NON WW & WW NEWBIES, OUR NEW LIFE, THE START OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL

Hi ladies, I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.

I got an hour of exercise in yesterday before our company came. I went over my goal by 300 calories, but it was worth it. I packed up a majority of the left over side dishes for my oldest daughter and her boyfriend to take home with them, then today took all the white meat and seal a mealed them into individual servings and froze them for the girls and I to have for lunches. I felt tired most of the day. I finally took a nap and when I got up, knocked out an hour and a quarter workout. It was a nice holiday but I am glad it is over.

Have a good evening.

Liz

mysticlizard, sounds like you were in control over your holiday. Good for you for getting in your exercise. Thank you for sharing the words of wisdom from the book.

gemwolf The pies look great. Although I'm not a pecan pie lover. It was always too sweet for me. This is the derssing I uswed. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/45599014957348988/ The sald was this bit I tweaked it. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/338966309438457901/ lentils for quinoa peas and carrrots for peas. Aren't new appliances fun?

karla Love the decorations. Especially the snowman. Sounds like you have a plan for the weekend.

cbabie Have you tried going out and sitting in your car to keep from eating the garbage? Its not making you feel good. That's why we eat it, right? What else makes you feel good?

okay I'm done.

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Hi ladies,

I hope everyone had a restful Sunday.

@theslightedgeforever - The dressing looks amazing, I can't wait to try it.

@cbabie - I am sending happy thoughts your way. Hang in there.

@trooworld - Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason why the weight goes up, that time of the month? water retention? sodium? Feel good about thinking that you did better this year, that shows you are being mindful and that is a victory too. Yay! for getting your workout in.

I got an hour workout in this morning. I read more of my book and I am getting a lot of good ideas. I am on track with my calories. I weigh tomorrow to see what damage I did this week.

Have a good evening.

Cbabie, it’s really something how we feel when eating junk when we’ve been eating healthy. We think “wow, now that I’m eating healthy, the junk food really makes me sick”, but in reality, it was always making us sick…we were just used to it.
Gemwolf, good for you not forcing yourself to eat everything on your plate! Not sure that forgoing breakfast is the best, but if you were able to enjoy dinner and not overeat, than more power to you!
Mysticlizard and slightedge, the snowman was a gift from my secret pal last month! It was perfect, especially since when we were putting them up one of my daughter’s old inflatable penguins didn’t work anymore! (And I love snowmen!)
Trooworld, our Thanksgiving was today too…but we had ham. I’m too lazy to do the turkey this year, lol.
The weekend wasn’t too bad…I got a little off track yesterday and today, but I have tomorrow planned and lunch packed. I’ll check in tomorrow.
Karla :-)

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but in reality, it was always making us sick…we were just used to it

Karla love that quote. So profound isn't it. My friend just bought me two snowman hand towels. She said she saw them and thought of me. My mom would fix ham too each year. I wanted turkey like everyone else. So the first year I was out on my own I cooked a turkey.

cbabie. I only watched two of the lectures on Truth about cancer. Biosolids which was very interesting. I told my son about it and he might do his thesis on it. and then the Baskin Robbins guy. He didn't impress me much. I wanted more hit me in the face facts so I would change my ways.

mystic lizard Yes I did 30 min of treadmill. Thanks for asking Yaaay great weight loss for Thanksgiving week.

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Was feeling way to restricted on Smartpoints, I hope to find inspiration here

Hello, Glad to find some ww related folk. Have just left after a really positive three months, but want a free way to loose a few more pounds and then stay slim. I was doing the no-count version with ww, so just trying to figure out how to track with mfp. Any suggestions? Hello again, and thanks, S

Cbabie. Hooray for not grabbing the candy on the counter. Now why is the candy sitting out on the counter easy for you to grab. Our willpower changes from day to day. You might come in from a bad day at work and there it is. Have someone hide it for you Sorry about your friend. My mom always said cancer is never gone for good but just waiting around the corner to get you again. I don't want to let it get me the first time.

