January Meeting Place (daily chat thread)

[sunday]

CiCi,
I can see how this is going to be a great business! I think you will do very well!

I recently paid one of my nieces to have all of my closets/garage/attic organized. It is not a small job either.

[KeirasMom]

Carly, you are way too kind. I'll have to start insisting all that gray is just really light blond.

[gotsomeold]

After I retired from corporate, I trained as a stager. It is amazing how reducing the physical load of 'things' frees the spirit. One of my clients, who had been through some terrible tragedies, told me she felt like every time she let a thing go she released the pain that thing had been holding.

[Carly]

Originally Posted by Dottie

Do they work well? My mother and grandmother are having health and mobility issues and I was going to see if they'd both consider them as a safety measure.

Yes- it seemed that it did. The ambulance got to my grandmother quickly from what I understand and that was 6 or so yrs ago.

[Saxy1971]

This is a good spot to drop in and say hi! Been battling some cold/flu crud for the past couple weeks and everything around me has been suffering, including getting here and posting. Been reading though, and I LOVE the new avatars!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

[Kissa]

Glad you're feeling better Lisa, good to have around again.

[Librarygirl]

Hi guys. Just wanted to share because I'm ticked off, lol. I was eating lunch today with some people from work, and one of them noticed that I had a candy bar (almond joy) for dessert. She said, What are you eating, Cindy? I showed it to her, and she said, Put down that candy bar, Cindy! I said, Why? and she started laughing and looked away. I just got so angry about it, though. I KNOW it looks like I shouldn't be eating chocolate at my weight (but she doesn't know it's a UD, nor that I'm JUDDDing)...but I was eating baby carrots and 1 oz of chicken last week on a DD when she had a 5 lb box of food. Why do I let such things get to me?

[KeirasMom]

Cindy. Small people have small minds. Don't let her get to you. Just keep doing what you're doing, and she'll change her tune sooner or later. Or not.

[LoCarbGal]

from me too, Cindy. You know what's going to happen. She'll notice, and maybe even comment again and again how your diet seems to be on again, off again. But then she'll notice how much slimmer you are. And then, she may even ask you how you're doing it!

She's not worth your energy....because you know the secret. It's power, baby!

[Librarygirl]

I will make a point to bring some yummy "forbidden" food every other day, just so she can see it, lol. I told her, "This is on my diet." She said, "Oh, it is?"

[gotsomeold]

DH made some really tacky, small-minded, below-the-belt remarks when I started JUDDD.

These days, he sees me eating something caloric and comments, "Isn't this a DD?" I smile a really tacky, small-minded, below-the-belt smile and say, "This is okay for me, I'm maintaining. YOU can't have any until tomorrow when I will join you in my second helping."

[Librarygirl]

It is kind of jealousy-inducing to see someone enjoying caloric treats/food and also losing/maintaining weight. By the time I told her it was ok for MY diet (the candy bar) she was already embarrassed at having said anything in the first place, lol. I challenged her and said, "Why?" I was daring her in a way, I guess, to say that I shouldn't eat candy bars because I'm fat. I guess some of the anger I felt was overblown and had more to do with me than her.

[Kissa]

I wasn't even there, and I'm angry! You tell her Cindy, or I'll come and give her one.

[Librarygirl]

Thanks, Cindy. I've known the lady for a long, long time but we don't see each other often. She's very overweight herself, moreso than I am, and I guess she thought I could take a little ribbing. She didn't know I weighed the same thing today after a DD, and I was a bit sensitive. Just kidding, hee hee.

I guess people looked at me a little strangely tonight in the grocery store too. I was asking the deli lady to check the calories on the deli meat I was buying, and then my cart had pizza and ice cream in it.

[Carly]

Cindy! I had an experience like that early on. It was an UD and I had ordered a small beef lo mein with co-workers at lunch. A co-worker, who is easily 390 pounds, said you don't really want to eat that? Do you? I got so upset I threw it out. She ate her chinese food, though. At this point she barely speaks to me and shoots dirty looks my way, but I'll never throw out my UD food again!!!

I say to myself- Living well is the best revenge!

(note to self... I'm kinda sassy tonight with a bit of a bad attitude... who says TOM is on the way...)

