Karen, not only is it sunny and warm today..it's the 2nd day in a row! woohoo let's hope this continues.

Now that the pool is open my short term goal is to get out there and swim every day. No set amount of time each day, other than it has to be for at least 20 mins. (thank God it's a heated pool or I wouldn't be in it until August!) My semi- short term is to lose 40 lbs by November when we are going to Disney.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Off to my nephew's graduation party. Ciao!

Happy Sunday my friends!! So glad to hear that you are finally getting some warm weather Karen. Here all it seems to do is rain on and off all day. And all that does is make it so humid it's almost impossible to get outside. But I'm still working on getting outside as much as possible. No real plans today except working on a load of laundry and trying not to worry about money which has been impossible lately especially since yesterday I got a notice that they are going to cut the electric off if I don't get them money I don't have. Tomorrow I'm going to call around and see if I can get some help paying it but there's nothing I can do today so there's no sense in worrying about it. Right?

As far as the specific naming of "bad" foods, I know I try to not name them for that exact reason. Not only might they trigger someone else but they can also trigger me to eat more of it. The only problem I see is how to determine the definition of a "bad" food. For some people who are cutting carbs, "bread" might be a trigger word. I'm not sure about that exactly but was just thinking it might be. Just a thought. I'll go with whatever everyone else thinks and like I said I try not to do it anyhow.

As for short term goals....I've broken my weight loss down into 50 pound increments since the beginning of my weight loss journey after going back up from my lowest after surgery. The amount that I needed to lose was just too large for me to wrap my mind around. Not to mention, the thought of being lower than 250 was until just recently completely terrifying. My current 50 pound goal is set at weighing 250. I set daily, weekly and monthly goals as well. My daily goals are things like: log ALL of my food, drink 190 ounces of water, do something for myself every day (even if it's only 5 mins), stay within my set calories (I try not to eat my exercise calories but sometimes I splurge, lol). As for weekly, it's things like: do something purposeful as far as exercise (even if it's just a walk, which my fitbit automatically enters onto MFP so it doesn't show up in the stream) for 30 minutes 5 days a week, work on therapy "homework" at least 3 days a week. My monthly goal is to lose 6 pounds a month. Soon I'm going to be adding a special "me" time every month but that has to wait until after I get my mom paid off and the bills caught up. I only have one more month and my mom will be paid off and then I figure a couple months to get the bills caught up. After that I have made it very clear that I WILL get a one hour massage once a month!

Have a fantastic Sunday!!!
Dee in Missouri

Hey Everyone!

I have learned through my many attempts at losing weight that my success is completely tied to whether or not I am logging each day. Good or bad. This time I plan to award myself based upon the numbers of days I log. I can't control the scale, but I can control my behaviors.

50 days = small reward
100 days = medium reward
150 days = large reward

I'm still brainstorming my reward for each of these milestones.

Angie

Karen, I am in! By Heather's birthday I will be 15 lbs lighter! And brrrrr on the lake. It was nice here today but there is no way that anything beyond my toes would be in the lake! Are you on Sebago? It hurts my old bones!

Heather, thanks for letting us use your birthday as our goal! Hope you got your A/C fixed! But spending that time in the pool was probably nice too!

Angie, I never thought of rewarding myself for days logged. Good idea! Good luck!

Now I can't remember who else I was going to respond to. Ugh. Getting old sucks! I still blame my memory on pregnancy brain and I haven't been pregnant for 7 years!! HA!

I am ok with people talking about foods, but I can see how it would be hard for some, so I will be fine with whatever we decide as a group.

Edited because now I remember it was Dee that I was going to say something to! Dee, it sucks to have money issues. So sorry that you are going through it. Good luck finding some help and hopefully things will turn around real soon for you. Hugs!

Diana in Maine

I say talk about whatever you want, we are all responsible for dealing with our cravings, and frankly if complaining about cheeseburgers or pizza is something that will help, I need a place to do it.

Other wise this day has been going well but its disgustingly hot and wont cool down till its way to late for a walk.

I had a short term goal of 10 pounds and I got 9 in one week, I found that upping my water intake majorly like 100 plus ounces a day and walking 2 miles a day and logging my food meticulously it worked and no I did not starve take a look at my food diary....

Hi Maryellen, glad you remembered the site. You're here now and that's what's important. Glad you found our little group. I'm sure you'll love it here. I know I do. It's a great group of people. And you are definitely right when you say one day at a time. Welcome again!!

Thanks Diana for the kind words. I just have to keep truckin' along and know that eventually it will all work out. I wouldn't have brought it up at all except stressing over money means eating out of stress for me if I'm not careful and venting always helps. Thanks again

Dee in Missouri

Welcome Maryellen!