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@trooworld I hope you don’t go the weight loss surgery route as it can be very hard for your body. And if that is something you are considering then I would encourage you to give IF a serious try and maybe even incorporate some protein sparing modified fasting. This is where you will pick one or two days a week and eat 500 to 800 calories of mostly lean protein with super low carb and fat. I plan to implement this next week to see if it will help jump-start my weight loss. I am not a fan of eating small meals every few hours. All this does is train your body to run on glucose instead of tapping into your body’s fat stores. I’ve basically been doing the small meal thing for the last few months, and it’s gotten me nothing but fatter. Soooo!!! But I get how frustrated you are. Believe me, I get it!! But we are strong women, and we can make this happen. Let’s do it!

@cbabie Sorry that you are fighting depression. I pray things will turn around for you. I love those Minions!


Good morning! It’s going to be a relaxing day where I don’t have anything to do. How awesome! I might even start a new jigsaw puzzle today. I’ve been missing them! Joe is still slowly healing. He took the heart monitor off on day one and refuses to deal with it. It’s his choice and I support him in whatever he wants to do. He has been so tired this week and has almost zero energy. I hate it for him, but we just got to get through this coming month and hope things will turn around once all the chemo is done. I’m gearing up to restart IF and my new eating plan, which will include two days of PSMF (what I told trooworld above). I have returned to black coffee and actually don’t mind it at all. OK, I’m going to do a leg workout and then decide what puzzle I’m going to do.

So I'm back. I spent all day yesterday doing NOTHING but resting. I walked 115,000 steps while I was in London. The week before I hit 55,000 steps. I'll weigh in tomorrow as I want to get rid of more airplane bloat if I have it. We had alot of fun and saw so many things. My daughter is a machine and she packed in everything she could into our itinerary into 5 days.

So I tried to skim and see what you are up to. On this page:

@trooworld You want to do some kind of weight loss surgery? I vote no. Only cause I've seen a couple of people I know go through it Take smaller steps than what you are doing now. Don't try to be perfect in your eating plan. Focus on the meal you are eating.

@teresaw1020 It's hard to watch loved ones go through chemo and all. I don't think my mom ever got her energy back. It's just hard on the body depending on what kind you get and how much. She had both radiation and chemo. So you get back to your eating plan. Keep tweaking til you find something that works.

@cbabie I hope you find some sunshine in your life. You just need me to make you laugh.

I'm working on my April goals. My first quarter was awful.

thanks @trooworld yes it's been nearly a week now. hoping to be where I was last week by the end of this week! I'm also doing IF. 18:6 currently. I love doing it. Well done on the walking video

@cbabie I'm glad you can catch up with an old friend. So start small and pick one thing you can do to eat healthy.

@roz0810 Think of all the things that exercise can do for you besides help you lose weight. Can you start small? That's what I had to do yesterday because I was not in the mood so I did my stretching. Today I will do my stretching and add 5-10 min of cardio. I just need to regain the habit. My body hurt less when I was faithfully going to the gym in the mornings plus doing my stretches. I can see how stopping my stretching when my daughter showed up made me relapse. It was only 2 weeks and I thought it really wouldn't matter. But it did.

@trooworld I had scones almost every day. I'll look for a pic. Yaaay on your walking video.

@teresaw1020 You're off to a fantastic start. Keep it up! I'm a visual aids person too.

So I'm ready for Q2. April-June. I just finished a book about project management and I decided to turn this health journey into a project. I followed all the steps that they listed and have things such as a risk assessment plan and estimated schedule. Even a table of contents. It looks quite professional. LOL

So now I'm going to do some reverse engineering and work backwards on these goals and actions steps. I listed all the risks that could cause me not to stay OP or exercise or drink my water. How can I reduce the risk? How can I lessen the impact? Now to just work the plan.

