@FushiaKat Yay on the win, congratulations! The Christmas room should be a fun one for your next challenge, you're awesome at designing these rooms. Your entire post was so inspiring, I hope you don't mind if I borrow “the food is not going anywhere” for myself to learn from! This time of year is tough for sure. When you don't eat nuts do you crave them less? I love nuts too but that out-of-control feeling for me is with sugar and simple carbs.

@trooworld I think getting customer service involved is definitely needed, a walking pad should be safe to walk on for crying out loud. You're doing great on handling everything right now, so glad you recognized anxiety was in the mix too and your medication helped.

@laurelfit57 Oh no take good care of yourself, hope you're feeling better and back to walking Vannie soon!

Hi gang, I was good with mindfulness not having anything on while eating. Did my walks and PT 2xs. It's raining which I've felt coming in the last two days but despite not feeling well it's better than how I am with rain prior to surgery. I'm going to a “Friendsgiving” tomorrow with the charity president in my town, should be fun but I don't have anything dressy to wear. I hope everyone's doing well it's been quiet lately. Have a great Thursday friends! Just realized from @trooworld 's post that I need to download an app to count my steps, I'm walking for 30 minutes a day so may be time to find an app to track on my phone.

Hey everyone,

As you can tell from my lack of engagement this month I’ve been struggling a little bit. I’m in a weird place - I have been eating more foods lately but this past week I’ve had some gastrointestinal symptoms I haven’t had in awhile so I’m balancing the line between panic my infection has returned, and attempting to pinpoint food intolerances. I think my bad visit with the gastroenterologist was the start of a downward trend where I’ve eaten worse and worse.

I’ve also been putting weight on. I absolutely cannot go back to my old habits. Time to clean it up for my weight and for my gut. Sigh.

trooworld's reference to "food super bowl" reminded of an old post I saved from an MFP forum years ago about Thanksgiving moderation. Maybe this will help someone. Point #3 always sticks with me.

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You can be somewhat true to both -- the tradition of a celebratory feast and your commitment to eat right. The choices aren't between no control and tight control -- you can choose a middle path.

For me, I'm counting calories, but I don't want to put myself thousands of calories behind.

* I'm going heavier on the vegetables and lean turkey (honor the diet)
* I'm going to have some of the homemade stuffing (honor the feast)
* I'm going to pass on the cheap store-bought stuff I can always have (honor the diet)
* I'm going to have a piece of pie (honor the feast)
* I'm going to eat slowly and mindfully, making a mental memory of the special tastes and feelings and smells (honor the diet and the feast)
* I'm going to keep my first portions smaller (honor the diet) because I plan to have seconds of something when the rest of the table starts to have seconds (honor the feast)
* I'm going to take quick pictures of my plates so I can log them later (honor the diet)
* I'm not going to try to find and enter each item on my plate at the dinner table (honor the feast)
* I'm going to take a walk after dinner (honor the diet)
* I'm going to remember that this feast is about the tradition of thanksgiving and appreciation of the people and circumstances of our lives (honor the feast)

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@FushiaKat- Congratulations on winning your Halloween room contest. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with your Christmas room. Do you decorate rooms for Easter and other holidays too? I love all the creativity from y'all. @micaroo4 's holiday gnomes, @BodyTalking 's ornaments. I want to start a craft. I have a lot of spare time and can really use a new hobby.

@broncobuddee -
You can be somewhat true to both -- the tradition of a celebratory feast and your commitment to eat right. The choices aren't between no control and tight control -- you can choose a middle path.

For me, I'm counting calories, but I don't want to put myself thousands of calories behind.

* I'm going heavier on the vegetables and lean turkey (honor the diet)
* I'm going to have some of the homemade stuffing (honor the feast)
* I'm going to pass on the cheap store-bought stuff I can always have (honor the diet)
* I'm going to have a piece of pie (honor the feast)
* I'm going to eat slowly and mindfully, making a mental memory of the special tastes and feelings and smells (honor the diet and the feast)
* I'm going to keep my first portions smaller (honor the diet) because I plan to have seconds of something when the rest of the table starts to have seconds (honor the feast)
* I'm going to take quick pictures of my plates so I can log them later (honor the diet)
* I'm not going to try to find and enter each item on my plate at the dinner table (honor the feast)
* I'm going to take a walk after dinner (honor the diet)
* I'm going to remember that this feast is about the tradition of thanksgiving and appreciation of the people and circumstances of our lives (honor the feast)

I'd love to use this for my Thanksgiving day. Just not sure what that is yet. I feel heavy-hearted. I'm not sure if this feeling will ever go away. Ten years ago in mid December, I lost my first husband, and along with him went all our holiday traditions. Since he's been gone nothing has ever been the same. I tried to start new traditions but it's so hard. I just want my old life back. You would think after all this time and with a new husband I'd be able to let go and move on. Sometimes I just feel so alone. So I'm trying to put my focus on eating right and getting a good hard workout. Maybe that will help get my mind off of everything. Then, on top of all those emotions. My husband is working 7/12's again. His son was arrested with a DUI and we're going to rescue him. We get to pay for bail, getting his car out of impound and lawyer fees. So now I ask myself, do I want to go lay down and sleep or workout again.

