Well it’s moving back down slowly. Well I’m happy to see that even if it’s not super great.
IF seems to be working for me just fine. I’m not super hungry but only occasionally in that last hour before I end it. My hope for the weekend is to dump out of the 230s. Can I do it? I hope so.
I’ve a ton to do today including tackling that project I couldn’t deal with the other day maybe I will put on some thought inducing music, dive into it and get it done. That’s a good thing if I can get it done, well, it will be done and only need some ongoing maintenance and remove me from maintaining so often.
Ok - I must get this out there. If I were to splurge on my diet, which I’m not planning to do; but I just had a thought about either of these two treats invading my autumn thinking brain: caramel cinnamon pecan rolls or cinnamon monkey bread. Do you see a pattern? Warm bread with ooeygooey sweetness. Ok, that’s enough of that😊 I’ll be good!
So I just caught the National weather SNOW pushing down from Canada into my state. NOOOOOOOO. I still have my garden to redo and build which we can do as long as the ground isn’t frozen. But we have to get the wood and supplies to build it (I’ve got the dirt, straw and amendments) and it would be possible to do if it’s just flurries. Oh the fun of planning jobs around the start to crazy weather and having run out of time, energy and money in the warmer months.
So my mini list today:
1. Do my walk
2. Get all my water in today!
3. Eat in calories (avoid my sweet bread thoughts)
4. Think of my body and where it made changes for tomorrow’s shout out.
Ok ladies - have a great day - the week is almost done I’ll do personals once you all get your days underway. I’m just up early as I swear something was scratching one of my window screens in my bedroom and it better not be a raccoon! But I heard what sounded like someone’s nails in a screen and that’s what made me come to. Creepy buggers. I don’t need someone taking up residence where I don’t want them.
Off to go deal with the day as it’s still black and dark out and cold.
Hey guys, super quick check in today. This week has been a little strange for me work wise as I'm not accomplishing as much as I want to. I feel like I'm slogging through gelatin getting anything done and for some reason my attention is shot. Also not doing the greatest on the goal-getting fronts. Didn't exercise this morning even though I was up this morning because I'm still having tummy trouble and all the other suspicious factors should be gone by now. I didn't exercise today to see if the intensity of my workouts have something to do with my digestive woes. Also, only a couple of days into daily weighing, I forgot to weigh today. D'oh!
lemonthyme: Eeek!! What is the thing the game of thrones fans say with trepidation: "Winter is coming?" Well it literally is for you isn't it? With all the ominousness of a GoT episode. I don't watch GoT but the trailers always look ominous. I love rolling hills and wide vistas thanks to Hallmark movies and Harlequin romance novel tv movies shot in places like Wyoming where it's all hills and sky. I grew up (and live) in the opposite. We're slightly below sea level with not a hill in sight- we're Flatty McFlatFlats here and being in a small (in size) super urban, hyper-populated city (over 15 million people in the metro area alone), the population density (about 35,000 people per square mile) means that trees and parks and greenery are not highly prioritized- so not the greenest place in the world. I was born and raised here though so I do love it. We have lots of beaches with the Atlantic Ocean and also lagoons and creeks and such like all around me. I'm rarely more than a 20-minute drive from the seaside (not that I ever actually go unless I have visitors from out of town who want to see the ocean. I think I'm beached out from childhood). Yay downward trend of the scale and here's hoping this weekend jaunt to the 220s!
Diane: I definitely feel you about the running. It will get better as you say.
Laurie: Hopefully things slow down soon AND you get that raise AND somebody gets to hear about this excessive workload.
Alright must run. I have no goals except to do the same things as I said I wanted to do yesterday but to be better than yesterday at doing them. Hugs to everyone!
Toasted: hey if you want a break and a tour of a different part of the world - specifically my state check out “our wisconsin” magazine on fB and look at their landscape photos (some of the nicest in current publications). That will give you an idea of how our terrain differs in all areas of my state. We have the luck of having a little bit of everything but generally once you leave our cities it’s mainly farm land or forest. My DH once asked me if I wanted to move anywhere where would it be. That’s hard as we have 4 seasons just winter gets a little much some years (this year they say heavy snow and cold) and others browner than brown and no snow - and summer can get a bit humid - but I’ll confess there is something pretty w/ each season. I believe ubee lived on the opposite side from me so she benefits from Lake Michigan’s beauty. Enjoy a break to my part of the world! I’ll get to enjoy the Atlantic in Jan and Sept with family travels. So I’ll wave your way!
