Thank you

Ddsb11

What are you thankful for? Please share

Fflpnari

Im in the US. Watching the inagural on TV. Its amazing to see the country come together. We are hopeful things will get better. Not to make this political. I am just hopeful we will work together instead of against each other.I am thankful for everyone!

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Fflpnari wrote: »

Im in the US. Watching the inagural on TV. Its amazing to see the country come together. We are hopeful things will get better. Not to make this political. I am just hopeful we will work together instead of against each other.I am thankful for everyone!

Same! Thank you so much for saying that. It was my first time seeing it and it just hit me. Love that you said something real in the moment 😊

AnnPT77

Honestly, my first "thankfuls" are always the basics: Adequate food, shelter, clothing; relative safety; pretty OK health for my age and stage; modern medical care; a few good friends. Not everyone - especially globally - is so lucky. I'm grateful.

Beautyofdreams

Every day I say that I am thankful for the people in life, the home I live in, the food I have, the new day that I have been given and the opportunity to make it a better day for me or someone around me.

Ddsb11

Beautyofdreams wrote: »

Every day I say that I am thankful for the people in life, the home I live in, the food I have, the new day that I have been given and the opportunity to make it a better day for me or someone around me.

Amazed that you say that everyday. Would be cool to log that everyday as much as we log our food. Thanks for giving me the idea!

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AnnPT77 wrote: »

Honestly, my first "thankfuls" are always the basics: Adequate food, shelter, clothing; relative safety; pretty OK health for my age and stage; modern medical care; a few good friends. Not everyone - especially globally - is so lucky. I'm grateful.

Thanks so much for sharing! You thanklessly give yourself to us here, so I want to thank you for that 🙏🏻

LisaGetsMoving

On a day where more than 406,000 of my countrymen have died from a virus, where I spent hours the previous evening and this morning on websites that wouldn't work and on the phone with constant busy signal while trying to sign up for the vaccine, I am grateful just to be alive, to breath deeply, and to feel a sense of hope for the future.

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LisaGetsMoving wrote: »

On a day where more than 406,000 of my countrymen have died from a virus, where I spent hours the previous evening and this morning on websites that wouldn't work and on the phone with constant busy signal while trying to sign up for the vaccine, I am grateful just to be alive, to breath deeply, and to feel a sense of hope for the future.

Hi Lisa. I lost my father to COVID this year like many people. It certainly makes the annoyance of process feel smaller, in the scope of things. It’s a big reason for the post. In a time where so many of us feel hopeless, we need to remind ourselves how to be grateful. So for this reason, I genuinely thank you.

LisaGetsMoving

msalicia07 wrote: »

Hi Lisa. I lost my father to COVID this year like many people. It certainly makes the annoyance of process feel smaller, in the scope of things. It’s a big reason for the post. In a time where so many of us feel hopeless, we need to remind ourselves how to be grateful. So for this reason, I genuinely thank you.

I'm so sorry. [HUG] One day I hope as a nation we may properly mourn the loss we've suffered. Thank you for starting this thread, it's good to remind ourselves of the good in the world.

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LisaGetsMoving wrote: »

msalicia07 wrote: »

Hi Lisa. I lost my father to COVID this year like many people. It certainly makes the annoyance of process feel smaller, in the scope of things. It’s a big reason for the post. In a time where so many of us feel hopeless, we need to remind ourselves how to be grateful. So for this reason, I genuinely thank you.

I'm so sorry. [HUG] One day I hope as a nation we may properly mourn the loss we've suffered. Thank you for starting this thread, it's good to remind ourselves of the good in the world.

Thank you. For the first time, I spoke to my husband about the 5 losses I’ve had this year. I didn’t realize the impact it made on me daily. He then opened up about the impact of losing his aunts and uncles to genocide. It was intense but cathartic. The more we open up the more we can connect and heal.

AnnPT77

msalicia07 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Honestly, my first "thankfuls" are always the basics: Adequate food, shelter, clothing; relative safety; pretty OK health for my age and stage; modern medical care; a few good friends. Not everyone - especially globally - is so lucky. I'm grateful.

