NON WW & WW NEWBIES, OUR NEW LIFE, THE START OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL

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  • trooworld
    trooworld Posts: 7,788 Member

    @fabgeekmom Me too , thanks! Yes, it was really good and not spicy. Good job with the bike! Happy birthday to your son. You have been celebrating a lot lately, for good reasons! I know you will get back to it.

    @gemwolf110 Happy 4th ! I hope you are well.

    @theslightedgeforever Ah I see . That makes sense not to go in the pool during the day. That sounds like fun to get in the pool and jump around. Yes, walking up hills less winded was on my bucket list! You will get there. Yeah the knee thing stinks but I think it was pretty minor; it's feeling much better if I stay off of it. The mental switch: I was making all sorts of excuses...no time, no money, no motivation, no no no no! The change came when I wasn't at the rate of loss that I was wanting to be at/expecting to be at. And my surgeon gave me orders to do cardio 2-4 days a week + lift weights at least 2 days a week. I took a good look at things. I decided I could join the old gym I was a member at YEARS ago, it's $22 a month, I could surely afford that. Well, $44 because DH wants to go, too. I decided I didn't HAVE to have an all-or-nothing mentality towards going: I didn't need to go during the week. I could go Fridays after work (I work from home on those days, so I don't get home late), Saturday and Sunday mornings and that would be good. I keep playing in my head what my DH told me: "I don't make deals with myself" meaning, I don't bargain my way out of going. I don't think about it too much, about whether or not I want to go. I just tell myself I have to go and get dressed and go. I tell myself "It's what I do. I am a gym-goer." After I started going to the gym, I realized that I could do more when traffic is light: now, it's probably just light right now because of summer, but I'm going to take advantage of it. When traffic is light, I will do a home workout. It can be a YouTube video. It can be a weight workout. It can be walking. Just something for at least 20 minutes. This week, I haven't done any extra workouts besides the gym: a few days, there was traffic, and also I was resting my knee. I do still work at the same place. The surgery has helped my attendance, believe it or not: I used to leave work early one day every other week or so (usually a Monday or a Tuesday) by about 1-2 hours. I would make up an excuse to run an errand, have an appointment or have a headache. I was really just anxious and a bit depressed. I am not sure what changed but I think it has to do with my body image and self-image. Now, I only leave when I have a real reason to. I can also more easily get books off the bottom shelves at work now. I don't have to ask others to get them for me. I hope this helps! That's funny about the sauna. Good job with the gym and being consistent in both exercise and tracking! Happy 4th!

    Hi all. Happy 4th for the Americans in our group! I hope you are doing something fun to celebrate. I am going to the gym this morning, then for ramen with my SIL and DH, and then later this afternoon, there is a free concert in a local park. We will bring snacks and watch the band. It should be fun. I lost 3 lbs this week making up for the tiny gain last week (0.2 lb gain).

    Water yesterday: 48 oz

    My phrase for the year: “A new era of me.”

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  • fabgeekmom
    fabgeekmom Posts: 876 Member

    @gemwolf110 Happy 4th to you, too! @theslightestedgeforever Water exercise is a great way to burn calories. I remember @trooworld mentioned that she burned a lot calories by doing water aerobics. Good job on the gym and calorie tracking. It looks like you have a good attitude towards exercise and tracking. A lot of it is making up our minds that we can do this. Hi, all. Happy 4th to all of our Americans in the group. I’m not doing much - the usual exercise on the bike. I have half of my dinner for lunch. I figured that since I was eating dessert I could save part of my dinner for later. Tonight we are eating 2 ingredient pizzas. DS is grilling them. We have chicken sausage to go on them.

  • fabgeekmom
    fabgeekmom Posts: 876 Member

    @trooworld I forgot to comment on your post. Congrats on the weight loss! You really are an inspiration with all your hard work.

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