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@Gidgitgoescrzy

Thanks!

Gidgitgoescrzy wrote: »

PW 150.2
CW 149.8

woohoo, now the biggest challenge, not to teeter

Yesterday was good, although I did find out the husband will be back to going to WV next week, when they told him about this job out there, it was supposed to be a couple of weeks, it's now been 3 years, for 7 months out of the year... Needless to say I am annoyed, they do pay him a little extra, give him a per diem, cover all gas, and truck maintenance, but I'm still annoyed by it. LOL

The biggest problem with him leaving in regard to my weight loss journey, is my eating habits when it's just me, I tend to eat easy things, and easy things are usually not so diet friendly (my typical dinner last time, was some air fried tater tots with bacon and cheese on them), so I have to make a better plan this time. I am so close, I really hope this doesn't derail me, but it will be a good learning curve.

Hope you all have a great day.

Put that tiara on your head and keep it up proud! New decade!

As you say, the biggest challenge is not to teeter (or tater), celebrate with calories, or stop now! Keep up the trajectory. I always used to remind myself that weigh-in day is the first day of the next one - even if today gets a bit relaxed, back on it tomorrow!

I heartily recommend my super easy dinner formula. It requires one pan (a good sized skillet with a cover), a pile of varied vegetables, a protein (veg source at least some of the time), and some kind of flavour-providing sauce. Brown anything that likes browning (eggplant slices, parsnip, sweet potato) in as little oil as possible. They all brown well with no oil if your pan does not stick too much. Then throw in other vegetables in order of how quickly they cook, a splash of water, and cover to get mostly cooked, stirring fairly often. I like chopped broccoli stems (my taller half only eats the heads!), zucchini, kale, more kale, rapini, chard, spinach - stuff you can pile on in huge amounts with no worries. Whatever you have. Then the protein (sooner if it requires more cooking time) and finally whatever sauce. I keep on hand a mixture of fresh ginger, soy, toasted sesame oil, and something slightly sweet (or prepared teriyaki sauce), tomato pesto, yellow curry with coconut milk, just herbs and stuff, whatever mood I'm in. Definitely keep your mood on hand.

That took longer to write than it does to cook. Easy as tater tots! Well, with more chopping. But really delish. The whole skillet full will fill you up and not kill your weigh in. I hope that will help while OH is away! Of course, it is a hopeless meal for anyone who likes their foods all separate, but hopefully you like the one pan one bowl approach.

Well that was a good Wednesday! I got over my lazy feelings, but still had some nice down time. I got outside, got out of breath, rode Jasper (who was on the teenage idiocy spectrum today...), tried CARs (more on this below), practiced without wanting to throw my flute through the window, and kept the intake nice and reasonable.

CARs are Controlled Articular Rotations - something my trainer is recommending. It takes each joint of the body and has a specific way to put it through all of its movements, going to your limits without using other parts of the body to help. I hope it will help encroaching arthrosis in my right shoulder and keep my feet from being stupid. The toe ones are really hard! It is supposed to help increase the thoroughness of the synovial fluid so that the cartilage is well taken care of and the joint remains mobile even as we age and have a harder time with that. It feels good, in any case! And way cheaper than trying cars

@MaddawgMadsen That article on self-control looks interesting - without a subscription it is not possible to read the whole thing, but even the summary offers some food for thought. Dark side indeed - I am sure we all know some people who are so sewed up and in control that it is easy to see that they are missing out on some things. I think having a certain amount of it is great, but it can engender fear of change, not to mention of failure or the important ways we mess up to learn things. So ice cream still has a place in this world, even though it can be hard to put away for another day!

lauren_989 wrote: »

Rough day today for me. I had my book club and ended up having a glass of wine. Then I ate 2 cookies that were not on the plan today. I overslept and didn't get my exercise in. Then during lunch when I was going to go for a walk, I stepped outside, it was windy and just thought f it. So not in the right spot mentally. I am pmsing and think that may have had something to do with it.

@jugar I am glad you had a good day! How do you exercise a toe?

Big hugs to you @lauren_989 !! There are days... Toes? Things like lifting just the big one, then just the 2nd, etc. And then doing a thing like drumming your fingers, only it's your toes. Or spreading them all out and back (that one isn't too bad!) My toes are seriously klutzy, but I'm going to see if they get more with it!