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Good morning all!
Sara--I agree--stinker of a week. I too hope for some regeneration this weekend! I'm nervous about jury duty next week.
Ama--sorry about the tricky situation with your friends. I hope you find a way to quickly and gently let them know your need to change your decision. I, too, am one to eat all the food!
Nik--Good luck with your mom! I agree, family can be challenging!
Laura--I, too, struggle with the motivation to exercise. For me, I either have to make a habit of it, or I have to talk myself into starting with something small, say, 10 minute walk around the block.
I have a challenging work lunch today (monthly birthday and anniversary celebration.) Last month we had pizza. Not sure if that's typical or not. (This is a new job for me.) Extremely busy weekend ahead with a college football game on the calendar. Big work deadlines; jury duty next week. Just trying to stay calm!
Waving hi to Lana, Lynn and all who lurk and follow!4 -
Me again. Kitten safely back from her jabs but still too small to have her microchip in.
Ama I hope you find a nice way to let the friends know they can't stay. Tricky situation to be in.
Sara sorry to hear you've had a tough week, I hope the weekend brings you a little rest from it all
Skinny I hope your jury duty goes by smoothly and I'm sure everyone else will be as nervous as you are so it'll be fine. The only one needing to be really nervous is the defendant!
Laura I can't remember if you're a fitbit person or not but I honestly find that mine buzzing at me if I haven't done enough steps in an hour really does get me moving again. It also forces me onto my lovely treadmill several times a day! Currently on here after 25 minutes of walking, tougher than it sounds at my size!
Lana hope you're okay and get your internet sorted.
Happy Friday all 😊0 -
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Thanks guys! Yes my husband realized his mistake as soon as he got into bed last night. We are going to figure out together how to break it to them that unless they are actually physically homeless we would prefer them to figure out a different solution to their issue with their current housing.2
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Happy Friday all! Well let me say that I have discovered the benefits of growing up in a colder environment like Minnesota soared me from the hellish pain of severe allergies, which I am experiencing now in Oklahoma 😢 My doctor gave me a steroid injection, but with the demolition going on in my building... and now specifically on my floor... they’ve been jackhammering up the floors on my end of the hall in the empty apartments. Then leave them wide open with the windows open to the great outdoors 😢
So, I didn’t sleep, but two hours last night. Can’t sleep in a fully sitting up type position and can’t breathe lying down or even adjusted up a bit with my adjustable bed.
Hopefully my move will get coordinated today so I will have an end date on my misery. They’ve been doing demolition on several apartments beneath me for weeks. So much for my insomnia. They are loud enough to wake all the dead buried in Oklahoma! Then they’ve just tossed everything into dumpsters under my window and plumes of dust billow up and come through and around the cracks of my window unit 😢 Haven’t used my inhaler this much in a decade!
My doc ran blood tests and sent off results to a pathologist. So now we’re doing more tests. With the depression at bay, we can focus on physical stuff for real. When I explained that for several years before moving back to Oklahoma, my winter jacket in Minnesota was a only 2-3 times thicker than my t-shirt. And it wasn’t because I was born and raised up north. I was hot! So she’s ordering an ultrasound of my thyroid. Over two decades all the test have come back within range, but she’s going down the list very practically just like she did to diagnose the uterine fibroids. I so appreciate her!
I did a dance routine for four days before the allergies set in. Been drinking so much water and chicken broth plus someone treated me to Chinese yesterday and the scale jumped 1.4 lbs. Not bad with it also being TOM. So I’m glad. Will restart exercise again tonight after crews stop working.
I have a Misfit Ray. They did a massive sale last fall and I got mine for just over $10 USD. It tracks steps, swimming, etc., plus sleep and calories burned. I’ve been reaching my daily goal of 4,000 much easier since I’m feeling better and getting out more. Soon I’ll up the goal. But I used to only do about 1,000-2,000 steps average a day. So this is AWESOME! Little by little!
My back pain has been chronic since I was a teenager... over 25 years and several rounds of PT, pool therapy, steroid injections, denied surgery attempts... but I’m hanging in there. This moving and cleaning may be s challenge. But I have way more help this time and more notice so I’m hopeful not to exacerbate anything!!
I LOVE the cabana by day and fire pit at night!!! Need to have a marshmallow roast and makes some skinny s’mores. There has to be a recipe somewhere!!
I’ll make sure to lurk throughout the week and try to keep checking in myself at least once or twice. Just doing SO much I don’t want to overwhelm myself.
Sorry so long!!
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Peep!
Lana4 -
skinny when you do your 10 of exercise, come by and post.
hey niki nice on the eyes ! thank you for sharing the eye candy
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When I did WW, several years ago, there was a S'mores recipe I ate all the time..I think it was 3 points, then...
