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

Morning everyone

@trooworld - Glad the fairies came


Take care everyone


Trish

@trooworld That poke bowl looks interesting. Yes the special fairies......I like it when they come and clean here. I'll be using them when I help pack up my dd's apt.

@trishastime dd is an assistant surgeon not a dr. Just wanted to clarify. She gets to do surgery which is what she wanted when she started this journey. I still can't imagine her doing that. I guess her skills at cross-stitch when she was 12 are now coming in handy. She's way over on the east coast so we have to fly. But then my limit is about 6-8 hrs driving and then I'd be flying anywhere anyway. I hate riding in a car. I'd like magic fairy dust to just get me places instantaneously. If so, I'd come to Australia and see you.

@prisoner2food So how was Mexico. I see you survived it. Yeah, I'll be working on consistent exercise too. That's the hardest for me.

So I'm leaving tomorrow and will be sporadic on my check ins. I'll get in here when I can. I need to set up my routine. I'm taking some tubing for strength training and plan on doing some walking and Leslie Sansone videos while I'm gone. My daughter has a scale so I'll see what hers says and use that as a guide while I'm there to help me maintain. I know I've gained this week. Plus I went out with friends and ended up having a pizza like thing. Forgot all about my 30 day weigh in. So that will be a little more. So I'm going to have to be extra good while I'm gone so I can finish the end of the year where I want to be.

I'm here all. Kind of having a down week. Ended up ordering Chinese takeout on the weekend, really over cals for this week now.

We have poke bowls here, it's like sushi in a bowl. They look delicious but I've never tried one.

Onwards and upwards. Going to try a run today but I expect it to be painful bc I haven't been exercising much. So it may end up being a walk lol.

@its_cleo Sorry you are having a down week. Anything, in particular, causing it? Poke bowls are delicious! I hope your run isn't painful.

@TrishasTime I know, right? It seems like just yesterday I was saying we were going to look!!! I'll try to get DH to pose for a picture but he's camera shy!!! I hope your scans come out good.

Hi all. I feel like I am in limbo here waiting for other people with the condo. Waiting to sign documents. Waiting to send money. Waiting waiting waiting. I did make an appointment with a locksmith to change the locks and with the internet company. I ate OP last night but had a piece of cake at work. I'm doing the best I can, but succumbing to stress eating here and there.

EMPOWERED.

@gemwolf110 I'm glad your back is better. Good luck at Zumba!

@TrishasTime Yes, today is the day! We go to sign the papers at 8:00 a.m.! Oh, a keyless entry is a good idea. Yeah, we thought we'd better change the locks so no previous tenants creep back in and steal our stuff lol. Sorry about the soft tissue swelling, but hopefully in 10 days, you'll be right as rain?

@its_cleo Hello, I hope you are well and not slipping into darkness.

@cbabie Are you still off sugar? I hope so.

Hi all! The stress is so close to being over. I just have to hang on a little longer. We sign at 8:00 a.m. and then we get the keys tomorrow afternoon! My sister-in-law has a handyman that she and my mother-in-law uses that we can call for our repairs, so we need to get in contact with him about that. Hopefully, it won't be too much. I ate OP yesterday except I ate a chocolate chip cookie at work.

EMPOWERED.

Hi all, I'm ok, just the food choices this week have been terrible and I just feel like I let myself down this week in a number of ways. I'm just in a bad mood. Anyway I am trying to turn a corner with it.

I did try a poke bowl yesterday, I didn;t like it but it may have been the place I went.

@theslightedgeforever that's good you're pretty much in maintenance mode. Walking is great and now the weather is a little better it's nice to do outside if you can. But I also love Leslie Sansone. Never heard of a scale with a cord.

@trooworld congratulations! I can't believe how fast the time flies. I think you're doing great with your eating considering the stress.

@TrishasTime hope the swelling goes down. Glad your ankle is in place. What a long road to recovery!

Weather is nice here. I did stairs 100x5 and hill x4 this morning. That takes about an hour. It helped my grumpy mood lol. Tonight I go to the gym with my trainer, arm day.

Weigh in day is Sunday, I figure I gained weight after this week. Ah well.

Good morning everyone


@cbabie - What a stressful situation, and you did not eat any sugar!!! it seems that it is indeed becoming an ingrained habit with you - well done.

