Daily Habit Checkin
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Withnail and I? I’ll see if it’s on Netflix- not in the theaters here. The movie theaters are just beginning to fully open in the last month. Went to see West Side Story which was disappointing but the first movie I’ve seen in a real theater in over two years. So it was worth it just for the big screen experience.
Sorry back to daily habits.........2 -
You will never look at a bowl of washing-up in quite the same way again once you've seen the film Withnail and I....3
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Mercifully I have a double bowl sink and a dishwasher too. Now I’m curious about what might happen in a washing up bowl. Incidentally the term “washing up bowl” is not common terminology here.
Sorry for all the linguistic questions. Former English teacher here with a fascination for quirks of language! Same language but so different depending on location. 🤓2 -
I'm the same Yooly. I'm a writer so I love words...our cultural differences fascinate me.
And if you google 'Withnail and I washing up' you'll get directed to a YouTube clip from the movie so you can satisfy your curiosity...2 -
Hope everyone had an enjoyable new year. I wish you all the best for 2022, embrace the things that bring you joy and have the strength to lose the things that don't.tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Today's goals- 💃🏻Cardio warm up (dancing like noone is looking) ✅Already done
- 🏋🏻♀️ Strength Training ✅ Already done
- 🚶🏻♀️5000 steps+☑️
- 💳Pop into the bank now it's actually open on a day I am not working or quarantined☑️
- 🍎Do some grocery shopping (pick up only what I need for next week's food planning)☑️
- 👕Finish up some laundry☑️
- 🥘 Make some veggie chilli for lunches next week❎ OH took over the kitchen is deferred to today.
- 🧘🏻♀️Yoga or Meditation this evening ☑️
Today's Goals- 🚶🏻♀️5000 steps+
- 🚶Walk out to the wetlands
- 🥘 Make some veggie chilli
- 📵 Screen Free Evening (excl. Kindle)
- 🥞 Plan out food for day and stick to it
- 🧺 Sort clean laundry
- 🧽 Clean car out
- 👩🦳Dye hair
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Good to know that the cat is safe and it is only the car that needs cleaning out! In other news maybe I need to look into new glasses... AGAIN!
Merry New Year and Happy Christmas... or something similar to all that linguistically speaking (*kitten* *kitten* it, will it ever be confusing if someone ever runs into this post without context!)
Not sure what daily habits I'm in today.
--Possibly walk the dog. Probably would be more appropriate since I will make the wild assumption that she will let me know her opinion if I try to welch on this one!
--Try to get to bed early even if I perk up by then!3 -
Good to know that the cat is safe and it is only the car that needs cleaning out! In other news maybe I need to look into new glasses... AGAIN!
Merry New Year and Happy Christmas... or something similar to all that linguistically speaking (*kitten* *kitten* it will it ever be confusing if someone ever runs into this post without context!)
Not sure what daily habits I'm in today.
--Possibly walk the dog. Probably would be more appropriate since I will make the wild assumption that she will let me know her opinion if I try to welch on this one!
--Try to get to bed early even if I perk up by then!
Sure sounds like someone had a long hard night!3 -
TL/dr: not anything earth shattering but have had better Dec 31/Jan 1 day pairings!
Was at an airport located 45 minutes from home at 4am on Friday 31. Did not sleep before then since I usually get to bed at around 2am. Left that airport and got home 6 hours later. Did not leave on the flight I was scheduled on and which would have had me at dad's by early afternoon on the 31st. Was re-scheduled for today's 6am flight.
Decided that this wasn't going to work out well for me. Was on hold on the phone for more than 5 hours in total in order to discuss. Successfully spoke to ZERO people as the phone line cut off twice.
Slept, probably, 35 minutes sitting at the computer. That was probably safe-ish.
Maybe 30 seconds to 1 minute while driving. Probably less so.
Found myself at a different airport, just 35 minutes from home, for 1.75 hours starting at 10pm. There because I had already spent 5 hour on hold and not accomplished anything on the phone and we were down to less than 8 hours to the re-scheduled flight.
