@themedalist & @MadisonMolly2017, Thanks for starting us off again. I really enjoyed looking at the May Wishes poster from Quitting the Sitting, and @77tes for sharing the lovely May Day poem by Sara Teasdale. Your opening posts made it feel like May is finally here! Yes the year is going by, but for me May seems like a breath of fresh air! Like Spring and new beginnings might actually be here soon. We finally got our lost "April Showers" ☔🌂 (and a thunder storm or two), and so some of the flower garden is finally bursting into bloom.

@themedalist, your goal to focus on daily stress reduction is a good reminder for many of us I would guess.

@TerriRichardson112, I hope that you are recovering from your recent operation more and more, as time goes by. Thank you for your kind remark. It helps not feeling so alone in this, as I know many who, when they were no longer sick from Covid, there was no lingering leftover symptoms. I also normally bounce back physically also.

@77tes, awww, thank you very much 💐 for kind words. I'm glad that you are able to get back to using FlyLady! A FlyLady reset is an excellent idea after recovering from the fractured ankle!
A FlyLady Book Club!!! What a concept, as well as being great for some built in accountability as well :laugh:. It's so cute seeing your 🚼 baby steps adding up!!

@Jana_2020, good idea to change your routine to getting your strength workout done before work! Then you don't have to face it after a day of working 👍.

@snowshoe072, way to go working on your time for the 5K walk coming up! That should be fun!!

@donna25trinity you are so focused with your many habits that you have been doing!! Well done!


For my habit during May I will get into the daily habit of picking (only) one particular thing that must get done (or started). I will be choosing it for the next day. That way I can pick something, for example, that I wasn't able to do the day before for whatever reason, or perhaps something with a deadline coming up....this can take the stress off of today and by tomorrow it will be easier because having it planned the day, or evening, before makes it easier to do it when tomorrow finally rolls around. (I started this on the 6th)

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Successfully navigated a 5-day trip away. Two days later, I Now weigh less than when I left. Figured out I should be drinking 9.5 cups of water not 8. Cut out 2nd cup decaf & now am back up to 75 (my weight in kilograms) ounces per day or more. ~9.5 cups [I use two 16 oz water bottles & refill twice.

Took my measurements today. No really big changes but I do feel leaner in my middle.

Things I learned:
I really do best with SET meal times & an earlier dinner.
9:30-10:30AM breakfast PILLS
1:30-2:30 lunch
5:30-6:30 PM window - (might move this later as my walks will be later as days heat up)

My mantra:
I’m 67; I don’t need snacks 🤣😂❤️

@themedalist I’m glad!
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@77tes I understand! And I admire how you can control your calories!!

My regular way of eating prior to 2016 was small breakfast & large lunch & large dinner.

Now, large breakfast, larger lunch, & smaller dinner.

When I was gaining very gradually over the past year, it was a few almonds here, a small handful cereal there. I now realize those snacks were responsible for the weight creep.

Easier for me to say to myself: Ya got 3 meals! 😂🤣😂

Was doing well with may habits then a week holidays derailed me! I hve been enjoying being very much out of routine this week tbh but maintain my focus and discipline again next week!!! Xo

Happy we have 12 more days in May
I am on a downward slow weight loss…
Very happy to be making progress.

Hydrate! Especially with hot weather coming for many of us.

I think my body interprets mild dehydration as hunger & creates “mouth hunger” or cravings. It also has this response with salty foods, restaurant foods/baked goods (salt), and sweet foods (almost all have salt).

Makes maintaining my weight vastly easier if I don’t have mouth hunger!