Serial Starters
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What a supportive and inspirational group! I'd like to check in here (hopefully regularly...I need it!).
I was a regular on an old WW board years ago but stopped visiting that site about 1 year ago. Prior to that I had been on it about 14 years! I started in the chat rooms then moved to the specialty groups. I found so much support there, I'm sad to read it was eliminated.
I lost 105 pounds over the course of 2 years doing various diets, including WW. I regained 30 of those pounds and am now hoping to lose that plus 5-10 more. I log my foods but don't do WW.
Anyway, I read a couple pages on this thread, off to read more. Have a great day!1 -
Welcome walkdmc. Wow 105 in 2 years that is amazing. Good on you to come back and get it at 30 before it goes higher. I wish I did that. I just let it go up 5 then 10 and then I was up at where I started and then passed it. 70lbs later!1
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Day is done at least work wise.
Welcome Walkdmc! Stop by and post when you can. If you did it once, you can and will do it again one day at a time.
Pretty brain dead after work, so I will be snoring soon under Lana's Palm Tree, sending her good thoughts for Dr apt tomorrow.
Lady at work has a very swollen eye and I was able to get the name of the best eye doctor in town hoping she can get a referral to see him. Take a little of the fear out of it. Gave her chocolate too.....
If I dont stop by later, wishing all a good evening.1 -
Waving to all! Pretty uneventful last few days. Hoping to stay that way all week. Going home to see family this weekend, mom's birthday. Try to stop in tomorrow. Take care all1
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TUESDAY
Good Morning!
Those Cabana Boys Under Lana's Palm Tree are bored and worse they are whining.... not pretty. So to give them chores I ask: if they could make a potion in a spray form for you today what would it be?
Me: I really like the "mute" spray the boys sent me, sadly loud lady is not within reach this week (her last!! yay), but how about a spray that makes me see the productive side of things (drown out whining?).
Lana - sending good thoughts for you today. Lady at work has W/TH/F off herself for dr apt - she is not saying yet but cancer is possible. Drop by when you can.
Oatmeal is ready and I need to scoot.
Wishing all a great day.0 -
It's Tuesday. Boy, I had a hard time getting out of bed this morning. I know the stress of my dad's hospitalization/health and my son moving to college next week is just making me want to curl into a little ball. Trying to fight back! So, I did get my 2.5 miles on the treadmill last night (so I would hit my 10,000 steps.) Eating was okay yesterday. A little carb-heavy, but I didn't go over my carbs. Pants still feeling too snug. Haven't weighed myself since last Thursday after a not-great weekend.
Lana - thinking of you today.
Welcome Walkdmc!
Trying to get myself into the mode to figure out our budget and stick to it. Credit card bill is too high (we used it quite a bit to fix up the house this summer, only to decide not to sell it.) Time to pay it down and hopefully be rid of it for good. DH is not good at sticking to a budget or recording things in the checkbook and it always feels like a struggle when I try to reign in the spending. But it's got to be done.
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I'm gonna try to check in here regularly. I feel like I 'start over' every day, and not in the motivational sense.
But I weighed 3lbs less than I thought I did (must've had some water weight when I weighed last..) so I got a tiny taste of motivation. Also photos of your friends who have lost an absurd amount of weight and look great.. there's a kick in the butt if I ever needed one!
I hope you all have a lovely Tuesday! Try not to drown in work.0 -
Thanks for the friendly welcomes! I was in a group a while ago and I had to write down notes about each poster to respond to them personally. It sounds weird and forced but truth is, it really helped me learn about the other members and made a casual check-in more formal and that translated into better adherence to my food plan.
Anyway, I didn't do that today, lol (but I will!). So I'm responding to folks on this page.
Lana-wishing you the best.
Tillie-your mute spray sounds like a winner, lol! Do you picture spraying it directly on the person (like disciplining a cat on the counter top) or just mist the entire room?