Thanks so much for sharing! You thanklessly give yourself to us here, so I want to thank you for that 🙏🏻

That is so very kind of you! Thank you! 😊 (And it's not thankless now, is it? . . . not to say that it felt so, ever. 😉)

In the big picture, I'm so deeply thankful for MFP, and the MFP community. I've learned so much here, and my quality of life is so much better in diverse ways at a healthy weight! So many MFP "old hands" were helpful when I was in the early stages - even just things I read in other people's threads and the "stickies" - and that was a good foundation for success.

Many of those folks have moved on to new chapters in their lives, not seen as often (if ever) on MFP anymore (may they thrive!). I feel motivated, obligated to hang around and try to help others, however imperfectly. (I truly love to see other people succeed: The NSV and before/after threads are still a day-brightener.)

IMO, the same science - physiology, physics, psychology, etc. - is the foundation for everyone's success, and it's good to be clear-headed about it. At the same time, there are as many practical paths to weight management success as there are humans, probably: Ways of eating, moving, monitoring, etc. Lots of people sharing their differing experience and ways of thinking of it - that's helpful at that subjective, practical level.

There's not "one true path" that everyone needs to follow. But the foundation is a consistent basis of science (which isn't 100% settled, at the margin of course - but the important bits for weight management seem pretty clear).

TL;DR. I'm thankful for MFP, and the many knowledgeable, experienced people in the community.

callsitlikeiseeit

These are always such great posts (and don't come around often enough!)

I am thankful for the wonderful senior members on MFP who have been fantastic mentors over the years and from whom I learned so very much! As long as I have been here, many are gone now, and I suppose I'm now counted among those senior members. Even when we disagree with each other on some things, I always have a huge amount of respect for them

I am thankful for my health! I may have a few pounds to lose, but aside from that, I am textbook perfect!

I am thankful for my husband who works SO hard so I have the luxury of not working (aside from on our farm. Our farm is his SECOND job LOL)

I am grateful for our farm. And for our guardians, Holly and Hagrid, who protect us and our livestock. We have had ZERO losses due to predators (coyote, bear, fox, raccoons, and birds of prey) since getting them. It also provides (some) income and (a lot of) self-sustainability. I know how our food lived, what it ate, and how it was treated. For me, that is important

I love the change in the US Executive office and hold hope for our future.

Theoldguy1

Fflpnari wrote: »

Im in the US. Watching the inagural on TV. Its amazing to see the country come together. We are hopeful things will get better. Not to make this political. I am just hopeful we will work together instead of against each other.I am thankful for everyone!

I hope you're ultimately right but over 70M people voted for the other party. The county hasn't come together after this one day. JMO.

Hooliekom

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

I am grateful for our farm. And for our guardians, Holly and Hagrid, who protect us and our livestock.

Just being nosy, @callsitlikeiseeit - what are Holly & Hagrid? Great Pyrenees? I have a Komondor and a Bergamasco but the only thing they guard is me

callsitlikeiseeit

Hooliekom wrote: »

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

I am grateful for our farm. And for our guardians, Holly and Hagrid, who protect us and our livestock.

Just being nosy, @callsitlikeiseeit - what are Holly & Hagrid? Great Pyrenees? I have a Komondor and a Bergamasco but the only thing they guard is me

Yes, they are! They are the stars (and headaches) of my page on here LOL I sent a friend request.

AshHeartsJesus

LORD JESUS saving my sinful soul even though I don't deserve it
A KJV Bible that I can read
My husband who loves me always
5 beautiful healthy children
A warm home with electric and water
A loving mom and dad
A fat cat with no tail who makes me laugh

Hooliekom

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

Yes, they are! They are the stars (and headaches) of my page on here LOL I sent a friend request.

Oh, I look forward to seeing more pics of them then! My girl has a similar name to yours, she is called Hoolie - and my boy is Ragnar, or Raggy

And as this is the place for it - I am thankful that we just got home BEFORE the sleet showers so I don't have two soggy dogs in the house

7rainbow

I'm thankful to be getting my life a bit back on track. Focused on school, meds are working for my mental health, eating better, and doing hobbies again.

Theo166

I'm thankful for coming back here and starting to get my health/weight in order. Also thankful myself and family recovered from COVID without some of the nasty side effects or hospitalization

amarkula

I guess it's the "Social system" in Scandinavia, for that I'm not thrown out of my four walls and a roof into the -15'C, as I lost my job "in connection to Corona". When I get something back for our (high) taxes, I'll appreciate it, every month.
Otherwise, been lucky enough. (fingers crossed)