NON WW & WW NEWBIES, OUR NEW LIFE, THE START OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL
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Good morning!
@TrishasTime, I completely agree that you just need to find one tracker and use it. If you have premium MFP then there is no reason to switch. I sure hope that the foot doctor can give you some good news that will get you back to your normal life!
@theslightedgeforever, I don't like bananas so when I was little my mom made banana pudding all the time and she always made me my own bowl of just vanilla pudding and Nilla wafers. Those soggy cold cookies were soooo good!!
Getting down on the floor was one of the main reasons I wanted to lose weight so bad. I do so much with the kids at my church and having to make sure I sat next to a wall to help me get back up was miserable. It's a great goal for us both! 
@trooworld, do you track first thing in the morning? Even if you end up not eating what you planned it might at least get you in the habit. I boot up my computer and open my tracker first thing and at least add what I think I'm going to eat and then I go back after dinner and edit. It's a habit that you just have to get into and make it a non-negotiable.
@its_cleo, I LOVE to decorate!! Houzz is a great website for ideas like theslightedgeforever suggested. And trooworld is right about art.com. Most of my artwork on my walls came from them! I'm planning some minor redecorating of my living room for next year. This year I'm redoing my laundry room. It's painted Pepto Bismol pink and it has to go. Yes, I actually chose that color! 
So, are you planning to go back into weight loss mode? Will you stick to your same plan or switch it up?
@cbabie, thinking and praying for you!!
Happy Monday everyone!! I feel like today is about hitting the reset button. I've done really well considering I had a dinner party and the church luncheon yesterday but I'm so determined to not fall back into my old ways and I have to stay focused and diligent to my plan. Fortunately, I don't have anymore off plan eating events this week. I have a church BBQ on the 24th but I can totally manage that by just saying no to the buns!
Yesterday, we toyed with the idea of getting a kitten. A girlfriend is giving her litter away and one of them just tore at my heartstrings. I LOVE cats and miss not having one. But hubby has never had one and doesn't think he likes them.
Then there is my weird little diva of a dog. Not to mention my furniture and very expensive window treatments that would only take one cat attack to be ruined. And I absolutely could not declaw a kitty. So, I let go of the dream and will just have to love them from afar. 0 -
Hi all...hope everyone had a good weekend. Today will be another hot one..high 90's, so walked on the treadmill for about 30 minutes this am.
@TrishasTime - ouch on your foot..hope the tumor stays stable & doesn't grow. Walking is good for you..it is my main exercise.
@its_cleo - I know what you mean about motivation. I remain relatively stable no matter what I do food or exercise wise. Guess it is a good thing, but would still like to lose about 20# or so. We had the local gkids for the weekend and I finally figured out I cannot eat as much or as often as these growing kids! (these are 9 & 12) They are not nearly as picky eaters as the other 2, but that means I ate a lot more with them around, lol.
@trooworld - I think tracking is vital. When it is just dh & I here, I track a lot more (usually try to do it in am for the whole day) & stay closer within my goals, but when gkids here, I don't track until the end of the day, and it can be ridiculous how many calories I ate, but didn't feel like I did at all!
@TeresaW1020-I need to reset today, too. No more gkids here for a while, but going on a trip with dh, sister & her hubby at the end of the month, so need to get back in the right frame of mind. We are doing an Alaska cruise, so eating opportunities will abound. Maybe I can control it a little, since they do totally plant based/no added fat food.
@LULUREBEL - my oldest daughter was always doing something..2 broken arms, numerous stitches, etc. The younger one only sprained ankles, but both of her kids have broken arms. We were babysitting them the first time her dd dislocated her elbow & got a broken bone there, too. 2 days after her year final checkup on that, she fell & broke the other arm. Oh well, active kids!
@theslightedgeforever -I think I am going to look up Fooducate..maybe seeing what grades my food is giving me will be enough to get me a little more on track. I agree about functional exercise..I do get on the floor with gkids, but it is not pretty watching me get back up. Definitely need to be strengthening my legs. Took the gkids to the pool on Saturday & had fun playing with them & swimming some. I love to swim, but usually don't like to go to the pool because so crowded. Need to get over that & go. They have 10 minute rest periods each hour, but adults can stay in the water, so could get lots of exercise then.(probably more than I could handle, lol)
@cbabie hope you are getting some sleep & arm is almost healed. I know you mentioned osteopenia...they have a place that opened here called OsteoStrong. I think it is an exercise place to build your bones. I plan to ask my Dr about it next time I go, because I also have osteopenia and don't want to take the osteoporosis medicine.
