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Reasons to be grateful:- Another Beautiful sunrise, and a brand new opportunity to be and do the best that I can
- My ability to look after my body
- The realisation of the importance of self care
- Being retired, which gives me the time and means to make, and follow positive choices.
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Words of Wisdom (and experience) from our MaddyMadisonMolly2017 wrote: »@keith250in2021
Ok, here are some things what I’ve learned over the past 5 years (Lost 72-78 pounds over 3 years, maintained 2 years.
MAINTENANCE is the goal - not weight loss.
Baby habit changes (1 per week) that then are continued as You add another the next week allow for gradual changes that can become permanent...and support your maintenance.
Make sure you eat enough. Starvation is not necessary & can cause the desire for unhealthy foods. I never lost more than 4-5 pounds a month Because I didn’t want to get super hungry & I didn’t want to lose even more muscle. It’s not a race.
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This is a habit change task not a weight loss task because it’s only by shifting your habits gradually that you can maintain. Habits trump willpower every time.
Focus on health. Are there labs you wish were better, things you wish you could do or that were easier for you to do. Focus on them. #HealthFirst
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I used The NOOM app that has a personal coach to help me make those small changes. Highly recommended.
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Drink lots of water. Eat protein at each meal.
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For unhealthy foods that called to me, I really paid attention to how they tasted. For example tortilla chips. I let one sit in my tongue. Cardboard once the salt went away. But I still wanted them, so I said okay, unsalted only. Weighed them out. After a couple months, I decided there were other things I’d rather eat for those calories & I never looked back. MY Choice.
Pasta. Pasta without the salt, fat, etc had no taste. I just stopped eating it one day. No taste. Just a vehicle (for me) for salt & fat.
So, slowly I addressed my “problem” foods. Sometimes eliminating, sometimes substituting something else, etc.
Gradually.
And guess what, now those goods don’t call me. It’s a freakin’ miracle.
Gradual changes, I think, allow our bodies to reset. Especially if you exercise daily, which you do!!
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Develop your interests. With maintenance, the goal is to Live Your Life! What do you love? What do you want to learn & do? Begin these things now! Identify passions & purpose that fill you up as your food used to!
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Eat slowly, smaller plates, bowls, cups. Savor each bite. Why eat if you’re not paying attention?!
Weigh your food. Your calorie counts will be accurate.
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Over time, I created a breakfast & a lunch I love. I recommend it. Some will do several, but I love mine so much that I just eat them.
Makes it very easy to track & you develop a habit - fewer decisions
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Enter your dinner before eating it so you don’t accidentally go over your calorie goal.
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Treat daily or weekly body weigh as data - not some judgment if your worthiness or goodness. Just data.
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Get smaller clothes as you get thinner sooner rather than later -second hand shops are good for this as you slim down!
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Forgive yourself for how you ate in the past. Really.
I hope at least some of these will be of help.
Best,
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I need to remember this ... and do a personal adaptation ...MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »NSV #1:
I’ve created a system to create Balance in my life & Happiness & Peace.
The most amazing thing is after I implemented it, my appetite decreased, the quality of my food choices improved even further... amazing.
I now do a minimum of 15 minutes on 4 different activities.
Y yoga & upper body strength training alternating daily
M mindfulness guided visualizations
C cleaning/organizing/decluttering
A art/writing etc ie active creating.
The 15 minutes for each of these often expands to 30-45 mins, sometimes 1-2 hours for C, And sometimes Most of a day for A.
I knew I needed to develop other interests when I was losing weight. Having this loose structure makes me feel limber, peaceful, productive, and creative each night as my head hits the pillow.5 -
Hello everyone.
Ah, Friday. You're finally here! I have been waiting for you all week.
So many things running through my mind as I think about what I am grateful for today.- I am so very grateful for the UAC members posting here and sharing their thoughts, pointers, and support.
- I am so very grateful for my health. Yes, we all have issues of one type or another. I must always remember when I am thinking about where I am at to remember I do not have a debilitating disease, I am not immobile, I do not have to struggle to walk or get basic tasks completed. I may be slower than I was 30 years ago, but I am doing pretty darn good.
- I am so very grateful to be gainfully employed. I know I mention this often, but during these times this is worth its weight in gold. So many are trying to make ends meet, feed their families, pay their bills, and a host of other money-related stresses. My employment may not last through this, but for now I am doing very well.
I may be taking a timeout this weekend because I have many little projects that have been accumulating. I really want to make a dent in my to-do list!
I hope everyone has a great weekend. Hugs to all.4 -
HI all,
I've not posted on this board before and it's been a while (17 days!) since I posted on the main board. I hurt my knee quite badly and been feeling very sorry for myself as I've been stranded on the sofa not able to walk properly or drive. But...I have to turn my outlook around now. I've had a couple of physio sessions now and I'm making some progress and have been practicing walking around the house without crutches. I've even just done some pilates, avoiding anything that would impact my knee and I have a static bike set up in the living room which I'm allowed to do 20 (gentle) minutes on per day to keep my knee moving safely. I'm seeing a knee specialist tomorrow to review an MRI scan, he suspects torn meniscus which is way better than ligament damage.