1 whole Graham cracker
1 Tbs marshmallow fluff (I think measurement is right)
Chocolate chips (Can't remember how much)
Microwave about 10 seconds
YUMMMMMY!!!
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Really like this. Think I’ll print it off and stick it on my door.3 -
Saturday here! Woo hoo. 🤗
Skinny hope your tricky lunch yesterday was ok. Thanks for sharing how you get motivated to exercise.
Nik- i have a difficult relative that talks about money all the time. I come up with ideas of topics to switch to in advance and if I can’t get her off the subject I make an excuse to leave the room ie toilet, call to make, just need to put laundry on! I must go to the toilet a hundred times 🤣🤣🤣 but it works to get off the subject. I find talking about them is also a good sidetracking device ie how are you? Ask about their friends. My experience is they love talking about health /ill health so I keep them on that
) I don’t even finesse it - I just abruptly change subject:) hope that might help. I know how depressing it is. Just deny deny deny if she asks about weight. They can’t do much with a ‘no’. PS jealous you have kitten. Sounds so cute. I have my old faithful cat who is 17 and still thinks he’s a kitten 🐱 I dont have the time for a kitten with being out at work long hours and in France half the time. It wouldn’t be fair.
AMA - hope you can sort out your tricky situation. That’s so stressful to deal with. Big hug
Runa - hang in there. You’re having a tough time. Keep at it and hope this renovation gets finally finished so you are not surrounded by such noise and dust.
Sara - that’s a week done. Now you can chill and forget about such horrible weeks.
Waves to all lurking xxx
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SATURDAY
Good morning,
Dog woke me up- best alarm clock.
Not too much planned (I prefer it that way) so when the urge to nap occurs, I can just do so.
Ribena is on sale at the International store near me. Only time I ever heard of it was in episode one of "The Vicar of Dibley" but a coworker who loves British things loves it, so when I saw it on sale I told her. Think Italian Soda with carbonated water and half and half. Or just with carbonated water. Hot day today/tomorrow - so need creative ways to get drinks in me. I can imagine it is high in sugar so light on the syrup.
Stubbed toe on chair leg trying to be "in a hurry", so foot is on ice gel pack for a bit. Rolling eyes, there was no fire, what was the rush??
Wave to all who follow. BBL.3 -
Good morning! Busy day ahead for be, but it’s a good kind of busy. It feels like fall here so I’m going to start my fall chores start with the house this morning since it’s raining after a go for a nice walk! Hopefully tomorrow’s weather will be better I have to get our chickens out to help clean up the garden!2
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Waving hi! I've got a busy morning--need to workout, get to my WW meeting (before I cancel!), hit up a used kids winter clothes sale, go to a workshop, go to a tailgating party, go to a football game. I'll post later. Worried about choices at tailgating party/football game. Will make the best choices I can. Love you all!
Runa--I loved my Misfit Shine. Tell me about your Ray. Does it operate on watch batteries like the shine? Can you swim and shower with it?2 -
I watch Premier League Soccer on the weekends and was screaming at the TV (so lady like !! ). Anyone who can put Manchester City in their place gets points in my book.
Trying to do some dejunking before I get too stuck to watching Acorn TV on the computer - trips to garbage bin count on my pedometer as well.
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Hi guys,
Quick pop in to apologise for being absent. Busy day with the parents and getting daughter the new long riding boots she's been drooling over for the last 2 years!
Hope everyone is okay as I haven't had a chance to read back! Had dinner out tonight to celebrate my parents' 45th wedding anniversary so hoping I've been careful enough not to break the run of losses I'm currently having!
Have a good evening all and I'll catch up tomorrow. 😘3 -
Saturday Peep!
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Just took off socks and you can see where my toe is bruised, so back with the ice pack for a little bit.
Got my aromatherapy in mail and like the 3 new ones I picked, so 5 out of 5. Good deal.
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Waving hi to all. Sara, sorry about your stubbed toe! Ow! The aromatherapy sounds lovely!
Hi Lana!
Nik--I hope celebratory dinner with your parents was a success, and joyous.
Ama--I hope your day of chores was fun.
I did okay with my busy day. Made decent, though not perfect, food choices. Got 20 mins on the elliptical machine in as well as 9000 steps.
We tried this Zero Point Turkey chili WW recipe by Chef Eric Greenspan and really liked it. 0 points.We didn't destem our jalapeno, we added in another can of beans because we didn't have any refried beans and had to add 2 extra cups of water, otherwise followed the recipe pretty closely. I squeezed a little lime juice in mine.
Here are the ingredients. Basically sautee the chopped vegetables about 20 minutes then put it all together in a pot and cook for about 30.
https://www.copymethat.com/r/lX954IA/turkey-chili-by-chef-eric-greenspan-0pts/
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SUNDAY!
