LOL!!!! I waxed one part of one leg once - that was enough for me!!!
Last night my mom took me out to see a performance by the Capitol Steps - that group that does all the political song parodies. I haven't laughed that hard or that long in ages. Just a great night out.
Thanks for sharing. I had a bikini wax before spring break and was thinking of doing this myself. Guess I won't now. They had tips on magazine I was reading on a plane. It suggested a electric razor. Shaving with a blade razor caused too many bumps and infected folicles that were a pain, too.
Glad you got the situation remedied. Thanks again for sharing.
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Okay - I'll admit it - I turned 50 this week We had a nice but low-key birthday, we're planning a big party for next month after S19 gets home from college.
And my best birthday present - I'm down to 164 lbs.!!! I don't know how much is due to having recently increased my T3 dose, and how much is due to a wheat-and-dairy-free diet I've been trying from the Ultrametabolism book, but I'll take it!!!
Glad you're down, was it from 170 lbs as I recall?
Funny, last week I decided to go on a detox diet, I was so fed up with the way I was feeling, so I started on Wednesday half day, just eating fresh fruits, raw vegetables, a little cold pressed olive oil as dressing and water to drink. No salt, sugar, meat, dairy, nuts, coffee, tea, refined carbs of any sort, etc.
Thursday I developed a hideous headache that went into feeling pukey and I puked up my "fruit" breakfast. As I had students to teach, I took two paracetamol, which I was hoping to avoid, and then soon after I puked them up too!
I had to put a student off and go to bed. Luckily I woke up reasonably OK in time to pick up D from school. I had thought about ringing one of the other mothers to ask her to pick D up, then remembered she was away herself and I had promised to look out for her daughter!
To cap it all, just after I started my detox plan -
1) I got an invite to a very lovely resaurant here in my city that I have wanted to go to for ages, and it is very pricey and you have to book ages in advance and all that, definitely out of my league, but this is an organised do with a limit of 20 participants and a set price. I wrote back saying that I was no more a member of the group that publicised the evening (it was memebers only) and the guy wrote back to say there would be spaces free for me and older guy... That's on Wednesday evening, so I have already arranged for D to sleep overnight at her friend's place.
2) I got asked to cater for a party of 18 people, so all Saturday I was busy busy busy cooking like the devil, eight separate items, and my kitchen is an ordinary domestic one, albeit nice. It was difficult juggling all the pots and pans to cook at the same time, and I sure peeled and chopped a LOT of vegetables, then had a mountain of washing up to do! I didn't eat a single thing the whole day after my fruit breakfast, and when it was done I licked the spoons before washing!
I am now on Day 4 of the detox and am surprisingly doing quite well, considering my low intake and full day. I hauled back 50 kilos of food shopping on my bike yesterday, in two trips.
I have lost a couple of kilos in the bargain. My modest aim is to get into last year's summer clothes, and if I feel good and able to carry on, to lose more weight as well!
Sorry Ellie, I seem to have hijacked your thread.
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
Well, this diet is quite a bit more liberal than yours! The first few weeks are dairy-gluten-and egg free, on the assumption that some people have problems with these foods and don't know it (the idea is to add them back one at a time and see how you do). I haven't gone egg-free, since I'm pretty sure I don't have a problem with them - have gone long stretches without eating them, without any benefit, and usually feel better when I do eat them. I've had my suspicions about wheat, however (although I do not test positive for autoimmune probs with wheat, thankfully) and I'm lactose intolerant so I usually only can eat cheese anyway.
Otherwise, the diet is no refined carbs, low sugar, lean meats, fish, beans, raw nuts, fruit, veggies, olive oil, avocados, brown rice - and a little bit of dark chocolate I've added in oatmeal, even though it's a gluten-no-no, because I know the amounts of gluten are small (not from the oats themselves, but from cross-contamination in processing) and I know from prior testing, as I said, that I don't have gluten antibodies.
I did buy some quinoa, which is a gluten-free grain, but haven't tried cooking it yet - got any recipes?
I do use quinoa, albeit not in very imaginative ways, mostly as a base to eat with a sauce or stew - rather like you would eat couscous or rice. I follow the instructions on the pack, basically it is cooked in boiling water to which is added some salt and a bit of olive oil. When it is cooked, after about 15 mintues, I drain away any excess water, and then leave it in the pan with the lid on for tne minutes of so after having added another dressing of butter or olive oil, to absorb the reminaing mositure and swell up a little more. I often serve it with a spiced up vegetable and tomato stew. D loves it.
It is supposed to be a wonder grain with a very high protein content and a complete protein too.
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
S19 called me yesterday. One of his classes this semester was a history class that he took to fulfill one of his breadth requirements. Didn't realize it was an upper-division course when he registered for it. The teacher said freshmen and sophomores could stay, but warned them that the term paper, based on original historical sources, would be difficult and they would be expected to perform at the level of the juniors and seniors in the class.
S opted to stay in the class - and just got his term paper back - B+!!! Pretty good for a freshman's first term paper, in an upper division course, which is not his major!
Hopefully this will energize him for those nasty chem and calculus finals he's facing next week.
That's on Wednesday evening, so I have already arranged for D to sleep overnight at her friend's place.
