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

Hi all..beautiful sunny day here, but still only about 40, so chilly & windy!

@trooworld I love the picture of you & the dog. Maybe I should look into that..I kinda would like a dog again, but dh says we go too much to have one. Well..we haven't in the last 2 years, but..? You asked if I had to take bp meds, no..but I was looking back & I realize I had lost some weight when it came back down. I am kinda scared to go now, I was about 5# lighter than I am. So I am putting my checkup off for a few weeks, lol. I don't have any other concerns, so shouldn't hurt.

@TeresaW1020 Congrats on your Mom winning the chili cookoff. Cute picture of her! I agree with slightedge, family comes first, I am sure the church will understand, you already do so much for them. Do you think some of your dh's confusion is just a side effect from the anesthesia? Maybe time will help that.

@cbabie I know how you feel...we spent the day with friends that we hadn't seen in a long time, and I overdid the food, too. I had one of her frosted sugar cookies, too, and they weren't even home made, lol. I am trying to keep logging, tho, & drinking water. I walked on the treadmill, too, before we went. We will get this eventually!

@theslightedgeforever Oops on the wall!! I do think people can get off BP meds & control it with diet & exercise. I am hoping I am doing enough to keep from going on them. We have a gas fireplace..it is kinda fun to just turn on the switch & it starts, lol. I have never had one until this house. Congrats on the new tv. I think I am going to order a firestick or roku for the tv down by the treadmill. It would be nice to do exercise videos, too. I have some dvds but cannot figure out how to get them to play, so maybe streaming would work better for me.

Not much else here. Dh is getting so bored with winter that we are thinking of driving to OK for a few days to see dd & gkids & my brother & sil. Their weather hasn't been a whole lot better than ours, but it would be something to do. But if we decide to go, we can't do it until Sat. (he is still on call for jury duty through Feb, so has to call in Friday after 4:30pm to see for the next week)

Well, think my Fitbit should be charged by now, so think I will go down & finish up my walking. Did 30 minutes this morning, but not up to my 10,000 yet, so better go do a little more.

@retiredandlovingit Yaaay on your walking. I got a new firestick for my new TV but still haven't used either one yet. lol So I do things the old fashioned way of connecting my gym TV via Chromecast with my phone and do my exercise videos from that. My dd was trying to teach me that I could just speak to the firestick and it would find what I want versus me searching by hand and saying each letter first out loud G-O-O-D I drove her nuts this summer. She always said she could have the whole show watched by the time I found the program I was looking for. My kids would say you are having springtime weather and be out in shorts. I always say wait until they are old.

@trooworld I must be the only one on here that doesn't like sugar cookies. I like the smell. I have some sugar and vanilla hand cream I like to smell. I lose more weight when I hit the carb goal and stay within the calorie limits. 82 degrees sounds good to me.

@cbabie Mom had big hips and bottom so I hope you aren't morphing into her. Yaay on getting in some movement at the park. Just keep working on your food plan. Eventually you will find something you like.

Went to a friend's house yesterday. Did well on food. Planned for the dessert I brought. Did NOT plan on the 1/2 piece I ate straight out of the pan when I got back home.

256/238 Green
53 minutes cardio

TeresaW1020 wrote: »

Hello! I'm popping on to let you know that I've been missing because I had to take DH to the hospital on Tuesday. He was having really bad confusion again so they told me to take him to the ER. They did a ton of tests and ruled out a stroke. His sodium was low again and he could have had a mini TIAA. We got home a little while ago and I am exhausted and he is still not acting all there. I have so much going on right now so if you don't hear from me, know that I'm thinking of you all and will pop back in when I can.

Praying for you and your DH. Sending hugs and prayers

@teresaw1020 Take care. Being a caregiver can be really hard. Plus you have your mom there too. I do hope when hubby is resting you find some time to rest yourself. Go for a walk or whatever me time you need.

@trooworld Not even frosted sugar cookies will get me to eat them. I wonder where that started. Well actually probably having them around could be a good thing versus other types of cookies as I would maybe take half and then nothing else. Same for no bake cookies. I don't like those either. PB cookies. Nope. Unless it has a big hersheys kiss in the middle. But those with the fork marks. Yaaay for a stellar day you had. That was great that you cooked instead of getting a pizza. Husbands can be our worst enemies. Yes I know the next day you had pizza but celebrate your wins.

@cbabie Potato buns are good. How about half a bun next time? Another good way is take take the top half and slice it in half so you have a top and bottom.

I've spent the last 2 days celebrating my bday. At least I tracked it all this time. Progress from last year.
But time to get back to reality

175/238 Green
No exercise

@trooworld Yaaay on getting in a hike. That helps when the food really doesn't go as planned. Thanks for the bday wishes. I was imagining that was a cake. Wouldn't that be neat? A different flavor for each book.