Resolved everything due to lucking out and finding an extremely helpful employee and her manager. Not that I wasn't right from the beginning. I was. But instead of covering up and finding excuses for their colleagues they both acknowledged that their colleagues at the other airport had screwed up, annotated the file and wrote long messages including screen shots explaining to them why they were wrong, and tried to accommodate me as much as possible beyond that.
Still had to go back to the first airport this morning after 4.5 hours of sleep because... well... cab ride/uber from first airport to home is $100. And I was looking at cab ride back and then getting back again in the morning or spending $60+gas (turns out $14) to rent a car and drop it off on my way out in the morning instead.
Only... well the "way out in the morning" has now been postponed to Thursday evening. And the car still had to go back!
I made it back home by 8:30am.... to a flurry of Happy New Year texting. Slept for an hour... took a tylenol... had coffee and coke zero... and I am now ready to take out the dog before it gets dark!
Had a frozen shepherd's pie and extra instant mash and green beans for brunch!
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Holy crap PAV. 😱 Total nightmare! In June we spent 6 hours at the airport only to have flight cancelled. Luggage traveled round trip. It was exhausting and needlessly expensive - we ended up canceling the whole trip. So I’m sympathetic to your plight. Hope you get lucky Thursday.
Back to the topic at hand here....
I’m going to do better at logging quantities and random sampling. Deficit eating for me is 1200-1300 calories. No wiggle room at this point unless I suddenly wake up 5 inches taller. So if I’m ever going to get to goal I have to be honest with myself
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I admit to wiggle room and discretionary calories. Still like to account for as close as possible because I like to "flatten the pendulum" or flatten the curve of up and downs as much as possible which means that I go for gradual downs and small deficits.
But if you're trying for a sub 250 deficit ... all of a sudden the 16 to 20 calories of black coffee and the 20 calories of garlic powder and the lie that Mrs Dash has no calories and the 20 calories of cheddar flavored seasoning. .. well then.... that's a quarter to half of the deficit i would be trying for!🤷🏻♂️3 -
PAV - my head is spinning. I hope day two of 2022 is calmer with 0 seconds of frustration/waiting/uncertainty.
Yooly, Withnail and I is from 1987 - a weird little black comedy with so many quirks and laughs that after the tenth viewing or so will have you laughing with anticipation over what is coming next. Really pulls at your heartstrings too, in between the chuckles.
There were exactly 6 customers in the theatre on New Year's Eve. Myself and 4 friends, and 1 other fellow way way way in the back - on a straight back chair in the area for those in wheelchairs. Not sure if he saw the entire movie - saw him on the way in, but not on the way out.
It was very strange. I hope the theatre survives the pandemic. New rules here. You must wear a mask the entire time you are inside. The sale of drinks, snacks and popcorn is banned unless it is for takeout.
The little bottles of bubbly I brought for the after party went over well. Had three extra - two went to the theatre staff (who were kind enough to stash my carry bag in their cooler while we watched the movie) and 1 went to a fellow riding by us outside the theatre on a scooter. It was a classic moment after watching such a "substance heavy" movie. We were toasting the soon to come New Year when this fellow zipped by us on the sidewalk. I called out "would you like some champagne?" and he came to such a quick stop I thought he might topple off the seat
It was one of my best New Year's Eve celebrations in a while. Now am starting to get back to reality, gently though because The Boy is back and we spent day one playing and eating pancakes and berries for supper. Haven't had those in forever, but he requested them and I found a decent recipe online. Was honoured with "Nan makes the best pancakes in the world" so I might just have to add them to some kind of rotation from here on in. Though I'm not sure how that fits in with my "no grain staples" idea...I guess pancakes are treats - not "staples"
Was pretty excited to be able to "cook" ! I'm out of the sling pretty well all the time I'm at home now (outside is still too scary) and the right arm is learning to do things again. It can't lift it's upper self with its own muscles yet - but from the elbow down things are good! And with a little help from it's friend Lefty it can point straight up and to the side now - so the range of motion is coming back. Strengthening is going to be very very slow. My physiotherapist (found a new one - encouraging, yet gentle and knowledgeable) reminds me regularly not to do anything at home that I don't do there - and that isn't a whole heck of a lot yet.
So, I have a new goal to implement on a daily basis - cooking!!!!!!!!
