@Cornanda Awww, boo! I wanted to see your fur baby in his donut bed! We still had fun on our night out but yes, we can (and will!) try again. I hope you got your plants potted.

@laurelfit57 Yeah, we have been recluses for the past year so it WAS nice to get out. The mediocre food didn't spoil things too badly, it was still fun! The weather was really nice, it is a little colder today: high of the mid-60s. It sounds like you had a good day yesterday. Do you mountain bike or ride on the streets? A picnic in the park sounds wonderful. I love to do that. I'm sorry your losses are small, hopefully, when you start biking again, it will kick them up. Congrats on the numbers going down! WTG!

@eahrenee Those are some great NSVs, I would focus on all of your NSVs. I like to keep track of my NSVs so that when I am struggling, I can look back at those and it makes me feel better/see progress. I keep my NSVs in two places: in a journal and also in a Google Docs document so I can access it anywhere. I hope you are feeling better now.

@TeresaW1020 Two different IT guys came to my office to work on my setup yesterday. I think they made progress. We'll see today! I super want to sit on your porch with you and drink a cup of coffee or a glass of wine! I hope you can get it ready so you can sit out there. That's a beautiful puzzle and looks challenging, congrats on not giving up!

@TwistedSassette Sorry about your body being vengeful. I hope the supplements help. It does sound like you did some wonderful self-care yesterday.

@raleighgirl09 I'm glad your job is going so well. That's great you are scheduling breaks and walks. Keep taking care of you!

My phrase for the year: CHANGE HAPPENS

Check-in
I'm still here, I'm hurting from Sunday so I took it easy yesterday and didn't do a lot outside, just my workout then things around the house and picked up more potting mix. I managed to get 15lb weights off Facebook marketplace which are perfect for a few arm exercises the 20lbs are a little too much for, my arms definitely weakened not going to the gym. I'm getting my hair colored in a few hours so I need to work out and water, I started a bunch of basil for the food bank garden at home and need to water that and all my other stuff. My boyfriend and I had it out but he just goes back to acting like nothing happened afterward which is what my mom did growing up. He's not the type to go to therapy or get in touch with feelings, he grew up in foster care (had a great foster mom though) and is pretty rough around the edges but he's a good guy overall. He made a lot of effort yesterday so I'll see how it goes over the next week. I was looking at succulent arrangements and I was thinking if I could get him interested he may enjoy that as he's a graphic artist. I wanted him to make the cats a catio but I don't think that's going to happen. I pulled up a bunch of oak tree saplings and a teacher came by and picked them up to give to her students on Arbor Day. We just got a quote on the huge oak tree and smaller ones for a couple thousand dollars, if I have to spend a couple hours digging up all their babies to avoid that it's worth it! I rent from my parents so I don't have to pay for it but still, I don't want any more trees hogging up the sunlight!

Have a beautiful Tuesday, think of what an amazing person you are and take time to smell the flowers!

Username: Jactop
Weigh In Day: Monday
Starting weight 225
PW: 184.1
CW: 184.0
LTD: 41 lbs

Phew I barely squeaked into the green. I lost 1.2 lbs this week which was enough to cover the difference between my old and new scale. I'm going to start using my weekly average since my weight is so erratic with IF

@AustinRuadhain I love the Snoopy pic

@raleighgirl09 I love that you are looking at the long-term when it comes to eating habits. You're right, we need to work towards a more intuitive way of eating, especially when we get to a healthy weight range. Portions are sometimes tricky!

@Katmary71 After I had my son, I suffered terribly from DeQuervain's tenosinovitis, which is also known as "mommy thumb" (and "texter's thumb" I think) - basically there was inflammation in my wrists which constricted the tendons and nerves, causing a whole lot of pain whenever I needed to use my thumbs which is, of course, all the time. The only "treatment" apart from surgery is complete rest (wearing a brace etc.) - which of course is not possible when you have a newborn to care for! Around the same time, my mum was taking some supplements for her arthritis and they were helping a lot. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I gave them a try and to my surprise I got almost instant relief. I took them for a few months and then tried coming off them but the inflammation and pain returned, so I stayed on for a few months longer and tried again, this time it was fine and I haven't had an issue with my wrists or thumbs since. The two supplements were red krill oil, and glucosamine chondroitin + turmeric. I really have no idea what they do, but it did help me before so I will try them again!
Sorry that you're still hurting, but glad that you were able to get some stuff done. I hope the haircut turns out nice!! Sorry about the argument with your boyfriend, men can be so difficult sometimes. But hopefully this opens the door to some communication going forward that may help.

@Jactop Thank you, I love sharing pics of the toddler! Amazing job with your loss covering the difference in scale calibration!
I had the Astrazeneca shot too, and had only very minor side effects, just a few body aches and tiredness over the few days afterward. I heard that the clotting issue is worse if you get the actual virus - something like you're 8 times more likely to get blood clots from the virus than from the vaccine. Our problem here in Australia is that we only ordered a small amount of Pfizer and we're producing Astrazeneca on shore, so it's much more readily available but now they don't want to give it to anyone under 50. I'm not sure if they will be able to get more Pfizer or where that leaves us on our rollout schedule!

