NON WW & WW NEWBIES, OUR NEW LIFE, THE START OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL

@gemwolf110 What good choice did you make today? Mine was making a veggie pasta stew. I love real trees. My mom always had a white fake one with red bulbs.. My first year I moved out I got a real one and strung cranberries and popcorn and it had colored bulbs and garland. It was so pretty.

@trooworld I hope you find your answers for your headache. Since you aren't exercising right now, the food has to be more spot on. What things do you need to cut back on a bit and reduce?

@teresaw1020 yaaay for staying OP. Eating can still be good I think with pralines. I'm working on Food is good/bad concept right now.
Instead of going on/off our plans, learn how to enjoy what we like and balance it around good f&v, lentils, nuts, etc.
Your tree is beautiful. the gifts too.

@cbabie Yaaay on staying within your goals. Just go on Pinterest and get some recipes. It has replaced all my cookbooks.

This morning I did 30 min of aerobics YouTube video. Food was on plan yesterday.

@gemwolf110 What good choice did you make today? Mine was making a veggie pasta stew. I love real trees. My mom always had a white fake one with red bulbs.. My first year I moved out I got a real one and strung cranberries and popcorn and it had colored bulbs and garland. It was so pretty.

@trooworld I hope you find your answers for your headache. Since you aren't exercising right now, the food has to be more spot on. What things do you need to cut back on a bit and reduce?

@teresaw1020 yaaay for staying OP. Eating can still be good I think with pralines. I'm working on Food is good/bad concept right now.
Instead of going on/off our plans, learn how to enjoy what we like and balance it around good f&v, lentils, nuts, etc.
Your tree is beautiful. the gifts too.

@cbabie Yaaay on staying within your goals. Just go on Pinterest and get some recipes. It has replaced all my cookbooks.

This morning I did 30 min of aerobics YouTube video. Food was on plan yesterday.

Oh no! I’m sorry to hear of your sons loss! That’s awful. I hope his friend that is in the hospital recovers fully.

@renaegry I'm so sorry about your son's friends. It's hard for an adult to see stuff like that. I'm glad your weight is coming down and albeit better circumstances. I'm glad you found something you enjoy for movement.

@gemwolf110 What good thing did you eat yesterday? I didn't realize it was Veteran's Day. For some reason I thought that was in October.

@trooworld Yaaay on eating good and a deficit. Funny how on Twitter today I had written change is hard. I guess we'll get used to this. I hope you find something for your migraines.

@cbabie I'm glad you found something for your back. Soon you'll be back to some exercise. I have folders on Pinterest so when I find a recipe to try I file it in the appropriate category, brunch, snacks, sweets, healthy recipes, etc. Plus I have a folder called Recipes to Try. If I don't like it, I just delete or instead of filing it. I love chicken and rice.

As you all can see, I was posting when they were messing with the system. I kept hitting enter and thought it wasn't going to post so I saved it into a document so I wouldn't lose it and then posted at a later time. That makes up for all the losts posts I've had over the years lol

A good day of eating. I went out with a friend for breakfast and chose well. I did 40 min of walking/weights before I went. Since walking hurts my foot, I did 10 min on treadmill, then alternated weights with 5 min of walking back and forth in the gym doing knee lifts, etc. While my foot still hurts, it's not as bad as just continuous walking for 30 minutes. So I'll be doing that for a while. My mil is coming back to my house tonight. She had been staying with my sil while I was with my kids. It was a nice break from caregiving. I made a nice dessert out of peaches/blueberries with a oatmeal streusel topping. It was so yummy warm.

Had eggplant Parmesan yesterday and chicken sandwich today. Was a busy day, dog grooming, tagged my Christmas tree and cleaned up about 50% of the raked leaves. Went to Zumba last night so definitely got my exercise in lol.

@cbabie you’re welcome!

here’s me and my tree 🌲

@renaegry I am sooo sorry about your son’s friends and for your son having to go through such a tragedy. 😥What a terrible thing for you all and such a reminder to take every day as a gift and hug that boy of yours a little tighter each day. I love LIIFT4 and Joel! I have done the program several times and often do hybrid calendars with LIIFT4 and other programs.

@cbabie I am glad that the Naproxen is helping your back! 🙂

@theslightedgeforever HaHa!! I thought something was wrong with the computer because I kept seeing your posts! 😄Yeah, this new format is going to take a minute. I imagine it was a nice break for you in not having to care for your MIL. You are a good daughter-in-law and as we know, we do what we must.

