@kdblpn

my ideas are: peanut butter and banana sandwiches, cold pasta salads or chickpea salads, chickpea pita wraps using @jugar hummus suggestion as the spread, cans of beans, trail mix, homemade energy bites, protein shakes

For Superbowl, @bowens1973 is making us pizza from scratch on the charcoal grill. So excited. Go Rams!!

@DD265 Dubai... how fun!!!

@micki48 We are definitely standing beside you and I'll keep the 477 miles on hand for our step reports

2/9 exercise:
10049 steps

Meal out #1 was a success. A glass of Malbec and a salmon dish over shrimp risotto with mixed veg and corn salsa and tomato puree. Decided before I got there, pre-tracked, and stuck to the plan. Tonight's dinner is at a steakhouse and I've done the same. Also, after sharing my early morning grievances I guess I got a bit of a boost as I got up at 5 a.m. to do my Peloton ride before work. I do feel so much better when I do that so thanks for being a listening ear.

@YinxFed Sorry to hear about your persistent back issues.. sounds like you have a good strategy to shift gears but I feel for you... bummer for sure

@jugar Oh yes and I had that lovely hot shower after the workout so I earned it Liselyn style

@ashleycarole86 Dragging butt in the mornings in winter is OK! It’s cold out there, and dark, too! Give yourself some space to work with that…it’s just natural to be slower. I try to develop plans that recognize the natural ebbs and flows of the seasons so that I can still feel like I’m succeeding. It’s a must.

@ashenmoon I was so glad to read about your success with treats, and I can see how good you feel about it – that is excellent! Congratulations on working to shape up your nutrition. That is always a win, even when it’s not perfect on some days.

@evmakeschanges I also feel a marked difference when the days are sunnier! I find myself fully enjoying winter this year but also strangely longing for spring more than usual…not sure why.

@yinxfed I was sorry to read about your back pain, but glad that it was not as bad as it has been. Not working out due to pain, when you really want to workout, is an exercise all in itself, isn’t it?

@kdblpn Well, I pack my daughter’s lunch most days for school, and we stick to a healthy diet. Baked goods that are healthy (I add hemp seed, chia, flax, etc. and also use little sugar, using maple as the sugar) can last well. You can make bars, crackers, etc. I like to pair crackers that I make with hummus and vegetable sticks for dipping. I actually do pack preserved high-quality soppressata or genoa, sliced thin; it will last. Also, jerky that does not use chemicals for preservation can work here. These can be high in salt, so it’s not an every-day thing. I pack kefir and it doesn’t really “go bad” in one day; it’s quick and full of nutrition.

@kellybgetsfit Sometimes, your body just needs carbs and that is OK! Reach for some non- or minimally- processed options.

Weighed in Wednesday and had a loss. From 146 to 142.6. Honestly, I’m not usually a big loser like that. Not sure why I got a loss here…but I will TAKE IT! I’ve been on a roll on my elliptical, trying to do it everyday. That may be the thing that pushed me over.

2/9: 40 minutes elliptical + 20 minutes weightlifting + 8864 steps

Have a great weekend!

Jenn

PW: 168.4
CW: 166.8

Trying a new challenge at my gym! So, hopefully, this trend continues! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Hi everyone!
Don't worry 🤭 I'm still here 😂
I happily report another loss 👏👏👏

ellz_bells
Friday
PW 227.4
CW 224.8

Woop!Woop! 🥰

P.S I've got that cleaning job, too so sorry I have been missing in action for bit. I will report later ♥️

Have a great evening! ♥️

Friday weigh in

PW 197.2
CW 195.6

Packing all day. Drinking my water. Currently over 13k steps.

Happy Friday friends (or what is left of it for some of us!) - lots of great weigh-ins!

While doing Noom, they tell you to weigh in every day. A lot of diet science will actually disagree with that but they insist some studies support daily weigh-ins as a way to overcome scale anxiety. I actually started weighing in every day at some point in 2020, mostly as a way to see the data and understand what really caused bloats, and busts, and booms. So I'm doing that again now. But the last 2 days, the scale has been creeping up 0.2-0.3 lbs and it was so frustrating. The last year+ when the scale went up, I knew exactly why. (Hello, pretzel crisps at 10:16pm). But this week has been SO on-target. I have worked out every single day. Logged all meals as planned. Eclipsed 11k+ steps.

