with all three numbers changing. May have happened today except for the orphans we have been supporting (local chic fil a giving a dollar to orphanage from every large ice dream cone purchased). Next week it WILL happen.
OMG! Now this is inspiration! I too am hoping to reach that milestone. Sadly, I am still not moving and eating well. MUST GET BACK ON THE BUS! Congrats to you!
Super NOT crafty…and yet what is making a huge difference is my bullet journal. I make monthly goals, create boxes or circles for each “thing” I want to do and then color it in when I do it. Saying what I won’t do doesn’t work for me so instead I focus on what I need to do. Walking I am all over…eating a fruit or a vegetable I am horrible at. Any notebook will do, with some colored pencils. Doesn’t have to be fancy. Not sure why it is working and frankly don’t care…I just know it is for me so I’m keeping it up.
Okay, I have put a new pot of the “rainbow soup” on the stove. I’m eating an enchilada and having wine for dinner But IT’S PROGRESS. TINY PROGRESS but progress.
I gained back 2 pounds. Until my doc told me the scale was off by the one downstairs by 10 pounds — he has been trying to get another. So I lost 8 more pounds. Keto has brought my triglyceride, HDL and LDL numbers from “acceptable” to “outstanding.” I made French vanilla and chocolate keto ice cream last week (using monk fruit sugar in place of cane sugar) and it was delicious. I will go off keto for a couple of weeks or days when the Oh Henry peaches come out and return right afterward. Peach ice cream is the epitome of summer and no one makes it — they replaced it with Salted Caramel. So 2002 over a classic flavor…
I swear by LCHF… basically keto. I had to lose 35lbs a few years ago. When clothes don’t fit, menopause complete, a belly when I never had one before?
Now I stick to LC, eggs, meat, fruit and veggies for carbs…I love bread and potatoes but avoid now. When I start to push my wgt window. I stick to a lot of Keto, but if not sticking to LC I try to stick to calories….on the low side.
Carbs make me hungry and sleepy, I know that but at times, I want carbs. Not a huge sweet tooth, prefer a bag of chips (Doritos) , popcorn or…favorite food group, Nachos!
Tonight? I’m on the Ramona diet. Vodka, soda and lemon.🤗
If I went to a doctor with a scale that weighed ten pound heavy. I would beat him to death with the scale and go to prison. I refused to weigh back when I had been to the doctor a couple of times in a short period. THEY DO NOTHING WITH THAT INFORMATION.
Has been walking, eating some healthy stuff. Then shit happens, like Gilroy, El Paso, Ohio.Then I just want to stuff my face with chocolate and butter cookies.
Just wanted to check in with my girls. My anxiety has been through the roof and eating has been HARD. But I wore my Easter jeans the smallest of the three sizes to Thanksgiving today.
The bad news is all of my weight and walking stuff from the Lentil season isn’t on my stupid Chrome calendar
So I don’t know my end weight from last Lentil Seaon. I may just start saying FUCK IT and posting it here. Or at least the last two numbers. lol.
The Good news is, if I behave, I will still be in the ENDING jean size which was two sizes smaller when I start next year… I don’t know if any of you are out there but I felt good about myself when I INHALED A GIANT SLICE of hummingbird cake and downed a ton of wine. xo ~tt.
So I had a disappointing weigh in last week b/c I realized that my digital scale was off – I had thought I had reached the 40 lb milestone of loss.
However, I was able to wear the new one size down outfit to Thanksgiving (both jeans and top). AND THEY WEREN’T UNCOMFORTABLE. The jeans might be a little too loose even.
Here is something to think about when we talk about eating “so much” during the holidays, so fuck any healthy eating plan.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas there are 81 meals to eat if you eat 3 meals a day.or 54 meals if you only eat 2. That means that the actual holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day) are only between 3 to 4% of the meals that you’ll eat. So even if you ignore any sort of plan on the holidays, you should still stick with it. I see a lot of riced cauliflower in my future!
