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Good morning everyone!
I have also been AWOL the past few days. Yesterday being legitimate as I did alot of housecleaning due to my 3 daughters coming to make me a homemade Mothers Day dinner. My middle daughter is a chef & the other 2 aren't too shabby so I enjoyed the meal & company.
This rain is getting the better of me & I am really having to make an effort to meet my daily goals. Monday I was successful with my meal plan and exercise, but yesterday I had to push myself to get things done. I went off my meal plan due to a cheesecake Jim made & grazing as I housecleaned. I could not do my 40 minute walk bc of the rain...
This morning I am back on plan & did my 40 min walk this morning to make up for yesterday. I plan to do my 2nd 40 tonite for today so I can do my 200 minutes of walking Monday thru Friday for this week.
I have planned my meals, but one of the things I have noticed is I still obsess about food. When I plan my snacks...grapes are my current favorite....I can't wait until the designated time to eat them!/o try to keep busy, but the thought of them is lurking!
I am glad to be focusing on short term goals as it holds me accountable...even if I am not successful!
Nancy love ur sense of humor, Linda ur commitment to a variety of exercises & Jeannie..to ur extensive knowledge on so many subjects.
Trish, I always HATED selling a house which is why I tend to stay put. Good luck with all that sifting & sorting.
Everyone have a good day!
Kathy
Good Morning ladies
Got up on time this morning but was moving slower than I realized. Guess I spent more time in the bath than I realized. Any who as a result I had to eat breakfast on the fly.
Breakfast....Beef jerky, water, and meds.
YMCA.......10 minute warm up on bike. Again because I was running late. Usually do 20-30 min warmup. 1 hour weight training. Worked legs today.
Food plan for the rest of the day
Snack. more jerky and water
Lunch.....Tuna salad with small amount of mayo, dill relish, and boiled egg with a few crackers. Water
Snack....blueberries maybe a little cheese
Dinner.... don't know but it will be a lean protein and veggies.
So far today I have walked 2,413 steps. Yesterday I got over 10,000 but I don't know the exact number. When I thought to take my last look it was 12:15am. The fit bit rolls over at midnight.
That is my plan for today.
I found a yoga class at the Y for us oldies and when I get back from Arkansas ( I leave Monday and return the 31st) I am going to try it.
Wishing each and every one of you a successful day
Ladies, Happy Hump Day.
Today I am going to up my yoga game. When my yoga folks do complicated things, I do the things I can do. I do have my own private yoga person and she is wonderful and has pushed me to try more complicated stands and I have but I don't do them in class because you know what if I get on the floor and cannot get up? Or, if I am not doing it as perfect as these young'uns do it....but today, I am going to show off my crazy floor moves.... We'll see how it goes and when I get really good at it, I'll post a picture.
Today's breakfast was loaded oatmeal (yeast, walnuts, blackberries, and a little cream) I left my snack package at home but I do have some granola that I can eat for a snack if I get hungry. Lunch is an avocado sandwich on rye. Dinner tonight will be shrimp, zucchini, peppers, and black beans. We'll ea****ermelon for a snack this evening.
I am really working on meditation. We have a few days before the students are back on campus for the intercession and then summer begins three weeks from now...so it is quiet and I can really work on meditating. And, I am working with my hippie tutor who is all about meditation and she and I are developing a program for all my graduate student workers....there are 12 of them and only three of the 11 are men and the 8 females all have PMS at the same time so it can be very stressful when one or more are *****y....so we must work on the calming the mind. LOL.
Ladies, rock it today and remember, we have the power and we have the tool so all we have to do is introduce the power to the tool and we have a power tool that will help us peel this weight off. Go Ladies...eat drink move.
Hey Laureen,6.
It is so good to see you here. You are the friend who connected me to Over 50 Forum ages ago.
Like you, I lost my baby brother seven weeks post op, in October 2006. The following year, I became a grandmother, and attended my son's wedding exactly one year post op. Then, 16 months post-op, after being 100 pounds lighter, and having years of sobriety, I picked up wine, and cookies. I regained 40 pounds, and had a horrible two years of where I lost my older brother, and was in and out of sobriety. I landed in a psychiatric hospital, then an inpatient rehab. I've been sober since January 2010, and up until this past Fall, I had lost 20 of those 40 pounds. My two foot surgeries, and being immobile for three months this past winter, I regained those 20 pounds. Ugh!
I realized in therapy, and rehab, I realized I never dealt with the grieving I needed to do after losing both my brothers. I moved to Michigan a little over three years ago, to be near my three grandchildren, as well as my daughter and son-in-law. Now, there's a chance my daughter will get a job back home in the Philadelphia suburbs, so I just might be moving back there.
