Another day passed.
I put a pound back on yesterday…🙄 but I am not too worried as I am still 2lb in hand. (Less than my personal ideal).
The positive out of this, is I would have stressed dreadfully in the past, then given in and eaten all sorts of ‘unsuitable’ things and onto the slippery slope! However, I know why I have put it on and what I have to do to prevent it going any further. 😄😄

Other half bought me a beautiful bunch of flowers to make up for the dreadful weather today! ☔️💐💐

Our 14 year old dog 🐩 has eaten all his meals today without the usual ‘coaxing’. He is a very fussy eater, but I must have got it right today and tempted his appetite!! 😁🍗🍳

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1) I have enjoyed a lovely dog walk in the cool forest this morning. Now I shall hunker down indoors!
2) I bought some lavender and other bedding plants (look like busy lizzies but aren’t) so I can make a lovely colourful display to go by the garden table.
3) Moving into week 5 of eating healthily. My waist is reemerging, and my face is thinner. Non scale victories are just as rewarding!

I hope you all have a good day. Keep cool and hydrate!

Hi all,
An unusual positive today ;-
I have broken bones in my right hand.. so cannot do all sorts of things.. making me rest! Enjoying daytime tele!! 😂🫣
Last Friday husband baled our hay and stacked it in the barn. All on his own as I was out of action! I always feel hay making is good exercise, so I was sad to miss it. BUT brilliantly positive that it is done!🚜
The feral kittens are playing outside the kitchen window and I watched the Mum (very warily) touch noses with our old dog! 🐩🐈‍⬛

Over 6,500 posts! Probably over 20,000 positives! That’s some going! But yet we are still here! Even if we only post periodically …. we post!

So to my positives …

😀🏋🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♂️Fighting fit today after a few days in bed. Ready to tackle ironing tomorrow …. unless the sunshine forces me to sit outside and read a book!!

🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️ Back to meditation today. I hadn’t realised how much it ‘grounds’ me and I know it will help me sleep better tonight.

🥗🥚🍅 Back to healthy eating today…… a real pleasure.

Enjoy the rest of the week with hopefully many positives.

Pootle that all sounds like a countryside idyll – apart from the broken bones! Good you can find a positive in it, but I hope they heal quickly too!

1) Enjoyed a chilled black coffee with breakfast. It just felt too hot for a warm drink. Very tasty.
2) The jasmine is in full bloom and the scent is lovely.
3) Enjoyed coffee with a “developing” friend. I find it a bit strange to make friendshipss from scratch at this stage in life – finding points of common interest, how much to open up etc. But so far so good.

Hi Heidi,
I love Jasmine, the perfume is just so unique!
I understand your thoughts on developing friendships at this stage in life… long standing friendships where you have ‘fitted together’ for many years are so comfortable… new ones feel ‘dangerous’!! I have made a couple of close ‘later in life’ friends and am so glad I met them!

Onto positives for today;
1. Keeping my hand bound up has eased the pain on my arm and shoulder, enabling me to ‘do’ a little more. So I have been playing with a couple of creative ideas for a job next week. 😄😄 (the washing up 🧫🧫 🍳🥘 is piling up in the sink, but I am closing my eyes to it!)
2. Used one of the ‘roadside’ laundry 20kg washing machines to wash and dry husband’s heavy quilt today. 🧺🧺
3. Weight is still stable! 🎉🎉
I hope you all have some positives in your life, we would love to hear about them.

Another day of healthy eating!! 😇😇😂
Supper out yesterday with friends…good friendship and chat, with steak and salad, what could be better? 😄
Creative ideas for next week coming together! 👍😁

Feeling good today.. 😅

Sunshine Girl – so good to hear about the blood results! My husband had exactly the same experience. Diagnosed as pre-diabetic which is what precipitated the diet and totally reversed after 8 weeks. My stomach is misbehaving still although nice to hear of good results for others. Am trying a weird Swedish device atm which is supposed to help – iOro fyi – you’re supposed to use it for 6 mths to feel the benefit. Sigh – everything saggier and heading South, I think the elastics in my body are expanding!! Lol! On to 3 positives:
Gorgeous walk with dog this am with 360 degree blackcap and garden warblers carolling away in the trees.
Roasted apricots, raspberries and greek yoghurt for breakfast. Yummy.
Day off. Reading an unputdownable book!
Have a fab day everyone!!!