Also, the FT link to these comments is back up on the blackbar. It’s almost time to start again. We just have to get through Christmas, and Valentines Day, and then we begin the suffering. 🙂 xo ~tt
I’m a hermit. I don’t eat much ever because anxiety makes you drink your calories. I literally could not eat at dinner and feel like a schmuck for taking a plate home especially when I can’t contribute because I never know if I will be too crazy to go.
BUT I STILL WORE MY SMALLEST OF THE THREE FAT JEANS to Thanksgiving. So I am already looking forward to our new Lentil Season. I just wish I knew my end weight from last year. I think I am within 5 pounds or so…
Congrats on your jeans victory! So glad you posted. I fell off the wagon the middle of September and needed a kick the the butt.
AWESOME. I have actually managed to go down a size in jeans. The non scale victories (as the WW people call them) are everything. I had some issues with my scale last week – as in it was probably off balance and made me think I had passed the 40 lb weight loss. This week I had to weigh in on a different scale (same type) Between those two things, my log shows a 10 lb weight GAIN in one week. However, my size down outfit still fit well (pants are even feeling a little lose this afternoon) and I still worked the program. I’m also still losing about 1.4 lbs per week. Better than gaining that amount per week!
Glad to see everyone doing so well! And thanks for reviving this for the holidays. We need all the support we can get.
I am a WW believer. I cannot sustain a keto diet. This one feels good for me, and very doable.
Lost 45 pounds since end of May. Everything feels better, including my knees. Can run up the stairs now and walk so much faster and longer. Still want to drop another 30 or so. Being tall, people seem to think I am thinner than I actually am and tell me I look great and don’t need to drop anymore. Fuck that. I have many squishy parts and rolls that need to go.
Fortunately, like Tamara, I have several sizes in my “closet,” and haven’t had to get a new wardrobe.
Just sorted through a bunch of clothes for Curvy Girl, a consignment store that will take my clothes for cash or exchange. Great way to “shop” when your body is changing.
The next few months will be especially challenging as we are finally putting our house on the market in February and anticipating a move out west. We’ve been here 30 years, and have some dear, dear friends who I will certainly miss like crazy.
But, it’s time to go explore and to be closer to my granddaughter, who just turned seven. I do know that packing up this house will be a lot easier on me now that I am lighter.
YOU GUYS! I am ready to start out LENTIL SEASON PRETTY SOON! Officially Lent is from Wednesday, February 26 until Thursday, April 9 this season. But here the LentIL season usually runs longer here. I am still trying to responsibly eat a bunch of dark chocolate I got for Christmas, and I am currently using caffeine to get on a NORMAL PEOPLE sleep schedule. So I am allowing myself Co-Colas at the moment. But i am mentally gearing up to get back to walking and having you guys shame me into moving around. Currently I am digging out of my hoarder house one room at a time, and getting lots of exercise in that way. LOL.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHY I AM HERE!
I just got dressed to go see my headshrinker. Remember my three jeans of the exact same style I had last year, REALLY FAT, FAT, and Only a little FAT? Well, I just took 40 pounds of laundry to the fluff and fold including two of those pairs of jeans leaving one behind. I put on that pair and apparently it is the REALLY FAT PAIR. They are falling off me. I HAD TO PUT ON A BELT. I didn’t think I HAD a belt that would fit me. BUT I DO! I look ridiculous in these jeans! They are all blousey! (you can’t really tell with my swearter though).
SO IT IS POSSIBLE AT THE END OF THIS LENTIL SEASON, I WILL BE OUT OF THE PLUS SIZES!!!!!!!!
Maybe.If I walk a lot. OTOH, I bought some fancy leggings and sports bras last season on clearance and last I tried I couldn’t get a leg in them. lol. We shall see.
Am I the only one looking forward to Lentil Season 2020????!!!
Well crap. I guess it’s time for my come to Jesus meeting 🙄
Right? I was a practicing lentalist for about 10 days after Christmas but have since fallen off the wagon. I need to give all up for lentil this year!
Congrats on the Jean’s Tamara!
