Swat Walking group - July

Good morning everyone! I hope all is good. I weighed this morning, I had taken the month of June off from the scale. I was down 3.8 lbs. I actually am ok with that because I ALWAYS gain in the summer and this was a loss. So I'll take it. I also set up a walking ticker for this month. I had not done it last month so didn't have any real goals. July I'm going to get some walking in. I's setting up an amount that is possible for me. I don't want to set myself up for disappointment. Maybe I can do more who knows.

I also am going to get back to logging and drinking my water. My good habits have kind of gone out the window durning June.

You all have a great long weekend, and stay cool, stay healthy!

I, too, got lazy the last month (or two!) but I am setting goals and getting back to a healthy routine!

I am starting small--600 minutes of REAL exercise--ie. not work-related--which is only 15 minutes on workdays and 30 minutes on my days off.

It's not much, but I also know if I start doing too much too fast I will just quit. This is mainly to get back into a regular routine instead of the hit-or-miss (mostly miss!) that I had been doing!

Thanks, Sandy, for keeping this going!:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: I've a feeling I would have quit a few months ago if it had been up to me!

Im back like I said I would be. Im really ready for it this time.

I plan on logging all REAL exercise minutes. Not cutting the grass, not gardening. And not grocery shopping just because it made me grumpy...lol.

I have reset my weight loss ticker too. Wouldn't mind getting down just a bit more. And I was suprised to see I actually lost almost 2 lbs since the last time I weighed myself.

June was actually my 1 year anniversary for being a member on MFP. Did a name change in there a one point. I would like to send out new friend requests to everyoone in hopes that you will accept it. Some of you are new and some of you I hope will "Refriend" me. I don't spend AS MUCH time on the site as I used to. But I will offer as much support as I can and give out "At-A-Girl" and Woo Hoo's. I love sharing recipies and Im also wondering if any of you are vegetable gardeners.

Really looking forward to joining in again. I've missed it!

Thanks again Sandy!

Lets have a great month!
Marie:flowerforyou:

Thanks Sandy for starting this again! I'm going to measure minutes. My goal for now is walking/biking/swimming (some form of exercise..) 4 times per week for 30 minutes. I'm going to be working the rest of the summer in the heat without AC so I don't know how that will go. For now this is my goal.

Mary-Congrats on your loss! Good job! I won't be able to weigh until I get home but I know I won't meet my 2 pound loss goal for this vacation! Too many family dinners and dinners out...

Jenny

Hi all,
it's great to see everyone back again. :flowerforyou:

Last month I finished with a bang and did 25 miles in 5 days to reach my goals. So for July I've decided to try for 75 miles. I know if I stick to it I can do it. the good thing, I dropped 3lbs, this last week. The last 6 months my weight has been stuck, I've just ignored it, being happy I wasn't gaining. So hopefully this will keep me motivated.

Marie, I love gardening. every year I grow a big garden. but this year since I was going to be gone so much, I kept it small. But there's nothing better then fresh veggies from your garden.

Jenny, I'm jealous, It sound like your have so much fun, Makes me want to go back to Id and visit my family again, I have 4 sisters, and I'm the only one who moved away. I loving visiting them. but sadly I won't get to go this summer. :frown:

Sandy, thanks for all you do,,,, I tried farmville for awhile, but I could keep up, and haven't been on it for a long time. My sisters are all really into it though. I prefer the real thing. except I dont keep the animals anymore.....

Everyone have a great 4th...:drinker:

Sandy thank you for starting the July thread and keeping us all on the path. I have live in Farmville, complete with animals and gardens to tend. It's much messier and physical in real life, but never boring.

Constance weigh to go! Great loss and great effort, good for you!

Hey Teresa hope the job is your and just what you need. Congratulations on losing that weight.

Hi Marie, welcome back. I vegetable garden and also do major flower gardens, and we mow three farmyards. Do you can or freeze any of your vegetables? I have a great recipe for tomato vegetable soup, it makes 16 quarts at a time.
I am about to go out and do some "unreal" exercise hauling woodchips for an hour in 90 degree heat. I will be logging those calories burned. I believe exercise can serve more than one purpose.

Mary way to go, hope this month is a great one for you.

Jenny the trip sounds wonderful, and you sound relaxed. Good for you, my sisters and I are talking about doing a midway get together this fall. Hope we can pull it off.

Ann hope the surgeon comes up with a solution. What a drag!! My SIL is also on a bad ankle that they thought they had fixed and she is wearing a brace fulltime. Prayers for your recovery, I know you will work your way through this.

I am going to log time and calories burned according to my HRM this month I have been doing 360 minutes or 3500 calories, and I hope to get back on track. I try to keep those minutes and calories in the real exercise area, but will also list an unusually hard workout in Agricise. Will be going to the Dr. this week as this bug is lingering in some rather unpleasant ways and I need to KILL it.

Must get back to work, Happy Fourth of July to you all!!!! Alice

Hi there Ladies

I just walked 6.6 miles today , Whoo Hoo :drinker: walked around the park twice & from there I walked to the beach & back again to the park. I joined a walking group in my community & I had suggested this new Path to take & I needed to check it out first. Tomorrow I meet the group for the first time. can't wait !!! :bigsmile:

Constance.. WOW! Awesome 3 lb loss in one week. Congrats :drinker:

Sandy..... Whoo Hooo!! On getting through the Jenny ford Tape. It's a great feeling completeing something your not sure you can do.

