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@TeresaW1020 Woohoo on your blue dot day. Now to repeat. I'm getting closer. I read the same article you did I think. We might have a lot of stops and starts ahead of us. Which means I need to figure this thing out or I'm never going to lose weight. Did you see the Deadwood movie? All the cast came back in 2019 and made a movie. We just started season 5 so that's another month for me and then I'm going to move on to Deadwood. We watch one show a day unless it's really good and dh begs me for just one more. lol Last night I was the one begging. lol Here's my thoughts on roots. They will survive, your family may not. That's what I'm telling myself about my own roots. Although I'm not going out so just the family sees but Loreal root spray is fabulous for when you do have to go out.

@trooworld Thanks for the recipe. I've made breadsticks before. How is your exercise coming along? I made myself do mine yesterday when I didn't really want to.

@mswatson0777 I like what you said too. So now I need to embrace the cards I've been dealt. Usually I'm a make lemonade out of lemons kind of gal. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time with this. I was the queen of control for 6 months and POOF when I got sick that all just went away. But I'm not giving up.

Hello everyone! I decided to go grocery shopping on Thursday mornings rather than the weekends just while I'm off work. I figure there will be fewer people in the stores. I have to go to two stores this morning, an Asian grocery store for ingredients for a soup I'm making, and my regular place for groceries.

@mswatson0777 That's wonderful! So, why not do it, right? My April goals are going pretty good overall. I'm a little spotty on the exercise once a day, I think that was a little ambitious. But I've been tracking all of my meals and drinking enough water. How about your goals? Enjoy the nice weather!

@cbabie Could the heartburn be due to stress? Oh the breadsticks...they were yummy! I hope you get out and about with the baby today.

@theslightedgeforever My exercise isn't every day but it's about 3-4 days a week and I'm pretty happy about that considering I used to not do it at all. That's great you made yourself do yours when you didn't want to do it at all. That's really fighting for it!

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April goal: track 2 meals a day, do some form of exercise once a day, drink 52 oz of water per day

We had quite a bit of snow two days ago, since then it's been raining and cold. Still made it out for my walk, but I can't take much more of this cold, I need a real spring, with sunshine. It's hard to write because every day's the same. I'm eating more because I'm home, but I try to limit my portions and snacking, I wasn't successful yesterday at this. I did get my walks in.

@mswatson0777 Yeah, I'm grateful to have the time to be able to do it. But it was amazing that a lot of people were still out at 8:00 a.m... I'm sure it was fewer people than were going to be out later, but still. That's a good way to look at exercise. I hope you get your outdoor walks in.

@cbabie That's great that you found a new treat and a yummy one at that! Yay for only 2 tsp of PB!

@RetiredAndLovingIt I don't think I'd want to be without a bathroom for 6-7 hours either! I've enjoyed being by myself but enough is enough, I'm ready to go back to work. The recipe: yeah, you can make bagels, cinnamon rolls, rolls, pizza, all sorts of things out of that dough. I love beer bread, I have a recipe that friend gave me that I love and it is so easy so if your recipe doesn't turn out, let me know and I'll give you my recipe.

@nighthazel01 I hope it warms up soon and you get your spring.

@theslightedgeforever Thanks!

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April goal: track 2 meals a day, do some form of exercise once a day, drink 52 oz of water per day

@TeresaW1020 I hope everything goes well with Georgia re-opening, although it certainly would make me anxious too. Our state is doing a more gradual approach so we shall see.

@nighthazel01 So sorry about the snow. My mood fluctuates big time with the weather lately so I feel your pain.

@theslightedgeforever I'm someone who likes routine so I have a hard time when I'm thrown into situations with no routine. It's been interesting trying to carve my own!

@cbabie I love yogurt and bananas, so delicious!

@RetiredandLovingIt Congrats on keeping up with exercise and having a downward weight trend, that's fabulous!

@trooworld I wonder when the slowest grocery store time is? I've been having luck on Saturday afternoons, but I just feel so stressed every time I go

Happy Friday all! I got pretty stressed and overwhelmed yesterday...and got into the chocolate. I am just not doing well lately with eating my feelings. Ugh. I am officially going off low carb too. I haven't lost any weight in over a month and it's just not sustainable. But I'm glad I tried it to see what it was like, it's just not for me. I'm looking forward to buying lots of fresh fruit and adding whole grains back in, yum!

@trooworld Did you get any exercise in today? Thanks for sharing with me the Gina B videos.

@teresaw1020 Tell me three things you did right today. I didn't know there was a Deadwood anything except I was fangirling over Timothy Olyphant and looked up to see what other shows he was in. Or watch him and Conan together on YouTube. Gotta do something with my lockdown time. lol At least you are being smart about the church reopening. If the church isn't full to the brim at least you could do some social distancing for a bit.

