Hi everyone, still funky here. But I am ploughing through it!
Not sure what to woohoo about today... I guess I will use the fact that I managed to try to get close to my flu shot yesterday... It is really ridiculous here. Because I have private insurance and am not part of the state health system, I need to get a prescription for the flu shot (did that two weeks ago), then pick up the shot in a pharmacy and then take it to my doctor to get the flu shot shot into me. If I were in the state system, I could just get it from my doctor as the state system provides the flu shots directly to the doctor. But the doctor is not allowed to sell it to me as he is not a pharmacist... And the irony of it all: I actually work for the state, but the state employees are actually not part of the state health system!! (That's what you get when your country pioneered the idea of a state health system in the late 1800s...). Anyway, my woohoo is that I went to the pharmacy to buy the shot. BUt you know what: It is sold out!!! Well, the pharmacy is going to call me when they can get it and then I just need to go and pick it up and take it upstairs two flights from the pharmacy to my doctor's office. So, I feel like I am already very close to it!
Yikes! That is pretty complicated! Like ThistleMae said, you can get a flu shot anywhere here! In fact, it seems kind of nuts that I can get a flu shot at the grocery store or Walmart..... just seems WRONG somehow!
I am so happy that someone else thinks like that, too!! Give me a chocolate covered marshmallow wand however....
It reminds me too much of an éclair.... and I do NOT like eclairs.... ick! THat would actually be a FUN QOTD..... what treats do you NOT like?! I don't like doughnuts (I worked at a Dunkins in college and never ate a single donut for the 6+ months I worked there..... but don't ask me about the coconut macaroons we made!), or anything with custard (so no eclairs, no Boston crème pie), or Twinkies (hate that you can feel the gritty sugar in the crème filling in your teeth.... or at least that I what I remember about them from when I was about 7..... haven't eaten one since then), or storebought cookies (with all of the good stuff in the world, why would I waste my calories on Chips Ahoy??), or cream puffs (texture thing again), or candy apples (but caramel apples are a whole other story!).
What exactly is a chocolate covered marshmallow wand??? Sounds like something I WOULD like!!
I'm shocked! Well....one less thing to be tempted to eat. Who knows....maybe I won't like it either. OMG....do you think I'll be able to throw it out....if I don't like it? How many of us have issues not finishing something?
It is/was an issue I have struggled with..... but I have learned over the years to toss it if I don't like it or if I am too full to finish it! Even at Disney! DD and I shared a lemon tart from the French bakery a few years ago..... but it was REALLY tart and neither of us liked it..... so a few bites in it was trash.... same with a lentil salad from Morocco, and mochi ice cream from Japan.... ICK! In fact, funny story about the mochi..... after DD both tried it and hated it (got a GREAT photo of DD's face as she realized it was icky!!) a small group of teenage girls came by asking us where we got it. I told them but also told them that we didn't like it (it comes in a 6 pack or 8 pack or something like that) and that they were WELCOME to finish our box. I reassured them (as best I could) that we had just bought them (still cold and fresh) and that we weren't strange or weird..... just a Mother/Daughter trying something new! They were actually happy to have them.... but I didn't stay long enough to see if they liked them any better than we did! And remember, I am the QUEEN of CHEAP! I hate wasting food..... but I also hate "WAISTING" food that I don't really want!
Okay WhooHoo Wednesday....hmmmm.....well I'm marinating my chicken wings for Halloween. I'm working on decorating my Magic Band...oh...whoohoo....it came in the mail....how can I forget that Whoohoo! I'll post a pic when I'm done. The ideas are still baking (food analogy, LOL)! I'm working on where to have lunch at Disney. I have a daily schedule with FP+ and dinning reservations and what treats I want to try at each park. So now....I'm on to lunches. I swear I live vicariously through the dinning menus online. If I can't eat it...I can anticipate eating it. The obsession never ends does it? I had an unexpected dinner invite last night. So, first thought, what is going to be served, what can I eat without insulting my hostess. She served chicken stew over biscuits with salad. So...I chose not to eat the biscuit. I took the salad, dressing was a struggle, because I usually have really low cal. dressing, which she did not have. So I used blue cheese but only put on a little. I ate a small serving of the chicken stew with a side of fresh squash. So I did really good, I thought. I'm getting better at selecting and still having enjoyment. One of my friends did try to push a bite size snicker bar on me. I had to refuse several times. He said...you should eat want you want...we are on the downward slope now. Meaning....your getting older....don't worry about it, you will die soon anyway! Geesh! But....good choices...I politely declined the snickers! Happy Whoohoo Wednesday to everyone!
Nice job out maneuvering the "food pusher"! Those kinds of folks make me pretty mad! Would you push a cocktail on a recovering alcoholic? Or a cigarette on someone trying to quit? Honestly, being overweight is unhealthy too and when someone is trying to make the HEALTHY decisions/choices, why do others find it necessary to challenge that!? Usually because they want to not feel guilty about their OWN bad choices!!
And woohoo on making GOOD choices for yourself when the food served it out of your control!
Woohoo for today (even though it happened yesterday)! Yesterday I came in under points because I had choir rehearsal until 9p so by the time I got home it was 10p and I was more interested in sleeping than eating LOL. I'm going to the gym today. I got new wireless bluetooth headphones for my birthday but forgot to pack them! So I guess I'll have to suffer through another workout with those dang wires
. Feeling pretty good about this week so far Hopefully the scale will be kind enough to reward the hard work
Woohoo!
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Look at that..... I'm caught up!
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Oh - I forgot, you said easy!
I do, I do! I think it's a nasty combination of the "starving kids around the world" rhetoric and the "you can't have dessert until you finish your plate" mantra that has been instilled in me since birth... Funny you should bring that up, because that's a biggie for me! Especially if I've paid for it, I feel like I should finish it. OR I feel like I don't deserve a sweet unless I'm stuffed full of non-dessert food first. It's taken a while, but I'm learning that yes, I can have the strawberries and cool whip even if I'm not stuffed!
I think my favourite healthy-ish QS lunch is no longer. It was a pasta and spinach salad at Pizzafari at AK.
