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@theslightedgeforever Good job being fully back on your eating plan! I miss having a social life too!!

@cbabie Good job on getting on your treadmill. It’s outside right? Do you at least have a fan blowing on you?

@trooworld Thanks for the tip on the potato salad. I am definitely making it next week so I will let you know how we liked it.

Good morning! So, yesterday I went and bought 8 more puzzles for $15 from a lady on Facebook Marketplace. Today, I have to reorganize my storage shelves, so I have room for all of them. DH says he will NOT buy me a storage shed for out back. He says I’m becoming a crazy puzzle lady! My staff meeting was canceled due to half the team unable to make it. I’m still going to go into the office a little while to do a few things. My weight is still trending downward and hopefully I have will have a decent loss to announce tomorrow.

@teresaw1020 Well I went from gaining to maintaining now to losing. The main problems with red days had been not adequate groceries. Since I've only been having them delivered since March, things I ordered wouldn't be available. At the beginning was eggs. Then for some reason it was the cheese I was used to eating. Now I am figuring out a way to substitute for those times I don't get my cheese. Plus I just go back and reuse the same menus as I did back in August 2019 when I started. That worked for 6 months. So I have 6 months of preplanned menus ready to use. Yaaaay on the downward trend of weight loss. That's what we are all here for.

@cbabie Good job on no seconds. I was recently telling someone that it is not junk food that keeps me fat but an extra piece of toast or more spaghetti than I need. So think about an alternate plan for movement if you don't get on the treadmill in the morning. Just like if I can't get my cheese then I have to do X. So if baby or other plans disrupt your quiet treadmill time in the morning, then how can you substitute?

@mswatson0777 Hey, I missed seeing your doggie. I'm actually getting better at this the longer the pandemic goes on. I guess I went through the mourning stages and am at acceptance that I don't think it's going away any time soon. But I couldn't just keep on gaining. So I took it down a level to maintaining. This week I was mentally ready to take it down another notch to losing. You'll figure out your path. Good to see you back.

Green Day-Stayed OP 189/238 Intentional Movement: 40 min walk

July goals: Green dot day Drink 5 glasses of water Burn 165 cals via movement Preplan food

@mswatson0777 Hey Girl! It’s so nice to have you back with us. These are definitely some crazy times we are living in, so be kind to yourself when you step on that scale.

@cbabie, I hope you slept better and were able to get on your treadmill.

@theslightedgeforever, that is great that you have your preplanned menus. I need to do something like that. Planning my weekly menu is a big pain in the butt and when I ask DH and my mom what we should eat they say the same thing every week. No creativity!!

@trooworld Hubby asked me yesterday how many puzzles I have. Only 27!! I plan to keep the ones I really love so I can do them again and I might sell the others. Thanks for the skinny vibes! I think it paid off.



Good morning! Yayyyy I lost 2 lbs this week! Now, I just need to make it happen again this week. I’m off to do my workout and then get ready for my Friday Zoom call with my IF group. Then I guess I will do some housework and start a new puzzle.

Hi all..been a lazy day here today. I am not sleeping well, not much deep sleep according to Fitbit, so think that is what is catching up with me today.

@mswatson Glad to see you back. It sounds like you are still very busy, even with the virus worries. I have also gained about 6#. I was doing well at the beginning of stay at home, lost a few pounds, then dd & gkids came for the summer so we could keep gkids busy while she worked from home here. I have gained it since the end of May. I know I snack more, but also I will not weigh my food around the gkids, so probably bigger portions also.

@theslightedgeforever Great getting back to more disciplined carb cycling. Glad you are back to losing.

@trooworld Hope it is good news that you will be back to work. Glad, too, that your bathroom may soon be ready to go. 20# loss is great!

@TeresaW1020 Congrats on the loss. Seems like you are getting into the flow with IF. Still don't know how you manage such long fasts!!

@cbabie Hope things settle down so you can get better sleep. Been pretty hot here, too.

One more week of gkids, then we will take them home. Some ways I am so ready!! & yet not, because hard telling how long it will be before we are able to see them again. At this point, I am figuring we won't be going for gs birthday the end of Oct, Like we would normally do.

Think part of my stress is thinking of dd (kindergarten teacher) & all the gkids going back to school. Really worry how that will all work out. I can try to maintain my "bubble", tho.

@mswatson0777 I know about the mental struggle of dealing with this virus and have also had to figure out a way not to wallow in what I’m missing out on and instead look to what I can control. For me, that is my fitness and weight. Your weight gain isn’t bad at all and you will get that off. I gained 10 lbs back when I stopped Keto which told me that it really wasn’t for me. I love carbs too much to give them up forever anyway. I have been doing IF for over year but a lot of that time I wasn’t clean fasting, which I totally do now. For me, it is taking away my diet mentality that I have had most of my life and teaching me that this is a lifestyle that I can do forever.

@RetiredAndLovingIt Learning to do longer fast takes practice. We call it building your fasting muscle. It is totally understandable that you are worried about your daughter going back into the classroom. I’m dealing with a COVID scare right now. See my post.

@trooworld YES it’s better than a gain! I know you know better than to say “only” when talking about weight loss. But I get how you feel. Next week!!


