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@cbabie I hope you make it to the park and have a nice time. I hope you feel better- I’m sorry for the loss of your dad.

@mswatson0777 sounds like a nice weekend. I’m glad you sound a little less stressed. Are you taking classes all summer? How low carb are you going? It’s ironic I’ve just been checking my weekly macros over the last few months. I can’t do low carb, and noticing that I start to feel sick and/or shaky if I’m at 100grams. So I usually eat more than that. But a lot of it is fruits and vegetables and beans. And some bread I admit it!

@trooworld I hope you have a great 5k. I’ve never done one either walking or running. I think there is one here in May and I’m considering it.

@the slightedgeforever- wow 1,9 lbs! That is fantastic!

@TeresaW1020 wow on the 15lb-ers! Good for you, you will adjust in no time.
Seems like a lot of people have been busy. I’ve been busy working, and have to work tomorrow too but hopefully just for a couple of hours. Next week will be busy and then hopefully a break.
I’ve been doing ok with calories this week. I went out with a friend for dinner and I had 3 drinks (we went to hear a band play for a couple hours) but I managed to stay within my calorie limits for the week.

Exercising a lot this week. Today I did the stairs/hill and some core at the gym. I’m still very limited with my upper body bc of my arm.

My computer was struggling so I got a new part and after a couple of hiccups it seems ok. I’m sooo relieved bc I did not want to buy a new computer.

I’m dead tired after all the exercising today and will flake out and watch tv. Tomorrow is an off day, not sure what I will do. I don’t like the Daylight Savings Time and losing an hour sleep…

Cold today but beautiful sunny day and birds were chirping and I feel like winter is leaving so yay.

@teresaw1020 I think this move will be a good move for you mom. You will be such a good role model for her with your eating and exercising.

@cbabie Isn't perception an interesting thing? When I think of March I think of springtime and happy thoughts. When I read your post about dad I thought oh. Now the profile pic change on FB makes sense. Did you get your fruit this weekend? Your new schedule sounds wonderful. What would be great is if the baby would learn how to entertain herself when she first wakes up. Maybe leave a book in her crib to look at. That way you can have a few more minutes of me time to get in more exercise. You'll hear her eventually if she doesn't grab your attention at first. Plus it's a good life lesson. I was smiling thinking about your dh walking around with his coffee cup in his hand.

@trooworld you are still going strong I see. Good for you. Woohoo on your weight loss. Did you do the 5K?

@mswatson0777 So have you figured out the hunger level balance thing? You sound like you are really trying to find your balance on this. Which of course is sustainable. That's the key. What movie did you end up watching? I think feeling accomplished is the best feeling.

@joannadavison Just keep working on those weekends. I like eating higher on Thurs and Saturday so I lower my carbs/calories on the other days to make up for it. Kind of a win win for me as long as I stick to the boundaries. That's great that you are still tracking.

@renaegry Woohoo for all your movement you put into your life this week. I love springtime because as it starts warming up I get just a little bit more motivated. Then all the pretty flowers start appearing. Winter is so depressing. You can reach that goal. Step by step.

@mariechinander My two cents on group posting is do what you can do. No guilt. I used to have a 5 person rule where even if there were 20 people posting I would respond to the first 5 and say Hi to everyone else. Sometimes it got cut down to 3 and like this weekend it got cut down to a Quick check in.....and it was all about me. Sometimes we have more time sometimes we don't. At one point on another group I was sitting responding to people that I realized I was just SITTING. Not up moving my body. That doesn't help me lose weight. Do what you can do. Great tip about bumping up the points on WW. There's always a way to tweak a program to suit our lifestyles. Happy Bday to your hubby.

@its_cleo Good for you for staying within your calorie range this week. You are getting better and better at that. I think they should do away with the whole Daylight Savings thing.

@cpautism24 Welcome to the group! We are chatty at times but you'll find lots of support here.

Green Day- Stayed OP 193/238 carbs Exercise-41 minutes walking

March goals: Drink 3 glasses of water Decluttering

Good morning. Cold and snowing here. Trying to find the ambition to leave my chair and go get an hour of book work in. Not sure if any exercise will fit into the day today. Daughter has gymnastics from 3-6 plus it’s a 30 min drive. If anything will just do a day of squat challenge. Then back to the norm fitness class Monday and Wednesday and treadmill Tuesday and Thursday.

@mariechinander that is one of the main reasons I cancelled WW as well. I found some of the point calculations extremely discouraging. I still have it till the beginning of April but really haven’t been using it. I paid for premium here and really try to track my macros. Hopefully this and spring will be the answer.

@TeresaW1020 I started a puzzle ages ago. The Vegas strip. I should really sit down and finish it one day.

@trooworld way to go on the loss. That’s awesome.

