NON WW & WW NEWBIES, OUR NEW LIFE, THE START OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL
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Running late, will try to pop in and tell you how I am not winning, LOL oh who needs to hear that. So maybe it's better I am out of time.
@trooworld it's the 7 day beyond diet program..I am just too hungry, so trying to figure it out.
Cbabie0 -
trooworld I'm glad you got some new shoes. Keeps your feet healthy so you can exercise. How is that part of your journey going?
cbabie What if you wrote your own program? Oh wait didn't I say that the other day? You are listening but are you hearing ;P
I finally got on the treadmill for 40 min. I need to get working on my strength training. Food is so-so but pretty good. Overall I'm pleased and hope to lose my lb this week.0 -
Morning all ( all 3 of us) LOL
I bombed, I know exactly where I went wrong...
@theslightedgeforever This 7 day program is specific to certain foods working together to help move the weight and change your behavior. So when I start making my own..not a good thing. So today I try again...I keep trying until I stop failing... glad you got on the treadmill..I am making my way there in about 20 min.
@trooworld yea on the shoes, I need some new ones. Mine have to be at least 5-6 years old. I have always been a miser on shoes.
Funny someone in my family told me that it's because I am a(maiden name here) LOL He thinks my family was that way so I am..:)
Okay here is to another day of trying to get it right.
cbabie0 -
trooworld They kept raising the rent on my dad every year. His social security didn't raise every year though. I hope you aren't eating more due to stress. How about shoot for one time at the gym this week and keep up your walking on the weekends.
cbabie Hmmmm, probably true on your (maiden name). I'm like that. Although I would buy more if I could find ones I like or fit. Maybe not. lol You make up for shoes in electronics and gadgets. Mine is pillows. So keep trying til you find something that works for you.
I just started reading a book called Work Clean which is based on the concept of "mise en place". A term that chefs use for efficiency and order in their kitchens. It is taught at the Culinary Institute of America in NY It means put in place. So the book talks about how you can use this concept in every aspect of your life. Office, house, family etc. I'm excited to see how it crosses over to healthy lifestyle. As an example, students were told to dish up soup into bowls. A serving was 8 oz. One student grabbed a 2 oz. ladle and dipped four times. He asked why didn't she just grab the 8 oz ladle and dip once. Her focus was on the result: getting the soup into the bowl. But it took four times as long. She could have dished up four bowls in the same amount of time and then went on to do something else. She slowed herself and everyone else in the kitchen down which caused stress. So they discuss planning and using the right tool.
So what planning and tools are you using on your health journey?
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Morning to you all:
@trooworld I am so sorry for your stress, my mom used to always say don't borrow trouble when I would start down that path of yuck. I am learning to be less frantic and not always expect the worse...but I don't stay in that place all the time. LOL Sirens just went by, every time I hear them here at home, I cringe and say Lord, help whom ever that is for. I will be keeping you in my prayers today.
@theslightedgeforever Yes I love my gadgets..but today I don't feel like walking or working out and I am not going to. I don't know why, it's rare I feel this way, but today no... I realized this morning that the program I am trying
to do, JUST will not work for me. Like yesterday, I was all good to go but then had an unexpected luncheon at work...So I need to get back to the days where everything was okay, but in moderation. I still will not try to eat bread, I am good with open face sandwiches. I used to choose my points based on what I wanted NOT to give up. LOL Let us know about your book.
Well girls, I have to go get ready for work, I have a 9:30 I have not prepared for..
Cbabie0 -
Morning, well I didn't get on my treadmill, but I am okay with that today. I have so much to do, I am sure I will be getting my exercise in. LOL I made my breakfast and tracked. I have to force myself to track. This is the only way I will see what I am doing. I just went in and put in how much I wanted to loose a week and I had to lower my calories to 1000 to even get close. It didn't matter carbs vs protein..just calories.