I'm glad you came back. Like Linda mentioned, Facebook is very social, while here, our focus should be more WLS oriented, while talking about triggers that motivate us to stray from our recommended food plan, which almost always are negative emotions.
You mentioned feeling shame, and I'm certain all of us have experienced shame at some point in our lives. I believe that is our negative, unhealthy thinking, that at least for me, kept me in the food. The days I take my walks, I feel more empowered, and less shame, even if the scale doesn't move. Those endorphins from exercise help so much.
Like we say in AA, Keep Coming Back. It works if you work it.
Hugs,
Trish
Albert Schweitzer
I'm hoping we hear from Jo, here in Owosso, Michigan. She and I have met, years before I moved here, but I've lost her phone number, and would love to get together with her.
Hugs
Albert Schweitzer
Good Morning Nancy and OFF,
Sorry I've been AWOL past few days. Monday morning, Colleen called me to let me know I need to get the house in order, so a realtor can do a walk through, to let them know what changes, if any, need to be made if they need to put the house on the market. I rent from them. That all depends on if she gets the job in PA. So, I've been sorting, and putting together boxes to give away, bags of clothes I don't fit in, or want anymore, and garbage.
I took a huge walk on Sunday, getting in my 6,000 steps by 12:30. Monday, I didn't do as well, but yesterday, I was just under 6,000 steps. The days I take my walks, my sugar cravings stay in check. I tend to snack on healthy foods. My food on the days I don't walk stinks.
Nancy, I love your plan for today.
Today, I plan to make some phone calls to doctors' offices, to schedule appointments.
Then, I will continue purging the mess I have, sorting and organizing. Right now, it looks overwhelming, but it's not really. Looks are deceiving.
Then, I will walk and try to get to 7,000 steps. Sunday, my total steps were 7,246. That's a total of 3.2 miles. Yesterday, my mileage was 2.24.
I already had my Chobani Greek Yogurt, with granola and hemp seeds. I found some organic seeds on Amazon. I'm impressed with the health benefits of them.
My lunch will be tuna salad with celery, scallions, sweet peppers, and tomato in it.
My snacks will be celery and peanut butter, and cheese and canned peaches.
Dinner will be stuffed peppers.
Snack will be a protein shake made with yogurt, milk, berries, and AnyWhey protein powder. I love that powder, coz it's flavorless, and smells like candy corn, It doesn't change the flavor of a protein smoothie.
Gotta go.
Hugs,
Trish
Albert Schweitzer
My plan for Wednesday:
1. be grateful to be alive (stretch and feel all of my loose skin, grateful that it is getting EMPTY and not FILLED with fat anymore).
2. get up and dressed with (great?) enthusiasm...okay. BE AWESOME!
3. Hot chocolate protein drink and meds (getting that metabolism working)
4. Business lunch meeting - lunch order already planned (taking my baggie of seeds
to garnish salad)
5. Return back home and drink lots of tea and water - peeing profusely as the fat is
washed away! (positive thinking & visualization)
6. artwork to be completed for client (another custom order, yay!)
7. snack: yogurt with seeds and nuts (share yogurt with LilyRose or be shamed
by her steadfast glare of disapproval)
8. dinner: salad with turkey, seeds and nuts (I might feed hubby)
9. snack: orange (vitamin C, fibre - orange you glad I told you?)
10. bedtime: hot chocolate protein drink & meds (after giving "THE BOO" the
appropriate amount of attention including "spin-a-roonies" and copious cuddles,
then gently urging LilyRose OFF my pillow and move her to a more
ergonomic location on the bed).
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
11 pm and I am still on track..wow! It was NOT easy but then Rome wasn't built in a day! Step by step, hour by hour, we fight the good fight for our selves, richly deserved.
Julia,
I am so with you on the way things have changed. Sometimes, growth causes a little pain and sometimes growth isn't possible or is prevented by forces that don't like change or don't want things to move forward.
You would think that with my being a vegetarian, I would not have an issue with the bowels but so not true. I put prunes in my oatmeal once or twice a week and it works wonders. Try it.
Let me just say at the top, "I love our new focus!" The fall out was hard on me because I felt responsible, but it has had a very positive outcome.
I'm so enjoying our returning members, and I hope that our reunion day might bring back even more. If not, I still enjoy having old friends back once in a while.
I just went to lunch with my husband and I had chicken with veggies and a very small salad. I am full, drank plenty of water already today, and I feel happy.
Tonight is weigh in at TOPS. I'm sure it will be fine.
I am having some issues with constipation which is crazy since I have been eating some cherries as part of my healthy snacks. I do realize that what goes in must come out, so I will keep on keeping on...
Julia