@theslightedgeforever _ great to hear from you. Cord??? is this the one that the displays that sits on the counter, or it super special and uses blooth tooth to send a data to an application. Too many things to go wrong I think

@trooworld - Happy Key day!!!!!!! Pictures please

@its_cleo - Glad you are back to exercising, they say that exercising is the best mood control ever.

The anti-inflammatory tablets are working and I am starting to feel I can walk a bit without a limp. I will review in 10days. Today I am off to a morning conference that is going to supply breakfast and lunch.

Tomorrow is election day where we get to vote for our Prime minister (President in USA) - the dude that runs the country. Voting is compulsory here. Vote or be fined. It is funny that we have not really seen much of anyone's' policies, it has been more about embarrassing each other with stupid photos and captions


Take care


Trish

Good morning! I’m back!!

@trooworld, Congratulations on your new home!! I am so excited and happy for you. I understand that feeling of never thinking you could have such a dream but you did get the dream! Yes, to going out and celebrating!! How’s that packing going?

@TrishasTime, glad that the anti-inflammatory is working! Wow, vote or be fined. Not sure how I feel about that but it certainly is an interesting idea. At least when people complain they can say that they actually voted. That doesn’t always happen here.

@cbabie, yikes glad that the blow out didn’t end up badly. Other than having to put up with a jerk. Why do people have to be like that?

@theslightedgeforever, when do you start back on your 100-day challenge? I’m not sure what I want to do but I like challenges so I will definitely start back up soon. I hope you have a wonderful time on your vacation!

Sorry, I didn’t go back and read every post so please forgive me if I missed something. I got back home on Wednesday and have been super busy catching up on some much-needed sleep and getting things done at work. My trip was good. My hotel room was noisy and I never sleep well in a strange bed so that was a bummer. My mom fed me way too much food and none of it was healthy! But that is OK, I’m back to my fasting and this morning hubby said that the puffiness was out of my face.

@its_cleo So the past is over and what did you learn about why you made the choices you did? Poor planning? Environment? Tracking? Good news is that you can start fresh this week? It's just an experiment finding out what works for you.

@cbabie Happy Bday to your grandson. The good thing is that you didn't have an accident when you blew a tire. Just alot of frustration.

@trishastime Good for you for voting. I'm all for the compulsory part. Although they are making it harder to vote here I think. Also glad the anti-inflammatorys are starting to work.

@trooworld Congrats on being a new homeowner. In my journal tonight the task was What dreams have you put on hold? What has this cost you emotionally, physically, and spiritually? You have now completed this one dream for yourself.

@TeresaW1020 I restart the challenge on June 27. That's good that you jumped back on to your program immediately. Glad you enjoyed your family.

@gemwolf110 What good choices did you make today?

I did good tonight at the restaurant. I ate some tomato basil soup and then ordered the lowest calorie item which was chicken breast with a side of arugula and angel hair pasta with some diced tomatoes on top. I only ate half my chicken breast and about a 1/4 of the pasta. But I had 2 pieces of the bread they served with some butter and one mozzarella stick.

So for all who asked about the cord to the scale. Since she has no idea where the cord was she said try your kindle cord, I think that would work. Yes it did. It charged up the scale. Battery was low. So I have my starting weight and will keep weighing in daily around the same time to make sure I'm not gaining alot like I did last year on vacation. 10 lbs I think. I've allowed myself 3.5 I'd love it to be about 1-1 1/2. But I'm trying to be realistic at the same time.

@TeresaW1020 Thank you so much! Girl, we haven't packed anything else. I guess we are just going to grab handfuls of things and move it that way lol. My husband has a "plan". We'll see... I'm glad you had a good time in Florida!

@gemwolf110 thank you!!!

@TrishasTime No, I suffer from depression and anxiety and had a rough time in my early 20s and honestly never pictured myself in my 30s nor having a family of my own, let alone a home of my own! I'm glad, too! Best of luck voting, I hope you don't run into any pain.

@theslightedgeforever Thank you! Yes, now I have to focus on other dreams. I've got plenty of them. It sounds like you made a good choice at the restaurant, the best you could. Interesting scale.

