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

Hi all..beautiful sunny day..supposed to be warmer. Yay! I am ready for spring!

@cbabie Good job making better choices. I don’t think I could’ve passed up pizza. Baby girl sounds like she keeps you busy.

@TeresaW1020 Glad your dh is handling his treatments well. That has to be some relief for you. You are determined, I’m sure you’ll be back on plan & losing again in no time.

@Trooworld Sorry the art show wasn’t quite what you expected & too bad about the migraine! I used to get them & didn’t function well at all. Hope you have a good time with your visitor.

@roz0810 Good luck getting the Orlistat if that’s what you want to do. Sorry, I rarely interact with anyone on Fitbit..I am only friends with dh, daughters, & cousin & not really sure how that came to be. Don’t even know if I have a user name, etc. I mainly just use it for my own step info, lol.

@theslightedgeforever Good luck with WFPB. I am leaning more that way, but not sure I can fully commit either. I’m not sure I am strong enough when I don’t think DH would ever get committed to it, even tho he is complaining about gaining weight & would like to get off his statin. A lady I follow says it’s alright if they aren’t doing it..you should do it alone, because you will be alone if you need heart surgery, etc. Right now trying to give up dairy, not being real consistent because not at home & absentmindedly eating it like putting milk on my cereal this am. I am trying to add more fruits & veggies tho.

Going to see bro & sil in a bit, then will be trying to keep the gkids occupied this week for spring break while dd works from home. They will probably sit on electronics & ignore us tho, lol.

thank you all for your kind words ❤️ I should hear this afternoon from the doctor. 2lbs down over the weekend so I'm happy about that!

I got this!

@cbabie Yaaay on your walk and bike. Now start working on the meals one at a time. Funny....I was going to tell @trooworld the mom/timer story. We do have an app that shows us we've eaten "this Much". Sometimes I don't stop. I was one of those napping mommies. We were all in the bed together. The rule was you don't have to sleep but you have to stay in the bed and read. We all slept. I still like my afternoon nap where I read and fall asleep.

@retiredandlovingit I'll have to watch that documentary. I don't follow any of those. I'll check them out. I want to find an inbetween person like me. Shades of gray.

@roz0810 Yaaay on your 2 lbs.

@trooworld I'm glad you enjoyed your friend's visit. Plus had salads. Here's the recipe:

https://forksoverknives.com/recipes/vegan-breakfast/mexican-breakfast-hash-with-lime-crema/

So yesterday I obviously ate too many calories. Some good choices and not so good choices. I ate a salad and broccoli soup for lunch and 1/4 of a quesadilla. Did not eat whopper balls 3 times I thought about it. Had one s'more instead of 2. Plus one roasted marshmallow. Bad choice was dessert with daughter.

2517/1472
51 min walk

Morning all. Will get my Orlistat in a few hours. They didn't have it in stock yesterday.
I've also got a two week trial with Noom, then it's £19 a month after so we'll see how it goes. On top of that I'm doing weight watchers too! I need to do this this time round. I'm not going to mess up like i normally do. Please feel free to add me. I'm also near the end of my 12 week challenge Jan-March and will be starting another 12 week challenge. How is it the middle of March already, what the hell! Looking forward to seeing my results. Still weighing in daily for now.

13/03: 269.6
14/03: 267.6
15/03: 267.6

@roz0810 What kind of eating plan do they recommend to follow while taking Orlistat? oh never mind. I just read you are going to continue your WW.

@trooworld Did you look at my post yesterday for Sunday? I was almost 1000 calories over. That's not a little. That's great that you did some meditation to try and clear your head.

Monday's total were a bit better but still not where I want them. But no chocolate. Instead I had a peach and chia smoothie

1654/1448 cals
No exercise

@theslightedgeforever it's low fat. max 15g of fat per meal.

@cbabie awww bless, thank you ❤️

@trooworld Sorry about the work drama but good for you for sticking up for yourself. I totally forgot it was St. Patrick's Day yesterday until I sat down at 9 pm and flipped on the news and saw everyone wearing green.

@cbabie You do have so much to live for and accomplish! Try to focus on that more than what isn't working. Give yourself credit for all the good you are doing. I think we tend to magnify our struggles and stumbles and downplay what we are doing right.


