Monthly Post for July 2024
Meghan509
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July is here! Let's make it a good one!
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Good morning!
Hope you had a great weekend. Ours was good!
Saw your post from Friday @KateNkognito and you nailed it! LOLOL We didn't end up going to our get together at a friend's house because of the weather. It was scheduled to be a very hot and humid day and then it was supposed to be torrential rain at at around 9:00pm when we figured we'd be on the road heading home. Sitting outside in the humidity and driving home in heavy rain = no go. BF cancelled.
Rest of the weekend was nice even though the weather was lousy and very hot and humid. Storms hit last night and have cooled everything off for now. More heat and humidity expected again starting Thursday. But, honestly it is Independence Day and it is supposed to be that way from what I recall. LOL
Hope the fast went well too! Good for you.
Hope you have a nice quiet week and yes DO bring a book on Friday! I told our office manager / receptionist to do the same thing!
We have started binge watching the show called "The Bear" on Hulu. It is about a chef and restaurant in Chicago. Considered comedy but dark. Highly recommend it! They are shorter episodes and we plowed through season one in no time. Two thumbs up. Will be starting season two probably this week.
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@Meghan509 sounds like you had a nice weekend. 😊 Ours was pretty good, and I got a bunch of things done. Weather can't seem to decide between 80 and 110. Keeps flipping back and forth.
My fast went really well. No keto flu! 😊 However, after having breakfast this morning, I am sleepy. *Note to self: easy on the carbs next time.
Have a good week! Stay cool!
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Good morning!
Yikes that is warm @KateNkognito! Summer is here! Hope you stay cool and enjoy your holiday.
Congrats on the fast and yea no keto flu! Try some pink salt ground up (or shaken) in water if you ever feel low on electrolytes.
Feeling kind of blah here lately with my weight, eating, feeling older, etc. etc. I have had such terrible joint pain for the last few months and from what I am reading is it is menopause related. Time to buckle down and lose weight. Starting this week or as soon as the frozen desserts are finished - no more ice cream and garbage after dinner. Fruit. We both love it and it is much healthier. Also going to start walking, honestly whenever possible, even if it is just a few steps here and there around the office. Trying to avoid rain and humidity if possible.
That's it. Work is pretty quiet. Lots of peeps working remotely or on vacation or whatever. Traffic was not bad either. Home remote tomorrow and then off. Looking forward to it.
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Happy Wednesday! Or baby Friday, this week. 😊
Looking forward to the day off tomorrow. I can't decide if I want to clean like a crazy person, or lounge. My house really needs a good clean, and I know I will feel better if I do it, but I kind of want to just relax. We'll see what tomorrow brings!
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Happy Wednesday!
Yes, I hear you there @KateNkognito our place is due for a good scrubbing too! Maybe over the weekend.
Quiet day at work here. Working remotely and currently searching for the end of the internet. LOL Maybe I will pull out my book. Zzzzz. Couple more hours!
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Hope you had a happy Fourth of July! 🎆🎇 We had a nice day. Then the city display was last night. I can't remember a 4th with nicer weather! It was beautiful and cool. No mosquitoes or bugs, either. The office was dead and traffic was non-existent.
Have a lovely weekend! It is supposed to stay below 90 for the next week! I might head to the backyard to soak up some sun and relax.
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Good morning!
Our Fourth of July was relaxing and quiet! But, it was a good one! We cooked sausages on the grill and had them with some roasted bell peppers and onions. Kind of been our go to for a quick and easy meal on the grill!
Sounds like you had a nice one too @KateNkognito! Happy to hear it. We have gone to our city display in the past but the frustrating thing is trying to get out of the parking lot and home afterwards in a timely manner. The police really need to help step up and direct traffic, but they don't and the one time we went, it took over an hour to get home sigh... So we skip it and just watch stuff on TV.
We had a nice weekend too. Spent a lot of time inside due to the humidity but all in all a nice one!
Back at work after having some time off. Next week I am off Monday through Wednesday - my sister and her family are going to be in town. Looking forward to that.
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Happy Tuesday!
Crazy day here in the office. Argh! Pay back for having a little time off and it being slow the last week or so! But, that's okay. This too shall pass.
Stupid hot and humid here and my hair is not playing nice.
Saturday I have a hair appointment and I think I will tell her to chop off a bit. It is just so lifeless in this weather.
I am done complaining. LOL Hope your day is going well. See you soon!!0 -
Crazy couple of days! But I get to go meet a friend for ice cream this evening. 😊 And I did another 36+ hour fast. Fewer carbs = no carbs coma at work. 👍
I'm glad you had a nice weekend, @Meghan509! I hope everything slows down! Enjoy your hair appointment! That makes a girl feel better! And having family to visit next week will be fun, too. 😊
Must go and do the things. Tomorrow is Wednesday already!
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Had a nice time catching up with friends last night. Another lady that I also used to work with came along, too. Bonus! And today is a staff appreciation lunch. Double bonus!
Have a great rest of the week!
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Good morning!
Coming in right on your heels @KateNkognito LOL!