Ann... Sh--it!!! I'm sorry your still going through that Ankle Pain. UGH!!!! I pray the doctors can help you. Just stick with the water walks, It's the best exercise. Leslie Sanson can be more aerobics then just a soft walk on the legs, So becareful you don't over due it when you get back on your feet. Be patient You will get there Girl :flowerforyou:

Kathy... Hey Your on the right path now, 2 miles in!!! Stick with it!!! you can do it!!

Mary... Thank Goodness for the treadmill, right! I'll be pulling mine out too, BUT! I'm not looking forward to it :frown:
Sounds like a great July fourth at your place. Enjoy!!!!

Alice... Please share your tomato veggie soup recipe. Just leave out the quanity and just tell the ingredients. Because 16 quarts is way to much to make
Good Luck with the doctors

Jenny.... What's with no A/C at the Job? Thats Bull sh--it! :noway: I feel for ya!
Just enjoy yourself now :happy:

HAPPY FOUTH EVERYONE :drinker:

There is no way to leave the amounts out

1 heaping sink full of tomatoes (about a peck)
3 bunches celery chopped
3 large onions diced
3 large green peppers diced
1 quart sliced carrots
1 can lima beans
1 can sweet peas
1/4 cup canning salt

Blanch and peel tomatoes, cut into chunks, place in large kettle heat to a slow boil. While tomatoes are heating prepare fresh vegetables and cook to tender crisp in a large kettle. Add veggies to tomatoes, add 1 can peas and limas, add the salt.

This is the basic recipe. When I am canning this I do not add extra spices as they can get quite strong in the process. You can add spices as you like when heating it to eat. Basil is great in this. I like it with beef broth added, add meat if you like. I also add navy beans or garbanzos. I have also pureed it for a creamy tomatoe soup.

Good luck reducing the amounts. This is a winter time staple here. I can about 60 quarts for our house and my DIL's house.
The GKD's just pointed out that we are down to our last 2 pints of lumpy apple sauce. I make it with sweet and tart apples and rarely have to add any sugar.

Oh life on the farm. I grew up making butter, wine, cottage cheese and various and other sundries at home. We froze or canned all our own produce. My Mother would have 80 quarts of dill pickles, and sweet pickles, and pickled peppers. Maple syrup came in dry form, 5 pound blocks of maple sugar, which you added water to and cooked down. Endless quarts of tomatoes lined the shelves, and beans. carrots, peas, and on and on. Dried peppers of all varieties hung in bunches in the attic. Dries limas and kidney beans and great northers, were shelled while watching tv and put away for later. Bread baking was on Monday every week. I do not know how she managed it all. There were jams and jellies, and freezers full of meat and fruit and pies all prepared, crust frozen, stacked in bags and prepared fillings frozen in the shape of the pan to just pop into the crusts. Lest you think this was all she did all week, we had a home business, the family farm, there were nine of us, and she was an RN.

It is a habit I cannot break, I love putting food up. I love growing it, I love preparing it, I love knowing exactly whats in the food I give my family. Totaly old fashioned!!! Wow I have just babbled myself silly. Spent the evening setting up my first mist irrigation system for the flowers. Have many flower gardens and gardens to go and then will start on the park gardens when I have the system down pat. Nite all, Alice

Got in another couple of miles yesterday and will try to get 15 minutes of exercise before going to work. Yep, I get to work this morning! Oh well, at least I won't be 'sampling' the goodies for later while there!

We're grilling some salmon and corn-on-the-cob and have LOTS of green salad to go with it. I was going to make ice cream sandwiches but after spending WAY too long cleaning the kitchen I decided to buy some instead. Skinny Cow ones were on sale so we're good there, too! Now I just have to stay out of the potato chips!

Hi There Everyone :flowerforyou:

Kathy... Sounds like you got it undercontrol so far, WAY TO GO!!!. I just asked hubby about going out for a ice cream cone & he was against the idea, SO I got Skinny cow on the brain LOL!!! And then I come on & read what you wrote. To Funny!!!

I Hope you All Have a wonderful Safe July Fourth

I'm hanging around the house twiddling my thumbs after getting a much needed gardening done earlier. I'm finished with my calorie allowance for the day and its only 6 pm. Doesn't look good & I didn't get that skinny cow ice-cream yet :bigsmile:

Have a GREAT ONE Ladies :drinker:

Got in my 15 minutes this morning! I did NOT feel like doing it--too noisy to sleep last night! I guess none of my neighbors got the message that personal fireworks are now illegal inside the city limits! Sure hope they used them all up!

Another beautiful day here. Going to work soon so I can be home by the time it gets hot. (That's the best thing about my job--I can work the hours I want to work--within reason, of course!)

Have a wonderful day!

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Another beautiful day here. Going to work soon so I can be home by the time it gets hot. (That's the best thing about my job--I can work the hours I want to work--within reason, of course!)

That is fantastic!! Glad you can work it out to make it a little easier on yourself.

I walked 70 minutes today. One walk in the morning and one in the evening. Hot and humid out. Two days left in MI and then going to WI to visit father-in-law. Will be home by Sunday. Been gone awhile so I guess I'm gradually getting ready to be in my own bed, my own house, see my cat and son, and get back to a routine...

Had a great 4th! Hope you all did too!

Jenny