Share Your Day
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Well, no. But I have to drive that to see my aunts who live down in the Appalachian mountain area. I don't go see them a lot cause that's a hard drive.
Today Son and I are having A Day Out Together: He wishes to lunch at a local seafood place (so I know just what I'm having for lunch: Grilled shrimp and rice, which I can have without blowing my calorie budget) and then we will stop in and get my COVID booster + flu shot (I might as well get all the reaction over in one go) and then go get him a haircut and new work boots. He needs steeltoed boots with metatarsal protection and that sort of thing really requires trying on in person.
He has the prettiest dark auburn hair, but he also has two cowlicks facing opposite directions, and he is autistic and doesn't like having to comb his hair. Therefore, he'll have it all buzzed off, which is at least tidy. I support tidiness, as currently it looks like he woke up with bedhead and then stuck his finger in an electrical socket. (sigh) This has been driving my mother right round the bend. I think that subtly the more she nags him to get his hair cut the less he is willing to do it. I just looked at him and said, "You need a haircut. You want me to get you an appointment made on Friday or do you want to handle it?" and he said he would handle it. So we're making a day of our errands together. I'm really glad that my sons are people that I like and that like me and are friends with me. That is by no means guaranteed.
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John continues to improve…any relief from the pain he was in is a win…he will never be 100% but at the point of pain he was in, it’s a miracle!
Alex, enjoy your day with your son….I love Red Lobster!….
Bella, I would never buy a pint of milk lol…it is always a gallon!…
Laurie and PAV I hope you are both recuperating!
Anyone I missed TGIF!1 -
Protein 82g ✊😏 Fromage frais 💕3
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Ha Alexandra: I hope you & son had a kick-*kitten* day!
I think I need to do the exact same thing with my hair.
Maybe next week!
Connie: I am much better but not up to putting any mileage or applying speed.
Laurie: I hope that in your case no news is good news.
I can hope, right? 
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Hi all. New to posting in here. Since I have been reading everyone's posts for a minute now and posted a while back in intro. I thought I'd jump in and introduce myself in this thread. I'm Pamela and I have lost 50lbs on MFP and a total of 92lbs lost overall. and a goal of another 85 to 90 to go. I was hoping to slide in and become part of the check in here. You seem like a good group and all. My day to day is mainly working full time and caring for my mother full time who has dementia. I do all the cooking and cleaning for my household. I joke all the time that I have one husband, one mom, and two cats, a full time+ job and my dad who doesn't live with me that I care for. So very little down time or time for myself. Just thought I could share my small little life here a bit-- even if just for a minute.5
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Oh but Pamela your life is definitely not small. You are doing some heroic work in taking care of everyone in the family. It’s good that you’re taking care of yourself too. Controlling weight when you’re under stress is difficult but you obviously have a handle on it. We’re all here to do the same thing at various stages. Welcome!4
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Laurie: I hope that in your case no news is good news. I can hope, right?
lol...no news = Laurie still ditzy. two longish responses not here where I posted them, not sure where they went or how they got there
but they seem to have vamoosed.
Wing on the repair track...much less time thinking about narcotics (and tea & whiskey). Last night friends brought me a cute little bottle of Barbados rum from their last trip....that was amazing in Hot Chocolate, and enough for me to bypass a snack and the hydromorphone. Sure it is easier on the body, too!4 -
Hi all. New to posting in here. Since I have been reading everyone's posts for a minute now and posted a while back in intro. I thought I'd jump in and introduce myself in this thread. I'm Pamela and I have lost 50lbs on MFP and a total of 92lbs lost overall. and a goal of another 85 to 90 to go. I was hoping to slide in and become part of the check in here. You seem like a good group and all. My day to day is mainly working full time and caring for my mother full time who has dementia. I do all the cooking and cleaning for my household. I joke all the time that I have one husband, one mom, and two cats, a full time+ job and my dad who doesn't live with me that I care for. So very little down time or time for myself. Just thought I could share my small little life here a bit-- even if just for a minute.
Welcome!…so glad you found this group….I didn’t know how much weight you needed to lose but you are doing great!…join in any conversation!…we are a good group of Losers!…I should have invited you as we are already friends on MFP!….look thru the older posts….there is a lot of good advice!3 -
Saw this thread. I decided to pop in and do a post bomb (a.k.a. wall of text). Please excuse me in advance.
Hello and nice to meet everyone! I said my intro in the introduction topic yesterday. Still, I feel like invading every thread that catches my attention to make my presence known! (Wow, I feel like I'm a loud one even though I'm introverted by nature. It must be the extroverted introvert leaking out.)