I'm starting to better understand how I fell so off track as I find my way back to somewhat normal living.
This new year is feeling so good and full of possibility today.4 -
@PAV8888 that sounds awful, hope you have managed to catch up on some sleep since and that your eventual travel to your dad's is less stressful.3
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Yesterday's Goals
- 🚶🏻♀️5000 steps+ ☑️
- 🚶Walk out to the wetlands☑️
- 🥘 Make some veggie chilli❎
- 📵 Screen Free Evening (excl. Kindle)☑️
- 🥞 Plan out food for day and stick to it❎
- 🧺 Sort clean laundry❎
- 🧽 Clean car out❎
- 👩🦳Dye hair❎
Not a very successful day yesterday fatigue got the better of me, hopefully have a more productive day today.- 🚶🏻♀️5000 steps+
- 🚶Evening walk
- 🥘 Make some veggie chilli
- 🥞 Make protein pancakes
- 🖋️Plan out food for day and stick to it
- 💻 Look for a suitable longer yoga flow
- 🧺 Sort clean laundry
- 👩🦳Dye hair
- 🧘 Yoga and/or Meditation before bed
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »@PAV8888 that sounds awful, hope you have managed to catch up on some sleep since and that your eventual travel to your dad's is less stressful.
Well, 7h 19 min out of 8h 13 min in bed according to Fitbit, which for me is quite good! HR Variability shot up (that's good), resting heart rate is down (that's good), skin temp, breaths per minute and SPO2 saturation all within normal variability range for myself which means no imminent COVID or other issue as per current body metrics!
Soooo.... still ticking; but, could probably use another night like this one to fully recover!
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
Not a very successful day yesterday fatigue got the better of me, hopefully have a more productive day today.- 🚶🏻♀️5000 steps+ ✅ coming up on 9500
- 🚶Evening walk ✅ 4km walk done and luckily dodged the rain
- 🥘 Make some veggie chilli ✅
- 🥞 Make protein pancakes ❌ deferred til tomorrow
- 🖋️Plan out food for day and stick to it ❌ didn't plan but was reasonably sensible
- 💻 Look for a suitable longer yoga flow ✅ settled on checking out Jesssamyn Stanley's stuff
- 🧺 Sort clean laundry ✅
- 👩🦳Dye hair ✅ not a grey in sight (for at least 4 weeks)
- 🧘 Yoga and/or Meditation before bed ✅
Tomorrrow's Goals:- 🚶🏻♀️8000 steps+
- 🚶forest walk
- 🚣🏻♀️ sort out agenda for rowing club committee meeting (Think I did more meetings than rows in 2021).
- 🥞 Make protein pancakes
- 🖋️Follow food plan and defrost meals for work
- 💻Check out Jessamyn Stanley's 30 minute beginner yoga flow
- 🏋🏻♀️20 minute strength training
- 🧘 Yoga and/or Meditation before bed
- 😴 Back into a routine ready for work, early night!
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Hope you get another good night of sleep in tonight, PAV
Seven of nine is pretty fine, @tinkerbellang83 - 4 weeks go so fast! I had my cousin, a motorcycle riding, 60 year old mechanic with a bit of a tough boy attitude henna my hair a few weeks ago. That was a bit of a painful hoot. I can already see the roots coming in ... might not be able to do it quite yet ... hope he is game to give it a whirl one more time! lol2 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Hope you get another good night of sleep in tonight, PAV
Seven of nine is pretty fine, @tinkerbellang83 - 4 weeks go so fast! I had my cousin, a motorcycle riding, 60 year old mechanic with a bit of a tough boy attitude henna my hair a few weeks ago. That was a bit of a painful hoot. I can already see the roots coming in ... might not be able to do it quite yet ... hope he is game to give it a whirl one more time! lol
I don't think I'd trust any of my family or friends with my hair. 😆1 -
I've learned a lot about ??? accepting a variety of help in the past 2 months. Not working and no insurance has not left a lot of extra money to go professional (and I don't even know where I would go for henna here?) It has been an experience - fun in many ways (I've hired a couple of young lads on my street a few times to vacuum/wash the floors, heart melting (friends just stopping in to wash dishes/brush hair/change bandages) and very occasionally disappointing (a few times family who just didn't get it). At one point I thought I might have to just lop off the hair because I couldn't handle it with one hand, but thank goodness I didn't have to resort to that...
