Good morning everyone! Pretty good food day yesterday. Logged it all. Lots of grandkids time. No real exercise given the oppressive heat. But it’s better today and I started the morning with some sun salutations and stretching. I will walk later.

@jguldi11 Memphis is a fun town! And the Peabody?! Did you see the ducks 🦆 march in or out? We had an encounter with a President and his wife years ago in Memphis. We were actually trying to avoid them and ended up running into them anyway. It was not a President we cared for much and my kids were “mad” at me when I returned a wave to his wife L. 😂 We also enjoyed Sun City Records. So if you ever go back, it’s worth the trip to this recording studio/museum to learn about those titans that recorded there.

@gidgitgoescrzy So glad to hear your kitchen is coming together and you are back to cooking your meals there. That must be a relief.

Need to get moving before the day gets away from me. Salmon is on sale for $6.99 off to go get some for dinner.

Have a great day. 😀

Happy (my) weigh-day, WaistAways! 🙋‍♀️🎐

jguldi11June 19

^^^^ I try to remember that most craving will disappear in 20 minutes, whether satisfied or not. ofc, this doesn't always work ;-). For example, yesterday afternoon I got a pizza craving. Did not yield to it … but by 9pm hubby and I were ordering a late night 'cravings' deal from Papa Johns 🙃😬🤷‍♀️ $9 after 9 …. had 2 slices. d'oh!

cleaneater80June 20

^^^ so fun!!! :D :D :D


Kali225June 22

^^^ haha, Kali - NO JOKE on the rainless Saturday last week! (It's going to rain again this weekend tho :p). And hooollliiiicrap! on Tuesday! It went up to 97F here (heat index 107F), wth!? I'm not going to complain about 60s and raining (again) this Saturday ;-). oooooo, yyummm new bfast recipe! WTG on sparkly apt !!

Alatariel75 Posts: 19,054 MemberJune 22

^^^ 🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍❣💥 ahhh, what a great post, Al !

MaddawgMadsen Posts: 403 MemberJune 24

WOW! Those pix are just gorgeous !!! And ahhhh, the work travel sounds so great! Can't wait to hear how the work meeting goes later this summer :)


lauren_989 Posts: 2,929 MemberJune 24

^^^ ❗🙏🤲📿💐🤞 Hope the appt went well, Lauren! Xx

Kali225une 24

^^^ 1.) - yes, hope so! The shots take up to 8 weeks to reach peak effectiveness, and I only had the 1st of 3 on Monday, so …. here's to hoping! :D yup yup yup, do those PTEs, girl! Future you says thanks :D

2.) … . and, that's so interesting on your protein focus and calorie budget balancing! In the same boat, but with freggies focus. I did a great job improving metabolic panels from Nov '24 to May '25, but I did so by stopping my calories focus.

• I basically lost most of my 15 lbs down in the first 6 mos, from May '24 to Nov '24, when I was def focusing on calories balance, and sort of focusing on freggie intake.
• And I basically got most of my metabolic panels improvements when I was definitely focusing on freggie intake, and sort of focusing on calories balance. :p
• I just said to my doc at my May '25 appt (wait, was it April? 🤔) that now I need to try to marry freggie focus WITH calorie balance!

MaddawgMadsenJune 25

^^^ What a fun post !! So cool on the pop-up, and your sis joining in with you. And yup, my sports med doc, ortho surgeon, and PT (both of them, back in 2020, and now) said the same thing - spinning is good for the knees.

micki48June 25

^^^ Ahhhh, ty Michelle/micki ! Def go to PT, it is helpful. And it might seem counter-intuitive, but walking reduces arthritic pain. The more you walk, the looser the joint, and the stronger the muscles around it. It's just all balm for the damaged joint. I took up my walking habit after my first course of PT for my right knee. And joined PF (Planet Fitness), for the bike, bc he said the bike was good for the knee. I kinda fell away from PF bc of covid when all the gyms were danger zones. Actually, I started my 10k/day 18+ mos stepping streak in Dec '21, it was only this Feb when starting new PT course that I returned to PF for the bike.

I also took advantage of their included personal trainer services. When I first joined, they were without a personal trainer, I wanted to take the New Member intro meeting, but it wasn't available. They did have a trainer on staff this winter tho, so I signed up for a 1-on-1 new member intro session, even tho it was 5 yrs since I'd joined :p. He went over my health/physical challenges, and goals, started to talk about bikes and ellipticals bc of knees, but I said, no, I'd like to learn how to use the weights machines, pls :). I told him I was already using the bike, and knew how to work it, but didn't know how to use any of the machines. He said sure, he'd draw me up a weights circuit exercise plan for the lower body, and show me how to use the included machines, etc. The intro session was just a 30-min booking, but no one was booked in for the next time slot, so after our sit-down getting to know you, he took me upstairs to the weights area and showed me how to do the exercises and use the machines for the lower body circuit he had in mind. He knew I was doing the bikes after, so he told me he'd write up the plan, along with all the settings for the machine, plus weights and reps, etc, and have it ready for me in a couple hours.

Nick recommended doing an upper body/core workout, too. I booked another session for a few days later. This session was for up to 3 people, rather than 1-on-1, another person was in the class. There was an older man booked in for the session, too. He was retired, in his later 70s, I think. Nick showed us both how to use the machines in the plan he'd put together for us (our plans were similarly focused).

He was so great. I was just thinking I'd like to book another session and learn some more machines, but there's a new trainer! booo. lol Hopefully he'll be just as patient, sweet, and helpful.

jguldi11Member8:52AM

^^^ ohhhh, sounds SO fun, Jackie/jguldi11 !! boo on the ear infections tho, fingers crossed those heal soon. Xx

ahhhh, just saw the pix on the next page!! SO great! You and hubby look fantastic, btw! haha, just read your note about running into a President and his wife in Memphis. Made me laugh so much! 😂🤣🙋‍♀️

Okay, mk out! :p :)

Oiii Lauren! Oof

You made it to Friday! Xx

PW 84.4

CW 85.2

Sorry I've gone awol. Struggling with food. It's partly the heat, but also life stress…

Found a treasure of a garden nearby to walk in today. I also did a 10 minute Pilates routine. It’s something.