Hope everyone has a great week, and stay cool! (well, except TrishasTime..hope you stay warm)
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PS..sorry that was so long...I get so far behind!!0
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Hi there
@theslightedgeforever - LOL - I have been working on that goal for 3 years. Congratulations on your loss - keep going - you will get a big sticker although it seems you are getting back on track.
@trooworld - Did you track when you got to work?? It is all about making time for you. A woman I am following on twitter said your relationship with yourself is the most important. You give yourself the encouragement and the strength to do what is right for you
@teresaw1020 - Glad you had fun on the weekend and are looking for the reset button. A year ago you would not have had a fun weekend and then reset on Monday, looking back I can see how far you have come
@retiredandlovingit - Having younger people around really throws out your routine. Having the cruise trip coming up around the corner will be a good goal to get back to where you want to be (Beatles song)
Waiting for the ortho support to come today (fingers crossed) DS was advised that he had to leave his rental as the owners want to return, he is now busy searching for another place
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@trooworld I wish you could see the look on my face when you said banana pudding ice cream.
It was the same look when you said chocolate hummus. lol I don't know why the two words together make me go ick. I like both of them separately. So what's your resistance to tracking? Because it's so easy, there must be something more going on behind the scenes. So answer the question, if I track...….. or When I track I …….Go write in your journal about it. See if some ideas pop up.
@teresaw1020 Pepto Bismol pink. I had a Happy Halloween pumpkin color on my walls once. Years later I look at pics of that room and think I must have been on drugs at the time. Some kind of psychadelic drugs as teal was also involved. lol Kittens are cute and then they turn into cats. Yes, hit the reset button. I have lots of social events this week. I did well today and stayed within my calories despite going over to a friend's house and sitting in front of food for 3 1/2 hrs. That was basically breakfast and lunch. I have staved off popcorn cravings for two days. I just keep telling myself to let a whole week roll by and then I can have some if I still want it. I passed along Jason Fung info to my friend today. She's a diabetic and has trouble controlling it.
@retiredandlovingit I eat more around my kids and they are in their 20's lol That's good for you that you got in a walk. I've always wanted to do an Alaskan cruise. It's on my list for dd and me. Interesting about the OsteoStrong. I'm having resistance to my gym and I need to figure out why. I've decided to tackle every excuse I come up with and get an solution for it until I run out of excuses.
@Trishastime Did the ortho support arrive? Did you notice that it helped a bit? I know too soon, but when I'm in pain I pray for immediate relief. I hope ds finds another place soon.
I stayed within my food boundaries, walked 15 min, tracked and did NOT meet my water goal. Too much tea.
2 weeks left of July, how are you doing with your goals? What do you need to tweak a bit to reach them?
July goals: track everyday, lose 3 lbs, burn at least 200 calories via intentional exercise 5x/week
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@TeresaW1020 Yes, I always pre-track in the morning but lately, I haven't had time or the inclination.
I love kitties too, good for you for realizing that it wasn't right for your environment/family rather than getting one and having to get rid of it. Maybe in the future it will be a different situation, maybe you can reconsider? I agree: NO to declawing!
@RetiredandLovingIt It's hot here, too! Stay cool! I agree, I just need to get back in the habit of doing it.
@TrishasTime No, I did not. But I did pretrack this morning for the day.
@theslightedgeforever hahaha! It was delicious though! Resistance to tracking: I don't have a lot of time and sometimes I have to add a custom meal/sometimes I don't want to weigh something to track it/sometimes I don't want to face the numbers (but this isn't really the case in most cases). I don't have time to write in my journal until this weekend... Gotta get to work. I am doing cr@ppy on my goals but at least I am aware of them because they are in my signature!
Hi all: I have to go but I wanted to say I appreciate all of you and your encouragement and tough love!!! I did track this morning for the day.
