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

13/03: 269.6
18/03: 264.8
19/03: 262.8

@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.

Hello all. The massage yesterday was wonderful. I need to do more of that. I still didn't track yesterday. I'm hoping today will be drama-free at work.

Water yesterday: 25 oz

My phrase for the year: "Something needs to change…so I will take no crap and eat no crap!"

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!

@cbabie I'm glad your bread came out good. The rescue took her down to Mexico (thankfully). Thanks!

@TeresaW1020 Thank you. The rescue took her. I was so anxious! Thanks, I hope it helps us both (IF). I'm glad Joe's shoulder is healing okay. LOL "dinner menus won't be exciting"...I can relate to this, I have complaints about the dinner menus all the time lol.

Hi all. My pup's surgery went okay. We couldn't pick her up until about 6:30 and all day I didn't hear anything from the rescue until about 3:45 when I checked on her. I was so worried! She's got liquid medications and I hate those because she doesn't like the taste so we have to squirt it in her mouth and she throws a fit. I'm on my 3rd day of IF. I fast from about 7:30 p.m. until 11:30 a.m. I got a bit hungry yesterday but drank some sparkling water with a squeeze of lemon in it and that helped.

Water yesterday: 75 oz!

My phrase for the year: "Something needs to change…so I will take no crap and eat no crap!"

@cbabie Sounds like you are doing pretty good. Thanks re: the pup...yeah, I don't blame her for not liking the liquid meds! Yeah I decided that I wanted to be able to eat lunch and dinner so those were my hours of IF.

Hi all. Doing okay. Had a doctor's appt yesterday and talked about my weight. I asked about weight loss surgery but my doctor didn't really say no but she also didn't like the idea. She did like that I am doing IF, she said it really works for some people. But she also said "We know that eating a small amount every few hours works" so I don't really know what she wants me to do besides modify what I am doing somehow. She is giving me a referral to a doctor that manages weight loss medications and I might try one of those. I think I might be more discouraged than before my visit. I have another visit in May.

Water yesterday: 75 oz!

My phrase for the year: "Something needs to change…so I will take no crap and eat no crap!"