And I am starting to see some light! No time soon...lol...but ahead. If I can only get back to where I was on the weight loss journey.4 -
Laurie so do you graze or do you do meals?
Is the issue that you're on plan all day and then cave in the evening?
That you're high during the day leaving no choice but to go over in the evening?
That you find yourself higher than you want to at some point and then write off the day?
Let's shoot some trouble hamsters 🐹!2 -
Laurie the shoulder and arm take awhile…it took me forever to be able to fasten my bra….lifting a gallon of milk or putting dishes in the cabinet was impossible….but it does get better!….my John washed my hair and helped me so much……our daughter, husband and family live with us and anything I ask them to do gets done but they never seem to see what needs done before I tell them SMH!…I hate depending on anyone to do something for me but sometime you just have to….I hope you get back to where you were on your journey, too…currently mine is full of detours,mudslides and falling rocks!2
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
Tomorrrow's Goals:- 🚶🏻♀️8000 steps+ ✅ sitting at just over 9000 and I've a couple of hours before bed
- 🚶forest walk ✅
- 🚣🏻♀️ sort out agenda for rowing club committee meeting (Think I did more meetings than rows in 2021). ✅
- 🥞 Make protein pancakes✅
- 🖋️Follow food plan and defrost meals for work ✅ stuck to plan but missed a meal due to a late start today - we had horrendous thunderstorm last night that shook the house followed by hail pelting the windows - very unusual in this part of Ireland so didn't get to sleep until about 4am.
- 💻Check out Jessamyn Stanley's 30 minute beginner yoga flow ✅ went a step further and bought her book on my kindle, so had a good leaf through that and have added some additional moves to my current routine, which I will do before bed this evening.
- 🏋🏻♀️20 minute strength training ❌ My goal is to do 60 minutes per week, so will do an extra session on Sunday, just haven't had time today, as not long back from walk and I've still to have food, do yoga and have an early night
- 🧘 Yoga and/or Meditation before bed✅will trial new practice this evening.
- 😴 Back into a routine ready for work, early night! ✅ Aiming to be in bed for 10pm latest - currently running to plan.
Tomorrow's goals/to do:- 🚶🏻♀️8000 steps+
- 💧 7 glasses of water/cups of herbal tea
- 📖 Read latest Kindle book on work breaks. Listen to Audiobook on drive. (GoodReads goal for this year is 50 books again, made it to 40 last year but only started in Feb so hopefully will give it a good go this year)
- 🚣🏻♀️ Committee meeting for rowing club after work.
- 🖋️Follow food plan and prep lunch for Wednesday
- 🍗4 portions of Protein
- 🍎 3 portions of fruit
- 🧘 Yoga and/or Meditation before bed
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Good job, @tinkerbellang83. And you got your protein pancakes done. What exactly are they? Do you make a batch to freeze and then toast?1
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Laurie so do you graze or do you do meals?
Is the issue that you're on plan all day and then cave in the evening?
That you're high during the day leaving no choice but to go over in the evening?
That you find yourself higher than you want to at some point and then write off the day?
Let's shoot some trouble hamsters 🐹!
Read this earlier today, PAV and you touched me with this. Thank you for the support and thought provoking. I've pondered it since I read it.
My plan is to do meals.
I seem to have a whole herd of hamsters trying different angles.
Definitely have some number 1: on plan all day and then cave in the evening - and usually that has been on days where I was too "on plan" all day. I just don't seem to manage to get myself fed, and fed well earlier in the day.
Some number 2: High during the day - then high in the evening - a few different varieties of those days. Some are the Hormone Hungry days - so hungry I could eat everything and not ever feel satisfied. Some where I've just grazed all day out of boredom? Sometimes stress/misery comfort eating (this one armed thing has been a trial). Some binging days where I just couldn't resist that 6 pack of donuts - plus plus - and just went a bit crazy. Some too much socializing kind of days, not been working/painting/walking so much, but have done a lot of visiting trying to make time pass and it seems once I eat one treat (thinking/hoping that I will stop there and still manage an under maintenance day) it just triggers a whole lot more eating.
