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@mswatson0777 HaHa! When I first started IF I did think about food all day long. Now I can easily go 19 to 20 hours before I really start thinking about food. I also always know what I’m having for dinner so I have that to look forward to. I hope you have a great time at your conference.

@trooworld Knick-knack washing didn’t happen since I felt yucky most the day. I might do them tomorrow or Saturday. I’m a play-by-ear kinda girl.

@cbabie If you don’t like fasting and have a hard time not damaging your body then you definitely shouldn’t do it.

Hey everyone! So, I went to my staff meeting and found out that my children’s pastor did test positive for COVID. But she has been fine in over three weeks and her husband tested negative. So we are going forward with our childcare and children’s church plans for this Sunday. We will do every other week since we are still short on volunteers who feel comfortable coming back. After I got home DH and I decided to go out to lunch and then we did some shopping, while Maggie Mae was at the groomers. Look how cute she is!!!

@cbabie I love that, we are important too! Sorry yesterday was such a rough day, I hope it turned around

@TeresaW1020 Your pup is SO CUTE! And sorry to hear about the children's pastor, I'm glad to hear they recovered okay.

@trooworld Right?! I was struggling big time. I figured out I had 8 meetings by the time it was noon, I thought my head was going to explode. Glad your bathroom is finally getting straightened out!

We had a couple friends over last night for an outdoor social distancing cookout and some bourbon and my head is POUNDING today. Give me strength for this hybrid zoom meeting today, the echoing of multiple people's computer speakers is deafening. I ended up having a bit more than I had planned last night, but nothing too crazy, which I'm proud of!

@teresaw1020 what a cute doggie.

@trooworld Is the bathroom back together again?

@mswatson0777 Just remember that this too shall pass. lol

Yellow Day- Stayed OP 143/150 Intentional movement 32 min walk

August goals: Green dot day Drink 6 glasses of water burn 200 cals via movement preplan food

@mswatson0777 Oh my gosh! That is way too many meetings. Your cookout sounds fun. I wish I could do that but we just can't do it here, we don't want to risk it with my brother-in-law being so high risk. That is why I was so glad to go back to work this past Monday: I could actually see and speak with people in person! Lol

@theslightedgeforever Nope I have not been and it shows. Have you? No, full time for the first week and then 20 hours after that. Yes, I'm glad too. No, the bathroom is not done. More on that below.

@TeresaW1020 That's bananas! It shouldn't take so long. Yeah, if you don't have any symptoms, I guess there is no reason to worry about it. It hasn't been installed yet, believe it or not! See more below. Congrats on the loss! Yay for reading!!!

Hello everyone! So, bad news all around: first, I gained weight this week. Up 1.8 lbs. It could be the takeout we got Thursday AND Friday nights. Although Friday night's takeout was healthy. Boo. Now, the shower: they have installed it but it isn't hooked up yet because some of the pipes/fittings are rusted so they have to get permission to replace those. The good news is that the new tub/shower enclosure is much nicer with a lot of shelves for shampoo/soaps etc. But I'm so disappointed that I have to take another shower in the bathroom that my mother-in-law uses at my brother-in-law's.

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August goals: get at least 7 1/2 hours of sleep every night, drink 2 (26 oz) bottles of water a day

@teresaw1020 Yaaay on your weight loss. I use happy scale too but just the free kind. I'm reading American Dirt right now. It's good but sad.

@trooworld Yeah, seeing other real people. That will be fun one day. lol I was doing well on my water last week, don't know what happened this week but I will begin again tomorrow. With corona, a person could still be infected, asymptomatic and spread to other people. I just read an article about all the kids that are now infected. At least two have died this past week. So sad. So disappointing on your shower. They really want you to enjoy it once you get it. It sounds nice with the little shelves.

@its_cleo I was thinking about you the other day when I read an article about the Blue Jays. Wow, that's expensive on the trainer. Did they up the prices during the pandemic? Well you basically know what to do; it's just a matter of consistently doing it. Maybe once every 12 weeks with a trainer would be good so he could offer tweaks and switch up your program. I'm learning the trick with consistency is just doing it for TODAY. Tomorrow will take care of itself; you can't change yesterday.

Green Day Stayed OP 231/238 Intentional movement: Rest Day

August goals: Green dot day Drink 6 glasses of water Burn 200 cals via movement *** Preplan food

@trooworld OK, let's you and I take it day by day this week for the water and then report to each other what we did.

Red Day- Stayed OP 83/100 Intentional Movement: 30+ min of walking and 11 minutes of YouTube shoulder stretching exercises

August goals: Green dot day Drink 6 glasses of water Burn 200 cals via movement preplan food

@trooworld I am so sorry for your loss. As someone who recently lost a parent, your complicated emotions surrounding his death are totally understandable. For me, it brought up a lot of feelings of what could have been. My biggest recommendation is to find a grief therapist ASAP. It honestly saved my mental health and helped me process the complications in ways I wouldn't have been able to on my own.

@TeresaW1020 falling into a good book is one of the best feelings there is! I recently did the same with "One to Watch" and it was fabulous

@theslightedgeforever Great job keeping up with activity!