Friday weigh in
Cornanda
PW: 179.6
CW: 179

@broncobuddee I love this, thank you for posting! re: point #3...the past few weeks, I've made one or two of my favorite Thanksgiving sides to try to tamp down the excitement of Thanksgiving. I'm hoping I won't eat as much of these items on T-Day, if we have it.

@19shmoo69 That's my favorite part of the show!

@Veta2018 I'm so very sorry that the holidays bring heavy-hearted feelings. You have the right to feel that way. It sounds like you are going through a lot...please be sure to take care of yourself. HUGS.

@Katmary71 That sounds perfect. I'm glad you have an escape plan for Friendsgiving.

@Cornanda Congrats on the loss, yeah!

Hi all. My BIL might have to go back into the hospital (he's been in and out for several years now) and when that happens, everything sort of falls by the wayside. That's going to include holiday plans. We'll see what happens but for now, we aren't making Thanksgiving plans or shopping for the day. If we have a dinner, it will be very last minute.

GOALS FOR THE MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE:
Ask myself if I am really hungry before I start eating, and stop when I am comfortably full.

SCORE FOR YESTERDAY: 7 (1-10, 10 is the best)

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

Username: micaroo4
Weigh-In Day: Saturday
PW: 131.4
CW: 130.8

Weigh in Day- Saturday
PW-246.6
CW-244.4

This time of year is busy but I feel this week I've done better with focusing on what I eat and slowing down and enjoying my food. I went for a walk with a friend and it was great we did three miles (which is my longest walk) and it went by quickly. Hope everyone is doing well.

@Katmary71 Thank you. He's had very serious/life-threatening health problems within the past few years so it's always a worry when he has to go back to the hospital. Don't overdo it, I know you won't though.

@865jessica That's great, Jessica! And a walk, wow, awesome.

Hi all. It is very quiet right now and I want to second that we are here if you want to talk about anything. They haven't found anything wrong with my BIL so far so he may be able to be released this weekend. I am going to get things for a Thanksgiving dinner and hope for the best. Yesterday, I was so stressed, I pretty much ate anything that wasn't nailed down. Luckily, we don't have a lot of junk food in the house so it wasn't too damaging. Here's what I plan on making for Thanksgiving day...

GOALS FOR THE MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE:
Ask myself if I am really hungry before I start eating, and stop when I am comfortably full.

SCORE FOR YESTERDAY: 2 (1-10, 10 is the best)

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gemwolf110 wrote: »

19shmoo69 wrote: »

Tell me a joke

Why did the deer go to the dentist?

Because he had buck teeth.

Lol

That's Awesome!!!

davors19
Weigh in day: Friday
PW: 249
CW: 249

@865jesica I'm glad you've done well with mindfulness. Walking definitely goes faster with a friend. I'm pretty much a loner for workouts aside of walking or hiking.

@trooworld That's great news your BIL may be released soon, hopefully he'll be able to come home and hopefully make Thanksgiving. Your Thanksgiving sounds delicious, I had to put my nose on my monitor to read it why is it so small???

@19shmoo69 How exciting congrats!

Hi friends, hope you all had a great Saturday! I went to the farm this morning to drop off all the buckwheat, my nephew and SIL were there so I stuck around chatting with my SIL while we sorted tomatoes and picked eggplant. I did good standing for a change but after the eggplant called it a day. Just got back from walking with my neighbors, the one who usually goes with me came and a neighbor who I don't see often but am real close with from Bunco days (she has severe migraines so we bonded right away as we were both stuck at home most the time). I'm excited she came for a loop with us, it's great talking to her. I'm definitely lucky in the neighbor department. I'd picked up a turkey breast and I'm taking it to my brother's tomorrow for a dinner with the family as my brother's family will be with my SIL's parents on Thursday. Not much else going on, have a great Sunday!

@Digger61 Congrats on the loss!

@19shmoo69 Yay!!! Go, baby Mago! And I would like to know what incident that was, too lol. Congrats on the loss!

@Veta2018 That's one way to do crunches lol.

@Katmary71 Hopefully. They are keeping him until at least Monday, they are concerned about his inability to swallow. Oh, I don't know why it's so small...hmmm..It's a screenshot. It sounds like life is good up there. I'm glad you are doing well.

Hi all. I went to my in-person Silent Book Club meeting last night. It was fun and I got a bit of reading done. Yesterday, when I went grocery shopping, I couldn't find a medium-sized turkey, they were all gigantic. I am going to try again today but we may end up having turkey breast instead of the whole turkey. I did considerably less emotional eating yesterday and gave a thought here and there to the mindfulness challenge so that's a win.

GOALS FOR THE MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE:
Ask myself if I am really hungry before I start eating, and stop when I am comfortably full.

SCORE FOR YESTERDAY: 5 (1-10, 10 is the best)

Want to keep track of your steps with the team? Add a tab to the Google Sheet! https://tinyurl.com/Slimpossibles

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