@laurelfit57 I'm glad you're back here and back to losing after what sounds like a challenging time. I'd love to see that bed!

@Cornanda Those backpacks sound awesome, check and see if you get discounts at local attractions as well. We don't have those backpacks but do have discounted or free tickets for some things. I think there's a national park discount too but not positive. There's definitely way more stuff there than people would think! I'm still excited about the seed library at mine, I think I need to ban myself from it.Great job on a week of 45 minutes of exercise!

@trooworld Yesterday sounds like a great day! Interesting book club, is the last hour to have a scheduled time to do it? How was the adaptive yoga class? Great steps!

@megnolia82 I'm sure it's going to take a bit to be back on track, the variety of food should be great for your gut microbiome! Bet you're tired of that word huh? You're doing great keep up the good work!

@MissionSlimpossibles yay on the week of October 1 of being top team by percentage and lbs lost!

@AJV2688 @badnoodle @crhillis Way to go top winners! I had to cheat and scroll down to steffibabiie 's post to make sure I typed the names correctly, I can barely see the names as I don't have my glasses on! Great job!

@steffibabiie There is a lot of pressure seeing all the holiday stuff everywhere so early, I held off on pumpkin spice until September but it does put on that “year's almost up” pressure. Christmas makes my anxiety go nuts as I don't have a lot of money and have a big family, I've been working on ways to lessen the stress the last few years after a bad depression awhile back over it. I DID buy fall garden stuff too early that died so I'll keep trying to plan but live in the moment. Good job not being decorations!

@gemwolf 110 Yes the news is depressing, I try to avoid getting too into it but want to know what's going on so it's a fine balance. I bet the walls look awesome! What a gorgeous photo!

Hi friends! I slept in late and realized it's because my allergies are going nuts (I'm allergic to cats and have 2 then ragweed I guess?). Got my workout done, cleaned up, vacuumed, and finished my book and am on the last batch of herbs dehydrating then I can straighten up the kitchen. I'm making a gluten-free Belgian chocolate cake next weekend for our volunteer appreciation night for one volunteer specifically and am going to Trader Joe's for the chocolate tomorrow so I can do a test run of it first then get everything for it. My aunt used to work in a bakery and the recipe is hers so I'm not too worried plus my brother said I can share it with them so I'll be taking the trial run there. Have an awesome Monday!

WI Sunday
PW 192.8
CW 196.8

Blah humbug. Not sure how long these ups and downs will happen but I am on track calories wise and getting some steps in daily. I know this is water weight, since I’m going up 5-8 lbs every few days. Regardless, I’m sticking to my plan and will ride it out.

@trooworld - it sounds like you work in one of the most awesome libraries there is. Congrats!

Happy Monday to all!

Lisa

Woo hoo! Congrats to the whole team for achieving 1st place by both percentage and pounds lost! A special shout-out goes to @AJV2688 @badnoodle and @crhillis for leading the way! Way to go, team!

@txcritter69 Congrats on the loss!

@steffibabiie I love it there, it is amazing! That's nice that you can take some time off during the holidays. Yeah, it's shocking to see Christmas stuff out already!

@Neon_Ninja Finally someone posts the fall pictures I've been craving lol! Thank you! What a great view from your porch. The news...yes, I do, too. Ugh.

@badnoodle Congrats on the loss! Yes, sounds like it's time for a doctor visit. I hope you feel better soon. Congrats on your yoga progress! Pretty breakfast, looks healthy and filling.

@Katmary71 It was a great day! Book club: yes! You talk about what you are reading during the first 30/45 mins and then the rest of the time until noon, you sit reading with your video either on or off and you are muted. Then you come back on and say goodbye. If you are interested, they have chapters all over: https://silentbook.club/ My allergies are going nuts too but not because of kitties.

@megnolia82 I'm glad you had a good Thanksgiving.

@AmbersWay Thank you so much! Yes, I'm so glad we got the zoo passes. It does really help. If your friends don't want to do it, the Silent Book Club has chapters all over the place and maybe in your area or you might be able to join a different one since most of the meetings are virtual: https://silentbook.club/

@DebJB30 Sorry about your shoulder.

@Cornanda Thank you, yes it is awesome! Happy Monday!

@laurelfit57 You can come back now, I don't know if you saw @jugar's post but she said jump in! Welcome back, friend!

Hi all. I loved the Silent Book Club. For those interested, they have chapters all over: https://silentbook.club/ It was a lazy day yesterday but I did make it to yoga.