AM: walk completed. Laundry in and I am finishing up my coffee to switch to water. Then in just a bit going to deal w the big mess and JUST DO IT. See Nike did have a slogan I embrace from time to time.
Cheer me on and send me good vibes to get squarelly in the 20s this weekend. I have a bday cake of my own to deal with but maybe DH and the kids can tear into it while I have one smaller piece. My long term goal is to be in healthy weight range before I hit the half century mark, I have time but I’d like to be comfortably in that range before then😊
Ok off to do that project that so annoys me. Enjoy your day.
Toasted - I am so impressed that you have decided to do the (slightly modified) Whole 30. I have taken a weak stab at it in the past, only to fall to my undying love/hate relationship with the sugar in my life. And I have been plagued by the whole "get up but not really exercise" thing too. I was up and dressed and ready to go yesterday. Then, I just didn't. I woke up this morning without an alarm, and just lay in bed trying to convince myself that I should do something before it got too late. I was not persuasive. Tomorrow will be different, right? Also, did I mention how THRILLED I am that you're back and posting? I, too, have fallen prey to the post-cruise, don't-want-to-do-it plague. But I'd rather have the post-cruise struggle with discipline than not go on the cruise, so there's that. It sounds like you had a great time.
LemonThyme - I used to live in MN. I do not love the cold. Not jealous of how cold Wisconsin gets. Regarding your birthday cake conundrum - I have a confession. I will sometimes adopt the "Twinkie diet" approach to food on days where I know I will be eating unnecessary calories. I eat the cake, but I might not eat dinner,or I might eat a very-low calorie dinner. But it all depends on whether I am crushing it and don't want the slow-down that comes from just eating extra calories. Or if I am really struggling and worry that one slice of cake will lead to fifteen. (Or more likely, one slice of cake and EVERYTHING else in the house.) I hate food-centered activities, though, especially when they're supposed to be to honor me. Look, I get that as the mother, my needs should frequently be subordinated to those of my children. But on my birthday, as a "favor" to me? Ugh.
Diane - So thrilled to have you back from your hunting trip and to see you killing it on both the exercise and nutrition fronts. And to see that hard work rewarded? Nothing better. I have felt like you this week with all of my unreasonable work demands. I don't know how you do it.
Lilion - Really glad to hear from you! It is just not easing up for you, though, is it? From a girlfriend struggling with health issues to your husband's run-in with the deer, to the continued struggle from your little girl dog -- I think you've had enough unfortunate incidents surrounding you! I hope life settles a bit, and you can get back to your routines. Or that you can create new, successful ones.
As for me - work has taken over my life a bit. And it's sort of my fault. I am thrilled to report that I am doing much better on the depression front. I don't know if the kefir itself made a difference this time around, but I am going to continue to take it as a prophylactic and hopefully avoid dropping that deep again. I know that lots of people go through funks that last months or even years, so my weeks-long depression funk was blessedly short in comparison. But I have now convinced myself that I have to make up all of that lost productivity from when I was barely covering the minimum and also keep up with all of the projects coming in right now. I don't have anyone managing my workflow -- I just have areas of responsibility, and the needs associated with those responsibilities ebb and flow, and right now they happen to be spiking.
The running is suffering, as is the weight lifting. I am still walking about 20K steps a day, so that's helpful, but I haven't been doing my bodyweight exercises either. But that's got to end. I need to stop trying to rescue people from their own mistakes. It's just that if I don't fix these mistakes on the front end, they could easily end up in substantial litigation, which is way more work than the proactive steps. I have started having discussions about consulting me BEFORE doing stupid stuff so that, maybe, the stupid stuff doesn't get done. But I'm ranting, and I need to get back to fixing the mistakes rather than complaining about them.
Goals.
1 - Maintain my "cone of silence" that I imposed to keep coworkers from chatting me up about anything not work-related.
2 - Two sets of bodyweight exercises.
3 - Leave for two separate walks today.
4 - Weight in the morning.
5 - Leave work on time and run before I go home and get sucked into the chaos there.
Lemonthyme: I don't have many geraniums, but I think I'll try that. I love them but I hate to just watch them die in the fall. And, I think that they are a little pricey to buy each year. I don't have a basement, but I can put them in the attic, maybe. It stays cool up there. I have a shed outdoors, but I wonder if they would get too cold out there? They'd be protected from the elements, but I don't know if they would freeze anyway. Keep pushing on, and I think you'll be out of the 230's soon!!
