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...

2/10: 40 minutes elliptical + 9254 steps
2/11: 38 minute walk + 65 minutes elliptical + 20 minutes weightlifting + 16069 steps
2/12: 6336 steps

@conleywoods I loved reading about how you took plenty of time for self-care this week. That is so important. My husband and I also do not always do gifts for Valentine’s Day. I like it that way.

@ells_bellz Congratulations on the loss and on the new job!

@evmakeschanges The weather has been warm here, too, reaching the 50s in the last couple days. Today, snow in the forecast but I am looking forward to it. I am also striving for some moderation, which seems difficult a lot of the time for me. I’ve had a lot of salt lately and I am hoping to fix that!

@jugar I see you’ve been snowshoeing. That is amazing. I am out in the woods with my dog, walking about 35 minutes, almost every day. I use my Yak Trax; it’s icy. But it’s so beautiful.

@kali225 Good job overcoming your pattern with anger and overeating. That is a big win!

@kelli_erin Way to get in those workouts! That set list looks amazing.

I have eaten out almost every day this week, and my salt intake has been high. I had a big loss on Wednesday’s weigh in and that sometimes scares me, actually. I found myself eating more than I should have for the rest of the week, as if to gain back that weight. So, I am looking to calming down and easing into a feeling that losing weight is OK for the rest of the week. Weight loss triggers me. Here’s to a good next couple days.

Jenn

PW 150.5
CW 148.5

1/2 a pound to go then it’s maintaining under it for 75% of the year. 😳😁