@cbabie That's my ideal dinner! lol But I feel bloated when I eat that, too. We got the keys at 4:45 p.m. yesterday! It was amazing, our realtor pulled in the parking lot, got the call that it was okay to give us the keys at that moment! Packing fairies better show up soon lol.

Hi all! So we got the keys at 4:45 p.m. yesterday and our realtor was very sweet, she gave us a bottle of wine and a chalkboard/message board in the shape of California. We then went and celebrated at a BBQ restaurant. We have to try to take my dog to the vet today, he's been drinking a lot of water lately, and I'm really worried about him. So, I'll call the vet when they open at 8. He's always got something going on with him.

EMPOWERED.

Well yesterday I managed to drop a heavy iron on my foot. One of my little toes took the brunt of it, swollen and quite painful. I’m very disappointed in myself bc I’ve been doing really well with my running, and I wanted to run today, but I don’t think I can. The toe is not broken I don’t think, just swollen and red.

Of course this morning, I was making breakfast and trying to be so careful not to aggravate it and something spooked my cat and of course she ran across my foot and I had about 15lbs of cat come down on it. I yelled like a banshee lol.

So I hope it will be better by tomorrow, but we’ll see I guess.

@TeresaW2010 glad you had a good time with your family! And glad you got some rest too, I feel like most people never get enough sleep.

@trooworld CONGRATULATIONS! That is so great for you and your husband to be homeowners. Lol at your husband’s ‘plan’. But I’m sure you both worked very hard to get there. I hope your doggie is ok- I have two cats, it’s always upsetting when something might be wrong with them.

@cbabie- sounds like a fun dinner, but yep there is always a price to be paid! I like garlic bread, was eyeing some in the grocery store yesterday lol. But I really react to white bread.

@theslightedgeforever good job with the restaurant. As for me and my bad week- I don’t know it was a combination of things. Some of it was hormones or something. I do track my cycle but I don’t pay attn/plan for days where I will have an increased appetite bc of it. And then it just kind of snowballs. So I got an app to track it better and record symptoms so I can start to plan better for days when my appetite will be higher.

@TrishasTime hope your walk was okay and not painful!

@cbabie I have a daughter that drives just like you. Karma...…. Yes on her not using the scale. I was going to comment that to her but then thought better of it. lol I'm learning to hold my tongue. Not nearly enough my kids would tell you. My daughter tells me everyday, Do you want to drive, Mom? Which I respond with No but I'd like to get there safely. You won't feel better eating that piece of cake. Put it on the bottom shelf in the back so you won't see it everytime you open the door. Just keep up with your no sugar for JUST ONE MORE DAY.

@trooworld The interesting thing about this scale of my dd's is that needing a charging cord makes it more convenient. If I had to go to the store to buy the batteries needed for the scale, it would take me a lot longer. My food scale at home is a testament to this. I never seem to have a problem charging my phone or my Kindle, or my computer. Ah, husbands and their plans. Although I plan but just in a different way. His is more concrete and mine is more fluid. Except when it comes to moving. I was raised by my mother. There are certain ways to do that. He wants to start packing up my dd's apt now so we'll be ready to move. That would be true if she had anything in her apartment and we don't need to use the stuff in the next two weeks. I'm currently sitting on the floor typing this because the couches are being occupied by sleeping dh and ds. There are no other chairs in the house. Trying to cook here has been interesting as everything is child-sized. Imagine half a cookie sheet. Then I was going to shred some carrots and no vegetable peeler. (I still call it a potato peeler). She hasn't lived in this apartment since October since she's been doing clinical rotations all over. every 6 weeks is somewhere new. She doesn't really cook for her self so no need for things she says. I said now that she will be a functioning adult, she needs to make her new apartment a home instead of just a place to sleep. she rolled her eyes. lol I will say that her food processor I bought her is better than mine. I got her that thinking maybe she would cook more at home so she would lose some weight. No. Oh, well, all I can do is be a good role model, right? I hope your dog doesn't have diabetes. congrats on the keys. I always like a new place because everything is clean and new.

@TeresaW1020 I think there's dysfunction in most families. I'm trying to learn that we can't control anyone but our own reactions to the situations. We can choose to throw more fuel on to the fire or see if it burns itself out. Good for you on your workout and getting some rest.