Pootle your day sounded so positive. And from really early on. I hope the good mood continued!

Three positives:
Still controlling what I put in my mouth. Now over 4 weeks. This is the longest that I have been in control in years.
I feel so much better without sugar. I’m sleeping better. Less moody. Skin clearer.
Started a painting job that I have been putting off. (covering up a water leak). When I asked myself why another day would be better than now, I ran out of excuses!

I hope you have all had a good day too.

Having to find a positive from a really sad negative today!!
My favourite fish restaurant has closed down (as a result of the Nat Ins changes and increased business rates). (very unhappy face)
So I am resurrecting a recipe I haven’t made for a few years! “Hake on a stick”. Cubes of hake wrapped in smoked streaky bacon, on a skewer, a squeeze of lemon and a grind of pepper then under the grill. Going to serve with cauliflower rice and a bit of lightly steamed samphire… Yum Yum. Really looking forward to it! (Happy face)

So the positives are;
1. I remembered the dish and how to make it! (Happy face)
2. I was able to get hake fillets and samphire this morning. (Fish)
3. It is low carb!!!!! (Halo)

(Still no emojis on laptop…should have used the phone!! Laughing face!)

Good evening all,
I hope you are all surviving the heat wave, which seems to have bypassed us here. A bit humid tonight, but it rained this morning and we only had a few sunny spells during the day. Mostly overcast! So onto some positives:
1. It is my god-son’s birthday today and his card arrived in time… so Royal Mail managed that! 😁
2. I picked the first sweet peas today! 🌺💐
3. My new notebook (from eBay) arrived ahead of time.. so I am ready to continue recording weight and sugars when the current book is full!! 📚📘

Have been enjoying reading everyone’s positive posts and having been absent for awhile (while we had family visiting) I thought it time to post a few myself.

So, the first one is …
🌸🌸 was lovely having eldest DD and fiance visit with us.
🌸🌸 my mum is still doing well … declining, but still managing to stay active and positive in the face of her diagnosis
🌸🌸 sunny days ….. I’m a ‘hothouse flower’ and hate the cold!

Hi all, just same old, same old here. One big positive@0

Hubby received his pension today and it was ten times more than it should be. Rang the company to tell them they had made a mistake and no, they have just taken over from another pension company and been finding errors. It was not a mistake and, although not saying how much, enough to go on a nice holiday.

Family coming over in exactly 3 weeks, I think there might be some extravagance abounding.

40 degrees today but we are lucky we can just do nothing, stay indoors and run the air con – think we can afford it now 🙂

That sounded awful, hope you all know it was a joke about being able to afford air con.

Hi S-G.
What a brilliant positive👍!!!!! To get a windfall (even though it is money you should have been paid before!) I don’t envy you the 40 degrees, and Hope the air con has been working! 😂
My positive for today is that the very hot weather seems to be missing us!!! Absolutely great as I really cannot stand the heat! 😅
Emojis in evidence as I am on the phone not laptop! 🤞🙄

Hope to return with more positives later in the week!

Yes Pootle it was a nice surprise. But can I say that we might not be the only people on private pensions who might be due a refund. Something to do with a law change in 2018 bla bla bla, read the letter but didn’t understand it at all. Just be sure that if you are due you will get it automatically or you could ring your pension provider and ask them about Guaranteed Minimum Pension and its relationship to SERPS. That said –

Didn’t swim yesterday as 40 degrees makes it too draining on the body. Lucky enough to be retired and able to just relax.
Swam 30 mins early this morning before another 40 hits us.
Only 20 days to family arriving.

Hi everyone. Good to see lots of posts here. Three positives from me:
1) my planned UK visit to see/check on my 96 year old parents turned out to be very well timed. I could be with them through the heat wave. Felt very appreciated!
2) I made an online order for some summer tops to go to the UK address. They were all precisely as advertised and very nice. Nothing to send back. That was a nice treat.
3) I only put on 300 grams in the Saturday – Wednesday break. That’s a definite win. I didn’t succumb to Pimm’s, trifle, etc etc. The hot weather helped I have to say!

Hoping you are all having a good day.

Hi Heidi, Great positives!

