@Cornanda Gus is the cutest! You all are making me miss having a dog around!

@trooworld Haha I fell asleep before Midnight too. Oh so having your craft table set up will help with the sadness from taking down decorations, that's great! I like the phrase, it brings an excitement to new adventures coming up. Love the pups!

@morenin Down Dog is the one yoga app I always hear great things about, I think you'll love it!

@gemwolf110 Happy New Year, I love that gnome meme with the beautiful metallics! Hey with making your house a home want to do some sort of cleaning challenge this month? I need to both clean and declutter, I'm thinking of getting rid of a certain amount of things a week or a few a day. Not sure how I'll break up the cleaning yet though but have a lot to do. Let me know what you think ok? I love your mug, your coffee sounds so good!

@txcritter69 Yay I'm so happy to see you back! I'm so glad you've chosen to stay. If you look right above this I mentioned to @gemwolf110 doing a cleaning challenge, would you be interested? Nothing too stressful but we could check in on how we're doing this month. I think not only are you choosing to be happy but you're choosing yourself now too which is beautiful.

865Jessica Great job on the day, the exercise, water, and food are outstanding!

@TeresaW2024 Way to go, you did great jumping right in to Dig Deeper! Haha I've given up on pushups too, my upper back goes out every time. I can do wall pushups, can you do those? Strive is a great word for the year! Maggie Mae is adorable as well, that barking would be hard but one look at her face it would be tough to stay mad for long. Asher's a pretty bossy cat but I can't stay mad at him.

@19shmoo69 YES you definitely need some pompoms!

Hi team! I'm waiting for the Instant Pot pin to drop so I can eat my split pea soup and figured I'm check in here before eating. Today was a good day, I slept in and had a great workout then have been cleaning/decluttering. I'm going to focus on doing that this month, it will help keep me busy while I get used to being in a deficit again. I've done well with food today too. I'm trying to go into January strong as I'm another one who struggles with depression this time of year. I have some new seeds coming and need to get things organized for indoor seeds, I'll probably wait until the end of the month to start though. Have a great night and Tuesday!

Happy New Year! I am sleepygirl79 and my name holds true. I enjoy a good nap, but am also a night owl. I also seem to enjoy snacking at night which I have found to be my biggest issue.
I live in Canada with my 2 boys, hubby, and Golden retriever. I work full time with 0-5 year old kids and also do some private work on the side. I enjoy Zumba classes and walking the beast every night (sun, rain, blizzard-he doesn’t care). In warmer months I have tried jogging on occasion and much prefer that to a treadmill. Other than that, I get my kids to their activities.
I seem to be a floater here and will occasionally pop in or abandon everyone for a few weeks-sorry.
This month I want to work harder at getting back to tracking.

PS @19shmoo69 I am in favor of black and gold pompoms! Wifey can use them as new years decorations when you’re done.

WI Monday
PW 204.6
CW 205.2

Bah humbug

Katmary71 wrote: »

My sweeties want to say hi to all the pups!

Cute 😊

@19shmoo69 - I think you need coffee colored pom poms! Thank you for stepping up!

@katmary71- YAY kitties!

So many cute poochies!

Lisa

@trooworld I was able to fill it out using my laptop.

Good morning Slim peeps,

I Hope everyone had a great New Year!

First off, I LOVE ALL THE PET PICTURES! I am a dog mom to a Blue Heeler named Diesel aka Knucklehead,

@gemwolf110 Thanks! I am looking forward to relieving myself of a lot stuff this year. It is just amazing how you can accumulate so much stuff and never use it.

@19shmoo69 YAY!!! and I say yes to the pom poms too,

@Katmary71 A cleaning challenge sound great. I hope it will keep me moving this time. I fizzled out last yr and need to finish along with some paint trim and ceiling in the kitchen. I'm not going to mention the projects I started and didn't finish.

So yesterday was a pretty good day, I started cleaning and decluttering our game room/storage room. Run across my old records and decided to play them while cleaning. I still love the sound of vinyl records. Did cook pork chops w/black eyed pea, cornbread and a salad. But then came the evening munchies. I really need help with this. I am doing the no spend this month so I hope I can control some of the munchies by just not buying the extra snacks. I also hope this will help with less sugar and sodium in my diet.
Today I will be tackling some of my crafting stuff and getting it organized, I am fixing to declutter A LOT of STUFF!

Enjoy your day!

"Today" I choose to be HAPPY!!!

txcritter69 wrote: »

Good morning Slim peeps,

I Hope everyone had a great New Year!

First off, I LOVE ALL THE PET PICTURES! I am a dog mom to a Blue Heeler named Diesel aka Knucklehead,

@gemwolf110 Thanks! I am looking forward to relieving myself of a lot stuff this year. It is just amazing how you can accumulate so much stuff and never use it.

@19shmoo69 YAY!!! and I say yes to the pom poms too,

@Katmary71 A cleaning challenge sound great. I hope it will keep me moving this time. I fizzled out last yr and need to finish along with some paint trim and ceiling in the kitchen. I'm not going to mention the projects I started and didn't finish.

So yesterday was a pretty good day, I started cleaning and decluttering our game room/storage room. Run across my old records and decided to play them while cleaning. I still love the sound of vinyl records. Did cook pork chops w/black eyed pea, cornbread and a salad. But then came the evening munchies. I really need help with this. I am doing the no spend this month so I hope I can control some of the munchies by just not buying the extra snacks. I also hope this will help with less sugar and sodium in my diet.
Today I will be tackling some of my crafting stuff and getting it organized, I am fixing to declutter A LOT of STUFF!

