Happy Wednesday ladies. Since we cleared the drain in the downstairs tub, I haven't been upstairs in the morning, nor have I even thought about stepping on the scale when I was up there. I'll have to make a trip up just for that purpose. I am too afraid to go up after mid day food and fully clothed. That might just scare the bejesus outta me. possibly Friday morning (I have early dr. appt tomorrow and don't want to stress myself getting up/down. Mornings are so hard for me to get going. Just started using the new CPAP machine, and so far, not feeling the benefits of it yet, still adjusting to it and waking often. Therapy continues 3/week except this week with two dr. appts. Hubby had his yesterday, he's now out of his sling but still has lots of restrictions. Tomorrow is my ortho follow up. Tonight I'm meeting an old friend for dinner, and I'm loking forward to getting out and seeing her. We'll be having street tacos and a churro split. No margarita this round as I'm still taking the heavy meds at night.

Sheesh - Great job closing your rings and your reduction!!!

We've never stayed at the Grand Californian, it has been booked every time we've decided to go (or ridiculously priced in comparison). But since we're booking almost a year out, we were able to make it work. We've stayed at Disneyland Hotel several times and Paradise Pier a few times as well. I prefer Disneyland over Paradise Pier and I'm sure we'll prefer the Grand Californian (it is the newest of them). Also, Disneyland and Paradise are going through some renovations. Anyhow, I think I stated that we opted for the 3 bedroom suite versus individual rooms for this round. That way Grammy/Grandpa and Auntie/Uncle can help with Rhea and bedtime (we will each take a night to put Rhea down to bed and the other two couples get to stay out all night - Grammy/Grandpa selected Sunday as we'll be pretty tired ourselves by then - haha). With all of us in one suite, we don't have to go running down the halls as you can only connect 2 rooms. Everyone (except Rhea - too many sleeps to tell her yet) is super excited. When hubby and I were on our house hunting trip to AZ a gazillion years ago, two of the five nights we were at the hotel, we had the fire alarms going off and we were also in our pjs. However, we were in downtown Phoenix and the area was not the best (didn't know until we got here). I would have been like you and hit up a Starbucks as well.

Kelly - keep doing what you're doing. Kids are only young once and you'll look back on this time with great memories of them and not being as tired as you are, nor even think that you missed out on anything for you. You are doing a great job!!!

Sarah - I won't talk about weather. It's been cold (for us) here. I'm actually wearing long sleeves AND SOCKS. Like full socks, not just my running no show socks. We've been waking with frost and I think it's been in the mid 50's during the day. I know I've been cold. Though I'm not released to use my TM yet, heck walking to the mailbox and back I need to put on my brace and then I hurt after. Do what you can while you can

LW: 154.5
TW: 154.5

Quickly posting my weigh in from this morning. I'm good with that.
Off to a doctor's appointment this morning. Follow up from my physical so I'll get my bloodwork results. I have a feeling my iron is low again, but we'll see.
Chat later.

Hi, all. Well, after class on Thursday won. It was almost 10 p.m. when I finally got on the TM last night.

Congrats Sheesh and Kelly on getting those rings closed. And Kelly, all I can say about your getting 10K steps every day since October 28 is "wow." Or make that double wow! I get 10K most days, but the Christmas travel, super cold with no TM at my sister's, and then Covid really took a bite out of my December and January stats. The fact you've done this with your cold weather, work, holidays, kids, etc. is such a great accomplishment. This past week, I finally got 10K every day, but I'm still not up to where I was when I had someone to walk with back in the fall. And mentioning stats, here are my 7-day averages for last week:

Steps = 11,639
Kcals burned = 1,731
Stairs = 16 floors

And Kelly, when I read your post about your coworker's dog, my heart just hurt. Our pets are family members and to lose one like that is beyond horrible. I hope everyone rallies around her, although I know it will just take time to get to a point even close to acceptance. And the fact that the driver didn't stop, just makes me furious. People like that should be horse-whipped.

Sheesh and Lois, we also have fire alarm in the hotel stories. Once it happened very early in the morning at a hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia, and like you, we headed to the Starbucks down the road. Because my hubby is in public safety, he did not even give me time to get on my robe (which was still in a suitcase). So I sat in the car while he went in and got us coffee and danish of some type. Another time, it happened in a hotel in Ocean City, Maryland, in February. It was so cold with the winter wind ripping off of the ocean that water from a fire hose coated the outside of the hotel in ice! The kicker to this story is that the elevators were not working and there was a woman in the hotel who was obese and had some other type of issue, so she could not walk down the stairs. So my hubby and one of our friends put her in a straight chair and carried her down about five flights of stairs. It about killed them! But her family members were not in good shape, and we couldn't leave someone, so my girlfriend and I just waited for our guys in parking lot, hoping that they'd make it. That was probably 20 years ago. No way they could do it today.

Lois, little bit by little bit, you'll make it back to where you can also walk and do other physical things. When you said that even going to the mailbox hurts, it really made me think about how tiring and frustrating recovery from an injury can be. But now you've got that Disney trip as a goal to work toward, and I think and hope that recovery is slower at first and then picks up the pace as everything heals.

I read an article this week that said that even a couple of minutes of activity after eating is important for your metabolism. I have noticed lately that I feel very sluggish for a short time after I eat. I know it has to do with my blood sugar, so I need to mention it to my doc. But I am also going to try to start moving for few minutes immediately after meals. I tend to lump most of my activity into a small range of time. So moving for a few minutes after meals is a one of my goals for next week. Another is adding a few minutes of vigorous activity to my regular routine. Since I expect that this will make me sore, I'll aim for doing that three days this coming week and see how it goes.

Well, I need to run out for limes for dinner, and I want to do that before the schools let out, so I'll sign off for now. Katie, we hope you'll check in soon.

Kelly, I agree that the important thing is that we get regular physical activity in, and I meant the congratulations more for that than for an actual step count (but I know how hard it is to get to10K!). I also read all of the time about the importance of mixing things up, so your new routine sounds good. The need to mix things up is one of the reasons I signed up for that class and why I plan to look into some other classes for the spring. And I really want to get my burn up, too. I set my goal for 1800 kcals a day, but I'm usually about 50 to 150 calories short of that. I know that all it would take would be amping up my speed or adding in some hill climbs or something. We had an unusually warm day on Monday, and I walked my route that includes killer hill. That day, I burned more than 1,900 kcals. But today, we are on the south edge of that super cold front coming across the county, and besides being cold, it's whipping up some serious wind.

Well, time to get a few more things done. I tend to not want to be productive after dark. Thankfully, we are now far enough from December 21st to actually see a real difference in when the sun goes down.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.