Doom, Despair, and Agony on Me! (aka a whine thread)
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I don't remember if I saw the one with tumeric in my local store, but I picked up the one with magnesium. I was surprised when I tried to ride the bike and found I couldn't; the knee hadn't been bothering me for the other activity I was doing. But then again, the act of peddling the bike is way different and the position of the seat in relation to the handle bars forces me into a position I'm not use to. It's like my big complaint about car seats - I need that seat back by about 6 inches to give me leg room!
I might try raising the seat and see if that takes some of the pressure off.1 -
I put tumeric in my oatmeal every morning. I used to have horrible knee pain when I first started working out but I think between the knee stretches, tumeric, and may be a few less pounds my pain is gone.2
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I have bad knees as well. I had to do extensive PT to walk after a patella dislocation. I was told that walking is fine, running may be ok. She said I would never bike or ski again. It works the knee differently. So no bike for me.2
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I live in Midland MI which if you haven't heard has been devastated by a 500 year catastrophic flood. We had over two days of extremely heavy rainfall. This on top of it already being flood season for us. We live downstream of 5 dams. The northern most dam was overflowing. The second also. The third and fourth breached entirely. The closest dam held but had full berm failure. This sent an unbelievable historic level of water onto us. My city evacuated more than 11,000 people safely. No reported deaths; minimal injuries thus far.
I went over two days with no sleep monitoring all the emergency sites, news reports, etc. to keep track of the flooding and evacuations. My brother was part of the first group evacuated and he moved to a daughter's home and they were evacuated about 3 hours later. They all moved to another daughter's house. I sent my granddaughter and her three dogs to her aunt's home about 30 miles east of us which would keep her out of harm's way. I had my car packed for my cat and I and in the driveway (in case of loss of power and garage not open). So, if it became necessary, I'd be ready to evacuate. I had a route planned with no bridges to ensure I'd not get stopped because of water over the road or bridges out. Luckily for me, the water crested at 35 feet (a 500 year historic record) so I did not need to evacuate. My water, power, and sewer are fine and fully functional. A true blessing!!
My brother estimates his home has at least 5 feet of water inside it. Governor Whitmer came to Midland yesterday, did an aerial tour of the devastation over many miles and several counties. Declared a State of Emergency. Graciously praised our Emergency teams for all their preplanning and for the ongoing evacuation efforts.
Now we are in a waiting game. Flood waters have to recede enough that damage assessments can be started. Then recede even more before homeowners can get in to assess their damages and start the recovery process. We're also praying that the dam closest to us, Sanford Dam, does not collapse. Recovery will be a very long process.
Please send your prayers to all those impacted by the dam failures and the resulting flooding in Gladwin County, Clare County, and Midland County. Thank you.
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Please stay safe, you are in my thoughts...1
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Take care! Sending prayers your way!1
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Take care, you're in my thoughts..
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I live in Midland MI which if you haven't heard has been devastated by a 500 year catastrophic flood. We had over two days of extremely heavy rainfall. This on top of it already being flood season for us. We live downstream of 5 dams. The northern most dam was overflowing. The second also. The third and fourth breached entirely. The closest dam held but had full berm failure. This sent an unbelievable historic level of water onto us. My city evacuated more than 11,000 people safely. No reported deaths; minimal injuries thus far.
I went over two days with no sleep monitoring all the emergency sites, news reports, etc. to keep track of the flooding and evacuations. My brother was part of the first group evacuated and he moved to a daughter's home and they were evacuated about 3 hours later. They all moved to another daughter's house. I sent my granddaughter and her three dogs to her aunt's home about 30 miles east of us which would keep her out of harm's way. I had my car packed for my cat and I and in the driveway (in case of loss of power and garage not open). So, if it became necessary, I'd be ready to evacuate. I had a route planned with no bridges to ensure I'd not get stopped because of water over the road or bridges out. Luckily for me, the water crested at 35 feet (a 500 year historic record) so I did not need to evacuate. My water, power, and sewer are fine and fully functional. A true blessing!!
My brother estimates his home has at least 5 feet of water inside it. Governor Whitmer came to Midland yesterday, did an aerial tour of the devastation over many miles and several counties. Declared a State of Emergency. Graciously praised our Emergency teams for all their preplanning and for the ongoing evacuation efforts.
