NON WW & WW NEWBIES, OUR NEW LIFE, THE START OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL
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@theslightedgeforever yeah thanks glad to be out of the hole. I was trying to tell myself not to worry about weight loss for a while but I guess I wasn't happy that way either - I just wanted to keep moving forward. Air fryers are sounding pretty good then! I will probably be getting one soon.
@trooworld yeah IF can be hard, no doubt about it. That's why I always thought I could never do it. Wow, the Ninja sounds cool with all those features!
@cbabie Oh really? Well that's one less unhealthy category of foods you have to worry about, lol. I do love certain fried foods, especially fried chicken.
Well, I'm on day 6 of IF. 18:6 schedule, with fasts starting at 4 pm, so nights are hungry. I just remind myself that I'm not denying myself, I'm just delaying, but it's still tough. And the scale has been up for the past 2 days after being down for the first 4. Trying to just stay motivated by all the amazing progress pictures from the IF groups on Reddit and FB.0 -
Morning all, I didn't eat well yesterday..one of the mindsets I have to change is that I cook and make sure everyone has something to eat and then I eat left overs or fix myself a sandwich (PB) just to take the hunger pains away. Plus I haven't tracked in 2 days..so I. know that is another thing I need to keep working at.
@trooworld Yea on the loss. I am so happy for you and don't think just because you were wearing black you don't look like you are losing weight...take the compliment and know that your hard work is showing...
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@senoritafloridita I think that's why I never fasted at night...I would never make it. I used to only eat after 4pm and at that time I was also off my sugar foods...it worked, but then my life changed and it no longer worked for me. You will find what works for you...we all struggle and we find it then life changes and we have to look again..it's a journey. LOL.
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@trooworld Yes I am tracking. I keep going over by a couple hundred calories each day so that part isn't working. So focus is needed there this week. Yaaay on your 5 lbs. It showed up on my scale.
@cbabie You've been saying for a while now you are going to make those breakfast burritos. lol So first step is do you have all the ingredients in your house? So how to change your mindset on feeding every one else first? Then answer is fill your plate first. Then fill baby girl's plate. Then the rest can fill their plates. If they get hungry, then they can eat leftovers or a PB sandwich. Can you do that one time this week and report back to us?
@senoritafloridita Hang in there on your IF. It sounds like you are doing great.
42 min walk today. I'm going to be focusing on stretching this week. Ask me if I stretched. I was thinking today, what can I do this week that I wasn't doing last week? So I chose that. My joints are back to hurting and I think because I quit my stretching the past couple of months.0 -
@senoritafloridita My husband does OMAD fasting (one meal a day) and has for a year or so now. He loves it, he does very well on it and has lost a lot of weight between his eating and his working out. I know it works! Yes, Ninja is awesome, this is our second one!
@cbabie You need to put yourself in that priority category with the rest of your family. You deserve a healthy meal. Thanks about the loss and the compliment!
@theslightedgeforever That's good you are tracking. I'm sorry about your gain. You are doing great with exercise. Did you stretch yesterday?
Hi all. I think that 5 lb loss is just my body getting back to its set weight. I think 225 is about where my body wants to be. I don't mean to be a downer about it but there it is. I need to push my body to lose more. Today, my husband and I are going to a musical (The Outsiders, yes based on the book) and then a really good Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant. My husband went to this restaurant with his sister a few months back and loved it so I've been wanting to go. I had a hard time making reservations but got them. I'm excited.
Water yesterday: 50 oz
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@trooworld So how about see if you can get your setpoint down to 220. I think if we slowly lower the thermostat our bodies would just get used to it. My normal seems to be around 200-202. Although I'm now 5 above that with that recent gain. No I didn't stretch yesterday but I just finished for today. So onto tomorrow. How was the restaurant? How's the puppy? I would have loved that musical.
@gemwolf110 I just saw you lost some more weight. Your plan is working. Woohoo!
I had an interesting thing happen today. I was having a little pity party saying to myself why won't this work. Then thought, I can't give up. Cause that doesn't do any good. Then I went to read a book on my Kindle and a book that I know I didn't click on was now at the front of my library. Hm...... So I thought well I'll count at the days and see what day I should be on. Day 90. So I open it up and this was the first line. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas A. Edison
Take a lesson from Thomas Edison today. If you want to achieve your biggest dreams, then you must practice turning failure into success. How can you use the knowledge you’ve gained from things that don’t work? What can you do differently the next time around? What did you learn from the experience? You never fail if you learn from your mistakes.
