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Just can’t seem to keep things under control this week 😡😢🫤😒🙄🤦♀️
I have at least made an effort at tracking the past few days and water has been good. Exercise is going strong but food choices are letting me down. *sigh*. Tomorrow is another day.0 -
Morning all, I did track yesterday and stayed within my calories. I am still kind of fighting nausea, but otherwise sore back and trying to make life work.
@trooworld I had to laugh when you said you were going to the zoo, I said TO MYSELF, now I know why I don't like to go to the zoo...I live in one. (in reality I just don't like animals). I know who doesn't like to go to the zoo... I hope you have a good time!!!!
@tamevv Yes tomorrow is another day and so is the next day..LOL. The good thing is that you keep trying...that is baby steps to being successful!!
Sorry gotta run...baby crying
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TODAY IS THE DAY!!!
I did a hard workout this morning, sun is shining, day activities with my youngest - NO MORE CRAP!!!
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Morning all, still fighting the back issues and then add nausea to it...so much fun I am having. I did track yesterday and was a little over my calorie goal. The good news is that I stopped there, I could have EASILY went to the kitchen and ate more comfort food...LOL
@trooworld Yea on the loss and so glad you got to enjoy your pup with other pups. Sounds like it was a relaxing time.
@Tamevv You are on point!!
Cbabie
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Yesterday was a success - finally a breakthrough. Scale showed a gain this week but the way things had been going it had to come eventually. I still feel like I’m on dangerous ground food-wise so hoping to stay focused this week. I have increased the height of my step for workouts and I’m on 97 days of closing all my watch rings. I’ve done a bit more strength work this week and generally feeling good physically. But I’m actually really hungry right now so am off for breakfast. Have a great weekend everyone 👋0
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This will be really quick since I need to go play cards with my dd. This will be the first time since I got back home. I had a friendsgiving dinner last night with some friends. Very healthy meal actually. We opted for roast beef since everyone will be having turkey for Thanksgiving. Then some wonderful roasted vegetables and salad and biscuits. Dessert was pecan pie with homemade ice cream. I usually don't like that kind of pie cause it's too sweet but the ice cream helped with that. I was over for the day by 165 cals.
Oh well, moving on. oh just remembered the butter on the biscuits. Good thing I didn't put the jam on like I wanted to.
So back to business.0 -
Hi, I used to do WW and was on the boards there before they got taken down. Would love to follow along here. Been on Nutrisystem for 29 days now, it’s the only thing in years that’s working! Hope everybody’s having a good Saturday.0
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Okay, so it’s 6:30pm and I have to burn another 200cals to close my rings. One or two days away from the 100 day streak. Pretty determined, but also have had a couple of glasses of wine which is very unusual - I’m pretty much a non-drinker but just felt like it today. Anyway so am about to have family TV time them bedtime routines. Can see myself on the bloomin elliptical at 8:30 tonight trying to get it done. Stay tuned……0
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@senoritafloridita. Hi!! 👋👋0
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@senoritafloridita Welcome to the group. I'm glad you have found something that works for you.
@Tamevv Hooray on reaching for your 100 day streak. Did you get it? I had to look up what closing the rings meant Found it. You made me laugh with the word bloomin
@trooworld That's crazy with the prices of food. How are you doing on your exercise? That will be my challenge to conquer this week.
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@theslightedgeforever yep, got it done 👍After telly time all the kids went to quiet reading so I jumped on and did 20mins which was enough to get me over the line. Rings closed - what a good girl I am 😊. Course, while I was stepping the thought did cross my mind that I would have another hundred and something calories to play with and could have dessert ….. I’m not sure that’s how it’s sposed to work😂. Had a low cal frozen yoghurt and finished up about a hundred calories over budget. Not too bad considering the wine-factor.
@trooworld It’s kind of novel to have an external “reward” motivating me - usually I could not care less about this “streak” business, but apparently it’s working so who am I to argue? Maybe it’s a flow on from all the numbers I pay attention to now - not only calories and scale but also mini things like “I’ll go until I hit X minutes” or “another 50 calories on my watch”. I like round numbers 😊
Will be lots of sweets on offer at work today so will have to have stay focused on the bigger picture for myself. Im glad we don’t do thanksgiving here - there are enough temptations around as it is. Hope you all gave a fantastic week though 😁0 -
@senoritafloridita. Hi!! 👋👋
Hey!
