Oh yes! I am ready for this! I have been experimenting though out August, with different calorie amounts and exercise and IF and I have lost(repost?) 6.5#s, and I am sleeping better and I have less hunger. I still need to work on my emotional eating, but still not bad so my goals are:

Continue logging in with mfp
Continue IF
Continue exercising @ moderate intensity @ least 4 hours a week.
Continue calorie intake at MFP calories for .5# weight loss a week.
Continue exploring reasons for emotional eating and DO SOMETHING TO STOP IT-I AM TOO OLD FOR THIS!

Good luck to all !

Posture!
Continue 5 miles total steps per day for bone density.
Up weight/resistance training sessions to 30 minutes to build muscle. 3 times a week. Continue the ankle PT every day, which takes 18 to 28 minutes.
Figure out the eating back calories thing.

Walk 5 miles a week.
Do my Super Body workout 5 times a week.
Meditate at least 5 times a week.
Keep doing what I'm doing with diet.

Continue to improve my walking distance and speed. Also to continue with daily exercise bike and increasing the levels. I have been sedentary for so long Ive got to break the cycle! Hopefully will loose about 5 lbs this month.

September Goals:
Post daily.
NO evening grazing.
Get back to lifting weights 2 times per week.

I'm sticking with my goals that I did not do so well with in August:

1. Getting in an average of 45 minutes of exercise daily --- a minimum of 30 minutes every day without fail and a total of 315 (or more) each week. (Did well with this in August and intend to keep it going strong.)

2. Meditating daily.

3. Using my self-hypnosis course faithfully each day.

4. Reporting my actual accomplishment of above on a weekly basis.

Happy September and for those celebrating, Happy New Year!
~ Kathy

Hi to each of you!! I am back again.
I would very much like to do this challenge with you.
Here are my goals:

*I want to see at least a 6.3 lb decrease on my scale on September 30th!
*Drink 13 glasses of water / day
*Kitchen closes at 9:00 for me
*Follow Paleo totally everyday
*Plan menu's on Fridays
*Declutter the office - completely
*Upper body strength training every other day
*Start walking 10 min 3 X a day, then increase as my leg will allow.
*Mindful that July 16, 2016 is only 44 weeks away

Reba, I keep forgetting to share this. For when there's swelling in the ankle, etc.... I was having uncomfortable swelling. The physical therapist told me to massage behind the knee and at the groin. It gets the lymph moving to help the swelling.

Happy MAGNIFICENT Monday to each of you
And Happy Labor Day

DH is going to be laboring today as they are getting the combine ready for corn harvest. The dryland corn will be ready to cut in a couple of days. Then the irrigated corn, then the dryland soybeans, then the irrigated soybeans. And between all of the harvesting the wheat gets planted.
Fun on the farm

I blew it last night and started grazing. I should have gone to bed when hubby did. A new day and a new determination.

@seeingthelight if I may ask: what is IF?
@grandmothercharlie How many more pounds do you have to lose? I thought you were at maintenance? No?
@CrisEBTrue I hope you have a wonderful vacation. Where are you heading?
When we went to Colorado I certainly did not stay on course.
@lew0017 I can sit and make great plans - but the problem comes when I need to enforce those plans I fall flat, like last night
@sharondtd Thank you for the help with the swelling. I am going to try that!!
@mxchana We will be celebrating our 50th anniversary on 7/16/16!! Our plans keep changing as getting four families with 8 Grandchildren and 7 professions involved, we are having a difficult time with a date to celebrate. We are looking at the week between Christmas and New Years of next year.

I need to get busy today as I have a busy week of appointments. If hubby is working then so should I

Have a great day!!

Rebamae: Congratulations on your upcoming BIG anniversary!!! That's not a minor accomplishment!!!

Vacation: On Thursday we're driving up to Illinois to see my mom, sister and her family. Mom will be 95 on October 31; we always go up in September, before the weather turns cold. Mom's in an assisted living place; she has a nice little apartment. She is still sharp, spunky and funny.

Then at the end of the month, we are flying out to CA to see my mother in law. She's in a skilled nursing facility.
She's 87; has Parkinson's and is on a feeding tube. My FIL died in May, so her existence is kind of bleak; pretty much limited to watching tv and little else.

After a few days there, we are rewarding ourselves with a 2 week Panama Cruise. woo.

My goal for September was to break my low of 142. I hit 141.5 today. So, new goal will be 140! That will be ambitious though. Can only keep on, keepin' on. Can't eat less and can't exercise more.

@Rebamae I still have 11.5 pounds to go to maintenance (I think) or 130 pounds.

Congratulations!

I did 45 minutes on the stationary bike at the gym today, thanks to the nice lady who took the bike next to mine and then chatted for 20 minutes, so I was distracted and lost track of time. So, after I got back, and before lunch, I measured my blood sugar, and while it's not "low", it is lower than it has been since mid-June when I switched meds. It may have been a result of the exercise, and/ or the fact that I have aggressively eliminated more carbs from my diet. (these same carbs didn't bother me when I was on my other meds)

I am just relieved to see a lower number. Even if it's "high".

Congratulations Charlie and Cris for your lower numbers! Cris, my dad had diabetes. He was thin all his life and never was really into sweets or other high carb/glycemic foods. His dad had diabetes too. Sometimes it's just the way the genes fall. ....take it easy on yourself...

Happy Thrilling Thursday to each of you! and hopefully those thrills are all positive

I have had the tummy "thing" for the last three days. I am hopeful today will be better.

I am going to have Thursdays as my goal check. So here I go:

*I want to see at least a 6.3 lb decrease on my scale on September 30th!
*Drink 13 glasses of water / day
*Kitchen closes at 9:00 for me
*Follow Paleo totally everyday
*Plan menu's on Fridays
*Declutter the office - completely
*Upper body strength training every other day
*Start walking 10 min 3 X a day, then increase as my leg will allow.
*Mindful that July 16, 2016 is only 44 weeks away

1. I have lost 5 lb but that probably is due to eating chix noodle soup and yogurt most of the day.
2. I am drinking lots of water but need to keep track of how much
3. I have been having yogurt later than 9:00
4. Nope, not with chix noodle soup and yogurt
5. I did plan menus but of course haven't cooked any of it.
6. Have not worked on the office - been in the chair most all day sleeping
7. Same as above
8. Same as above
9. This has been a positive week for losing but not the way I like it. We will see if it stays off once I start eating again.

I hope I get to visit and catch up with you this evening!

Onward and downward we go