But at least with hurricanes you have notice and can leave. All fine so far. My kids are praying school will be cancelled
Monday. They never get snow days so this is as good as it gets for them. I overdid last night. No excuse. Ugh. Newlife

Snow days are the best! I bet hurricane days are right up there. Sorry you overdid it last night. Have a good weekend!

Newlife,

I guess you never watch big band theory, if not look it up for I am sure you can find a clip where Sheldon wants Penny to sign Soft kitty...too funny! And I hate telling you this for your kids would love this as well, but not only do we get snow day, they will call off school for heat advisory! A lot of our schools do not have a/c so they baby the kids now and close school. We went to school till July when the blizzard happened in '78 and I think it was about 95+ degrees, then the teachers would torture us more by closing the windows or turning off the fans if we complained or were too rowdy!

I do hope that storm goes in a different direction...I agree with Maggie, scary stuff.

Jabba

I had no idea what the 'sing Kitty' was about so thank you Jaba - I did indeed watch the clip - and thought it was lovely !! SO sweet! And here we used to get heat days as well as snow days but then the schools did get AC so the heat days stopped - but we do still get snow days!

Hope you are safe Newlife, Hugs, Maggie x

All is fine here; the storm broke up like most do. Just lots of rain.

Soft Kitty was cute and funny........Steve if you are reading this (these threads are all over the place, when I take a day off it is hard to keep track!) I hope you are all better. XOXO Newlife

Just a quick post to report my numbers at the end of Week 26. 16.5 US Units/1 AF (thanks to you all). The AF days of course make a huge difference, and thank you. Only one day this week did I feel I really overdid it, and I was drinking cosmopolitans. I only had two, but too quickly and they were strong, added in some wine, TOO MUCH. There is definitely a pattern in that when I drink these strong hard liquor drinks like martinis and cosmos I drink too much too quickly. It happens over and over again. I am finding it very hard to say goodbye to my love affair with them, however. I drink them way less than I used to, but I still love them. I love the glass, the way they look, the whole experience. In an ideal world I would just have one, drink it SLOWLY, really enjoy it and then feel satisfied. It will be interesting to see if that ever happens for me or if I just have to cut them out all together.

I am doing OK, frustrated with myself at times, but not quitting. Need to place a new nal order this week.

Hope everyone has a good week. Nal on!! Newlife

I had no idea about "soft kitty" either. It is a sweet scene. Hubby and I have been talking forever about binge watching "The Big Bang Theory" from the beginning.

Newlife, do you drink your cosmo straight up? I love a good cosmo but I drink it on the rocks. The glass isn't quite as much fun but the ice watering it down and having the ice to roll around in your mouth does seem to slow things down a bit. They had meyer lemons at Costco this week and we made a nice meyer lemon martini and also a meyer lemon/clementine margarita over the weekend. I had two martinis before dinner and a glass of wine with dinner and I felt horrible. Saturday when we made the margs for poolside, I only drank one. The thought of having a second one grossed me out. We saved them and I had one yesterday by the pool. One is enough...who knew?

I am glad that you had a good time and the storm wasn't a problem. Good job with your numbers!

Newlife,

It's funny that how you described those hard liquor drinks (like a love affair with someone sexy...a scene from Joe Dirt comes to mind), but I agree with you about having just one. I was literally drooling when I was af and reading about Deena's way with drinking and I was thinking I am Pavlov's dog...what the frack! I am so afraid to a have mixed drink because my habit would be 3 martinis extra, extra dry and a bottle of wine, or 3 margaritas and an extra shot of tequila with each one and a bottle of wine. I have never had a cosmo, and now I am wondering what I missed. I know I would not be able to drink them slow, and who only has one (unless they are 90 pounds dripping wet)?

I do not think you will have to give them up; however, I read somewhere in this forum that the beer drinkers (normal beer 6%) respond the fastest, then the wine drinkers and then the hard liquor people take the longest. I am not sure if that has any truth in it, but after I read that I thought I would try to stay away from the hard stuff (for I know I cannot be trusted).

I still struggle, and even last night I finished a bottle of wine that I bought last week it had 8 oz of wine in it. I should have poured my 5 oz and dumped the rest, or saved it for later (I want start trying to have just one) but I thought just finish it. My mind is just so weak! I am so afraid that this is going to be like a diet. I start out good and do really well for a while and then WHAM I cannot stop eating junk all day! My heart is racing just thinking about it, and I am shaking...god Pavlov's dog is coming out again!

This is scary stuff, but we all will get to where we want to be. I don't care about the time frame, and I try not to focus on that (it helps that I am a little daft remembering dates and times). I am trying to focus on the moment. I can have 8 oz. of wine and go to bed wanting more...before I would have been looking for another bottle! I just hate the fact I still want more.

Jaba

P.S. Newlife where do you order your nal. from, how much and how long does it take to arrive? My script will run out in Oct. and she told me that this is the last time she will fill it. I really do not want to have it on my record as "addict" for life insurance reasons (and my sister can have access to my record), so I told her I was using it for another reason (weight loss).

Have a great day

Deena, yes straight up as the glass is half the point. But I also see YOUR point about the ice etc. May try that.

Jaba, I order from all day chemist. The time to arrive varies, but it has usually been two to three weeks. I cannot remember the price as it has been so long since I bought some, but I know it was a lot less than anywhere else that I tried. Cannot remember where you are but I think they they don't ship to Canada and maybe not to UK either.

Have a great day all!! xoxo Newlife

Wow - well if beer drinkers respond the fasted there is not hope for the rest of you then is there ? Seeing as I have been here the longest out of all of us that are talking about it. and Jaba - if you are only having 8 oz of wine a night I think that is really good - isn't it ? To me it sounds good anyway! Sorry your doctor will not refill the RX - I am assuming mine will when I need a refill - still got another refill on it - so another 3 months worth as she gave me a years worth first time round. Thing is where I go, the docs are changing all the time so I never know who I am going to get - it is always someone new nowadays - for the longest time I had the same one then they started changing round - I do not like it at all! Having to explain the whole thing over again..... grumble mumble moan.......

Deena - I never saw the Big Bang Theory either but apart from the odd clip - like the kitty one, I cannot seem to get into it - I was the same with Friends and yet now, enjoy watching the reruns !

Newlife - I get the frustration at times - we are SO in the same boat!!

Hugs, Maggie x