So, having been inspired by the gratitude shown on this board - I'm grateful for:
- my left knee...which has basically been keeping the show on the road these last couple of weeks and getting me up and down the stairs
- my family...my kids are old enough to help me now and my youngest son has been a hero by walking to and from school, much younger than he would normally have done
- my job, lucky for me I'm able to keep working as I work at a desk from home.
So, happy Sunday to all. I'm hoping I can pull myself together enough now to eat well and start back on UAC. Loved all the tips from Maddie, I'm going to re-read and absorb them now.7 -
Sorry to hear about your knee, @katiecan2019, but your physical and mental recovery is inspiring! You were down, but not out!!4
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@katiecan2019 - what a positive outlook! I wish you a speedy recovery. Slow and steady.3
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My Reasons to be grateful:- The smell of the new mown grass when I cut the grass. DH has badly gashed his finger and I wanted him to rest up.
- Seeing my lovely family on Skype. Elder daughter and two of the grands made it today. Our Sunday afternoon sessions allow us all keep in touch during these trying times.
- The cup of tea that DH has just set beside me.
- The support of you lovely lot.
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It is almost Tuesday, here.
Today I worked on editing a manuscript that wanted to make my eyes bleed! 😂 The punctuation goes INSIDE quotation marks.Etcetera is ETC, not ECT. 🤦🏼♀️ Never start a sentence with the word, “And.”
I could go on and on. Until today, I thought anyone who could string a few words together could write. Yeah, no! Not so much. These people are the reason editors were born. 😂
My gratitude list:- Baby Cat has a name; it’s Luna.
- Luna is starting to play with me. 😻
- We are freezing all the leftover pork for suppers later in the year.
I got a little homesick for my work friends, so I reached out. My former team is hating life. This makes me grateful that I got the hell out when I did!
Here is a picture if Luna at 17 days old:
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Finally posted my NSV today on the Sept 15 thread .... so that you don't have to go back for it, I am repeating here as a Gratitude.
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I am grateful that my default personality setting is "Solution Finder" (a "Problem Solver" would have stopped at the first inelegant quick-and-dirty work-around "found a kluge" stage ... I used that as base-line survival with day-to-day keep-to-schedule work requirements ... while continuing to refine towards a sustainable final-solution package - that INCLUDES DOCUMENTATION)
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I have made huge progress in getting all my snakes to slither in formation ... (I have been describing the work-load spike that was giving me sooo much stress as "a ball of snakes")
The spike was because the volume of through-put for this particular process is ALREADY almost 300% higher than all of last year ... and the year isn't over yet ....
I have made it past "kluge" to "decent-results beta-test" and am finishing "final refinements" over this week. (sings slightly off-key) " I did it MYYYYYYYYYY WAAAAAYYYYYYY!"
(for those who might not know: Merrium-Webster dictionary defines "kluge" as: a haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem and especially to a computer or programming problem. Often an inelegant quick-and-dirty work-around.
The "how do I DOO this work-flow at all without panicking over whether I am missing something for even ONE micro-project, let alone keep straight where each of the dozen currently in-play micro-projects are on their ever-shifting individual spectra (plus 6 just PRETENDING to be dormant that might start moving at any moment ... ) " problem sprang primarily from lack of documented procedures / checklists on the computer ... and the fact that my memory tends to be visually-prompted but my brought-home work computer refuses to talk to either of my at-home printers.2 -
juliemouse83 wrote: »It is almost Tuesday, here.
Today I worked on editing a manuscript that wanted to make my eyes bleed! 😂 The punctuation goes INSIDE quotation marks.Etcetera is ETC, not ECT. 🤦🏼♀️ Never start a sentence with the word, “And.”
I could go on and on. Until today, I thought anyone who could string a few words together could write. Yeah, no! Not so much. These people are the reason editors were born. 😂
My gratitude list:- Baby Cat has a name; it’s Luna.
- Luna is starting to play with me. 😻
- We are freezing all the leftover pork for suppers later in the year.
I got a little homesick for my work friends, so I reached out. My former team is hating life. This makes me grateful that I got the hell out when I did!
Here is a picture if Luna at 17 days old:
Little Luna is soooooooooo cuuuuuuuuute!2 -
@juliemouse83
Luna is adorable! She looks like she is thriving. Aw, I wish I could pet her!!!!1 -
Just a quick stop in. Work started off with a bang - it's our quarter end and the team was hit with a rather large project so it's all hands on deck.
Grateful to be working and busy.
Grateful to feel appreciated at work.
Grateful the sun is shining through the window.