Did a 3 mile run/walk with my son in the freezing cold today. Was extra hungry when I got back so I had one extra snack - glad I didn’t turn it into a pig-out. (My son and I are both doing Nutrisystem.)
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Morning all, I am sorry it's been a rough weekend. I am still nauseous and still have the back issues. I am not in the "I can't breathe pain" any more, but still hurts especially by the end of day. I am going to try to sit as much as possible today..I don't see exercise in my future for a bit. I am trying to stretch my back and legs when I can. Food wise, I am okay sort of, at least I am tracking, I had a little bit of a binge last night, ate 2 cups of ice cream instead of just 1. My system is just out of whack. I seem to have a canker sore in my mouth, I was getting ready to get into the shower today and saw dried blood on my hand and wondered who was bleeding and was going to check to see if the baby was the one...and cleaned my hand off and realized it was me...I had a TINY cut on my hand and it was bleeding like I had cut it big...UGH, I just have done nothing I needed to get done this weekend...got to get better...I hate sitting...
@trooworld Yes food is crazy right now...that's why I am in the "depression" type person...waste not want not...LOL. My grand daughter won't eat left overs and I am like well.... My DH and I could eat whatever to just not feel hungry...I know we should be eating for nutrition...but sometimes LOL
@tamevv yea for you! I am like my sister you made me laugh at the word bloomin...LOL. You are on a roll and I am so happy for you!!!
@theslightedgeforever uhm...Mom's favorite pie...I NEVER EVER liked pecan pie. Glad you could eat it. Hope the game with dd was fun and you won...but I am sure you didn't. LOL
@senoritafloridita welcome.. I think most of us have done WW on here and did their boards...I hope you like this one and find the encouragement and fellowship that we all need here. Glad you found something that is working for you. I am fighting 11 lbs. for over a year now. LOL.
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@tamevv Woohoo on closing your rings. I chose to start counting calories burned via exercise versus exercise minutes because I could stretch 30 min and say I'm done. It's good for flexibility but not so good for getting a calorie deficit. Now I'm struggling with my 300 burned calories, so I'm going to have to find me a little game or something. Streaks don't do anything for me either although I have a huge streak going on here for logging in that I don't want to break.
@senoritafloridita Way to go on your walk/run. Especially in the cold. That's great that you and your son are supporting each other through this. That makes it so much easier.
@trooworld You got in a bit of exercise so good for you. Which meals are you struggling with? I have my exercise plan, it's just following it. I did do a 15 min video today so far.
I've had cravings for beans. I made chili yesterday with cornbread and today I had cannellini beans over the left over cornbread.
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@trooworld That's cool you're making crafts for Christmas - sounds like a fun way to keep busy. I wish I did more crafts. And "Ready Thy Fat Pants" indeed! We always have a treat meal on Fridays but of course we're moving it to Thursday this week!
@cbabie - oh that's awful, I hope you feel better soon! And glad to have found you guys. Definitely helps with weight loss journeys to have other people along for the ride with you.
@theslightedgeforever thanks, yes I'm glad my son is working out and dieting with me. Hopefully we will be doing a half-marathon together. And we both like Nutrisystem. It is just so nice to be able to grab food and not cook, and have it actually taste decent. I have found that as much as I like cooking, I just don't have the energy for it every day. I relate on the cravings for beans - I love a good chili.
Well my throat got really sore yesterday so today I went to the urgent care. Negative for step but they still sent tests out for the flu/Covid. Should know tomorrow. Today was a DOR (day of rest as we used to say on the old WW running board). Hope I can keep working out and not get waylaid with sickness.0 -
@senoritafloridita I always hate when I'm going along good with my habits and then I get sick and it disrupts me. Sometimes it takes a bit for me to jump back on the train.