@gemwolf110 Your new tree is gorgeous! Please post a pic once you have it decorated. Zumba is a great workout as is raking leaves! 🙂

@trooworld Girl that turkey is soooo cute!! You could sell that on Etsy! Years ago, I knew how to make Christmas trees out of old TV Guides. 😃

Good morning! Well, my weight was down this week a teeny tiny bit so I’m happy, but I still need to get more disciplined than I have been. I saw this morning that we are 50 days away from the New Year and since I vowed not to go into 2022 with a big gain, or any gain preferably, I better start focusing a little harder. I don’t have anything going on today or this week out of the ordinary, so I will do my hour-long workouts and stay out of the kitchen! 🤐

@gemwolf110 Yaaay on the exercise. I agree raking leaves is a workout.The eggplant parmesan sounds good. I like your tree. I bet it smells so good.

@trooworld Shoot for a deficit today. I like BBQ drumsticks. Wings are good too. I love gyros. You just reminded me....while at my dd's house, there is a restaurant that makes gyro omelets. It was so good. I need to start making that. I love your book turkey.

@TeresaW1020 50 days.......you can do it. My goal is to work hard this weekend and maintain the little loss that I saw on the scale yesterday. I'm not concentrating on big losses but little ones each week consistently. That's how I was successful in 2019.

Today is my exercise free day. Went over my carbs by 6. Calories are good.

@trooworld I looked up the new WW. What was the reason you stopped WW before? I forgot. I think customized would be better. I like having a flexible approach.

I walked about 24 min in the mall and eating was within boundaries

Hi all..still here in chilly Iowa. Had a few snow flurries yesterday, not ready for that!

@TeresaW1020 Your Christmas decorations are beautiful! & the presents! I haven't even thought about Christmas shopping yet, lol. I am debating on when I will put mine up. We did put the outside lights up last week when it was nice, but are not turning them on for awhile yet. Unless they blew away...yesterday was terribly windy!! Happy late anniversary!! Sounded like a fun trip.

@cbabie I feel so bad for you and your back. I know how much they can hurt! I hope something starts helping you. I'm jealous of your bike riding, lol.

@trooworld Hope you can figure out something to help your migraines. I used to get them monthly, so maybe just wait for menopause, lol. JK, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Your turkey is cute. Good luck with the new WW program.

@theslightedgeforever Wow, you really do go on vacation, don't you. Not sure my dd's could stand me that long, lol. We have been to OK a few times lately, dog sitting (only part of the time..visiting my brother & sil most of it), and then went with dd & fam to a dinosaur park in Kansas for gson's birthday. Followed them home, so dh could check her roof again. (it had started leaking when we were there dog sitting) Dh told her she better be saving her money, might be needing a new roof soon. Yikes. We got a new one this summer, but had enough hail damage that insurance covered it. Thank goodness!!

@gemwolf110 Your tree is gorgeous!! I want to see it too, when decorated. I wish we could have a live one. We did for a few years when dd's were still at home, but the last one dh got such a bad reaction to (poison ivy?) that he ended up in ER for shots. That was the end for us, back to artificial.

Every time we go to OK, I put on a few pounds & then have to work to get them back off. Up & down, up & down. We aren't planning to go there for awhile, so hopefully I can start moving down again. I always log as accurately as possible, but definitely don't always stay in my calories. Need to stop that. Right now, free food with my veteran dh on Thursday didn't help, lol.

Everyone was talking about the pretty fall leaves, & I was going to post a few pictures, but I keep seeing that Android phones aren't working too well with Community right now. The maples have been gorgeous, but are now losing their leaves with the wind & the burning bushes have been the brightest red that I have ever seen. We did our annual "leaf watching" trip with friends, but were too early. Oh well, it was still a good goof off day. & our pumpkin patch was a total bust this year...we didn't get any!! Dh keeps saying this was our last year for them.

Hope everyone has a good week!!

@TeresaW1020 So shoot for the next meal being OP. I'm back to adding in my red days. So lesson learned for me, don't remove ALL the red days while on vacation. Shoot for at least one per week.

@retiredandlovingit So now you know your goal when you go to OK is get closer to your boundaries. That's my goal for when I go see my kids again. August was a bad month for me and I went back to look when I gained weight and it was the Iowa State Fair. Then it was just a lb here and there. I pretty well maintained September Then October was another lb Hubby and I were talking about the snow in Iowa yesterday. Hubby retired so we didn't have to get back early. Plus he missed the kids since we didn't take a vacation in 2020. Usually I just go a month and spend 2 weeks with each of them. The trees were pretty in MN. Between that and sunrises, I don't have space left on my phone. We were a bit early in Vermont and NH to see the pretty leaves. They had just started to change.