ASalner- good job not letting an "off" weekend turn into a screw-it mentality. Those pants will be loose before you know it. Ugh, spending $$. I just like buying stuff and hit up the weekly Lululemon online "sale" like it's my job. I really need to cull my hoard and watch my spending.
25lbs- (great name!) I love scale surprises and that 3 pound loss sounds very motivating.
Last night was not great, too much junk food with too much sugar. I write down my food plan for the day and my goal is to stick to it. More goals for today:
Drink 1 gallon water
Do my home PT (had knee surgery)
Keep my kitchen clean so I'm not tempted to hang out in there "cleaning" (aka, thinking about eating)
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Hi All-
Late post. Quick hello. Bad day yesterday and half and half on today (the day isnt over yet so hopefully can redeem myself)
Continental Breakfast at work. I thought have a WW drink before and so I would not indulge. Yep, I indulged. Why, because it was there. Lunch- chinese food. Hadn't had it in a long time and so it was good and yummy. But.... then I went out for a few drinks and pickings... ok I figured not good but I will skip dinner. Came home and had that buzzy feeling and wanted to eat so I had pasta with mozzarella/tomatoes and A LOT of it. Topped the night off with Nutella.
Woke up this am and felt so so from all the food. Had top of a muffin and lunch was not bad except for the ranch dressing. My workplace (new job) has free lunch and so I am trying to save money by eating at work. THey do offer a lite fare but have not seen it yet. I ate rice/beans (brown beans brown rice) and only a little rice, pulled pork and veggies but skipped the tortillas= had a salad but used ranch dressing. that was the only bad part.
BUT>>> I am meeting more friends tonight for drinks and so...hopefully it wont be a repeat. I sound like a big drinker but since I moved back "home" everyone wants to go out for drinks and so several nights I have been out. It will end by this week since I would have seen everyone. THen my life gets quieter.
Tomorrow I join the gym with my other friend.
On a postive note- been drinking the water and sleeping!
Have a good day eveyrone
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Hi Sara and Jen and Dawn and Annie and 25 and Walk!
All of the whining Cabana Boys were put on kitchen cleanup duty, and all that didn't will be providing foot massages and pillow fluffing for all of us right now!
Must go back and read everyone's posts....I am behind~~
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Welcome 25lbs!
Sitting on lounge chair waiting for foot massages and pillow fluffing. Will be snoring soon. Some days are just too hard on my brain.
How did the dr apt go Miss Lana??
Dinner is almost ready, and Miss Tillie is waiting for the green light to swing in the hammock.
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Decent eating day. Stayed under my calories and carbs (barely). Walked on treadmill until right hamstring cramped up a couple of times. I slowed down but kept going to 2 miles. Still need 1300 steps for the day, so may do some stretches after kids go to bed and get back on the treadmill to finish my day. Will soak in a nice warm bath tonight and apply some Biofreeze after that.
Lana, how did your dr appt go?1 -
WEDNESDAY
Good morning,
Bad air quality for awhile, keep windows closed and hope for cooler weather.
Work meeting off site, 2 possible times. I am one of the few who come in later (dont want to miss my dog walk) and so I would have to come back to work for a half hour if I went to the afternoon meeting and everyone else goes home?? Morning meeting it is and after 2 it will be a ghost town.....
Didnt know milk has so many sugar grams.....will stop putting milk in oatmeal for awhile and see if it makes a difference on the scale, we shall see.
Annie - just keep trying and hope your bath/biofreeze (what is that?) worked well.
Lana - how has your week been?
Okay need to scoot, wave to all who follow.