Laurie: It is so hard when work takes you away from your usual routine and exercise. Hopefully it will even out soon. I think you are wise in limiting chatter at work. It can eat up so much time!
Toasted: Sorry you are not feeling 100% yet. I hope that it all clears up soon for you. It is discouraging when things are happening out of your control, and you end up missing out on what you need to do. Maybe some of the bad feeling in your tummy is affecting how you are working through your stuff!!
For me, I am also not 100%. I definitely have a cold. It isn't horrible yet, but it is enough in my chest that it is a little difficult to breathe. So, I didn't go to work out this morning and I might just be done for now until next week. I have to just accept it and try to get over it as soon as possible so that I can keep up with my work out goals. I also need to try to stay on track with food. I have more issues with it when I am not working out. It is ok... I will make it through!!
diane: I think you'd be fine in the attic as long as you store other items up there - just check them periodically so they don't start blooming - you don't want them to freeze and I'd be afraid your shed just might have that. But you can check on line for your plant zone and see what others recommend. sometimes just covering and tossing in the garage works for some too.
laurie: I am happy to read the probiotic seems to agree with you in some form. Sometimes it's just happening on what might work for your body. But everything I have read on gut/depression healing is interesting. Wouldn't that be great if they solved some of these puzzling health issues? Of course then we might be walking around mumbling -" ...and I suffered for years, and it would have been so simple had I known!" Alas, maybe work will slow down some and you can catch your breath.
hello all!
AM: Well, I have my project about a 1/3 of the way done. Woot - I started to make sense of the mess and I chose to work on those easier to slay items - sure it bounces me around, but I have my master plan in front of me, so it's just filling in the pieces.
Dinner is ready to pop in the oven, I plan to have big salad and small portion of main dish - cleaning out the fridge/freezer and no ideas as my pantry is lower than I thought of basics. So tonight is a ham potato and cheesy sauce. Looked good, don't know how it will taste as I only had string cheese on hand. I didn't have lunch today either, so calorie wise I think I am ok.
Here's hoping tomorrows scale is decent. I have my little card that says 230 on my monitor - it's only been reminding me FOREVER, but I think tomorrow I may change it and focus on 220 whenever I change my line of sight. Maybe that will be a good reminder and spur me on to do better and keep up the fight.
Alright gals - have wonderful evenings. I am watching project runway - wonder if that will be going away w/all the scandal that is by its producer. I always like it because it reminds me of projects from when I was in college. Alas - not the same media - but the rush to get something done.
It’s possible that this weekend IF I’M good I may finally get out of the 30s. My goal through the weekend is to hold my own feet to the fire and get there.
My today shout out: as I was laying on my side last night I found that my hip bone has less padding on it where it’s more boney than fatty. Sure when I stand the weight shifts but I haven’t felt the edge to my hip in any form or function in a long time.
I’m getting there -slowly - but getting there.
Hope everyone is doing well. That the end of week brings lots of smiles and a fast moving day. It dawned on me yesterday I did not get all my Halloween decorations done and I’m not going to. I suppose I could but I’ll just leave the few things up and go from there.
Wishing you all well. Personals later. Get that day moving and may you all have happy scales!
I won't bother you ladies with details...just stress that didn't need to be stressful. Life goes on. Weight goes up...just 1/2 a lb...not even enough to move the ticker. But stress does that so I'm not going to freak out. Though I may scream and swear loudly about other things. Lately my life reminds me of a meme I saw, "I don't need Morgan Freeman to narrate the story of my life, I need Samuel L. Jackson. My life requires multiple uses of the word 'M.....-F.....'".
It's Friday. I've been at work (on and off) all week and accomplished pretty much zilch. So I'm going to make this a flyby and try to get something DONE!
Lilion: I’m sorry you are having the hurdles in life right now. Sometimes I feel it can be more pole vaults - hang in there. If you need to vent we’re here. I know I’m new to this group but y’all have helped me with my worries - and I’m sure we can help you through this too.
Lilion: So sorry you aren't getting any relief right now with life issues. Hopefully things will turn around for you soon!
Lemonthyme: If you are better than me on weekends, I'll bet that you will make it below the magic number!! I tend to struggle some with weekends. I'm hoping I can stay on track since I've seen some losses this week. Also, love the NSV on your hip bone! It is great to recognize those things are happening. Getting our eyes off the scales sometimes is a great thing!