I forgot how how satisfied I can be with airplane portions like a Bento Box. So I'm looking here to give me some ideas

https://purewow.com/food/bento-box-lunch-ideas

My number one task right now is to make a new Trello Board for Red/Yellow Days and decide which meal goes where and start creating some lists and cards. Easy to drag and drop. Plus I'll already have an easy shopping list made out.

So in keeping with the project management theme, you all will be my board members. My goal for the end of June is 10 lbs.

@trooworld Nice app. I like the visuals of it. Yaay on staying within your window. Here are the scones. The first one was a bit too brown on the top for me. I still ate it. lol The second pic was at afternoon tea in Bath. Scones are on the bottom plate. It was so nice. They had a violinist, celloist, and pianist playing while we ate.

@cbabie I can tell you what to do but you wouldn't listen. Today would have been Grandpa's 107th birthday. So what one thing can you do right today. Remember that book One Thing? (I think that was the name, lol)

I worked a bit on my Trello board yesterday and have about 6 meals entered. Plus I wrote down the action steps that I will need to do in order to make this work.

@trooworld Trello board: I've made it easy. Just 4 lists Red Lunch, Red Dinner, Yellow Lunch and Yellow Dinner. Then a shopping list and a meal plan list for the week. 6 lists Total. The cards just have the name of the recipe and then I put the link in the description so I can just click on it when I'm ready. I add the ingredients I need at the store to the shopping list as I make the cards. I used the "covers" red and yellow so the cards are easily identified. I'll use Week # labels so I can only show the cards I want so I can rotate the recipes I like each month. I really only set this up once and then tweak a bit here and there with new recipes. Look at how long you fasted versus you gave up too soon. You did great. Focus on the gain not the gap.

@teresaw1020 I think I'm going to do both. Meal prep so I have some pre-made things like plain chicken breasts, teriyaki chicken, black beans, etc. in the freezer. But then I will just do the bento boxes daily. If I lived by myself this would be easier but I'll just keep tweaking til I get it right for me. Board meeting: That's a scary thought but yet if I was a true project manager, I would have to report my results, right? Woohoo for the overweight category.

Okay, back to adding more recipes to my trello board.

@theslightedgeforever Haha I often say if I lived by myself eating would be sooo much easier! I love my people and don’t want to lose them but I’m telling you that I will NEVER be the boss of another person’s menu again.

@gemwolf110 sounds like all is well with you! I’m sure your furkids love going for walks on a nice spring day. That is good that the school you want will let you take some courses early. Have a good weekend too!

Good morning! Yesterday DH had his third chemo and because his sodium was too low again we had to go to the hospital for an evaluation. Five hours later we come home with instructions to up his sodium tablets and limit his fluids even more than we have been. It feels like it’s always been something lately. Work is stressing me out too because of an invite card issue with the man I use to print our stuff. But no worries, I got it handled because there was NO way I was telling pastor that he wasn’t getting his cards tomorrow for church! For the last two days I’ve fasted for 19.5 hrs. but the eating wasn’t the best yesterday, so today I’ve got to reign it in. I want a good weigh-in on Monday.

@gemwolf110 I agree. I can't believe it's April. Sounds like you have a good plan for your future mapped out. Have you been working on your healthy habits?

@teresaw1020 Do you have your meals planned out for your eating times or do you just grab and go? I've got my meals planned out now I need to make sure they are cooked and ready to eat.

@trooworld Your food sounded delicious. So what meal plan are you doing right now? WW? Oh just went back and read. Clean Fasting. What are you expectations from this each month? Did you ever get back to your Tonal?

@cbabie This is where you and I are different. When drama causes stress, I always eat. I'm glad you got in a walk. So go open up the crockpot book and tell me about the first recipe. The problem with books like that is that it gets overwhelming. so choose ONE THING. You may not even like the first recipe but look at it anyway as if we want different we have to do different. So we break down that recipe into small steps and just focus on the next step.