Spooky Fitness Challenge for Oct steps/minutes: 3,486 / 7,000, 60 mins / 20 mins

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

@megnolia82 Happy Thanksgiving, I'm glad your husband was able to come. Great job not going overboard, that's great!

@AmbersWay Never enough seeds right? I think I just like options, I'm like that with books and various soap in the shower too, I made a rule I have to finish one to start another on both of those. I'm glad you're just going to accept and move on, you'll get to a balance soon though I know it's frustrating.

@DebJB30 Oh no I hope your shoulder improves fast, let us know how your appointment goes. I'm glad your appointment is soon.

@Cornanda Happy Monday my friend!

@laurelfit57 The weather does sound great there, hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

@trooworld I think allergy flares now are ragweed, right? Thank you for the link, I signed up for the newsletter and I'm following the Roseville and Sacramento leaders on Instagram.

@865jessica Sounds like a great time to be out walking in a very warm sweater or sweatshirt. There's something to be said about taking time to appreciate the moment like that, I'm a lot happier trying to experience everything around me. I wish the weather didn't cause pain as I used to love fall a lot more.

@steffibabiie I don't know anything for a fact but definitely keep your skin moisturized well. People swear by collagen but I don't see any difference taking it to be honest. If you look in the general forum or search the forums you'll find topics on this. I didn't loose skin until I got down real low and it still bounced back a bit after I was done losing but I also ended up putting on some more weight that helped fill the loose skin. If you find answers definitely share them! I know on the thread the people who lost a lot were leaning toward surgery.

@19shmoo69 How did it turn out? I bought gluten-free bread crumbs and really had to increase the amount used compared to what I used to regular bread crumbs (double to triple it). It still felt more wet than it does with gluten ones.

Hi friends! I let the stress of this appointment Thursday then weather pain get the best of me and had a Midnight binge, making a cake last night played a part in it because I kept having problems with it. It needs a few hours to cool on the counter then a night in the fridge so I rushed to the store last night to get it going and had thought I'd let it cool enough but the (gluten free test run cake for volunteer appreciation next weekend) did quite a lot of expanding in the fridge after I took the springform pan off, it kind of looks like someone dropped it off a skyscraper. I went to cover it with whipped cream frosting and overwhipped it so it was unusable and my shelf stable cream has to be refrigerated for 8 hours so I took a bottle of whipped cream and most the cake and dropped it off with my brother's family. Hopefully they'll try it, it's Belgian chocolate and tastes amazing just looks terrible. I got stuff for the charity done and spent over 2 hours trying to cram my medical history in the neurosurgeon's patient forms on the website. Got a lot to do tomorrow so I'm headed to bed soon, have a great Tuesday!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! Ate modestly yesterday at my parents and had some keto pie tonight. It was decent outside this weekend so tidied up the yard before winter hits. Did some weeding, put away the flower pots, and refilled the hot tub. The nights and mornings are getting to just below freezing now, so most of the plants aren’t flourishing anyway. Was hoping to get some Halloween decorations out, but it just didn’t get on the schedule.
Congrats to all those with loses. Looks like quite a few pounds shed! I seem to keep bouncing around the same 3 lbs. I’ll have to get serious right quick!

@19shmoo69 - I have a meatloaf recipe that has oatmeal instead of breadcrumbs, but it's on paper so I can't easily share it.

DaveJ_43
Weigh In Monday
PW: 235.4
CW: 234.8

Good Tuesday morning, Slims. Not a great week for me, but moving forward with a small step. It's nice to see everyone working towards our goals and cheering each other on. Happy Tuesday!

@vegan4lyfe2012 - 🫂 HUGS 🫂

@AmbersWay I like that vision of you artistically singing while cooking! Are the corn cakes like arepas? I may have spelled that wrong, they're corn cakes but I've only tried the ones from Trader Joe's.

@sleepygirl Sounds like you got a lot done! I have a long way to go outside, I admire the amount you accomplished.

@steffibabiie Very interesting research, now to find serums and creams with all this right? Making it yourself sounds like a good plan. You could always make a coffee scrub to use for the caffeine. I used to haunt the beauty blogs and sagging was one of the biggest frustrations since it usually requires surgery (it's my problem too). I use RetinA on my face, I've used The Ordinary skin products with caffeine (eye serum) and there's a niacinamide serum for the face but you're looking for full-body, right? I've heard of using micro current and red or blue light therapy for the face from the holistic pain group, I don't have the face accessories for my micro current unit though so haven't tried it. I have this unit, some of their stuff sounds clickbaitish but here's the overview, you can explore further if you're interested. It mostly talks of the face here, I went to a free introductory beauty one that basically ended with a paid for program if you wanted further training, here's a link if you want to go own that rabbit hole: https://painfreeforlife.com/revitalize-your-skin-the-top-reasons-why-microcurrent-facials-are-a-must-try/ In the free class it talked of ways to use it to lift skin, didn't think of this yesterday for some reason.

