Daily Check In: Are You On Track Today?
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A good day here for eating and to do items. I tend to avoid too much "to do" on Saturdays, especially during football season. But today I decided to tackle (pardon the football pun) an area where I store food and other supplies near my kitchen. My options are limited because I cannot reach the high shelves in the kitchen or elsewhere for that matter. So I use this area where I can reach things easily but it isn't designed for that and tends to get cluttered and look bad. I reorganized it today and am so proud of how good it looks. Now the trick will be to keep it looking that good.0
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We made it to Vancouver and back and had a lovely time. Lots of steps, but way off plan for eating. I am so happy to be able to get back to my typical foods, although we had some very delicious meals out. We came back to quite a bit of snow and DH was out all night doing snow removal. I believe he will sleep for the next several hours! Not sure how he managed to do it, but he did. We got home later than we expected to and I decided to sleep in a bit. I will keep this message short as I need to get ready for work. Very thankful that I can work from home today.0
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Hello! I’m back as well but no travels-just my usual busy-ness….Shari, I’m so happy to hear that you had a nice trip and visit with your son and his GF!! Paula, it sounds like you’ve been doing an awesome job with your eating and to do list! My weight and eating continue to bounce around the same levels. One of my dog classes is done until after the holidays so that is good! I have one more week of my Monday class and then it will resume in January, and I have the next 2 weeks off from my Scentwork class. I am hoping to get my package ready to mail to AK by the 1st week of December . I am falling asleep so must close! Happy Tuesday!!0
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DW, Good that you will have some extra time with your classes in recess for a while. I hope you are able to build in some time for yourself given your demanding and busy schedule. You sure deserve some "me" time!
Shari, Your weekend away sound great. Not much can compare to a good time with family. Ugh on the snow but it seems you and DH are much better about such weather than I would be. Bless your DH for working to remove the snow, not an easy job for sure.
Nothing much happening here today. I didn't have much to do today, just the usual routine stuff, so it was an easy day for me. I enjoyed taking things easy and slow. I was too lazy (not busy) to track today, but I will consider it a high point day. I am kind of annoyed with myself because I wanted to save up some points with Thanksgiving this week, but today wasn't helpful in that way. I plan to be having low point days for Tuesday and Wednesday. I will be careful but not strict on Thursday.0 -
Good to hear from you DW! Enjoy the change of pace over the next few weeks.
Paula- I am glad that you enjoyed a slower pace to your day yesterday too. You have two days to eat well so that you can enjoy Thanksgiving (but not too much lol)! Getting back on track after a slip is still a win. You could have the mindset to give up until after Thanksgiving, but you don't. That is awesome.
I will work from home again today. I am hoping to have time to tidy up the mess from my suitcase. Yesterday flew by, and I didn't manage to spend enough time on housework. Thankful to be working from home today.0 -
Today was so busy I more than made up for my easy day yesterday. I wasn't planning to be busy today but it turned out that way. Part of my time was taken up with work for our church group. The Prez, in a bad mood over something that wouldn't put most people in a bad mood, asked me to do some things involving speaking with a rep from our national organization. I did so and got excellent results. I suspect with her negative mood she would not have been as successful had she called the national office. I also had a lot of household "little things" to take care of such that every time I took care of one thing I saw something else that needed my attention. I made a fast supper (low in points) and then had our Bible study. Our Tuesday book study class was cancelled tonight. That was meant to be because when I would have been zooming that class one of my 1st cousins called. She lives in my area, but we don't really stay in touch except for Christmas and birthday cards and an occasional text. She and I were very close as kids and into our 20s. She is 9 months older than me. We talked for 2 hours tonight. It was wonderful to catch up with her. I hope we stay in closer touch going forward.0
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Great work with everything that you got done Paula. Especially the results with your national Church organization. Celebrate that win! And catching up with people can be very heartwarming. It sounds like that was the case with the visit on the phone with your cousin.
I have to venture out today and go in to the office to work. Not looking forward to it, but I know I will be fine once I get there. I have a break between work and when youth starts and I hope that I can get some Christmas shopping done. I don't have a lot to do, but I don't like waiting until the last minute.
I have my lunch and dinner packed, all I have to do is stick to what I take. Here is hoping that I can.0 -
Wow, Shari, packing 2 meals is real commitment! I hope you were able to stick closely to your planned meals.
It was another successful and busy day here today, mostly thanks to Craig. I had quite a list for him today, but the list required my involvement too in completing a lot of the items (and also supervising Craig lol). Craig was a huge help today and was here for quite a while. He put the Christmas lights outside on the shrubs and did a few other Christmas items. He will probably come back on Saturday to help put up our Christmas tree. He also helped with other things around the house. Because we were so busy I didn't really have time to stray from my plan. This is great so that on Thanksgiving I won't feel too stressed about my food choices. I will enjoy everything but will focus on portion control.0 -
Good morning! Just a quick “Happy Thanksgiving “ this morning! Shari, do you have a holiday today? We are traveling to DH’s sister’s home and back today. DD is going with us and we are all leaving dogs at home so will need to return fairly quickly. We haven’t done this in years- more about that later! I hope you both have a wonderful day!!0
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Happy Thanksgiving DW and Paula. I hope you enjoy a wonderful meal with family. We do not have a holiday today as our Thanksgiving is in October. We do seem to participate in the Black Friday sales, but with far less of a discount. We seem to get more crowds out shopping on Boxing Day. Which is so crazy since we just received gifts the day before. Not sure why we feel the need to get more stuff. A sale before Christmas makes much more sense to me.
I stayed on plan fairly well yesterday, but I was hungry while at work and added a few items, but I did pretty good even with the additions.
I need to go in to the office today, and I will stop in at the gym on my way home. I can't believe how much I enjoy lifting weights.0 -
Yay for you on the weight lifting Shari. It is such a good thing to build muscle.
Just a quick check in after a wonderful Thanksgiving day. I did not over eat at all! We have leftovers and will probably end up freezing some of the turkey. Tomorrow is back on plan for sure.0 -
Glad you enjoyed Thanksgiving and I am sure a wonderful meal (without going overboard).
I wasn't as strong at the gym yesterday. I think I was tired and could have used some fuel before working out. I go again on Saturday and will make sure I have a meal beforehand and see if that will make a difference. It's still progress!
I work from home today. I asked if I could. That saves me time as we have our staff Christmas party tonight and since we don't live super close, it would have been difficult to work, go home to get ready and pick up DH and head back in. I am not a huge fan of being on the road, so that saves me an hour of driving.0 -
Shari, your progress at the gym is well worth noting! Your are taking good care of your health in more than one way.
I had a fairly relaxing day and enjoyed some extra "me" time. A friend stopped by and surprised us with some potato pancakes she made. Because John loves them so much and because I was glad to escape any extra cooking, John ate most of them and I had only 2. For me that is a giant step forward in managing portion control. I am hoping Craig comes tomorrow to put up our Christmas tree and do some other things. We are hoping he finishes by 3 pm because that is when our first football game comes on.
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