I changed my starting weight to reflect what I posted on my daily weigh ins: 164 on 1-12-15.
I think that was elevated due to water weight and feeling so bloated after all of that drinking that I was doing so it may not be an actual weight if you know what I mean but I thought I would still record it as a starting weight. Shocking how easy it is to gain weight and so hard to lose it. my weight has stayed about the same in the past couple of weeks. So at least I am not gaining like I was.
hattie was afraid of the giant balloon, had to move it into the living room out of site. lol poor kittie!
90% chance of rain today, no parades for me, may not go to the king cake party because of the rain, 30's -40's tomorrow and decreased chance of rain so may go on fat tuesday after all. It will be my first mardi gras alcohol free. last night was hard went to a cook out where I would normally drink I was full of anxiety for the first time in 3 weeks. The urges finally went away, don't know if it was actually urges for drinking or restlessness that I wanted to be on the computer and was missing that. I think the internet addiction if you can call it that is greater than the alcohol problem at this point. Hop on here in the morning first thing then it gets me late to work. hop on the computer after dinner, spend hours in a smart chat room(It is better than drinking I suppose)...trying to go to the gym, have a few times since we joined 2 weeks ago. On to my 3rd cup of coffee and running late to see my first client.
bizi

hubby is going to a king cake party tonight...I am dieting so will pass that. Plus I have social anxiety issues....hubby doesn't understand this so I explained it to him.
I am not drinking(which I used to drink to help cope with my anxiety issues).
I don't like groups of people, they make me anxious. I don't want to go there and be tempted by the king cake. I want to go to the gym tonight and walk on the tred mill.
I have not been in awhile and need to get back into a habit of going.
bizi

Sounds like a good plan Bizi.

donna :hug::grouphug:

Have a great work out!!
 

Enjoy the gym, Bizi, :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

Mari

HI I went to the gym and walked on the tred mill 90 minutes for 5.3 miles at 3.5 mph. Used my head phones to listen between food shows and hanity.
I love the flexibilty of the open hours and there were plenty of machines open when I was there.
IT was raining when I went to the gym, I wonder if they went ahead and had the parades tonight???? Poor people if they did....It rained last year mardi gras and ice, it was awful.
hubby said the king cake was good.
Said that his best friend was hammered!
This friend of his gives up alcohol for lent so is trying to drink as much as he can....lent starts wednesday. Mardi Gras /fat tuesday is tomorrow. The % of rain has diminished but it will be coldish here and windy, not my cup of tea. ( poor people on the floats are going to freeze)...WE may try to bundle up and go to the afternoon parades. 30's with 20mph winds.....burr.
I know that I grew up in northern indiana but I have lived in the south for 14 years and my blood has thinned and my raynauds flares up and I hate being cold.

After I got out of the gym it was cold and windy. I could not make it home fast enough. I was not dressed properly. I had a thin rain coat on, thought my raynauds was going to flare up on me. Good thing that I am only one mile from my house!
bizi

Bizi,

That is cool that you live so close to the gym.

Stay warm (maybe skip the parades) so that you feel good.

Mari

either hubby is sick from bad fish or he picked up a stomach bug at the king cake party last night.
he got sick last night then again this morning and he did not sleep at all last night due to bloating etc. The fish tasted weird but he ate it anyway. mine tasted fine. he did not say anything about it, i discovered his tasted bad when I finished a bit of his when he said he was done. It tasted weird. The catfish had been out of the freezer for 3 days and then I cooked it and we ate it for dinner last night. So that was 4 days thawed.....
I don't know if it is food poisoning or the stomach bug as that is going around ramped this time of year. called sister who is a nurse and she no water for 2 hours then start sips no food for 4 hours the the brat diet. bananas, rice, applesauce and toast, bland foods nothing greasy, no alcohol. So he is in bed trying to sleep now that he is no longer bloated. I feel sorry for him and bad for him about the fish if that is the culprit.
bizi

gave hubby some mylanta and sipps of gingerale, heating pad for his achy back and a quilt he is lying on the futon in the family room as it has more support than our fluffy bed.
poor guy....
bizi

Bizi,

Is he starting to feel better?

'Sending good vibes to both of you.

Mari

thanks for asking mari, no he is not...now has fever 100.5 he may have had this all along did not take it. he looked flush that is why I wanted to take it and his heart rate is elevated...100 resting when it is normally 60 resting. So i knew that he was going to have some elevated temp.
he is getting down some ginger ale, took some more gas ex.
pharm said it could last day and a half.
there goes his mini vacation...back to work on thursday.
bizi