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Hi everyone! I hope that everyone has been doing well! Stopped using MFP sometime in April when things got crazy at work... My usual pattern. Just got back from my 3 year late honeymoon (micro wedding during covid, so we delayed our honeymoon... and then just kept procrastinating on planning one), driving across the…

Hi everyone! I'm back (for now at least hahah). After backsliding for a lot of April, I gave up completely for pretty much all May. This is pretty much what happened last year around that time, too. The last few months of the school year are always so hard, and we end up eating out and snacking a lot more to cope with the…

Enjoying reading everyone's successes here! I am stuck. Not really gaining, but also not losing. And I definitely know why. I've been slipping back into old eating habits, and slipping workouts more often. Ive been in this rut for over a month, so I really need to figure out how to get myself back on track. I always start…

@SherryRueter I had never heard about sugar and night sweats, but I feel like that could explain some of my sleep. I'm not over 50, but I do have night time hormonal hot flashes. I'll have to try keeping track of evening snacking and see if that is what's causing it for me.

Hi everyone! Lost track of things for the first half of the month. I guess I just wasn't feeling it. Got a few walks and runs in, but not nearly as many as I should. And diet went totally out the window. We've eaten out a lot lately. Weight is pretty much where it's been since the end of Februrary (lost 1 lb by end of…

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I'm a little too young to weigh in on perimenopause (early 30s), but just chiming in to sympathize about the doctors ignoring symptoms and/or billing things as elective procedures. It is so frustrating! Which fitbit do you have that measures body temperature? That sounds like a really useful feature!

Progress check-in: I've been hovering around the same weight for almost a month now. Lost pretty rapidly and consistently through Jan-Feb, so I think I got complacent. I know that I haven't been strict with calories (especially snacking), and that's going to be the key to getting back on track. But it's HARD! I've also…

Hi all! Been away for a few days... Fighting a cold, so diet and exercise are sort of lost causes to me right now. Haven't run since Monday, and have been pretty much eating what I want when I want. Went to work sick yesterday, which was a big mistake (used almost an entire box of tissues, and I feel bad for my poor…

@SherryRueter @Kitri2020 I don't mean like running in a gym as the problem; I either run outside and ignore everyone or I run on my treadmill at home. I mean just during the gait analysis at the store, that someone working at the store will be watching me haha. That's what I'm nervous about! But I know that the gait…

Happy Saturday everyone! I've been tracking faithfully all week, and continuing to exercise as well. Not quite every day with the exercise, but close! Scale pretty much hovering around the same place still, but I didn't see my usual 2 lb increase at the start of my period this week, so maybe I'll see the number go down…

I did a bunch of impulse shopping today... But I've had 3 days in a row of tracking food and exercising, so I guess I just got my reward early haha. Already planning tomorrow's run after school. Going to a slightly longer trail, so hopefully I'll increase my mileage a bit from what I've been doing lately! One of my friends…

@SherryRueter those all sound like good motivators!

@ceebeeslim I love the idea of a tangible goal! This is what my husband and I did for flossing our teeth, because we knew that we weren't flossing every day like the dentist tells us to haha. My prize was fun new lunch containers (I have a whole collection of bento boxes for packing). Added benefit to those was that they…

I've gained again, so I'm pretty frustrated. I definitely haven't been restricting calories perfectly, but I haven't been nearly as bad as I could be. So have to buckle down and get bag to work with carefully counting. Like many of you, snacking is my big challenge. Hopefully this week I'll do better with snacks and start…

Happy Saturday, everyone! Went down 1 lb yesterday, but right back up today. So still holding steady where I've been for the past week. At least it's steady and not increasing! Someday it will start going down again. The fish fry yesterday was amazing, as usual. Fun to hang out with family and go down to our old…

Fit in a second workout for the day. Made plans to meet my parents at a fish fry tomorrow right after work, so by the time we eat, get home, and hang out for a bit, I probably won't want to or won't have time to work out. So back to the treadmill. Jogged 1 mile (13:30 pace, so not super fast). This was the first full mile…

@ceebeeslim that's a good point about seeing ourselves in each other's circumstances! We're all on this journey, so it's nice to have company! I'm so sorry about the stress of a hoarding family member! That must be really stressful, especially if they aren't willing to take any steps to change things.

Took a mental health day from work today. Turned out to be really good timing, because shortly after my husband left for work, I started hearing weird sounds from the laundry room... Turns out that the cover had fallen off of our dryer vent, and birds were inside of it, starting to build a nest. So I had to scare the birds…

Legs are pretty sore today from my run yesterday, so took it relatively easy. Went for an after school walk with coworker. We had to walk inside because of rain, so no hills like our outdoor walks. But we did do a few flights of stairs. Kept that pretty short and an easy pace. Did about 10 minutes of weight lifting at…

I have a few weights. Just dumbells, nothing fancy. I have a few different weight sets of them. Will those work for the epic program?

March starts my husband's coaching season, so he runs practices in a park near our school for 2 hours mon-thurs. I like to come with him so that we can drive together in the morning. Then, while he's at practice I run or walk for 30-45 minutes, then do grading/planning for work until he's done. Or sometimes I take the car…

@SherryRueter thanks for the recommendations! I've heard of Caroline girvan as well, but like @Kitri2020 , I didn't know where to start. Usually when I do weights, I just kind of make up a routine based on what I remember from gym class in high school haha

We had amazing spring-like weather today, so I had to get outside. Had a really busy day at work and then tutoring afterward, so I didn't have much daylight left. But it felt so amazing to run outside instead of on my treadmill. And I got to wear SHORTS! Even if it was a short run, it felt great. And then I found my mom…

I mostly play school musicals/concerts at my school and a few other schools. I also fill in for a symphony when they need more bassists. They're way out of my league musically, so that is a great challenge for me and pushes me to improve. I do the same with prepping from the menu ahead so that I can estimate what I should…

@mightybunky I play bass and cello! It's a lot of fun, but whenever I'm doing a show or a concert, it makes for a super busy week/weekend and that can lead to a lot of junk food if I'm not careful.

March progress so far: Number on the scale is still headed slooooooowly back down after my stall in February. Really proud of myself for ending February/starting March strong, even with the musical this weekend. Today is most likely going to be a total cheat day food-wise, because my parents and one of my brothers and his…

@mightybunky I agree about the consistency of the morning routine with the weight! Often, when I'm in the process of gaining weight, I'll forego the scale altogether, because if I don't see a number going up, it doesn't exist. So daily weight checks are a good routine for me to make sure that I'm on track. But…

@CeeBeeSlim I love the springy motivation!

Opening night of our school's musical tonight, so it has been a crazy hectic week. But overall, I've been eating relatively well. Only 1 fast food day this week. Haven't exercised much (but still a little bit-better than nothing), because I've barely had any time away from school. Down just a bit from last week. Hopefully…