Harvey, Jason. SPARK: 365 Daily Tasks Empowering YOU to Live Your Best Life! (p. 90). Kindle Edition.
So that was my message from God today. Cause I know I did not click on that book but I was meant to read and share that message.
20 min Dance with Ben on Apple Fitness+ 20 min stretching
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@gemwolf110 Hi nice to "see" you!
@theslightedgeforever That's a good idea to aim for 220. Thanks. That's good you stretched yesterday. That will surely help you. The restaurant: the food was phenomenal. Have you heard of the word "umami"? That is how I would describe it in general...just magic in your mouth. They specialize in dumplings, there is a window looking into the kitchen where you can see all of these workers making loads of dumplings. And those dumplings were indeed special. We had one kind called "soup dumplings" which when you bit into them, soup broth came out along with what was inside the dumpling. We tried 5 small orders of things, one of which was a plate of garlic green beans and that was really yummy. It is a chain restaurant, which surprised me that it won such a big prestigious award being a chain, and the decor is just okay but that keeps the prices down. It wasn't too bad price-wise. The puppy is really good. We had a private obedience lesson on Thursday and she did really well. She learns really quickly and is very food motivated. I think she will be a star. We are going to do group training in a couple of weeks. That musical was really amazing. I hope it starts traveling (this was the world premiere here in SD), it was really good and they did some interesting things/effects with the set. The cast was really talented. It was a touching story, of course. I highly recommend it. Ooh interesting about the Kindle book! Good lesson. Thanks for that motivation.
Hi all. Had an amazing experience at the musical and restaurant (see above). Although my husband ticked me off before the musical: I told him we had to leave at 1:15 no later to get there on time. We needed time to get there, park in a parking structure, and take a shuttle. I didn't want to be late and get locked out of the musical. What does he do? He takes a nap and doesn't set an alarm. I go in there at 12:35 and wake him up. I tell him they recommend getting there 20-30 minutes early. I say he needs to get up. He lays in bed with the dogs for another 10 minutes. By the time we get there and get parked and get on the shuttle, it is 1:55pm, the show starts in 5 minutes. We got there 1 minute before the show started. He said I said that we needed to be there 10-20 minutes ahead of time. I know what I said. I said to him, "As nervous as I am, do you really think I would say 10 minutes early?" I was so mad, we almost go locked out.
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@trooworld Umami: I think my Japanese friend mentioned the word to me. I know I've heard of it. I think I would like watching them make dumplings. I'm like you. I like to get my seat early and just sit and look at my phone if I have too. Hubby and son are like well as long we get there before the show starts. It will always take longer for parking or the entrance line than you think I tell them. Which is why I go with my dd for things like this. She's like me. Actually she's worse than me. Yaaay on your water.
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@theslightedgeforever I would have liked to watch them make the dumplings but we passed it on the way to get seated so I couldn't stop. Exactly, always get there early just in case. My husband never listens.
I'm glad you can go with your dd to things. I have no choice lol. Thanks, water was horrible yesterday though. 
I can feel my hands are swollen.
Hi all. I spent yesterday cooking spaghetti sauce, it took 6 hours to make! Then I made meatballs for the sauce but I liked the sauce a lot better than the meatballs. I didn't do much else.
Water yesterday: 25 oz
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Morning all, I am trying 21 D Fix, I am so big on rules, I am trying this to see if it will help change my mindset on what I am eating and what is acceptable. I do know that it's most likely something I won't choose as my lifestyle, but you never know. I like my sweets and PB too much. However, if it helps me incorporate more veggies and less carbs..I have to try it. I can't believe Easter will be here next Sunday. We are starting a 2nd qtr for this year...I think I was sick the whole 1st qtr. So glad to be over Covid, back is better..I Just know to be careful and not believe I am a 25 year old gymnast. LOL
@trooworld I am like your DH and my DH is like you...I just want to get there in time..I hate to be early. I was raised to be early and I think this is my push the limits part of me LOL. Glad you got there on time and enjoyed it. Oh I love Dumplings..my granny made the best..I don't know how she made them and I am sure it was not healthy but..
