accountability: Kickboxing 60mins
Scale down .5 # from yesterday.
I'll take that as yesterday was a weight loss day

That burned some calories! Got in 7000 steps from it. Man I'm dog tired now, thankful that my job is to sit at work. I prepped my meals this morning from 5:15am- 6am and I logged most of the food while I was preparing it. IT comes in around 1500 calories, so I feel like I am set for the DAY.

@SparkSpringtime69 : looks like your weight is trending downward! WOO HOO! great job.

Next up..... heating up my breakfast.

@honeybadger302 Hopefully soon (as I eat my plain green beans and grilled chicken breast, silently trying to convince myself that this is 110% the best meal for me....and secretly really wishing I didn't give up sugar).

@Ceebeeslim Maybe I'm in a similar boat as you, I feel I"m needing to bring my calorie tracking down 100cal. and see what that does.

Scale didn't move this morning. Taking that as a blessing. Tummy feels off, probably adjusting to No sugar Sherry. Which I may coin as N.S.S. No Sugar Sherry!

You can add me to the belly pudge and saddle bags crowd. It's where I carry my largest fat stores, it looks absolutely awful (curves? what curves?), and right now some layers seem to be going into the mushy fatty cell stage.
Did have a slight drop in the scale today, so that's a good sign.
Today was an in-office day which means I try to get my outdoor workout in over lunch - which also means it needs to be more "active recovery" than a serious sweat session, so just went and walked (quickly) some of the greenway trails across from my office building complex. Still got my HR up a bit so not a bad walk. Did more intense cardio yesterday and will figure out something more intense for tomorrow, too.

SparkSpringtime69 wrote: »

Welcome @pmastro724! I'm with you waiting for the shorts weather, and I'm in SC!

Hey! I've visited SC for the first time last year...I absolutely LOVED it! Can't wait to go back

Accountability: Jan 19, Shoulder workout. 11,000 steps. NSS: Day 6 completed!

(NSS means No Sugar Sherry!) I combatted cravings for it most of the day but didn't give in. After dinner I wanted to have a rice crispy bar but said to my self, have some mozzarella and prego sauce. It was SOOO delish. But I know I had too much. BUT it wasn't sugar. I'm trying to focus on the fact that NO sugar will have MANY rewards to my health. I just may not be able to see them, but I know its impacting my Hypothyroidism, my cholesterol as well as my gut health. Eventually I will figure out the scale. Even at 108 and 5' tall I am at a healthy weight. ITs just not the number I really want. But it is a healthy number.


Hi Tedra @Tedrafm Nice to have you. Night time snacking is mindset..... it sounds like you already know you aren't hungry. OR are you hungry? What are you snacking on? Can you switch it to say "I can have a snack but it has to be a hamburger and Green beans".

I'm sure I haven't lost anything this week on the scale but, perhaps I'll make it a weight loss weekend!
I need to make sure I'm at 1500 calories max Fri/Sat/Sun. and I will see what that does to my scale weight.

Just was cleaning and putting away Christmas decorations and happened to come across my high school Memory book from my senior year. Much to my surprise....... I was looking at it all and found my weight.
Yeah, they have a page where you put your height and weight. Mine said, 5'0" and 105#

OMG I thought, I'm the same weight as I was when I was a senior in high school. SUPER PROUD that I can say that. I think of the number of women who would LOVE LOVE LOVE to be at their high school weight ... Such a great testament to the daily work it's taken to keep my weight in check

and even if I am not where I really wanna be on that scale, I am more muscular than i was then. I would have never fit into a size 3 jean back then. I was a size 7. I know sizes are kinda messed up though. Anyway - Feeling good about myself. I am quite critical (as we all are) of our bodies. Maybe someday I'll get to 101 or 104.... I"m probably at 108 this morning but, I'm not stressing about it.

Did not have a weight loss weekend but the extra calories tasted ahhh maze ing

Catching up a bit:

@pmastro724, @Tedrafm and @spl8 : welcome to the group. We are pretty active here, so please feel welcome to post.