@Its_cleo I totally get struggling with gym prices. I'm still paying mine every month, but I'm not going and won't be for some time. I consider it investing in a small business, but if I didn't know the owners so well I may have made a different decision

This weekend SUCKED. And I don't mean kind of sucked, but it was honestly one of the worst weekends I've had in a long time. I started the training day on 6 hours of sleep after a 2.5 hour drive. I walked into the training room (the agenda said masks would be required at all times) and NO ONE was wearing masks. So the first time meeting the new board I'm on and I have to be the jerk who asks people to wear their masks during the 12 hour training. Top that off with having to put out a couple of work fires during the meeting, not sleeping the following evening, my period coming mid-way through the meeting, and me avoiding all social contact with everyone since I didn't trust them to wear masks outside of the room and it was probably one of the worst first impressions I've ever made. And now I'm on this board for the next two years...yay...

I got home and immediately took a three hour nap, and was so exhausted I still slept through the night and took a nap the day after. I didn't get a single workout in all weekend long, felt awful, and ate like crap, which then raised the question of if this was just complete and utter burnout or should I be paranoid about COVID...ugh...

I did make it through a 30 minute workout this morning which was a good sign and I am back at work where I actually feel competent...but I am about ready to throw the towel in and just hide under the covers in my room.

@mswatson0777 I am so sorry that you had such a bad weekend! That is just awful that you had to be the one to get people to wear their masks. I hope you will have a better week. I just got RBdigital so I can get audiobooks from my library. I think that will be fun when I’m working on my puzzles.

@trooworld You already know that I have you in my thoughts!

@theslightedgeforever I need your book recommendations. It’s been so long since I did any reading for pleasure that I don’t know what to try to get other than James Patterson. And he can be a bit intense. Makes Justified look tame.

@its_cleo Yikes that is a lot for a trainer. I can see why you would hesitate.

Hey everyone! So this is my last week with my current workout Barre/weight lifting. I’m happy that I actually stuck it out all 8 weeks, but I am looking forward to doing something different. I’m leaning towards 21-Day Fix and combining it with my treadmill. That is a three-week program and at the end of the month, there is a new one that combines boxing and weight lifting that I might check out. I mean heck, I’ve become a ballerina doing Barre, I might as well become a boxer. Right? I also went to Aldi and took my mom to get her other eye surgery done. I broke my fast earlier than usual today and I really need to stop doing that. Tomorrow, I’m setting a goal of a minimum of 21 hours, which means I’m NOT eating until 1:30 pm. Yesterday, I bought this amazing puzzle for $40 off FB Marketplace. It’s called Bizarre Town and I can’t wait to get started on it!

@mswatson0777 Thanks and that's a good suggestion. I do have a therapist and I'm talking to her (virtually) on Weds, so that should help. For me, it's not so much about what could have been but other feelings that I need to explore with my therapist. That's terrible that nobody was wearing a mask! Did people put a mask on once you asked them to? Oh, I'm so sorry it went that way, it does sound awful. And here you thought you were going to a hotel and it would be a whole different situation.

@its_cleo Thank you very much. I'm going to speak with my therapist on Weds so that should be helpful. I'm sure when your mom passes you, too, will have complex emotions, but hopefully, you will not have any regrets about not talking to her. I do not have regrets about not talking to my father. It was the healthy thing to do for me and maybe that's how you feel? Congrats on tracking for 3 days, that's great.

@TeresaW1020 That's great that you got RBDigital so you can listen to audiobooks while you do your puzzles! You will get through so many books. Thank you, yes, I know I am in your thoughts and I appreciate it very much. Boxing would be fun, it's a good workout. How did your mom's surgery go? That looks like a really cool puzzle!

@theslightedgeforever Yesterday was a really bad day emotionally for me and I just didn't think about my water goal at all and so I am ashamed to say I only drank about 16 oz of water. Thank you re: my dad. That must have been very hard at the time to not get closure, I hope you have been able to make your own closure in some way.

Hi all. So yesterday was a very tough day for me. I had a busy day at work and then on the way home, I was starving and I stopped at got fast food. I haven't had fast food in probably 8 months. At least I tracked it. It was total emo eating.

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August goals: get at least 7 1/2 hours of sleep every night, drink 2 (26 oz) bottles of water a day

@its_cleo Great job being back on track! Getting to see friends does feel so indulgent!

@trooworld Glad you have someone to talk to to help process everything, you're in my thoughts. I'm really impressed you tracked everything yesterday, that's huge!

@theslightedgeforever Thank you for your kind words, I'm going to cling to those cause I feel like crap about the whole situation! And I love fluffy books too. The Kiss Quotient was a recent one I fell in love with. And Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

@TeresaW1020 That puzzle looks amazing and like it will keep you busy for a long time! I hope you're able to find some fabulous audiobooks, I love falling into a good book!

I'm feeling a lot better today. Work is still stressful but at least it's not all day meetings like it was yesterday. I did hop on the scale this morning and am amazed I'm only up 1/2lb. After the emotional, exhausting, tumultuous weekend I had I expected it to be more. I am still frustrated since after getting back on the wagon I'm barely down any weight. It's like my body is clinging to it this time. Oh well, it's not a race and at least I'm not going crazy in the wrong direction anymore.