For me, still coming out of this cold. I just decided to take it easy again today and see if I can kick it to the curb. I did see a loss anyway this morning, so I think I'm doing well staying on plan with food. Might be a little bit of a struggle today, since I'm going out to lunch with my son.
Then, on Monday, I'll be ready to hit the gym again. It looks like the weather will be nice, so I might go for a hike, too. Maybe!!
So want sugar based products right now so figured to distract myself I’d post quickly. It’s been quiet here today but I know it’s a weekend and everyone has other excitement going on I’m sure.
It did snow here but didn’t amount to much as by me it melted as it hit the ground. Where my DH works it did collect for part of the day. So not wanting winter here at all yet but I’m resigned it will be full bore soon enough.
Today has been kind of meh on calories. I forgot to record my breakfast and I’m not 100% what I ate (horribly dumb I know). I was working on all these little projects I’ve let dam up and just sit and I’m tired of the resulting collections and general mess. One of them was repairing 8 books my youngest was a bit too loving with. It’s good to have done.
So tomorrow will be a fresh day. I do hope my scale is still kind to me. I think I might go stand in the shower I caught a chill and whatever I do I’m not warming up and I’ll step on the scale just to see where I might be and slay off 3 lbs from that to give me an idea of where I’ll be on wake up. I will be good this weekend is my mantra to keep the numbers down and not up.
Almost there and of course it’s a weekend so I need to do my best. I’ll be building my garden today w/DHs help. So I will get some exercise in as we are making and loading raised beds. Granted it should be mighty cold today to do so but it needs to get done to season and winter over for spring next year. My garden goal is to actually once again have a nice producing one. The last few years it starts off well - well: being things come up and then it’s petered out before harvesting. I am pretty sure the soil is shot and amending it has not helped well plus I’ve got black walnut trees in the area - neighbors trees - and they aren’t plant friends to most as they offset juglone which is a plant killer.
Then if time permits I have lots of indoor projects to do but in the end I may end up sitting on my duff and binge watch my dvr of PBSs British baker show - I can watch and not eat. Will see.
So that’s my outlook today lots to do, be mindful of what goes in - as now DH Is readying to make pancakes and I said I won’t be eating them or then. He’s not quite on board w the IF but it’s something that’s working and I do eat my calories - just later in the day. And since he’s not interested in loosing weight right now I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing and just explain once again why I’m not eating first thing out of bed.
Come Sunday I have to bake my cookies for a school Halloween party and decorate them Monday. I have to make caramel corn for a Halloween party Sunday and of course bday and Halloween in there - lots of little chances to really need to be observant and mindful on my end.
So my dears - have a wonderful day and weekend ahead - maybe someone will pop in and say hello. Enjoy your days of rest (which of course they never seem to be do they?!), enjoy your families and have happy scales! And know I’m this close to hopping into the 20s.
Hey guys, hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was alright. Mostly consumed by work and dealing with comments and critiques on scripts and catching up on The Voice and watching the football (of the soccer variety), but it was all okay in the end. My team won, The Voice was entertaining enough and though I yelled at my computer screen frequently, I did revise the scripts and send them back for final approval. In diet and fitness news, I did quite a lot of exercise on Friday and Saturday, but I also ate quite a lot of food. Weight is VERRRRRRRYYYY slowly creeping down though and I can feel myself getting stronger and fitter... ever so slightly.
Lemonthyme: Re: Cake. Cake is my favourite thing in the world. In fact, I started my Whole30 the day after I got back for my cruise rather than at the beginning of November because it's my dad's birthday mid-November and I will NOT be skipping the cake. On birthday, I tend to be of a "treat yo'self" mindset if it's a family birthday or MY birthday. If it's a friend's birthday or something, then I tend to go more with Laurie's approach of fasting or eating minimally around the birthday cake plans. But only because cake is cake. I'd skip meals HAPPILY for cake. But I guess it heavily depends on your ability to get back on track after one day off. I have a cheat day every Sunday and have had one since I started this journey in 2009 and it hasn't hurt me but if it was going to lead into a spiral, then I see the point of concern. Also, you are less than 1 lb away from your mini-goal! :Carrot: :Carrot: :Carrot: Sending you all the whoosh karma in the world! C'mon lbs, go away go away go away!!!!! And yes also ogling all the Our Wisconsin pics on Facebook! GORGEOUS!!! One day, I'll make it to that part of America!
