July: Our Journey to Health
Snooozie
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ok, i'll go first then LOL
My steps to getting to a healthy me this month will include recognizing there will be challenges (long wacky shifts, and patio margaritas LOL), and keeping focused on why I cam here to start with - to lose my excess weight and get healthy and fit.
I am going to continue walking daily; work on increasing my water intake, up my fruit and veggie servings and try to limit my moments of indulgence to calorie worthy things I actually WANT (that's more a mental step for me; understanding I don't NEED to have everything just cause it's there LOL).0 -
Strive for progress - not perfection:)
If you have 4 out of 5 things go right then before you know it you'll be right where you want to be...
Have a safe and awesome 4th of July America...
Hoping my Canadian Friends had an awesome Canada Day....
TTYL
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nice to see ya drop in carol - and happy 4th of July celebrations to you!0
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Thanks:)0
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my photo editing skills suck..... but I think I figured out the ducks prefer classic stuff over country!!
THIS was my audience for "Summer of 69"
and THIS was my audience for "Feel like a Woman" LOL
Some steps on this journey are easier than others - but every step counts!
Have a fabulous 4th of July holiday to my friends in the States!
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July is going to be a journey to maintain! Maintain the healthy I've attained and maintain my sanity. Perhaps I can maintain what little sanity I have by striving to maintain my health... Lol ... Am I talking in circles? Probably...0
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Lol Snoozie
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Oh!! such a a gorgeous place to walk...no wonder you make it look so easy to get in those long walks. I might even be coaxed out of the house to walk, if I could have a place such as that close by. the Photos are great !!
Hmmm....my steps to being healthy is to cleaning out a spot to keep my pilates thingy out , so I will use it....and to tweak my eating habits and try more paleo things, less carbs( to help with my Big D diagnosis.)
Still trying to be able to take the pills, but they mutilate my tummy. Trying to just take half at a time today....so far so good.....fingers crossed.
I hope everyone is having a lovely day, be safe this weekend.0 -
Love the sanity - wait, I think I meant I loved My sanity!!! This has been without a doubt a fantastic weekend thus far!!! My healthy lifestyle has not been totally forgone.... Close, but not totally!!0
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Hi Ladies...
I know that what I'm about to ask might be a little TMI... but please let me know your thoughts:
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I'm not quite sure... but I've noticed that since my "cycle" is gone that I still want / crave sweets and chips from time to time...
Do you think that this could be that even though it's gone that my body still wants the junk...????
It used to have that effect on me....
Thanks for listening....
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I think so. No medical knowledge on it, though ... but it makes sense to me that the hormonal cravings are still active. I still get my headache used to get around that time..0
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LOL I don't think your cravings have anything to do with menopause itself Carol... carb and sweet cravings come and go; and seem to come on more frequently when you start eating them.. ... the spike from the sweets gives you the temporary high, and when you start to crash you crave more.. and if you eat more, another high, another crash, etc etc... its getting off the stuff that will stop the cravings IMO (but I haven't managed that yet either, but has nothing to do with my MOP.
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had a rather freaky day today; on a special detail for a month at a different location, and its sort of a "staging" area for everyone across the city to report at; so today saw a lot of colleagues I haven't seen in years. and I mean a few actually 2 decades... staggered thru the 14 hr day I was working...
so a number of them were like OMG.. you look great... I cant believe how good yu look.. blah blah.... which i'll admit was nice of them to say the first few times... and I came up with what I thot was a good response (thanks, that's kind of you - its a work in progress...
but omg..... and I am truly not saying this just to blat about them all saying nice things... but after the 10th or 15th person stood there with this stunned look and said something.. I started to get a little pissed... yes I did... its like ok seriously people.... just how freaken bad did I look before already??? and thanks for the compliment... but away ya go now... but no... im running my *kitten* off while they're standing there asking all these stupid questions... like how did I do it?? (how does ANYONE lose weight.. duh!!) it honestly started really annoying me because I was starting to think HELLO.. i'm a nice person, remember?? I was a nice person THEN, and im a nice person NOW... (altho that's about to change LOL) but it was like they were saying I was a different person... and im NOT.... and it made me start to realize just how biased people are against overweight people... cause obviously when I was at my highest I was a "nothing" to you people. and now .. just because I lost weight i'm suddenly a "new person"?? NO I'M NOT... (hmmm yes it occurs to me I am ranting.. but this was all bottled up inside during my very long day LOL. and by the end of it I was getting pretty rabid LOL. it just started to really tick me off that suddenly I became a "new" person all over and worth their attention now... just because I lost weight.
anyway.... now that I've ranted here... and after another 2 hrs stuck in god awful traffic, i feel better thanks.. altho i'm still ticked at a lot of em LOL... but... i'm about to reward myself with a glass of wine for not slapping any of em !!!! and perhaps ... a wee square of dark chocolate too!!
did fine with food but totally dehydrated - about to start guzzling!! hope everyone had a good start to their week LOL!0 -
Carol, I get more cravings than I used to, but for me I THINK it's just because I restrict what I eat more. I didn't have a "sweet tooth" before I started dieting. I suppose it's natural if you're restricting what you eat, to crave easy calories. But I'm perimenopausal rather than menopausal, so maybe I have a new stage to come.
