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

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.

Lost 2.6lb this week. I only got that kind of result my first week on WW. I think paying attention to calories and where my calories are coming from is going to work better for me!

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.

trooworld Pretracking the night before has really helped me stay under calories. For a whole month now, I have been under every day. I keep asking myself, Who are you and what have you done to slightedge. I'm a new me. It's getting easier as it goes along. Staying under calories will help you lose weight.

cbabie the answer to your WHY it's better to go back and track everything is accountability to yourself. Plus it's breaking a habit you are trying to form. It's all just data remember? Just a record of this is what I put into my body on that day. Am I committed to making my health the best it can be or am I just interested? Remember that question I posted awhile back? Some days I'm just interested but overall I am trending towards commitment.

threecharms Isn't it fun to see our progression on this health journey? Sometimes I think back on how I used to eat versus now and wonder, why aren't I farther along down the road. But it is what it is my dad would say. I'll get to my destination but then what. We will always have to have goals in our lives. I go through phases of exercising all the time and then those of you can't get me to the gym. Right now I'm in my exercise phase. I'm going to form that habit so I don't go back to the slacker who doesn't go the gym.

okay that's it for me.

Here's the WW meeting highlights.

https://youtu.be/_g4O5by1g7s

Good Morning

theslightedgeforever: I think, if you don't mind, I might take a page from your book and check in here each evening reporting on how I did for the day (cals, carbs, exercise etc). Would be good accountability for me. Had a gain last week and I thought I'd be much better for this week's WI (tomorrow) but its not looking too good. Once you fall off the rails for even a week or so it seems to be VERY hard to climb back up. I guess that's why we are in this mess in the first place. I will have to TRY HARDER. I haven't been tracking faithfully this week and I'm pretty sure that's a major factor. I have not done enough exercise either so I'm questioning my weight loss results why??????????????

I'm taking my little granddaughters to the beach this afternoon so that should be good for a few calories burned. Now I just need to make sure I take a few "Grandma" snacks so I don't eat theirs. LOL

Have a good one everyone. I'll check in again this evening and I WILL TRACK.

Carol

Good Evening

Now that was a busy day. Three little girls (ages 4,5 & 6) and one Grandma at the beach for the afternoon. They were very good but they are very busy and did I mention, we were at the BEACH. I am pretty much exhausted but its a good exhausted.

I am definitely below my calories and carbs for the day. No "official" exercise but I know I burned off a few calories at the BEACH!!

I guess the true telling will be at the WI tomorrow morning. Not really expecting great things. A stay the same would be fine with me after this week. Will let you know.

Cheers, Carol

trooworld Yaaay on your NSV I have yoga scheduled once a week but end up not doing it. So I'm still working at meeting my goal. Especially as we age, our bodies need to be more flexible. I'll check out your yoga video. I usually do Yoga Back Care with Rodney Yee. It's so relaxing. Usually by the end I'm just laying on the floor with my eyes closed (almost asleep). Then the video is over and I still lay there. lol It's a good form of escapism. If I get up and open my eyes, I will see things that I need to be doing. There's always lots to do.

cmedwards By all means take whatever you want from me. That's what we are here for I think. To support and exchange ideas. Yes, my motto is My Success is determined by my actions not in the scale. You just slipped but didn't have a major fall so nothing is injured so your climb back up will be easier than you think. Besides you are stronger than you think. A beach day sounds fun.

cbabie So work on a schedule this week. One thing about not having a job to go to is that your mind tells you that you have all the time in the world to accomplish stuff. Then you end up accomplishing nothing important. Your "job" right now is finding a job and doing your school work. What is your start and stop time for these. Then once you know that, you know when you can exercise. Write that in. If you change it everyday, then it doesn't become a habit. Then write in your mealtimes. If you let yourself get too hungry, then you will start searching and end up with PB. Then you can add in all the other little things that will eat up your time. Take care of the BIG stuff in your life first. That means you come first.

gemwolf Good to see you. I guess see my advice to cbabie above. I once read if you want something done, give it to a busy person. Busy people find a way. That's because they have to have excellent time management skills. You will figure this out.

Tomorrow is weigh in day. I had a couple of days where I went over calories so my wonderful streak I had going will be over. But pick myself up, dust myself off and go forward.

I lost a lb this week.