@TeresaW1020 I'm glad to hear you're on the mend! How exciting for the new countertops! We had our kitchen completely remodelled last year - it took them about a week and a half to do it so we struggled without a working kitchen for that time! We set the microwave and coffee machine up in the games room so we at least had that but no oven or cooktop. To make it worse, at that point I was working from home so I had to go and work at my sister's house instead and she looked after the toddler while I worked. It was a hectic couple of weeks! But totally worth it. Can't wait to see the new countertops!
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Well, I did not rein it in yesterday as intended. There was a morning tea for a colleague's birthday and I snacked too much. Then my parents were visiting so we ordered Chinese for dinner and I ate too much again. I wish I knew how to stop myself in the moment! I have all these notions about reducing portions etc. but instead of serving myself up a portion, I ate it from the container and polished off the lot. The last week has been terrible, and the scale is definitely showing that. The only positive is that I did (attempt to) track everything so I am accountable for it. I can do better than this, I know it!
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raleighgirl09
Wednesday check in

Good morning! It sems MFP had an update and these forums are improved! Anyone else notice anything....?

I had a pretty good good day yesterday but tipped the balance with a snack after dinner that was not needed - making the after dinner snack urge a focus today. It's ok if I'm tuly hungry but I wasn't. Choice wise, it was not bad at around 150 calories of a few cheese cuts and Triscuits. Nothing terrible but the reality is, I didn't need the food and that energy will be stored on my body until I use it in place of taking in more energy. I need my reasonable morning voice to pipe up when I'm making night decisions!!

@TwistedSassette - it's so true, the portions are tricky! I can't trust my eyes on what's enough so I'm working to portion out what appears to be too little without being a toddler portion. Although, I'm sure the toddler portion is more reasonable for some foods.....

@TeresaW1020 the job is likely to stay crazed to some degree - and I love the work and responsibility so I have to work on managing it without letting it make me insane or unkind to my desire for good life habits (exercise, sleep, good food choices, lowered stress). I AGREE - I have found that a good lunch is actually pretty key to my day! Especially if I can prepare a hot lunch that feels very filling and satisfying... Hey - what a gorgeous puzzle!

@trooworld and @Katmary71 - thanks so much, it's good to pop in and I'm happy to see myself making the effort!

@TwistedSassette A birthday and Chinese! That would have me overeating for sure as well. The good news is that you did track it so you own it and now you can move on and do better for the rest of the week.

@raleighgirl09 I agree that it can be hard to cut the snacking. For me, it becomes a habit and not about me being really hungry. It’s actually something I’m really trying to focus on lately. Yup, you love your job and that is awesome. Now you just have to make it work in your life and not take your life over.

@trooworld I’m glad that you are enjoying the self-care challenge. I made the challenge and haven’t even tried to do it, which was not my original intention. I’m blaming the cold and not my laziness!! Take care of that knee!!

@19shmoo69 HaHa!! I’m offering up my belly fat too!

@GabiV125 Have fun with your new scale!! I’m glad that you are doing the self-care challenge. Yes, please let us know about the Mindless Eating book. That is one that I’ve so often struggled with.


Hi Team! It’s been a pretty good day. My cold is better, so I was able to do a workout this morning. I went to see the contact specialist today and she gave me multi-focus contacts to try out. The good news is that I see great far away, but now I can’t read anything up close. She said I could wear readers but why would I want to do that? She also said that we can try other options, so I will call her on Monday. I just want to see all the things!! The countertops are out and I am so excited for tomorrow!!

raleighgirl09
Thursday check in (will do the weigh in this evening!)

Yesterday was a good day for getting two walks and food choices and portions were reasonable. Like @TwistedSassette I am fluctuating, I have had losses every day this week, somewhere about 3.5 pounds. While that's good, I feel like it's water weight so I shouldn't get too attached to the absence of all of those pounds....some of them may come a knockin' in the next week! Part of my reasonable approach has been in avoiding sodium in the way I ususally do when I'm logging the foods; I think I'm seeing that pay off.

I'm glad I didn't ditch the no logging idea as soon as it got hard (again), I feel I just need to give it the same effort I gave logging. I know calories inside out and I know when enough becomes too much - I know these things from years of doing it and being successful and getting to a point of wanting to lose 15 pounds instead of 100 or 50. Last time I tried this, I gave it up as soon as it seemed hard and I went back to what I knew. That worked well - it usually does if I am true to it.

Have a wonderful day - and if someone figures out where I can dump off my fat burned offering, lemme know, will ya?????????????

PW 3/23:216.3
Check in weight (3/30/2021): 219.4
Check in weight (4/6/2021): 219.8
Check in weight (4/13/2021):220.9
Check in weight (4/20):222.2
Check in weight (4/27):

I wanted to let you all know, I do read everything everyone posts everyday .I am more of a lurker than a contributor even in real life.

