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December, bright lights and shiny trinkets. Merry Christmas to all
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Highest weight: 317 (2013)
December 31st goal weight: 165
March post-covid ending goal weight: 145
Ultimate goal weight: 135
December 1: 172.7
December 8: 172.0
December 15: 172.6
December 22: 167.9
Paula
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Paula nice going!
Shelley1 -
Wow, Paula! Great job!
Chirs1 -
Thank you everyone.
(It's been going down, it just used to always jump back up to 172 on weigh-in day - until now, finally...)
paula1 -
Woo hoo Paula!!0
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I'm on vacation this week and have been trying to keep it real
have been doing a reasonable job getting some exercise in, and not eating too much....of course that wine
Today will be driving around to drop off christmas presents to my brother on sister on their families. Need to finish baking up some cookie dough I made and prepare some of the dishes for tomorrow night for Christmas Eve. Definitely need to jump on the elliptical!
Hope everybody has a great day!
Karen1 -
Highest weight ever: 248
December starting weight 188.2
December goal weight: 184.2
Ultimate goal weight: 148
December 1 - 188.2
December 8 - 187.0
December 15 - 188.0
December 22 - 186.6
December 29 -
December 31 -
I thought I posted this Tuesday. I don’t know what happened. Hope this loss continues.
Kathy
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Kathy,
I had been wondering how you were doing. So nice to hear the good news. Excited for you!! Happy! Happy!
paula1 -
Kathy great week! I forget to hit the post reply sometimes. I bet that's what happened.
Karen you have a great time. I finished all my baking. To many temptations!
Paula I was remembering how you were riding a bike there for awhile. How is your pain level doing? Hopefully better.
So I adjusted my husbands Echelon bike to ride it. Then I found a YouTube video on riding with other bikers. My forgot did not count any of it! What the neck! Then I tried out January's step Chris posted. I like to move a little faster. But otherwise I liked it. Very upbeat. I think I will use hand weights next time. Rest day today.
Shell0 -
It is meant to be 60 degrees today, but rainy! Nees to try to get outside before the downpours....or at least the elliptical!
Did the gift drops yesterday...and today just making some food, cutout cookies with Bella and hunkering down at home.
Karen1 -
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Wishing you all a Happy Holiday Eve.
Full of coziness, happiness, love and warmth!
Paula1 -
Thank you, Paula! Happy Holiday Eve to you too! Hope your day was fun and exciting.
Sara, Pete, Ronan and Bean came over for lunch/dinner and we had a blast. So much food! So much dessert! And the Edible fruit arrangement I ordered for the party didn't show up until 2 1/5 hours after they left and 15 mins after I asked for a refund. Egads! Oh, well...she says as she eats the peppermint/chocolate drizzled popcorn delivered with the fruit.
Merry Christmas, you guys!!
Chris1 -
Merry Christmas to all. Paula, Kathy, Karen and Chris! Have a wonderful day.
Chris sounds like they forgot! That is so sad. I hope you took a photo of it.
Well most of my new corals I bought a few weeks ago are still trying to recover. I keep slowly adjusting their light spectrum and intensity. Sometimes that means I place an envelope over them to block out the intense light at certain times of the day. I even raised the light today. What a pain.
Took the kids for a walk today. Cooper needed carried a lot. He still has so much fun.
So the black material that gun holsters are made of has another use in aquariums. Cut it to fit inside your tank along the glass. Cover the glass entirely. Then when it gets coveted in algae you pull it out and replace it with another. Clean the dirty one and so much easier and efficient than trying to clean it inside the tank!
Got to get me some this week!
Shelley0 -
Help everybody is enjoying the holiday! Sending you all wishes for special time with those around you
We just laid low yesterday for Christmas Eve. Watched a few movies, Zoomed with my Mother in Law in Florida, attended virtual services. Had a dinner with appetisers which was quite delicious. Made it through a 20 hour fast and then feasted on my hot spinach artichoke dip, Mom made crab balls, we got some wings and Stromboli I'm still full lol.
