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  • Sandcastles61
    Sandcastles61 Posts: 506 Member
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    You swimming in your jeans? ;) jk[/quote] and a huge congrats on the jeans!!

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    Well I didn't really like wearing the swimsuit last week so I thought I'd up the anty and practice my falling out of the boat swimming to shore skills ;) teehee
  • catherinebarkleydied
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    Hi! I am 60....amazingly.......have had battle with weight since I was 15 and 121 pounds. Have been up and down since then from 312 to 107. I now weigh 262. So much for numbers. Is that all I think I have to share with you? And yet you all are the only ones who would "Get it". There is so much more than numbers. I finished my BA and MA and am now interning as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I have been studying and living out the life of food obsession and have found some answers that make sense to me. I want to help and be helped......sometimes this journey can be lonely.....Jennifer
  • butbygrace206
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    Welcome everyone. I will def check out that book, Karen. I've only been on here 3 weeks (almost). I'm actually doing the south beachy way of eating. Best for me. It is a life style change and it's my desire to do so :).
  • SuzyH
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    Good morning! I haven't posted since last week, but I've been keeping up with you! Just want to say that you are all an inspiration for me to keep with it. Had a great day yesterday sledding with a friend... Yes, sledding. At first when she suggested it I thought she was crazy! We did it and I haven't had that much fun since ... Well, I can't remember! It was crazy! Made me realize how important it is to not always be so serious and to stop to smell the roses! Enjoy life, be thankful, and keep on the right path so I can keep doing things like sledding... Maybe next time I'll take the grandkids! LOL!
  • Sandcastles61
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    Welcome Jennifer! Congratulations on entering the 3rd stage of your life with a bang! How inspiring you are following a new dream with your education to become a therapist. When I turned 50 it hit me that we go through essentially four lives and I had entered my third. I'm still trying to figure out a fun career change to pursue until I retire.....

    How fun Suzy H! Sledding.... I haven't gone in years either but I have a huge grin on my face for you :D. You definitely need to take the grandkids! I can already hear their laughs and shrieks of fun <3

    Best intentions aside, Friday night we headed to the pool only to get caught up in a 3 1/2 hour closure of the interstate freeway. A sad soul was threatening to jump off an overpass :'( Fortunately they were able to safely talk him down..... But we missed the swim time. Never fail, we went out to dinner instead ;) Probably not the best trade~ off, but it sure was yummy! For the past couple of years, we only order one entree and split it 1/4~3/4. Restaurant portions are always so huge I'm full after the salad and can never eat a full meal. I did have to talk him into Rockfish instead of a creamy pasta dish, but he was a good sport <3. Besides, I think he likes that I'm a fairly cheap date HAHAHA!

    Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday!
  • butbygrace206
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    SuzyH wrote: »
    Good morning! I haven't posted since last week, but I've been keeping up with you! Just want to say that you are all an inspiration for me to keep with it. Had a great day yesterday sledding with a friend... Yes, sledding. At first when she suggested it I thought she was crazy! We did it and I haven't had that much fun since ... Well, I can't remember! It was crazy! Made me realize how important it is to not always be so serious and to stop to smell the roses! Enjoy life, be thankful, and keep on the right path so I can keep doing things like sledding... Maybe next time I'll take the grandkids! LOL!


    Sounds so fun! I think I may give that a go! I'm sure we will have another snow, here in Ohio :).

    Sandcastle, so glad the person was talked down. Swimming will come another time.

    Have an awesome day, everyone.

  • Sandcastles61
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    Happy Monday everyone! Well, Mondays are my day to hit the scales..... Between all the hard work I did last week and forgetting to eat (too many times to count, yeesh! ) I still managed to lose 1.5 pounds this week! That brings me to 13 total~ nearly my halfway mark!! I'll take it :D

    My goal this week is to make sure I get my 3 meals and 2 snacks in me and drink my water! We also ate out twice this weekend including sushi last night with low sodium soy sauce, but I can feel a little water retention in my hands so that was probably not a good choice either, LOL. But that's real life for ya :)

    Hope you all had a terrific weekend! Congratulations to Unigoop for 6 pounds! Woowza :D
  • lknewth
    lknewth Posts: 6 Member
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    I'm 52 and trying to start back again with eating healthy and exercising. I do well for few weeks and then slack off.
  • taco_inspector
    taco_inspector Posts: 7,223 Member
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    lknewth wrote: »
    I'm 52 and trying to start back again with eating healthy and exercising. I do well for few weeks and then slack off.