I’m ALL in TT!!! Best thing I ever bought- a fit bit Inspire! It’s $100 on Amazon and sometimes it goes on sale for $70 as deal of the day! It’s a great motivation tool! Get yourself one, you will not be disappointed! If you do we can create a “community” within the Fitbit App which is encouraging and a little competition but mostly keeps everyone honest and accountable for themselves. I do 10 k steps at least everyday. I get outside and walk for 60 minutes and it’s really working! Your exercise posts of the last couple of days motivated me to get to a yoga class ( I too qualify for the OLD PEOPLE class) and to the community center’s pool. Best news of all? My daughter is a personal fitness trainer and launched her business in January! She brings her personally customized exercise programs and equipment to her client’s home or workplace! AND she has a monthly subscription for online personal training. I’ll email if you want to hear more about it. I won’t post the name of the business or website unless you like what you see and think people in this lentil season group would be interested. Meantime keep moving! Looking forward to big changes for all of us! Great news on the jeans!!!
Do I need to have a smart phone or any other device for a fitbit to work?
Are you seriously telling me you are still working with a flip phone? Lol. Um I am IT dumb. But I have an …omg …I don’t know yes I guess I have an Apple phone so I guess it’s a smart phone?
I don’t have an electronic leash and all my personal information in a very expensive wrapper for thieves to steal. I know, this is a weird and unpopular concept and I am fine with that. 🙂
I’d be interested. Sorry TT, I have no clue about how or why they work but I’d be willing to learn…
Is still wondering what I will give up for Lent. I like my tea, chocolate, potato chips, and booze.
Lent is supposed to be about suffering for THE LORD. SUFFERING. 🙂 not sure why you would give up tea, You can have it without sugar or Caffiene. I will probably give up alcohol (already started that but may have some wine on Fat Tuesday haven’t decided) sugar and PROCESSED FOODS.
I too still haven’t quite decided.
Y’all. I thought I was crazy as fuck before but now I am doing some really weird shit. I found out that now that I am old I can join the community center for old fucks. SO I DID. Today I got up and went to BEGINNING yoga FOR OLD FUCKS. EVERYONE IN THERE WAS ELEVENTY BILLION YEARS OLD. The front desk lady kept talking to me and I was then ON TIME which was apparently, LATE. The room was full. AND I HAD TO BE IN THE FRONT!
I should point out that the last time I did yoga was about 25 years and 50 pounds ago.
It WAS HORRIBLE. I could not even do child’s pose. That is the relaxing one. My beer gut has no place to go! CHILD’S pose.
The funny part is the instructor marveled about my “open hips.” I wanted to point out that was because of years of extremely slutty behavior. But it didn’t seem appropriate to the room.
About twenty minutes in, I was sweating so hard that pools of sweat were forming on my “yoga mat.” I made a special trip to TJMaxx Monday to buy a fucking yoga mat. Oh yay! 9 bucks! This mat does NOTHING! I might a well just be laying on a sheet of bulletin board paper! And because I was new the yoga instructor kept talking to me from the front of the class.
Thirty minutes I was dying and dehydrated. It was then I realized I left my water bottle at the front desk. No one else brought a water bottle but I stopped to get mine. Maybe you aren’t allowed to bring a water bottle??? But it was a medical necessity for me. All of the water that WAS in my body was now gushing off my yoga mat in waves.
Also, THE CLASS WAS A WHOLE HOUR! About 45 minutes in I thought there was only five minutes left. Nope! Even therapy hours are not A WHOLE HOUR. Did I mention everyone else was 100 years old????
Then I went to the weight room and did a slow mile on the treadmill just to make sure everything was working properly because everything seemed in the wrong place or at the very least out of alignment.BECAUSE I HAD BEEN ON A VERY HARD Floor FOR AN HOUR!
When I left the house I was watching my recording of Kelly & Ryan. Jeff Probst was on talking about Survivor. But before that Kelly and Ryan were talking about Waffle House. I decided I would go to Waffle House afterward. But I decided not to. Once I escaped the old folks home I just wanted to go home and maybe have a good cry. On the way back I passed the “community center” where I can apparently work out on Saturday afternoons and Sundays when the old folks home is closed. So I drove through the village and saw a Moe’s (burrito joint). I really wanted a burrito. So I told myself if there was a parking space (which there never is) I could have a burrito. I think Moe’s is one of those healthy kind of places anywhere. I wasn’t sure. But I sure was hungry.
