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Laurie: I'm with you on not counting sugar in fruit when you are cutting out sugar. We all know that fruit is not the problem, not in the way that cookies, cake, ice cream, and candy are! Sounds like a good plan. Good luck on your fitbit challenge. I think that challenges can be helpful in motivating you to do that little bit extra!
For me, I made it to spin class. It was tough again with the humidity in the gym. It rained last night, which was great, but it is definitely humid. We're so not used to it where I live, that we complain easily! I'm sure it isn't that bad, but the air just feels so heavy. I'm sure that working out will get better as time goes on. It seems like getting it back goes faster than just reaching the level the first time. I just need to stick with it. Body Pump is tomorrow and I am planning on running after work. The only one that I am not sure I want to do is Body Flow on Friday. I think I'll make myself go, but I know that I am one stiff and inflexible person right now. It will be tough. |
LaurieDawn, those are 3 excellent goals. For lawn-mowing, I put my fitbit on "workout" and let it log like I'm doing jumping jacks for 40 minutes. It doesn't probably give me any more calories, but it feels like it does. :)
Slashnl, the humidity and such is oppressive here! At the moment, it's 93 degrees, which isn't terrible, but the heat index is 105! That's just too darn hot! I'm beat today. I got a bunch of text alerts on my Fitbit, waking me from a sound sleep, after midnight last night from my brother. Well, obviously I'm going to go check my texts...the man was just mad at me about some comment I made on Facebook teasing him! I was awake for over an hour and a half, finally getting back to sleep close to 2 a.m. I apologized, FOUR TIMES, before he finally texted back after 10 a.m. today accepting that I didn't mean to offend him. Frankly, the way I feel now I wish I'd have just told him to not be a jackass and grow a skin. This is my OLDER brother! I put up with my share of teasing over the year, I assure you. So anyway, I'm TIRED! I skipped the elliptical in favor of staying in bed another 1/2 hour, but I got in my walk at lunch. Just going over to the capitol was HOT! At least I'm leaving work early. Later ladies. |
Hey, guys! I'm alive. It's been a rough couple of weeks for me. Injured my knee and calf two weeks ago (took a nasty tumble), so working out has been a no-go. Work has been crazy. 07/08 was the one-year anniversary for my Mom passing away, and yesterday (07/11) was my birthday. Healthy eating has gone out the window. Working out is out the window until my knee and calf are better (which thankfully, I'd give another week or so until I can try the gym again safely). Honestly, I'm just kind of trying to keep an even keel in life right now. It's all getting better, though...knee is better and calf is about 90% back to normal, we're getting fully staffed with nurses again (the trainees are slowly graduating our training program) so work will calm down a lot, I've done a lot of deep-thinking and working through issues with my Mom's death and feel more at peace, and while I'm not overly excited about my birthday this year, everyone around me is and it's nice to have people be excited for me when I don't have the energy to be. I'm especially thankful for my friends and family.
I'm mostly lurking still, but I'm here in the shadows! When things calm down a little more, I'll be back consistently. Hoping everyone is well. Lilion, reading about your fur-baby breaks my damn heart. I've got a herd of my own, and losing one of them is like losing a family member because...well, because they *are* family members. I'm sending all my good juju your way! She's lucky to have someone so loving taking care of her. |
Amanda!!!! - It is so good to have you back! Or, maybe, visibly back! Sorry to hear about your injuries. Glad they're healing well, though. And the mental stuff sounds challenging too. You lost your mother far too young. Hopefully, work will calm down, you'll find a measure of peace again, and your physical injuries will heal quickly.