Enjoy the day gals!
Karen1 -
Merry Christmas to you all. Wishing you all peace prosperity and good health through this holiday season and into the new year!
Family members stopped by yesterday to
Pick up presents gor the grands and great grands. Made my parents day. Socially distanced and all came at different times with masks. We had wings, nachos, spinach dip and Kristen Kringle cookies which are so good. My mom, niece, BFF and I finished the night with wine. Not going to think about the scale in Tuesday. 😉
Today will be quiet. Will enjoy watching my parents open their gifts. Brunch, dinner and watching Jingle Jangle on Netflix. I heard it’s a very good new Christmas movie.
Enjoy the day ladies. Be safe!
Kathy1 -
Kathy - sounds like you had a wonderful time! So glad!
Karen0 -
Sounds like you ladies had a great Christmas! I got back on the wagon yesterday. Today I'm up a pound, but I'll get rid of it pretty quickly. We don't have Ronan this next week, so walking and exercising are high on my list! DH is taking care of everything in the pantry.
Chris1 -
One of the nicest things about not celebrating this year, was not falling off the wagon.
- Watched the flood warnings on the east coast and thought how fortunate to be in a safe home with good health friends and family.
- Later I asked a friend why he looked depressed. He replied (with a mildly derisive snarl), "Well, there's not much to be grateful for, is there." His was a rhetorical question, so I kept my mouth shut. I didn't want him to feel he was being criticized on top of everything else. And he didn't need anyone listing things that he could see himself if he wanted to. And everyone has the right to feel sorry for themselves sometimes. This year especially.
- But it made me remember again how different we all are.
Paula1 -
My glass is always half full. I always look at the good side of things. Sometimes DH's glass is half empty...makes me grumble. He'll do it on our walks until I change the subject with..."Wow, look at the huge hole in the middle of the park...let's go see what's what." Then we make up different stories about how it got there.
Ronan is coming over this afternoon for some play time so his mom and dad can have a Date Night. We'll have fun.
I'm do IF and so far so good. Tomorrow's weigh-in should be good.
Chris1 -
Nice distraction, Chris. Love love love goofiness. It's so much fun when you have someone to share it with. It's cool that you both get into it.
My weight went up again today. I've gotten rid of most cravings, almost entirely cut out night munching and am eating under goal every day; so it's not that. But honestly, it is so easily affected by other factors, like how liquified my gut is, or how late I weighed; or whatever.
Only three days to get to my month-end goal at 165. Yesterday I only had one+ pound to lose and it felt achievable. Today it's two+ pounds... Whether I make it or not is gonna depend on those other factors and "the luck of the bounce" and just where it lands on weigh-in day.
But it's not crucial whether I meet that specific goal or not or who loses more this month (she says... still hoping to win ) - the trend is all-over downward and that's really nice.
Paula1 -
My glass is always half full. I try to be upbeat. I bought a new scale last night. The other on has been off for awhile. Should have kept it. Got on and it said 155.4 this morning. I started crying big purple tears. Did better with my eating today.
Paula that is great! My daughter lost 12 pounds this month. Her doctor has her on some eating plan to find out why she is sick so much. Belly boats, throwing up. All kinds of issues. So far she can't have gluten. Corn syrup, pectin, anything in the onion family. Garlic, apples, pears melon. So she pretty much has to never eat out. Oh no yeast either. Or asparagus, Brussels sprouts. The list goes on. Lots of nuts are off also. I am so grateful I can eat anything. But I feel so bad for her. She is still learning what she has to avoid. She can have oranges, sour bread if it is real and not just flavored with vinegar. I wish I was allergic to chocolate.
Shelley0 -
Shelley, Give my sympathies to your daughter, okay? It can be both a blessing and a curse - it's almost impossible to eat out but easier to stay away from foods. Your daughter's choices seem really hard to work with. Hope it get's easier for her.
