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

@trooworld so sorry to hear you’re still sick, hope you feel much better soon! Did you get tested for covid or flu?

@trooworld i need to start reading the latest posts first! Too bad about the flu but so glad you’re feeling better.

@trooworld so glad you’re feeling better!

@roz0810 You sound in a really good place right now. Congrats on your success with WW. I'm sorry about your friend. I was thinking recently that I'm heading towards a time when good friends may be passing on. I love spreadsheets. Especially color coded ones.

@senoritafloridita Beautiful pics. I love abbeys. Although I wonder is that an official abbey? Then I sat thinking what's the difference between a cathedral and an abbey. Time to stop thinking.
Thank you for sharing. I don't think dh is losing weight. LOL Although having said that, I'm not either. It's just stuck. This week I have been over calories alot but not on junk. I've been really diligent about reigning that in. I'm adding more f&v. I just keep plodding along. Your mother's day excursion sounded so nice. An outside concert in the grass. Adirondack chairs are my favorite. I have two in front with a little seating area that I sit in every morning after the gym.

@trooworld I hope you are better now. Does your hubby do anything special for Mother's Day for you from your furbabies? Your post to @roz0810 made me laugh out loud. We can always count on you to be our rock here.

@gemwolf110 How are your furbabies doing? When I saw your card I was thinking about people like you and @trooworld who only have furbabies.

@tamevv What exercise have you been doing this week?

@cbabie Well today is a new day.....Track your food, walk on the treadmill, etc. Have you had any medicine changes? Sometimes that can make you hold a bit of water. Your dh tries to exist on coffee and smoking. No wonder he's skin and bones. Maybe you should try his diet.

Hi all.

So decided to stop WW and back to calorie counting. Joining the gym from Monday nearest to me which is walking distance. Will let you know how it goes!

@roz0810 How has the switch in mealplans going? I'm just curious as what was your reasoning other than money. I know it can be very expensive. I think @trooworld uses the Healthi app. Or something like that. lol It sounded like you were being successful on it. I'm glad you have easy access to the gym. That always helps.

@trooworld Thanks for your opinion on the incline versus speed. It's a 30 min hill/sprint interval program so I will have both but right now I'm at a 4-8% incline with a 3.0 speed. Then a 3.5-4.3 speed with incline of 0.5%. But I can feel it's getting to easy so I need to bump it up. I couldn't decide to go with a 3.2 speed on the hill interval and leave the inclines the same or raise the inclines and leave it at 3.0 I do this once a week and then the other 4 days is a 15 min hill program with 4-15% incline with a 2.8 speed. I'm trying to get my hill endurance up so I can walk those hills on vacation this summer without stopping to catch my breath like I had to do the past two years. Boo on hubby not bringing you back food. Maybe he was trying to help you with your plan to be successful. Yaaay on tracking 3 days in a row.

@cbabie I'm sorry you are feeling blue. Remember our blue bedroom growing up? I know you hate meds but have you thought about taking something like St Johns Wort? Just to take the edge off? You know I'm all about solutions. Do as I say not as I do myself. You said..."I want to find a way not to be on them and get my health in my food. LOL BUT THAT WOULD MEAN COOKING. " Ok so how to work smarter not harder? Breakfast, lunch, and snacks can easily be done with no cooking or at the most throw some oatmeal in the microwave for 3 min. Not that hard. So that leaves 7 meals a week. There are things like crockpots, instapots, microwaves, grills, etc. that make that 7 meals easier. Have you thought about batch cooking once or twice a week. That cuts down the number of times you have to cook. You are thinking when would I have the time to do all this with a baby and 4 year old. It's the prep work that I think takes most of your time. That could be in blocks of times. I think the hardest thing is coming up with the 7 meals? So how about concentrate on one meal this week. Find a recipe and cook that. If you are cooking chicken breasts, cook a bunch at the same time. Refrigerate/freeze til needed. Would counting sugar grams help you reduce the sugar? Think of it like heroin. Start where you are as an average and then set your boundary lower by 10 g. When you get used to that you can lower it another 10 g until you get to a place that is good for your body. Sugar is the enemy and it's the culprit for so many diseases. Cancer, diabetes, etc. Congrats on the 3rd great grandchild. I still haven't figured out how this is my 3rd great great nephew. That makes me sound older than you.

