Ozempic update: Semaglutides were no match for the power of pie, mashed potatoes and the damn box of See's candy sent to us. Backsliding occurred. The plan is to try to hold serve during the holidays but I'll have to do better than that.
This is why I have to track my food. That way I have a ballpark idea of where my intake is for most days. (On Thanksgiving I didn't bother to track what I ate, since it's one day and I was by god going to eat pie and then eat pie again watching football later that night.) But I also know some people don't track food because it makes them too obsessive and makes them feel like they're on the outskirts of eating disorder territory. My own personal brain is a little too lax to not track.
I increased my dose from 2.5 mg to 5.0 mg this week, and so far no bad GI side effects have happened, hooray! Still holding steady at 28 pounds down since May, 18 of which is since I started Zepbound in August.
Two glasses of wine and brought the third back to my desk to finish the day. Successful mingle? Perhaps, I only mingled with people from my department, but I don't get a lot of chances to chat with them so that was actually nice. 'This calls for a spreadsheet" Christmas sweater was a big hit, thanks, Hec! we all agreed the no fanfare demise of the Turkey coupon for Thanksgiving was disappointing, but one of my department-mates won $500 in the Outlet sale raffle, so that was nice.
Our new contractor starts tomorrow, and my boss is on vacation after Friday, and our VP is out week after next, and our new manager starts before my boss gets back, so this will be an interesting couple of weeks. My boss said I'd be in charge and I said I would try not to crash into a tree, so I feel like expectations are ok.
I still have most of a glass of Cabernet and, like, 5 little dessert type things to see me through the next hour...
I'm definitely tempted by the crossword tournament. I'll need to check on my semester schedule, and when spring break is, and when Passover is, and all of that, before I can decide, though.
I'm nearly done with everything I need to do for this semester. Only thing left is submitting the grades for one class. That should take about fifteen minutes, max. But I can't do it until someone else finishes up a spreadsheet first, and so I'm just waiting on that.
Oh, man, waiting for someone to finish something before you can finish your part is a trial!
ltc is keeping three out of the six items I bought her today, and she has something to wear for her holiday concert tomorrow. I’ll take that as a win.
A 50% conversion rate is aces, sj!
I'm definitely tempted by the crossword tournament
Yay!
This calls for a spreadsheet" Christmas sweater was a big hit, thanks, Hec!
Woot!
My head stitches have effectively dissolved though my head wound is a little throbbing.
I took the pressure bandage off my arm but the steri-strips catch and yank on my sweater and that stings.
So Christmas shopping was kind of hectic and kind of fun. Part of the problem is waiting until the last minute. I do this every year. Christmas is on the 25th every year. I need to get it together next year.
Anyway we were going to do family presents but that kind of went out the window . We did get gifts for the kids especially the little ones. M's nephew and his wife have two that are 3 and a year (I think) and a third on the way. We found this
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I hope this link works. It's a rocking chair /rocking horse combo but it's a lion. They had a unicorn a, a dinosaur and something else. Honestly we wanted to get one for each of them it at $60 each there was no way. M wanted to get one for his littlest grand niece that was just born. I pointed out she wouldn't be able to use it until at least next Christmas and we should get a baby present. He found a few things but wasn't sure. There is a children's boutique right near us that is reasonably priced so I think we should get the baby something there.
M wass debating between this and the dino and decided to get the lion because he got a lion themed little lovey for the baby as a shower gift. Only when we got him he realized he got the lion themed for the grand niece not the grand nephew that is going to be born... That was the dino. I said we could return it but he doesn't want to
Mongo, our chiweenier , took one look at that lion and started growling and barking and almost attacked it.
