@lemurcat2 so sorry to hear your sweet fur baby passed

I’ve had a few good days in a row with movement, NEAT and calories in check. Today was more carby than I’d like but still within my calorie goal. I did eat back my exercise gains but was under most days last week. I’m feeling pretty good so hope to make this a streak!

@lemurcat2 it sounds like you gave your baby a good life. My thoughts are with you.

Thanks, all. I will definitely miss him, but he did have a good long life.

Back to focusing on diet and exercise.

Yesterday I logged (1/1 for week 2). Carbs were net 44 (goal is below net 70, but in general I think I'm going to try for below net 50). Fiber was below 30, and I think I'm going to drop that as a goal for the time being as I focus on the lower carb goal -- so long as I eat lots of veg I don't care so much. Protein was 99 g, so close to my 100 g goal. Exercise wasn't great -- I'd planned to go to the gym but couldn't go at lunch bc work was busy and ended up staying late. I need to get back in the habit of working out first thing in the morning.

Despite getting home late, I made a delicious stew for dinner with things I happened to have on hand -- some brats I needed to cook, plus onions and garlic and then a lot of kale and chard. I tossed in some potatoes that I also needed to use up, since I had the carbs to spare, but it would have been tasty without them too.

8/9 I’m trying to kick the week off right so NEAT was pretty good and I’m beating my move goals each day. Food is staying in check. I ate dinner last night a bit early and started getting the niggling in the back of my mind to have a snack. I pushed it aside a couple of times by checking my true hunger and knew I was fine. Man that is hard! I was down 4.8 pounds yesterday from a week ago but had a bounce up this morning likely from higher sodium the night before. Fingers crossed!

8/12 so yes, I was ravenous again yesterday and ate over my calorie goal but should have burned enough to balance things out. Doesn’t seem to work that way for me though. I went from being down nearly 5 pounds last week to being up 3 this week! Net, I supposed I’m still down overall but the swings are crazy. I know this happens so I will just keep on focusing and wait for the progress to start back up. I also had one of my highest activity days yesterday so that is a win.

It's been awhile since I've been on MFP. I started back a week ago. I've been eating low carb and Sweatin' to the Oldies daily. I also ride my tricycle when I can. I'm also counting calories. My goal is to weight 187 by the end of the month.

My best to all!

TQ

8/1 203.4 lbs
8/8 198.2 lbs
8/15 193.3 lbs

Plugging away. A little over carbs. One good day than one bad day than one good day. . . I will break the cycle. At least my bad days are not like they were a year ago, so making improvements.

Back from vacation to the expected 5 lbs up. We were active almost every day but I ate a normal menu rather than low carb. I am ok with that since my intent this summer was to enjoy myself. I've found it's been relatively easy to get that 5 back off from prior trips. Back into my routine today!

I really like that mindset that our bad days aren't as bad and when we can identify causes for digressing from our plan, that's a bonus.

KCKO

Mary 65 now, from Pennsylvania.
Heaviest weight 255 lbs, twice. :-(
UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.

My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs. It doesn't know how to burn them and hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my days off(3) and 3 meals on my work days(which are long), exercise on my 3 days off. My weigh in day is Sunday.

9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb/1000-1200 calorie while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
12/26/21-165.6 lbs
1/1/22-168 lbs
2/1/22-157.4 lbs
3/1/22- 155 lbs
4/1/22- 156.4 lbs :-(
5/1/22- 158.8 lbs :-(
6/1/22- 152.2 lbs :-)
7/1/22- 157.4 lbs :-(
8/1/22- 167.2 lbs :-( Was MIA in July just crazy busy with work and life to post but read all your posts.
8/7/22- 167.2 lbs

8/14/22-170.2 lbs :-(
8/21/22-177.8 lbs :-(
8/28/22-180 lbs :-( I've been bad. Eating too many carbs!

Horrible food weekend but closing out the month with positive thoughts and intentions. Going to an in person work conference this week and I packed gym clothes and sneakers to take advantage of the hotel gym. Already thinking about alternate dinner plans if my team wants to choose high carb locations. Picked up some protein bars for my flights.

@swimmom_1 Hang in there, I'm probably close to that too after this past week. I did say I wanted to enjoy myself and not think too much about food but now I must reign it in. You got this too!