There was no parking space.
So now I am home eating a fucking bowl of sliced fucking fruit. Then I realize that I forgot to go to Planet Fitness and cancel my membership. Did you know you have to GO IN to cancel your membership? Fuck I might as well get on the damn treadmill again before I quit. /heavysigh
I guess I will go in a bit. There is a brand new Waffle house between here and Planet fitness.
We have not OFFICIALLY officially started THE LENTIL SEASON here yet, but I am telling you right now, I am going to need some of you bitches to START SUFFERING AND WHINING WITH ME NOW. It’s pre pre LENTIL SEASON. Don’t make me do this alone.
So today. ONE FUCKING HOUR OF YOGA and walked a FUCKING MILE.
Beginning Geriatric Yoga my fat ass!
Is it weird that I’m sort of impressed? I mean, (1) you out (2) you out (3) you out. 4) And with motherfucking actual alive people. I mean, sort of alive. They’re probably going to die soon so don’t get too attached.
The old bitches in my yoga class are going to live forever. I’m the one that is going to die IN A GERIATRIC BEGINNING YOGA CLASS!
I’m DYING NOW!
:cactus
I’m preparing to throw myself on your coffin. Which might kill me so it could be a twofer.
We’re gonna need a bigger coffin.
You’re so funny, Tamara!
And funny looking! 🙂
That’s so amazing! Congratulations, TT! I sit a lot at my new job, but the Y is right across the street, so I was thinking about getting a membership so I can pop in during lunch or before/after work. Now I HAVE to get a membership so I can suffer along with you.
Yes. Yes you do. We SEE EACH UHTHA.
wow, you fucking rock! How sore are you today? You just reminded me of my plant fitness membership. I will start going again. I am all in for your lentil season! I will give up cussing for the Lord and caffeine for me.
Ai Chi at noon.It’s supposed to be Tai Chi in the water. In a therapy pool. AKA soaking in water with old people. Old people stew. IN A BATHING SUIT. I don’t know when I last wore a bathing suit or if I have one in my current wonder whale size. And then there is the hair issue. Legs and more. I recently went to get a mani pedi for the yoga class. It was the first time I saw my calves in bright light. They were like a bear. It occurs to me that I can’t SEE the hair on my legs at home. So I may have nothing to wear. I don’t have to worry about it today though because we have a tornado warning. I suppose I should check and see if I could potentially be prepared for Old People Stew. After all, I am the hot new fresh young meat at the old folks home…
This is awesome and you have motivated me! I haven’t worked out in a year.
Okay, I’m on board!
I wrote an entire book in response and the damn website ATE IT! ARGH.
Welcome JoJo we do this every year getting DEADLY SERIOUS during Lent…that’s 46 days if you don’t skip Sundays which most of us don’t. Then once we make it to that point, a lot of us lose 30 pounds or more and want to keep going to hit a particular (unmentioned usually) number.
Since then some of us want to get an early sort of soft start where we start moving a bit as the weather warms and mentally prepare for the hard core 46 days. We give up “something” or two or three “somethings” and try to move more than whatever our norm is.
Then we post here a lot bragging about what we did, or admitting our missteps and encourage each other to keep on movitvating each other.
Lentil Proper is 46 days ( or maybe 47? because we don’t take Sundays off like people doing Lent do).
I have to get back to cleaning but I will tell you about the soup…(optional) and walking and stuff. another time.
I haven’t been here for ages because I don’t have Bravo but am eager to join in. I haven’t worked out since before I had my baby … 17 months ago!
You are our kind of people Tiff. We basically suck a good 300 days out of the year and then get serious for 47 or sometimes 65 and suffer together. 🙂 Welcome. I’ll start the first new post for2020 soon. We are just sort of mentally preparing in this 2019 for a bit.