@trooworld I wish my DH would do the cooking..he does only on the grill because I won't grill. I am afraid of it. Thanks for the offer of the app, but then I would have to double track. If I can't track, I know I won't double track. LOL
Well I have to make my grocery list..(yuck) and then go to where all the people are.
cbabie0 -
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Morning:
I did it, I tracked (1) whole day..LOL I feel like the toddler that says mommy I went in the pottie..LOL
Cbabie1 -
Awesome! I know how big of an accomplishment that can feel. Now make it 2 days you got this!0
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trooworld Well sorry for your coworker but good for you. That's great you didn't gain because of stress eating. Now onto this next week. You have some great tools. 70-80% is still pretty good compared to what you used to do. Remember days of 30-40%? I think we focus too much on oir shortcomings that we don't give credit to how far we've come. Are you tracking on your phone or your computer? Put the MFP app next to the app you use the most each day so it's always visible as a reminder.
cbabie Who's mommy's big girl
Actually, mom probably made you potty train yourself. lol
I think find foods you love and fit them into your plan. I'm following a pre-diabetes book and MFP for my daily calories and carbs. 1330-1417-1700 and 133g-142g-170g of carbs.
@ndevoy1 Welcome to the group.
I lost my 1 lb this week and now onto next week.
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Morning: Day 2 tracked, I remembered how I satisfied my sweet tooth in the very beginning of WW..Cantaloupe! i always had it on hand in the fridge. I cut some up yesterday and got hungry last night and went to "search" for the kill and saw that and ate a cup of it and felt satisfied!!
@theslightedgeforever yea on the loss, good for you! So it looks like you are doing 10% of your calories in carbs?
@trooworld you probably feel much better that you have made a decision about your place to live. There is something about indecision that puts a weight and a stress on us. So I am glad for you guys, now you can focus on your health!
@ndevoy1 Your right, I/we can do this!
Okay working on day 3 and time to get on my treadmill.
Cbabie0 -
cbabie I'm doing 40% of my calories in carbs the carbs is in grams. 1 gram is 4 calories. Yeah for second day of tracking. I love cantaloupe.
trooworld yeah on pretracking
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Morning, Day 3, made it. Tracked everything and kept to my goals. I did go over my carbs, but it was fruit, not starch! Yesterday was a very stressful day and I didn't go to food.
@trooworld Good for you!! I have to be careful at what I open on my browser. Work watches us and some sites are blocked...it's crazy, but that is the world I live in. So I have to do it on my phone if I am at work and want to add it right then.
@theslightedgeforever I made my "fruit" ice cream last night. 1 banana, 1/2 cup frozen strawberries, 1/2 cup of frozen cantaloupe. YUM
Okay on to day 4, I hope you all have a great day!
Cbabie0 -
Morning,
I tracked again yesterday, I was over my goal a little, but I tracked. I also got new yesterday from my blood test...all is good except..I am per-diabetic. So now the challenge begins.
@trooworld Great job in tracking everything. Good on the sleep, I didn't get much sleep, but have to be at work soon. I am going to go walk and get ready for work.
Cbabie0 -
Hi Everyone
Haven't been here for a few days. Very busy in my garden with this absolutely beautiful weather. Supposed to change back to rainy as of tomorrow so one more day in the yard today plus I'll have my little granddaughters this afternoon so a recipe for a good day ahead.
This has been a challenging week. We were away on a little golf holiday last week and I managed to do ok but for some reason having a tough time getting back on track. The cals and carbs are ok but I've had wine every night with dinner and I think that is coming back to haunt me a bit. Need to be VERY good today and tomorrow if I'm going to have a loss at weigh-in Friday morning. Also need to make sure I exercise both days and drink LOTS of water. Wish me luck.
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cbabie yaaay on your tracking and fruit ice cream. I find it faster to track on my phone especially when it suggest foods that are normally eaten with a particular food. I'm a creature of habit.
trooworld Cutting your ice cream sandwich in half was a good idea. I like your plan for free food.
cmedwards What are you growing in your garden? You sound like you have a good plan to get back on track.
I have a social event tomorrow night. My plan is to be picky what I choose and small portions.