I don't usually share my days outside of a daily journal (which I should really pick back up now that I think about it), but for all the reading I've done so far, I felt like I wouldn't be judged (much). Just a TL;DR about me (to get familiarized? I don't know.):
Gender: Female
Age: Not quite three decades yet. Still not willing to admit the number version just yet.
Current State of Residence: California
Ethnicity: Asian and proud of it! And (most of) its carbohydrate-heavy meals!
Personality: (Loud) Ultra-Lazy-Will-Not-Move-If-Earth-Isn't-Going-Kaboom-Fat-Cat. Did I add contradictory?
The reason I'm here: Trying to lose belly fat. It's always the belly fat. Doesn't help the first place to gain fat is my top half.
Now that the little self-introduction is out of the way, time for a little "journal entry" of my day:
Working from home is very lovely. Attending classes from home is also very nice. However, ending up waking up when it's close to evening is NOT nice. Thankfully, today was an easy day. Thank goodness for planning ahead. How did I live my life before using schedules? Unfortunately, I'm so out of shape; the random session of VR gaming (Beat Saber is my jam!) has got my whole arm and shoulder muscles aching for the last two days. I've still got it, though! Expert mode is nothing to be afraid of! Expert+ mode is just a worthy challenge!
I also did a monthly finances check and feel so proud of myself! Even with COVID and all that nonsense the past year or two, I'm almost done paying off my very first car! I'm even more proud when this same car was also bought on my own dime! Add onto that, the credit card debt I racked up from mishandling my finances when I was younger is also on track to be cleared in the same month the car is paid off! What a worthy cause for celebration! I allowed myself one can of soda to celebrate only to find out its best by date was a month ago when it tasted funny. So much for getting a soda fix. I ended up not drinking most of it. Oh well, water it is. I'm just going to kill this bag of Korean BBQ-flavored beef jerky in exchange and buy another bag for my snack portioning.
Even though I've been tracking my food intake on MFP for a good while now, I finally purchased a digital food scale on Sunday! It's supposed to arrive tomorrow afternoon, so I get to go on a weighing spree! Whee! I'm ready for that "culture shock" when I find out everything I've been eating and gauging has been a lie! Because I know the portions I get when I'm in Asia are way, way, wayyyyyyyyyyy smaller!
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I'm planning to spend the day making pickles, jam and other goodies...
The short days bring all my nesting instincts to the fore...
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Took down and washed all curtains, mini blinds. Washed all the windows inside and out. Now I’m exhausted and achy.2
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Luxia - love the energy in your posts - your vibrant personality shines so bright! Welcome. glad you are here. All your enthusiasm jumping from the screen made me laugh this morning. Thank you.4
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lauriekallis wrote: »Luxia - love the energy in your posts - your vibrant personality shines so bright! Welcome. glad you are here. All your enthusiasm jumping from the screen made me laugh this morning. Thank you.
Hi, Laurie! Thank you for your lovely comment! I'm glad it made you smile! We all need a reason to smile for our psychological health. 🙂 It's pretty hard to remember that when life decides to throw curveballs at you.
Like, for example, when one needs to talk with the police for several hours before the sun is even up because some unfortunate soul decided to go and break into your place of business. That's just never fun, and not much one can do about it aside from dealing with the aftermath and handling what can be controlled.
So much for promising myself to go to bed on time. However, I need to give myself a massive pat on the back for not succumbing to eating the candy that was left behind during this heist as a way to deal with the stress. Baby steps! 😅4 -
Hi, Luxia! Yes, sometimes we take our victories in small places where we can get them. And I think even the small ones help, because then you can tell yourself "Last time I didn't do X, I don't need to this time either."
I'm still working out what "on time" means for me, and adjusting my psych meds so that I'm not awake when I don't want to be....while still having my executive functions online enough in the evening.
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Hmmm, that's fine pretty intense night time adventuring and night time/ short of sleep is definitely the one time frame where the foodgates can open for me.
So impressed luxia that you could handle it and go back to sleep without damage.
Bella I love your cartoons. No matter what don't lose the attitude and willingness to fight. Remember Dalon whom I summoned a few days ago? He lost a crapton, way more than my ~125, and did so fast and well into normal weight. The rebound urge (hunger and all the good stuff) was at the very least intense. He read studies, got coaching (including James Krieger from weightology) and deliberately but in a controlled fashion and with copious amounts of weight lifting spent a good couple of years on a very slow regain till things settled. And he still looked awesome/awesomer than at the too low and too fast for him weight The thing is: he did not give up. Continued to think it through and fight a rear guard action instead of accepting that things didn't work as planned. Giving his body time for the maelstrom to pass. Time at the lower weight is your friend which is why I loved seeing the 3kg 6.6lb target over a year towards your end game plan.