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Good morning everyone
@trooworld - Sorry to harp - but you need to make time for you. Could you not do it at l lunch or 5 min before you go to work. You do recipe planning - why not do the main meals at the same time - you can always change later - by the way - I do not like the thought of banana pudding either
@theslightedgeforever - yes it did arrive - so far I have put it on. The section around the top of the foot is very tight, although the rest of the foot is good. Time will tell when I am walking around the office today. Does not tea count as water?
I ate dinner rather late last night after seeing the accountant and my stomach kept me awake most of the night processing the takeaway. Never again. I will either have a piece of fruit and a cup of soup, or stay up later.
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@TrishasTime I hope the foot support helps! The rental- is this your home you have to leave?
@theslightedgeforever will definitely check out Houzz.com, thanks for the tip! I need all the help I can get. Lol at the pumpkin colour walls….I had a very dark room once, dark paneling, only one tiny window. I loved it, but I was a teen. It’s funny how our tastes change over time.
@trooworld thanks I will check out art.com as well…I definitely need some prints. I really like Group of Seven paintings, if you’re familiar with them.
@TeresaW1020 I really want to go to weight loss mode but I can barely manage with maintenance. I guess I’m weak? I don’t know. My idea was to start with maintenance and just slow reduce my daily/weekly calorie allowance, so I would get used to it and change the habits. So I guess I was trying to address the habits. The first half was super successful lol. I can see the habits and patterns where I overdo it. Changing it has been less successful.
Except to clarify over the last few months, I have eaten slightly less calories on avg but we are talking like minor differences of 100 calories. This has been trying to curb my excesses… so better than up I guess.
@retiredandloving it glad you got some time with the local grandkids. I think it’s natural to eat more with them around…I guess just try to be mindful. Also there can be a lot of posts to keep up with- we’re pretty easy going if you skip one 😊
I want to do an Alaskan trip too. Actually I was thinking Iceland/Greenland, but not sure when or if I will make it…maybe next fall. But in Canada you can also see icebergs here- in Newfoundland, and of course up north, but I’ve never been.
@trooworld your reasons for not tracking are same as mine. When I feel lazy and don’t want to weigh- I will just search the meal and use someone else’s estimate that is close. Even if it isn’t perfect, I feel like making the effort is good and it’s in the ballpark.
A friend of mine had surgery and had two stents put in...he is elderly but like a family friend. I don't much about that kind of surgery but I'm hoping he will be ok. He lives in another city.
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@trooworld Yaaaay for pretracking for the day. Now that you are not cooking new meals every week, it should be easier to track. You can even do the quick add or better yet if they are those Trader Joe's meals, all you have to do is scan the barcode. A good exercise one day is to time yourself tracking your meals to see exactly how long it takes. I used to be that way with unloading the dishwasher because in my mind it was a lot longer than in reality. Once I saw how much time it took, it was easier to do. Cause I can spend those 5 min playing a Wordscape game on my phone (which turns into 10) or I can go input my food. Once you build your personal database, it is really just a click that takes a second or two. I've inputted a lot of my Pinterest recipes on MFP so the next time I make them, it's already there. I also don't worry about being 100% exact. If the brand is not exactly the same or I can't find it, I'll type in the product and then choose the one that has the middle number of calories. Not the highest and not the lowest. Sometimes I look at the nutrition info on the package and then find one that matches that number if I can't find my brand. For weighing purposes, if I cook 1 lb of chicken breasts, then I will divide them into four portions and call it 4 oz. This guestimating serves me well sometimes because I have zero patience with things that take a bit of time. Otherwise, I just give up and won't do it. This way it gets done. I was losing weight using this method until my exercise waned.
@trishatime Another non banana pudding lover? Maybe it means something different in Australia. I don't count tea as water because it dehydrates I thought because of the caffeine. Plus I have sweetener in it. If that's true, then I hit my water goal every day. I'm talking about just plain old water or with fruit. I don't like to count those flavored squirt things either that make the water taste better because it has chemicals in it.