For today:
1. Picked a bowl of walnuts from the extremely laden tree and started the pickling process. Pricked them all over..6 days in brine stirred daily, will then change brine and leave for 3 more days. Dry out for 3 days then pickle!! A bit of a performance as they won’t be ready to eat for 12 months, but I do love pickled walnuts and I usually do enough to last several years!! 🥜🌰
2. Positive zoom meeting this afternoon with someone I will be working with next month. 😁🤝
3. Hand is feeling a bit better… at least the pain has eased a lot! 👍🤞
I hope you have all had some positives in your life today!

Pootle …. just had to drop by to say how envious I am of all your pickled walnuts …. I adore them too! How wonderful to be able to produce your own. Hope your hand is fully healed soon.

While I’m here, I should add a couple of positives myself ….
🌸🌸 currently in France and getting to spend time with a friend of many years standing.
🌸🌸 mum is still getting on with life, 3mths into a 3 to 6 month life expectancy diagnosis. She’s an amazing positive life force and such an inspiration.

Hi all, just popping in to feel the love and positivity. My positives are

Daughter and grandson arrived in exactly 2 weeks today.
Booked a restaurant for lunch the day we go to Le Prison Infernale – a bit like Crystal Maze. A little camp site by the river and they do vegetarian for daughter.
Temperature down from 35 to 20 and feeling so fresh.
Lapse in diet didn’t do much harm so just 0.2kgs up.

Good evening all,

Just one positive today;
We have just eaten the first home produced courgette and swede of the year! 🍠😄
😇

Hi Pootle, we too have just tasted our first courgette. Don’t know how but it turns out to be a cucumber. It said courgette on the tray of 6 we bought. Good job I like cucumber.

Had a good night at the quiz and we came 4th out of 13 teams – and there are only the 2 of us.
Bought some new sandals today.
Hubby does the cooking on a Tuesday – so that is a positive.

Hi all. I hope the courgette and swede were delicious, Pootle!
A few positives from today:
1) have completed most of the prep for a lunch tomorrow for friends. Less stress tomorrow! And it’s a nice healthy menu of protein and salad.
2) Finally got round to finishing the paint job which has been hanging over me.
3) Enjoyed a good walk on the dunes this morning’

Hoping you all have some positives to enjoy!

Hi S-G…courgette/cucumber…easy mistake when they are seedlings in a pot! At least you like cucumber. I remember when my purple sprouting grown from seed, turned out to be cauliflower! That was very disappointing, as I was relying on the sprouting to come in after the beans etc….but cauliflower came in at the same time!

So to today’s positive/s;

1) 1st French beans for supper tonight!!!!

2) My hand seems to be healing…Fingers crossed that it survives this evening’s work! (Cutting wire netting for 13 people to use for a flower arrangement base!)

3) 2 hours after weighted lunch, (26.7g carb) my BS was 5.2 mmol/L . (I believe that is ‘healthy”????)

Take care all. xxxx

A few positives today, despite the heat.

1. My hand survived….!!!! A minor miracle!!
2. Made fridge soup today (everything and anything in the fridge that needs using up and can go into soup!) with home made stock from the chicken I had roasted on Tuesday. It was particularly good, and made enough for 2 people for 4 days>
3. Think I might have found a home for 2 of the ‘feral’ kittens, that are slowly taming down! Yay!!

Hope you are all finding some positives in your lives…. xxx

Good morning all,
As it has been a week since I last posted on this thread, I thought it was time to ‘bump it up’ the listing!
So a couple of positives:
1. Heat wave has past, and it has rained here…so watering no longer a priority! ☔️💧
2. Butternut squashes forming… first time I have grown them. 😄
3. Enjoying a second cup of delicious coffee, having a slow start to the day! ☕️

I hope everyone can find a positive in their day!
Kath. Xxx

Pootle …. your post has reminded me I should be posting some positives, especially as I’m feeling a bit low today, so an ideal time to look at the plus points in my life ….
🌹🌹 lunched with eldest GS yesterday and then had a long chat with his mum in the evening … good to catch up properly with family
🌹🌹 rose feed arrived, so have been out this morning dosing all my rose bushes. It’s a little late to do it, but think they need the boost after being a bit neglected while I was away.
🌹🌹 all upcoming birthdays sorted … cards and gifts in hand, just need to write and wrap.

If you’re not feeling overly positive, take a moment to identify at least one … believe me there’ll one and finding it will help to give you a little lift.