Daily check in: Saturday
Calories: within calorie goal but higher
Exercise: taking decorations down and carrying boxes upstairs
Water: 80 ounces
Steps: 8508 right now. My Fitbit was cranky today and wouldn’t turn on even after it was charged. I was hyperventilating a little. 😉

Went to a nearby hotel and listened to jazz this evening. 🎶 😎What fun!

Tomorrow’s goals or opportunities:

Meet step goal and try for 10k
Log everything and stay under calories
Go to the gym or do 30 minutes at home
Write a letter to a friend

😀😀😀

Hi Gang! Hope everyone has had a good week. I was sick with the 'crud' Sunday evening through Thursday, when I started to feel better. It wasn't the flu because I never had a fever, but I think it may have been allergies. The cedar here has been horrendous this week. Either way, I felt like I'd been beaten to a pulp most of the week. Despite that, I decided to make 1 change and stick with it this week. I eliminated all breads and anything else made with flour this week. Still no exercise....just didn't feel up to it most of the week.

SW: 349 (from my 1/4/20 entry I believe)
CW: 346.2

I'm going to keep the no bread/flour thing going for a while to see if the losing trend continues. Additionally, next week, I'm going to make 2 changes: no sweet snacks/desserts/candy and at least 1 meal each day has to be all veggies (no meat). My calorie count is too high and I definitely need to eat more vegetables anyway.

Steps
1/11: 7,432
1/12: 4,326

Weigh in - 67.3kg!
I'm so so sorry! I'm letting the team down.
We've just moved cities, I've started a new job and I'm house hunting! I need a gazillion hours in the day! Plus I have no laptop yet (everything in storage thanks to a 3 week holiday before the move!)

@jugar and @micki48 thanks for the encouragement!

Here are my steps for the last week:
1/5: 10,039
1/6: 2,554
1/7: 5,288
1/8: 10,846
1/9: 8,044
1/10: 11,375
1/11: 5,841

My steps
1/10 = 7998
1/11 = 10,593

Happy Sunday, y’all,
The weather is so warm here in Vermont it seems perfectly reasonable to use Southern expressions. I’ve lived here long enough to know that winter is *not* ending, yet. It’s part of the regular January thaw. It is really way too warm (up to high 50s today), and it makes me edgy.
It didn’t help that I spent the afternoon on Friday celebrating my younger daughter’s 34th birthday watching Aladdin (remake-it’s actually pretty good), while she napped. We had a short visit while eating homemade cheesecake (which I made that morning) and later, sharing take out from a local Asian restaurant. It seemed odd that she wanted me there to be a part of her day even though she was too worn out to stay awake for more than an hour or so. I guess it’s about “being” and not just “doing”. I guess I had some other concept of what we’d be doing after driving 2.5 hours (x2), like museum trotting.
Well, off to church and then back to do laundry and get the last of the decorations boxed and put in the attic.
Have a great day. Happy everything!

@jugar did you get my weigh in that I posted last night?

Sorry I’ve been so absent I’m the admin owner of another group. This is my 4th year.
New Year always taxing buts it’s slowing down now in terms of getting things running..

Glad to see so many are doing well.. I’m doing to try to walk outside this week!

I am so sorry that this is late (is it? It's 4.50pm UK time). Anyway:

Weigh in day - Sunday
Previous weight - 176
Current weight - 175.8

The loss is miniscule, but it means I'm in the green! Yay me!

Terytha wrote: »

Weigh in: 204.4

No matter what I do, the scale keeps creeping up. It's starting to really get to me. -_-

Amber, I’ve been there as well. You have the exercise down. I haven’t checked your diary, but I’m guessing you are under your calorie goal. I have a couple thoughts.

First, you have lost a tremendous amount of weight this last year. Sometimes the body needs to plateau for awhile to readjust. Even though we hate it, it is actually a good thing. It allows your body to recalibrate your setpoint, so you can soon continue to lose. (I am not a dietitian, it’s just what I’ve read and experienced personally). You will probably have to do something to shake your body or metabolism up if you go on like this for awhile. I had two month long plateaus.

Second, check your sodium vs water intake. Have you had more foods with high sodium lately? That can do it. And as always, keep very hydrated. It doesn’t always seem to make sense, but drinking water HELPS you lose weight.

Finally, do you check your macros? When I hit those plateaus, I did a lot of reading on protein. My protein was low almost every day. In fact, protein aids in weight loss. Make sure you are near the macro target and make sure you are adding protein to every meal. This was tricky, at first, because more protein means more calories,which I didn’t always have. I tried to add flax, quinoa, chia to Greek yogurt (which has good protein.) Chose protein rich veggies, nuts etc. That might be the kick your body needs. Whatever you do, don’t give up. This is a bump in the road. You’ve travelled so far. Just keep going.

Hope this helps. 🤔🙂