Make it a great Wednesday.0 -
Ok.. I'm really back now. Yep, You've heard it before, I know. I'm going to check out what this website has to offer. I've had a stressful couple of months and have been ignoring the basics like exercise and not caring what I stuff in my mouth. And then with the WW site going dark, out of mind.. I'm up 5. Crap. Can I say that word on MFP? Whoohoo! And then I read all the new articles that basically say: Sorry, you won't keep it off. Because Science. Grrrr. How does one stay motivated? Thinking of you all.. Chamie
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Welcome back Cham - crap is a word we can use, isnt that nice?? This website is nice because it helps me keep my sodium levels down, sugar is my next hurdle (slowly but surely)
At work, bbl0 -
Chamie welcome back! Now to get Liz on here.
Quick hello= at work as well and busy day. Ate like crap again last night but tonight joining the gym with a friend.
Lana= thinking of you = today you are at MSK right? Good luck. You are in good hands.
Jen-0 -
I filled out the information on this site and it calculated 1250 calories per day. Shish.. no wonder I am gaining. Seriously though that seems low. Do you all track cals now or are you sticking with points? Yes, sugar and salt.. things I don't really think about when I am tracking pts. Chamie0
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Hi Chamie! I am trying to stick to 1200 calories per day and keep the sugars and carbs low. (Carbs under 100). I am not longer doing points as I did not enjoy SP. I do have the itrackbites app on my phone for Points+, but haven't been using it lately.0
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Cham, I get more calories, but then I am taking the slow boat.... I cancelled my WW last month.1
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Tuesday. Almost lunchtime. Work is slow, which is good because I have a lot of other things on my mind. The good news is my dad is doing well and slowly improving with his pulmonary embolism. He will be in the hospital until Friday or maybe Saturday. Then home for up to a month to recover and get his strength back. He's already itching to go back to work on "light duty" even though he can barely walk to the bathroom in his hospital room! Silly man!
I'm not sure if I mentioned that DS had an appt with our family doctor last week to have a re-check on his depression meds. He is taking Effexor XR. He is over 18 now so we did not attend the appt. He and doctor decided to up his dosage, which I wanted to question but decided not to. DS claims he is feeling a lot better but now he is extremely tired. He was already tired on the lower dose but dr wanted to put him on the higher dose and then have him take the meds in the evening rather than the morning. I have had to wake him up the last 3 mornings for work or he would have overslept! And he came home from work yesterday and slept for an hour until I woke him up. (And he was hard to wake up.) I asked him if we should talk to the dr about lowering the dose again, but he doesn't want to do that because he's feeling better. So, I guess the tradeoff is he needs to learn to manage the energy/tiredness. My biggest concern is that he is going off to college next Thursday and will need to get to morning classes and/or work...and to have enough energy to attend all of his classes, work hours, do homework, etc. Trying to remember he is an adult now and will have to cope. I did tell him I think he needs to set an alarm clock and his phone alarm to help ensure he gets up on time.
So far, so good on eating today. Right leg is still a bit sore and crampy. May have to take tonight off from walking and just do stretching.0 -
Interesting, I also saw in DS's office visit summary that the doctor is now calling it anxiety disorder versus depression. The last time, it was a major depressive episode. (which it was!)0
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My calorie count is a bit higher because I am starting out....bigger. But I have learned that the first thing you can do is log what you are regularly eating now, even if it goes over the mark. Then investigate what is causing the most calorie, fat, carbs and sugar in your regular meals and reduce or cut them out to get to your goal count.
Let's just say my first week trying to stay under the mark was a practical joke because I was terrible at nutrition. However, knowledge is power and I've got a good schedule going now. 0 -
Ugh. Yes the first week is always the toughest! DragonFish- I can do that. I'll log what I eat and see what it looks like. I'm trying not to be too angry with myself. I have a wedding this weekend and I hope I fit in the dress I plan to wear. I better try it on! Everything is a bit on the TIGHT side. Underwear too and that just makes me crabby. Ok, I'm going to go log my food.. for realz. I bet I'm already close to 1250 and I still have dinner to go! Today is already better than yesterday.. Chamie0
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ChamomileLink wrote: »Ok.. I'm really back now. Yep, You've heard it before, I know. I'm going to check out what this website has to offer. I've had a stressful couple of months and have been ignoring the basics like exercise and not caring what I stuff in my mouth. And then with the WW site going dark, out of mind.. I'm up 5. Crap. Can I say that word on MFP? Whoohoo! And then I read all the new articles that basically say: Sorry, you won't keep it off. Because Science. Grrrr. How does one stay motivated? Thinking of you all.. Chamie
Boing, boing, boing, boing.......Chamie is back! Oh SO happy here......