@gemwolf110 Sorry about the furbabies health issues. Is there pet insurance? Those visits and test can be so expensive. Are you still losing weight?

I went to dinner last night. Tex-Mex themed. Food was excellent. One of my neighbors went with me. She has lost 35 lbs now in 4 months. Amazing how much younger she looked. 80-90% of the time she doesn't eat dairy, sugar, carbs except what's in f&v. This made me think about carb cycling again. LOL I was so successful on it. But then I could just eat cheese and meat all day long and i know that not alot of vitamins and minerals in that. So I've been thinking all day how to combine my current plan with carb cycling. Why can't this be easier. The white pants I had planned on wearing to the dinner did not fit. I even went out and bought new white shoes for the occasion. lol Guess who had to make an outfit change at the last minute.

Hi all. The zoo was fun yesterday but my legs were already tired from the day before's visit to the art museum. My legs hurt all day yesterday along with the bunion on my foot. But it was nice seeing my friend. I didn't track most of yesterday, it would be too hard to go back and track it because I got snacky and ate a lot of junk. I did track dinner and I pretracked most of today. We ordered food delivery last night for dinner and I ordered healthily: I got a chicken kebab with roasted broccoli, a Greek salad, and a small thing of hummus. I ate half the kebab, added brown rice that I had made at home, and ate half the hummus. The rest, I saved for lunch today.

Water yesterday: 30 oz

My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."

@theslightedgeforever Yeah I remember how hard it was to get meat, eggs, toilet paper, cleaning wipes...someday, it will sound insane to the youngins but we lived through it. I hope the hybrid program works out for you. Yeah the movie is good, go see it lol. It will bring back memories from your youth and the book. That's a good idea to take a pic of the snacks. I will try it today. I hope I remember to do that. I love going to the zoo and when we went on Sunday, it was special early hours for members only (they open the zoo one hour early for members once a month). So at least for that hour, it was less crowded. Wow, that's great your DD has almost hit 48 states, that's amazing! Alaska will be fun to visit. Good job with the food and the pound down. Is there a reason you've been so tired?

Hi all. Speaking of being tired, I was so very tired yesterday. I slept horribly the night before and just couldn't stay awake at work, I even fell asleep at one point sitting at my desk doing something repetitive. I made sure and went to sleep earlier last night and I can tell I feel a little better than yesterday. Had this recipe for dinner, it was good: https://www.skinnytaste.com/salmon-rice-bowls/

Water yesterday: 70 oz

My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."

@theslightedgeforever Ah that makes sense. That's good you made your hill program work for you by slowing down. Great job! And great job making it to the gym!

Hi all. Last night was the worst sleep I've had in a long time, I slept 4 1/2 hours. I don't know how I will function at work. I have too much to do to go home. I tracked breakfast, lunch and snacks yesterday. I had pretracked dinner but we ate something else so now, I have to go back and track what I ate instead.

Water yesterday: 50 oz

My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."

@cbabie You are accountable, you just posted what happened. Thanks, I can't function properly without at least 6 1/2 hours of sleep. I don't know how you function on so little sleep! You might be right about needing more.

@theslightedgeforever Yeah I'm not too pleasant without enough sleep, either. Do you drink coffee? That's my energy source lol. That's good you brought the water bottle with you. That's always my intention and sometimes I do it and sometimes I do not. Sounds like you had a good day yesterday. Your side dish sounds delicious! I hope you enjoy your friend's party.

Hi all. I am in a better mood and got 6 hrs 4 mins of sleep which isn't ideal but it's better than Tuesday night. I'm off early today, at 1:15, to run an errand. It's good to get off early on a holiday weekend but unfortunately, I have to work on a project tomorrow, Saturday. We are planning on going to the zoo tonight (it's open at night during the summer) but my husband has a test in his class he's taking so we may not.

Water yesterday: 50 oz

My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."

@theslightedgeforever well that is good that your food part, the most important part, is going well. I’m doing well with food too and seeing losses but I’m impatient. I want to add in regular workouts, been sidetracked with new job. That’s a good idea about taking pics of food to track later.