u/Separate-Property665

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It gave me 2

I want to add that if you were also doing workouts, you may have lost fat and gained muscle which weighs more. The number on the scale can be deceiving.

It wasn’t like you binged on chips and ice cream Sunday and cookies and whatever, you gave your body what it needed.

Round 1 day 1 today! Just coffee this morning as I wasn’t hungry. Have a banana, carrot sticks, kiwi and hard boiled eggs available that I’m munching on now.

I have stuff for lemon garlic sheet pan chicken tonight, but we had chicken last night so the kids are wanting to switch it up. Going to do sushi bowls tonight instead. Just got to go find riced cauliflower somewhere. 😬

Great ideas! My husband also does most of the cooking at home, so I’ll probably be making my own meals so he doesn’t have to stress over if I can have it or not when cooking for him or the kids, or they can all eat what I make.

My main concern is that one of our cooks puts butter on everything so I’ll have to be mindful of reminding him not to do that or bringing my own clarified butter or ghee.

I already don’t drink milk as it usually bothers my stomach. Sometimes I eat yogurt and was one of the things I kept in the fridge at work. If I use milk, it’s usually oat or almond. I have to figure out cheese though. I like cream cheese, sour cream…. Cheese on tacos and burgers… lol I just need to keep food readily accessible that I can have.

I did use the alcohol on a q-tip over the whole plant and put it in my bathroom where I currently don’t have any other plants and I used neem oil on it and on it on the other plants that were around it.

I also got mosquito bits the other day I’m going to start using in my water when watering, is that different than the Bonide?

It probably was a little too loved lately. 🫣

I have a tonnnnn of plants… luckily only a few small ones were around this one. I put this one in the bathroom away from all my other plants, cut off the one bad section as the leaves looked bad anyway, rubbed all the white spots and the rest of the plant down with rubbing alcohol and then sprayed with neem oil.

I did spray all my plants with the neem oil and checked for white spots, but did not see any luckily.

I’m not sure how cold it actually gets but it’s attached to my house so I don’t think it gets below freezing in there.

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Mine caught a spider this way.

And that’s why I was confused as I thought it was a healing period but since they are adjusting from being shipped already, I don’t want to stress them by changing again so quickly.

I want them to be indoor plants. Dormancy would be in my garage.

Thanks. I ordered the top right one first and I had another one from Etsy, I think it was supposed to be the top left and some of the potting medium, but when I got the package there were 3 plants in there. They had my order mixed up with someone else’s and I ended up with the 2 bottom plants. 🤪

I have patience, just don’t want to unalive it in the meantime. 🙃

I’ve noticed… they are inside under grow lights. I don’t do well with them outside. I would have to do like an inground bog or something. We have a lot of winds here in Nebraska and really cold winters. I tried one outside a few summers ago and I kept forgetting to check and fill the water and the wind kept blowing it over. If I do dormancy, it would be in my garage.

I was told by a couple people to skip since I just got them in September and they went through enough trauma for now.

I live in Nebraska. The cold winter winds hurt your face.

I would be skipping it because they are new and have been through shipping and adjusting to their new environment. That’s what some have told me, but from what else I’ve heard is that dormancy helps your plants rejuvenate or whatever. So that’s why I was torn. I think I’m going to skip this year and just do it next year.

I can do that!

How long do I need to do it like this before potting it?

Hopefully it’s not a b!tch like my cat is…🙄🙄🙄

I’d want to buy them to save them all!

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Mine caught a spider too. I’ll probably just leave it though. I would have saved it, but it was dead already when I finally looked at my plant.

Thanks! I’m central Nebraska so will probably do dormancy in my garage.