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@trooworld Yeah, life happens and you eat the pizza. I saw that the ATK recipe you mentioned served 4 but I can be satisfied with 1/6 of the recipe if I eat a salad before. Too bad about the rain. Hi, all. It’s a little warmer here but cloudy. I don’t think we are supposed to get rain. I’m staying home today and will workout on my bike. My son is cooking a pork loin in a soy sauce mixture he froze after making it for a chicken recipe. Also vegetable lo mein from ATK.

@theslightedgeforever Good idea about freezing leftovers. Sometimes I cook extra so we can have a meal the next week. No big deal if you don’t like veggie omelets and coffee. My husband and son-in-law don’t like coffee.

@fabgeekmom I like iced coffees now. Most of the time I make them at home. So if I can change and learn to like the taste of coffee I can learn to like the taste of veggie omelets. Wow 65.

@trooworld Your recipes sound good. How has the exercise been? I have a webinar in about 3 hours about LifePlans. Your water intake was fabulous yesterday. You like frozen dinners but maybe not store-bought. lol

I had meatballs over carrot squash zoodles in a marinara sauce.

I lost 2.9 this week so onto the next week. I got up and exercised first thing this morning. treadmill, weights, stretching

@trooworld That was good information from the webinar. That’s a good point about heartburn and eating healthy. The only time I have heartburn is on special occasions when I eat too much. Hi, all. The Marry me chicken was really good. I doubled the recipe since I had 2 pounds of chicken. So that’s what we’re having for lunch. I served it with rice and butternut squash. Today I will have riced cauliflower instead of the rice. DH and I are going to Sam’s Club to get salmon for tonight and steak for tomorrow. Since it’s warm we’re going for a walk. After cooking last night I was roasting. Really slaving over a hot stove!

@trooworld Lifeplan webinar was about the consequences of not having a Lifeplan in place. Basically people become reactive to their life instead of proactive. They drift and end up where they didn't expect to end up. It was looking 10 years ahead. Being balanced in the various life domains: health, work, relationships, finances, etc. I ordered the zoodles from a restaurant. If I can order food to be delivered, I can make it healthy. I have a device to make the zoodles but it never works correctly and I end up getting frustrated. Is there something different you could take besides Naproxen? I would hate to have heartburn all the time. It's possible that drinking all this water this week has your body saturated. It's soaking it all up because it normally doesn't get this much and based on history it doesn't know if it needs to store or not. Have you been weighing daily or just once a week? My weight gain/losses sometimes run a week behind. I can do poorly and lose weight but also the opposite happens and then it shows up the following week. Never let the scale be the judge for success but it's your daily actions. Those you can control. Your body just might be holding on to it and then this week WHOOSH! It's happened before. Plus you have to think about did you track everything? Were the portion sizes correct? All of those little things can change calorie estimates. Think of this like the stock market. Play the long game. Don't think about when the scale goes up or down. It's the overall trend. Keep staying under, drink the water, exercise, etc. It is frustrating.

@fabgeekmom I have heartburn when I drink OJ and when I eat chocolate at night and then lay down shortly thereafter. Eating it during the day doesn't bother me. I'll look up the Marry Me Chicken again.

I made a homemade pizza. No yeast crust and then I put on some sweet potato/squash sticks along with chicken strips. Oh just realized I forgot the onion. I had frozen one portion of the veggies. (leftovers) I saw it in there and said I'll just add it to the pizza. Then some cheese and drizzled BBQ sauce. It was so good. I went out to eat for a birthday party and ordered the cheese plate so I could have the cake. Which turned out to be cheesecake. I just didn't eat the bread and grainy mustard that was served along with it nor the raisins. Just the cheese and 6 grapes.

@fabgeekmom I like your saying keep on keepin' on You have a great balance in your health journey.

@trooworld I'm not a fan of daily weighing. Gives too much power to the scale. I was asking because it might be possible your weight was lower on the day before but happened to rise on the day you weighed in. I've been following a trend line so it gives me an average. That way the occasional high doesn't bother me. For your morning routine how can you shave off 5-15 min. For instance, if you only spent 45 minutes checking email and MFP you would have 15 min to walk on the walking pad or do some weights/bands, etc. I've been doing the same with my time budget. Seeing where I can shave off a bit of time so I can do other things that are better for me.

@cbabie The good thing about closet organizing is it is something that you can control. Your heartburn might just be a side effect from one of the meds you are taking.

@trooworld Good idea to limit weight ins. It sounds like you are off to a good start. Hi, all. Pizza was good last night. My daughter ordered the mushroom pan pizza which had more calories than I had planned to eat at dinner. I brought a salad which helped me be able to only eat 2 slices. When I got home I was still hungry and ate 2 fun sized Reese’s cups. That wasn’t too bad calorie wise. I’ve been trying to eat more protein. Yesterday I didn’t eat enough and that’s why I was hungry. I’m going to try to get 100 grams today. My daughter speaks to a nutritionist once a month and that’s what she recommends. Tonight my daughter is cooking. I don’t know what but I am sure it will be good. I left the salad at her house so we can have it at dinner. I’m exercising on my bike today as it is raining.

@trooworld I’m sorry about your brother- in-law. I figured something was wrong when you didn’t post yesterday. Cookies and cream sounds good. Do you make smoothies or use it in a recipe? I was impressed that the protein powder didn’t have sugar alcohols. I am going to mix some in my almond milk and froth it this morning when I drink my coffee. Hi, all. Yesterday was a good day as my son prepared lunch and dinner. He is starting to track calories again so hopefully he will find healthy recipes to prepare. Unfortunately for me he can eat more calories so I have to adjust if he prepares something with more calories than I would like to eat. Today is a swim day and steak night.

Happy Groundhog day! Oh that was yesterday. lol I went out of town yesterday. I don't know what day it is obviously. I'm cold and ready for springtime. But then that brings rain, so......but pretty flowers. So I'll look forward to that.

Both food and exercise have been off and on. I guess it's better than both being off all the time. Of course being on and off is what keeps me right where I am not making progress. So time to flip the switch ON for both and leave it ON.