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Heather I didn't take my measurements until last week, so I don't know if I've lost any inches. But for the sake of keeping me motivated, let's say I did!
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Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. It was a low key day. I goofed off from work and took it easy. We went out for a nice dinner last night and I had red snapper with sweet potato hash. (it was Paleo night at the restaurant). It was perfect! No excess food. Today I will finish 1 month of P90x3. I'm much less sore now.…
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Miriam See? All those folks that say they hold a plank for 5 minutes have their butts sticking up in the air! Because my wrist is still healing from the bad break in May, I use weights on the floor to grab on to so my wrists don't have to bend. I do that with Yoga too. I looked at some contraptions for this that cost about…
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Thanks for the birthday wishes. I saw this article on Quora which I thought was applicable to this group (although I look more like the baby elephant doing planks!) Is there a point in doing the plank exercise for more than 5 minutes? Anibal Cabral, Business Owner, NPC National Physique Competitor Planking is a resistance…
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PennyYou've got me thinking in terms of veggies today. I'm not much of a salad fan, but I do like a nicely diced pile of fresh veggies with a light dressing on them (I'm very much into Penzy's Green Goddess now). So, today, I'm going to experiment with veggies. I'm 58 today. I remember when I thought 50 was old, but hey,…
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Food planned. Swim done. (30 min/40 laps). Grits What is it about the program that helps you lose? Is it a very restrictive diet? Or the combination of things? Did they have to lower the calorie intake to compensate for the medication side effects? Peach the *baby* has a cyst on her ovary??? Amazing that they can tell…
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Tracie in Green Bay With all your body has been through, it just needs to be loved! I'm sorry to hear of the pain you've been through. You brought up an interesting question, though, about medications that cause weight gain (or impede weight loss). I am on a medication that has a side-effect of weight gain and I am always…
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Exercise done, food planned and logged. I have to say that recipe importer is pretty cool. I keep all my recipes on Pinterest (many from Eatingwell.com) and they import nicely. I haven't opened a cookbook in over a year. This is going to be a difficult week in regards to food. Last Friday was a holiday party, last night…
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Mindy About the Freecycle suggestion, I used the one in the Blackstone Valley. But if you go to Yahoo.com and groups, there are a number for the Boston area. I was amazed at how quickly things went. We had so much glassware from my MIL's house. I just lined it up and down both sides of the driveway, put a message on…
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Good morning -- Mindy that looks like it could be a lovely room once it's cleared out. I see some nice hardwood floors in there! And there's nice light coming in the windows. We had to clean out my MIL house. Yours looks very clean in comparison. We had a horrific hoarding situation. Being able to turn off the emotional…
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OK, I'll go. Hi -- I'm Kim (Kimses since there are two Kims in this group). I live in MA, 45 min outside of Boston. Have 1 daughter who is a Senior in college and 1 son who is a High School Senior. I've been married for 26 years and am almost 58 (on the 14th). I work in High Tech and my office is in NY City, but I work…
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It's a gloomy Sunday here in MA. Yesterday I did 30 min P90x3, 30 min on the elliptical, 20 min stretching. I'm not sure what I'll do today yet for exercise. It might be a good day to get out and go for a swim at the gym. I feel like going shopping! Will be back later. Today, to sync up with the Biggest Loser Challenge, I…
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Lisa good line! I'll have to remember that one.
