Milestones (Amy's diary)

Yes! So pleased for you. I remember the buzz I got from going from obese to overweight the first time I lost weight.. nothing like it!
 
Thanks, all! and a hug, if welcome. :)

I'm starting to find the tricky parts of this maintenance bizz.
Tricky part 1 - finding how to eat normally with others including when a meal is sprung on you (ie me) without warning. On Thursday I was invited out for lunch following a work meeting - to an Italian restaurant, and on the specials list was spinach and ricotta ravioli. So far, so bad, already, but then they offered a choice between a tomato sauce and a creamy gorgonzola and walnut sauce, and ooooh, yes!
And then my scales on Friday were perfectly clear about what happens when pasta and a creamy (yummy!) sauce meet a just-barely-at-the-goal woman. Say no more.
So this morning it was coffee and fruit only for breakfast - no egg, no bread. It's the weekend, and I will be going easy on myself, but definitely going easy on the eating too.

On the cheerful side - on my way to the meeting - ie before lunch - I cut across a park where some boys were playing with a round lightweight ball - soccer-ball sized, but plastic. And the ball came bounding towards me, and I was in such a bouncy mood (see previous post!) that I ran at it and kicked it (wrongly, with the side of my foot, not the toe) and it went right back to them, and I didn't make an idiot of myself. Which is all to the good, and a sign of (maybe) better overall health and balance.
 
aiminglow said:
(wrongly, with the side of my foot, not the toe)
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This is actually the correct way to pass a football (soccer ball) It takes a fair bit of coaching to stop kids toe punting the ball and risking broken toes. The top of the foot is used for long passing and shooting with power, never the toe. Well Done !
 
Also: punting makes it harder to control the direction because you have such a tiny point of contact.
One rich meal won't ruin your progress, of course, and as long as you balance it out afterwards those scales will see reason again before long :grouphug:
 
Amy as Em and LaMa say one meal won't ruin it but I'm like you one meal can have a bad effect on the scales. I'm sure you will correct it and learn to live on maintenance for a while.
 
Trusylver said:
This is actually the correct way to pass a football
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Good heavens! :rotflmao: I accidentally did it right! Thank you, Tru, for this very cheerful news! :)
(And thanks Rob, for the vote of confidence. :) )

Thanks, LaMa, Emily and Petal, for the encouragement regarding the retrievability of the Gorgonzola Outrage. I really can just zoom up on the back of one meal, or that's how it seems to me, but I am holding the line, I think, though perilously. It's nighttime now, and I've just downed two cups of tea, so I won't weigh, but tomorrow morning I'll see.
 
Beautiful enough, anyway, and with half a moon in the sky! (Is it waxing or waning? ummm... bright side to the sun... I'll check tomorrow!)
The weigh showed me as four ounces (100 grams) over, but I'm not going to beat myself up over that, I'm happy to say - I will sing along with the Rascals, and plan a brand new day! :) (Thanks, La Ma!)
 
Thank you! :)
It was high in the sky, and the day had clearly come to daylight, but the sun wasn't up - and there was the moon, still shining like a night-time moon in a daytime sky - very lovely and special.
 
Beautiful orange low moon here last night. Amy 2 cups of tea and no weigh sounds good to me. I'm same as you and one meal zooms me up short term.
 
It was okay, Emily - the weight, not the moon! I was about four ounces over. :)
Petal001 said:
Beautiful orange low moon here last night.
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Emilyrose said:
The moon was glorious the last few days.
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LaMaria said:
Waning gibbous. One thing that's the same the world over!
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I love :beating: that we can all see it, and that it's been so beautiful everywhere!

Not that I've seen it today or tonight. It was only a few days ago that I was writing here about the amazing human body, and how skin can heal itself - oh, my friends! The Universe must have heard* - because I am now having a practical demonstration of the same! o_O

Yesterday I managed to pour some nearly-boiling soup over myself, and owowowowow! and pain, and blessed cold water and cold wet cloths and after a time, when I could stand it, antiseptic powder - and blisters, of course, some very quickly, and some coming up even today, very interesting to observe - but nothing worse would come from a bad sunburn, and I'm being careful not to let the burst ones get infected.
And now the pain has pretty much all gone, and all is well again. So that was my adventure for the last day-and-a-bit. :)
(My advice to everyone here - do not slosh nearly boiling soup over yourself, it wastes lots of time and water.)

*I don't really think that this is how things work!
 
Ouch, that must've hurt so much! If blisters are still coming out you may not have cooled the burn long enough. If so should it ever happen again (I hope it doesn't!) make sure to cool with luke-warm to coldish (cold is fine for smaller areas, luke-warm is easier on the body for larger ones) water for fully 15 minutes so the deeper tissue layers get a chance to cool down as well. This, by the way, helps for bad sunburns as well. Not for the dna damage, of course, but against pain and blistering.
Speedy healing!
 
Thanks, LaMa and Cate! I really appreciate your reading and good wishes. :)
I see that I was still so discombobulated when I posted yesterday that I made a typo - I meant "nothing worse than would come from a bad sunburn" - and I've seen other typos from me yesterday scattered about in various places - interesting to see that impact, as it was interesting to observe slight shock-reaction on Monday. I gave myself today off work, because of the bra-strap-blister conflict issue, not wanting to burst them - or to rub on the sore places, come to that. (And with the typo question, probably just as well to skip work for a bit, anyway, until I can be sure I get things right!)
Thank you both again, lots! :grouphug: (hug very ,very tentative, because yep, it's still hurting a bit!)
 
Amy so sorry about the burn I hope it’s better now . I have a spray gel that I keep in the kitchen and I swear by it as I am clumsy and burn myself a lot . I burnt my hand a few weeks ago and still have the mark but it never hurt or blistered . I will post the name of it later . Hope all else is ok x
 
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