Pootle you reminded me of ‘times gone by’. Yes pop-up is a revelation. Thank you for making me smile!

Sunny I use Fatsecret. I must admit it’s improved since I first started. It’s so much easier to add your own foods/recipes so slightly more accurate.

So things here aren’t brilliant at the moment with friends ill, and very ill, and other friends with recent losses. But we have to carry on. For me, at the moment, I just have one positive tool …. I keep using my meditation app. It helps me so much and ‘Today, no matter what, I will stay calm’. Not worked that well today but there’s always tomorrow.

Have a good evening.

While I am here reading your positive – I too have a pop-up plug on my new sink unit – thought I might as well think of something for myself. But on the subject of anxiety I have a problem. I have been complaining that since covid we have lost contact with people, gone back to UK or moved or died, and we don’t have any friends. I put it on the French site of facebook and a local lady invited me to join them at Le Club de bon Accueille – welcome club. They meet every Thursday afternoon and I haven’t had the courage to go there. I just want to talk to real people in French rather than the pharmacy, doctor, supermarket etc. Anyway –

Got my weight back down to 71.7 – just a smidge over what it was last week.
Found a new dressmaker to do alterations on my jumpsuit (found old one had closed down)
Lovely sunny day and my birthday tomorrow.

🎊🥳🥂🍾🎉🎈🎁 Have a wonderful birthday SG, hope it’s the start of a special year for you. 🎁🎈🎉🍾🥂🥳🎊

Great to see we have rolled on to a new page. Thanks for the app info V, will be taking a look at that. I definitely need some where to keep track of my intake, particularly carbs and fat.
SG, we moved nearly 17yrs ago and whilst I’ve a few acquaintances now, I haven’t made any real friends in that time. Hope you manage to make some new connections soon.

Positive from me …
🎊🙂 visiting eldest DD this weekend, we don’t often manage to get together so it’s good to catch up face to face.

S-G…hope you are having a wonderful birthday.🎁
Regarding moving and making friends…we moved to Wales 20 years ago, and whilst I am still in touch with most of our ‘old friends’, it is mostly through email or Zoom. Joining a local group that interested me, has meant that I have made friends here also…to drop in for coffee or tea and chat. In person is so much more rewarding than virtual!

So to today’s positive; (Sorry, just the one today!)

My very old dog🐕🐩 decided he wanted a longer walk this afternoon, (he has been turning back at a nearer point recently) so we went by our pine tree🌲, which has just shed it’s cones! Picking up 152 (yes, sad I know🥴, I counted them🧮) meant, not only do I have a lot of cones ready for next Christmas, but I bent down 152 times…Great exercise😂!!

I guess ‘moving’ depends on how far from your ‘roots’ . We moved in the same city 14 years ago so could keep in touch with our ‘old friends’ more easily and have actually made new ‘friends’ in our new ‘close’. I can see how difficult it would be when you move city/town or country. Sounds like some some good ideas for making new ‘freinds’.

So to my positives. Lost a post again yesterday…. not quite sure what I’m doing! Anyway, here we go

🧘🏻‍♀️🥒🥗 Meditation and consequent ‘calmness’ going really well. I’m now up to 5 straight days. Five might not sound much but last year I was lucky to string two meditation days together!

🥦🍅🥒 Eating well and ‘counting’ although the numbers on that damn scale aren’t playing game. As s-g always says keep on keeping on , which I’m really doing my best to do.

Hope you’re all having a positive day.

We moved from Surrey to Somerset, so my friendship base was very much no longer local and has been maintained largely remotely. Yes, I have family near by and a few acquaintances here, but somehow it’s not the same.

Anyway, enough of that …. positives for the weekend ..
🥂🙂 lovely visit with eldest DD, which included a bit of retail therapy in Canterbury, a day trip to France with a fabulous lunch and a little a bit of a stock up in a French hypermarket. In short, it’s been a weekend full of positives.
Oh and one other positive for the weekend, a very close friend heard on Friday afternoon that he’s landed his dream job …. can’t tell you how thrilled I am for him. He’s had a few rough years and finally the tide seems to be turning for him and he so deserves it.

Quick positive for today …..
🥘🙂 younger DD and eldest GS joined us for dinner this evening. She starts her new job tomorrow and he has just returned from a week visiting Berlin. Good to see them both and catch up with their news.

If you can find a positive from your day, please take a moment and let you know about it.

Hi SunnyB, here are my positives

60 days to our cruise,
trying to lower my carbs so I am almost totally keto – down to 27 yesterday
spent the night getting up to wee – looks like the keto is working.

Good evening! Thought I should pop-in with some positives.