1. Open up book and look at first recipe.
2. Read through it.
3. Write down ingredients you don't have on hand
4. Decide what day and time you will have this. Is it lunch? Dinner?
5. Write that on your calendar.
6. Go grocery shopping
7. Put ingredients into crockpot and turn it on;
8. Enjoy!

Hello. I am thinking of joining WW. They have a deal right now. Are counting points easier than counting calories? How is the WW site to use? Is it worth the expense. I tried calorie counting and lost some but I don’t want to be tracking all of the time. I did keto, which was great for my diabetes but I find it restrictive. I went off keto and am gaining weight back. I get really hungry in the evening. I feel like there is a pit in my stomach that I can’t fill. I am lactose intolerant so that limits some food choices.

Also are there any promo codes ?

@trooworld Then by all means put that lemon in your water. I actually would too. Good, I hope you do read the book and then we can discuss it!

Hello! Not much going on except me with a ton of energy from fasting so I’m taking advantage of it and deep cleaning the whole house. The final number for weight loss this week was 2.4 lbs. I’m happy and hope for at least that much next week. Right now I’m super motivated and determined to get back to where I was and then on to my goal. That evil voice tried to tell me that I could get a little Easter candy at Walmart today and no one would be the wiser. I told that to back the heck on up!!
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@teresaw1020 Some good things have come out of Covid time though I think. People have learned that they really hated their jobs and would have been stuck there forever and not had the courage to quit and find something they like. People got to spend more time with their families. Although that can be good or bad. I think 21 Day Fix is a good sensible plan. Yaaay for saying NO to the Easter Candy. 2.4 lbs is great.

@lorib642 Welcome to the group! I think counting is counting. Whether it's points, calories, carbs, fat grams. I've done them all. Tracking is always the same. I think the difference comes in your environment and the kinds of foods you like to eat and the ones that will make you stay consistent the longest. Keeping that in mind, if you want different you have to do a bit different. WW has a lot of zero point foods that can keep you full and can be a go-to if you are hungry. If you like alot of meat and cheeses then counting carbs are the way to do it. I was on a moderate carb cycling plan and lost 23 lbs in 6 months. Went from pre-diabetic to normal glucose readings. Then covid struck. That messed with my mojo. If you are not a meat, egg, cheese eater then counting fats might be your plan. Some people like this plan and the CDC used it for their diabetes prevention program. I guess their aim was to reduce calories and fat has 9 calories per gram compared to carbs and protein which is 4. The bad thing with just counting calories is that it is too easy to eat non-nutritious food and still be on plan because you stayed within your boundaries. I have watched WW across the years change their point system to encourage people to choose more nutritious foods. I am currently transitioning to a program that will encourage me to eat more fruits and vegetables, lentils, beans, etc. Maybe more like the Mediterranean Diet. Choosing WW digital versus showing up in person: Some people need the embarrassment of gaining weight in front of someone to keep them on the straight and narrow. For other people it doesn't matter. You just have to figure out which kind of person are you? What do you need to keep going consistently? Maybe check out the 21 Day Fix like @teresaw1020 Instead of calories you count # of containers. I just use the containers to measure my portion sizes.

@trooworld Please be careful with the weight loss medications. After the Fen-Phen mess, it made me leery. (that doesn't look spelled right, lol) I think I would like that nurse visit and weekly check in with working on something. It can be discouraging when one time we can lose weight easily and then other times we are hitting our heads against the wall. Your pic looks so serene and calming.

@cbabie I think we cross posted. We always talk about how much you and Theresa are alike. Now you've lost the same amount this week. LOL I hope you feel better. Being sick is never fun. I don't think anyone in our family is great with sick people. (Cause we were all trained to suck it up. ) I'm sitting here trying to think of what you mean with PM skills. I've come up with Postmaster. Prime minister. Nighttime skills.

I lost 0.6 lbs this week since I've returned. I'm still not back to where I want to be on my exercise. I've been fighting knee pain and overall fatigue.

My first goal is 10 lbs by June 30.
0.6/10