@SherryRueter (or NSS): refined sugar is something we definitely don't need. But I'm still all for fruit! I try to stay off the sugar as much as possible, but I'll dig into a dessert when on holiday (like tiramisu last week!). Both my parents were also diabetic (type 1 my mom, type 2 my dad) and I also saw first hand the effects of eating / drinking on health. I wish you lots of courage to cope with your dad's health issues.
And you know, women over 50 lose the weight exactly the same way as those in their 20's, but I think you already answered that question yourself

@CeeBeeSlim : I hope you can cope well with your mom; dementia is terrible when it happens to your loved ones. Take care !!
About the sweeteners: I have read a lot about it once, and I actually had a discussion about it with a neuro-surgeon who was diving into the data (long story), and her recommendation was that I could you use it, if it is just for one or two cups of tea, or to add to yogurt for example. She found that you would have to consume a LOT to go into the danger zone, and it was preferable to have some sweeteners instead of plain sugar.

@HoneyBadger302:love the pics !! Are you going ok with the 75 Hard? It seems so hard, it's otherwordly... I think you are very brave to take this on! And take care of the aches after the horseride. I can only imagine the ouchies !!

On a general note: watch out for eating around 1.200 kcals a day, it really is the absolute minimum and if you set your goal at 1.200, make sure that you eat back the workout cals. I'm at 1.400 at the moment, and eating back all my workout cals, which oftens puts me over 2.000 a day. And that is just too much (yes, thank you for the eye opener again after logging consistently), so I'll lower it to 1.400 + half of the workout cals. We'll see if that gets me out of the rut I'm in.

Oh boy, I did NOT get enough sleep last night! Fell asleep fine, but then woke up at like 2:30 and basically couldn't fall back asleep after that (might have dozed a bit between then and 3:30, but was wide awake after that). Not good.
So for contract gig I hit the ground running this morning to knock a bunch of stuff out early (after my workout of course) so if my brain takes a dump later I've still gotten a fair bit accomplished. Thankfully should be a reasonably quiet day for the day job...
Sun is trying to peek out, so that's kinda nice - been so gloomy this weekend, not helping my energy levels lol.
Brain and body still adapting to the more regimented (and a lot less lazy) schedule, but it's been manageable - I'm realizing just how lazy I had started to become though! I would see a few of my friends just constantly on the go and wondering how they did it all - seeing that I was just being a whole lot lazier and wasting soooo much time in front of the TV, online, or on social media accomplishing nothing...

@CeeBeeSlim and @HoneyBadger302: it might seem a stupid trick, but it helped for me, maybe you can just try it. When waking up in the middle of the night, of course you are going to think about issues and problems that are happening in your life. For me it helps to visualize a perfect happening. It's your 'dream', so anything can happen. Just choose a perfect thing. For me it's for example imagining living in a warm country, with loads of money, surrounded by my loved ones, a house on the beach and me helping out in an elephant sanctuary while the chef prepares scrumptious healthy curries. Ha ! The more you try to focus on details, the easier it is to sleep again, as your brain will pick up on this and prepare to go dreaming again.

I'm sure it won't work for everyone, but you can try.

@ceebeeslim - maybe give him a heads up that you are not going to indulge in those treats this time. Good luck on the road.

I was on plan yesterday, it felt so good to not only be on plan, but to go to sleep knowing I was under my calories and NOT feeling bad about my over eating or my eating choices. Man, it sure made today seem easier. ALSO, i have brought a bag of cauliflower (whole) frozen to work. That way when I want a snack, I have a hot veggie I can have 1 cup at a time. It's really helped (and saying NO to that little voice ....the one that derails me) well, that's helped too.

Its almost wed.

SherryRueter wrote: »

Made it successfully through another day. On point- under calories. Pretty close to 1200-1300 (ceebeeslim). But I’m also trying to workout less (cleaned house instead of going to the gym at 5pm) - bonus, my bedroom feels so clean and I am mentally happy about it. Great feeling! And, tomorrow I can totally do this again.

Feeling so empowered.

You are doing great !!

And yes, improving your NEAT will have side effects, like a cleaner house