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Thank you, @lauriekallis! @MelissaAY1017 I can't live without music. Started singing when I was 5, playing piano at 7, and was in every band, choir, and orchestra option all the way through high school and early college--played bassoon and tenor sax. Had to drop back on the instruments when the science and math classes got too crazy. Sounds like we were separated at birth! And yes, one of my early pics was from a cruise on the Queen Victoria in Norway. This weekend at our chorus retreat we will be preparing for competition--Women in their 20s-80s, 90 of us on the risers. I love it so much!!!6
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Today is Year 2, day 1 for me.
365 days under my belt and still enjoying the process...6 -
Bella_Figura wrote: »Today is Year 2, day 1 for me.
365 days under my belt and still enjoying the process...
There she is! And I was just wondering aloud about you!!!👍😹4 -
My cravings are insane for some reason the last 2 days. Yesterday it was ice cream (I had an Outshine fruit bar instead and it actually was perfect). Today it is salad. I never crave salads. I don't know what is up with me. I actually wanted one yesterday, but it was baked potato day at the work cafe so I had that instead. Thinking of getting a salad today though. I do have other food that I brought, but I just really REALLY want a salad.
Oh and fruit. I think that one is due to the nice weather we had for a few days that made me think of spring and summer and farmer's markets. I love getting berries and melon at the farmer's market every year. One place has the BEST blackberries.5 -
Salads and fruit are great cravings to have! Much better than my craving for pizza!!!
Finishing my packing for my chorus retreat. We will be getting TONS of exercise, singing and dancing for hours each day and also using the pool, but there will also be a LOT of food around--breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets, plus snacks in the room and much, much alcohol...I anticipate an upward bounce on the scale by the time I weigh again on Sunday. I just need to stay mindful particularly on the late-night drinking and snacking (we usually stay up singing until 3 or 4 AM!)5 -
Wow sounds like a great time Jennifer! I’m up at 3 or 4 am but it’s usually insomnia. 🥺.
Having salad today too. In my case it’s not spring related cause it’s been spring all winter mostly. Got to wear a coat a few times this year and even a few sweaters. 🙌
Doctor visit yesterday went well. All my numbers are excellent. Doctor says my weight is okay - lose some if I want to. The only advice was keep doing what I’m doing and get back to more exercise as I can. Exercise has been restricted for over six months and I’ve finished therapy. Back to the gym slowly.
I WANT to get to that final goal so I’ll keep plugging along.5 -
Have a great weekend Wisewoman!
Great news on the health stats, Yooly! If you want to you will...simple as that!3 -
I'm eating a salad a I read this! lol
Sounds like you will have so much fun this weekend, Wisewoman! Post a pic if you can.
Congratulations on the good numbers, Yooly. Yes - we can meet that goal. Hmmm...if I change my final goal as I plan, I still have 30 pounds to lose....lol....just a different set of pounds than last years.
I do want to lose those - I have a closet full of new clothes that no longer fit. Not buying any more.
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Why am I looking for a smallish of all things. And a salad 🤣. Bleeping phone. again. Maybe it knows better. But I wants a BIG Dakar Dakar Dakar salaf salad now😹🤣😹🤣😹 is Dakar even a word Google???? Or salaf? for salad's sake, get your act together!!!!!🤷🏻♂️4
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Wonder what would be in a Dakar salad? Maybe bits of disobedient phone?2
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Dakar capital of Senegal? Sounds like they might have a tasty salaf! Of course, it could be the evil auto-correct leading you astray.
I used to edit 300-400 page technical books and routinely had to have 3-4 readings to correct the evil 👿 auto-correct. Finally I turned it off and went with human corrections. Unfortunately that doesn’t work with most hand held devices.2 -
When it works it keeps working and it works well!
But when Ms Google is in "a mood" I have to try like three or four times sometimes and can't win for trying!
I especially love the one where it actually writes what you said, and then goes back and changes it to something wrong while you're continuing to dictate!
I mean this whole thing was dictated with no more than two or three small corrections.
But yesterday the day started with having written "salad" correctly and then going back and changing it to "smallish" 🤣
Oui au moins des dates. I'm leaving that in; like hello? When did I say that!!
Yesterday we almost did end up with Lori's the car salad
There she goes again 🤣🤷🏻♂️😹...
...definitely trying to become part of a "salaf"!
Anyway yesterday we almost did end up with the phone becoming a *Dakar salaf*
But she made it through the day.
I, on the other hand, had 105g of unnecessary chocolate at midnight instead of going to bed
Had "kale" salad and chicken pot pie yesterday. Kale salad is actually coleslaw with traces of kale as far as I'm concerned. And comes with a seed and cranberry mix and some horrifically calorific dressing.
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I don’t know whether it’s reassuring or depressing to hear that long-time maintenance is a daily struggle. I’ve fought regaining for many months with the hope of getting back to active losing. Just staying in place is a daily full time job.
Maintenance ain’t no piece of cake 🎂 or chocolate 🍫!!!3 -
I don't know if I would call it a "struggle" to "maintain"; not after a point...(hold on, there will be more!