@its_cleo My tastes in colours have definitely changed over time. Look at the way I spelled color. I think Trish is starting to rub off on me. lol I'm more a muted neutral kind of gal now where I used to be like Cindi Lauper, if you know who that is. My first thought was Phyllis Diller then realized you would be too young to know who that is. Maybe too young for Cindi. I'll have to think about a more modern version. There's no way you are weak. Look how much time and effort you put into your exercise program. You don't have the same passion for food. Why? I think fear more than weak. Fear you won't do it. But I'm thinking you think you have to make a drastic cut for calories to go into weight loss? If you've been tracking, you will know how much is your average each week or for the last 3 months or whatever. Reduce that number by 100. That's it. That's like leaving off a piece of cheese on a sandwich and leaving 2 bites on your plate of some food. Slowly bring it down so your body gets used to it and it's not such a big thing for your mind. I just finished reading your post and you did bring it down 100. Good. Now do another 100. Tell me about your patterns. Sometims we're successful, sometimes not. Maybe this group can give you some suggestions that you haven't seen. Like a fresh set of eyes. Now I want to go to Newfoundland.
My father had loads of stents put in. I'm talking LOADS. He also had a quadruple bypass. Then the next year had to have a pacemaker put in. Then the next year, his heartrate was going too high so they had to go back in and do more surgery. The thing is he never changed his lifestyle. They can put in a stent to keep the walls from crashing in but if the person still eats the junk, then those stents become worthless and have to be replaced. This is why me and my sister fight so hard on this issue, because we don't want to be like him. Plus he always had high blood pressure. the kind that would bring down an elephant. Plus extreme severe diabetes. His dr ordered 3 shots a day of insulin, but he never took but two. So the best advice for you to give your friend who is like family is to start changing his lifestyle. You know how hard that is with food, but yet if we don't, that is where you and I are headed. On the flip side of that is my mother who had diabetes and breast cancer. Me and cbabie are really screwed when it comes to family history/genes. One would think that alone would get me moving.
Had a mammogram today. I don't think this tech was thorough. This is my 20th mammogram. I need them to be thorough.
I stayed within food boundaries, walked for 18 min. Not enough water. Tracked my food. I'm still off my 200 calories for exercise by half. But right now I'm trying to get in the consistency factor then I'll start pushing for the other half.
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@TrishasTime I only get 30 minute lunches, so I cannot track at lunchtime, I barely have enough time to heat up my food and eat. I will try to make time in the morning before work. I am not doing meal planning right now, I am just going to Trader Joe's and buying random meals and throwing those together. Banana pudding: I can't believe you guys that don't like it!!! lol
@its_cleo I am not familiar with Group of Seven paintings, but I just looked them up. Wow, stunning work! I love the styles. Very cool! You are not weak, girl...look how long you've managed to stay in maintenance, that takes strength! That's a good point about tracking. I hope your friend is okay.
@theslightedgeforever I guess I'm just sort of a perfectionist. I need to give this up. Everything is black and white and that is a bad way to look at weight loss. I'm sorry you had a bad mammogram experience. Those are so important, too important to have a bad experience. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to request another one/complain about it? I think you should.
Hello gals. You'll all be happy to know that I've pre-tracked everything but dinner. I'm not happy about it but I did it.
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@theslightedgeforever I know Cindy Lauper, used to love her and Gowan. It was probably the first music I listened to. I think I was around 8 when she was popular. I still love 80s music actually.
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@RetiredAndLovingIt, what fun an Alaska cruise sounds!! I would love to do that someday.
@trooworld, good girl for tracking! It’s not about loving it…it’s about doing it!!
@TrishasTime, you are right that I’ve come a long way from when I first joined this awesome group! Thanks for noticing and helping to remember that no matter what I’m NOT giving up! 😊
@theslightedgeforever, Yeah, my poor painter was holding the color swatch when I came in to see my newly painted pink laundry room and was super quick to point out how I had picked that color. And I wasn’t even high when I did it!! I did love me some Phyllis Diller!! I hope your friend will look at what Dr. Fung has to say about diabetes. You just reminded me that I need to schedule a mammogram. Yuck!!
@its_cleo, you will figure out how to get those extra pounds off and the great news is that you are maintaining and NOT gaining. Changing our habits is very hard and does take a lot of work.
Hello ladies! I went to my WW meeting and lost another 1.2 lbs this week. My grand total now is 58 lbs gone forever!! I'm such a turtle of a loser and since going off sugar and eating lower carbs I've lost 6 lbs. Of course, it's hard to know if it's the low carb eating or the intermittent fasting finally kicking into gear. But whatever, I'm a happy girl!