@mswatson0777 Yeah I'm a routine person too and don't thrive at all with lack of it until I figure it all out. It just takes me a while. Funny about you going off low carb, I'm almost ready to return to my carb cycling. I'm not ready to do it as planned since getting eggs sometimes can be hit and miss but I'm trying to come up with a tweaked version of my original plan. I did so well on that. Numbers are numbers whether they are carbs or calories. I just can't figure out why I'm okay with going over calories but not when it comes to my carbs. So weird.

@retiredandlovingit So what healthy things did you eat today? Did your state ever really shut down? I read something like you could go shop at Michaels and I was like what? Funny how I read AZ allowed barber shops to stay open. I hope that wasn't true. Called it essential. My son keeps sending videos everyday this week of cars meeting up in parking lots and everyone is standing around in groups just talking away. Like 20 people. I think it's become his new hobby on the way to work.


Calories: Stayed OP 1468/1550 Exercise 41 min cardio and pilates ball exercises

April goals: Drink 4.5 glasses of water Decluttering Burn 200 cals via exercise.

Hey all,
Sorry I’ve been MIA, just a busy week at work, probably will be busy the next couple.

@trooworld man I love bacon and pineapple on pizza! Yikes on feeling sick. Sometimes I feel like I take chances on food, but so far it’s been ok. It’s not that I want to, but living alone it’s hard to eat everything lol.

@cbabie glad the weather is better. I think an actual walk is better than the treadmill.

@TeresaW1020 lol about your husband wanting to be a greeter at the door. Yeah that is probably a high risk position! Summer coming can be good motivation. I always have a hard time switching from winter clothes to lighter summer clothes. It’s always hard the first few times I go out without a jacket. …I think opening the church end of Mary is a good timeline. It gives you time to plan and also you can see how things go in the state.

@mswatson0777 I couldn’t do low carb either. I don’t try any particular type of diet. I try to eat a certain amount of protein, and fats, and the rest carbs but I’m not fanatical about it. It’s based on what makes me feel good.

@retiredandlovingit I’m another big fan of Greek yogurt with some fruit and a bit of honey. Sometimes I will also put in almonds, or granola if I have some. I just find I can’t eat it all the time, something about the dairy.

Calories- this week I’m over, but only by a little bit. Today is the last day of my week so we’ll see how I do.
Exercising- I have to check but I did over 10 hours of exercise this week, all different things. One disappointment-

I had a set back with my achilles tendon. I went on a walk and the route was hilly and it was just too much. That was Wed and today was the first day it wasn’t sore. So I’ve decided to stop jogging for a few days- a week? Not sure how long. I can still do the stairs. Just no jogging, no walking up or down hills.

It’s ok, this has happened to me before with my Achilles =. It has always been vulnerable and that’s why I can never jog more than 3-4 km at a time. Eventually it always acts up.

Que sera. So I will start trying to do some longer walks, the challenge will be finding enough flat routes.
Work is busy, just some deadlines coming up with the client I have.

I connected with my hiking club yesterday over zoom, it was nice to see them. The weather here is beautiful today but I tend to stay low over the weekends and go out more on Mon when there is less people.

@teresaw1020 That's great you got in a good workout and tracked your food. Look how close you were to your point goal. You are definitely getting back into the groove. I'm all about me not getting the virus versus overwhelming the medical system. But I do get your point. Here's a fun idea for your church ladies that want to get healthier before return. A quarantine challenge. You could do online teams and report in your weight once a week. Everyone agrees to pitch in $10 or whatever and then the team that wins the most weight loss once everyone is back to church gets to use that money and go out for a meal together after church at a restaurant in town. I was thinking the same thing. People will look at me and say well she didn't handle that well. We all handle it differently, some eat more, smoke more, drink more, yell and scream more, worry more etc. It all shows up in our bodies through wrinkles or fat.

@cbabie That's good that you are taking the baby for walks. Although now that it's hot..... You are still getting in some good movement and Vitamin D and fresh air. So as for that weight trend. Try stopping it in it's track and maintain for a few weeks versus gaining. That is progress. Then you can continue onto losing. That's what I'm trying to do. I've been steadily gaining since February. I have picked a meal and I'm going to continue eating the same three things for that meal for a while. Apple, kiwi, 3 laughing cow cheese triangles I do so much better with routine.

@trooworld Woohoo! on the weight loss. Funny thing about cauliflower is that while I don't like eating it raw or just cooked and boring. I love eating my cheesy cauliflower rice. I would even eat that for breakfast which is weird for me because breakfast means breakfast foods to me. I just shredded a head day before yesterday and packed it into one cup portions for my freezer so I can just pop them out and make it. Yes it was you that shared the Gina B videos. Remember the ABBA video? I did that one yesterday. That was a fast one. Come on, get back in there and exercise even for 15 min a day to keep up the habit. Soon you will be back to work and saying I don't have time to exercise.