Lilion - Ugh. Family drama over nothing makes me crazy! Especially when it robs me of much-needed sleep. Glad your brother finally "forgave" you, and hope you can quickly forgive him for his nonsense about it. And yay for conquering your lunchtime walk, despite the foolishness. Day 3 of no sugar, and it's going amazingly well. I am not craving it with the kind of intensity that I have last week, and the weight (still high from the cruise) is melting off again. One of the stupid cupcakes is on the counter again. I warned my husband that if he didn't get rid of them, I would throw them away, but he gave them to the kids (who were at their mom's house when the cupcakes were delivered, but are with us on Wednesday and Thursday), and he's "saving it." I applaud his self-discipline, but also feel like I can't follow through on my threat to toss it. And yet, it's not bothering me. My short-term success is paying out high dividends, yet I am finding that I resent it. For whatever reason, I like having this crazy. Well, it's love/hate. I hate, hate, hate the fact that I haunt my workplace searching down sugar in the late afternoons, and feel desperate to find it. I hate that just having sugar around makes me choose between taking my husband's junk fund and torturing myself with denial of taking it. But, for whatever reason, I was disappointed yesterday when I took a cookie from a work function to deliver to my husband, and did not feel the overwhelming pull of it. I don't understand what's going on mentally! I am a low-key, low-drama person, but I feel like I need a vice, I guess. Anyone have words of wisdom? Goals - 1 - Conquer Day 3 of No Sugar 2 - Stick to my work-out schedule (lifting today), with at least 11K steps 3 - Eat responsibly Hope everyone has a great day! |
Panda, it's good to see you! I'm so very sorry you are dealing with the grief of losing your mom - and so close to your birthday...that has to be harder. I don't know how old you are...but I was 23 when my mom passed away. I remember that pain like it was yesterday...and truthfully, though I've now lived 30 years without her, I still miss her. But it get's better. It sounds so trite when people say, "time heals", but it truly does. The time will come when you will be able to laugh and talk about your mom and only feel love at the memories. :hug: Be kind to yourself and get back on track when you are able.
LaurieDawn, your sugar/snack conflict sounds familiar to me - I'm a (former at the moment) smoker. I haven't had a cigarette since a week before Thanksgiving. I no longer crave them...or at least only occasionally...but I do miss them. I liked smoking. I liked the feel and the taste and the ability to take a smoke-break and just leave the office for 15 minutes without anyone thinking anything of it. So yeah...I could buy a pack of cigarettes for someone and not physically want one now...but I miss them. I kind of resent that other people still get to do it and I don't. It's stupid, because I chose to stop smoking. Okay, fine...I did it because I don't want to die of cancer, but it's still a choice. But just because I don't want to start again, doesn't mean I don't want to start again...makes sense? :lol: It's been a weird week. Didn't get a rest day Saturday because of the janitor work. Sunday skipped the Y because hubby was ill. Ate junk on Monday because he bought it and I was exhausted too. Did okay on Tuesday but yesterday was so tired I got home, took a nap, went to clean again, and was so tired I gladly ate junk rather than cook - though I didn't exceed my calorie limit. Today I AGAIN skipped the elliptical in favor of 1/2 hour more sleep. I could go back to bed right now. I AM SO TIRED! Maybe I've been fighting off hubby's bug from Sunday and Monday...he usually gets hit worse than I do... and that's the cause of this exhaustion, which was just capped off with Tuesday night's sleep fiasco? Or maybe it's the missing of my usual exercise? Either way, I'm beat! My eyes are watering, my brain is foggy (not good with my job) and I keep yawning, yawning, yawning! At least I did bring a healthy salad lunch to work today, so I won't be buying junk. I will go take my walk at lunch, albeit a bit slower and shorter than the norm I think. At this point, I'm thinking this week is kind of scrapped in the exercise department and I'll start over on Sunday. If only I could take a whole day and just SLEEP! |
Lilion: Ugh! Lack of sleep is the worst. It makes it so hard to do everything you need to do in a day. Hopefully, you can get some sleep tonight!
Dread: Glad to see you post, but I'm sorry you are struggling through with injury and emotional stuff. Injuries just take you out of your routine and it is hard to know when to go back to workouts and how hard to work, etc. I'm sorry about your Mom. It is a tough thing to go through. Oh, and happy birthday! Laurie: Yeah, you kind of have to keep the cupcake now. I'm glad it isn't bothering you too much. Cupcakes are not good for me to have around. I love cake type things, and cupcakes are top of the list. Good for you for not giving in and not feeling too bad for not having it! For me, I was about 5 seconds away from not going to the gym today. I was sitting on my couch this morning, with the window open and there was such a nice breeze coming in! It was so nice. I thought "well, maybe I'll just skip it today." But then I knew I'd be disappointed in myself, and I won't be back to Body Pump until next Tuesday, so I went. It was a tough class, but I am glad I went. Now, to try to make myself go back to the gym to run. Hmm. Not feeling it right now. Maybe I can guilt myself into going. Ha! |
I just haven't had time to check in but I'm glad to see Amanda popped in and that all seems pretty good here. We haven't heard from Uber in a while, I hope all's well there....