118/100 Red
Exercise Rest Day

Well didn’t have a good eating day at all. Ate my stress away but then cleaned floors and bathroom when I got home so I guess that balanced it out.

@trooworld Yaaay on your good choice with the lasagna. Can you tie in your water with an activity? Something you will do everyday. So if you are doing that you are also drinking a cup of water. I need to change mine because I have one that says if I'm in the kitchen cooking then I'm having some water. Dh ordered delivery yesterday so guess who didn't drink water. I went out for breakfast this morning so no kitchen and no water. Maybe the 2 lbs is lack of water. Is your body holding on to some?

@teresaw1020 thank you. You were talking to @trooworld about watching loved ones struggle with health and turning to food for comfort. I gained 15 lbs when my mom was first diagnosed with cancer. It didn't help one bit with her cancer just made me unhealthier. So easy to do though. What is your comfort plan for the upcoming days? What other things comfort you? I guess best thing is not keep a lot of junk easy to grab in the house. Although having said that, I ate a lot of toast in those days. There's always bread and butter in my house. Come here and talk to us if you need to. Come to Jesus moment. LOL Hope you feel better.

@gemwolf110 Well sorry about your day. Good news is you have clean floors. LOL Imagine if you had just sat and watched Netflix.

108/164 yellow
45 min cardio/weights/stretching

Tell ya day after cleaning for 2 hours I’m aching. I also did slip and fall on ice the day before so extra stiff today. And my Fitbit username is misshappy34

@roz0810 Aren't fitbits fun? Although I don't get as excited as I used to when I got my first one. On Thursday I was cooking and suddenly panicked when I realized my fitbit wasn't on. It has been known to fall off. I thought I lost it but then found it on the charger which meant I had spent half the day getting loads of steps but not one of them counted. My body knows. I can't remember my username. I even tried looking it up on fitbit. Let me ask someone. I really don't use the friends part anymore. Evidently I'm only competitive in games.

@gemwolf110 Are you okay now? Good thing you didn't break anything. How is the food intake these days?

@teresaw1020 Did you do your workout? Ducks in a row is a comfort tool I think. The world goes smoother when we feel in control of something. I'm laughing at you color coding his spreadsheets. It's like my Trello boards. I've seen some templates and think these are really boring when they could be so much more fun than just words. Yaaay on round one of chemo out of the way.

@trooworld Woohoo on your exercise! Plus you are reconnecting with an old friend and preplanned for the restaurant. Who are you? You are someone who has taken control of your journey to health.


I am recovering from a dinner party I threw (why do we use that word or is it only me that uses that word) on Thursday evening. It went well but I made too much I think. Always do. I don't think my energy levels are what they used to be. I spent all day yesterday doing NOTHING except for reading and watching Outlander. Good news is that I still had food left over for yesterday and today so no cooking. Bad news is the cookie bars were still left over yesterday and today. I still tracked all my food I ate. I exercised a shorter amount of time on Thursday morning than I would have but did it to keep the habit before I started prepping and cooking. I made sure I did some mall walking today. My foot is better to do that but I still had some burning and shooting pains yesterday. I think from being on it all day/night.

I need to rein in my food though and be serious towards my goals. My trendline is basically a straight line at this point and I need it to be heading downward. I'm thankful it's not heading upward anymore.

221/164 Yellow
exercise rest day

Good Morning!

@theslightedgeforever knee is good, food intake has been good. Lost 1.4 lbs this week yay!
Dogs had me up at 4:30 yesterday and today

@trooworld I'm glad you got to go to the winery. Plus I'm sure some extra walking there. That always helps. My goal is to add in some more fruits and veggies this week. Plus more water. It's always the water.

104/100 Red
47 min cardio

I gained 0.3 lbs this week

@trooworld Yaaaay on the weight loss. Good for you for coming up with a solution to the workout clothes.

@teresaw1020 I agree on the money in waves things. It's like you replace one thing and then two more breaks. My thing has been eating out this week. Some things planned some things not. For the most part I tried to choose healthy or just eat half. I'm also just plain tired this week and so not putting in most of my stretches. You think I would give up the cardio but not the stretches since it seems easier.

111/100 Red
37 min Cardio/weights

@trooworld Good job on setting forth a new habit. Plus you tracked your veggies straws and you made progress on water. A good day

@stephonww I switched over here to MFP because I became pre-diabetic and the doc said I need to be following a moderate carb plan. So I do carb cycling. I say find a program you can afford and enjoy. @trooworld is doing WW so I think she will be able to give you some good tips.

140/100 Red
38 min cardio/stretching

Did not cook lunch or dinner.

Hi everyone. Been struggling a bit a few days off plan but I'm back to it today. And ofc TOM shows up yesterday! I'm at my highest weight and I'm not happy about it at all so here goes to intermittent fasting, calorie counting, drinking lots of water and some exercise! 😁