Jaqys - dusting off the diary

[Maintainer]

So Vegas in... err... November?

It's funny how the scales are our best friends, when they're singing our song, but boy can they ruin our day when they're not playing ball.

I've not struggled with transit issues so much this year as in the past. Wheatbran helps, and I start the day with COLD water and a walk! Seems to help!

 

[dukandebut]

I've no imagination and so back to Vegas

I like easy travel when work is hard.

If you've been there before and enjoyed yourself, that's a very good reason to return, I reckon.

 

[Emmma]

Nothing wrong with that at all, we're going back to Cuba (4 weeks tomorrow!) because we loved it so much last time, and there's nowhere else we'd rather go at the moment.

Am slightly jealous of Vegas though, would love to go there!

 

[scrumper]

OH wants to go to Vegas, one day maybe ....
have you seen american Idiot has finished on broadway and is doing a world tour ...that is a london night out for sure !!!

 

[jaqys]

I knew American idiot was touring, didn't know it was a global one, but john gallager jnr left a while back, and he was my main interest in it. Am hoping they bring Jerusalem back from broadway with him.

Jo I can't eat wheatbran, it bloats me painfully. I'm having veg both meals mon-fri, cut dairy to from frais breakfast only and occasional skim milk in drinks(less than a pint a week).

Weekends will be pp unless something social going on (nowt planned til June).

I'm not using fat in cooking but not avoiding fattier meats, but avoiding processed.

See how it goes.

Vegas is such an easy holiday for me on my own. I did so much difficult travel a few years back and saw most things I wanted to. The places I still want to see can wait for retirement (or lotto) as they need a longer stretch if time.

 

[m-mouse]

Good luck with the not weighing - I need to do that - but it sounds like you are in a positive frame of mind - so taht's good. Vegas sounds fab - you must be so excited!

 

[jaqys]

I'm all on nothing on weighing. I can not weigh for a while (especially when off the rails ) but once I step on once to check where I am I'm back to twice a day weighing and my heads all over the place.

I've some jeans that are too tight to be worn in public that I'll keep trying weekly, suppose I need to wash them regularly so they dont get loose with wear.

 

[m-mouse]

I can't stop myself either but at least at the moment I have a surplus of clothes, being able to wear some things that I bought years ago (a little optimistically!) and have never worn.

I fluctuate all over the place too especially at TOTM so I really can see the sense - but I think I am a weighing addict!! I just wish I had been one before after previous attempts at losing! (Either that or I had only work fitted waist bands like I do now - with elasticated waists it's amazing how I can kid myself!!)

No socialising until June? But I love reading about the shows you have been too :cry:

 

[soshbfly]

Have to pipe in about Vegas (Hi Jaqys!). Love, love it - go more often than I really should especially now that I live on this side of the Atlantic. Hey-ho... there are worse things I could do! Will be back again in mid-July for my girlfriend's wedding and I can't wait... its actually keeping me focused on losing a few lbs now - goal is to be on Stabilization by then (thus the time goal instead of weight-loss goal).

 

[jaqys]

Mid July - wow you're brave, hairdryer in the face time.
I cant cope with the summer there, I'd like to be going sept but the nov sale price made it too good to turn down. Where will you be staying?

 

[Maintainer]

ooooh I love holiday talk... I hear you re jeans stretching Jaq but I don't think merely trying them on will have the same effect! In fact, are you SURE you can't wear them an hour and have them grow three sizes as some of mine seem to?!!

I know what you said above, and you know best how best YOU function, but I just wondered (and I'll only say it once, fear not) whether "pure Dukan" isn't a darn sight easier than the "impure" version! Leastwise, you know how I struggled last year with "Dukan + fruit", yet "Dukan" this year was such a breeze...? Here endeth my nosing in your biz!

 

[alottolose]

i'm inclined to agree jo...it's quicker and easier to stay on the dukan path...else you end up like me...human dukan yoyo ....

different strokes for different folks though...it's not always easy to stay true to dukan when life gets in the way x

 

[soshbfly]

Mid July - wow you're brave, hairdryer in the face time.
I cant cope with the summer there, I'd like to be going sept but the nov sale price made it too good to turn down. Where will you be staying?

Yes, I know! But at least its dry heat - lived in Houston for a while and that was hot AND humid - yuck! I've been in September and it was perfect (as was October, Jan, March, and May! hee, hee).

We're staying at the Bellagio this time. That's where my chum is staying otherwise I'd probably be elsewhere. My fave hotel there is the Venetian and I was going to give Ceasar's a try this time as it was just next door to Bellagio, but just booked B instead to be with everyone else.

You?

 

[jaqys]

I'm in ketosis, I'm not too far from atkins really, just the from frais and the ppish weekends.

In jan I thought I could do Dukan properly until the end but I just cant, my head and my digestive system has rejected it as a long term option for me. I just need a bit more fat n fibre than dukan allows.
Anythings a million miles better than what I eat when I'm off the rails and I'm okay losing a bit slower.

The jeans are still too tight with wear Have some unworn 'work' trousers (that I dont need for work now we're in jeans) that will work as a measure too.

 

[jaqys]

Bellagio - niiiice, though the fontana bar is closed/closing

I'm staying at Harrahs cheap n central. I've been staying downtown with a few nights in nice places last couple of trips but this time (and it could all change yet, I have a comp night for mbay but only til july, if I get another.....) I'm staying put.

Never stayed at the Venetian or Caesers, Wynns my fave.

 

[Maintainer]

oooh if you're in ketosis that's fine... (I thought you meant you might eat those dreaded GLUCIDES from time to time ).
<Don't tell anyone but I had 3 x bacon and 2 x egg as a FREE breakfast at BHS. It didn't hamper my progress. Well, I was in England, and "the English" are allowed bacon... (sometimes... aren't they?!!)>

 

[m-mouse]

- and that would just be an Atkins breakfast so not going to kick you out of ketosis.

 

[Maintainer]

I think I was out anyway by then... and still...

 

[m-mouse]

Anyway if you confess your indiscretions in someone else's diary I don't think they count

 

[Maintainer]

haaaa! My "indiscretions" makes me wonder whether you think I disappeared behind the chicken coop with your other half