Glad you had a nice time with friends last night! And free lunch whoot! Congrats on your fast! WTG!
We have a "free" ice cream event downstairs at work today that I will probably go to. Just a small cup.
Another hot and humid one today! Pony tail for the win! LOL
Last night we had some fresh cherries and some mango after dinner and it was nice. Trying not to fall in to the trap of ice cream and crap at night after dinner.
Quiet day in the office today with lots of people remote. Fine by me!
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Happy Thursday!
In the office today and it has been busy but good. We had a big team lunch with our CEO today which was nice! He is friendly and likes to chat with and meet everybody. Such a difference from the last CEO!
My sister and family are on the way up to see us!! Their flight left this morning and they should land soon. Doubt we will see them today, most likely tomorrow after work. Looing forward to a few days off next week even though it will be HOT and HUMID!
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Happy Friday!
At home, working remotely. Cloudy and muggy sigh...
My sister and her family made it here to Connecticut safely. They will be coming over tonight. Looking forward to that! Tomorrow we have a get together at my Aunt's house and I will see some cousins and more family that I don't see enough.
Monday through Wednesday are vacation days. Looking forward to that too! I will pop in and out as I am able. Hope you have a great weekend! HOT and HUMID here!
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Made it through Friday! Barely. But it is the weekend!
@Meghan509 Enjoy your family time and time off! Stay cool! 😎
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What can I say except it's Monday. Nothing terribly exciting or bad. The weekend was entirely too short.
@Meghan509 I hope you are enjoying your time off and your family!
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Good morning!!
Time off and family visit going well!
Today we will head up to one of our state parks on the coast. There's a nice beach there. Looking forward to it. Supposed to be very hot, so we will bring a lot of drinks and lunch.
Hope your week is going well @Katenkognito!!
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@Meghan509 Enjoy the beach! 🏖️ I am super jealous!
Wednesdays are the day that everyone has to be in the office. However, it is always the least productive day because everyone talks to each other all day. 🤦🏻♀️
Have a great last half of the week!
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Good morning!
I am back! Back at work and back in the office physically today (for one day)! LOL
Thanks @KateNkognito the beach was nice! HOT and HUMID but the water was cool. My FL family members were like "oh the water is COLD"! LOL But, funny how it didn't bother them once they got in and saw how nice and refreshing it was on a hot summer day.
We had a nice time and a good week of "Staycation". Need to do that more often.
Yes, I know what you mean about days when everybody is in and everybody TALKS! I get that here. For me Tuesdays and Thursdays are the popular days for that. LOLOL
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Happy Friday! 🎉
The weather this weekend is supposed to be cool and rainy. I have plans to be productive, but I may end up curled up with a book and the dog.
Our garden made a good portion of my salad today. 😊
@Meghan509 Glad you had a good time! Enjoy your very short week!
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Saturday! Forgot to check in yesterday! LOL
Thanks @KateNkognito! Feels strange that I am off again! LOL
Stay dry! Finally nice here and less humid. Thank God.
Have a good weekend! Dinner with friends tonight at their house.
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Good morning!
Hope you had a great weekend! Our plans changed on Saturday so we were unable to go our friend's house. She's dealing with aging parents. Her Dad has dementia and moved in to assisted living and it was not going well. He kept trying to leave. Poor guy. Life is tough. Sigh...
We ended up going to BF's parents house on Saturday for a visit. We were overdue and it was nice to see them. All in all it was a nice and relaxing weekend and less humid thank God. For now. Humidity is coming back!
Good news and bad news time!
Bad news first - I signed up for a yearly premium subscription via Lose It. It is $39.99 for the the whole year which is 50% less than MFP.
I recently lost my MFP "streak" even though I have consistently logged in every morning for the past five years or so. I know I have logged in because it had told me I had a sixteen day streak of logging breakfast. But, yet I had a fifteen day streak of logging in?! How is that possible? I would love to know.
I have been a little disappointed with MFP ever since they took away the scanning feature and made that for premium only AND they took away the news feed where I could interact with a few of the people I got to know over the years outside of this board. Now those people are gone and other than emailing them, I really have no way to see their loses and updates. Kind of sad.
Good news - I will still be popping in here to post and catch up with you here via our Fasting Board. I have weighed in and am officially restarting as soon as all of the naughty food is out of the house and some new healthier food is purchased (Monday, July 29 is the plan). Possibly should be under the bad news, but I am currently at the highest weight I have ever been, plus four pounds. UGH.
Getting healthier and losing weight starts now. No more excuses. I don't like the way I look and have been feeling down about it. I also have had a lot of joint pain in my knees which I need to nip in the bud.
I will be doing a fasting window of 8:00pm~ to 12:00pm~ daily and I am starting with 1500 calories give or take. Also will be focusing on a Mediterranean and Vegetarian heavy diet at least at the beginning. We shall see how it all goes. One day and one step at a time.
I hope you had a nice weekend @KateNkognito and I hope you have a good week. See you soon.0 -
Good morning!