@Yoolypr that's impressive increases to your NEAT expenditure and you're giving me hope for when I grow up 😘
Alexandra you continue to dress to impress even in the evening and love how well you plan and overcome limitations. I should send you some of my 🐹s to train a bit into learning how to plan and then actually having them do so👍
Oh, yeah, me! 👋
Paw updates. Both are creaky and complaining. Did manage two days of one hour continuous walks but no hills and comparatively
slow for me when it comes to paved walking @ 3mph averages. Left paw still has some range limits. Right is just complaining due to osteo and no acl about accepting the reversal of % share of responsibility to providing locomotion!4 -
So interesting to read this; I am mulling over and cogitating.
I'm actually beginning to think that once I reach 66kg (i.e. my interim goal weight of 60kg + 10%) I may shift into maintenance / dead slow weight loss from that point onwards, and let the remaining 9kg (6kg to interim goal, 3kg to ultimate goal of 57kg) come off at its own snail pace over the following few years.
Which would theoretically mean transitioning to maintenance/dead-slow-loss from, say, March 2022 onwards.
Sounds like you need to listen to your paws and not run before you can walk. Could you compromise by alternating 30/60 minute walks for a couple of weeks until some of your inflammation subsides?
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Bella you talking about PAV paws or other paws that I've missed? PAVs don't run!
But they do listen to audio books as far away from pesky bipodal mammals as is possible to achieve within towns and cities! And lack of walkies = lack of audiobooks which is painful when you want to find out what happens next!!!
And of course I've compromised! That's why I am going slow and non hilly and only an hour at a time!
Actually just about at the one hour mark there was considerable improvement to the osteo/right paw validating the use it or lose it theory!
I do admit that I had one scare when I deliberately verged onto the grass next to the paved path... and stumbled through an unseen (evening/dark time walkies) depression which sent me err... running to catch myself in order not to fall! It did prompt me to not step on the wild-grass anymore! 3 -
While I hate to come across as a Luddite, I HATE the new interface!
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If I could even see anything on my phone... anything other than a blank page....
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This +1,000! It doesn't make sense how the app won't show anything for the community tab, but logging in from a smartphone's web browser does! Where's the feedback option? I need to spam them about this!
On the topic of today, though. My digital scale came in! I was right! I've been lying to myself this whole time! 🤣 Time to measure everything solid in grams and volume in milliliters from now on!
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There are lot more emoticons....😆🙄🤦♀️
and it's easier to go bold
but I'll miss colour...
though it's good that we can resize pictures
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Luddite away! In a former life I designed online courses so they would be intuitive. This interface is not very intuitive or user friendly. Perhaps a notice of coming changes and new features would have been helpful.
Can’t complain too much because it’s FREE. Guess we can all experiment and teach each other. Like about resizing photos which is a good thing.
Haven't tried MFP on my iPhone yet. Do fresh horrors await?
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Well, that's a doozie! I didn't notice the different picture sizes from Bella on mobile because they set the default parameters to 100% of the screen's width! 🤦 If I didn't log into the web browser version on my PC, I probably would've never noticed!
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The new interface is meh. I'm probably going to have to take some time to get used to it, but at least they did warn me.
PAV, thank you so much. I try to use my evil autistic powers for good. (giggle) If I'm going to overthink and overplan things, let it be something where it will make us all happier and more comfortable.
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yuck to the interface - I thought it was my overdrugged brain at first - and I finished those a few days ago! lol4
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Getting my booster vaccine today. While I’m a firm believer in getting vaccinated, I’m hoping we don’t have to keep repeating this forever. That can’t be good either. Once a year like the flu shot would be okay I guess. Having a big case of pandemic exhaustion!4
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I slept late. We'll see if that was a good decision or not. I have a fair amount of precooking to do and no desire right now to do it. Going to take my meds and have my tea and English muffin, and things will get better.4
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Got up too early to counterpoint Alexandra. Thought of going back to bed but didn't 🤯1
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Well, so far so good on the precooking. Got the chicken cacciatore made, another batch of pico de gallo, and a batch of pineapple juice-based red sweet and sour sauce. I can't eat it at all, but that's the recipe my son likes, and as he has sweet and sour chicken every week when we are having our General Tso's pork or Kung Pao pork or our own low-sugar recipe of sweet and sour pork, it'll get used up.
I'm thinking of making chocolate banana muffins because I've been wanting something chocolate cake-ish, and that would scratch that itch, while making Girlfriend and Son pretty happy. Except I may nap for a couple hours. My shoulders and neck are hurting and my feet are getting a little sore from standing.4