Huge hugs and sloppy smooooooches!
Lana, reading back through what I've missed......
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Annie
Re DS and the Effexor, I must say it has been a life-saver drug for me. However, upping the dose when DS is already "tired" may not be the right response.
Give DS some space and see how he feels. Tiredness and low response is a symptom of depression, but let's see how he does when he gets away from home. It may allow him to bloom.
I am no doctor, but my gut tells me it's best to send him away with a prescription for X amount, but with supply enough to take 2X so that it can be regulated from afar. If his pills are all 2X, they are capsules and cannot be cut in half back to the original dose.
Are any of his friends "going away" with him to this school?
How far away from home is the school? Far I hope. Sometimes that is what is needed. It's time for DS to build his own existence. But doubling the dose of Effexor right before going away makes sense to me only if he can control it on his end via the one or two pills per day thing.
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Lana!! Good you stopped by. How is your world going?
Two more full days of the lady who is "on my last nerve" at work (former supervisor long time ago used that phrase and I found it amusing). Need to bring "mute" spray to work, her laugh is truly annoying.
Temps will cool off starting tomorrow if I believe the weather people.
Miss Tillie sits by door - that's my sign to go for a walk.0 -
Okay, welcome!0
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Thanks, Lana. Well, he already upped his dose last Friday after talking with the doctor and I can't really make him drop it again - especially when he says he's feeling better. I'm encouraged when he says he is feeling better and able to take criticism and not hate himself. He did make a remark this morning that it was his own fault for not making himself get up on time...so he wasn't completely blaming it on his meds. My mom said he might be doing this simply because he is still home where mom and dad will watch out for him.
School is only about 20 minutes away (his choice), but we are not allowing him to take his car (he will live in the dorms with a friend from high school). We have told him we want to treat it as if he is "far" away. But it will be nice for him to be close so we can get his prescription refills out to him easily each month.
Truth be told, I do want to see him bloom. I want to see him learn to do for himself and take care of himself and be himself. I have tried not to be a helicopter parent and to teach him what he needs to do and how to do it. But it's time for him to do it.
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Sara
So glad that Cruella de Vil of your work scene will be exiting stage left in 2 DAYS!!! May the door hit her in "the thing" on the way out. That's sort of what they say here in Hells Kitchen....
Also, every person brings JOY into the room. Some when they enter.....some when they leave.....
Tomorrow are appointments with plastic surgeon to learn about reconstruction options.....please let them lift them up a few inches, no matter how fake they are.....Well, actually they'd need to come up around 4 or more inches to be anywhere near where they were when they started out.....
WORKOUT TODAY: DH and I went to the club together today and got well over an hour total of serious water workout. Yay!
Once again - Chamie - SO glad to see you!!!
Jen, HELLO have you been here today?
Dawn? Where are you dear?
LIZ ! LIZ ! LIZ ! I can't come upstate anytime soon, so you must stop by the beach and say HI! Don't tell me you've fallen into Lake Ontario --not sure where you live now - you could be in Albany!!!!
Hugs
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Waves Lana! Waves Sara! Waves to all others! I've been on this terrible binge of watching a new (for me) show... No extra eating, which is a plus..but, I have not been logging at all. And, I can't seem to stop eating sweets...Grrr
Sara- Would love to have some mute spray. There's more than one I'd like to try it on at work.
Lana- hope yer doing well..thinking of you..
Be back tomorrow... Hopefully... Nite all
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