@beck1967 welcome to the group. Did you save us as a favorite? Lots of inspiration here. I hope you will inspire me too

Trooworld. Ok so no leftovers next year. I would tell my future self exercise in the morning or ask DH to go for a walk. What was your break room plan for goodies? I can't remember.

Gemwolf. Could just be sodium bloat. You will see soon. I have a hard time with the elliptical. My legs scream after 3 min. I can't imagine doing 40.

@sgmfpac welcome to the group. Save us as a favorite so you can find us easy the next time. For me building up my food data base was the key to successful tracking I try to choose items with the green check mark ✅ as those have been verified. I use my scanner on the app and enter in my own recipes if I make something a lot so I know I'm getting proper data. So now when I track it's easy and quick as most of my foods are already entered Just some clicks and I'm done. Another thing I do when I'm out is take a pic of my plate so I can remember what I ate and how much Then later I track it

Mysticlizard sounds like you are on a roll with food and exercise. I did my treadmill again I had a dentist appt at my usual time but got on tonight. I increased my intensity so I got more cardio minutes than fat burning. Plus raised my heart rate average.

Shoot I realized December 1 is almost here What are your December goals?
Did you meet your November goals?

bugmom No getting sick that much is not fun. Your body is doing the red flag dance Warning Warning Sorry about your sil husband. Prayers sent

gemwolf Maybe that will be a January goal for me. Do 5 min on elliptical. I can always build from there. I just avoid it at all costs. Onederland territory is nice. Although build you a really high fence so you can't wander back over there. I'm at 194 as of today. For months I would get to 198-199 then back to 201 then back down. Now I can see the 189 mile marker. We can do this.

cbabie if you had a week off definitely go for the reading. Come on and make some some December goals. Remember YOU first. Even if those goals are 1) Make it through the pageant without being carted off to loony bin.
2)Maintain weight. we never know which month our body finally turns on us. The month that my blood sugar readings went from being a pre-diabetic to full blown diabetic I was doing quite well regarding food and exercise. It was all the other months of abuse I gave my body that sent me over the cliff. Imagine if it was cancer. We can't afford to let one month go by without taking care of our bodies Even if that means scaling exercise to 15 min . Good job on no sugar. Celebrate those 9980 steps. Your legs are still working. I'm in a mood this month to find blessings all around.

trooworld how about bring your own goodies to breakroom. There will always be goodies in the breakroom because of holidays and birthdays and just because someone decided to bake and didn't want the leftovers sitting on their counter tops. You need a good plan to help you reach your goals.

mysticlizard I can tell you are analytical like me in how you wrote about your goals. Do you include protein in your snack choices? That way you could increase your protein and may be less hungry for other snacks thus reducing your snack calories. Kill two birds......Yaaaay on 6.4 lbs. Good month.

My November goals:
Exercise I did 20 days
Track dinner on time. No way to get actual data on this unless I go back and read through all my posts. I know it wasn't 100% but I am making it a habit.

Overall I lost 3.3 lbs I just had to check myself. I almost wrote "wasn't the 4 lbs a month that I wanted to lose" then thought of my advice to cbabie on her steps. Celebrate. Find the blessing. So 3.3 lbs down is getting me closer to having better glucose numbers. It is less weight for my knees to carry around.

December goals
Increase cardio minutes to 40 three times a week
Strength train twice a week
Reduce fasting glucose readings to <126 I test 3 times a week and November I had 3/12 days under 126

@mysticlizard I started with the 5x5, and now I'm still doing those same lifts, but focus on different muscle groups everyday. My schedule is crazy, so it's not the same time daily that I would like, but it's working. I also try to get 30 minutes of cardio in after the weights at least.

@mysticlizard I liked the StrongLifts 5x5 to start. It progresses you pretty fast. I decided to do more though. Depending on your goals that might be a good one for you. I did it and added more exercises to it as for me I didn't feel it was quite enough.