This month has been weird and very trying. My birthday was good, but started with sugar and the craving has not stopped. I seem to have gained an aversion to vegetables. Even the thought of a salad makes me nauseous. I'm not sure what is going on there, but I am going to have to try to just stay in calorie without them until it goes away. I am using it as an excuse to eat more of what I DO want to eat.

I had a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound yesterday. Everything has felt very uncomfortable, swollen, itchy, painful. They told me everything was fine (thank GOD). I am guessing that maybe it is hormones?. It is time for the dreaded menopause stuff to start. I am 48 now so........

While I am unhappy with my weight trend, I will not give up even though I feel like I want to. I am committed to this process!

Have a great weekend everyone

@TeresaW1020
Wow! Your kitchen looks gorgeous, especially those lovely counters! 🤩 I am SO inspired!

@Leonadixon
Hugs as to the misbehaving hormones. 👐👐👐
Salads can be challenging. Are there other ways to eat veggies that work better?
If you want to work on it, you could try doing some of the things that moms do with kids -- grated zucchini and/or carrot added to the morning oatmeal, soups, things like that?

@raleighgirl09
Great that you had a good day. It is being super helpful and interesting to me to listen to you cogitate on the maintenance seesaw and doing what works. All of that being stuff I am working on! 👐 💖

@TwistedSassette
It's kinda great that your off day ended up as eating at maintenance. I hope that makes sense.

@trooworld
Stopping myself in the moment can be so hard.
No eating from containers is a GREAT rule!

@GabiV125
I love all your self car adventures! And I do want to hear about the Mindless Eating book!

@19shmoo69
Hehehehehehehehehehehe! Thank you for making me laugh. 🤣🤣🤣

@Jactop
Booyah to that great weigh-in!

@KatMary71
I love your pointing at mindset, at that making the difference between something bing work and something being self care.

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Today went well. (Wednesday was, well, an off the ranch day. We'll see if I can make up for it by Monday's weigh-in. All I can do is get back on track.)
✔️I started the day with *writing out* my food plan.
✔️I stuck with it.
✔️I ate an early dinner to extend my fasting hours. @TeresaW1020 keeps reminding me of the value of that.
✔️I managed to do some self care yard work today.
✔️I got in my steps (8K) and about two hours of activity, including the yard work. I even managed to switch over to treadmill during a long Zoom class.
I am about to go do my self care bath. I am so loving this challenge!

Tomorrow's plan
⚪ Prelog my food again.
⚪ Early morning grocery shopping so I can eat on plan. I just moved this to AFTER getting that plan down, as the shopping trip needs to include walking past a couple of problem foods (things I would eat out of the container, @trooworld !)
⚪ Fill a yard waste bag
⚪ Exercise will be an evening walk with my husband

Username:davors19
Weigh in day: Friday

PW: 269
CW: 269
LTD: 31

@leonadixon - I feel your pain as I’m in full peri tornado (49yo). Apparently the sugar cravings can be a “symptom” as well😞. Out of the weird ones, I get vertigo, which annoys me to no end, because I win nauseous and cranky in a flash. If you want a good read about it check the thread “Is it Over Yet? “.
Hurray for keeping at it, regardless of what yesterday looked like- we only fail if we give up, right?

@trooworld - my evening eating is all emotional so here are my spring strategies to keep/bring my mind in one place:
-I’m going for a walk at 6:30 and I keep walking until I’m no longer antsy, and when I start noticing smells and songs start popping in my head I know I’m done. If the dog is too loud and agitated, he only gets one loop and then I continue by myself.
-I have 2 energetic neighbors and I told them to check with me when they want company on their walks and when they do, I never say no.
-I started journaling 2 weeks ago. It sounds fancy and indulgent but basically I let the pen flow however it wants for a good 15 minutes or so every day. There’s no plan and no language is off the table, and once I close the cover, is like my vision improved.
I guess it could have been easier to just do yoga

@leonadixon Don't feel like you have to post but it's nice to hear from you when you do! Hopefully the aversion to vegetables goes away on its own. It's hard to make yourself eat what you do not want to eat. I'm glad the mammogram was okay. I started menopause a few years ago. It has not been fun. I had a gain this week, too, and I know it's disheartening but we have to keep fighting for health. I hope you have a better week next week.

@TeresaW1020 Yes, the body IS weird and I'm really not happy with my body, or my mind, right now. Your countertops, I'm in love!!! Congrats on the loss!!!

@AustinRuadhain I'm glad you had a good day yesterday.

@davidj82 Great weigh-in!

@GabiV125 Wow, that's a great plan! I hope it helps.

Hi all. I'm so very angry at myself for this week's weigh-in. I'm disappointed in myself and angry. I know what needs to be done but this week was a total failure. I've already planned healthy meals for next week with no indulgent meal so next week, theoretically, should be better.

My phrase for the year: CHANGE HAPPENS

Username: kellyisonamission
Weigh in day: Friday
PW – 191.6
CW – 191.2

vegan4lyfe2012
Sunday
PW: 196.2
Cw: 197.8