Yesterday, I went and got my teeth cleaned and my lady noticed that my teeth were so much easier to clean and asked me what I've been doing and she noticed my weight loss. Soooo that led us to a nice chat about IF and going off of sugar. She wanted to names of books so I was happy to oblige.
And another cool thing happened last night. My husband had bought me two beautiful leather coats years ago and unfortunately, they never fit me, so they have hung in our coat closet with the hope that one day I would be able to wear them. The black leather one still has the tags on it!! Last night, while we were watching TV and a girl had an on a black leather coat and I said that I wondered if my coats fit me yet. So, I tried them on and they do fit! They are still a little snug if I want to button them but by winter they are going to fit perfectly!! My husband almost cried he was so happy for me. 0 -
Good morning everyone
@its_cleo - No it is not my home and I am talking about DS. He is the one that has to leave his rental. I would love to do an Alaskan trip as well. I hope your friend is okay. Stents keep blocked arteries open - so hopefully he will continue to be okay. Cindy was one of my favourites when growing up. yesterday they had a ring in on the radio as I drove to work - what was the number one sone the year you turned 14 _ the one I like most was "lucy in the sky with diamonds"
@theslightedgeforever - Fruit also has sugar in. Hospitals count tea as water, so that is why I asked. Bana pudding here is banana in a pudding (the pudding is milk-based). I hope the mammogram results turn out okay
@trooworld - well done on the pretracking
@teresaw1020 - I have sent you a PM re the scales. Congrats on the loss - 58 pounds is such a huge number. You are making such wonderful NS milestones.
Today I am back at the foot specialist. Let see what he has to say. My goal is to manage, manage, manage (defer defer defer surgery). BUT I want to be able to live life as well
DH was up at 4am this morning and gone in the caravan to a farm about 4 hours away. He will be away to Sunday and I am so looking forward to time by myself (ignore the 18 year old that lives with us).
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@trooworld If perfectionism is serving you well, then keep it in your life, but if not...…. We always have an online survey that they send us so I'll complain then. I'm not doing another one as I don't need more radiation in my body. I often wonder if doing this every year for 20 years will end up giving me cancer because too many x-rays. But then they always say catch it early, so...….
@its_cleo 80's music is still the best I think. lol I looked up the Group of Seven paintings. Beautiful nature scenes. I bet in real life they would be stunning. So how goes the eating today?
@teresaw1020 I say if they can detect a tumor in other parts of our bodies without squishing them flat, then why don't they do so? Think testicular cancer. Hooray for more weight loss. Doesn't matter which plan is making you lose, it's the fact that you are sticking to it. That's awesome on the leather coats.
@trishastime I like the Lucy song. Mine was Staying Alive by the BeeGees. Another great song. I don't mind the sugar in the fruit as I'm hoping the vitamins in the fruit are leaching out into the water. I always use lemon(even though I hate lemon) and then one other thing. So far it has been cucumbers and another time tangerine. I drink 2 mugs of tea in the morning which is actually 3 cups of water as my mug is slightly bigger than a cup. Then 2 mugs in the evening. prepared with a tea bag and a packet of sweetener. I'd like to cut down on the sweetener which is stevia as it's really just a dab of stevia with a bunch of chemicals thrown in, but I like my sweet tea. Tea is my relaxer. I need a new healthier relaxer. Have fun being alone. I LOVE alone time. What did the foot doc say?
I went over on calories, did 15 min walking, tracked my food, not enough water.
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@its_cleo Thanks!
@TeresaW1020 LOL...okay! Congrats on the loss, woot woot! WTG!!! That's really cool about the coats.
@TrishasTime Thank you! Enjoy the time away from the hubby. What do you have planned?
@theslightedgeforever It serves me well in my job but not so well in weight loss so there you go.
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@theslightedgeforever - I was wondering what your daughter thinks of you not doing any more mammograms? Over here it is not a painful, a few years ago at the private clinic I go to - got new machines. So I can tolerate it for the 30 seconds that it hurts.
The foot surgeon has said that the bone cyst has not grown (woohoo). He wants to send me for an injection for the inflamed tissue /connectors around the area so they are blocked from the pain. The guy who he spoke to on the phone was not keen, so I have to have a meeting with him as well.
@trooworld - how did the tracking go yesterday?