Now we are in a waiting game. Flood waters have to recede enough that damage assessments can be started. Then recede even more before homeowners can get in to assess their damages and start the recovery process. We're also praying that the dam closest to us, Sanford Dam, does not collapse. Recovery will be a very long process.
Please send your prayers to all those impacted by the dam failures and the resulting flooding in Gladwin County, Clare County, and Midland County. Thank you.
@cesse47
Please take care of yourself. Sending prayers.2 -
Thank you all for your kind thoughts and prayers. They mean a great deal to me, to my family, and to my community.
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I have two, both are technology driven. I found a couch potato to 5k app. I happily made it to week 2 day 1 and that's when I realized it wasn't actually a free app, those stinkers wanted me to pay $4.99 for the rest of the training!! They think because I'm already invested that I will shell out the dough, not. this. girl. I found a new, completely free app and I'm stating back at the beginning. lol.
The second is that I was nominated to do a push up challenge on facebook (suicide awareness). 22 push up for 22 days. As proof you post your doing the push up along with some info. Yesterday, I forgot to hit video. Dang blast it!!! Sooooooooooo... I had to do them all over again.3 -
I've been beating myself up lately about my eating habits and weight gain over the past 3 months (since the start of self-isolation)... but looking at the data today it doesn't seem as bad as I've made it out to be.
I have a feeling that this is because although I've let my eating slide some during this time, my activity hasn't dropped too much. I guess in a way it's comforting to know I'll really have to screw up bigtime to regain all of this weight I've lost.
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I've been beating myself up lately about my eating habits and weight gain over the past 3 months (since the start of self-isolation)... but looking at the data today it doesn't seem as bad as I've made it out to be.
I have a feeling that this is because although I've let my eating slide some during this time, my activity hasn't dropped too much. I guess in a way it's comforting to know I'll really have to screw up bigtime to regain all of this weight I've lost.
This is why I find numbers comforting. I often imagine things to be worse than they are if I am not logging and evaluating the results.
You have not screwed up or have any reason to beat yourself up. You are learning something new. I find it relaxing to know that weight management is not really that fragile. I am going to make mistakes and I will take some detours but as long as I do not let them go on too long unchecked it is going to be okay.
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At the risk of another trip being cancelled I have ordered the very same swimsuit in the next lower size. The one I bought months ago for a cruise still has the tags on it.
This is not a vacation but there is a beach nearby so I will have an opportunity to show off my scarred, saggy, and slightly misshapen body. It is still a huge improvement but I will need the second surgery to finish what was started. If anyone doesn't like the view the can look elsewhere.5 -
@NovusDies that's confidence! Its only been in the last few years that I dared to wear a bathing suit at all. While my prudish modesty keeps them at one pieces with shorts, I am at least taking off the baggy T-shirt I used to wear over them.
I'm down enough that I found I'm going to have to start working on replacing a lot of my dressy church tops. I took a skirt out of my closet today that I had never been able to wear before and found it fit with room to spare. I wanted to wear a nice sheath top with it and a jacket; however, I hadn't worn any of my dress jackets in a while and found that the 3 of the 4 I have were all too big - way too big. And the one that did still fit was black and the skirt was navy blue.
So I said to myself, okay, we'll just get a top out that will look good without the jacket - except those were also too big. The one that had a nice princess seem and fit to flatter the front that I wore last winter? hung like it was on a clothes rack. The dress that was too short to wear as a dress on me but that looked great as a tunic over my knee-length black pencil skirt? also way too baggy.
*sigh* I checked sizes on many of my shirts and came realize that most are now way, way too big. Which means I need to start picking up dressy tops again. I can get by with some of my tops that are collared shirts, but many of them are just too, too big now. It might not even matter much then, but I'm the church pianist so I'm up front and center during the first part of the service and we are now recording our services for facebook live, and I don't want to be in the public eye looking like a bag lady in clothes 3 sizes too big; not only does it look poorly on me, I don't want my appearance to reflect badly on the church (my opinion; I guarantee you the pastor wouldn't even comes close to thinking something like that lol )2 -
@bmeadows380 that's a nice problem to have.1
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@bmeadows380 that's a nice problem to have.
@speyerj
*laughs* yeah, it is and its always fun to get new clothes, but its not so nice for my wallet!
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bmeadows380 wrote: »@bmeadows380 that's a nice problem to have.
@speyerj
*laughs* yeah, it is and its always fun to get new clothes, but its not so nice for my wallet!