I am working from the office today. Traffic was not too too bad which was nice. Rainy and humid here at the moment. Ugh.
BF and I have been tracking our calories via Lose It and trying to be more mindful of how much we are eating and what the calories are for what. Very eye opening!
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This week can step on a Lego in soggy socks! That is all.
Sorry about your friend and their dad. It is rough. Prayers and hugs for them.
Good for you getting back to fasting! Honestly, I have considered leaving MFP, too. Starting fresh and going from here. Let me know how you like the new app. Does it support fasting?
I am going to go eat my feelings in chicken and rice fashion. Might add watermelon for dessert.
Have a great week!
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Good morning!
Yep, I hear you. Hope today is better @KateNkognito!! Yes, Lose It supports fasting! You can also set reminders for it, etc. I have it turned off since I am starting that next week, but seems very cool. The other thing that is cool is you can set a few different levels of calorie cycling, so you can eat more calories on the weekend vs the other days if you want to. I currently have it so Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are all a little higher than the rest of the week. Will tweak as needed.
BF and I are planning to rejoin our local gym. It is only five minutes from our house which is easy and pretty much a no brainer. Last time we joined it didn't work out and we ended up paying for a lot of months that we never once set foot there. It is a yearly membership. This time we feel more focused and even just if we try and use it for getting our steps in a few times a week it is worth it and we can definitely go on the weekends because often times we are just sitting around on our butt which is not good. Planning to sign up for their basic membership too, which is cheaper and means no group exercise classes for me. But that's okay because last time we got the more expensive membership I never took one class. Sigh...
I have been logging my meals and mainly trying to add some recipes that we will eat in the future and it is working nicely. If you have a link where a recipe is, you can add it to the app and it will calculate the calories and macros and it does require a little clean up but same as with MFP. The other thing that I like is that BF and I can share meals. We eat the same dinner and if he can copy that from me then it is very helpful and vice verse if he has a lunch in his diary, I can copy from him.
I woke up with a headache today and I don't know whyyyyy... Hormones I am blaming. This menopause stuff is for the birds. Sigh...
Hot and humid again today but office is COLD so that helps. Traffic was decent.
Hope you have a good day. See you soon.
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Today is a much better day!
@Meghan509 I signed up with Lose It last night, just out of curiosity. Fasting is a premium feature, and I signed up for the 2 week trial. It's a nice app. I may switch over permanently. The only glitch I found is logging my weight. It doesn't transfer from my Withings app to Lose It as well as MFP does. Otherwise, it seems a bit more intuitive for logging things. We'll see if I like it.
Good for y'all with the gym! Sometimes having a place to go and do the things is a great motivation.
The weather here is warming up and there is smoke in the air. My head is all stuffy and the whole office is coughing and sneezing today.
Have a great rest of the week!
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Good morning!
Oooh that's awesome @KateNkognito that you signed up. I didn't know that Fasting is a Premium Feature. I think I was put on the Premium plan automatically when I signed in and I have a free seven day trial with it. Then the app will let me know a few days before that if it is okay for Google Play to charge me for the it. I am going to stick with it for now. Yes, I thought it was intuitive as well.
We are waiting to see how much our electric bill is going to be, before we sign up at the gym. LOL BF is right. Stupid A/C has been blasting non stop and need to be smart about putting out MORE money for something that can wait a little or until we know for sure what it will cost. Sigh....
Hot and humid again here but tomorrow through Sunday should be nicer and less humid. Looking forward to it!
Saw those wild fires happening and I am thinking that air is funneling towards you. Ick. Hope you feel better!
See you soon.
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Well, today I am getting my desk cleared of all the things. My goal is to have it all done by the end of tomorrow. 😊
@Meghan509 Our poor air conditioner is really going to have a run next week! 100°+ all next week. 🥵 I hope it gets nice and cool for you so you can join the gym.
Back to work. These files aren't going to scan themselves.
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Happy Friday!!
I recently did a little clean up my desk as well and tossed lots of crap @KateNkognito! Helps clear the mind too!
UGH 100 degrees F is just not cool and not right. Hope it goes well for you guys! Looks like our weekend should be less humid and nice but then it ramps up next week and especially towards the end of the week. Here we go again!
Got a new humidifier off of Amazon Prime days and it has already filled up its little bucket with water! Crazy.
Hope you have a good day and a nice weekend. See you soon!0 -
I can't believe it is almost August! July really flew by!
I think I am going to switch to Lose It. I like the UI. And the premium is not that much. It's good to change things up once in a while, too. 😊0 -
Good morning!
Yes, where did the month of July go!? We have been enjoying watching the Olympics! GO USA!
Yea, happy to hear you are going to switch over to Lose It. I like it too @KateNkognito!
Today is week one day one for me officially. So far just coffee with milk and saving my calories for breakfast and lunch. Bought a lot of fruits and veggies at the market on Saturday. No ice cream or frozen treats for now. Almost noon Eastern and feeling a little hungry but hanging in there for now.
Hope you have a good day and a good week. August starts on Thursday *screams*. 0