[Librarygirl]

Ha ha!! I can't imagine you, Carly, throwing food at someone!! I really had to hold my tongue today, and I felt like throwing something, lol. I didn't even enjoy my "treat" like I wanted to because I was fuming inside. I will be more mindful of things *I* say in the future too. You just don't know what is actually going on with people, really, and you shouldn't judge. Things we learned in kindergarten...

Oops! I don't even know how I read that so wrong!! I thought you said you threw it at her!! LMAO, I guess it was a Freudian slip. That's what *I* wanted to do, aherm...

[Flutter]

Sassy maybe, Carly, but right on!!!!

Cindy, so sorry to hear you went through that today. It. Makes me glad I don't have to eat with anyone but my kids & DH these days! I would have been livid, too! That lady is sure gonna want some of your candy when she sees how well it works, though! LOL!!!

[Carly]

Cindy...
I just laughed so hard I cried and almost hurt myself!
Oh, how I wish I had thrown it at her!!!
That really wouldn't be becoming of me- but my alter ego Car_wrecka would hurl lo mein at her!

[Librarygirl]

hAHAHAHAHA! That was funny!!

[jaymar]

You girls have got me laughing..... and after you really talk it out, Cindy, you can see just how off base that woman's comment was...I think the woman knows that she embarrassed herself...that's some people for you , tho..when I was young, I could never think of things to say to someone if they insulted me..but..as I got older, I no longer have that problem...I think you handled it very well.. it is a shame that anyone has to be so inconsiderate, but they are out there and we have to deal with them.

[Librarygirl]

I added a picture of my family and myself on my profile. Hope I can add an "after" picture this year.

My brother, sitting down, on the far right has been photoshopped in, lol. He was sick with the flu and unable to come. A family friend sat in his place and my brother photoshopped his face in. That's why it looks so strange, LOL!

[Kissa]

You look great Cindy, and what a lovely family, it is great to 'know' who our JBs are IRL.

I feel the hand on the hip kind of sums you up nicely.

[Librarygirl]

Thanks, Cindy. I don't post any pictures of myself, so this is very brave. I am what I am, but hope to be less of it with JUDDD.

I am the youngest, with my sisters beside me, from left to right, 50, 64, and 70. I am 48.

[Flutter]

You look mahvelous, dahling! (and you remind me of someone in my own family! You could be sisters!

[Saxy1971]

Cindy, I wouldn't razz you about an Almond Joy bar in your lunch....I'd ask you for a bite. Since I started the Atkins/JUDDD plan, I don't get any more of those underhanded comments about what I eat on my UDs--but yeah, cookies and candy bars were fun to eat at lunch...if only for the shock value.

[gotsomeold]

Library Cindy! What a lovely family. What a lovely YOU!

[Librarygirl]

Originally Posted by Flutter

You look mahvelous, dahling! (and you remind me of someone in my own family! You could be sisters!

Who, Flutter?! Now you've got me curious. I want to see a picture of you too.

[Librarygirl]

Originally Posted by gotsomeold

Library Cindy! What a lovely family. What a lovely YOU!

Thank you, Nancy. I look a lot less bloated than I did at the beginning of my journey. I am not completely horrified by my pictures now, lol...Onward and downward, right?

[Librarygirl]

Originally Posted by Saxy1971

Cindy, I wouldn't razz you about an Almond Joy bar in your lunch....I'd ask you for a bite. Since I started the Atkins/JUDDD plan, I don't get any more of those underhanded comments about what I eat on my UDs--but yeah, cookies and candy bars were fun to eat at lunch...if only for the shock value.

Hee hee, they don't even talk about the yummy "fattening" steaks? I guess she wouldn't have approved of the sea salt caramel gellato I had last night either.

[Flutter]

Originally Posted by Librarygirl

Who, Flutter?! Now you've got me curious. I want to see a picture of you too.

My aunt (and don't freak out, she's just a few years older than me, so YOUNG, ahem!) She's a doll! Super fun & sweet...probably just like YOU!

I'll try to upload a pic of me soon. I might have one of me with my DD from last spring I could put up, I'll have to check.