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theslightedgeforever: Our garden. We grow carrots, beets, gr. beans, peas, cucs, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and herbs as well as lots of flowering shrubs and annuals. We have a quarter acre yard all, if I do say so myself, meticulously landscaped. Lots of work but we love it. Its our favourite place to be and we are able to use it year round, even in the winter. Yes, in CANADA!! LOL
As of yesterday I have another motivation to be VERY good for at least the next 4 weeks. I was told yesterday that there is something special planned for my 65th birthday coming up July 5th. I am to keep Saturday, July 8th open so I suspect my daughters and DH are planning a party, probably here in our backyard. If that won't keep me in control of my eating/drinking/exercising not sure what will.
Have a good one.
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Okay I totally blew it last night. I have found my triggers though...PASTA, I have to stay away from that, it causes me to crave carbs and sweets. So today is another day and now that I know that, my food plan will be different.
@cmedwards52 your garden sounds wonderful. Glad you have a goal, it always keep me on track. (if it's a reasonable goal) lol
@theslightedgeforever How did your social go?
@trooworld yea for you, I am sure it feels good to be doing something you used to do before the accident.
Okay gals I am stressing I have a meeting with my boss and I usually come out of those meetings feeling not worth anything...so going to make sure I take GOOD food and not get into the trail mix or the birthday cake from yesterday. Maybe I will go out for a walk, it's hot, but it might be worth the sweat.
Have a great day.
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Good morning!!! It has been a while since I have posted but I have been trying to keep up with reading most of the posts. So far I am having a busy summer and every once in a while start to feel a little over whelmed with everything. Since my darling husband passed a couple of years ago, I have had to keep up with all the yard work. I love to work outside but it gets to be a bit much sometimes. I have a small garden this year and I planted cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, onions. I have cilantro that came back up this year and I attempted to plant just a few potatoes, but they are not doing very well. I also have an above ground pool and I am trying to get it ready to swim in. One of my grand-daughters car broke down so I have been taking her to work 3 or 4 times a week. I have not been doing very well on my exercising but that will have to change. I found out a couple of years ago that I am pre-diabetic and the doctor said to watch my carbs and exercise. I spoke to a really nice dieticican and she told me to have around 130 carbs a day, so we will see how that goes. Well I am going to go for now. I hope everyone has a great day!!!!!2
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trooworld Yaaaay on going to the gym You're becoming a new you. What other non scale victories have you had? Time to switch things up if you are maintaining.
cmedwards Your garden sounds lovely. So lucky for the fresh veggies. What's your average temp? I always think of Canada as really cold in the wintertime.
cbabie I've been having good success with using zucchini and cauliflower instead of pasta. I made a really good veggie pizza today. I need to learn how to make a good cauliflower crust.
lore Good to see you. Oh I see you have a garden too. Sounds like a lot of us are prediabetic on here. Yes, I need to recommit to my exercise program.
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Morning: Well I fought depression last night and the food one. I intend to do some food prep today to keep me out of trouble. I didn't to too bad at work. I have decided not to put in words, about my boss..it's better not said. So I changed my profile picture to help remind me. LOL
@trooworld You got this. You have done so great with all that life has thrown at you the last couple of months.
@lore11a I am so glad to hear from you. I can't imagine life without my DH, you are one great grandma. When you get overwhelmed. Just know you can only do one thing at a time and pick that one thing and then feel accomplished when you finish it. Then you can move to the next one thing,
@theslightedgeforever yes back to exercise...you are lagging in steps.. LOL
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Hi Ladies
So this is not weight-loss related in the least but I thought I'd run this by you and see what you'd do. Here's the scenario.
Look outside this morning around 9 and noticed the two 12 year old twin boys and their buddy, dressed in their pajamas and slippers, climbing out the bathroom window, on to the roof of their two-storey home, across the street.
They have been our neighbours for the last 7/8 years or so. We don't know them real well but have often chatted with them and their siblings and parents and they know us well enough to have asked, on at least one occasion, if they could come in and wait for their parents when they forgot their key. We of course invited them in and contacted their parents. About to order them pizza for dinner when their older sister came home. So, we are, in no way, strangers.
They proceeded to run the ridge of the roof, climb on the chimney to take photos etc. My question to you ladies is: would you have said or done anything???
Here's what I did. I called over to them saying "Hey guys, are your parents home?" Response: "No!" Me: "Are they ok with you climbing on the roof?" Response: "If its dry, we can but if its slippery (had just quit raining) we are not allowed." Me: "so, if I called your Dad right now he would tell me its ok?" Response: "If its dry, he doesn't care and anyway we are going in now." Me: "good idea".