@trooworld So what will you do to make this one successful? Remember all plans work if you work the plan. It's always us and not the plan. Now you were being successful on the former WW plan, I remember. Until one day you weren't? Which month was that? What were you doing? What changed? Sounds like you had a good food day and got in some movement. That's are goal every day.

I lost 1.2 lbs this week

@RetiredAndLovingIt I love this time of year too and all the beautiful Maples and other foliage. The Ginkgo trees are super bright yellow with their fan-shaped leaves. So pretty! The good thing about getting my Christmas decorations up and most of my shopping done, I don’t have any stress in that one area of my life. You will get that gain off and how nice that you got to spend time with your family!

@trooworld I’m glad that you had so much support from your bosses and friend for the art show. And yes, you are in the honeymoon phase of WW and that is awesome and should be totally enjoyed for as long as possible. You know it will end and then you will have to keep fighting for what you want. I love how the new WW is helping you focus more on nutrition and water. Staying on track and excited about this new plan is really going to help you going into the holidays.

@theslightedgeforever Yayy on your 1.2 lb. loss! Are your red days the low carb days? I’m working on staying on track this week. Keeping my mind on the scale going down and knowing that the church potluck is on Sunday.


Good morning! Today is going to be a busy day. This morning I will do a workout, go to Aldi, Walmart and get my flu shot. This afternoon I’m meeting my friend at Hobby Lobby so we can get some things to add to the church decorations. We were looking back at some pictures of the stage from the vantage point of how people see it online and it’s needing more Christmas! Then this evening I’m taking my friend and her family to dinner because they just had a new baby. I have my food planned for the week and I’m determined to get the scale down this week. I’m up almost 5 lbs. since before I left for vacation. This Saturday I’m starting a new Data Driven Fasting challenge and I’m going into it like a newbie. Like Trooworld, I need to get excited about losing weight again.

@TeresaW1020 Yeah it was really nice of them to come to my art show. You are right, I hope I can just sale right through the holidays. How fun to go Christmas decoration shopping! Good luck with the new challenge, you've got this!

@theslightedgeforever Yeah it's a really smart idea. I am definitely going to try to keep excited! What fun exercise you did, woo hoo! Dinner sounds good, too.

@cbabie, do I have to send out the hounds for you?

Hello all. I had forgotten I ordered some chocolates from someone I work with for their daughter's Girl Scouts campaign. She brought the 3 boxes of chocolates to me yesterday at work. I resisted for hours but was obsessing over them. I ended up having 3 pieces out of one of the boxes but didn't open either of the others. I brought them home for my husband to take to his mom. We put them in the freezer so neither of us will eat them. Other than that, I did really well eating on plan. I measured out my Trader Joe's kale gnocchi and that's really the first time I didn't guesstimate a main dish. I was sad that I only got 1 cup of gnocchi but after I ate my big salad and the gnocchi, I was full. I had made a lighter pesto sauce for the gnocchi, it was really good.

My phrase for the year: CHANGE HAPPENS

@renaegry I hope you don't get too much of that storm. Yeah, I've been having salads with every meal, it's great! And same for me with the water. I've lost 4.2 lbs since Saturday! I love it.

@cbabie Good to hear from you. Yay for a clean house and laundry done! And 2 lbs off, woo hoo! Congrats! I am very excited about the new WW plan. Yes, it does help to be excited. Yeah I haven't thought about those chocolates since I put them in there, out of sight, out of mind! I always miss you when you are away!

@theslightedgeforever Yes, doing well. The gnocchi: it's made with kale in it so I think it is more filling because of the kale, BUT I did add chicken breast to it for more protein so it was filling. That recipe looks good, thanks for it. Sounds like you are doing well. Your poor foot!

Hi all. Well, I decided to change my weigh-in day to Wednesdays to continue my shake-up of routine. I am down 4.2 lbs since Saturday! I am beyond thrilled. And this is with the cookie experiment: my husband stayed home yesterday and made a bunch of different cookies for me to take to my work. He wanted me to try one of each one (5 different kinds!) so I did. That was last night. Still this morning, down 4.2 lbs. So happy! Now, to stay out of those cookies at work. My plan is to just make sure and not let myself get hungry, to bring snacks to work. I may have one cookie if my food diary allows it.

My phrase for the year: CHANGE HAPPENS