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Happy Saturday. No sticker on my calendar for me yesterday! Went to my interview (which was an hour drive each way), met a friend for lunch, came home and napped, then went to a post-holiday party and got home around midnight. I have no idea what I ate. Well, I do, but really couldn't account for how many calories. The…
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Weigh-in day. 1.7 lbs. down. That was a LOT of work for 1.7 lbs. Hopefully the new exercise and food plan will become routine. I'm glad I started exercise before the new year and was able to adjust to that before adding in the food plan. It was less of a shock. At Mary's recommendation, I joined the Biggest Loser Challenge…
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Mary Poor Shep. That is the one time it would have been ok for him to bite. Can you teach him a command like "Bite *kitten*"? (Joking of course.) How could anyone be mean to a puppy???? I don't get it. Cheri I like that clean up calendar. The outstanding question is how to keep the mess from coming back in after it was…
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Robin Headspace is a good little phone app for meditation. It there is a pc app also https://www.headspace.com/ and there is a free trial available. (I liked it but didn't have the patience to stick with it..which makes me think that if I'm that impatient maybe I should stick with it to learn to be patient :smile: Sylvia…
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Good morning - trublutopaz Hang in there and make sure to take steps to take care of yourself. Maybe a short walk, or some stretching, or a healthy meal that you spend some time making just for yourself. Focus on you. Katla You don't happen to have a Mac, do you? Seriously, the built-in dictation saved my sanity when I…
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KatlaSo sorry about your wrist. I had a very bad broken wrist this summer requiring a plate to be inserted, so hopefully you can avoid that. I found that voice recognition software worked well for me for the first few weeks until I got into a smaller cast. Of course, I was on some pain killers so maybe it would have been…
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Hello everyone -- Stayed on track yesterday, so Day 2 is complete. I have to go exercise now although I am procrastinating. Miriam and Katla I saw your posts about knees. I'm having a difficult time with what I have self-diagnosed as quadriceps tendonitis. I'm pretty sure it's from doing squats. I try to avoid jumps most…
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Karen Your post about thinking ahead to retirement has some great points that relate to anyone. My husband and I have frequent discussions about how to approach retirement. I've seen older siblings not have a plan and they have really struggled (and are in the midst of the struggle). I think about it A LOT. 4 more years…
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DJ The CO alarm went off at 3 am. There were 7 people in the house. There are 4 alarms all hardwired together (one goes off and they all go off). There was 1 outside the bedroom doors and only 2 (me and my husband) out of 7 people woke up. Apparently teenagers can sleep through just about anything. There was a story in our…
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Thanks for starting this off, Barbie. I have a plan for 2016 so I'll put it out here. I have gathered pieces of the full picture over this past year and used different pieces at different times. Time to put the three together: 1. Nutrition - I saw a nutritionist 5 times this year and she taught me the correct way to eat in…
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Happy New Year's Eve. No one in my household has figured out what they are doing yet, so we'll be doing something spur of the moment (or nothing at all). We had a problem with CO in our house yesterday morning at 3 am. Fire dept and police were here and we had to evacuate (we had 3 family members visiting also, so 7 total…
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Katla Thanks. Seems it keeps coming back to logging. I can't escape that message! So logging it will be! Chris I don't like my doctor. She says stuff like that and argues with me. She really makes me angry. I haven't changed because I'm hoping she'll retire soon (she has a new doctor in her office to take over). Plus, I'll…
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Thanks Becca and Barbie. I'm almost 58. I actually had my primary care doctor say "it's almost impossible to lose weight at your age" (although she denied it when I brought it up a year later). So I know it's hard. Harder when you add in medications, age, menopause, habits etc. But this group proves that it *can* be done.…
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Janetr, Kim, Terri Good stuff....I like the sticker idea. I haven't had a sticker chart in the house since potty training my kids! And as has been pointed out, logging and planning are the tried and true ways. I hate doing it, but I suppose I hate the struggle more. I have the Thin Commandments and will pick that up again.…
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Name: kimses Age:57 Height:5'9.5" Start Weight (1st January):206 Goal Weight (1st February):199 1st January: 8th January: 15th January: 22nd January: 29th January: 1st February: Weight lost/gained this week: Weight lost/gained this month: Successes/struggles this week:
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Hi -- I have a question for the group. What do you do to stay accountable in your weight loss? What I mean is that I am only accountable to me at the moment, and that poses a challenge. It's too easy for me to talk myself out of ditching the crackers in favor of an orange...walking out of the kitchen rather than grabbing…