@its_cleo Pineapple on pizza. But I love liver so there's that. One of my meals I like is plain greek yogurt with cut up apples and walnuts with some stevia. I like to layer it in a parfait glass. Sorry about the achilles. At least you have a plan B for the times it pops up to bother you. Your snacks sound good. I love brie cheese.

Another good day for me today.

Calories- Stayed OP 1492/1660 Exercise-39 min cardio and Bosu ball

April goals-Drink 4.5 glasses of water Decluttering Burn 200 calories via exercise

@trooworld I'm sorry you are having problems with the recipe builder. It's like the MFP website food diary versus the phone diary. I can log food in an instant on the phone but not so on the website. It takes too darn long. Ha, I just threw away some cheese the other day. I kept looking at it. Smelling it. Looking at it. lol Liver has to be made right. I wouldn't eat just plain liver. Yummy sauteed onions, tomatoes, and green peppers in it. Liver has to be sliced into tiny strips. Then add a bit of tomato paste and some cumin, turmeric, salt and pepper. Then scoop it up with some pita bread and an order of hummus on the side. But I'm probably the only one that likes it so more for me. Yaaay on your walk.

Calories: Went over 1941/1517 Exercise: free day

April goals: Drink 4.5 glasses of water Decluttering Burn 200 cals via exercise

@theslightedgeforever I like the WW website food diary versus the phone diary too, maybe we are old school? The funny thing about the old cheese was that it smelled and looked fine. So don't go by smells and looks or you may be in trouble. I've never heard liver eaten that way but I'll still let you have it. I found a new way to get water in: I bought a Sodastream machine and can make my own sparkling water now (and diet soda if I want). I bought a couple of different flavors or I can just add slices of fruit. It's working, I'm really drinking a lot of water.

@mswatson0777 Thank you! Yes, I don't know if there is a good time to go to the grocery store...everyone seems to be off work now and ready to go at any time. I'm sorry you had a crappy weekend. I got in a fight with my spouse too. It must have been in the air! Yeah, now's the time to do the little stuff that needs done I guess.

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April goal: track 2 meals a day, do some form of exercise once a day, drink 52 oz of water per day

@cbabie, we are going to get hot here too and I’m not looking forward to the heat. Especially since we missed the spring by being stuck indoors so much. I started tearing up yesterday watching our Facebook live and seeing all my friends on who was watching too. We all want to be back to our little red brick church so badly! Soon we hope. How about you? Does your church have plans to reopen anytime soon?

@trooworld, The WW recipe builder can be annoying for me. Sometimes I find it easier just to put into my tracker each item and do a good guestimate. Girl, 34 points for dinner! No wonder it was so tasty.

@its_cleo, that snack with the brie with honey sounds soooo good!! Too bad I have given up snacking. Now I might have to just make a whole plate and eat it as a meal. The pizza sounds really yummy too!

@Theslightedgeforever, I like that quarantine challenge idea. Even my little skinny women are complaining about eating too much since being stuck at home all day. Restaurants are able to reopen today if they follow the guidelines. So far the only one I’ve heard of that is opening for sure is Waffle House.

@mswatson0777, today was my day one of Barre Blend, which is a mixture of barre, Pilates, and cardio. It was intense but I think I will love it. Yeah, tomorrow is our day to get out and clean the patio furniture. Not looking forward to it but at least I will finally be able to go sit without getting yellow pollen all over me. My DH and I also had a discussion on getting a power washer. What did you decide?

Hey everyone! Well, I went to Walmart this morning and there were stickers on the floor everywhere telling us which direction we could shop. Like each aisle either had a green arrow telling us to shop in that direction or a do not enter sticker. Seriously! I rebelled several times since it was 9 am and not very many people were in the store. Then I came home and realized that they or I forgot a bag of laundry supplies, so I drove back up there and customer service let me go and get what I forgot.

And Amazon just dropped off my newest puzzle which was a gift from my sweet husband! I’m going to get started on it right now!!! 5000 pieces of fun!! It's going to take up my whole dining room table.

@TeresaW1020 Love the puzzle, my DH and youngest daughter are into puzzles and they're due for a new one

@renaegry Nice work. I need to do better with exercise.

Enjoyed my early morning walk yesterday, finally some sun. I ventured to the store for the first time in 5 or 6 weeks. We did curbside pickup at the grocery store. I didn't get everything on my list but it wasn't bad. Things are improving around here. I'm planning a birthday party for my mother-in law who turns 92 in 3 weeks. There won't be a lot of us there, but I think the lock down might be lifted by then.