@trooworld So what can you eat that doesn't require cooking? You might be thinking I'm not in a mood to cook "dinner" or I don't have the energy or time right now. But you could make sandwiches, eat a bowl of cereal or oats, etc. Same thing for lunch. So instead of one meal for bad decisions, it's now two. I hope you aren't thinking it's Thanksgiving so this week will be a wash anyway. I'll start again after Thanksgiving. But then the holiday parties start and then it's close to Christmas and then you might as well wait until the new year comes and 5 weeks of bad choices can easily be 5-8 lbs back on your body. Thanksgiving is one day this week that leaves 6 other days to make good choices. Or you can even look at it as meals. Give yourself permission to eat what you want for your T-day meal but then the other meals that day are made up of good choices. This is what I'm telling myself. I hadn't done well the past two days and this must stop now. Fill us in on your "new weigh" once you have a webinar. Tell us what you learned.
So I exercised more than yesterday. That's good. I figured out a way to do something like "close the rings" without an Apple Watch. There's a app called Done and it has a straight line that fills up to the end so I set up two habits. #1-300 burned calories via exercise 5 days a week. #2-say no to food pushers. at least once a day if the opportunity presents itself. Remember how well I did last week with the donut? I put it in the freezer for about 4 days? Same situation happened again yesterday and I ate it within 30 min of receiving it. I don't know why I can do so well one time and then not the other. Today's "no" was I made hash brown triangles for breakfast in the air fryer. Hubby decides today that he doesn't want them so he puts them on MY plate. Food pusher. I look at them and then decide I'm going to give them to my caregiver for my mil. So they are gone and crisis averted. I'm also working on the habit to stay within my calorie boundaries for the day. Missed it the past two days.
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@trooworld I hear you on holiday mode. Good luck with your New Weigh webinar. Thanks for the well wishes - doctor gave me some steroids for my throat which definitely helped.
@theslightedgeforever That sounds like a good app, Done. Used to work with a lot of food pushers. Got one at church on Sunday when they had a birthday party. I said "I'll just have some fruit" but then they still asked if I wanted cake.
Still waiting for the flu/covid results from the urgent care - should have them by tomorrow. Hope the family TG will still be a go for me. Don't feel too bad at least. Luckily I stuck to the plan and my son and I did our regular workout.0 -
@senoritafloridita Yaay on getting in your workout. I hope your throat feels better soon.
@trooworld Definitely eat the leftovers but you can still control your portion sizes. I can't believe another leak. How stressful for you! So think about it like this. This is one week in 52. Get through it and then move on recommitting yourself to your program.
I attended a webinar with that 5-0 lady. It was about journaling. Here are some notes I took
Habit/feeling/thought
Journaling gives you self awareness
Self awareness in small doses over time get you to the place
where you can solve problems and feel better
YOU ARE NOT your thoughts your feelings your actions
find your thoughts and decide if they are helpful or unhelpful
Ask your self a question.
Write uncensored
Add I think before your thoughts that you have written down- they are not a fact or a truth but an opinion, a thought
Look for and Find the feeling is it good or bad
Write helpful or unhelpful
Let your brain do the rest
Anything your brain answers is a thought
Keep phrases short to help find the feelings and thoughts
One sentence per line
Helpful thoughts move you towards your goal
Unhelpful thoughts move you away from your goal
The automatic thoughts are usually the ones that are not helpful and the one that you need to find.
These are the ones that is keeping you from getting to your goal.
Yesterday I did 31 min of exercise.0 -
For those that are not celebrating, I hope you have a really good day.
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Morning all, I l am sorry I haven't been active on here this past week...I am still sitting here at my desk with a heating pad...taking 800 mil IBU as often as I can...I tried Tylenol...NOT, I have tried Alieve NOT, I have tried nothing.. Some times you just gotta go with the flow. We had Thanksgiving at my oldest daughters house...my eggs would not peel...it was awful and my back was hurting so bad I almost threw them across the room..LOL. Well we made the sides here, took them there. Played word search, Pictionary, and a game where you write what it tells you, noun, adjective...etc. and it creates a story.. It was fun..got home and my daughter text me...I forgot to open the instant pot (it had the mashed potatoes in it) AND we forgot to take the eggs out of the fridge when we ate..all in all it was a good day. She told me the eggs were good..but some didn't look so pretty.. LOL
@trooworld I am so sorry you are fighting this leak again...I am sure I would have had a few choice words too. I bet your home will be beautiful with your decorations...you are so creative.
@senoritafloridita It's nice to have a partner to work with on this journey. My grandson and I used to do that until he moved to Alaska..LOL. So glad to see you on here and engaging. I think the more we do that the better success we have and we feel so much better on our good and bad days. I hope your test come back negative...it is awful to be sick.