I'm holding steady just the right side of Onederland. I've been doing good on the sugar front and the cake pops etc aren't calling to me like they were (I wouldn't even mind their siren call if they were good but the white frosted ones were yucky and I still wanted them.... that's what was really driving me crazy... Wanting something that tastes good, sure, great. But wanting something you know you won't really enjoy... are you crazy. Yes, apparently so....). Anyway, I'm eating right and feeling good and if I'm not losing right now that's okay. Slow and steady.... |
Vladadog: Glad to see you posted. At least you're hanging in there on the better side of 200! That's a win! That's true about Uber, hope all is ok even though we haven't heard from her.
For me, I did go running last night. It wasn't good, but about what I expected. I just need to muscle through this beginning stuff and start building back to where I was. I didn't go to Body Flow this morning. I was really stiff and sore, so I didn't want to go. I know it might have helped, but I also know that it would have been tough to do any of it. I wasn't up for that. So, maybe next week? :) |
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After a hectic morning, I am here! Diane - So much of the time, it's one foot in front of the other before our goal begins to materialize. At least for me, it's committing to the daily dredge when I'm just not feeling it that makes all the difference. And sometimes, that means making the decision to stop pushing as hard so that we stay motivated and willing to do it, and sometimes, our bodies are just not physically capable of what we think they should be yet. I had a bad run on Wednesday, but I decided to switch in a little bit of walking so that I could finish the mileage I had planned, even if I wasn't able to run it all. But I still felt great about doing it, because it's always better than the alternative. You'll be ready to conquer Body Flow next week! Congrats on finishing the run and on getting yourself off that breezy couch to conquer Body Pump! Vladadog - You are absolutely spot-on. Sometimes, we just don't lose, even when we're doing the right things. But staying in Onederland, conquering your sugar cravings, and keeping your good habits until the scale/your body responds appropriately - that's all that's necessary. Lilion - That's EXACTLY how I feel with the sugar. I know I don't really want it, and I know it won't make me feel good, and I really hate that desperate "I need to hunt down sugar right now, which means trying to find people with candy jars who aren't at their desks because I don't want to admit that's what I'm doing" feeling. But I miss indulging the craving, and I'm a little sad that I'm at a point where I realize that the indulgence isn't as satisfying as the denial. Ugh. Who wants to be mature about all of this? Sorry about your sleep deprivation / exhaustion. It can be the worst! But, at least for me, sometimes when I am physically exhausted from lack of sleep, I get my best work-outs in. I don't want to go, but when I start, I start to feel so much better. Maybe your lunch walk will wake you up a bit? I have continued to do very well with the "no sugar" thing. Today was a food day - cake, donuts, chocolate chocolate chip cookies (possibly my favorite), and I had to see enough people that I walked past no fewer than five candy jars. Not gonna lie -- I loved not being pulled into them. And I hated that I wasn't being pulled into them. I have also inadvertently given up energy drinks. I had planned to intersperse them with caffeinated Mio, but accidentally bought non-caffeinated Mio, decided that I preferred it to sugar-free Red Bull, and have been caffeine-free for three days. Where are all my vices going?!?!?! I did wake up at 12:45 a.m., though, just starving. I got up and ate some fake ice cream and a snack-size bag of Fritos (cuz that's what we had that was quick and easy), but was disappointed that I consumed so many simple carbs. I hadn't explicitly decided to forgo chips entirely, and specifically decided to allow myself the fake ice cream, but I have eaten almost exclusively low-calorie, nutrition-dense foods since Tuesday. I may try to get in a few more calories before bed if it happens again, but I'm not going to worry about it now. I did weigh this morning, and I am now close to pre-cruise weight, although I can't actually remember what my weight was this morning. How amazing is that? It's usually burned into my brain. Enough rambling. Just weird and unexpected, though pretty great, things happening right now. Hopefully, things continue to get easier, though I never count on that. Goals - 1 - Run 5 miles today, even if I need to do intervals 2 - Bring healthy road snacks for our weekend trip to pick up my daughter from the airport (5 hours both ways!) 3 - Buy some new underwear already. I have been wearing the same size underwear while my clothing size has gone from 16 to 6/8. 4 - See if I can find a sexy, midriff-exposing dress that I like and that isn't too expensive. 5 - Conquer days 4 and 5 of no sugar, and make a decision as to whether I want to eat some of the cookies/cookie dough I promised to bake my returning daughter on Sunday. Have a great weekend, everyone! |
Good morning!
