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I love vinaigrette!! There are so many dishes that I miss having when I lived overseas. It is just me here. I never have been one to cook and have been giving friends plenty of reasons to laugh at me this week. Serving sizes and such don’t mean much to me. Some of these recipes should have warning labels on them in plain…

Hi 🙋🏽‍♀️ It has been several months, but I wanted to pop in really quick. After four months of being displaced and living in a few different places, I got my apartment at the end of February. My progress of cleaning and unpacking is very slow due to lots of pain and inflammation. I had stopped taking the anti inflammatory…

Hi all! Just stopping in briefly. Things continue to shift and change. I have been staying at a friend’s place while she was out of town. Heard today she is coming back a day early, at least. Might have a place through Craigslist to wait out another apartment. It’s not the best situation, but it’s not sleeping in my car…

Hey y’all!! Well, the move took about 6 days with the help of people as they had availability. It was rainy and depressing, but it got done. I over did my knee, shoulder, wrist and still have bruises in places I can’t explain. Homeless until another apartment becomes available. I have not been exercising or eating right…

Hi all! Just a quick popping in today. I did dance twice this week. It isn’t the same at all, but it feels so much better to be moving. I have gained weight so far this month even though I stayed under calories more often. It’s just too much inactivity and comfort food due to stress. 😢 Hope y’all have a great weekend!

Happy Saturday!! Just popping in quick. I am going to test out my knee with some dancing program exercise this afternoon - at least, that is the plan 😊 Hopefully, it will go well and give me a boost considering my housing situation looks particularly bleak. Yesterday (and Thursday, to be honest) was very hard emotionally…

Good Morning 🌞 It’s Friday. Dr appointment went well. She was glad to see weight loss. This month, I should definitely hit the 200s for a recorded weight. I have weighed several times a day, still, so already seeing it, but only record on the first of the month and Saturdays. She encouraged me to get back into my routine…

Good Morning y’all!! I guess my body let go of some weight when I cut back on the sodium. I wish I could get myself into a more bland diet, but I get horrific headaches. My will power to persevere until I adjust is minuscule considering all the stress I am under. So, I bounce back and forth on diet. Hopefully, after I move…

Good afternoon, Last week, there was overwhelming smoke/fumes in my apartment again and I was miserably sick and inactive. This week, just as things were looking really good, I slipped on mud while walking under a carport during the rain and fell. I twisted my knee pretty spectacularly and have been resting. I’m pretty…

Good Morning!! Not sure how the week flew by so fast, but glad it did. It was challenging and rewarding! I had a couple ‘opportunities’ to fall into some old and destructive behaviors, but handled myself differently. It feels good to notice that for myself. Sara - I do hope things go in your favor at work. I hope you…

Hello 👋🏽 The scale seems to be staying below 310lbs. Hopefully by the end of September, it will get below 300lbs. I feel like I am waterboarding myself some moments trying to get in my water. It is hard for me to drink plain water, but I don’t want to rely solely on added flavors. My intake plummeted every time I would run…

Hello everyone!! I am just making a quick note to say “Hi”! Congrats to all on the great life events and weight losses! Yesterday, I finally logged in my lowest weight on MFP since my highest weight in 2014- 309.8 lbs!! I am hoping the self control will be stronger this time and I can keep going. I miss the days when…

Hi all! Just popping in quick. I continue to see the scale go up and down every other week or so, but I am happy that the overall result is a downward trend. I really overdid the physical exertion yesterday and feel some sore muscles today 😣 I will try to get some light movement and stretching in so that tomorrow isn’t…

Good Morning 😊 My results returned “negative” and I hope to find out from the doctor’s office that there is nothing else that needs to be done. It is hitting way too close now. I am concerned that if I do get infected, I may not recover very well, but I don’t want to be fearful. Saturday weigh-in went well - 313.4 lbs.…

Hi everyone! We had storms overnight. I woke up early to thunder and lightening and found water on my bathroom floor upstairs. Apparently, I expect too much from management to want a place that is pleasant to live in. On July 4, 5, and 6th until the later morning, I had constant, steady water coming out if the wall, under…