I don't think I overstepped. It does, after all, take a village to raise children. If anyone is annoyed I did what I did, I don't care. I would rather have them and/or their parents angry with me than to have one or all of those young boys seriously hurt from something I could have protected them from. If they were my children I would be very appreciative to hear a neighbour stepped in on my behalf.
Anyway, if you'd like to comment, love to hear from you.
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@cmedwards52. I would have done the same thing. I would think if the parents are responsible and love their kids (which I am sure they do) they would be glad I care enough to speak up,0
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Thanks cbabie. I felt about the same as the day I stopped (at least for the moment) a young man I knew from the highschool where I worked, from buying beer. I was at the checkout at our local liquor store when I say him come in the front door. I saw and recognized him and he saw and recognized me. I thought that might be enough for him to head right back out that front door but no he came in. I thought about it for a nanosecond and then said to the clerk: "Just an FYI but you might want to check the ID of that young man who just walked in. He is a student at the highschool where I work." Here in BC the legal age to buy alcohol is 19. I waited outside to see what happened and as expected he left the store without any liquor. I didn't even feel bad since I knew I would have felt VERY bad if I'd not said anything and then heard he had killed himself and/or someone else in an alcohol related car accident. I felt quite sure he would still manage to get his beer should he want to but it wouldn't be with any help from me. After all, I was the adult, he the child!!
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cbabie Yes on the exercise and steps. Summer is hard for me. But it is what it is so I just need to do it.
trooworld I have heard of Thai Pad but haven't eaten it. I'm not very adventurous when it comes to food. You have a lot of great NSVs.
cmedwards On the roof thing.....When my son was 3 and 4 he used to crawl out the window all the time and go on the roof. My neighbors would call and I would say thank you. At 5-6 he was tying sheets together to make a rope and would climb down to the ground from second floor. I appreciated my neighbors call No amount of punishment worked with this child. Lots of trips to ER. He's now 27. Yes on the alcohol thing too.
I lost 1.3 lbs this week so onto next week. Total of 31 lbs from highest weight.
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Hi everyone . Is it too late to join this discussion? It seems to me that you give each other lots of support and I'd love to be part of that if possible. I've done WW in the past but am now tracking exclusively on MFP.
I'm 48 and trying to get down to a healthy weight /BMI. I like exercising though am confined to walking for now after recent surgery. I have a problem with emotional eating and tend to snack loads.
My "personal challenge " is to stop eating between meals.
As I said I'd love to join in your discussion and hear from you.
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Happy Sunday!!
@trooworld..That was a very smart thing to do, cutting your icecream sandwich in two. I tend to have a mentality of all or nothing. Lol. How did your Thai Pad turn out?
@endevoy1..Welcome
@theslightedgeforever..Thank you for posting the WW videos. They are really good. Congratulations on your weightloss.
@cbabie..Good job on tracking your food. Even if you go over you are still being accountable. Thank you so much for saying I am a good grandma. You made my day. You are so sweet to say so.
@cmedwards52..It is sometimes hard to know what is the right thing to do in different situations. Concerning the small boys climbing on the roof, "Great Job"!!!! Personally I don't think they should be on the roof even if it is dry.
@shonat11..Welcome. I tend to want to do my snacking at night..not good!! Lol.
Does anyone else ever get tired of measuring and weighing all their food, besides me? Sometimes I think it would just be nice to just eat and not worry about how many calories are in this and that. I have found out though, that doesn't work for me. Sometimes it doesn't seem like we eat as much as we do. It all adds up. Everyone have a wonderful day!!!0 -
Thanks for the advice trooworld. I hope your back is ok.0
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Hello! I've been on mfp for 1,894 days consecutively. I lost 135....got injured....had some (a lot) of stress and I'm back up to only a 40 pound or so loss.
I'm a vegetarian and I lost the initial weight doing lower carb. I'm leaning towards weight watchers now (never did it before) because I keep feeling deprived and once I screw up the day, I really really screw it up.
Add me please! I really think I'm going to go the ww online route.0
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