Looks like I am back-to-back! I did five days of no-sugar, followed by a total sugar binge yesterday on our road trip back home. I walked for about an hour and felt better, then stopped to pick up ingredients for our food day at work today. UGH on food days. I bought some licorice, ate it on the way home, and could barely put the groceries away before collapsing. WAY too much sugar. So, I'm back on the bandwagon, trying to recover. I didn't weigh this morning, but I did dress in fitting clothes. My go-to for a day after a binge is to wear loose clothes because I feel so gross and feel like I deserve to gain 100 pounds overnight, but that's just the beginning of the plunge to all-binge, all-the-time me when I do that. So, I'm sipping water today, avoiding the food for the food day, and trying to recover from some foolishness. Two completely different compliments. 1 - I mentioned to my occasional work-out friend that I am trying to maintain rather than lose, and trying to be okay with the reality that I will always have thunder thighs. Her response? "Your thighs and calves are still really big, but they look way better than I've ever seen them, even the last time you lost weight." Really? My legs are smaller at 147 than they were at 190? How remarkable! And way to make me feel like my body is being scrutinized in a way that I try to convince myself it's not. To be fair, the day I met her in law school, she expressed considerable surprise that I had reached the semi-finals of an oral argument competition. So, I have long loved her in spite of her lack of tact. 2 - I passed a man in the parking lot on the way into the grocery store this morning. He asked me my name and told me his. I said hello and told him to have a great day. As I was walking away, he said, "D***, you're gorgeous." Not in a creepy, street-calling kind of way, either. Goals for today - 1 - Continue to take in water. 2 - Get in a few walks. 3 - Get in a run. 4 - Make and enjoy dinner and cookies this evening without overindulging. (Hopefully, it's easier to do after my misery last night and this morning.) Have a great day, everyone! |
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Heck, I'd settle for a cat-call. ;) My weekend was weird and uneventful while being terribly busy...somehow. :?: Friday I skipped my morning elliptical (in favor of sleep) and also my lunchtime walk (in favor of lunchtime eating out) and thought that would be fine because we always go to the Y Friday nights. But, the gym at the Y we always go to was closed for cleaning and painting so, instead of going to one of the other two Y's in town, hubby wanted to go swimming. I own 4 swimsuits - sizes 18, 20, 22 and 24 - and I haven't actually been in a pool since I wore the 18. :( So pool it was. Burned over 700 calories, and got so few giving as a calorie adjustment on MFP (because I'd been so sedentary) that I ended up going over my calories that day by like 300. Saturday we cleaned our church - we're temporary custodians until a new one is hired - and worked up quite the sweat doing that! But otherwise had a pretty uneventful day. Should have gone to the Y then...still didn't. Sunday we slept in, skipped church, lazed about, and headed to church to clean up about 1. After that we went down to our woodland property and hubby mowed our paths and "lawn" area around the cabin while I picked blackberries from our wild berry patch. It's been so hot and dry we're not getting much, but I have enough for a cobbler and that's going to happen later this week. :) I look a bit like I've been playing with a kitten, with little scratches everywhere from the thorns...SO worth it! After we got back we did household chores and then it was Game of Thrones night! :woohoo: Back to work and back to the grind. :D |
Laurie: Glad things are going well for you. Sounds like people do notice, even if you don't want them to!! Take it as a compliment, I guess! Hope you are back on track with sugar, but I don't think that you went to the worst possible forms of sugar when you did indulge a little. Win!
Lilion: Sounds like the pool was a success. Glad you had fun with it. And then, lots of work with cleaning up at church. I think that's keeping you exercising!! For me, I didn't make it to spin today, but I'm going to try to get to the gym after work to do some running/walking. I need to build back up to some good running, so that seemed like something I should do. Then, on to Body Pump in the morning. |
Good morning!
Lilion - I love following your adventures of church custodian! I think I mentioned that I did that for almost all of my childhood years with my dad. Between that and working for a fellow state in the capital complex, it seems like we have much in common. And I really wasn't sure how to react to the compliment, which he didn't actually address to me. It was definitely an ego-boost, though, which was nice after I got the "not really a compliment" compliment from my friend. I also enjoyed Game of Thrones Sunday night, though I enjoyed it through my haze of misery after my sugar overdose. =) Diane - Hope your run went well last night! I feel like we're always in a build-up phase with running, and honestly, I kind of like it that way. I sort of had this fantasy when I was feeling a bit miserable training for my half-marathon that I would just be a casual, 3 times a week, 5 mile per run kind of runner. But it just isn't working out that way for me. I have days when running feels natural and good, and other days when even getting to a mile is a struggle. Granted, part of it is recovering from surgery and having that setback. But last week, I ran 3.1 miles on Wednesday, but had to fight through even a mile on Friday before resorting to walking intervals. In some ways, it's a blessing and a curse. I don't think it will ever be routine for me, but on the other hand, it doesn't really get boring either. Hope your run went exceptionally well, and that Body Pump this morning was amazing. I finally got back on the scale this morning. As expected, it went up. I'm back in 15x-land again, but just barely. (150.2). I am going to do another seven day sugar-free challenge again, I think, starting today. But I am going to allow myself exceptions. I am probably going to make cookies again tonight, and I will allow myself to eat two cookies and a few pinches of dough. I am only going to make them, though, if they're specifically requested by my visiting daughter and son-in-law. Goals - 1 - Sugar-free, with possible cookie exception 2 - Stay in first place with my FitBit challenge (which is requiring about 2100 steps per day) 3 - Lift weights 4 - Start retiring my sizes 12 and 14 from my closet 5 - Focus on getting work done Hope everyone has a great day! |
Morning all!