HAHAH!! This had me in tears. I really enjoyed this, though be it at your expense. LOL! But, I will be happy to eat salads and walk again this lentil season with you. My baby will be 10 months by then. Time to lose the baby weight….Gotta snap back like Kenya and Porsha!
I think it’s great you did yoga. Were you sore the next day? It is harder than most people think!
I was sore a few hours later for a bit. The next day I was fine again. I try to be invisible in class. I struggle to so anything. It’s said. And then, when we sit crosslegged on the floor, I sit the way I always sit even now on the couch, with one leg on top of the other. This REALLY freaked everyone out as my legs are flat on the floor and everyone else’s are at like 45 degree angles.
Apparently it is called the lotus position and I am some sort of freak of nature (in a good way?!????) I am sure I have the nickname “open hips” by now as much as they say it.
This will be good for picking up a rich octogenarian, though, noe?
Everything hurts. I am exhausted. I am TRYING to stay awake for RHONJ…
Oh geeze. I may have neglected to share a story from lentil last year. I still don’t think I’m ready but I WILL I promise when we “officially” kick off lentil this year….let me just say it has to do with exercise equipment that I was sooo excited about. I literally would have broke the internet if my first (so far last…”it” stares at me daily when I crash at the nurse’s house) experience was somehow on the internet. I’m a little traumatized just thinking about sharing but I will! And? I’m going to concur that B!
I’m thinking some yoga on YouTube before I have to fart and swear (meant sweat but I’m sure I’d swear) with anyone, least of all my elders…um compadres?
*conquer
Is it just me or did you NOT share your embarrassing story????
Sadly it is NOT the embarrassing story revealed….
I’m with you ready for Lentil Season! Walked 2.25 miles today and was BEAT, so I had 2.25 glasses of red wine.
I approve of this pre pre Lentil season workout plan. How long does it take you to walk 2.25 miles?
A loooong time! But baby steps I guess…it hard when you are rusty!
How long does it take you to drink 2.25 glasses of wine?
Reminder for the regulars and point of interest for the new people…if you look up at the black link box in the bottom right corner you will see the letters FT that stands for Fat Tamara…. lol… or FAT TUESDAY and will bring you to all the Lentil Season posts. The newest one will be on top assuming I do things right.
ANYWAY
The reason I came here today is I just got my Ollies Flyer in Email and they have all sort of CBD stuff. INCLUDING MY CBD gummies that are $30 online for $20. Same brand, same strength. So if I survive tornado day…. I shall be going there and buying several bottles. I wonder if my company is going out of business. So if I don’t get killed by a tornado today…. which the weather seems to think is likely, I’m headed back to Ollie’s Discount Store for CBD stuff this weekend. Google to see if you have one. It’s an overstock store full of weird goodies. Sheets and towels want weird men’s hunting clothes and stuff. Dawn diswashing liquid, Ziploc bags (always with Christmas packaging, so it is Christmas all year in my freezer, and REALLY good deal on rugs of ANY POSSIBLE SIZE from bathroom to ginormous ballroom.
Just an FYI.
Hi Tamara,
Sorry if this has been mentioned before .. What date does the ‘lentil season’ start?
Well LENT starts on the 26th and runs through Easter. That is where we go hard core for 46 days. But prior to that some of us start making small steps in the direction of whatever our goals are. Then, After a cheat day on Easter, some of us, if we are trying to lose weight and are doing well and on a roll we keep going for a little bit longer if we want.
But the main thing is Wednesday the 26th thru Easter. But really, you make your own rules. We just like bitching and complaining and bragging to each other here.
I will be making a new Forum for 2020 soon. We are just checking in in this old one to drum up interest. You can click the FT in the bottom right corner of the black link bar on every page and it will take you to the most current post. I may start a new on this weekend maybe or in a few more days. Look forward to suffering with you! And Welcome to the site!
Thanks for the information and the welcome. This ‘lentil’ group sounds exactly like what I need. Looking forward to chatting with you all.
I recently signed up for yoga classes at a senior center, Be prepared for lots of stories about how the 80 year olds are kicking my ass.