Not so often number 3. Not consciously anyway. Usually if I "write off the day" it happens without "finding" myself higher than I want - on some level I make the decision to write off the day and then go high.
There are two few legitimate reasons why I haven't been able to get "back" on track. 1- I had a system that involved a lot of vegetables-bulk eating during the day. And I have just not been been able to get a handle on the cooking/prepping front. That is coming along now...so I'm hopeful. 2 - Walking kept any "anxiety/stress" at bay - and that has really dropped. Partly because of the weather. Partly because of the shorter days and feeling more vulnerable - too vulnerable to walk in the dark. Partly because walking sucks in a sling and my whole upper body hurts. That is almost coming to an end now too. I'm out of the sling more now - learning to walk normally again - but the ice is going to delay that a bit because I feel compelled to where the sling when I'm walking on ice to protect the shoulder should I slip/fall.
One big problem - those *kitten* refined carbs/sweets have full reign over my brain again. I know that it will just take a couple/three "clean" days to get over it, but I haven't managed yet.
I'm planning a restart day for Wednesday - that will be a clean day for me schedule wise - no social calls/no grandson/no stressors.
My fridge/pantry is all stocked and ready.
Including the Kohinoor egg curry!!!! (found some today - bought 4 packages). Though, to be honest, I'm almost afraid of it because I seem to do best when I'm eating/preparing very very simple foods - no sauces/no fancy flavours/spices, nothing at all sweet (which I'm expecting this to be a bit?).
Thank you for sending me down this path.
I should go back through this message cleaning up typos etc. But I just can't do it. Sorry for making people read such dreadful writing.
Tomorrow's goal: Psych up for Wednesday!3 -
Laurie, what about ordering pre made meals for a little while and buying salads already made?2
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The curry is not sweet so don't worry about that. It is also fairly "filling" mainly because of the eggs.
So here are some random thoughts that went through my head as I read your post.
Starting with my pet peeve so we can move on beyond it.
You're in a position where you've been over-eating and gaining and you are trying to transition straight into a large deficit? "I'm good all day very strictly and then things go off rail in the evening"... remember how many times I've complained about applying too large of a deficit for me at my current stage? Which usually leads to over-eating later? Going shopping while operating at a large deficit and coming home with boxes of chocolates on sale? Don't be a me doing silly things like that!
Work with where you're at as opposed to where you would like to be. Don't try for a large deficit off the bat! If backloading (which is what I usually do too) has stopped working... try front-loading your day with a larger brunch instead. What the worse that will happen? Another plus day! But it just may work and get you off the rut and into a balanced intake or a small deficit.
Also... what's with the whole psych up to and start on Y-day? What's wrong with: I'm back on plan with my next meal? Is plan too far off "regular"? If plan is currently too far off "regular", what happens at goal? Plan has to be able to survive contact with the "enemies"... even if the "enemies" are "the boy" or friends or relatives. (well... if not survive... at least not disintegrate in the face of the "enemies"!)
I agree with your "relatively" simple foods concept in terms of having to deal with hyper-palatable foods. Out ability to access hyper-palatable foods on an inexpensive and everyday basis as compared to the multi-day feast preparation such foods used to represent makes it difficult for many of us to stay "on track" calorie wise when dealing with delicious stuff! Not impossible. But more difficult than when we're dealing with "more simple" "whole foods". And hey, it's not as if I don't love eating my more simple foods either! In general I would think that most people who want to continue to eat hyperpalatable foods frequently and in quantity will have a harder time losing and maintaining.
Quoting off the web: 98% of (the US national weight control) Registry participants report that they modified their food intake in some way to lose weight. 94% increased their physical activity, with the most frequently reported form of activity being walking. There is variety in how NWCR members keep the weight off. Most report continuing to maintain a low calorie, low fat diet and doing high levels of activity. 78% eat breakfast every day (but I don't eat breakfast: being aware of what other people do doesn't mean that you have to emulate absolutely everything!). 75% weigh themselves at least once a week. 62% watch less than 10 hours of TV per week. 90% exercise, on average, about 1 hour per day.