@vegan4lyfe2012 Shoot I was hoping things would be improving, I'm so sorry to hear your son is still hospitalized and struggling. I'm glad you're mostly better now. Wow so Hunter's going to be off her meds again right? Huge hugs, prayers, and love to you.

@badnoodle Congratulations on the chaturangas and smaller clothes It's definitely more fun clothes shopping when you're smaller and feeling better about yourself.

@DrewsAnna I love your hair, too fun!

Hi friends! It's rainy so I've mostly been taking it easy, I did get some more fall seeds in as half my seedlings died from the heat after I transplanted them. Did my workout and went to the farmer's market, the fall/winter stuff isn't fully here and the pickings were slim. I was supposed to go to the farm but with the rain I decided to skip it. I'm going to get the charity meeting minutes out then go get in the tub, have a great night and awesome Wednesday!

First, I must tell you, I don’t think Vannie is impressed that I am checking back in. She hopped up onto my lap to cuddle up tonight, and I had to shoo her down to my feet so I could have my computer on my lap. She is a very unhappy little girl.🤣

@Megnolia82 happy Thanksgiving to you as well, I see you celebrated on Sunday, we did ours yesterday.

@Ambersway I am so sorry that you’re struggling, that is really hard when you are staying on track! Thanks for the welcome back, it’s nice to be here. :-) :-)
@micaroo4 you are getting some serious steps in!!
@Cornanda I was thinking about you the other day as well, wondering how you’re doing with your pup?
@trooworld I really like the sounds of that adaptive yoga! I am doing a Yin yoga class now and I think I adapt it :-). I don’t feel like I am as flexible and pliable as everyone else in class but the stretching feels good :-). Thanks for letting me know about Jugar’s post, I did not see it. So excited to be officially back.😁

Wow! Huge congratulations to everybody on that leaderboard. The Slims did really really well!
@Katmary that cake sounds absolutely delicious, I’m glad I wasn’t anywhere near your place! Those midnight binges… definitely had a few of those myself! My You are so great always keeping up with all of your charity work, it sure keeps you busy♥️. Are you going in for surgery?
@DrewsAnna it sounds like you have a lot of fun with your birthday shenanigans! Love the hair :-)
I know I missed a lot, just trying to catch up on the last couple of days.
I think I mentioned a couple of days ago that I decided to make a new perennial bed.





When I first moved in here , at the end of my perennial bed (where Vannie is sitting), there was a huge oak tree that had big rocks all around the base. The rest was grass up to my patio. The oak tree died, so I got it removed, pulled all these huge rocks out and started a small perennial bed. From that oak tree, there are so many roots!!! I’ve spent about two weeks just trying to cut up the roots so that I could plant some thing. My son and daughter-in-law removed the grass for me so the month of September/October was spent just trying to dig out shale and roots🥴. Anyway… this is the final result I just really enriched it with lots of compost, Pete moss and black dirt. I moved a few of my other plants around, so there are a few things in there :-). I am officially done the yardwork for this year.
Yesterday was Thanksgiving dinner out at my brothers farm, it was delicious and I tried to do just one small spoonful of everything and just had one little square for dessert. This week is going to be tough, I am going to just try to hang on. Tomorrow I am going to a dinner theatre brunch with a girlfriend and Thursday, I am getting together with about 10 cousins for lunch, some of us haven’t seen each other in over 10 years!
That’s about it for me for tonight, I need to go get an ice pack for my back after all that route pulling 🤣. Hope everybody had a great day!!

Spooky October steps:
10/9 7,584 steps

Hey y'all,

I did a little costco shopping and a lot of Amazon shopping today. I finally got around to making the chicken cauliflower bake and it took so to make/bake I finally got fed up and ate some cereal. Which is a no-no on golo, because it's overly processed. Tomorrow for lunch I'll have some chicken cauliflower bake with some brown rice and portion it up and in the freezer.

I'm worried about my weigh in tomorrow. I'm not expecting it to be very good. I guess we'll see tomorrow.

Y'all have a great evening.