I remain in awe of you runners. I've told you I can't run...that as I child my parents even told me I don't "run". They thought it was something to do with my back and hip structure. I don't know...no doctor every told me that, but maybe they did them. I've always had some back issues, but really...running is just the most awkward thing in the world. I love running...in theory. I love watching runners...so graceful, the posture and the legs strong carrying them at speed across the ground. Then I try to even jog a bit to go across the street and avoid being squashed by a bus and I HATE IT. :lol: I don't know what it is, but I feel like an idiot. I did try the other day to just jog a tiny bit on a walk when there was no one around to see me and yeah...hated it. I felt like a complete fool even with no one around and my posture was all wrong; awkward and hunched and hideous...like Quasimodo trying to run a marathon. And everything jiggles. I don't even think I was going any faster than a walk anyway. My whole body just feels ... dumb when I try to run. I'm toast when the zombie apocalypse comes. :sklol: Monday night church cleaning took on a new twist when I accidently locked myself out in the children's playground. The fenced, locked, playground. :rolleyes: I had my phone...thank GOD I'd stuck it in my back pocket! My husband was vacuuming the sanctuary...which of course has no outside access...and HIS phone was in the lobby. I texted him about 15 times, called, finally went on Facebook live and laughed at myself. Luckily, he was almost done and when he couldn't find me he texted...at the same time, people who saw my Facebook post started calling him and I was rescued. :rofl: It was really hot out there! It's been a weird couple of weeks for me on the diet and exercise front. Diet is okay...not really going over much...but exercise...not so good. I'm still not getting up early and doing the elliptical. I know I need to, but that extra hour sleep in the morning is just HEAVEN. I'm not gaining, but I really need to find that motivation again. :( Right now I'm kinda blah...:dunno: Nothing else new. I best get to work now. :wave: |
Lilion: Haha! Good story on the playground prison! Glad you made it out. I'm kind of the opposite of you. Exercise is going fine, but food plan is not on point. I can't get past the struggle stage.
Laurie: I'd agree with that. I've never been to a point that it was fun/relaxing/whatever when running. Some days are good and some are awful. But overall, I love the effect. So, I'll keep doing it too. Glad you are giving yourself the cookie exception when it comes to your no sugar goal. Gotta live a little!! As for me, as I said above, the food plan is still difficult. I'm not sure why. I just can't get to the strict discipline that I had before. I need to, but I can't seem to get there. But, I'll keep trying and searching for that zen stage of food control! |
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Lilion - You sound like you're a riot to be FB friends with! Glad you were freed from the hellish conditions on a child's playground. I have a general aversion to waking up, and have found over many years of tears that I am just not willing to get up in the morning to exercise. However, I am in a Fitbit challenge, and my competitive nature has found me squeezing steps out of every available opportunity. Need to use the restroom? Do so, then loop around the building before going back to my desk for a bonus 500 steps! Making dinner? Use those few minutes when I'm waiting for something to take a few turns around the room. Park far away from the grocery store. Or, better yet, take advantage of the air conditioning inside the store to walk a few times around the perimeter of the store. Maybe this is stuff you already do, but it has surprised me how much this stuff adds up. Often more than a concentrated five-miles run (which I am still not doing post-surgery). So weird about your running issue. If it makes you feel better, my husband took video of me "running" the last few yards of my half-marathon. (My running pace was really about walking pace at that point.) I do not run pretty. And I have not yet found a love of running. I do, however, love the sense of accomplishment, which is why I'm still doing it. Hopefully, you find the joy of accomplishment in the elliptical. Diane - I SO hope you find that zen state! It is sssooo elusive, but sssooo great to be there. I have said it before, but I have an incredible amount of admiration for the fact that you just don't seem to ever give up. Have setbacks, sure. Have times that are less productive than others, yes. But you never seem to have extended periods where you completely check out. I am trying desperately to emulate that. Weighed in today at 156.4. Found it quite alarming to have gained six pounds overnight, so moved the scale to be more level on the floor (weighing on bathroom tiles is a bad idea in general, but so is standing naked in any other part of the house), and it moved back down to a more reasonable, more expected 150.0. Ugh. The scale and its emotional roller coasters! Goals for the day: 1 - No sugar. 2 - Run 4 miles without stopping. That will be tough. 3 - Buy another suit or two that actually fit. I have a single suit now, and two in-person back-to-back hearings, and realized that I don't have a suit to wear tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great day! |