Grateful for the cold front....our high will only be 86 today!!! Yeah!!!!!!!
Grateful to be alive.1 -
@juliemouse83
My writing probably makes your eyes bleed. I always hated diagraming a sentence and it shows! Given I am numbers driven words are always my challenge.
I will say, "I do know how to quote." LOL!!!! And, if I forget how to punctuate something there is always the web. Sorry, had to start with an "and".2 -
@juliemouse83
My writing probably makes your eyes bleed. I always hated diagraming a sentence and it shows! Given I am numbers driven words are always my challenge.
I will say, "I do know how to quote." LOL!!!! And, if I forget how to punctuate something there is always the web. Sorry, had to start with an "and".
Girrrrrrrl!
Compared to what I’m editing? Yours could win prizes! I am over here thinking to myself that she HAD to have handed in the draft copy, but, no. The misspellings are plentiful, the use of same sounding words, different spellings (verses/versus) and run on sentences the length of paragraphs abound.
I thought converting to book format would be the hardest part, but it wasn’t. (I’ve never put anything in book format before, but am soooo thankful for YouTube videos.)
That said? I’m grateful to just have a gig that will pay for my insurance. I’m also grateful for:- Another full night’s sleep, as Luna is starting to sleep through the night,
- Hot coffee on a chilly morning,
- Being a happy person, overall; I have a friend who is convinced happiness eludes her,
- The slower paced path my life has taken.
I’ve pretty much been a slug this past week, but now it’s time to start knocking projects out. Today is going to be replacing the first of five interior doors, and cutting the quarter round in the guest bath to snug the new vanity against the wall, mounting the new mirror and putting up towel racks, etc. 🤗
I hope everyone has a great day, today!4 -
Hello everyone.
Hoping all are doing well and staying sane. I have been in a funk lately - I think it is the extended time with little to no in person socialization. I am working through this period and am doing much better. I have started to hold more video chats with my co-workers and making more calls to friends and both strategies seem to be working. I am also thinking about coordinating a socially-distanced happy hour within the section of the community of which I reside. Trying to figure out the logistics and "rules".
I am grateful for the following.- The cold front! I awakened to a 74 degree morning with no humidity! I was so excited I took a walk at 5am this morning.
- Smokey the cat. He continues to keep me company and makes me laugh at his antics.
- My little garden. It provides a place of peace and balance for me.
It off to the races for me! Work beckons......4 -
Hi, all!
It’s been a little busy today. I finished that first manuscript and sent it off. Glad it’s off my plate. Bleeding eyeballs are not a good look for anyone, lol!
Now that the work is done, I am spending the rest of the day on self-care. Needing to refresh the purple in my hair for a week or so, so I will do that, then I’m going to attempt a full-on manicure with tips and dip powder, since I can have extensions, now. We will see how that goes. I’m out of practice. I used to do nail art for my nails as a hobby until I ended up under Nursing services a few years ago, so I had to stop doing that. I picked up some new bubble bath yesterday and think I will take a good soak after dinner.
It’s in the mid-70’s here and feels so nice outside.
Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!3 -
Wednesday is drawing to a close.
My Reasons to be grateful today:- We had our new CH boiler installed yesterday! All set for winter.
- DH and I had a long walk in the autumn sunshine this afternoon.
- We ate the last of our late strawberries with ice cream after dinner.
- The freedom I have to choose what I want to do.
@BMcC9 I would go for the elegant solution every time. Constant refinement is very satisfying.
@juliemouse83 Sounds to me like you are settling into your life reset very happily.
😍Pretty kitty cat Luna
@SuziQ113 Finding new ways of interacting is crucial to mental health. Lots of communities have been holding socially distanced coffee get togethers, exercise sessions, dances etc in their streets. You could put a note through some of your neighbours doors and see how they react. Keep it small and simple to start with, socially distanced, bring your own refreshments sort of thing.3 -
Hello everyone!
Terry - I agree 100%. My neighborhood get together will be with the 3 units directly around me. We all get along and we will be able to stay safe. I also spoke to a dear friend about me hosting Thanksgiving (yes, it's early). My unit is L-shaped and my windows are full door sliders. I also have a private courtyard. I will open all of the sliders, turn on the ceiling fans, put up the sun shade outside, and set up socially distant seats. There will only be four of us so very doable and the four are all playing it very safe. I am actually excited and looking forward to it.
I am so grateful for the following.- The continued "cold" front. I had a pleasant morning walk.
- The craziness at work. The work days are flying by.
- My dear friends. I may not have a large list but those who are my true friends are very dear to me and my heart.
- Life in general.
I was really suffering for about two weeks. Now that the weather is getting better and I am spending more time outside I am doing much better. I know many will think I am crazy about planning Thanksgiving so early. Honestly, the planning is exciting me. I love hosting and cooking for people.
Hope everyone has had or is having a great day!3
