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I did it! I walked around the neighborhood for 2 1/2 hours! 8000 steps! My knees are going to really really ache tomorrow,

Today I set THE appointment with my physician to discuss my chronic IBS which has bothered me since I had chemotherapy for ovarian cancer 5 years ago. Been putting it off due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. I caught the virus in February, which it made me frightfully ill and exacerbated the intestinal symptoms greatly, and has…

Yesterday, for the first time in 8 months, I walked around the neighborhood. Was dismayed and disappointed by the number of younger adults still not wearing masks in public, but whenever they appeared, I just walked into the street, stood on the drivers side of a parked vehicle and waited for them to pass me 12 feet away.…

Walmart for everything! Am on their monthly delivery plan, it costs equal out to the gas I'd burn shopping, and it's easier to avoid junk food. My sis is disabled, I'm a senior, covid19 is lurking.... with Walmart on-line groceries, if you don't do a search for candy/cookies/chips you never see them. Food purchases have…

I've yo-yo'd the last 2 years, heaviest scale reading was 220 in fall of 2019. I lost 20 pounds earlier this year, but that was because I caught Covid19 in February at work, and my gastrointestinal system couldn't keep anything in. Follow all safety protocols folks! I nearly died. Not the right way to lose weight! I have…

I'm drinking a lot more water than I used to, and I gravitate more to water than to snacking :)

Finally deciding that I don't really want to eat mammals, birds or fish anymore. Tallying up everything I eat and knowing more about nutrients has helped me to be able to find healthy substitutes. But now I have to deal with a critical family who feel that my attitude spoils it for them, even though I don't proselytize.…

and purchasing a food weighing scale in my Walmart delivery order for the morning :smile:

I'm back! What worked for me is getting back to MyFitnessPal, admitting to myself that it's really all about calories and nutrition, and acknowledging that tracking food intake is the most honest and accurate way to do this. I recently had half of my thyroid removed, and now I must take off some weight so that the thyroid…

I'm 67 and just had a hemi-thyroidectomy. Came back to MyFittnessPal after2 years to find that I've maintained the same 200 pounds. With half a thyroid to power my metabolism I've got to do better or I risk having to take levothyroxin. My goal is to drop 50 pounds and cut in half the diabetes and hypertension meds I am…

my dog snoring!

I'm in! I'm over the pond in NY state, but losing a stone sounds like a fun little competition. As long as we keep losing the weight, we all win even if we don't quite make it to a whole stone. I'm starting late, it's already the 11th, but I'll do my best!

I get little bottles of food flavorings to put in my coffee - vanilla, maple, rum, hazelnut, coconut, almond, peppermint. A couple of drops, a little nonfat milk, a packet of stevia. Tastes like a coffee shop drink that has hundreds more calories. After you've trained your taste bud off of pure sugar, treats like this are…

I let people know if I am actually going to be sharing a meal with them. If it is something like an event where there are snacks provided, then it is up to me to chose wisely, or to just not indulge, but I always let people who want to feed me know that I am learning new habits, have health concerns, etc. Telling folks you…

Chemo destroyed my teeth but cancer didn't get my life. Still learning to eat with dentures. I eat a lot of canned foods. I rinse out the salt, but I actually crave things like canned french cut green beans.They are soft. Love canned butter beans, Boston baked beans mixed with cottage cheese, Louisiana hot sauce drenched…

Looking out the window and watching the frozen rain drops hanging from the tree branches grow longer.

Nice! Inspirational! and thank you for the spot on advice.

This quote helps me to forgive myself and to get back on track "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Phillips Feynman, an American physicist.