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I forgot to mention, I loved your "cookie exception" to the no-sugar day. Everyone needs an occasional cookie exception. :) Slashnl Hang in there! You'll find your groove again. |
I'll have to catch up on reading later, but wanted to check in: I finally met with the naturopath Monday, went through hours of food allergy testing, and now am having three "home samples" tested this week for candida. Fingers crossed that I will have some answers within 3 weeks. If it's candida, I can get an Rx and control it through diet...and start losing weight again. I've been so discouraged over not getting to go to the gym (2 injuries) and not being able to lose that these last 2 weeks have been one long binge. One-day-at-a-time trying to get back on track.
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Helloooooooooooo, everybody! :)
So life is slowly turning to the better. Knee and calf are about 95% healed up; just a few muscle twinges every now and then if I twist it too much or move too suddenly. I'm thinking of going back to the gym soon and maybe just starting with some gentle walking on the treadmill for 30min (or until my leg complains). I know how delicate an injury can be and how important proper rest can be, but I kind of actually miss being relatively active. I'm sure I'm going to eat my words as soon as I step foot in the gym. Diet-wise, I'd say I've been about 50% committed since Monday to eating well. I'm not actively trying but I'm also not actively fighting it. Meals have been healthy (protein smoothies, baked chicken and veggies, etc), but snacks have been iffy (chips and guacamole, chips and salsa, Rocky Road ice cream). I can do better, but I could also being doing much worse. Overall, I'd say it feels like dipping your foot in the water to test the temperature before just jumping in completely. I'm thinking next week I jump in and go 100%. I weighed myself Monday to assess the damage, and had only gained about two pounds since my lowest weight (Monday was 254lb, lowest being 252lb). I weighed myself this morning and I'm now at 251! Losing the weight plus an extra 1lb is super motivating. I'm only 2lb away from being back at pre-nursing school levels and being officially closer to 200lb than 300lb LOL. Frances: Good luck with the testing and diagnosis! Hopefully they nail it down and are able to get your treatment started so you can get going again. Laurie: LOL, I'm sorry about your scale drama. I weigh myself on the exact same tile that I've discovered to be most level, so that my weighing is at least consistent. Have a little fun with the new clothes buying ;) You deserve to treat yourself after all the work you've put in to get this far! Slash: I'll be sending you good food zen juju! At least your exercise game is still strong! Lilion: Dude, if the zombie apocalypse happens, I'm so screwed. Def gonna be first to die over here. My entire plan is to stress the point of me being a nurse and hope that someone needs a medic in their group so badly that they'll protect me and keep me alive, because I can't run for **** and cardio is Rule #1 to surviving!! Vladadog: Congrats on holding steady!! |
Panda - You're a nurse - I'm sure people will save you from the zombies. I'm a lawyer - they'll toss me into the hoard! :lol:
Panda and Francis hope you both get over your injuries and other issues soon. A big BRAVO for staying on track as well as you have! Panda, don't you love surprise losses...when you're just sure that scale is up and it's down? :goodscale: I had one of those today. I have just had such an odd week. No exercise to speak of except my lunchtime walks. I've skipped the elliptical all week and hubby and I have been skipping the Y too except for the one day in the pool last Friday. There have been snacks and meals out and just general weirdness. Yesterday the scale said 281.5. Today - 279! It's been a long time since I've seen a 7! :D The weirdness continues, unfortunately. I have a wedding tomorrow (husband's nephew), so will be out of town. We're skipping the reception though. BTW, when did it become popular to hold a reception 4 hours after the ceremony? Wedding at 2, reception at 6...figure we stayed until 8, dinner and cake cutting and maybe 1 dance and that puts us out of the house from noon (it's an hour and a half minimum drive) to 10 p.m! I don't have 10 hours for someone else's wedding - 6 hours literally including wedding, wait time, and then reception. I didn't spend 6 hours on my OWN wedding! :dizzy: Got bad news on my girl dog yesterday. The oncologist verified what my vet expected. I'm just finding it hard to concentrate on anything right now with that going on. But, life goes on as they say. I hope to get back on track for real this week. What I need is a vacation and sleep! A nap in the shade by a lake or somewhere shady and cool...doesn't that sound good? |
Hope everyone has a good weekend. I'm drowning here at work, so this is quick.