Laurie: I'm glad you were able to do a longer check in and that you're feeling better. And yeah the post-cruise struggle is wayyyyy better than no cruise! Are you kidding? I was living my best food life on that cruise. I definitely earned every pound gained! :ROFL: I know what it's like to have to be the work mopper upper in addition to doing your own work so I can't imagine what it must be like doing that plus having to catch up from the time you were feeling blue. Hopefully the spike in your workload ebbs soon especially as we come towards the end of the year and the festive season. I find Whole30 more boring than hard but that's mostly my picky-eating fault. For me funnily enough, the hardest part is the lack of bread and the fact that there's added sugar or sweetener in so many things. If I really want something sweet, I have a banana or 3 dates but in fairness, I'm not the biggest sweet tooth other than when cake is involved. If there's cake, all bets are off.
Diane: I'm feeling better. I eat 3 dates a day for health reasons but I think I might need to cut back because they might have been what was bugging my stomach. I laid off them Friday and Saturday and felt much better even though I worked out so maybe it's that. I hope your cold is better. I think a break is a good idea so you can give your body time to fight the virus. Hope you had a good lunch with your son.
Lillion: Sorry you're having a Samuel L Jackson time right now. I hope things get better and more into Morgan Freeman territory soon. Sending you ALL the hugs!!! :HUG: :HUG :HUG:
Alright I need to go get stuff done. Wishing you all peace and a fabulously productive week.
Goals for the Rest of the Day
1.) No additional snacks
2.) Work on scripts
3.) Hit 10,000 steps
4.) Go to bed before midnight
5.) Get up early to do strength training workout
Ate cake, ate meal (DH has limited culinary skills so pasta) and scale went back up to 232 and another year older. Will watch my calories today and hope this week finally gets me out of the 30s before TOM hits yet again and before this coming weekends family bday party for my nephew. Oh and halloween but maybe if I include and think through this minis before I eat those mini chocolate items if I feel I need to absolutely have them - well they’ll be accounted for.
Laundry in and cookies ready to be made. School parties and all for my kids tomorrow. I am doing rollout sugar cookies. Our school district: rural and all has a lot of struggling families (money, addictions and lots of single families). I tend to make sugar cookies that are all decorated - which I’ve been told is a special treat for some of them that they look forward to. Sure it’s a bit more work but if they grow up and have a small Memory someone thought of them with a sweet treat maybe they’ll return the favor to the next kid when they grow up or in the moment, know someone thought a good thought for them while baking and wanted to give them a smile for a day. I enjoy doing that more because I love seeing their smiles especially if life is a bit rougher for them when their faces light up when they are on the receiving end.
And yes they can eat the cookies and I’ll avoid 😉
So that’s my journey today. More weight ive gained to take back off yet again. I’m a sliding rule! But it is what it is.
Toasted: I’m glad you are enjoying the photos. There are so many things to see in this part of the world - most take for granted I think - but there are a lot of special hidden gems and others widely known. And we have all 4 seasons in fact it looks rainy once again. At least the snow melted as it landed! And winter has held off a few more days.
Sorry edits are a pain in the arse. I always hated them especially if it was something you’d agonized over to get right in the first place. Hang in there.
Hello all!
Morning Diane, Laurie, Vlad and Lilion! Hope the world is looking better for each of you and have a good start to the week!
Lemonthyme: Glad you enjoyed your birthday and all the special indulgences!! You'll get the weight off this week, I'll bet. But nice that you could enjoy the day. That's really nice that you can make the cookies as you are. I love sugar cookies, so that would be tough for me to ignore!!
Toasted: Glad you are feeling better! That sounds like you had a very busy weekend, and very productive! That's awesome!
For me, I have been overtaken by this cold. I suffered through the weekend, and it isn't a whole lot better today. Makes me mad because I had to skip working out today. But I'm really congested, so I don't think it is good to go like that. I hate it when people are there who are sick. I might even go home early today, and I never do that!
I did hold onto a 1.4 pound loss last week. I would have like to have it be more, but with limited working out, I had to rely on my eating skills. I did ok, but not completely on track all weekend. Hopefully, this will clear up soon and I can get back to workouts.
Hopefully things slow down soon AND you get that raise AND somebody gets to hear about this excessive workload.
