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what an inspirational journey, and a great, informative post @1191sawk I hope you’ll post here often and share your insights with others! BTW, you’ve built a butt ton of muscle. Muscle is heavier than fat. I’m on the upper end of “normal”, and occasionally skirt “overweight” BMI, however, I’m a consistent size 4. I don’t…
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If I just plan a few minutes so as to motivate myself, it'll usually turn into a longer workout. This!!!!!! as @AdahPotatah2024 says above.
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if it’s quick and easy, it’s seldom a workout, or one worth doing. As far as easy, tie on your shoes, and take the dog/kids/husband/dog/favorite music or podcast for a walk. If you’re a faster runner than me, you can knock out a mile or two or three quickly. Fresh air is good for the soul, and it doesn’t get easier than…
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33 pounds in five days?! Hope new users don’t fall for these scams. 😩
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Just my own personal take here, but I got rid of the bigger clothes every time I went down a few sizes. I’m kinda cheap and my mentality is that I’m much more likely to stay on track if there’s no larger sizes living in the closet. I don’t want to have to jettison my nice small clothes (I’ve seriously upped my fashion…
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I took a quick look and couldn’t find any, either, on the menu items or via a Google search. The one meal I looked at, turkey tetrazzini, looked to be laden with calories, at a quick glance. I didn’t bother to go any further. I suspect that, as a calorie counter, one of those meals would take up a considerable portion of…
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My experience FWIW, starting around 225, when I hit “plateaus”, in reality other stuff was happening. One morning I woke up and, seriously, my butt had collapsed. It looked like a sad 80’s ballon curtain. A couple days later it had lifted and tightened. One morning, I woke up, looked down, and my thighs were a mass of…
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Here’s a more normal day with real life exercises recorded. That ^^^ was not the best example, although it’s been my life for the last two weeks, lol. You’ll see the negative adjustment was smaller even though quantity of exercise calories burned was high. Your Apple Watch will “learn” you and your habits and become very…
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Hi, @meachemcrystal795 welcome to MFP! Apple Watch also records activity from just living; walking around the house, doing laundry, getting the mail. All of that contributes to the Move ring. I usually get a full spin just doing normal stuff. You should have already taken this into account when you set your activity level,…
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Welcome! I found that my “team” consisted of me, myself and I. No one else really cared, TBH. Even my husband was fine rocking along as we’d always done. In fact, he was probably a bit resentful until a few months in, because he got smaller portions, cornbread wasn’t on the table as often, trips to the favorite Mexican…
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😭 it took us so long to load the big items, we didn’t make it back til after the rotisserie truck had left. Everyone was so tired and hangry, BK it was. Significantly Over again, but OTOH we worked our bottoms off.
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Fell off the wagon badly for a couple days, because we’ve been so busy, it’s easy to just play stuff-face. Under yesterday, and hoping to be under today, despite a large breakfast and lunch. We been pulling furniture out of the old apartment for two days, and (literally) piling it in the new, til FIL completes painting.…
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Doing tolerably well on the away-from-home calorie front. There’s no fridge and only a hot plate on scaffolding, so we trek to the bakery for breakfast, grab a lavish sandwich for lunch while we’re there, and cook something simple at night. Last night was grilled cheese sandwiches with cumin cheese. Husband was rather put…
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Wow! That’s very professional! @SurferGirl1982 now they’re using lookalike AI people for faux celebrity ads. I just got an ad for an “INSANE” pair of credit cards with a Jennifer Garner (Capital One’s spokesperson) lookalike. I did a doubletake, enlarged the photo, and it’s a dead ringer except for really big lips and a…
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@rl2010 it sounds like you’re a boredom eater. I found that forcing myself to get up and simply walk became less of a “force” each time I didn’t, until I looked forwarded to and finally craved my walks and other movement. Again, the choice is yours. Sit back, be bored, take the injections but change nothing else, and waste…
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You guys are scary good.
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I asked my daughter where she got this magical stuff, hoping to score some here, and she said “Whole Foods”. 🤦🏻♀️
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@Sparkuvu I’ll come up with some, but I’m roughing it in a construction zone the next few weeks. I will say, despite unfamiliar brands and cheese (still not sure what that was!), and probably a liberal dose of construction dust, best grilled cheeses since I was a kid. No fridge. Am hanging a shopping bag on the fence…
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Your phone is listening. The kids bought an Ivar shelving unit at IKEA yesterday, brought it in and were chattering to me about it while they assembled it. I got a Temu ad in my feed for shelving. Then one said “we’ll go to town tomorrow and buy the hammock”. No joke, I then got a Temu ad for a double, unflippable hammock…
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It helps to know the enemy and prepare to fight it. Do, please, arm yourself with information and do so. Fight! Both my parents chose to lay back and take it. I guess they were both just tired of all the other challenges life had thrown at them. Not in a good place but don’t know which way I will go. You choose, but I wish…
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It’s an ad for barefoot shoes. For the record I’m sitting here right now in barefoot shoes, and have worn them almost daily for years. Sadly, no effect on weight, unless you count wearing them to walk the dog or walk to yoga!
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Ooooh I have to look for that! There’s a giant tea shop in the town we are going to tomorrow. Adding it to my shopping list!
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Ye gods. That sounds so delicious and unusual and totally outta the box!!!
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Yall…….popcorn tea!!!!!!! And it really tastes like freshly popped corn! I’m bringing some home for sure! @BCLadybug888, we are about two hours east of Amsterdam. The kids bought a house and we are helping get it ready for them to move in. We can’t wear shoes and utterly pointless to wear socks in the gummy wet mess. But…
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Now that’s an interesting idea. Ice cream with roasted sweet potato. And I bet it would be creamy, too. Wheels turning.
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This week we are close to a very good bakery with my all-time favorite, Quarkini. Think doughnut holes made with a thick sour cream batter. Unfortunately, they are high calorie deliciousness. My NSV this week is not indulging in “I’ll never have the chance again!” mentality for all the baked goods, and limiting myself to…
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I use the ninja creamie to make a fabulous, creamy sorbet out of nothing but a can of pineapple poured into the ninja tub and frozen before preparation. With a little reddiwhip and a few maraschino cherries, it’s really a satisfying dessert (for two). The dietician’s point was, I obvs like my sweets, and I’m very active…
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So far it’s been mostly 100% fruit sorbets: banana/strawberry, strawberry/pineapple/banana. I made a couple with strawberries, lite coconut milk and plain greek yogurt but they lacked something (sweetness, lol). So the next batch I added a tablespoon of sugar and some coconut powder. Better. Next time I try sorbet I’ll try…
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Thanks @avatiach That article was a lot more, erm, “digestible” than the others I saw. Still hanging in there with no sugar substitutes.
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I absolutely get it. Post after post of “I can’t eat all my calories”, and saying they’ve lost a heap of weight in their first month. Not changing diet, not including exercise as part of their plan, relying solely on the shots. Not saying that’s any of you guys, but you know it’s happening. Half my bunco group is on it now…
