Great day and Blessings to all!! I plan on going for a walk around our local park with the Bestie, or if it is raining at the time, putting on some loud music and dancing the bootie off!! :laugh:

WooHoo! My first noticeable NSV! I shaved my legs today not just the bottoms, my whole legs -fronts, backs, tops, and bottoms! Its Capri season so I figured - give it a try. Now my next goal - give myself a pedicure. I tried today -no go. My feet are in such bad shape. The calluses are so bad that every time I walk they crack. My socks are bloody by the end of the day. My sister has her own salon but I'm over the weight limit for her chair. Even if I wasn't I'm so short that my feet cant reach the foot bath anyway. She says come in anyway and they'll just use a chair and bucket, aaaa no!! :blushing:

I avoid the mall, I think in the 11 years I have lived here I have been there only a few times. My perception of the mall is that everything there is too expensive and I don't like wandering around window shopping. The other thing that bothers me is I am not sure which clothes stores I might wander into cater to my size. But the worst thing of all is the food court an Cinnabon.. the smells are so amazing and make me want to eat hungry or not! I just don't want that amount of pressure on me at this time.

I worked today but on both breaks I walked and also took a walk with my girls tonight. I'm a little frustrated by some unexplained weight gain this week but it's happened before. Just gotta keep at it and trust the process and it will come back off.

I am actually HOPING I am getting this making smarted choices while eating out down . We had to do our usual eating out for dinner when we went to pick up my son and there are only a handful of restaurants in the town where we get him; mainly fast food which is a no go for me. I don't really like fast food even when I am not watching what I eat surprisingly, since I like most things lol. We ended up at a Mexican restaurant that we have eaten at a few times. I was worried to be honest about the chips and then the food choices. I only ate 3 chips, 3!! , omg you all do not know what a huge thing that is for me!! LOL I can normally clear a bowl of chips by myself!! I limited it to three and savored them so that I could just relish it, and it really wasn't that great. The salsa was good, but the chips..ehhh. I also ordered a new dish because I wanted to try something different and better for me. It was grilled fish, shrimp and chicken with veggies and rice which whoo hoo i subbed again for double veggies!!! When they brought that plate of food out even my husbands eyes got huge lol. It was a massive plate of food!! And actually ALL healthy!!!! I had to even get a to go box because I couldn't eat it all! Woot for lunch tomorrow!.

Sandy , What Karen said about coconut oil may help for sure. It is wonderful for things like that!! And your feet will smell yummy LOL!!

Pat, It is so hard to try to eat healthy with temptations in our face. Hopefully it gets easier as time goes on. Hope you had fun on your walk!!

Lori, So good that you accepted what you did and you are moving past it. That is all we can do. Tomorrow is a new day And good job on committing to getting some exercise in !!

Sarah, Grats on getting a few walks in today!! Don't worry about that scale, that is only a number. It will be how you feel , and how your clothes fit also. I know it is very discouraging though seeing the number go up. Every time mine does it makes me want to cry; especially if I feel like I have been doing everything I should. Just take a deep breath and disregard the mean scale

Julie I DESPISE the mall for all of the same reasons as you do lol. The food court kills me!!!! And today when we were there there was this wonderful smelling coffee shop right beside us that just made me want a frappachino lol I didn't give in, but that temptation was sure there!! Dang T-Mobile for not having a store closer to the sticks where we live!!!!! :laugh:

Congratulations to everyone for all of your victories. Because that is what is happening here. Checking-in raises our awareness which will then influence our choices (good choices most of the time :happy: . That being said, I really have come to realize that I have a lot of trouble keeping my food under control whenever I have my grandchildren with me. I will have to contemplate how to make healthy choices for myself and not give in to the temptations that are around whenever the children are. I know people will say to just feed them only healthy foods, but what might be healthy for them (blueberry whole-wheat pancakes from scratch for example) might not be something I should have. I will have to give that more thought and yes I would appreciate suggestions.

Karen, the May Challenge is motivating. After the grandchildren left, I wanted to just sit and rest, but I did a little housework because of the challenge. Now I am happier that the house is tidy.