@its_cleo- Good for you, a 5k sounds like fun. I've been thinking of signing up for one for awhile, but I never get around to it.

@trooworld - three pounds is hard work! I really slack on the exercise

@cbabie- When you track you lose, it's the truth. I've fallen away from it a bit in the last couple of weeks, but I know how important it is

@TeresaW1020- I admire your commitment to exercise. I just don't have right now, but it's a future goal of mine. Baby steps.

@CPAUTISM24- Welcome! I'm pretty new to MFP also


I've been struggling to keep my food logged, but I'm making more of an effort again. It's hard when my husband cooks because I'm not sure how to log what he does. I've kept up with my 30 minute walk during my lunch break, even when the weather is terrible, no kidding, I've worn snow-pants at work to walk when it's below zero. It's the one and only exercise I get. I did great calorie wise all week, but this weekend, not so great, I don't know why. However I'm still doing better than before I started using this app.

We had our time change, so tomorrow I have to be at work at 6:00 am, which is really 5:00 am for my mind and body, ugh. I'd like to go for a walk after work, but I work long hours, and come home eat a quick dinner and I'm pretty much off to bed. You all inspire me though to focus on my goal, which is health, which means being more active.

@its_cleo Love the graphic. I've only done one 5K about 8-9 years ago. It was a WW 5K. My goal was to do it in under an hour. Which I came in at 58.something lol I was about 44 lbs heavier then. In my dreams I can run the whole way. But for now, I'd have to walk it with spurts of jogging. Woohoo on your lowest weight. Doesn't that feel really good? Chocolate cake snob. lol It's true though, right? I threw away something the other day (can't remember what it was). I took a bite and said Meh. Then thought maybe the second bite will be better. Nope so in the trash it went. Old slightedge would never throw away and waste the food. Old slightedge used to be 44 lbs heavier too.

@nighthazel01 Just keep working at the tracking. I've given up trying to do it "perfectly" when I don't know exactly what is in the food I'm eating but "close enough" is good enough for me. I lost weight that way. I've been aiming for the middle calories on MFP and it seems to adjust itself somehow. It keeps me in the habit of tracking each meal. If your hubby follows a recipe then you can upload that recipe to MFP and you'll be able to use it again the next time. When I have a new recipe that's what I do. Importing the recipe is easy. If the recipe says 6 servings I immediately divide the finished product into 6 and take my part before the rest of the family starts theirs. The whole house knows now STOP let mom go first so she can measure and weigh. lol Then STOP mom has to enter her food if I haven't preplanned it. They are getting used to me. You are doing an excellent job with your exercise. You inspire me. I wear a mantra band that says no excuses. Evidently I have alot of them.

Yellow Day-Stayed OP 124/164 carbs Exercise-46 minutes

March goals: Drink 3 glasses of water Decluttering

@cbabie, good for you for getting on your treadmill! And you are right that tracking is the most important part of weight loss. I have really been trying to make myself track first thing in the morning. Now the goal is to stay under my WW points and not over them.

@trooworld, that is great that you are down 3 lbs.! I’m happy you have a leader that you like. I would probably still be going to WW meetings if I hadn’t lost my leader. Yayyyy for finishing the 5K!! I hope your plantar fasciitis doesn’t do another flare-up. My mom is trying to lose weight. She needs to lose about 40 lbs. and is very happy that I cook mostly healthy meals.

@renaegry, I’ve seen a puzzle of the Vegas strip before that is 2000 pieces. I want to do that!!

@nighthazel01, doing exercise does require baby steps and determination to do it. Don’t count yourself short! Doing a 30-minute walk is exercise and it’s soooo good for you! Tracking can be hard when you don’t know exactly what foods to track but when I am faced with that I just give my best guess. At least I’m tracking something.

@theslightedgeforever, yes we need our knees! It frustrates me that I can't do the exercise I want but I have to use some wisdom so hopefully my new plan will give me good results and as I lose weight I can go back to squats, lunges and other contortion that those trainers like to make us do. Do you know that for every pound we lose we take off 4 lbs of pressure from our knees? I bet you knew that already.

Good morning! My tonsillitis (yup that was my self-diagnosis after going on Webmd ) has cleared up and I’m ready for a busy week. Mom and I tried to fill out the forms that will transfer her medical and it’s over our heads so I have tasked her with making some phone calls and seeing if we can get some assistance. We both just want all the business stuff done and over! The good news is that the scale was down this morning and I’m determined to have a good week with NO gain! Have a good day!