Especially when it is jeans which I need new ones right away. I can buy decent looking dress pants for much cheaper than jeans.
I used to be the always under-dressed person and just recently I stood out because I was too over-dressed because I do not own hardly any clothes "in the middle." My wardrobe is mostly athletic wear and church/funeral type clothes. My single pair of jeans still work with a belt but they are quite baggy.
I remember this being one of the reasons why I wanted to do the recomp plan for 4 months was to finally enjoy my clothes for half a minute.
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I remember this being one of the reasons why I wanted to do the recomp plan for 4 months was to finally enjoy my clothes for half a minute.
I'm with you there. I am now at the point where I fit into all my older, size 14 clothes from past weight loss efforts. I don't own any sizes that I need to lose weight to fit into. I do want to lose more fat, but I really love my wardrobe - I'm not ready to give up those clothes just yet. So that does seem like a good reason to stay but between 175 and 180 at least through the fall. Then I can make a push to drop to a size or 2 along with 10 to 20 more pounds.
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Oh, you've gotta be kidding me! I'm still continuing to do well with my calories, I've even been more diligent about weighing and making sure I'm tracking accurately, and I'm up even more today. So in the last 2.5 weeks, I've done better than I had in a very long time, and instead of losing 2 or 3 lbs, I've gained 4.5.
This is totally inconsistent with anything in my weight loss history. Historically, I'm not prone to large water weight fluctuations. I can only remember two times when I had undeserved gains two weeks in a row, and they have NEVER been this large. And historically, when I've kicked up my efforts after longer periods of no effort (or less effort) I've always had nice losses. None of this makes sense.5 -
bobsburgersfan wrote: »Oh, you've gotta be kidding me! I'm still continuing to do well with my calories, I've even been more diligent about weighing and making sure I'm tracking accurately, and I'm up even more today. So in the last 2.5 weeks, I've done better than I had in a very long time, and instead of losing 2 or 3 lbs, I've gained 4.5.
This is totally inconsistent with anything in my weight loss history. Historically, I'm not prone to large water weight fluctuations. I can only remember two times when I had undeserved gains two weeks in a row, and they have NEVER been this large. And historically, when I've kicked up my efforts after longer periods of no effort (or less effort) I've always had nice losses. None of this makes sense.
This may be a new phase for you. I lost a lot of weight before I entered the truly annoying scale cycles.
Just in case it is not... are you on any new (or increased dose) medication or supplement? Also, it could be an old medication that you just starting taking again like an allergy med.
Have you been feeling well? You can fluctuate up while fighting an illness even one that barely shows symptoms.
Been out in sun more?
Noticing any swelling in your legs or feet?
Sore at all?
Feeling stress?
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bobsburgersfan wrote: »Oh, you've gotta be kidding me! I'm still continuing to do well with my calories, I've even been more diligent about weighing and making sure I'm tracking accurately, and I'm up even more today. So in the last 2.5 weeks, I've done better than I had in a very long time, and instead of losing 2 or 3 lbs, I've gained 4.5.
This is totally inconsistent with anything in my weight loss history. Historically, I'm not prone to large water weight fluctuations. I can only remember two times when I had undeserved gains two weeks in a row, and they have NEVER been this large. And historically, when I've kicked up my efforts after longer periods of no effort (or less effort) I've always had nice losses. None of this makes sense.
Ugh...me,too....I am up 1.8 and I have been exercising in the pool for two weeks!....I weighed 268.8 this morning and two weeks ago I weighed 267.4... last Friday 267.0....I better lose some weight this week or or or or well....or else lol2 -
UGH
Granted the MFP website system has never exceeded fair in reliability but for the last 2 weeks it has been horrible. It never fails when you are in a hurry to log you get temporary maintenance screens. Also the lag between syncing the website server and the app server has been minutes and hours lately. So I entered some of my information on the website and it flaked out and now I have entered information on the app which does not have the website food. GAH. I have a million things to do today and I do not have time for this.3 -
*whine* YOu know your day is going to be fantastic (note the sarcasm) when you set out a completely full, 16 oz mug of coffee on the counter and then knock the darn thing over and spill it all down the counter, the stove, and the floor *sigh*. I didn't use sugar since I sweeten with Stevia, so it's not going to be a sticky mess, but I DO put 1/2 cup of milk in my coffee, so what I didn't get will probably be stinky for a couple of days.
