Mornin' All! Did my usual wild and crazy NYE dinner and a movie with my brother. It's nice to be home getting ready for bed by 9:00. I slept in until 7:30 this morning too... it's like a real holiday!

Nanc, hope you have fun with your family today. Wow, you are really getting close to your goal! I have a good feeling you are going to make it this year! Glad you're feeling better.

Happy New Year to you too, Spring! When did you say you are leaving for your BIL's place?

I just saw something last night that the Daily Harvest foods are supposed to be available at Kroger now. I didn't realize that. From the Daily Harvest website, it doesn't look like they carry them at the store I usually visit but at a couple other stores nearby so I'm going to check those. When I search the Kroger website they don't show up though.

Big plans for a productive day. Have two more loads of laundry to do, towels and blankets. Going to clean out a couple drawers in the kitchen that have got cluttered up, then tackle my walk-in closet. I have two long overhead shelves plus 4 shelves wall to wall along the back. I got some of those wire shelf dividers and hoping it will help me keep it organized. I want to set a goal of spending half an hour on the house every evening speed cleaning a room or reorganizing a couple cabinets. Things like that.

Need to do a little cooking. Looking forward to my black eyed peas and cabbage. Also making balsamic roasted mushrooms, mini peppers, and beets, and pickled onions. My salads this week are going to be soooo good!

And last but not least, I need to get some work done today but going to try to limit it to a few hours.

Happy New Year everyone.

Have my goals set out for the year and broken down for the month of January
This is what I want to accomplish this month
1) Eat according to my plan every day
2) Drink 72 oz of water daily
3) Walk on treadmil 30 minutes every day
4) Track all my food for the month
5) Read through the Bible in One Year with my sweet husband
6) Quallity prayer time
**7) Lose 5 pounds this month

Today's weight: 239.8 goal it to be at 234.8 on January 31

Magic, Great job with the weight loss! How was your day at your sister's?
Mihani, I checked out the Daily Harvest site - I like their ingredient lists, only real food and no preservatives or addititives. They're not listing the Kroger near me, but they do have the one near my sister listed so, next time I'm at her place, I can check it out. Thanks for the info.
Carla, your plan is so straightforward and simple, I'm sure you'll have a great 2024. I'm afraid to try the VR thing. I keep seeing videos of people falling over their furniture and breaking their TVs, etc. LOL
Marilyn, your goals sound very clear and achievable.

My 2024
Early 60s, 5'-8" (ish)
SW (02.10.22) - 150 lbs
CW - 151.4 (01.01.24)
January GW - 145.0
Final GW - 125 lbs (or may possibly stop at 130, depending on how I feel and look)

I had lost about 15 pounds last year, but the last couple months I have really not been taking such good care of myself and the scale is showing it. I posted on the December thread, but I'll repeat here.

I'm making a commitment to start in January vegan-forward - basically 100% vegan at home and as vegan as I can when out. I've done it for weeks at a time, but just always fall back to eating cheese. I'm also going to cut out the processed food - it might be giving me a lot of protein, but it's also giving me a lot of sodium, sugar and preservatives. So 2024 is my year to truly go Whole Food, Plants Only!

I also have to commit to a regular gym routine - it's been pretty inconsistent since mid-September and I need my workouts back! A couple days of step classes, couple days of treadmill, ST 2x/wk and a few yoga and Tai Chi classes.

I got the year off to a fantastic start. I managed to not have any added sugar and stayed on plan with my food - and no snacking after dinner. I earned over 100 zone minutes because there is a Madonna playlist workout in Supernatural VR that is medium intensity and quite long. There wasn't a low intensity option and I was feeling Madonna. I ended up with a very high heart rate, so I will put off the medium intensity longer ones until I am more fit. (but super fun, looking forward to being able to rock that one again)

@Marilynsretired Great goals! Nice to have the shorter term weight loss goal to help keep you motivated and on track.

Spring, yup I've watched those VR 'fail' videos, too. There was one where a guy fell over because he was trying to lean on the virtual pool table he was playing on. Nice workout this morning!

Ruby was feeling sick yesterday and was very slow to eat her breakfast. I am happy to report that she ate normally at dinner last night and again this morning. And her butt is wiggling again!

I got in 60+ zone minutes and 7000+ steps yesterday for activity and stayed on track with food.

Today will be day 3 with no sugar. No withdrawal headaches so far.

I normally don't talk about what I'm having for breakfast or an afternoon snack because it is usually up in the air. If Joe is making his oatmeal right around the time I am ready for breakfast, I will join him. Smoothies aren't really appealing right now, but they are always the plan. And yesterday morning I ended up having baked tofu with buffalo wing sauce.

Lunch was a slice of Ezekiel with natural peanut butter.
Dinner was enchiladas verde with rice and cruciferous slaw with an amazing dressing.

Same dinner for tonight.

Carla, glad to hear Ruby is okay.

Gals, I'm swamped at work and really stressed out so I haven't been posting much. I hope by this weekend things will settle a bit, but for now just a quick check-in.

@Marilynsretired great progress! Always nice to find a go-to recipe that you both enjoy.

Sorry things are so busy at work, Mihani. There never seems to be down time at your office to regroup.

Yesterday I had less than 5000 steps and only 7 zone minutes. I did one walk with Ruby and Radar, but didn't get in any VR time as the batteries in the hand controllers died and the rechargeables I have on hand didn't work. I should have replacement batteries today.

Yesterday's food:
blueberry walnut oatmeal
enchiladas dinner repeat
fruit salad
halo orange

am enjoying the food program that the kidney doctor has approved - lots of veggys and fruit but they say I can have a little chicken or turkey (no red meat) to help with protein but am on a low amount of protein as protein is hard on kidneys when they start to fail.

Since January 1 (today is day 4) I have lost 1.2 pounds and just generally feeling better. Will see what my blood work for January to see if what I am doing is helping to bring up my numbers