@theslightedgeforever Funny how those "things" just POP up at the right time.. You can't quit, who would nudge me forward? LOL
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@cbabie Maybe you are someone that needs structure in your diet? Good luck, I hope it helps you. I'm glad you are feeling better all around. HAHAHA you and I would be a mess together! It makes me so anxious to be either on time or late. Dumplings...these weren't the kind I think you are thinking of? They had an Asian sauce and meat inside. Is that what you were thinking of? When you say your granny made them, I'm thinking of either chicken and dumplings or apple dumplings which I just love both.
Hi all. I did a lot of walking around yesterday at work. That's good. I also drank a decent amount of water. Dinner was healthy: a Skinnytaste recipe for an artichoke quiche. It was okay but I think a different cheese should be used.
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Hi all. Nothing to report today except that the tracking did not stick. The biggest roadblock with tracking for me is that, since I eat meals I make myself, I have to manually add my recipes rather than just look it up in an app. It wouldn't be too bad if I could add the recipes on my computer but, with Healthi, you can only do it in the phone app. It's kind of a pain. I do better when I add the recipes all at once after I make my meal plan rather than waiting for the day of to try to do it.
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Morning all, sorry I didn't check in yesterday...wasn't a great day. The 21 D fix is not my cup of tea. However, it gives me ideas on how to tweak what I like to eat into some better choices. It is just too restrictive as I don't really like a lot of the foods listed. They are tearing up our road and the whole house is shaking...should be fun today.
@trooworld Yes I think sometimes if it's too complicated we just won't do it. Simple is a good motto..find a simple solution and it will work. LOL You are right, I was not thinking of those kind of dumplings..I just like carbs...LOL.
@theslightedgeforever Yes I have been saying that forever...I will get to it. If I can't get it done first thing before anyone gets up, it seems it won't get done in this house.
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@cbabie Sorry about your not-so-great day. That's good you learned something from the 21D fix even if it wasn't for you. Oh dear, the construction doesn't sound fun. I love carbs, too lol.
Hi all. I decided for now, if I don't feel like adding a recipe, I will find something as similar as possible that is already in the tracker database. It won't be the most accurate but it will be something. Yesterday, I did track. I also drank a decent amount of water. If it weren't for the chocolate bar and smallish cupcake I ate, it would have been a good day.
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Hi, went to the Dr yesterday and no different news. Just a follow up and he wants me to take my BP every day..good news was the machine I was using runs high. So I bought a new one and will have them double check that, but there was a 20 point difference between the 2 today. I will take the new one.. LOL. I have a big to do list today. I am hoping to accomplish something. we went from in the mid 60's to almost mid 80's today (well that 's what the weather forecast says.. This is how we get sick. LOL
@trooworld I laughed about the chocolate bar and cupcake..mine is, if I just didn't like carbs so much I would have a good day..LOL. I think we should change our mindset and say, this. I enjoyed my chocolate bar and my cupcake and had a good day. Tomorrow will be better with only half of each. LOL
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Quick check in: Hubby and I walked yesterday 45 and today for 40 min. My VO2max has improved the last two weeks so that's good.
Hope everyone is doing well.
@retiredandlovingit None of those tornados hit close to you did they? I was watching the weather.0 -
@cbabie Wow that's a big difference. I'm glad you got a new machine, I hope it checks out okay. Yeah our weather was a bit wacky too. I was working but I stopped at one point to walk the dogs and man, it was nice out. It's supposed to be nice today, too, I think. LOL same here, cbabie, I love carbs! Yes, I did enjoy both and it would have been better if I had half lol.
@theslightedgeforever That's great, good for both of you. Congrats on your VO2max number improvement!
Hi all. We are having something good tonight for dinner: grilled Halloumi wraps. Have you heard of Halloumi cheese? It's called grilling cheese because it's really easy to grill and delicious. You get it at an international or middle eastern store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloumi
Water yesterday: 75 oz
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Hello all. The grilled Halloumi wraps were so good. I sort of did my own thing with the recipe. Today is going to be a busy day: I have a lot of errands and the obedience training instructor suggested we bring Violet to the park where they are doing dog training and just walk around that area to see how she does. Oh, we officially adopted Violet last night!