Enjoy your day!

"Today" I choose to be HAPPY!!!

Diesel is adorable. My youngest is also nicknamed knucklehead lol

I know I'm a little late with my intro, but here goes:

I am about to hit the big 5-0 in 2 weeks. I have 3 children in their 20s – oldest is my son, Marcus (granddaughter Sophie is 8 months), then my daughter Sydney (due 2/8/24 with baby Oliver), and my youngest daughter Hunter (grandson Byron is 6 months & due with #2 on 6/15/24). I’m a single empty nester and I share my home with my American Blue rabbit (her name is Kismet). I love to rubber stamp (I’m a Stampin’ Up demo) and make cards. I'm an active member of my church (Board member), and also love horror movies. I have worked in Community Development at my County for almost 19 years.

I have always been a yo-yo dieter, but mainly up. When I lose weight, I can never seem to keep it off for longer than a year. Currently I have about 60 pounds to lose. I just had my 3rd ankle surgery on Dec 22, so while laid up in front of the TV, I decided to motivate myself to eat cleaner (no processed foods), so I watched just about all of Healthy Emmie’s videos. I have been doing pretty good already plus no soda since the day before surgery. Definitely helps me to feel better. I steamed Idaho potatoes in the Instant Pot for the first time and they turned out fabulous! We all (Hunter, her hubby, Syd and I) loved eating them plain, just like an apple. If you want to give it a try, put 1” of water in it, add a steamer tray, scrubbed/pricked taters and set it for 14 minutes. Let it natural release. Perfection – better than a Wendy’s baked potato!

This year I will focus on choosing unprocessed foods. Trying to come up with a little catchphrase for it. Any ideas?

@micaroo4- Earl is a handsome baby. He looks so very soft and cuddly.

Hi, everyone! Tuesday is going well, I did another 30 mins on the treadmill and increased my speed. I was going to do 45mins but I think I need to focus on getting back in the groove again. Doing salmon patties, garden vegetable rice and broccoli for dinner. It's my go to meal when I don't want to cook but want to be healthy.

Jumping on the bandwagon

@badnoodle I came close to getting black-eyed peas but had just bought split peas for leftover ham, we usually do sauerkraut and pork on the first but my brother's family has Covid and my folks are sick. Hopefully it will still help with good luck! I have collard greens in my garden and it's almost time to harvest.

@JadeGypsyxo I know losing your post is super annoying! The easiest to do if you're writing a long post is to copy and paste it from a word document. If @TeresaW2024 and the previous motivators hadn't shared that I would've quit the group because that drove me crazy! You never lose a few words it's always like 10 responses.

@gemwolf110 Thank you, I'll tell the boys what you said!

@trooworld The Split Pea soup is from the Rootitoot cookbook, the only things I changed were adding some pearl barley and adding some marjoram. Here's the recipe if anyone who doesn't have the cookbook but has a pressure cooker would like to try it: https://rootitoot.com/recipes-and-cooking/soups/ham-and-split-pea-soup/ I hope that strawberry mint grows! The light on the old Aerogarden is a pain, it's so bright it keeps me up and there's no way to change and it doesn't seem to be on a 24 hour cycle. When I start all the seedlings I turn them off at night. That's a long stretch of work with no days off!

@morenin Yes MFP adds more calories than you're probably burning, it's very generous with burn amounts. I think that's where your main problem is but tightening up logging (weighing food for example and logging grams versus “one piece of fruit”) might be worthwhile too. I saw where you said you'll not track workouts, that's a good idea. You could also Google the amount you're doing and what the burn is for someone your weight then add it yourself.

@txcritter69 Diesel is so regal-looking! That's a gorgeous photo of him, he's really beautiful and the background is gorgeous. I love that you were listening to your old records while cleaning, that sounds so fun! I still listen to a lot of 80s music for the same reason, good memories. Should we make our own cleaning goals? I'm throwing away 10 things a day minimum then cleaning.

@vegan4lyfe2012 Hm on the catchphrase not sure, my first couple years here if I would start to feel shy or was hesitant to do something I'd just do it or Go For It would go through my head.

@micaroo4 Earl is so handsome! I'm glad you shared him, I love seeing everyone's pets!

@TeresaW2024 Anything in the classic push-up pose, plank, or downward dog flares me up, sounds like we have some of the same no-no's! It's raining right now, I did stop by the farm earlier before it started to talk to the farm manager and it was great to see how everything was doing. Here's my recipe: https://rootitoot.com/recipes-and-cooking/soups/ham-and-split-pea-soup/ it's for an Instant Pot or pressure cooker. Hard to describe it, it's like a green pea and lentil! It's usually made with a ham bone, chopped ham, or bacon for flavor though I've done a vegan version with jalapenos and that was real good too. Elliot Rome is a beautiful name! Haha guess you DO have an IP, the white chicken chili sounds delicious.

@865jessica Your dinner sounds so good, way to go on not overdoing it getting back into routine today.

@19shmoo69 LOL, nice pets!

@sleepygirl79 Your pup is gorgeous!

Hi everyone! So happy to see how many of us who struggle with winter depression are here posting. Today's my 5 years since I came back and got my act together. Workout went well, went to the store, and spent some time at the farm and in my garden. I decided to toss 10 things a day and clean what I can, today I also got a box of my Mom's books together to return.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!