Hope you feel better soon too, purple tears.
paula
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Paula I will. It has to really suck for her. She has had issues with foods since junior high. Some of them we knew already. Like apples. And some times she could have something and the next time she would bloat two sizes and have projectile vomit. Discovered that some foods she could tolerate a little (still had stomach aches) as long as she didn't eat to many things that she could not tolerate in a 3 day time period. Like calories. They will sneak up on a person! There is an app she is going to get for her phone. It will let her know if a product has anything in it that she can't have. Seems there are quite a few folks that have this. I will have to ask her if there is a name for it. She just recently was sent to a specialist. Still working on finding out what she can have.
That cartoon boy looks like Ronan! Yeah!
Thanks Paula
Shell0 -
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAREN!!! Have a great day. EAT CAKE!!!
Chris1 -
Highest Weight ever: 192.2
December starting weight: 151.0
December goal weight: 145.0
Ultimate goal weight: 132.2
12/01 - 150.2 at 5:30
12/07 - 148.0 at 5:30 ...yeah! maybe...
12/14 - 147.2 at 5:30
12/21 - 145.8 at 8:30
12/28 - 145.2 at 8:30 ...gotta keep it up...no down...
12/31 -
Chris0 -
Hey Chris,
Do we count the last day of the previous month as each month's starting weight?
It looks like that's what you're doing, using 151.0 as your starting weight? So you actually lost a little the first day which should be counted in December. Whereas I actually gained a half pound (172.2-11/30 to 172.7-12/1) and was wondering how to record it.
So it feels like 172.2 should be my starting point, right? It might make a difference. We're so close!
Paula0 -
Shelley, you're right...the picture does look like Ronan!! Awww!
Paula, I probably should have put that as Nov Ending Weight instead of Dec Starting Weight because we know what the month's starting weight is if we start on the 1st. I do it that way just to see how I ended the month before. I think I'll make my goal this month.
And I'll be on track Jan 1st if it's just DH and me on New Year's Eve cuz I'll just be having salad for dinner!!! I don't know what the kids are planning...I better ask, huh?
Have a great Monday, everyone.
Chris0 -
Shell,
I developed a "sensitivity" to dairy which is neither an allergy nor a lactose intolerance. The reaction is more like bad poison oak and very miserable. A lot of food servers aren't too aware of it and don't seem to take it too seriously. So I'll say "allergy" and even then, many of them don't get that it's dangerous. There just isn't an awareness yet, like there didn't used to be for peanut and shellfish allergies. But we're getting there as people learn more about gluten (wheat!!) allergies, IBS and other food reactions.Dairy is very pervasive, because besides the fairly obvious products, and the misconceptions (oh, is yogurt a dairy? and mayonnaise isn't?), it's in almost everything: bread!, pastries, sandwiches, soups, sauces, casseroles, crumb coatings - almost anything starchy, creamy or buttery. (Butter is even rubbed on meat and under turkey skin to keep it moist.) And it's on almost any surface used to prepare cheese or cook with butter, etc. (for ex., taquerias, pizza, cheeseburgers). And it's in canned products prepared in factories on equipment shared with products that do contain dairy. If I clean up after a meal, touching the frosting/sauce/butter on the edge of a dirty plate causes a reaction.So I like to prepare my own food, and don't like to eat out. But it makes it oh-so-easy to pass on those yummy treats that used to be irresistible.
Learning what caused the reaction and what needed to be avoided was a chore; but ruling out food groups worked. And allergy tests showing it wouldn't cause anaphylactic shock made it a lot less scary.
It can be a long process, but there's hope. And I hope what your daughter is dealing with gets ironed out to a point where life is easier for her to cope with too.
Best wishes to her,
Paula1 -
Chris,
Ronan seriously does look like an anime doll, literally seems too cute to be real! Just, wow!
paula0 -
Chris,
So what number do we start from to count out weight loss in December? Nov30th or Dec1st?
Thanks!
Paula0
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