Prepared and waiting … I got shunned a few years back at aqua aerobics by a group of 80 year old women. They can be a tough crowd to break into.
I have been on keto since last Lentil. I don’t know what I weigh, just that I have gone down 2.5 pants sizes. Over the holidays, my roommate and I decided we could have a FEW days of non-keto food. I went to the doc for the first time since mid-November. Even with the holidays, I lost 10 pounds. So for Lentil I think I will stay on keto. I am going to give up drinking things other than tea, coffee and water. Meaning I am going to add lots of water to my diet.
I put on 60 pounds from steroids… prednisone. Was taking large doses of 90 mg in March due to health issues and am now down to 9 mg but they are taking me off them slowly. I have read and heard from my dr that I won’t be able to lose the weight till I’m off the prednisone, but if I get inspired enough here I may try and prove them all wrong. I want my “moon pie’ face and my ” buffalo hump” gone. (actual medical terms used for fat distribution with prednisone use) The remaining of my fat distribution is all on my belly. My legs and arms are skinny twigs and have lost all muscle mass. I am either on pain pills or muscle relaxers. I really wanted to try cbd but my pain management dr says I can’t continue with them if I do. Not trying to start a Debbie downer thread.
I’m 58 and my 83 year old mother goes to the senior center for sweating to the oldies three days a week. She keeps trying to get me to go with her. She tells me they can put a chair in the back for me to sit every few minutes. Maybe I will!
Thanks for the inspiration Tamara!
Hang in there Mango , My senior center has chair Tai Chi (the one and only Tai Chi class and it’s not just for people who need seated exercise. I plan to try it.
Your Lentil Season committment could be to drink a 1.5 liter of bottle of water a day. Or JUST drink water for the real Lent part of it. I know I get A LOT of my calories from liquids.
Welcome to the madness.
None of this amounts to a hill of beans if in the letting go of something we love doesn’t nourish us in the end.
I am near death. GENTLE STRETCHING FOR SENIORS was more like beginners yoga. My thin mat was once again worthless. I have bad ankle sand the right one in particular is kaput from moving furniture and cleaning. I though I was going to DIE. Then, Then someone mentions the class if and hour and 15 minutes. About 45 minutes we did who whole namaste prayer hands shit. THAT IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN CLASS IS FUCKING OVER.
BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
THERE WAS ANOTHER HALF A FUCKING HOUR.
But I lived. Then I crawled on my hands and knees sobbing to the exercise room (well at least I that is what it felt like in my head and walked two slow miles in 33.5 minutes.
BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE. I NEED A FUCKING OLD LADY SWIMSUIT AND I NEED IT NOW! And Also an better yoga mat.So I went to Marshalls and bought a thicker mat. The didn’t have fat old lady swim suits. So I went to TJ Max. NOPE. SO STILL FUCKING WALKING I walk all the way around the shopping center to Ross. Nothing. But they did have a fugly pair of yoga pants in TEAL that I think I can fit in. There was an abject moron working the register. I was third in line. Then another line opened. She took then next guy and ten more people lined up behind him. After taking those ten people she took the guy in front of me. Moron guy was still trying to learn how to fold. Then that customer’s friend had a return. Then Oh look friend has another item.
I am trying not to cry. I NEED THESE FUGLY teal yoga pants. There are only six pairs of fatass yoga pants in the world. I found one and I will die trying to buy it RIGHT HERE IN THE MOTHER FUCKING ROSS. I lean on a counter to lift my swollen ankle. Finally I am free.
I head to the TARGET shopping center. I AM NOT GOING HOME WITHOUT AN OLD LADY BATHING SUIT. I try Bealls first because they have old stock. No fat old lady swimwear but TWO pair of fatass yoga pants. One pair is NIke and $25! the pair was asics or something.
I leave and crawl down the sidewalk to Target. I know where the plus size shit is. It’s in the back corner.