I signed up for Cindy's Christmas challenge so I am hoping that will keep me on track together with IF. I feel as if a truck as run over me this morning and I am so looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow
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@trooworld So shoot for just a little less than perfect in the weight loss arena. 99% and hopefully you'll start having the same success in your body as you do with your job.
@trishastime You must have misunderstood me or I miscommunicated. I'm not stopping the mammograms. My family history is too great for that. Usually it's not a problem with pain as I'm blessed in that area. They say the smaller the boob the higher the pain. Plus when they get the lymph nodes involved and all that pulling it's uncomfortable. This lady gave the machine a few extra twists on the clamp this time. I think they should only do ultrasounds as they catch so much more than the mammograms. I had a benign tumor show up on an ultrasound that didn't on the mammograms. I fought and fought them trying to get the ultrasound and the breast specialist told me when he gave me the results that I was correct, there was something there. I'm too paranoid when it comes to this category. What does Cindy's Christmas challenge involve?
I stayed within my food boundaries, walked 15 min, tracked my food, not enough water. Trying again tomorrow,
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@TrishasTime I'm glad the cyst hasn't grown. The tracking yesterday was 50/50 which was better than 0. I am tired, too. But it could be that I got up at 4:00 a.m. because I have to be at work at 6:30.
@theslightedgeforever What areas of weight loss do I shoot for less than perfect in? I have the same problem (perfectionism) with brushing my teeth. I brush them in the morning for sure, but if at night I can't brush my teeth AND use my water pik AND use the little pokey thing for my implants that I can't remember the name of, I usually don't do any of it but brush my teeth in the morning. I'm getting better at this though, I'm telling myself to at least brush my teeth at night.
Hello @cbabie , @LULUREBEL , @gemwolf110 , @RetiredAndLovingIt and anyone else that has been lurking or hasn't popped in for a while!
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@TrishasTime, sent you a PM. 😉 I hope you have some great alone time!! What is this Cindychallenge you speak of?
@theslightedgeforever, Yes, the squishing is the worst!!
@trooworld, perfectionism is a hard character trait to get past. My husband has that issue and I’m always telling him to chill out and go with the flow. Easier said than done, I know!!
Good morning! I got up and accidentally took my nighttime pills instead of my morning ones and my 10 mg. of Melatonin is making me want to lay my head down and take a nap. Soooo stupid!! My mind is on overdrive because we are actually considering moving out of our current home and buying a new one. We are going over today to talk to the real estate agent in the subdivision we want. I’m trying not to get excited about the idea until we see if we can even afford it. I’ll let you all know!
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@Teresaw1020 - Wow going form painting to considering buying a new home - I am excited for you.
@trooworld - I get up at 5am to be at work by 6.30am, so I am hearing you as well. I do not know how you used to include gym time before work as well (heavy load) At least you have started tracking. Why not make a deal just to track one meal (dinner) for the next few weeks. Get that down pat and then perhaps move to include another meal.
@theslightedgeforever - Yes I misunderstood. This will be the first year I do not have to have both a mammogram and an ultrasound as the tissue is not dense any more. When I go, I get the results on the same day
So I have decided to follow IF (18/6) but counting calories in the open times. This has resulted in a big loss and really I am very happy. I am finding now that as I am not mindless grazing all day, and also recording, I make deliberate choices of what I want to put in my mouth. There will be the occasional day where IF will not happen but that will be rare.
I am cleaning out the pantry today - so that will keep me busy
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@TeresaW1020 Yes, indeed! Oh man, you are going to be sleepy all day! How exciting, possibly moving! Good luck with the decision.
@TrishasTime I used to get up at 4 to get to the gym, but it was very very hard. That's a good idea to just try to track one meal and move on to tracking 2. I think I will do that. And if I track more than one meal in a day, good for me. I hope you like IF. I couldn't get past the hunger, I tried it for 3 months and it never worked for me. It works for many, many people though.
Hello all. I'm getting ready to go to Trader Joe's to pick up groceries for the week. Our plan is hubby and I each cook a home-cooked meal on the weekend and then the other meals are kind of instant meals from Trader Joe's the rest of the days. Today, I am making Chicken Shawarma wraps in my Instant Pot. I'm making a Greek salad for inside the wraps.
