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

Hi all! Well, today is my last day of the convention. Yesterday, I walked 22,000 steps. My joints are swollen and I hopped on the scale even though I knew it was a mistake. I was up and I'm not going to count it because it's not a real number because of the swelling and because I had sushi last night for dinner. I will weigh in next Friday. Today, I hope to see a panel featuring feminist author Roxane Gay, who recently published Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. I read it and really liked it. It's about Gay's experience as a super-obese woman. Senator John Lewis is having a panel at the same time (he co-authored a graphic novel about the civil rights movement called "March") and I really wanted to go to that as well, it was really a dilemma, but in the end, Roxane Gay won out. I hope I made the right decision lol.

@cbabie it sounds like you handled that call well and the day well. Congratulations. I am having a great time. I love Wonder Woman, she's really the only superhero that I like. I read comics, but not superhero comics.

@threecharms I love to pretrack, I do that too. Almost every day, I pretrack for the next day the night before. It's so helpful.

trooworld Comic-con sounds like so much fun. Good for you for getting in all those steps. My dad used to like Wonderwoman TV show with Lynda Carter . I think he just liked the outfit. Who knows when I get to goal, I just might walk around like that. I was trying to think which superhero I like the best and don't know. Maybe Thor. But I just like to look at him and listen to him talk. I'm a film superhero gal vs comics. For some reason I really don't like Spiderman. lol

cbabie Looks like you had a very productive day. Good for you. Now repeat. All we have is today so we have to make it count everyday. Go get on your treadmill. Part of transitioning is you get to make a new daily schedule. Looking at your priorities for the day, it's good to preschedule like we pretack. So Health gets top billing. If we are sick we can't do the other stuff we need to get done. Remember you are making new habits. When you mentioned the word patience, I laughed to myself. Still giggling. OK just like the word tenacious, there is a positive and negative side to it. So I'm sure there is a positive side to patience. You kept your mouth shut and towed the line while working for the monkey on your back. How's that. I agree with you on confrontations. Up until recently I was a people pleaser so I rarely confronted anyone. Instead I ate. Now God help anyone that gets in my path. For instance I have company and they are going to extend their stay for 4 more days. Need some of that patience myself. lol But in old times, I would drop everything to be a good hostess as that's how I was raised. This week I have kept to my exercise program and told them here's the TV remote, look at your phone, read a book, whatever, I'll be in the gym for 30-60 min. Same way for sweets. There has been daily temptations. But I'm not afraid now to take care of me first. If I don't, nobody else will.

threecharms I have found pretracking to be my best strategy for losing weight. I have been more consistent losing weight this past month than YEARS. I wish I would have done it before but I believe that our journey takes us where it takes us and everything happens at the time it is supposed to.

cmedwards Sorry for your friend's cabin loss. I hope they had some good insurance and can rebuild. Yes, you can do this. One meal at a time.

@LindaCan2 Welcome to the group. I've been tracking on here for a little over a year now. I've never had a streak so long. I have a fitbit to track my activity. Oh, just reminded myself I should be charging it while I'm sitting down doing this.


So weigh in is tomorrow for me. I have to stay away from the sodium. Good thing I had Korean Beef today and not tomorrow. Exercise is going good for me. In fact, I noticed while doing walking lunges, it was easier to get up than before. So all is good in HealthLand right now for me. All I need to worry about is TODAY.

Hi all! Well, the convention is over for me (it's still going on today, I'm just not going) and today is a day of recovery. I have to go to the grocery store and get some healthy groceries. I had a great time, but am so exhausted, I'm a bit relieved it's over. I met Karla (BUGMOM92) there, she was working the game room. It was nice to meet her. I didn't want to interrupt her for too long, so I only stayed for a few minutes. She said she hopes to be back to this board soon.

@cbabie you have so much going on right now, it's no wonder you haven't jumped on the treadmill. Just don't put it off too long...just like that piece of plywood, you don't want it to grow some nasty stuff underneath! Yes, it was worth it to be all swollen and in pain...I had a great time!

@LindaCan2 welcome, Linda! It sounds like you have a great plan. I love MFP. I miss parts of WW, but I don't miss paying $48.95 a month! Good luck to you.

@theslightedgeforever I used to love the WW tv show. The reason I don't dress up like a superhero when I go to the convention is because I feel self-conscious because of my weight. Maybe when I lose the weight, I will feel more comfortable. Do you hate spiders? Maybe that's why you don't like Spiderman lol. Great NSV (the lunges). ((( SKINNY VIBES ))) for tomorrow.

theslightedgeforever: Thanks. Unfortunately, no insurance available because the property is only accessible by water. Kind of ironic isn't it - surrounded by water and destroyed by fire!!

Good Morning

Well we are back to beautiful sunshine here so its out to my garden this morning.

Had a really bad night last night. Almost NO sleep. HATE THAT and no idea WHY!!

Had my little girls here yesterday and I must admit I was not too good with my food choices. I really need to be more organized for their Grandpa and I when they visit and not eat "their" stuff (hot dogs, fries etc).