SUDDENLY, GOD SMILED ON ME! There was a lady putting out a shit ton of swimsuits and the Plus Sizes were there two! There were lots to choose from. BUT THERE WAS ONE BLACK FLORAL OLD LADY SUIT WITH A SKIRT so that I do not have to maintain the lady garden. I haven’t been able to SEE the lady garden since 1982. Unfortunately it has a strappy back but I got the mother fucker and I can now go to OLD PEOPLE STEW in the fucking therapy pool. Um Yay?
So all is well that ends well. I am straving to death but too stiff to move.
Tomorrow morning is Hatha yoga. They say it is a lot of meditation. But THEY lie. The probably electrocute you with a cattle prod or something in between all the fucking Ommmmmmmmming shit.
Now I have to go see if photos are posted for Project Runway.
How way your day?
When I got in really good shape at my fancy gym I loved before I had to move away:( I called Hatha Yoga my gateway drug workout class. I went from there to Pilates, then barre and was finally able to add HIIT. I have faith you can make it. My hatha instructor was so soothing to listen to, and she never judged at all.
Now it would be good if I would just do the yoga and Pilates classes I have saved as favorites on Amazon Prime. One prime workout I really liked was from that crazy American from Ladies of London who will someday be the Countess of Sandwich. She is irritating as heck, but she is an excellent yoga teacher. I have been mentally gearing up for Lentil 2020 for a while, but I haven’t successfully done anything.
And I am so ready for PR recap! And Cho for new Survivor. I loved the best of episode Wednesday night. There is never too much Boston Rob and Ambuh.
Today was weigh in day, and only down a half pound. Per WW, my average weekly loss is 1.2 lbs per week. I’m trying to be happy with that today (I was fine with it last week), but the slow down is bothering me even though I knew it wouldn’t be a stellar week (I literally did not get home before 8:30 PM every night this past week AND last weekend.)
I’ve managed to lose just over 40 lbs since June 1st without exercising at all. My hip and back feel so much better – I think it is time to start walking or moving more. I also need to bite the bullet and make a doctor’s appointment for a physical, which should include blood workup. I realized I’ve not had my thyroid levels checked in a while (I’m on a low dose of Synthroid). I’m sure that has something to do with the sloooow weight loss as well.
Hey y’all! I’m not doing lentil but I feel left out so I’m here to cheer you all on. And I wanted to tell you Tamara and anyone else who needs old lady bathing suits that are good quality and not hideous, that Land’s End has lots of styles and patterns/colors to choose from and they carry regular and plus sizes. You can even get swim shorts with an oversized top and most mix and match. They also have the swim shorts and skirts that you can wear over the bathing suit for more coverage. I found them because they also carry mastectomy swimsuits for anyone who needs one of those! Their return policy is pretty good too if you need to try different sizes and send something back as long as you don’t remove the sanitary sticker. Once you sign up for emails and request a catalog they send coupon codes and have sales all the time and carry swimsuits year round. Hope that helps! I’m going to be yalls cheerleader! The fact that you’re already pre-gaming lentil is admirable! Go lentils! 👏👏👏
Great! We shall be expecting full blown cheers periodically. :X
Fuck my life but I NEED to be in on this. My weight spiraled for a bunch of reasons but I just need to get it off.
My approach to yoga and stretching has shifted with my age. I started out with 2-3 basic poses (beginner style) and did them at least 5 times a week. Slowly, you easy into it and then start to advance and feel better. I do it in my home and focusing on me and my own abilities. I’d go crazy in a class and would be so distracted by others.
We are all there and lots of us had lots of success last year. I’ll start the new post in a minute. We are getting a lot of people ready to pre-Lentil that’s what we do to easy into it before the deadly serious 46 days of suffering and bitchiness. 🙂 Welcome to the virtual fat farm/. 🙂
Can’t eat can’t sleep down right pounds in as many weeks. This just might be the year I finally kick the cowboy to the curb. Pray for me as I pray for all of us.
hang in there T D
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
‘Cause they’ll never stay home and they’re always alone
Even with someone they love….
The new post? I won’t give up potato chips or chocolate, so I guess it’s booze.Will still sip my English Breakfast tea.