I flew to Texas this past weekend and picked up my 4 year old grandson on my way back up to Boston.

Sunday, 2/16

Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, chasing a 4 year old around

Monday, 2/17

Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, hiking with the 4 year old

Tuesday, 2/18

Pass day 3/3.

Today is an infusion day. I usually do a workout before but am in the process of feeding and playing with a 4 year old before I head in. My calories will definitely be under today but I won’t track or exercise as I will come home and climb under a blanket. My husband, aunt and niece will occupy the 4 year old. Usually the morning after I am pretty much good to go so tomorrow morning we are all headed up north to find snow, sled, ski, build a snowman, and have a snowball fight. My grandson usually comes up in the summer and at Christmas time. And we haven’t had much snow then. He wants to play in the snow so we are on a mission!

Even though I’m on my 3rd pass day today, there is no reason to quit. I love the accountability and support of this group. I have never been perfect and will always strive to do my best with whatever life is throwing my way. One foot in front of the other, one day at a time.

Exercised? Yes; 43 minutes of combined deliberate walking logged.

Come in under calorie goal? Oh, yes...will explain that in a second.

Log everything? All day, every day.

I hope to get my VR on later this evening, however, we just learned that we have extreme water damage from a water heater that went 3 weeks back. Where it sat did not have a lot of water visible, so we thought we had it contained. We did not connect that to the flooring issues that were the major concern, because the first section started lifting well before the heater went. (Which also tells me that the danged thing could have been leaking longer than before it went out.) So we called the flooring company, because lifetime warranty and 2 year warranty on installation. They sent contracters to come fix whatever was going on.

We did have a bit of mis-installation lift, but the other lift is water damage. My dining room floor is torn up, the sub-floor has mold, portions of it need to be replaced, and my furniture is in the living room, where I normally VR.

I am just sick about this and literally had to make myself eat lunch today.

Ordinarily, this would only stress me out a little bit, but because we had extensive damage from Hurricane Florence in 2018, 3/4 of our sub-floor had to be replaced, and new flooring and a fiasco with the contracted company...It was mid-March of last year before my home was back to normal. It was really bad. So, now, only 11 months after my home was finally put back together? My dining room floor is ruined, my computer desk and dining room table are sitting in the middle of my living room, and it's like going through that last mess all over again.

I'm waiting on a call from the insurance adjuster, and I'm just sick to my stomach over this. Yeah, I'm going to be waaaay under on calories tonight.

Sorry for the rant, but thank you for letting me vent. I suspect there may be passes used in the coming week or so.

Feb 18

yes x 3

I tracked everything and went over my calorie goal again, and even tho I know I'm putting on weight, since MFP tells me I'll lose 4kg in 5wks if I continue eating like I do, I choose to believe MFP!😉🤣
I exercised for an hour, dancing around ny living room with arm weights. Exercise is a double edge edged sword for me. I feel happy I did it but I always eat more cause I think I earned it!🙄
I've felt like giving up afew times as it hasn't helped me eat less or lose any weight but I don't like backing out of a challenge so I'm still here.
Hope things are going better for some of you.

@juliemouse83 I'm so sorry to hear about your house problems. I hope they get resolved soon.😘😘

I’ve calmed down quite a bit. Of course I beat the living crap out of the air 🥊 boxing tonight. I needed to hit something and boxing saved my drywall, haha. 😖

We have a dehumidifier and put it where the moisture was the worst and were able to at least get the furniture back in. It looks like crap, but at least I have full use of my house, as opposed to last time when we had subfloor comeplety gone half a room at a time and covered with plywood so the doggos wouldn’t fall into the crawl space.

I am beyond grateful it wasn’t worse. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@SuziQ113 and @Fongyi3 , thank you both! 💖

Exercise: Yes
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes

Pass Days left: 2️⃣

@juliemouse83 So sorry you are having a hard time at the minute. (((Hugs))) and positive vibes for you to getbit sorted quickly this time round.

Daily post 2/18

Exercised: Yes Second day doing my cardio Kickboxing DVD and feeling good.

Tracked: Yes

Budget: Yes

Yes x3
Between leading a field trip (had the kids walk 25 min to the location) and 14k steps by tonight, 9mi roundtrip biking, and an hour of jumps in parkour I had a tonn of exercise calories. Only ate half of them and left a good amount as buffer. Feels good!