@ Snoozie, oh my goodness, your post REALLY struck a chord with me! It's almost as if everything you've achieved while being fat doesn't count. And you're suddenly a better person for being slimmer, instead of just the same person but a big lighter.
(I have to say, I'm so grateful for the way my boyfriend has reacted to my weight gain and loss. He didn't say a single negative word when I gained the weight in the first place. And even though I've lost it and he says I look great, he never even suggests that I didn't look good at my biggest. I know some people would see it as "enabling", but for me it really works.)
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Vail yes that's exactly how I was starting to feel!0
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Morning Hatters!
Just wanted to take a minute first to wish OWR and Susan positive thoughts as they get through the challenges they're dealing with now - hugs to both!
Doing some wacky shifts and hours this month for some special events going on in the city; but using my down time to re evatulate where im at and what I want for myself as y'all already know it's been 3 years yesterday for me here at MFP.. I have succeeded at about 85% of the weight loss I wanted, but the fitness part has a long way to go yet; and while I know what I have to start doing (the ST) I'm still not quite sure how to accomplish that (financially and without injury blah blah blah). Anyway.. i'll use the next few weeks to figure it out and then tackle it starting August 1st - that will be the focus of my steps to health next month.
For this month I'm still working towards the 1% total body weight loss; (I suck at math, but I did finaly realize as my weight goes down, the 1% is less to lose hahahaha). I'm about 1/2 way to my 1% for July - using the goal of at least TWO healthy food choices (meal or snack) every day, and WATER consumption. For this month, those are realistic and workable goals for me.
So time to get some strawberries into me (choice #1 LOL) how's everyone else doing in their journeys to health this month so far?0 -
Overall great on the goals... just gotta work on the chocolate and chip monster... I already had a banana, strawberries, and will be having an orange with lunch... my afternoon snack will be apple, cheese stick and yogurt - 1 or all 3... apple a day keeps the surgeon away.. cheese / yogurt ... calcium...:)0
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Here's a couple of the stops we made on our vacation...couldn't get the others to download...
I am still working toward healthier choices... this month.0 -
Gail!!! lookit you - techie queen downloading pics!! LOVE EM!! what's the second pic.. is that a massiveTREE stump or a flat top kind of mountain??0
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hahaha....not quite a techie...I thought I blew up the mad hatter system when trying to bring these two to life. The bottom one is called Devil's Tower, I think...It was in the Steven Spielberg movie "Encounters of the Third Kind " some years past. The alien ship parks on top of it...Did you see that one? WE saw so much beautiful things. Will just said today he is ready to go back to South Dakota tomorrow...lol0
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WAY COOL! I had to go and google it once you gave me the name... lol I thought it was a rock but appears to be something quite unique google says Geologists agree that Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion. Magma welled up into the surrounding sedimentary rock. There it cooled and hardened. The sedimentary rock has since eroded away to show the tower.
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Morning Hatters...
still sending positive vibes to Susan and OWR....
I hit my 1% body weight loss for this month this morning; challenge will now be making sure its still gone July 31st lol.
Seems rather quiet in here lately from the others in this group (OWR and Susan excluded); wondering if perhaps the few of us left here would rather take a hiatus for the summer or just simply close the group down if there's no interest anymore?
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I don't think it's no interest...it's just that time of year ,like last year, that everyone is out and about on vacation and stuff.......we can't shut it down!!...it's the only thing that keeps me going....
and that's just my opinion...lol
Kudos on the 1% !! I know you will keep it off!!0 -
lol T2... ok glad to hear it; I don't either... so will just sit back and see if anyone wants to play other than us LOL. have you recovered from your vacay yet??0
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I'm with Gail. ...please don't close it down
I really enjoy the fun stories and pics
It's great that we have a place to share and encourage each other
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Morning Hatters..
hit my goal of losing 1% of my BW for this month (about 1.5% if my math is right); wouldn't normally update my weight til the end of the month but frankly, needed to see it in writing now to keep it off for the next two weeks LOL.
Had a pig out last night for dinner.. of veggies! been short on them lately as packing mainly portable quick eats like sammiches and yogurt for the weird shifts this month, so did up a small roast and a stock pot full of potatoes, carrots and green beans for dinner last nite... sounds strange I know but omg the veg were SO good.. was fine with the portion size of meat but i'm pretty sure I ate enough veggies to seriously impact the price of crops LOL!
Summer seems to be flying by - but the 1% goal and setting the aim for at least 2 healthy meals or snacks a day seems to be helping me stay the course; know it should be more but also recognize over the summer its THE MOST realistic and doable goal for me, and is still allowing me to progress towards my GW. Biggest struggle right now is the water; so will focus on that today.
Hope everyone is doing okay with their own journeys and enjoying some lovely weather; it's actually cooled off here today only about 13C (maybe about 60F) but still gorgeously sunny so will head down to the lake shortly - gonna be a long day as my shift is 3pm to 1am and I was up at 5 LOL.. might be ready for a nap by the time I have to head In ha!!
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