S-g we have 63 days before we set off on our trip. We have six nights in Tenerife then cruising up to Lisbon from where we then fly down to the Algarve to see our son and his family. Really looking forward to the trip except my husband is now having a hernia repair on March 18th so just keeping everything crossed we will actually make it!

So to my positives ….

🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️ 12 straight days of meditation and I have to admit it’s getting easier and I can now ‘follow’ my breathing when I wake in the night and get back to sleep really quickly.

🥦🍅🥒 Feel like I’m eating really well although I’ve not quite got my head around the ‘Keto’ way of eating.

📚✒️📚 Doing lots of reading on my kindle this last week or so which is really satisfying.

Just had a bizarre happening …. while I was writing I must have ‘touched’ something because the last five minutes of conversation I had with my OH appeared here!!! Need to be careful.!

Anyway, enjoy your evening and jeep positive!

Sorry I haven’t posted for a few days… whilst there wasn’t a lack, there just didn’t seem to be any ‘different’ positives in my life! 🤔🥴

I am envious of your planned holidays but not that they are cruises🚢 …..,I get sea-sick in a barge moored on a canal… and a ferry makes me feel sick for days afterwards! ! We last went on holiday in May 2017 (a week at a b&b in the Lake District) which was fine, but I really would like a break where I get pampered!! 🍾

So today’s positive was that my husband and I teamed up with a chainsaw, loppers, secateurs and trailer to do some serious pruning which has been neglected for a couple of years! 🌲🌳🏡
Very tired and achy but satisfied tonight… a long soak in the bath 🛁🫧coming up… pure bliss! 😄

Wonderful to see lots of lovely positives being posted.
SG and V, how exciting you are both only a couple of months away from your cruise holidays. I’m especially envious as we don’t yet have any definite dates for our next trip.
Pootle, that sounds like a good job jobbed and I would think very satisfying too.

Positive from me for today ….
🪑🙂 did some chair yoga (my first time). Was surprised to find it’s more strenuous that it appears. My intension is to try to do some sort of exercise each day now.

Hi ladies, Pootle I was telling my daughter and sil about the Captains night when they had a 5ft display of champagne coups and they filled them by standing on the balcony. They didn’t think it would be possible on a moving ship – well, you don’t really feel any movement. I get sick before the channel ferry has even left port yet found cruising had no bad effect on me. Enjoy your soak.

Sunny-B, yes that is what I found with chair yoga and there were some things I couldn’t do for a couple of weeks. At the end of the month I was totally back to strength and breathing ability. Not gone back to it although I do proper yoga with Adrienne on YT.

V, fingers crossed for your husbands quick recovery.

My positives are
Still on keto – not worrying about calories as a 100 cals of cheese are better than 100 cals of bread.
Lost a total 2lbs in 2 days
Did 30 mins difficult aerobics yesterday

That’s an impressive result, SG. I’m quite envious, as I seem to be making zero progress at the moment, despite efforts imcluding fasting, OMAD etc.

Anyway, regardless there are still positives to be had, including …
💐💐 saw lots of roadside snowdrops and primroses today, which must mean spring will soon be putting in a full appearance.
👍🏻🙂 bagged a couple more charity shop bargains – 2 x mulled wine glasses for £1 which match a pair I already have and a three strand necklace with large crystal beads and long silvertone spacers for £3.50.

Do you have a positive to tell us about?

Not much to say really

Another half a pound down – maybe you could try it Sunny-b. I was in despair at not losing – but…..
Kept weekly shop to €71, which is then added to the freezer shop of €17. Total of €88 which is back almost to pre-everythingnowsobloodyexpensive. I have been spending around €130 a week.
Had a pooh – yeah… Sorry about that one but it has been 3 days.

Well done s-g!

Decided that I really do need to find some positives today. As has been said still half of February to go and I mustn’t let it get me down. So ……

🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️ Now 13 straight days meditating. Think that’s a record for me. Yesterday I didn’t manage a session until early evening and I slept like a log last night. Maybe I should take away something from that!

🛠️🔨💡 Few minor tweaks to my revamped kitchen were completed today. The new lights, brighter than before, have been a real eye opener. I really hadn’t realised how dull lighting can make you feel ‘dull’. Problem solved!

🥦🫛🥚 So far so good with low carb eating today. Having 2 meals a day at the moment but am having green tea as my first drink so fasting overnight for roughly 16 hours which is an improvement on my 12 broken with milk in tea around 7am.

So yes feeling more positive just have to stop myself from expecting miracles happening overnight!
Enjoy Valentines tomorrow if you celebrate it, but if you don’t….. just enjoy Friday!