Must run and get a few "inside" jobs done before I head outside. Don't want to sit still too long in case I fall asleep. Seems to be much easier to do in the daytime hours. Go figure.

Have a good one everyone.

Cheers, Carol

I lost 1.9 lbs this week. Now onto next week.

Hi all. Not much to say here. I was under my calories yesterday but over my carbs by 7. Today should be a bit of a better day I hope.

@cbabie at least you didn't gain, you are practicing for maintenance, right?

@theslightedgeforever congrats on that awesome loss! Weight Watchers tv show hahaha that is funny! I'm surprised that they haven't. The one thing I need to concentrate on is: being under my calories every day (which means I also have to track every day). Thanks for asking.

Oof. I just put my low calorie day into the WW tracker (I paid through August, so I still have access) and I was way over my daily target. It's interesting to compare / contrast. I tried MFP years ago unsuccessfully, and I'm discovering now that WW taught me how to track. Now I'm back on MFP with so much more success than WW. Super interesting how I have gone through phases! I'm sure I'll hit a phase at some point where I'd want to exercise... not hiding my breath though

Hi all. I had a stressful day yesterday- hubby had a medical procedure and he was under general anesthesia. I went over my calories by 605 and my carbs by 77, so I didn't do so well yesterday. That was partially due to healthy snacks at the hospital and partially due to the timing of things: we didn't get back until 7:30 and by then I would have eaten the toaster itself if I threw some marinara sauce on it, but instead I had a semi-unhealthy snack waiting for dinner and then dinner itself was a bit unhealthy. Today will be a better day, I vow.

@cbabie you track so you can look back and know what went wrong. Plus, it's like @theslightedgeforever said, it's keeping up the habit and keeping yourself accountable. Yep, I was a bit down yesterday, my hubby was having a medical procedure and had to be put under general anesthesia and I was worried. He's okay, it was a minor procedure, and it's done and he's fine, but I was worried. Thank you for that nice compliment!

@threecharms yeah it's all about what we'll remain consistent with. What we'll remain committed to. It sounds like MFP is really working for you.

@theslightedgeforever I usually do pretrack, but if it changes, that's when I have to make sure that I go back and make the changes. If I don't, it's like I never tracked in the first place. I pretracked everything last night except my snacks. I didn't do those because I wasn't sure what I was bringing to work, I'll pretrack those this morning when I pack my lunch. Thanks for the highlights.

Hi all. Well, I did better yesterday, I was over my cals and carbs but not by much (cals: 82 carbs: 6). Today will be better. I did have a NSV yesterday: someone brought in crusty bread and cheese and I didn't have any of it.

@theslightedgeforever yeah I watch the twins sometimes too (although truthfully they get on my nerves sometimes because they tend to talk over each other). Those are good ideas, maybe this weekend I can sit down and come up with some ideas. Exercise: well, I didn't do any during the convention, and I haven't done any since but today I'm going to yoga for an hour at work (if I don't get too busy and can get away...it's during work, so it depends on my workload). Thanks for asking! I see your exercise is going well, great job! And good food too, woo hoo! Work on the water and you've got the complete package!

Hi all! Well, this week has been a mine field of free food at the job: I won't go into details but I managed to resist 90% of it. I weighed in this morning and gained 2 ounces, so I'd call that a maintain, which I am okay with...considering I had kind of a bad week. Next week will be better. I went to yoga last night and while I was sitting there on the mat waiting for the class to start, I realized just how inflexible my body was. It hurt to sit cross-legged, my body was stiff and it felt so unnatural. By the end it felt better, but it made me realize just how much I need to keep my yoga practice up.

@cmedwards52 tracking is so important. If you just do one thing, make sure you do that. Good luck!

@cbabie maybe that was your mind's way of dealing with it? Luckily, my sister-in-law came to be with me, so that was nice.

@gemwolf110 hi there! Good for you for wanting to go back to school. Indeed, where there's a will there is a way, you will find your way!

Hi all. I've got a busy weekend this weekend. This morning I'm going grocery shopping for healthy groceries and then today at 6pm my sister-in-law is coming over for dinner and tv or a board game. Then tomorrow, I have to do some research for an article I'm writing. I think I will go to a coffee house because if I try to do the research at home, the dog will be barking and jumping on me and I will be distracted. I also have to get prepped for next week...laundry, meal prep. Hope you all have a great weekend!

@cbabie life changes are hard for anyone, give yourself a break and start fresh today. re: yoga and flexibility...the instructor said that in our 20s, our bodies make the fluids necessary to lubricate our joints but after that, our bodies stop making it and we get the lubrication from moving our bodies so if we don't move and stretch our bodies, we lose our flexibility. I believe it because just not going to yoga class for a few months, I was more stiff. You could try yoga on YouTube, there is an instructor on there that I really like, her videos are free of course, and she's really good it's called Yoga with Adriene: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKE7WVJfvaHW5q283SxchA

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