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AND. If you're trying to shade things into losing, it is not "JUST" maintenance.
Doing so will probably FEEL as a bit more of a struggle, especially if the "easy" wins have already taken place in the past. And especially since it often takes more time to see small(er) changes. And you may be starting from a position of less urgency and more, let's call it "diet fatigue".
Did you not say that last Texas summer was "easier" for you because you were feeling a bit on the cold side? Did I not even hear Garfield mutter the word Raynaud--though I for sure do not know her particulars, I was actually diagnosed with it almost 20 years ago... while losing 40lbs over a couple of months while obese by eating as little as possible and exercising as much as possible (ever heard of that combo?) Pinched hand skin would just sit there... pinched! Miracle... the whole thing went away as soon as I ate at a surplus and regained the lost weight plus a bit more!
Anyway. Back to today! Is my involvement a deliberately created hobby to keep me mindful and in the game? Probably there is an element of that in addition to inclination and desire to pay forward (or is it backward in this case?). For sure the decision to make friends on MFP and to start posting--how many years ago now?--was made intentionally to increase my involvement and solidify my commitment in my own mind.
But struggle. Struggle is interesting. A lot of worthwhile things involve some effort--different kinds of effort too. Eating out every day involves a financial effort. Yet people don't talk about struggling to eat out every day, do they?
Most of us in this group got to a point of not just being a few lbs overweight. I don't want to put words in people's mouths; but I don't think that an Obese 3 BMI (above 40) is unknown to many of us.
I personally didn't stay in Cat 3 for more than a year or two, yet I could definitely feel the effects on my ability to do things and I was in my late 40's at the time.
So. Is it a struggle? Is a budget a struggle? Is having a daily calendar and to-do list a struggle? Is having a schedule a struggle? These are all things that many people do to help manage their lives. So is being mindful of what and how much you're eating a struggle? Is cleaning the house a struggle? How about brushing your teeth, and shaving, and washing up?!?!
So, no, I don't think that for many of us it is / will be "fire and forget and automatic with no problems ever". I don't think that maintaining a normal weight is or will be 100% effort free. But I also don't feel that I am STRUGGLING with it!
I AM putting in AN effort. But it is something I DO. Not necessarily something onerous or a *struggle*
Of course, I am saying all this in the morning without half price chocolate sitting next to me! Call me in the evening after I've been "perturbed" by my day and have access to cookies and we may have a different discussion!
Have you even noticed me spouting on a theme about doing things in ways you believe you can carry on doing long term as opposed to just adopting short term diet strategies? 4 -
Yes - I like the word effort better than struggle. And for many, many reasons it is very much worth the effort. Thank you for the reminder!3
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Great post Pav!
Re the Reynauds, mine isn’t weight-loss related. It’s hereditary for me ..mom and all my sisters also had/have it. Started at pre-puberty for me, formally diagnosed at age11. Is limited to cold fingers and toes. The rest of my body can be warm as toast but fingers and toes freezing. No problem with cold core - I regularly kick off all bed covers because I’m too hot, but my toes and fingers are still icy. My Reynauds is no worse at 26 BMI than it was at 41 BMI thankfully.4 -
I wonder whether there's an evolutionary advantage link like with sickle cell anemia and malaria! 🤔1
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Went shopping today... already down one size in tops and in a 22 jean. I was in a 24 and that was getting tight so I am happy. I was also SO close to a 20. Spent way too much, but I am set for the spring and summer. I got normal every day clothes, but also got some workout clothes.
I am going to order in tonight though. Wanting some comfort food. Will start back up on the plan tomorrow.5 -
My quartet, Balancing Act, singing at my chorus retreat this past weekend!
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Beautiful picture, Wisewoman! You look great. So freakin' LANKY!3
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Congratulations, @Athijade. So nice to "have" to buy new clothes!3
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👍 clothes. I sort of skipped a whole whack going down. Started at 3-4x and had, of course some 2x on hand. Went into the store to buy a water resistant jacket and was asking for the xl / 2xl section. She looked at me weirdly and took me to the M/L section and I walked away with a large sized black shell that had room to fit me and a sweater inside! A dozen lbs later I was firmly in the medium section.
That's a bunch of happy singers! Especially the one on my left most: she seems quite happy ❣️6 -
Clothes! Outside of underwear, shoes, and coats, I bought a lot of quality clothes at the Goodwill and thrift shops. Most were never worn or still had store tags. I went from 3x to XL/L over time. As I went through a size I donated back the clothes.
I was never a fan of thrifts but I must say my clothes from the shops are better quality than what I bought in plus sizes. The only downside is having time and some knowledge of good brands. I’ll miss my thrift wardrobe when I get to goal!
Loved the happy singers photo. What a weekend it must have been!3 -
Re clothes - I've bought hardly any yet. I started off a UK size 22 (which is, I think, a US size 18) and I had some size 20/18/16/14/12/10/8 clothes in my wardrobe left over from the last time I reached a normal BMI. Plus MIL gives me all her size 10/12 cast-offs, which are MUCH better quality than I'd buy myself. I'll be very sad when I'm too small to wear her cast-offs!