So I was getting annoyed. But victory: I did not let the anger lead to overeating like it usually does. I stuck to the plan. And I have determined 2 more important things I can add to my new habits/approach to food:
1. No more table salt. Since childhood, I have loved salt above all other flavors. But I drown my food in it and it makes you hold onto water/weight! (It never caused me to have poor health stats - I have an "ideal" cholesterol profile according to the Doc, so I insisted I could just keep dumping it on 90% of my food). I took my shaker, normally always within arm's length, and put it in another room. 3 meals today that I would have put salt on, had NONE.
2. Eating more s-l-o-w-l-y. I chew so fast! It dawned on me last night at dinner! Which messes with my hunger cues and digestion.

I also just need some patience. Part of the daily weigh-ins is to remind you that your body fluctuates. It happens. I'm just very used to having a good drop when I track + do a long cardio/strength workout like I have this week.

I have a good plan for tomorrow and Sunday, which can be difficult days for me. Hope the same is true for yall.

PW=89,2Kg
CW=88,3Kg

Taking a moment to stop in before my day gets underway.

@kali225 Sounds line you have a good plan. I think daily weighing can be good for data, but you have to allow those fluctuations because they are normal. When I was doing it I found out I almost weigh more on Tuesdays. Made me stop and think. But remember, our weight represents all of our contents and reflects all kinds of things going on in our lives. Just the same, cutting salt will allow you to play with some other great no salt flavors.

@jugar Very few cookies around here. I have noticed I’m listening to my hunger more and stopping when full. Doesn’t seem to take long lately. That may be stress too-little appetite

Sometimes it is good to take a slow snow shoe trek. Stopping to take note of all those wonderful things sounds very grounding. As you know, Pilates doesn’t always register a lot of calories, but its effect is great!

Have a great Saturday everyone.

XoMichele

I hope everybody is having a good weekend so far.

Today started with a ParkRun, showered etc then OH and I did a bit of food shopping (butchers and bits from the other supermarket), he left and I had a wander round the charity shops. Didn't buy anything; I'm on the lookout for some trainers for every day (not running), a very small bedside table and a particular range of jigsaws. Will keep looking! Met up with my running friends for an afternoon tea/lunch which was very nice. We went for the slimmers one (more so it wasn't slathered in cheese/mayo from my perspective) but did finish up with a slice of raspberry and white chocolate cake. Was going to share, they said the slices were quite small, I wished we'd shared as it was stodgy. Nevermind.

I have properly picked up that cough from OH, though his is chesty and mine is more in my throat. Dosing up on the meds to hopefully kick it to the curb, but I am very tired and think the rest of today might be a write off. I concluded that I only really need to clean the living room window frames thoroughly before the decorators come back this week and that everything else physical can wait, so that's on my list for tomorrow. Today I have 4 gardening magazines to read (they arrive monthly, perk of my bank account so at least I'm not paying!) so that's a nice sedentary task I can do on the sofa. The other one is wrapping leftover cross stitch threads onto bobbins in a storage box - monotonous but requires very little energy! The bobbins are labelled with the thread number, which means if I'm short a colour in a kit (happens a lot, unfortunately) it will be easy to check if I have it before ordering more thread, plus my cross stitch basket will be much neater.

I've also got a task to go through all our cook books and extract the recipes we might/do use into Google Keep - then I can rehome the physical books and save a load of space. I'll keep a handful but all the old WW ones for example can go. We're down from 3.25 (half width, half height!) shelving units to 1 in the living room, so space is at a premium! I borrowed a couple of little books from a friend during the week so I have photos from that to process too; luckily Google can copy the text out of an image and I just need to correct/format it, then add a photo. Trying a new recipe for tea - Spanish lamb meatballs - and I'm going to make a start on that now because you can prepare the meatballs in advance.

PW: 188
CW: 186.8

There have been some great losses this week! I'm still trying to meter my expectations to reality. I know work is going to get quite busy for me over the next little while so stress will be up. Plus I'm dealing with foot injuries that have made me not push quite so hard at the gym. I was really hoping to be in the 170s by my birthday (March 2), but that's not feasible now. Oh well, I just need to keep moving forward

86.2
I have fallen off the wagon and struggling to get back in the zone. It's having pretty bad digestion side effects. I have this weird thing where my body functions perfectly fine on a rubbish diet but as soon as I start eating mindfully, it cannot bear a few days of bad eating...