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Lilion - How did I not know that you're a lawyer? And a lawyer who works for a Midwest state agency stationed in the Capital Complex, too. Very coincidental. Sorry to hear about your puppy. Hope that they're able to treat it and that she improves rapidly. =/ Congratulations on the scale progress! The scale is a mystery, but maybe you're being rewarded for past efforts? Regardless, it's amazing when it flips to a new decade.
Amanda - Yay for scale progress to you, too, Missy. Down to 251 -- almost to a new decade yourself, let alone a new half-century! Glad things are getting back under control. Hope the gym is good to your injured leg. Sometimes, the work-outs help rather than hurt. Frances - Glad you're getting your medical issues under control again. There's nothing so frustrating as having little control over something like this. I hope that your candida (if that's what it is) is quickly resolved and that your injuries begin healing. Diane - Glad you stopped in for a quick wave! Hope that work gets calmer and that the weekend re-grouping goes well. I am feeling pretty lax lately. I decided that I would eat a tortilla with my dinner yesterday, and found myself reaching out for a second tortilla for no discernible reason. I wasn't hungry. I didn't have a strong desire to eat the tortilla. I just wanted it because it was there. I did actually take a bite of it, but then threw it out because I didn't need it and took a walk instead. Today, I ate more of my lunch than I wanted or needed, just cuz it was there. I am pretty sure there are cookies and donuts upstairs. I haven't gone up there, but I am just feeling like if I want it, I should just have it. I just don't really want it right now. It's all just weird, and feels like it's mostly just lethargy. My knee is a little jacked too. Yet, I am pretty sure I am going to go running this afternoon. Again, it's kind of like I'm going through the motions because I just can't bring the energy to care. On the other hand, my husband showed me a picture he had taken on the Fourth of July. A dark-haired, thin woman was standing by my son, and I said, "I didn't know [son's girlfriend's name] had shown up by that point in the evening. Turns out, I was the woman in the picture. To be fair, I was looking at his phone screen from a distance, and I had drawn the conclusion mostly from context. But still. . . . |
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Okay...first of all WOW! Talk about a NSV - so skinny and pretty you think you're your son's girlfriend. :lol: I don't usually tell people I'm a lawyer. I only do the one type of law my particular office does...so no one ask me questions...I'm not a "real" lawyer anymore. :p I guess I wasn't clear about my little girl dog...she won't get better. Far too soon, we'll only have a little boy doggy. Breaks my heart :( but there's absolutely nothing that can be done. The problem with pets is you always outlive them. You have to just love them for as long as you can. Popped back in to really just say, I hope everyone has a good weekend! Be good and make good choices. |
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I needed to come in to work today, and decided to drop in and create a new goal signature and post some goals for the day. Lilion - I practice tax law, primarily. It does not make me particularly popular at parties, and I do not volunteer the information, generally. =) So sad about your girl dog. I am sorry to hear it, but glad you got the chance to love her for as long as you did. I weighed again after a disastrous few days nutrition-wise. My exercise is good, but you can't out-exercise bad eating choices. So, like Diane, I am doing a bit of re-grouping. I am 153 again, up from even my post-cruise weigh-in. So, I have decided to commit to losing 13 pounds. Thirteen is my lucky number, so maybe I'll be lucky on this one. So far, maintenance has not been a cruise control kind of thing, but I would rather struggle with exercise and nutrition at this end of the scale than the other end. I did clean out my closet again. Got rid of all the 12s and 14s and most of the 10s. I bought six new suits, some size 6 and some size 8. I was able to fit quite comfortably in a size 4 skirt and a size 4 dress as well. I also bought a whole bunch of raggedy gym clothes so when I run, I will no longer have to hitch my pants up. $80, and almost an entirely new wardrobe. I so love thrift stores! And it's so much easier to find good stuff now than it was before. So, now I have incentive to stay on track. I also had a great therapy session with my husband. When our relationship is better, it's much easier to do what I need to do. So, I'm going to do 14 sugar-free days. FOURTEEN. It won't be easy, but it's so much better to go without sugar than it is to struggle with it the way that I have been. This is a huge bugaboo for me. But it does make all the difference. I just need to be sure to have plenty of delicious fruits and veggies available. **deep breath** Fourteen days. But I'm almost through with Day 1 of the 14. =) Today's goals 1 - No sugar 2 - Get in my 11K steps 3 - Reasonable nutrition Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Diane, hope the regrouping is going well! |
I failed on the sugar thing yesterday. Nothing to it but to re-up. Day 1 of my 14 days of no sugar commences now.
