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

@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.

@trooworld Being tired: It could be a byproduct of my new eating plan. Less calories and carbs could be less energy for the body. Today I did my hill program and I actually had to lower the speed than what I normally do. Then sometimes I would grab the handles. It was too much for me but I finished it. Thanks for the rice bowl recipe.

I did make it to the gym first thing this morning. I said just do the cardio portion and that's it. But better than I did yesterday so.....

@trooworld No one wants to be around me if I don't get enough sleep. I just remembered I forgot to my maca root. I'm trying it for the energy it is supposed to give me. I need something for the memory, I swear.

@cbabie Back to the drawing board as they say. I'm not making as much progress as I would like though. But trying to be content with what I am doing. Food quality wise, I'm eating waaaay better. I can't seem to get my eating and exercise working at the same time. lol Imagine if I did those two plus the water thing......

But on the positive side today...I took an insulated water bottle with me and filled it with ice and water and drank that on my errands today. I am sitting here with my other water bottle and just stopped to take a big drink. So far today in the f&v department, I have had a banana, orange, cherry tomatoes, and butternut squash. I lifted weights for 15 min this morning when I got up. Usually I do my cardio in the morning but decided I really need to keep my bones strong and raise my metabolism by adding extra muscle to my body.

I made a really good side dish today. I halved some cherry tomatoes and then added some paneer (Indian cheese) squares and sauteed them in olive oil. Spiced them with garlic, onion powder, and italian season and a bit of salt and pepper. So good. I got in some good lycopene with that for my heart and cancer risk reduction. So easy too. Tomorrow one of my friends is having a 50th bday party. Mexican food is the theme.

@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.

@trooworld glad you recovered that you can go back to work but that’s too bad about the bad night of sleep. sleep deprivation is the worst. When that happens to me, sometimes it feels like a nightmare to go through the day.

@trooworld No I don't drink coffee. I drink hot tea though. I'm glad you are feeling better. I saw you lost some weight. Good for you. Your program is working. Yaaay on the 10000 steps at the zoo.

@cbabie At least your household didn't just step over your body. I'm glad you had some good test results from your doc. What kind of f&v did you have today?

@senoritafloridita Miller time made me smile. Maybe start off with little exercise goals and then add more so you can fit it into your day. That's what I keep telling myself. I'm truly sorry about your mil.

Party was a blast last night. I think I danced probably 3 hours and I'm not exaggerating either. On the dance floor more than off. All different kinds of music. I did the macarena (which I had forgotten and finally did it correctly towards the end of the song. I was like I'm glad I'm in the back and then switch now I'm in the front. lol I limboed. I know that's not spelled right. Then there was a song called Low by Flo Rida and I got low, low, low, low. Now my back hurts this morning and all the muscles I probably don't use alot. It was fun though. I passed up some chocolates and had one little appetizer. Then took really small portions on the food. 1/4 piece of the bday cake. All in all a successful party. Even took a bit of salad which I never do at a party. lol It's the little things......

@trooworld Yes, I finished the priming part and dh will paint the rest. I do hear you on the exercise. Think of other things you don't like to do but still do them anyway. Why?
Besides losing weight. List for me all the things that doing some sort of exercise would benefit you. I have stopped for about the last 4 days(5?) I can tell you that my joints and body aches more. Go back and reread your posts when you were doing your machine thingy. I forgot what it was called. Remember posting the pics to us about how much weight you were lifting. Go back and read how you felt.

I know exactly how you feel. For the past 4-5 days I've been doing those things you mentioned. Oh it's been 3. See? seems longer. But I checked. Are your goals still too big? No really. You can actually Track one food. Exercise for 30 seconds. 15 seconds? Drink one ounce of water. I will do these myself today. Sometimes black and white thinking pops in to where no I didn't reach my goals but I did notice progress. For instance, I've been trying to get the habit of everytime I go out I take my water bottle with me. I didn't like to in the past because then I would have to stop somewhere to pee probably and don't like public bathrooms. Or feel the need to buy something if I'm at a fast food place using the restaurant. I don't need that extra food. So I found a water bottle that keeps the liquid really cold in heat and doesn't get hot to the touch. Perfect. I did it once and then the next time I went out totally forgot. Yesterday I went out and I knew it was only going to be about a 15 min errand. Why bother. But then a voice told me do it because I'm trying to form the habit. If I go out, I take the bottle. So I filled it up and took it with me. Two days done. Now this doesn't really look like any kind of success. Two days. Big whoopdee doo. But I did finish the bottle both times and that was 40 oz that I may not have put in my body. So I'm trying to count the little things that I'm doing right. Focusing on them. Because just focusing on what I'm not doing is so depressing. Oh another thing I have almost made into a habit. Is eating an orange at night while watching TV. Usually I don't eat anything else. Just that. Unfortunately last night might have also involved a bag of cheese popcorn with some chocolate. So I'm celebrating the fact that I did get in my fruit like normal after 8:30.

We don't want to wait until the doctor says we have diabetes. I can tell you that even getting that diagnosis doesn't make a person start exercising and eating mostly healthy foods. I had two diabetic parents. That's just a quick trip to heart attack, stroke, paralysis, toes cut off.

so hang in there and let's both do what is good for us today.

@trooworld Just think. This is the only place you can talk to yourself and no one will think you are crazy. LOL Sorry about not being here. My routine is off and when my routine is off things just don't get done. Still trying to figure out how to STAY ON ROUTINE. I hope my little pep talk helped you. Now do me. You do whatever it is to help you succeed. The good news is that you are tracking again. I'm glad that dh will help and not make dessert every weekend.

@cbabie so you need a routine. I'm currently watching a tedtalk called Forget Big Change, start with a tiny habit. You really already have a routine. But it's not getting you to where you want to go. So think about this floss your teeth....floss one tooth. What do you want to add to your routine?

@retiredandlovingit Good to see you. I hate typing on a ipad/tablet too. Glad to see you are getting better. I know you enjoy your walks. My dd was in the south this past week and complaining how hot it was. She's used to MN weather. I'm going to visit her in about 3 weeks or so.

My painting project is finished. I moved it into my bedroom. Now to just get the the stuff moved into the cabinet. I've been decluttering so I have piles all over my bedroom. Plus my son is coming for a visit. I've been cleaning out his room (which I use for storage. lol) Lots of physical movement but no official exercise since Saturday. Hubby and I did a 35 min walk.

Is anyone else here doing any of the Meal Plans? I started the low-carb one. I'm still doing my carb cycling but using their tips and recipes.

@trooworld I laughed out loud just now. WWTD? Obviously today I must be an imposter. I just had some pizza. More than one slice. Do as I say..... I wish I knew the answer to consistency. I was just reading something last night about this. I'll post a screenshot. Congrats on the award. That's really neat. Also I noticed you got in 75 oz of water. Woohoo!