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@trooworld - I am in another FB group and they have mentioned trader joes. They say to be careful of the so call"healthy foods" - they have ingredients in that are not so healthy - read the labels - hat for you to undo some things
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@trooworld Yes, 50/50 is better. Keep going. I don't think I'd be able to get around the digestive issues that follow me when I try and fast. I don't do too well when I'm hungry. Nobody wants to be around me when that happens. lol So I'll just stick to my plan of portion control and better choices. What recipe do you use for the Chicken Shawarma? I just bought my son and dd an Instant Pot when it was Prime Day.
@teresaw1020 How was real estate hunting?
@trishastime I hope the IF works for you. Finding the right plan is so important. Yes, sometimes the packaged food has lots of sodium. But it beats ordering pizza or getting take out.
Friday I went to a dinner and was over 500 calories for the day. She served these nice slushy drinks. I had two. That will rack up the calories. But it's refreshing in the summertime.
Today I stayed within my food boundaries. Tracked all my food.
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Good morning!
@TrishasTime, I’m so happy you are liking intermittent fasting! I honestly believe that I will be doing it forever.
@trooworld, I love Trader Joes!! They have the best produce and so much of it is cheaper than Walmart. Of course, Trisha is right about needing to read labels. Since going low carb, I’ve discovered foods that claim to be “Keto” aren’t even close.
@theslightedgeforever, slushy drinks would be my downfall to keeping within my calories too! Back in the day, I made the best vodka slushies. 😉
Soooooo, my big news of the day is that in less than two months we will be moving into our new home!! To say my head is spinning is an understatement considering we just talked about it last week! We went to a neighborhood that we had seriously considered building a house in before we moved into our current home, but the builder at that time was a flake and it didn’t work out. So fast forward almost 7 years and the neighborhood is almost done being built by a really great builder. I had picked a lot and house plan I liked but we found out that there were no lots left to build that particular house on. So, we walked through my second choice house which is close to being finished and we fell in love with it. It has some really great upgrades and will have a sweet little yard for our dog to play in. So we pulled the trigger and signed the contract yesterday!
Our real estate agent is showing our home today to a couple who love our current neighborhood and if they were to buy our home it that would be incredibly awesome!! We know this house will sell and we are praying that we can get top dollar for it. And during all this upheaval I need to stay focused and not lose sight of my weight loss goals. 
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@TeresaW1020 congratulations on the house! That is so great. Yes it’s always stressful, especially when it’s happening so quickly but I’m sure you can stay on track.
@TrishasTime that is cool IF is working for you too. I would love to try it but I’m with @theslightedgeforever I can’t cope with being super hungry. Also bc of the exercises I do I pretty well need to eat regularly. Just good food/small portions.
@trooworld that sounds like a long day. If I was working in my previous job I wouldn’t be able to track and exercise like I do now. Those things- work etc- really do make it difficult.
I’m good. This week I was semi-successful. I had 3 drinks with a friend but did not eat any fast food or junk food etc with it. So that is an accomplishment for me. I was 300 calories over for the week but I am taking it as a success bc normally I would be over like 1000 calories.
I’ve been exercising- the sprints have been kicking my butt. Apparently you use different muscles to sprint than run which I found interesting. So sprinting I found muscles I didn’t know I had and they hurt lol. I will do one more session of sprinting and then go back to my longer slower jogs and see if the sprinting has helped my endurance/breathing jogging.
Tomorrow morning I’m going to help a friend do some gardening. I don’t know much about gardening, I’m not even sure I like it but it will just be a nice morning out.
@theslightedgeforever thanks for the info about stents. My family friend- he has diabetes and he ate very poorly most of his life but I would say for the last ten years or so he eats pretty well. So hopefully he won’t need more stents. It’s worrying bc he is in his early 70s and his health is not great overall, he’s had a couple of strokes in the past as well. He came through the surgery so hopefully he will be okay.
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GM everyone
@trooworld - congratulations - what an exciting time ahead for you. Does the house come with the lawn already planted etc or is that something that you will need to do when you move in
@theslightedgeforever - As far as your July goals are going - how is the intentional exercise thing happening? Ia m not hungry as I get to eat at lunchtime and up to then - I am incredibly busy at work - so at the moment it is not a big issue
@its_cleo - Congrats on the weight loss. How did the gardening go? I am one that suffers through it and do not get alot of joy - where my BF adores the garden
Take care
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@teresaw1020 Funny, when I was at the dinner party, I was using your words.... back in the day, only it was gin for me. ooh congrats on your house. New houses are fun, the moving part, not so much. Maybe you'll be so busy you won't be eating and fasting will be a breeze. On the other hand, good planning needs to go into the meal you will eat so you don't just grab whatever.
