Sorry I dropped out for afew days. Monday helped my son do a weedeating job and after 4 hours when I woke up on Tues I could barely move, atleast I burned alot of calories. Nothing too exciting on Tues. work, helped a friend move, carpet cleaned the house and dropped into bed. Today will be more exciting Ladies Guild year end luncheon with wine! I must be careful what I eat, will report back tomorrow.
Sounds like everyone has been busy glad to here about vacations and spending time with families.
Everyone have a terrific day!
ps green smoothie this morning
3/4 kale
frozen bannana
3/4 apple juice
1 celery stalk
splash lemon juice
1/2 c ice

Hump Day - yaaa!

@deetee - One day of eating lite will put you right back on track. Just think how great you will feel! You got this!

@jill - Thanks for the smoothie recipe. That combination - really? banana, spinach, water & PB powder - I won't knock it til I try it.

Feeling more hungry than I want. I need to increase my protein. Went for a TBSP of PB this morning, tuna for lunch - what to do for dinner. . . . .?

Further proof of my newly acquired sensitivity to salt, which I have read can come with menopause. I ate 2 servings of pretzel Goldfish (40gm pretzels) Monday night, but other than that have been at or slightly under my calorie goal for quite a few days in a row. Tuesday morning was up 3 pounds! I am down 1.5 today and I assume I will be back to where I was tomorrow. I certainly am not going to cut out all salt, but decrease my intake, and not be bummed when the scale jumps after a few measly olives.

On the other hand, I am down 2.9 pounds since I joined this group about 3 weeks ago. After a maintenance period of more than a year. Thanks for being there everyone, and for inspiring me to keep working at this.

Had a great time and lots of intensive exercise at my fencing last night. Walked this morning and will do so again after dinner with a great friend. I love going for walks with girlfriends. We can walk miles and catch up on all the latest, too. Trendweight.com says I have lost 3 pounds in the past 2 weeks. Finally the losing has started again. It's amazing how that happens when I just track everything and eat within my goals.

So today has been a bit of a review day for me (hope this post isn't too long).

Yesterday I had logged for 50 days which is halfway to a small mental goal I have of 100 days - I intend to do it for longer, always?, but 100 days is the first milestone in that.

Also yesterday I registered that I have lost 14.5lbs with 29lbs left to go so that is 1/3 of that amount achieved. There may be more weight loss after then but I won't know til I get there as I've not been at the weight for so long that I have no clue what it will look or feel like.

However I think I need to do more. My daily walk has dwindled from 61/2 miles to 3 miles as the people I walk with just amble along and don't like taking their dogs into a field that sometimes has cows in it. So I either need to ditch them, in the nicest possible way, or add another longer walk into my day.

And I am aware that having lost this stone+, my clothes feel better but things are jiggly so I have spent a lot of time today reading and looking up strength training. I did a 24 minute Fitnessblender (free on youtube) video at lunchtime with 1kg weights - the lady in the vid was doing it with anything from 9lb-48lbs, eek! - and I can feel that something was working. So I'm going to do more of that.

Diet wise I'm relatively happy - I think I need to eat a bit more, I don't always eat as much as I'm allowed especially with exercise calories added, and I need to up my protein and even my fat a bit. That's fine, eating more is not a problem. I wish we could PB2 in the UK and some of those amazing protein powders and bars that I see mentioned.

Ladies who do strength training, what weights did you start on? And how swiftly did you increase? I have a shoulder that dislocates so I am wary of too much and there will always be moves that I cannot/will not do but I would like your opinions, please?

Been struggling with a annoying head ache and nausea on and of during the last week and as I'm not used to head aches i find it hard to have em. I get grumpy and don't think any thing is fun so i hope it will go asap.

Diet is back to good and exercise i keep up, walking actually makes the head ache better for a hour or two.

Got several exercises for the knee and will keep doing them.

Today the physical therapist wanted me to work/test my balance so he took out a ball with a standing circle on. I stood on it and kept standing not letting the circle touch floor so he said
- lets make it harder look to floor then wall then window.
I did so and he said with a laugh
- well thats to easy for you
and took out a foam block and said stand on this with 1 leg i did and then had to look like before, up and side ways, and then he said
-hmmm thats to easy for you too and i don't have more to challenge your balance with, try to at home find something like a pillow or so that makes you loose balance and train with it.

i guess thats my yoga i can thank cause before it i sure didn't have good balance

Wednesday night I did an amazing Aqua-Kickboxing class at the outdoor pool which was killer, but lots of fun. This morning it was Aquacize and deep water run at the indoor pool. I think I get more of a workout getting showered and dressed afterward though - poops me out. I think I understand young teen boys better now, "Shower?! Mmmm, nah, too much bother!" :laugh:

Liana

Today, I ate the worst possible things and drank two delicious hard ciders for a whopping 400 calories. But on the bright side, I logged it all. I'm trying so hard to get back to logging regularly. It's the only thing that works for me.