I've worked my way down through the sizes and I'm now wearing UK size 10s. They'll do me fine while I lose the last 20 lbs. I'm reluctant to spend money on clothes while I still have the final 20lbs to go. Last week the sales were on, so we went to the store to buy a new Goretex jacket for my birthday (May) since my 2002 one has finally given up the ghost, and I headed for the size 18s, thinking I'd need it that big to fit over thick sweaters. Came away with the size 12, which was plenty roomy enough for two extra-thick sweaters underneath. It takes a while for our brains to catch up with our bodies.
If this time is at all like last time I'll be a solid size 8 by the time I'm at goal, which is about right for my body type. I'm petite (under 5'1") with a very compact frame (small hands/feet, slender wrists/ankles etc) so I can wear the smaller sizes even with a residual layer of midriff fat. If I ever achieved low body fat (which is never going to happen!) I'd probably fit a size 6, but I shudder at the thought of being bony. I've always carried far too much padding, but I'd rather be too fat than too bony. I really don't like the jutting hipbone and corrugated sternum look.... 5 -
What inspiring posts, PAV, Yooly and Bella. You have reminded me of the glory of those quickly dropping sizes.
I've a closet full of thrift store finds that I was so tickled with last year. Mediums, some smalls, most size 12 (some 10 some 14) which is good for my height - 175 cm (today is day one of this new measurement system ). When I get there again, I will be celebrate and work on maintenance and body composition. Last year I was so dismayed by the loose skin with a minimal amount of fat in it still that I was a bit obsessed with dropping more to get rid of that fat (quickly) in the hopes that the skin would more fully/quickly tighten up. But really, in hindsight, I see that all that did was make my body fight back harder. This time around I will try to remember "Today's" perspective. 4 -
I normally buy a lot of clothes from thrift stores, but I tried to hit some on Saturday and the findings were sparse. Plus I needed jeans/leggings and my size is pretty much impossible to find in thrift stores around here. So Old Navy was having a 40% off your purchase sale. From there alone I got a pair of jeans (half the price of the ones at Torrid plus the discount), 2 pairs of leggings, a bunch of tshirts, and a bunch of tank tops. I need the jeans now that we are back in the office as I think I might have 1 pair that still fits already (rest are too small).
I do need some new sandals though. I have plenty of shoes from tennis shoes to flats... but I have like no sandals. So those plus maybe a couple pairs of workout shorts would be all I really need until I am to the point where nothing fits. Because I WILL get to that point dang it.
So I spent most of the night awake because I was super nauseated. Still sick to my stomach this morning. I had to get up to do the weekly billing (the only other person who is trained had already taken today off), but I was awake anyway so not a huge deal. Taking sick time the rest of the day though. So I already slept a couple more hours on the sofa. Gonna just meal plan for the next couple of week and maybe work on my garden plan.4 -
I've been thinking about body types, ever since I wrote my post above.
Made me think about my dad (Big Norm), who I probably ought to resemble in an ideal world. He was tiny. About my height (just under 5'1")...he weighed 98lbs when he joined the army aged 18 in 1944, weighed 98lbs when he married mom in 1948...and still weighed 98lbs on their 25th wedding anniversary.
These photos give an idea of how small and wiry he was. The first photo was taken on his 20th birthday in 1946. The second photo a month or so later. In the 3rd photo he's the one in the front row holding the sign. And in the (very poorly preserved) fourth photo, he's the one on the far left, looking like a child beside his giant friend!
Despite being tiny he was as strong as an ox. He was an 8th Dan in Judo (red/white belt) and held the all-forces (Army, RAF, Royal Navy) record for clean-and-jerk in his weight category (lifting 200lbs vs his 98 lbs). He never did any intentional exercise that I remember, but he was naturally fit. When he was 64 he went along to watch my BIL run a marathon, and there was a tannoy announcement asking for more entrants into the 10k fun run. He turned to mom. "I reckon I could have a bash at that," he said. "Yeah, right," said mom, rolling her eyes. So, in his chinos, sweater and brogues he lined up on the start line...and won. He went home and bought a pair of running shoes, and 22 days later, on his 65th birthday, he ran his first (of 9) half marathons.
He was an absolute legend, and I miss him so much it hurts! He and mom were together 78 years and he adored her. He died 11 weeks after her in 2017 (aged 92), of a broken heart. He didn't want to live without her...
Of course his spirit lives on in Little Norm:
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Bella - what a beautiful post. I love the expression on Little Norm's face. I hope he understands how much he is honoured with that name!
Big Norm sounds like an extraordinary man. You have some fine genes! Being a women though - you get to have a bit more body fat. Thank goodness for little blessings 4 -
Now why am I having trouble focusing on the screen?3
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Oh Bella what a lovely tribute to your father. A truly remarkable man as so many of his generation were. 💕💕2