@its_cleo Ouch on the toe. I always hate when something comes up to spoil our plans. But I guess that's why we always need a plan B. I didn't have PMS as a teen but it waited til my 50's to show up. About one week before my period comes, I want to eat all the salty and chocolatey snacks in sight. But even though I know it's going to happen and I try to plan for it, I still don't seem to be able to get rid of it so I'm working on managing it through portion control. I'm getting better at it. I think it snowballs because we tell ourselves that we've blown it and then we keep eating out of our calorie range. We'll start again tomorrow. Tomorrows turn into days which turns into weeks, months, years. I've already played this game. I know how it turns out.........

@Trishastime My goodness on the pipe. Did someone curse you or something? Yes, there will always be "something" that comes up but we still need to learn how to manage our weight around it. Because that's our health. Not just looking good in an outfit.

Although I will tell everyone that I got down to a size 14 pants. :cue dancing music: Now dancing onto the 12's.
Graduation was yesterday so that's all finished. Evidently my kids thought it would be nice to go see Avengers movie last night at 10:30 pm. It's a 3 hr movie. Didn't get to sleep til 3. Then had to get up at 5:15 to make sure my son caught his flight home. Why doesn't the mother gene turn off when the kids become adults? I'm wondering why an early morning flight was booked? Oh I remember, my husband......... He thinks everything should be done early. The rest of us are more night owls and procrastinators. But we get our stuff done.

Good morning everyone

@theslightedgeforever - yes I agree - I must have broken a mirror without noticing it Good news is the foot is getting better with the anti-inflammatories, so maybe it is an up and down curse.
Congratulations on your daughter's graduation- how special BUT a big "happy dance" for you - size 12??? What a special NSV. I can not remember when I was a size 12. Your journalling notes come at a good time for me, and I am pleased that I stuck to my new behaviour when the mini-disaster happened with the flooding.

Hello to everyone else that comes by. I know some are busy packing others are doing what they need to do

Trish

Good morning!

@its_cleo, ouch! Your poor little toe. How are you today? I hate when something messes up my workout. I somehow managed to hurt my ankle and for the last two days, I’ve had to get off the treadmill because it starts hurting very badly. I’m going to take a couple of days off and see if that fixes it. So annoying!! I hope you are better soon.

@TrishasTime, Ohhhh my goodness! You can’t catch a break, can you? I hope the water didn’t do any lasting damage. I’m glad you were able to walk to the polls without any issue. That is progress, huh? 😊

@theslightedgeforever, Yayyyy to being in a size 14! I'm in a 14 in dress pants and wanting to be in a 14 in jeans. You are an inspiration! Wow! Your family sounds fun but a 3-hour movie in the middle of the night would have had me sleeping through it all. I hope you enjoyed it! Such good journal insights!! It really is figuring out what our issues are that cause us to overeat and not what we put in our mouth that matters most. Changing my behavior with food will be the only way to ever reach my goal weight and stay there. Working on it!! 😊

@trooworld, moving is the worst! We sometimes fantasize about selling this house and getting one with a bigger yard and better view but the very thought of packing, moving, and then unpacking will keep me in this house until I die or need to be put into a home. Just keep your eye on the prize and you will be settled in and enjoying your new home in no time. Yayyyy to new furniture. You will have to post pics once you get everything the way you like it.

Well, summer is here and May isn’t even over yet! We are going to be in the high 90’s later this week! Fortunately I have two things going for me. One is that I just got a new air conditioning unit in my church office and two intermittent fasting keeps me cold once I get past 16 hours. I'm really nervous about tomorrow's weigh in. Not having a scale in my house to see how bad my trip was for my weight is frustrating. I've been really good these last six days so my fingers are crossed that it won't be too ugly!

GM everyone

@its_cleo - so glad your toe is not broken and that you were able to get back to you or plans

@trooworld - Moving is exhausting but think of all the calories you are burning. So exciting that you are getting new furniture

@TeresaW2010 - I think it is all about your behaviour rather than the scale. Life happens and if you do your best whilst away, then come back home and jump back into healthy eating, that is great behaviour and I bet if you reflected, something that perhaps you would not have done 3 years ago. AS @trooworls sais about, it is not the numbers on the scale but our behaviours that will get us through.

The foot is holding up well - I even did a Leslie Sansone walk for 20 min without a repercussions. I am trying to turn this around

Take care


Trish