Good Day Booze Busters!!!! With the holiday on Friday this weekend IS feeling like a nice long holiday weekend to me - in a really good way. Sometimes the weekends - even holiday long ones - feel like they fly by way to fast.
Pamina, LOL on your AF beerfest. I actually read your post before dog training. Didn't think much of it at the time - but I've been threatening to try AF beer at some point, even though beer was not my poison of choice since the college years. When dog training was wrapping up I went to our garage refrigerator where the beverages live only to find about 3 beers in there. So I took one to our trainer but then had to make a liquor store run. So at that point, an AF beer was calling my name to at least try it. I ended up with Sharp's (my other choices were O'Douls and a Budweiser AF beer of some sort). On a hot summer day around others drinking beer and shooting the breeze, it tasted pretty good! I had two and of course that blew my carb count out of the water for the day. As Dolly mentioned, either the carb count in general or the grain content may be what made you feel tired. Anyway...you inspired me to finally discover what AF beer is all about. I can't make it a regular thing due to the carbs, but it will be nice once in awhile on Saturdays or special occassions!!
Greenie in the Big Girl Pants!!!
Congratulations on 3 weeks AFHF!!! That is awesome. Overall you sound SO good since you return from Lenair. Sorry you were sick though and have been having some physical symptoms going on. But life sure is looking up isn't it? LOL on the liquor store rotation from the drinking days. I thought about that yesterday when making the beer run for the boys. It was nice to walk into the one I picked knowing I hadn't been there in a really long time!
Sheepish, congrats on Day 4!!!! I really enjoy winter time too (rather than the horribly hot summer days) EXCEPT for the shortness of the daylight hours. Hopefully this coming winter we will all be solidly sober, and able to enjoy that time of year rather than get in the cyle of depression / drink / more depression / more drink / continue ad nauseum. (at least that was my cycle last winter!!).
sothankful, I'm sorry to hear of your fall on the 4th. Like the others have said, don't give up. It would be awesome if every one of us could succeed in getting an AF life on the first try. I'm sure that happens for a few folks, but for the majority, it seems we have to go through some trial and error and pain before we finally get it right. You WILL get it right if you keep trying. You mention that you think you need to look at the process in a different light....Hope you will talk more about that. Mean time CONGRATULATIONS on yesterday being back to Day 1. We'll be thinking of you here on Day 2!! Especially due to the fact that you will be wearing the
Fugly Green Suit. Sorry we didn't have time to get it cleaned in the last year.
louise, thank you for the recipe!! I echo Hannah's question - what did you serve it with? Since you provided the recipe I will decline your invitation to come clean your closets!! Believe me - I HEAR you on the weight frustration. I know I will always have to work at it in a way I really didn't (lucky me!) in my younger years. But I truly believe the hormones are helping - especially after a doseage adjustment on Thursday. I've still been watching calories and carbs and working out, but I've seen better results with the same effort over the last few days. I don't want to speak too soon as it may just be a fluke. But if this keeps up for another week or two, I will be 100% confident the hormones are making a huge difference. And it's not just about the weight - it's about mood and energy level, etc. I didn't even take an L-Tryptophan Magic Mood Pill yesterday!!
1967 You ROCK!!!!!! Love the "Joy" in your name AND your post!! Good for you resisting temptation, and believing in yourself. WE CAN SAY NO. AL only has as much power as we are willing to concede. Jefferson Airplane!!!! WHEE!!!! Oh the memories! I was thinking of you yesterday and had fond memories of living in Florida in the Clearwater area during most of my 30's. I loved all the beach concerts in the summer time. Of course I wasn't doing them AF back then like you did last night!! On to Day 9, then tomorrow you will be a Double Digit Babe!
Hannah, sorry that your game got rained out (and hailed out??
) yesterday. My mind went to a dirty place when you talked about Mr. Hannah wanting to be bad.
Wow. Chips and a stick of cheese and AF wine for dinner. Sounds like fun to me!!
I felt great during dog training yesterday. It was a smooth running day where we had lots of people who trained, but somehow nobody was in a rush and things just ran smoothly with people coming and going for their different types of work. And it's always a good training day when Mr. Egotistical A-Hole is not here. (the one who while pouting, backed into our gates causing over $2,000 damage) I mentioned up stream the AF beer during afterglow which actually hit the spot. We were talking and laughing - our trainer tells good stories. And I swear he has better gossip than most women!!
I have a "before" picture in a pair of shorts and a tank top from around the 1st of June. The top is an XL and the shorts are an 18. Yesterday, I was wearing the same exact tank top (Land's End!) but in a L, and the same exact shorts (Sam's Club) in a 16. YEAH!!! I've got a ways to go before the Mrs. America pageant, but I'll get there. Hannah, I hear you on Land's end tank tops and sleeveless tees. What I REALLY like about them is that the arm holes are cut correctly so your brazierre (sp) and straps aren't sticking out all over the place.
I've still got some dresser drawers and bathroom drawer/cabinets to clean out so maybe that will be my project for the day. Mainly I'm going to just do whatever I feel like doing!! So who knows...I might just be reading and posting here quite a bit.
Love you all!! Have a Booze Bustin' Day everyone!!
DG
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Celebrating 46 Hangover Free Days!