Good morning! Well, we have canceled church for tomorrow. Our children’s director may have COVID. She has several of the symptoms, like no taste or smell, and feeling really yucky. She had a test, but the results haven’t come in. And since, she was with us at our last staff meeting we figure better safe than sorry. In other news, I don’t have much planned for the weekend now except to mop my floors and other household cleaning fun. I will workout in a minute and I plan to fast until dinner. We are having BBQ pork ribs and homemade coleslaw.

@trooworld woohoo on your loss. That's 0.6 closer to your goal. Plus look at all the good choices you made this week to get there.

@teresaw1020 Having my preplanned meals from last August onward helps. I was successful using them so it should work again, right? Yaaaay on your loss. Your hard work is paying off. Oh, sorry about your children's director. Hope it comes back negative. Seems like every week someone I know or their family is being diagnosed or they had to quarantine because they were directly exposed by someone. At least I learned something out of all this.

@mswatson0777 It has been interesting to watch people either gain or lose during this pandemic. I know both types of people. I was in the gain group. I'm getting ready to read a book on acceptance and commitment therapy. I ran across an article that was really good and thought I think I need that. lol I loved the little meme about rain.

https://businessinsider.com/how-i-used-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy-cope-with-pandemic-2020-7

Make your "wins" small so in the beginning you have lots of them and they will spur you onto bigger wins. Celebrate everything you are doing right.

@retiredandlovingit So what steps will you take to get back to losing? I was looking at my monthly reports and you can see in mid Feb I started to slip when I gained when I took steroids while being sick. Then that sent me into a spiral for the last two weeks then came stuck inside for March/April where I did alot of baking. Still stuck inside May/June but decided I needed to just maintain. Now here in July I'm starting to lose again finally while I'm stuck inside. Did I mention I'm still stuck inside. lol I was too sick at the beginning of the year and don't want a repeat. So I'm being more cautious than some. yeah, I'm of the camp where too soon for kids to go back to school. I saw in des moines where they were having some kind of "drive" protest. A bunch of cars were all lined up. I think the same thing about me in Jan-Feb, I think that's what I had like your granddaughter. But like you say about immunity, it doesn't seem to be once you get it don't have to worry about it. I wish it was like that. I'm ready to go out and eat breakfast with my best friend.

@cbabie Yaaay for getting on the treadmill. So on the back up plan, video is a good choice. On YouTube there is so many to choose from and they are all free. Plus there are videos that range from 5 min to 45+ min. It's good to have a list of them by time so if all you have is 10 min then you go find a 10 min video you like instead of browsing the site for 5 min looking for a good one. (I've done that) Right now you may have to do little snatches of exercise instead of a 30 min video "Baby" might be like me. Mom used to always try to show me things that I would never see til they passed by and then she would get mad because I didn't see them. Dh tells me I still do that. lol I just look at him and say oh well, next time. He gets mad too. lol I don't know why they are mad. They got to see it.


Well that took forever. But that's what I get for missing a day.

Green Day- Stayed OP 229/238 Intentional Movement: 30 min walk

July goals: Green dot day Drink 5 glasses of water Burn 165 cals via movement
Preplan food

Hi all- I've just had a quick read off the last posts.

Stay safe with COVID. Our church is still via zoom. We still have some things just opening up now. Church wil be a while due to age profile of pur congregation- some others have opened with changes. @TeresaW1020

@trooworld sounds like good news on bathroom- we got ours done before Christmas but someone dropped something on the toilet lid & broke it- supplier no longet working so plumber trying to source one- been like thos through lockdown. At least it's useable. Hope your shower functioning soon
@RetiredAndLovingIt my MiL thinks FiL had COVID- they couldn't find type of infection & he had symptoms- late Dec. 1st UK case was Jan- quite possible. They are saying that the antibodies don't have long tetm effect- just like other coronavirus eg 'flu & cold.

Take care all & stay safe

@theslightedgeforever I love the article you shared, especially regarding "what will people say about you when you're 80". I want people to remember me as kind, supportive, loving, and a good friend. NONE of those qualities have to do with my body size, and I need to remember that when I'm getting down on myself. My body is not a reflection of myself and who I am as a person.

@trooworld That sounds really cool to be able to pick your meeting. The only meeting in my area was run at the senior learning center, so every time I went there it was me and a bunch of people in their 60s-80s. I definitely felt like the odd girl out! I'm so glad you're getting your bathroom back again, that sounds awful to not have a shower!

Happy Monday all! I'm taking a bit of a risk and getting my hair cut today. I'm going in for the first appointment at 7:45am after a weekend and we're both wearing masks so I'm mitigating the risk as much as possible. We had a wonderful weekend. It was so relaxing and refreshing. This week I'm actually going to kick my butt into gear and start working on grad school work again so I can get an outline out to my advisor soon.

I feel so fortunate I have my partner during this pandemic, without him I think I'd be struggling so much more than I am. He's so calm and keeps me grounded when the anxiety kicks in. My anxiety has very physical symptoms (my chest gets tight) which then makes me think I have COVID (I don't).

I hope you all have a great Monday!