@theslightedgeforever I laugh when I read your post, you are always doing webinars, podcasts, reading...I am glad you do, then I don't have to. LOL You can just pass on the highlights. I think next time I see your DH, I will say Hi, food pusher..LOL Just kidding...Just know he is thinking of you when he does those things. LOL. I liked you passed on to MIL..that's why me and baby girl "share" things. LOL
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Hi everyone, I’ve been kind of drafting a post for a few days - the gist of it is this:
@trooworld Your fat pants comment made me scoff out loud 😁. But it is something I am definitely NOT going to do. It did prompt me to be thinking about how I plan to tackle the holiday season, and made me realise I want this - where I am now - to be the top end of where I fluctuate. The last couple of weeks I have kind of been maintaining in my mind i guess. I made it to my first goal and sort of went - now lests see if I can stay there and just live. Of course I’ve still been wanting to lose - I still have 20kg to be considered “healthy” but that has never in my life been attainable - even when I was practicing unhealthy habits. ….. it is now a day or so later - I don’t really know, I’m losing track. Things are busy and I’m feeling overwhelmed and unappreciated. However, I keep plugging along with exercise. It was timely to hear the instructor of the step class I do say she is still considered “obese” according to common norms - It actually made me cry on the spot 😔.
Anyway, so I think for the next 2 months I will focus on living to make this my new normal. If I can maintain till work starts back next year I’ll start fresh and move into a new loss focus. At least that’s where my thinking is for now. If I can lose another 5kg in that time I will be super proud of myself.
I’ve gone bush on my own today. Done some work and some walking and cooked lunch over fire which was peaceful and satisfying. Now slow roasting a banana stuffed with chocolate to have with a cup of tea. This day has been sooooo needed ☺️.
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@theslightedgeforever. I really like your list and wholeheartedly endorse personal journaling. Sometimes I can’t figure out what is going on in my head till I start writing - journaling forces you to put it into words and that enables you to make sense of it. Thoughts and emotions just flying round and round bumping into each other is confusing and exhausting. Journaling is always cathartic for me - even when the things I realise are not what I wanted or expected them to be 😊
@trooworld Sorry to hear about the leak - hope it is getting sorted by now? If it’s any consolation food prices are stupid over here these days too. I swing between feeling so guilty about spending so much money, and feeling proud that we still manage to feed the family healthy, tasty meals despite it. Some days I get an idea and just go buy the exact ingredients regardless of what it costs, and then I let myself enjoy the meal. But mostly I buy whatever is on sale. Some weeks it’s tempting to just feed everyone Soylent and be done with it 🙄
@cbabie What did you do with the eggs? Are they cooked a particular way for thanksgiving?
@senioritafloridita. How are you feeling now? Hope the sickness passed and that you got to enjoy Thanksgiving.
PS: I’m sitting here silently with my tea and just had a big wallaby hop past 😁.
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Good Morning!
Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 🦃🍽 been a busy few weeks. Crunch time for end of year goals with work. Getting things lined up for Christmas and starting the MBA program in January. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!
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@trooworld Your Thanksgiving sounded good. How do you butterfly a turkey? It's my favorite holiday. Of course my favorite thing is watching the Macy's parade waiting for Santa.
@cbabie Sounds like a good fun day you had. Try salting the water before you boil the eggs. I read that once and it worked for me. I listen to podcasts when I clean. Occasionally at the gym when I'm lifting weights.
@Tamevv You know in America everyone is so fat that it almost makes it "normal" and acceptable. You can buy plus sizes everywhere. Sometimes in 3X. But that doesn't make it a good healthy thing. I think it just makes it harder. I think it's a good thought to try and maintain a bit of where you are and then try and start again. 1) I think it tricks the body as the body is always trying to keep your weight at a certain level (setpoint) 2) You are practicing maintenance skills for when the time comes and you are at your final goal. Slow roasted banana....trying to imagine that. Is it like roasting marshmallows? ooh a wallaby. Sounds so peaceful just out in nature. I just looked up and my mil is watching National Geographic and a wallaby was on the TV. Maybe a kangaroo? Oh they just said kangaroo birth control. LOL I guess wallabies are smaller.