@its_cleo good for you for cutting back and making this work for you. Plus no junk food while at with friends. Lots of progress being made. Good news about your friend. Bad health can be turned around with good food. So how was the gardening? I've bene gardening about 5 years now. There are times I love it then hate it. But then that's life, ey? I've learned location is so important for flowering plants.
@trishastime Intentional exercise thing, not so much. I take that back, last week I was doing well on my 15 min morning walk. I have a similar problem to @trooworld about perfectionism, I tend to blank out stuff if I don't do the whole amount like I wanted. I did half of it. So I'll be working on the other half this week. Thanks for asking.
Over by 277 calories. Not as bad as I expected. I grazed all day long. AC broke and I was hot and there you go I guess. It's fixed now. Tracked all my food. No exercise. Water goal met.0 -
Good morning!
@its_cleo, curious to know how you liked doing gardening. I told my husband that I might want to plant a small vegetable garden if our new back yard is big enough and then he had to point out to me that there are bugs in the great outdoors. I think it's good to do different exercises for all our different muscles. I'm bad about doing the same things over and over and then when I do something different I'm in pain for days.
@TrishasTime, I think you meant that question for me. Yes, our new home will come with a small front and back yard that will be planted with grass and they will give us a few bushes in the front to make it pretty. Then it's up to us to do any other plantings. We will put up a fence in the back yard as soon as we take possession of the house for our dog.
@theslightedgeforever, Yes I'm excited about the new house and getting to buy new stuff and decorate it. I am NOT excited about packing up this house and trusting movers not to break any of my stuff! AC's always seem to break when it's super hot out. I'm glad to read that yours is back up and running.
Well, we had our first showing last evening and the couple loved our house, which is encouraging. Our house is small and that is the one thing that will hold them back from buying it. We will know in a day or two. And even if they don't buy we know this house will sell because it's in a very desirable neighborhood and I live in the original section which has more character than the newer section. I will say that I don't think my house has EVER been so clean and I need it to sell quickly so I can relax and get to packing! I'm doing my best to stay on my IF and eating plan. I am NOT going to gain a bunch of weight during this life change!!
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@TrishasTime Thanks, I don't pick foods from Trader Joe's based on the label "Healthy" as I am looking at their carb counts and protein counts, not what would traditionally be considered healthy. So, I guess I do look at the labels so that's good but thanks for the head's up.
@theslightedgeforever I don't do well when I am hungry either, I did try it. I tried the tricks that I read about, I tried distraction, I tried drinking salt water, it just didn't work out for me. I used this recipe for Chicken Shawarma it turned out really good (all that oil doesn't end up in the chicken, most of it stays in the Instant Pot): https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/instant-pot-chicken-shawarma/ I saw that Amazon had great deals on IPs on Prime day, I wish I could take on another pot, I'd love to have 2! Slushy drinks sound refreshing.
@TeresaW1020 I do, too. Lots of stuff to get. I do read the labels, I don't pay attention to claims. Wow, congrats on the new home!!! That's really exciting. Good luck selling your current home.
@its_cleo Yes, it's tough, but I'll figure it out. Since you are using different muscles to sprint, have you been sore?
Hello gals. I have pretracked my day today. I didn't make the chicken shawarma on Saturday, I just marinated it then, but I made it last night and it was really good. I paired it with homemade hummus and a greek salad and pita (I'm having carbs...sometimes). It was really good.
EMPOWERED.
July goals: track 6 out of 7 days, drink 100 oz of liquids a day, lose 2 lbs0 -
GM everyone
@trooworld - Great on your tracking
@teresaw1020 - Sorry yes the comment was meant for you - Big Drama Lama here, so I am not fully with it but am maintaining my IF and I did not go to alcohol in the open window (big change for me)
@theslightedgeforever - Sorry to hear about your AC, glad it is fixed now. yes it seems we all have this perfectionism bug - I am working on it too
Take care
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