@theslightedgeforever The last time I counted calories (before WW), I came up my motto to never eat anything I didn’t really like. The cookie is only 150 cals but is meh, then toss it. I’ve followed that motto for about 10 years. Sadly I really like a lot of sweets 😆. It went with my other motto that if I wanted to snack, I had to ask myself it I will feel satisfied 10 minutes after I eat something. If the answer is no, then I really try to convince myself not to eat. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t. So I’m with you. I’d have tossed the meh cake.
For all that had to switch to Daylight Savings Time, I’m with you that I hate it. Hate, hate hate it. It should be outlawed.
So I have a Fitbit and I get a lot of steps. But the MFP exercise cals is about as illogical as it can get. It is sync’ing fine but here’s some examples. Today so far I have 12.6K steps and MFP says 412 calories. Yesterday was 13.8K and MFP says 444 cals. So far so good. But on Saturday I had 12K steps and MFP says 12 calories. Total. TWELVE. Huh? Friday was 11.2K steps and 149 cals. Thursday was 13.2K steps and 102 cals. And last example Wednesday was 14.8K steps and it says 434 cals. Does the program use a dart board? Because it certainly isn’t scientific or remotely accurate. I’m still stunned but the 12 calories for 12,000 steps. Then there is the flip side. It is pretty entertaining.

Quick check in here. Went over 101/100 Who would have thought that by forgetting to type in 1 egg it would make me go over. Oh well. Exercise rest day.

And onto tomorrow.

March goals: Drinking 3 glasses of water Decluttering

@huskymarie I'm with you, daylight savings time is the worst. I hope our state gets rid of it soon. And I'm hopeful that you get to pick up Mishka on Wednesday!

@theslightedgeforever I always hate it when I forget to track something. At least it was only by one point.

@trooworld I'm glad you're starting to feel like your old self. I won't know if this works for awhile, but so far so good.

I woke up this morning ravenous, which was a shame because my hunger levels seemed pretty stable yesterday overall. I've been reading some forums that say the initial switch to low carb makes you more hungry at first but then it evens out? Does anyone have experience with this? I'm still not married to this idea for the long term, so my plan is still to do this for two weeks and re-evaluate. At least my energy levels haven't suffered too bad. I was able to make it through my jiu jitsu class just fine last night without a crash and for day three I haven't had any crazy cravings. I don't have any motivation at work...but honestly I don't blame that on the carbs! Happy Tuesday all!

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@mswatson0777, I don’t remember being ravenous but I’m old so my memory isn’t what it used to be. Are you getting in enough good fats? It can feel overwhelming to eat that much fat when you start low carb but it’s a must.

@trooworld, yayyy for pre-tracking! I’ve been making sure that it’s the first thing I do when I turn on my computer. We can always go back and tweak as needed.

@theslightedgeforever, well at least that sneaky egg didn’t do too much damage.

Hey everyone! I got up early today and mom and I went and changed her driver’s license, made her a doctor’s appointment for next week, and did some shopping. She took me to Chic-Fil-A for lunch so I have to be super careful with my dinner tonight or my points will be wayyy over. My friends had their baby two days ago and he passed away last night. He was a beautiful boy and we are all so thankful that the baby lived for much longer than expected. His parents will cherish the time they had with him forever. My heart breaks for them so much. I’m off to workout and then drink some coffee!

Oh man sorry to hear of your friends loss. :-(

@mswatson0777 I'm glad too, for a while there I was starting to go off the deep end! I don't have an answer to your question, sorry. But like Teresa, my memory is kind of bad lol. I know you are probably having enough protein, right?

@TeresaW1020 Yes! I even pre-tracked today's foods last night as I was watching tv! I've never eaten at Chic-Fil-A but have heard it's good. It's always really busy around here. So sad about the baby.

@theslightedgeforever Yeah water goes by the wayside when I'm busy, too. I'm on a roll...now to stay on one. That was a good idea to have breakfast at home. Yes, you can't be too safe right now. It's crazy. I know you are going to flip that switch and turn it around.

COMMITTED.
March goal: track 1 meal a day, go for a walk 1 time a week

@theslightedgeforver, are you struggling this month? Do you need an intervention? I feel like I should give you some words of wisdom but that is your department. Sooooo what do you say to yourself to get these to turn back to on March goals?

@cbabie, glad the headache went away and that you got 20 minutes on your treadmill! Take care of yourself.

@mswatson0777, how are you feeling today with the low carb? Have you had any weight loss? Yayyy for wedding planning! That is great that you have people in your life who can help make your day awesome.

@trooworld, yayyy for tracking!! I am doing my best to track it all too. Chic-Fil-A is the best!!! I am seriously addicted to their diet lemonade.

Good morning! I am about to head out for my weekly staff meeting. We are deep into our Easter plans which as you know is a very busy time for a church. The biggest hurdle this week is deciding on what the banner should be for out front. Too many cooks in the kitchen if you know what I mean! 😉 My weight is stalled but I know that it’s been because of my overeating my points. I have also started my new workout routine. Right now my upper body and lower half are killing me. Today is my off day and I need it. Have a good one everyone!