And here is the kicker (for the go slow crowd): "We found that in the National Weight Control Registry, successful long-term weight loss maintainers (average weight loss of 30 kg for an average of 5.5 years) share common behavioral strategies, including eating a diet low in fat, frequent self-monitoring of body weight and food intake, and high levels of regular physical activity. Weight loss maintenance may get easier over time. Once these successful maintainers have maintained a weight loss for 2-5 years, the chances of longer-term success greatly increase."
(P.S.: I eat FAR from low fat. In fact my saturated fats are TOO high! Though I do eat LOWER than BEFORE!
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Oh... and since I'm doing random screen grabs
"When compared with regainers, maintainers more often continued strategies used during weight loss, weighed themselves regularly, and used productive problem-solving skills and positive self-talk. (go hamsters go!) Regainers experienced greater difficulty independently continuing food and exercise behaviors during maintenance, identifying decreased accountability and waning motivation as barriers. These findings suggest that weight loss maintenance efforts can be improved by addressing challenges such as long-term self-monitoring and problem-solving skills, and that maintenance success might depend on how people think as much as what they do."
So explain to the unruly hamsters who is in charge... and think of what you can ADD to your food (nice veggies, tasty legumes, quality 0% greek yogurt with low cal cherry pie filling--oops: wrong programming that last one was me!) instead of thinking about all the things you may be will NOT be doing AS MUCH. And remember that you can ALWAYS do SOME of the "other things". Just not unlimited amounts all the time!
(OK: this was a bit random.... I hope SOME things help SOMEONE, even if that someone is not Laurie specifically or anyone else currently having trouble getting back on track).
And yes, this makes people who manage to lose or maintain without an appreciable exercise component even more unique and accomplished weight management unicorns!4 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Good job, @tinkerbellang83. And you got your protein pancakes done. What exactly are they? Do you make a batch to freeze and then toast?
Just normal pancakes with half the flour replaced with protein powder and yoghurt to bump the protein content up. I'm trying to use up all the protein powder I have that's over it's Best Before date, so it'll be breakfasts for the foreseeable with an occasional break so I don't get sick of them ha.
I usually freeze any portions I don't need for the next couple of days and defrost ahead of needing them. I pop them in the microwave for 30 seconds.2 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »Laurie, what about ordering pre made meals for a little while and buying salads already made?
I found this exceptionally helpful over the Autumn months prior to leaving my job as I had been making poor choices and had little time/will to cook after 12-16 hour workdays.
Was a tad expensive for a decent fresh subscription as it's a relatively new concept here but it was worth every penny.2 -
tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
- 🚶🏻♀️8000 steps+ ✅
- 💧 7 glasses of water/cups of herbal tea ✅
- 📖 Read latest Kindle book on work breaks. Listen to Audiobook on drive. (GoodReads goal for this year is 50 books again, made it to 40 last year but only started in Feb so hopefully will give it a good go this year) ✅
- 🚣🏻♀️ Committee meeting for rowing club after work. ✅
- 🖋️Follow food plan and prep lunch for Wednesday ✅
- 🍗4 portions of Protein ✅
- 🍎 3 portions of fruit ✅
- 🧘 Yoga and/or Meditation before bed ✅
Tomorrow's goals- 🚶🏻♀️8000 steps+
- 💧 7 glasses of water/cups of herbal tea
- 📖 Read kindle on work break/ audiobook on drive home
- 🏋🏻♀️ Cardio & Strength workout
- 🖋️Follow food plan and prep lunch for Thursday (pick up some bagels)
- 🍗4 portions of Protein
- 🍎 3 portions of fruit
- 🧘 Yoga and/or Meditation before bed
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100% Tinker! Way to go
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Lol - you would laugh at how many premade meals I still have to go in the freezer. They have helped a lot. But I think the "bulk" eating really helped me as my midday meal. And I didn't really freeze anything like that - large servings of very low calorie veggies with scrambled eggs for protein. I think that really was a "secrety" recipe for me. A big part was actually taking the time to make it and feed myself well so things didn't get out of hand later.
Your response is so appreciated, PAV. I'm going to respond to that separately....2