Good morning everyone! I'm just checking in before starting another busy day. This week has been tough. Joe has really struggled with his broken body and this second round of chemo. We have an oncology appointment for blood work and the rest of the day will be spent cleaning my house. My eating has been so so and needs to get better for sure. I'm working out when I can and just taking life day by day.

@trooworld ah that makes sense aha no worries. got the phone sorted. was too tired to stop for a drink. we just wanted to get home but I had a hot chocolate with friends in the morning.

@cbabie thank you ❤️

@trooworld Yaaay on your weight loss.

@cbabie Didn't they change the WW community to Connect. That's why we had to leave because they were doing away with our board? Maybe I'm getting confused with another site I'm on. lol I didn't like the Connect part. I agree with @trooworld Whipping cream is different than whipped cream. I use alot of whipping cream in my cooking. Did you eat it on a dessert? I think of whipped cream like Cool Whip, Dream Whip, Reddi-Whip in the can. I love that stuff. I can just squirt it in my mouth.

@roz0810 You're doing well. Keep it up

@teresaw1020 I forgot it was St Patty's day too. I saw an Instagram post of my son somewhere in Des Moines and everything was green. Then read the caption and I thought oh yeah. chicago is the best when they turn the river green. I wonder what people do in Ireland? Sorry about Joe. This part is the hardest I think. It's why my mom chose not to do it again when her cancer came back.

So I'm going to leave tomorrow with my daughter on a short trip to London. So I won't be checking in I don't think. I don't know the WiFi situation over there.

I've only been half tracking this week. My dd has been all topsy turvy. She will be returning home when we get back cause she has to go back to work. Then I'll get to work on my body and dive into transitioning to my new meal plan. My only plan while I'm gone is to eat scones. Lots of scones. Oh and fish and chips. Real fish and chips. I think that's all I want to try.

Hi all...just got back from OK last night.

@trooworld Ooh the foot massage sounds nice. I have had a few massages & enjoyed it, should do it more. Try to get back to tracking, I really think it helps usually. (I say usually because I was stuffing my face the whole time at dd's, & tracked at night...oops way over did the food!) Hope your work situation is worked out now.

@cbabie Congrats on the loss!! It's so easy to get dehydrated, I have been doing better at home with water, but don't think of it at dd's. Not sure why.

@theslightedgeforever wow...hope you have a great time in London. It is probably better to wait until back to start your new program. That is what I have in mind...we are hoping to take a trip to Sweden in June & don't think I should totally revamp my eating before then, but am trying to tweek it a little in the meantime. Before we went to dd's I was trying to eliminate dairy to see what it does, but impossible to do that there. So starting again this week, lol.

@TeresaW1020 Thinking of you & Joe & hope he starts feeling better. It has to be a very stressful time for both of you..I agree..keep taking it day by day. Do you have the yucky green-yellow pollen storm in GA yet? My dd used to hate that, really messed up her allergies!

@roz0810 Wow, great loss so far!!

Well, this last week was a bust diet wise. Don't know what it is, but it seems like I snack nonstop at dd's. & I forget to drink my water, too. We had plans to do fun things with gkids, but gs started coughing on Mon when he came from his dad's & coughed all week. A couple of Covid tests were negative, so think just a cold, or allergies. But didn't think we should take him anywhere with a cough. Then gd decided since it was spring break that she would stay up all night & sleep all day. (at least we figured she was staying up late, because what a grouch if we tried to get her up!) & it was the end of Girl Scout cookie sales, so she & dd were pretty busy with that, too! Gd wants to go to a 2 week horse camp at Girl Scout camp this summer, so dd was encouraging her to pursue sales, because it will help pay for part of it. She also had a goal to go with GS to Great Wolf Lodge & needed to sell 1700 boxes to do that. She sold 1912 boxes!! (on her own & by participating in cookie booths on the weekends) We did manage to see my bro & sil a couple of times, tho, so that was nice. We had birthday cake for gd on Sunday night which was really good! She turns 13 on the 28th. Oh well, still glad we went, even if frustrating at times. Both gkids are growing up..they are both almost as tall as me. (not saying much..I'm only 5'3") She is slowing down, but he is really shooting up!

Hope everyone has a great week. I think spring might be here..it is getting warmer, but I heard snow flurries on Wed. Boo!