Interesting observation: I just reread my post to Tamevv and I put an awful lot of I think in there. I think my journaling practicing is bleeding over to these posts......
So I have done some thinking myself and trying to figure out the best course of action to get in my exercise. I was doing fine at dd's house going to the gym consistently at 3:30. For some reason, I can't do that at my house. So I'm going to try and do it first thing in the mornings. I opted to wake up an hour earlier so I can still have my journaling/meditation time. I had to swap around my "ideal day" in my calendar and I'm hoping this will work. No scratch that. I'm going to make this work. I will begin on Monday as I take off on Sundays.
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@trooworld Love the color of blue on your walls. It makes the silver snowflakes just pop
@gemwolf110 So excited for you to begin your MBA journey in January. Add some plans in there for your health journey. Are you the kind to stress eat or not?
This was a nice article I read.
https://livinglikeleila.com/focus-on-creating-systems-rather-than-setting-goals/
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@trooworld Wow that's awful about the upstairs leak and how uncooperative the unit owner is. Glad you enjoyed the TG meal. That is such a cute dress Daisy has on!
@theslightedgeforever From your notes, seems like that was a good webinar.
@cbabie Hope you're feeling better. Glad you had a nice TG. Thanks for the well wishes.
@Tamevv That's good you're keeping up with exercise and that sounds like a nice lunch over the fire. Sounds like you're in Australia?
I was able to make it to family TG. Covid/flu tests were negative but my energy got wiped out. I will probably have to take it easy and recover this weekend. At least I got back on plan with Nutrisystem after TG. It was a good meal. Met some of hubby's family who had flown up from New Zealand.0 -
@theslightedgeforever. Yep wallabies essentially look just like a small kangaroo - about knee height at rest and they can stretch up a bit when alert. Here in Tassie we also have a Pademelon which is smaller again and similar in general appearance but face is kinda different and back legs aren’t as prominent. They are both really common everywhere in Tas, but its still nice to see them out and about 😊. Yesterdays wildlife included echidna, wallaby, deer, pademelon, lizards, yellow tailed black cockatoos (not rare like the reds but still nice to see up close) and some new tiny orchids I had not seen before. Also the bumble bees were out in force which I love hearing hover about. They are so fluffy and cute - we call them teddybear bees 😁. No snakes out yet but next month will have to be on watch for them. I do love it. And yes @trooworld, just literally bush - we have a pocket of native bush in the highlands where we camp and relax. Cant wait till we have time to stay more than a day. Oh banana - super easy dessert for one - leave banana in skin, slit end to end and stuff some chocolate in the slice (anything that will melt, have even done it with Kit Kat) and sit it on the hot rocks around the fire or near the embers once you are done cooking - not too hot so it will burn but just enough heat to warm it till the chocolate melts. Eat with a fork right out of the skin 😁.
I am a big fan of exercise first thing. I make sure my clothes are ready to go before bed even though I often feel like there is not way I’m getting up for it in the morning. But regardless how I go to bed, I always wake up and feel like I can do it. Almost always - I think I’ve missed a handful since September. Lately it has seemed a bit of a chore but I just go through the motions and get it done. And I always feel good about it after.
I read the article you linked to, and liked it - thanks. I always try to add the “how” part to my goals - it’s all well and good to know where you want to end up, but it’s the getting there part that people struggle with. It reminded me again of the idea of doing things for your future self - caring for and nurturing her and setting her up for success. That idea from No Zero Days really stuck with me and I use that thinking often - what does the me i want to be next year need me to do now in order for her to exist?
@senioritafloridita Yep, Sunny Tasmania 😊. Not too far from New Zealand, but I’ve never been there. Maybe one day. I’m told it is beautiful.0 -
theslightedgeforever wrote: »I missed a whole page of comments somehow.
@trooworld Love the color of blue on your walls. It makes the silver snowflakes just pop
@gemwolf110 So excited for you to begin your MBA journey in January. Add some plans in there for your health journey. Are you the kind to stress eat or not?
This was a nice article I read.
https://livinglikeleila.com/focus-on-creating-systems-rather-than-setting-goals/
Yes I will. And yes I stress eat and boredom eat. Not a good combo.0 -
And I did get my tree decorated with lights. Still have to put ornaments on. But making progress want to go all out this year but don’t know if I have time to put everything out
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