Water yesterday: 50 oz
My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."
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Hi everyone. Been ages - sorry. Up and down still here, but exercise has been good except the last two days cause I’m on holidays again (3weeks). Leave tomorrow to visit family so food will be anyone’s guess. Drank water intentionally today though and didn’t snack except for the scheduled cake, and I ate a bowl of veggies with feta for both lunch and dinner.
Had a quick skim only, @trooworld I love halloumi! Salads, hamburgers, crackers - it goes with everything. Kids call it “squeaky cheese 😁.
I made the same decision about my trip - I’m going to try to track based on the closest thing I can find in the app - I never get past lunch with tracking cause i never use recipes and it’s too tedious and time consuming to plug everything in. But I figure approximate tracking is better than none at all, so I’ll intend to get back into the swing of that while I’m away and not having to do the actual cooking part.
Am off to bed now - hope you all are having a good day 👋
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Moning all, I had a terrible day yesterday with my food, but today is another day to give it a try. Didn't walk and should of it was so nice out. Let's face it, I am just not an outdoor person...however you couldn't tell it by my skin...lots of sun spots/age spots. LOL
@trooworld You dinner plate looks yummy...if it were my food, it would be just dumped and not arranged. LOL. Congratulations on the adoption.
@Tamevv Good to hear from you, yea on the exercise. Enjoy your holiday!! Get rested and relaxed and ready to start again.
@theslightedgeforever yea you are walking!!!
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36 min walk: done
@trooworld I love halloumi cheese. Probably not any cheese I don't like.
@tamevv On tracking, if I don't know I find something similar and then choose the middle calories. That really seems to work for me.
@cbabie You are not an outdoor person...YET but you could be. So many fun things to do outdoors. How about taking the kids to the park? Swimming..... Playing kickball in the side yard. So many outdoor possibilities. Biking...... Do you have a zoo nearby? That's outdoor fun. Lots of steps and movement.0 -
Hello everyone! I am a former weight watchers coach that got laid off after the sequence acquisition and I have just recently got back to my fitness pal to help me stay accountable. I am not struggling with a major amount of weight to lose, but after being a coach for so long and having that to hold me accountable I feel like I was starting to let myself go from depression and unexpected change. But nonetheless I am back here and I feel so much better after seeing the pounds drop and being able to fine tune my macros0
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@cbabie Today IS another day to try again. Get out there, cbabie! Yeah, dinner was yummy. Oh I didn't really arrange it, at least not on purpose. I was too hungry to do that! LOL Thank you.
@theslightedgeforever I'm the same way, I love cheese.
@ravynpearce Hi there! I'm sorry about the layoff, that stinks. Welcome to our little home on the internet, I hope you like it here! I was on WW for years and years but finally, just quit. I'm now using Healthi to track. I come here for accountability.
Hi all. Today is a busy day, I am donating blood and have to make a strawberry pie with homemade pie crust to bring to my brother-in-law's for Easter brunch/lunch. I don't know how I'm going to get it done with my blood donation in the middle. I may reschedule it. I tracked yesterday although I had to go back and track dinner. Happy Easter, to those that celebrate!
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@ravynpearce Welcome to the group! You will be able to provide your wisdom and support to us as we support you.
@trooworld Yaay on your tracking. Can you get at least 51 oz of water tomorrow?
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@theslightedgeforever I love the sign, did you see it somewhere or was this on the internet? Thanks. Yes, I can get at least 51 oz, I will start by drinking 25 oz on the way to work (that always starts my day off right). How are you?
Hi all. Well I made a beautiful crust for my strawberry pie and it slid off the table (I had it on a slippery glass trivet cooling) and fell on the floor, half falling out of the pie pan. So, luckily, I had a frozen pie crust in the freezer and used that. Not as good but oh well. I did reschedule my blood donation to next weekend. I didn't track yesterday.
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Happy Easter!!! Been having issues trying to get into forums.0
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@gemwolf110 You are not alone. It's been very slow to load. I hope you had a great Easter!
Hi all. I seem to have some sort of a stomach bug but I have to go to work anyway. I may leave work early if I can't get it under control. I drank more water yesterday than the day before, so that's good.
Water yesterday: 60 oz
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