Hi everyone! I have become obsessive about the scale and food and everything again. I am trying to get myself to stop, but it’s so compulsive. Someone notified me today they tested positive for the virus. It will be almost a full two weeks since I have seen them, but I will be talking with the nurse practitioner at my…

Good Afternoon! We just had unseasonably cool weather last week, but this weekend, Mother Nature seems to be getting back to normal Oklahoma business. The heat index is at 106 already this afternoon and I am doing an inside day. I have a bunch of organizing and such to do. I will force myself to do a couple videos for…

Hi everyone! I changed my username in the hopes I will think of myself as more if a contender for my health. I have been off here for quite awhile. I keep coming back, though. It has been an incredible several months and I am glad to say that with all the little ups and downs, I weigh a couple pounds less than when the…

Hi all!! I’m doing well in Oklahoma!! We had some intense hail Wednesday morning and storms again Friday of this week, but I didn’t have any damage to my car, thankfully!! It’s good to see all the posts from folks. I’ve been delivery meals and sticking to strict quarantine still. I went briefly inside an ALDI, Walgreens,…

Hi y’all!! I’ve been home pretty strictly since about 3/18. Most places I go to closed up between the 13th and 17th. I was asked to be a driver for a nonprofit to bring food to folks twice a week who are higher risk and/or do not have easy access to transportation. Therefore, I decided to adhere to a stricter quarantine…

Hi y’all. Just as things were starting to clip along at a good pace. Ugh 😩 So much has radically changed for so many in just the last week or less. Not doing too well on my journey to wellness, but at least I am not gaining weight. The weather is very nice, here. Actually, it’s already in the classification of “too hot and…

Happy NewYear & New Decade to y’all!! I just got back from my first real walk in the new neighborhood. It is windy and I wish I had worn a hat so my ears didn’t end up stinging so bad. Chest X-ray showed something there. Finished second round of antibiotics Monday, but still have dry, unproductive cough that hurts. 😢 I…

Hi all! Started second round of antibiotics yesterday. I feel much better today and hope that in the next couple of days that I’ll feel back to 100%. Hope everyone has a great weekend and fun plans for the New Year!

Merry Christmas from sunny, warm, 70 degree Tulsa, OK!! I hope this note finds everyone well! I’ve been struggling with getting the right balance for my blood pressure medication, an ear infection, and enough post nasal drainage that my urgent care nurse practitioner actually exclaimed in shock the second she looked at my…

Hi all! Been an insane week! Monday was most intense. After two days of a bedside vigil, my friend (all of 41 yrs old) died a day and a half after being removed from life support, I went and saw my father whom I hadn’t seen in so long I could not even remember, I went to find my mother’s gravesite to honor her on what…

SATURDAY! Hi all! Well, when it rains it pours. I’m on my way to Minneapolis. A dear friend since high school days has been on dialysis for years. After cardiac arrest, she was put on life support, but with minimal brain activity, they will be disconnecting her this weekend. So I’m going sooner than I was ready to. My dad…

Happy Monday all! Ugh 😑 Definitely need to drink more water! Those horses are BEAUTIFUL!! Spent the afternoon yesterday in the therapy pool walking against the jets for extra resistance. Met a couple regulars. Starting to feel like a human being again instead of a walking disaster. Oh the pain was so bad! Much better now.…

Hi all! It took some time over a couple days to get caught up. I moved last weekend - all my stuff - by myself - across town. I wanted to keep the movers at 2 hours and they often have a skill of pushing it and drawing it out. But 9 min to the confirmed arrival time they sent a message that they weren’t coming ever and…

@skinnytacular “Runa--I loved my Misfit Shine. Tell me about your Ray. Does it operate on watch batteries like the shine? Can you swim and shower with it?” I really like my Ray. It uses smaller button batteries - three of them. But my first set lasted for about five months before needing to be replaced. It is waterproof to…

Happy Friday all! Well let me say that I have discovered the benefits of growing up in a colder environment like Minnesota soared me from the hellish pain of severe allergies, which I am experiencing now in Oklahoma 😢 My doctor gave me a steroid injection, but with the demolition going on in my building... and now…