BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

[A Work in Progress]

Thanks, DG!

wip

[louise]

Welcome WIP. Yes, this thread is a bit calmer than many. I feel safe here as a result. DG, do you cook the cauliflower before you rice it or after? It's late so I've got to get to bed but I wanted to say hi to everyone. Day 3 down for me (for the umpteenth time).

[Aunty Mame]

Hi all,

.... I have just got to try that cauliflower crust!!

I crashed a couple of days ago ........ dont think it was flu (although everyone else around me seems to have it!), just a few things catching up on me. I've been sleeping 12 hours a night and not doing much during the day but essentials. Lots of lavender baths and home made soup .... and I'm going to keep doing it like this until I feel normal again! But tonight I had a huge piece of steak to see whether animal protein might deliver some additional protein energy!!

[Doggygirl]

Good Day Booze Busters!!!!!

Despite having to clean up dog puke in the middle of the night, I'm in a great mood today - feeling well rested and rarin' to go. I'm sure my good mood has to do with the fact that I did not STEP in the dog puke - there is always a silver lining to every cloud.

louise, rice the cauliflour before you cook it. YUM YUM. I think I'm going to make low carb pizza on Sunday - I'm in that mood since we've been talking about it!! I think I'm going to use some foo foo toppings like spinach and pine nuts. GOOD FOR YOU ON DAY 3!!!! Every day with no AL in it is a good day. Are you getting adjusted to being back to work? Hope so. I think I would feel like I just got a hug shock to my system with that sort of change every end-o-summer.

Mame it is good to see you as always. After all the busy days and stress you've had for.....several months now, it's not surprising that your body is demanding REST now that there is a slow down. Good for you listening to your body and giving it what it needs. Those lavendar baths sound heavenly!! That steak is sounding good too.

I recently made a road trip out to a farm that produces beef / pork / chicken without the antibiotics and hormones. They aren't officially organic because they buy their feed from a neighbor farmer who grows it, and he is not officially organic. They trust the feed from this farmer more than getting "organic" official feed from a depot many miles away. They know what products this farmer friend uses. Everything I've tried from there has been awesome from the steaks to ever less expensive cuts like pork shoulder (pulled pork turned out great). It's time for another road trip!

Mr. Doggy and I had another great talk last night about the benefits of our sobriety. We are having a really good summer in our business which is largely attributable to his being fully functional at any given time. He didn't realize how much the pot was really dragging him down. (not to mention the additional legal risk ever present) Of course I'm sober all day in the office so no risk of slurred phone calls, forgeting things, etc. And if a client needs to come by to drop off or pick up something, all is good. We should have done this years ago. He too has thoughts of his vice, but just like with me, and just like it was for both of us when we separately quit smoking, the thoughts get less intense and less frequent with time. YAY!!!

Today is Day 85 AFHF. It's cleaning lady day which is always a great day!!! (I will give up food before I give up this service!) Once she gets going, I will go to Curves then run my errands then back to the office. I have some lingering accounting work to catch up on - so if you see me posting away all day here, get out the and beat me into doing my work!! (it won't take me that long - just getting started on it is the hard part!) I also got some of those storage bags where you put clothes or bedding or whatever in them, then suck the air out with a vaccuum cleaner. Anybody tried those?? Do they work?? I need to start putting some of my too big clothes in storage. I'm going to donate some of that to charity, but just in case my thyroid goes whacky or something like that I don't want to re-buy everything. (I don't plan to eat lousy and not exercise my way back into them!) If those storage bags work, they should take up less space than storage boxes.

YAY!! (I like that word!)

Sorry my posts get so long. As you have figured out, you can ignore 90% or more of it and still get the important stuff. Have a great BOOZE BUSTIN' DAY everyone!! I too love the calm of this thread and all you Booze Busters old and new mean a lot to me and my sobriety.

DG
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Good morning all, I'm sitting here with my smoothie (with that awful powder stuff in it), taking my supps, catching up with the threads... Dogs and cats are fed, etc. Lots of meetings today, and still various tasks connected with cleaning up various stuff for my mother... taxes, bills, bank accounts, etc.

Hoping everyone has a good day!

wip

[greeneyes]

Hi all - Doggy girl, you inspire me (among others). Just wanted you to know that. I know what you mean about the effects of sobriety. Addictions strongly if not soley attributed to the demise of my marriage.

Have a great day!

What is "ricing cauliflower"?

[louise]

But we are very proud of you for not using the demise as a reason to drink Greenie! That is awesome. Go back up several posts and DG explains how to make pizza with cauliflower crust if you are cutting carbs or wheat. Ricing is explained there.
WIP - I know, that stuff tastes terrible. I take it in V-8 juice. But I'm not always getting it now I'm back at work as I take a thyroid med that I'm not supposed to take a multivitamin with in the am. Over the summer I'd have the all-one/juice as a snack or for lunch but harder now I'm back at work.
No, not yet used to back to work! On that note I best get going or I'll be late.
Hope you feel better Mame!

[Marshy]

DG - as there seems to be a certain amount of confusion about this cauliflower pizza thingy, I think we'll all have to come over to yours on Sunday for a demo and taste test. Six-ish suit everyone? I'll bring the cherryade!

[sothankful]

Hi All, I haven't read post today. just checking in quick. Hope all are doing great.
Having bad cramps. So i will check in tomorrow. I think I will have some soup and lay down. Wow,

Still kicking booze ass.

[A Work in Progress]

Hope you're feeling better tomorrow, ST... I guess you'll have to miss this pizza do at DG's??

wip