Morning all! Skinny that sounds good, I might have to adapt for being a vegetarian!
Hi Lana!
Sara I hope your toe is better soon. I did similar a while back and couldn't believe how painful it was. Ice helped though!
Dinner with my parents was lovely. I was careful not to go overboard but didn't make them suspicious either, I'm keeping my weight loss to myself until I can't any more. This morning was an amazing weigh in though, I weigh every day so only expect small changes but today was down almost 2lbs on yesterday! No clue how but so delighted. 20lbs lost since 22nd August! Over the moon.
Happy Sunday everyone! I'm going to work on my treadmill to get that step goal up higher again. 😁6 -
Good morning,
Boy glad I am not taking typing test this morning, but then it is dark and I am not quite awake.
Niki - great job on dinner and scale!
Today is with any luck quiet after grocery shopping. Will do so house work as well. Focus on getting in a good nap.
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Good morning! Skinny yes I got most of the chores done I wanted. I got almost 20k steps yesterday between my chores and my walk in the morning. I love crisp fall mornings for walking! I hope everyone has a great day today! My days going to be incredibly busy and all of it revolves around food. Lunch at camp and then a football party for supper wish me luck!3
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Good morning all!
Did 20 mins on the elliptical and am now doing meal prep for the week. Chicken breast poaching in the slow cooker for quinoa hotdish and I'm making my child's lunches now. We'll also do frittata, grilled chicken, and bison chipotle meatloaf and various and sundry grilled veggies. Busy week with jury duty and plans three out of 5 evenings.
Ama--great job on the 20K steps plus chores!
Sara--I love a good Sunday nap! Maybe I'll get one in my while son is at flag football with my husband.
Nik--Congrats on the 2 lbs. I think the stew would be great with TVP crumbles in lieu of the turkey, actually.
Waving to Lana and all who lurk and follow!
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Decided to go walk around fair, yesterday. Only food was a Walking Taco, shared with DH. Not too bad. Then, decided to take a short road trip, a couple towns over to go to the Ice Cream Factory.... oh, my gosh! What yummy ice cream! We got the ice cream sampler, which is 4 small cups, 4 different flavors... perfect for us... yes, I know I ate way too much... but, it was our first time and, it's far enough away, we won't go often... plus, my birthday is coming, so I just wanted to try it..5
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Hi Sunday pm here and looking at what I’ve not achieved this weekend but on plus side I had a lovely catch up with my old university friend, stayed over with her and went to their church in am today so feel good for having spent time with friends. Pussycat greeted me home with a cuddle at midday. Managed to put newly acquired/repolished antique hall table in hallway (that took some muscle) and put on eBay (first time ever for selling) the old hall furniture. Now really need to exercise so about to lace up trainers and go for a long walk. I’ve put off gardening but a walk will do me good and I can feel better on what achieved. Still logging food at least so that’s something. Waiting for my ordered Fitbit to arrive.
Hope you are all having fun Sundays.
Waves to all 😊
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PS Did my walk😅big achievement for me. 58 mins and 3.27miles. Feeling better for having got off sofa. 👍4
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@skinnytacular “Runa--I loved my Misfit Shine. Tell me about your Ray. Does it operate on watch batteries like the shine? Can you swim and shower with it?”
I really like my Ray. It uses smaller button batteries - three of them. But my first set lasted for about five months before needing to be replaced. It is waterproof to a point. So you can shower and track swim strokes. I forget the depth limit, but it’s never caused me too many problems. There was a glitch with a couple updates. However, it suddenly came back in sync. The customer service folks were nice about it.
You can select to have it buzz to wake you up, remind you to move, or tell you if a call or text comes through. All the vibrations seemed the exact same to me, though, so I turned back off some of the options. You can select different tasks for a triple tap on your wrist. For example, I could select an option to take a picture. So I set up my phone and stood against the wall one day and did my progress pics by tapping on my Ray and it clicked the camera for me.
They are usually about $80. But they really had a good sale last fall and they never charge shipping so I got the Ray for about $11, some bands to change out the color and texture for about $6 and batteries for another $6 or so. Very much worth the investment.
Have a great week!
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Happy Monday everyone.
On train to work and a full on day ahead. Have my brother staying with me this eve so will need to make sure I don’t overeat.
Runa - thanks for info on Ray. I’m pondering what to buy as my Fitbit order was cancelled as they are out of stock. Going to investigate some more.
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Good morning! I hope everyone had a great day yesterday! I ate terrible yesterday and boy does my stomach hurt this morning because of it! Surprisingly the scale showed a loss this morning but I’m not believing by how bad I feel. Have a great day everyone!2
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