OH well - the counter beside the stove is actually more of a table so I was able to pull it out and wipe down the side of the stove and the fridge and the floor beneath, but I could tell some of it went under the fridge where I couldn't quite get to it.
I did take the time while I was at it to wipe down the stove, the fridge, the wall behind the table, and the floor. I really need to spring clean my kitchen!4 -
I just want to grumble a little. I"ve been retaining water all week, and I'm - how to put this delicately? Clogged? Anyway, I know I'm retaining water because my measurements are up and I can feel it, especially in my lower legs. I'm bloated.
I don't know what kicked this round off, but it's rather irritating. Today is weight record day, and I'm only showing a 0.9 lb loss. I'm not upset, just mildly annoyed because I know I lost more than that; how much is up for debate because the water weight is masking things. Hopefully, it will let go soon so I can get a more accurate picture of where I stand!2 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »*whine* YOu know your day is going to be fantastic (note the sarcasm) when you set out a completely full, 16 oz mug of coffee on the counter and then knock the darn thing...
Totally! For me, it was taking the car to go to work, car doesn't start, check engine light is lit. So annoying!
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bmeadows380 wrote: »Hopefully, it will let go soon so I can get a more accurate picture of where I stand!
Hang in there! It'll come off!
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Got back yesterday. Brought back everything PLUS 12 pounds of water weight. For anyone keeping score I had JUST gotten the last round of water retention down before leaving so it is quite the roller coaster.
I caught up my spreadsheet and it looks like the numbers support a half a pound gain but I also know I was more active than my watch was capturing so I think it will end up being a wash. Also you do not gain weight as predictably as you lose it which really makes me wonder how many calories it took to actually gain that 270+ pounds. Weight gain is only easier because the "reward" is immediate and there is less mental resistance.2 -
Welcome back!...we missed you!1
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »Welcome back!...we missed you!
Thanks. I signed in once but I hate posting from my ipad so I changed my mind on doing anything.2 -
Isn't it time for this year to be over??????????????
My Mom died in early March out of state. Had to arrange to bring her back her for her funeral. This was the first week of Covid shutdown. Funeral could only have 10 people in attendance; sad for so many reasons and on so many levels.
Then into full isolation due to Covid. Everything closed. Groceries delivery only. Dealing with isolation, boredom, major "cabin fever", lack of physical contact with other humans, etc.
Then, hit with 500 year flood and it's aftermath. Three days of Flood Watch to determine if I would need to evacuate while worried about family who already had to evacuate twice from two locations. Brother's house flooded over 5 feet inside house totally destroying everything. Can't help with cleanup so volunteered to do laundry (SIL major quilter so trying to salvage her finished work as well as other sheets, bedding, etc). Also making daily runs to Flood Distribution Centers for cleanup supplies, food, water, etc.
Finally, about first of June, Michigan starting to slowly open back up. Restaurants having seating available while following distancing guidelines, etc as mandated by state. Thrilled I'm finally able to get a restaurant meal occasionally, but still playing it safe for the most part.
June 9-10, had inspectors come in and they determined I had black mold in the house ... which grows and spreads mega rapidly. So, due to lung conditions and allergies, I had to move out of my house. Since all cleaning & restoration services in our state are heavily engaged with flood restoration, they are hard to get booked. Most were quoting 6-8 weeks before they could start. Luckily, I had an experience last year with Modernistic and promoted them heavily for their excellent work so they graciously worked with me this time ... but it was still almost 2 weeks before they could get into my house. Then had a house cleaning service come in to clean my house top to bottom and do laundry for any fabrics (like bedding, drapes, etc) that may have been exposed to mold spoor. Since I had never had mold issues in the 40+ years in this house, the inspectors felt I may have introduced it with the black plastic bags of flood contaminated quilts, etc that I brought into the house. GREAT!! I created this mini disaster myself.
So, I am back home (after living in a 10-foot camper for almost a month. Have laundry to do, inventories to do -- so I can put in an order for delivery, and make to-do lists LOL.
I seriously don't have the energy or time to read all the posts I've missed so will just start from here. Congrats to all who have lost during this time! Hang in there to those who've been maintaining or gaining!! Welcome to any folks who are new or who have returned after a time away.
It's great to be back. Hope to restart my new normal in this unnormal time we're living in right now. Hope y'all have a great day!4