    That'll happen if you cruise a lot ;) (damn the buffet, full speed ahead!)

    it does take some determination. Have you ever thought about why you "slack off" after a few weeks?
  • sundalp
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    Would love to join the group. Need to lose 100 pds- taking one day at a time
  • kgerette1
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    55 here, female from MI. I'll join. Recent cancer survivor and even though going to gym and eating healthy, scale not moving. Frustrated.
  • butbygrace206
    butbygrace206 Posts: 394 Member
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    Welcome everyone. It is nice to be part of a group that we can ask for help, or encouragement, or just vent for a min. I down loaded the app 3 weeks ago and was totally amazed at how many "blind" calories I was eating. While cooking supper I would take a bite of this or taste that or try this, all of which could add up to a lot of calories throughout the day. Now that I'm fully aware, that has stopped. I did totally clean my fridge and pantry of all "forbidden" foods. The only way I felt I could succeed. This has become a lifestyle change for me. I want to enjoy my grandkids ;)

    Hope all has a great Monday !
  • Sandcastles61
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    Welcome everyone! We're all on the slow boat to weight loss and making healthy lifestyle changes for a lifetime. To me that means celebrating one small victory in my journey every day, and acknowledging then setting aside the times I know I've goofed a bit. Standenvernet is right that we just need to try to figure out what was happening when we slipped, then accept it and move on :)

    To kegrette, congratulations on reaching survivor status <3. Cancer is a difficult journey on it's own and that darn weight gain from treatment is so much harder to lose for some reason. But, you've already made it through the hard part! And you've lost 8 pounds!! As your body adjusts to it's new healthy self, it will start giving up the weight a little at a time. Make sure you are taking your measurements because I know from experience I can see inches shrinking faster than the number on the scale, especially since you are working out at the gym :D
  • lknewth
    lknewth Posts: 6 Member
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    standenvernet wrote: »
    lknewth wrote: »
    I'm 52 and trying to start back again with eating healthy and exercising. I do well for few weeks and then slack off.

    That'll happen if you cruise a lot ;) (damn the buffet, full speed ahead!)

    it does take some determination. Have you ever thought about why you "slack off" after a few weeks?

  • lknewth
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    I usually feel tired. I know if I can make it to the gym I feel better. It's being consistent to get there that's been the problem
  • fraserco
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    Almost 54, need to lose 100+ pounds. 29 yr marriage on the rocks, health is starting to be impacted. Would love to join this group.
  • taco_inspector
    taco_inspector Posts: 7,223 Member
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    lknewth wrote: »
    I usually feel tired. I know if I can make it to the gym I feel better. It's being consistent to get there that's been the problem
    Yep -- and after some consistent performance you may be able to form a habit for gym time.

    For me, "the gym" was really enough of an excuse to not go to the gym (just hated it there). Really wasn't sure if the gym ran afoul of my base personality or what, but I didn't like it; so I did not go.

    As a good turn of bad-fortune, I'm coming up from being so sedentary and out of shape, that a little bit of any activity will help; so I looked at body-weight exercises (really "exercises" is an over-statement, more body-weight "motions") that I could reliably perform to get myself in motion. More importantly, the "gym" was not gonna dictate my self-recovery... I began to log my eating accurately and make choices based on my own eating patterns to help reduce my intake to something near target levels.

    For "body motions", simple walking and opting for stairs can get things moving. I also try to begin each morning with squats (often just in the shower being safe and cautions about it). Building up from one to about 50 or so each morning. Small dumbbells helped to get the rest of me moving AFTER I began without weight to understand correct form and to get old-fat moving again. In my thinking, the no-weight to low-weight approach removed any excuses I would have, with the added benefit of allowing my body to understand full range of motion with minimal risk of injury.

    I'm sure at some point I will "need" a gym, but at the moment, I'm moving along my goals at (or above) my anticipated rate, with fairly consistent performance of muscle retaining exercise, but without the ability to blame "the gym" for my own transgressions.

    Granted, it's only been a few months, and time will tell... This is week-7 of logging food here with MFP, and not only do I weigh ~7% less than I did 10-weeks back, but I can already feel some energy and endurance returning. I know that my losses will slow down, and that my physical gains will plateau; so when they do, maybe I'll find a nicer "gym", or just head outside where all the good times are.

    For me at least, "the gym" was a premature step, but served as a very convenient scapegoat for my lack of will to initiate.
  • taco_inspector
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    fraserco wrote: »
    Almost 54, need to lose 100+ pounds. 29 yr marriage on the rocks, health is starting to be impacted. Would love to join this group.

    You are not alone, even if you're gonna get more snow again this week :) . For me it was all about STARTING and staying at something; being HONEST in logging my food intake has been the single most-helpful step in my short bit of success. I see no reason that I won't continue to be successful, and there's certainly no reason that you won't be...

  • Tiso2
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    Good new day everyone
  • Tiso2
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    Tiso2 wrote: »
    Good new day everyone
    Tiso2 wrote: »
    Good new day everyone

    For some reason my complete posts don't "post" looking forward to being a part of this community
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