Step and exercise update for 19th October:

Steps - 2496
Exercise - 44mins Upper body strength workout

@jugar sorry for my late post. Last week wasn’t as good as I wanted but I managed to loose a bit. This week I’ll just try and exercise twice and limit my carb intake for 4 days. I need to get back to drinking 2l of water a day too.

Pw 88
Cw 87.5

@micki48 That's the spirit - keep on going lovely A 30lbs loss is fantastic, doesn't matter how long it took you, and even if you haven't lost much recently you have maintained. I recommend you go find something that weighs 30lbs, pick it up and see how far you've come! That's what you were carrying around every. single. day.

I am feeling election stress on behalf of you guys (and the world I think!) - can't imagine what it's like over in the US. Fingers crossed for a good result, or as good as we can hope for!

P.S. Did you see any shooting stars??

This is my 3rd time typing this, I keep accidentally tilting my phone and when the screen rotates, it resets me to the community home page and deletes me post! Grrrr mobile!

@jugar
PW 224.2
CW 222.4
LTD 21.6

Just swapped a couple of digits there but it looks like my overindulgence from Thanksgiving has finally been sorted out.

I love all of the exercise suggestions and will have to save them somewhere as I don't expect to have the time to explore them for another month or so. I'm also a queen of excuses and haven't done a workout since they closed our gym in March. My hockey season has also been pushed back due to Covid so my motivation to get my cardio level up got pushed back with it. I keep saying that once our home reno's are done I'll have the time to dedicate to exercise, but there will always be yardwork, or cleaning, or something that I've left on the back burner to distract me. Starting with 10 minutes at a time is a great plan. Results can be addictive and motivating in themselves.

Happy Wednesday everyone!
Courtney

Steph1498 wrote: »

, or if I am going to the gym I set up my bag for the day, or I tell someone my plan for the next day. It helps me (and them) to keep me accountable.

On days when I want to try a new workout I pull up a YouTube video from POPSUGAR fitness. They have a wide variety of positive energy routines - if I don't feel like exercising right away I just put one on in the background and eventually I am trying something...

@Steph1498 These seems helpful for me, thanks for sharing

@jugar that is awesome news! we await updates on the impending happy dance.

I am proud of myself today. This week has been eh/middling for me - good workouts, but lots of after-dinner snacking. Today, work absolutely threw me like 4 very frustrating curve balls. I have found that a bad day at work is one of my most common and destructive triggers for a binge. It was not looking good. I reached out to my friend that runs a virtual yoga sculpt class on Wednesdays to say that I might not make it to tonight's class because I was in such a foul mood and on the brink of a binge and not in the headspace for yoga at all. She was really encouraging and understanding, and I have another friend I talk to almost daily who is also trying to be healthier and she said, just set aside a snack you can have when work is done.

Ultimately, I didn't even need that! I eventually got things as solved as they could be at work (still a mess, but a somewhat smaller mess?), I had a really good almost 2-mile run followed by a walk back home, and I ended up joining the yoga class. I was not as focused as I usually am in there, but still. I needed it. And dinner was mostly prepped already so that was filling and no-hassle.

I also tried almond milk for the first time! It tastes so similar to my 1% but less than 1/3 the calories? What the hell have I been doing.

Yikes! I have not been moving much lately. It’s affecting my mood. The day is early here so I’m going to get something in today.

Yesterday was good, was well below my calories, like under 1k... But if I add the previous day to it, I was right on target for both days... lol -

We took the kitty to the vet, it's nothing medical, although they couldn't get a urine sample so she goes back on friday and gets to hang out for a while till they can get one, vet thinks it is stress related ( she often gets beat up by my kitty,Lily, cause she is kind of a bully, but at the same time she is a protector, she once went after the dogs because, I guess she deemed we were playing too rough) So poor Sophie is on happy , calming meds and I am using a Feliaway diffuser, so hopefully that will help... Sophie is my daughters cat, but she can't have her where she lives, so she is kinda my ward, although she does pay me a monthly maintenance fee...

It's another dreary day here, although it's just fog today, yesterday I went on my 1st walk and had to cut it short cause it started drizzling, but it cleared up some in the afternoon, so I got my 2nd one in with no problem.

Okay well I hope you have a wonderful day !

spyro88 wrote: »

@micki48 That's the spirit - keep on going lovely A 30lbs loss is fantastic, doesn't matter how long it took you, and even if you haven't lost much recently you have maintained. I recommend you go find something that weighs 30lbs, pick it up and see how far you've come! That's what you were carrying around every. single. day.

I am feeling election stress on behalf of you guys (and the world I think!) - can't imagine what it's like over in the US. Fingers crossed for a good result, or as good as we can hope for!

P.S. Did you see any shooting stars??

Great idea! I'm going to look for something that is thirty pounds. Wait! I think my granddaughter is about 30 pounds!!! LOL I surely couldn't carry her around all day, but it is easier carrying her now. Wow! Thanks for that reality check @spyro88.

Hoping for a peaceful, sane outcome to this election. Thanks for the good thoughts. It will be so nice to have a new president and not have to wonder what crazy thing happened every day. Fingers crossed.

I did not see any shooting stars, but I think it was too early for the most activity. Boo. I think it's so cool when you do. I may look again tonight.

@jugar Glad to hear you got some good news on the butt situation. Like Kristi said, it has been way too long and you have been patient even those you may not have always felt like it. Hope it is all resolved soon. Then, dance away!

@jguldi11 Thank you. It's not feeling sad or down as much as stressed and apathetic about my journey here. I haven't given up for sure. After two years, so many things become habits. I just haven't been as careful, I haven't logged, and I haven't checked in as much. It will be better in a few weeks, I hope. I know I have to recommit to this. Just too much else going on right now. I will take each day as it comes and try to be a little better. I am here right now and that beats yesterday. And I really do miss you all when I am not here. It's just sometimes, my mind is full with all that other stuff or trying to avoid touching my phone or computer. That is it sometimes as well.

So glad to catch up with everyone's news. @Terytha New outfits sound like a fabulous idea. Can we have a fashion show when you get them? We'd love to see how great you look in your new clothes.

It has been gorgeous and crazy warm here this week. I have gone on lots of walks with the little one to check out the Halloween decorations. She never ever gets tired of seeing them. She is not frightened by them because she loves the human body/skeleton, so she doesn't see them as scary. She told me today that she loves to go on walks with me. We also have had an incredible deluge of acorns from the oak trees in our neighborhood. I'm a little worried. I've heard that means a harsh winter. I don't know if that's true or not. It's happened one other time since we've lived here, but I can't remember what that winter was like. Anyway, she found a pile about two feet high and had a great time climbing to the top and standing on all those acorns.

Step results soon...

Oh, saw this guy on a walk yesterday at our Bog Garden.