T.H.E. Team (Trying Hard Everyday) Week 39 ~ Newbies Welcome

morning team! Yay jib, cool that you are doing so well on the new years challenge!! I hope to join you when I get this weird weight fluctuation thing under control! Lulu, thanks for the info. Any special herb tea? Or just anything herbal? Thanks! I am thinking if I am doing everything right this week and it still isn't heading in the right direction, I am gonna see the doc. I was just there about a month ago, and got good news in everything like blood pressure, heart health, blood sugar, etc. So, we'll see.

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: Welcome new folks. :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Since we are doing introductions, I'm Kristi - age 50, single, live in Salt Lake City, Utah, social work is my occupation and my passion -- drug and alcohol and trauma recovery therapy. I've been doing MFP since the middle of February this year. I've lost about 100 pounds during that time and a total of 130ish pounds from my heaviest weight. Still have almost 200 pounds to lose. This website has been the best thing I have ever done in terms of weight loss. Good luck to everyone!

Lulu, I like your thought for the day, too. I have been doing some study lately on the interaction between different foods as well as the way foods interact with us in terms of whats going on at the biochemical level. For example, something like a yeast infection can trigger cravings for comfort foods like white bread, pasta and such. And, if we aren't metabolizing nutritients from the food we eat, we may still feel hungry, even though we are really full. Like the feeling when you've just eaten and you feel really full, yet you find yourself standing in front of the fridge looking for you don't know what??? But SOMETHING!! Yeah. :blushing: Anyway, its pretty interesting stuff. Ok, enough rambling. Gotta exercise. Love you guys!
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Kristi

afternoon ya'll. i just spent hours with our bills, etc trying to get out of the monthly "hole" we are in (including payday loans to get by) and figured out what we need to do to stop having the payday loans or overdraft... it should only take us about 2 1/2 mos! Whoo hoo! Then we can start working on getting out of debt completely, paying off medical bills that are sitting, paying off the van early (truck will be paid off on the 15th, making a double payment!), etc. I really thought it would take much longer than that. We can truly have all our bills paid off (adoption loans, student loan, EVERYTHING since we don't have a mortgage) within about 12 mos. Wow. So I'm pretty excited, because at that point we will be in good standing to buy the house we are living in, which we really want to do. Although I may have to get a job part-time (trying to do that now) to make things move faster and to get more down money that the $15000 we already put down on our option. So I'm pretty excited to see light at the end of the tunnel - and the girl! Once we've paid off the boys' adoption loans and readoption fees (for citizenship) then we can save a chunk and I can go get my little girl! So that's even more exciting! The last adoption moved so fast - we were told 12-18 mos, it literally took 3 mos from start to finish - so we had to take out some loans to cover some of the stuff. So next time we want cash in hand and be prepared so we have no loans. I'm pretty psyched. I'm listening to an online audio book by Dave Ramsey - Total Money Makeover. We could do it much faster if we sacrificed a lot of things - by this I mean shutting off our cable, but since we rarely go out (maybe every 6 mos or so?), we don't go to movies, we don't do much of anything, that's our only relaxation and entertainment. I could save us $100 a mo by dropping it down... so we're considering that. But no tv??? Hmmm... Not sure we'd survive, LOL. Have to see if ALL our programs are available online for free first...

A lot of what I"m learning about finances also apply to healthy living. One thing he says with money that I can really see applying to weight loss is make 1 goal, and meet it before moving on to something else. So for money if you pay a little for this bill, a little for that one, etc you don't feel like you're getting anywhere and can get discouraged and quit. So pay off one bill completely (start with the smallest) and work your way up. That way you feel like you've accomplished something. I can see that applying to weight loss as well, if you change everything all at once and you struggle, then you feel like you've not done anything. Pick one thing and meet that goal, for example, drinking all your water. Then once you've got that down, cut out certain junk foods. Once you've done that, exercising 3x/wk. Once you've got that down, cutting down your calories. and so on. I know that since I've struggled the last few months that I have had a really hard time getting back on track - but in the beginning, I only changed one thing at once, so I need to do that now again in starting over. Ya know?

We have some Halloween candy left over, went thru the kids' stuff and pulled out all the snickers (too hard for them to eat) so junked out on that but once they're gone, the kids' candy doesn't tempt me. I still have a few baby snickers in the freezer. and baby snickers are not bad, anyway, cuz they're so small.

I'm not worried about Thanksgiving as far as weight is concerned because it's just that "one" meal in our family. Sure we'll have turkey leftovers, but I'm not keeping any dessert leftovers, people will have to take that home with them. Christmas is harder, though, it's a season. As long as we're not invited to any parties (usually aren't, LOL) then it will be just that one meal then too, same rules, no desserts left over. That's IF we have people over, if it's just us, then I'll make a batch of cookies and that's it, no pies. (mmm... pie....)

Kristi i'm interested in what you said about some foods you eat and you're hungry right away. I have that problem. What's the book or what's the general foods, or what's the foods you mix so you don't have that?

lulu LOVE what you said about how you CHOSE not to go naked each day... never thought of it that way.

Good morning everyone,

Last night was a treat, my husband was off playing basketball and I worked out with mom. Mom made my unemployed brother cook dinner for us while we worked out :drinker: If only someone else would cook every night. Thank goodness my mom sent me home with cooked spaghetti squash yesterday. It was so good, I ate it all - so I got my veges in for the day. I think I was supposed to share with hubby :blushing:

Hey,
so here it is a little late but worth it.

SW 195, GW 135, CW 168= 2lbs loss

I had fun at my retreat but came back with a bit of congestion/ cold. So I've been taking it easy. I expected to gain weight over the retreat but my cabin was the farthest from the main lodge and I walked instead of driving. I also did yoga both mornings that I was there. I'm really proud of myself for not eating crap over the weekend. There was lots of candy and temptations but I managed to stay focused on what I wanted for myself - to be healthy and good to my body,

Have a great week

P.S I'm almost half way!!!

Way to go girl. That's very awesome. I'm glad that you had fun, sucks about the cold though. Keep up the good work on meeting your goal.

Wow.
Are we all so busy trying hard that we forgot to post? :laugh:

Congrats to you, Manda, for being such a big loser!

How's everyone doing on Lulu's 5 servings of veggies a day challenge? I've been making it. I'll be cutting it close today with 1.5 servings of raw carrots, 1 serving of snap peas and red peppers at lunch and a serving of mushrooms and 2 servings of broccoli at dinner (I love broccoli! ) but if I stick to my plan, I'll make it. Yesterday I had a serving of zucchini, mushrooms, and tomatoes at lunch and 2 servings of broccoli at dinner (did I mention I love broccoli?). Yum!

Hey, how is everyone doing on the Holiday challenge??? I didn't see any one post their numbers for it like we have been doing the past few weeks.... I forgot about it which is why I didn't lol.

So I think that I am going to be up this week, TOM is on the way for a visit. I've noticed my sweet tooth is acting up, but I'm not going over on calories... no way.

Hope everyone is having a great week so far.

My holiday challenge:
To lose 15 pounds by Christmas
I've lost 5 pounds since I started with it
So I have ten more to go

Oh and I forgot to say that I was under my calories so went looking for a snack............... and in my fridge was a yummmmmmmmy....................mango, so I gobbled it up and really enjoyed it knowing it was healthy and yummy and I had enough cals to eat it!:laugh:

Hey team, just a few minutes for me. I had a great workout. Burned 838 calories according to HRM worked out for 43 minutes, mostly stationary bike. Good luck everyone. Eat your veggies! Hope tomorrow is a great weigh in day for us!