Goals for the day: 1 - No sugar. 2 - Run late morning. 3 - Reasonable food choices. I need my clothes to continue to fit. Gotta start getting serious about it all. |
I haven't visited the forums in over a week or so. Been working on some depression stuff that has me not at all on my plan and not really wanting to think about weight loss. I am trying to get back with it, and having a better time of it today than I have had over the last week. Hope everyone is doing good (I confess that it is a little overwhelming seeing 2 new pages of posts since I was last here!)
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Laurie: Yeah, I think that's pretty good to not recognize yourself in the picture! That means you've had some pretty good changes! Hope running goes well for you, and your knee doesn't give you trouble.
PacificaBee: Good to see you posting! I hope that things are brightening up for you. It's tough enough to keep going with this losing weight stuff, without depression issues. Lilion: Sorry about your dog. Hope she keeps feeling ok. For me, I took the weekend to get my head on straight about it all. I saw a gym thing on Facebook that said something to the effect: When you become lazy, you let down those who look up to you. It wasn't one of those life changing statements, but it did make me think about all the people who have been encouraging me thus far. I also know that not only would I be letting them down, I'm letting myself down if I continue to be so lazy about my food plan. So, white knuckling it through this week to get back on track. I went to spin this morning and packed a good lunch. So far, so good! |
Hey all. The weirdness of no exercise continued through the weekend with a wedding 2 hours away Saturday and then just kind of exhaustion on Sunday. After church and mini-cleanup, we went home and napped, fully intending to get up and hit the Y afterwards. Yeah. Right. :dz: Woke up more tired than when we laid down, so we contented ourselves with laundry and cooking something healthy and that was that. STILL didn't manage to get to bed at a reasonable hour and got up too late to workout.
Think we might delay the custodian job to tomorrow so we can go to bed early. Maybe we'll finally get rested. Food was just horrible on Saturday and we didn't even do the reception because of the time and distance, but between snacks and eating fast food on the way home, I went WAY over on calories. But Sunday's cooking gave me left overs for a couple days lunches and we're pretty back on track there. Hope all of you are doing okay...got to get some work done! :wave: |
LaurieDawn, I'm on no sugar/honey right now too. It's a KILLER. I haven't been able to eat almonds without my trusty chocolate chips, but then I fell in love with toasted coconut almonds. Swoon! They have a TINY bit of sugar...I think 5 grams or less...it's a tradeoff for me. Totally worth it.
Lillion, tough to focus on eating well when you're running ragged! Hope you get some rest soon! And sorry about your dog! :( PBee, sorry about your struggles. I hear you. Sometimes I get really tired of thinking about the weight loss stuff. Hope you feel better soon! Slashnl, glad you're back on track! I've been back on track for about 4 days now. NOT weighing. Not eating honey makes it tough for me to eat my snacks...I usually worked in a couple tablespoons a day...so calories uncomfortably low (1250 - 1300). I'm just not hungry so I guess as long as I feel good and have energy, that's where I'll stay! Finished my disgusting home tests for candida, mailing them tomorrow, fingers crossed for results in 2 - 3 weeks! :^: |
Frances123: Well, hopefully you can get it all figured out with your test results. It kind of makes you crazy to have to think about it, I'm sure. Those almonds sound really good!
Lilion: Sounds like you are off schedule on sleeping! It makes it so hard to get up and work out when you're feeling so tired. I hope you get back in a groove! For me, not much new. I'm still working on staying on track. I veered a little yesterday, so hoping I can keep in line today. One day at a time! |
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Diane - Glad you got yourself sorted last weekend, even if it isn't 100% smooth. Still sounds like you have made some good decisions and are going in the right direction. I hope to take a cue from your book. Frances - I accidentally bought coconut cashews a few weeks ago. So. Delicious. Hope your candida tests prove helpful. I am not asking why the tests are disgusting, but pretty sure I know. Ugh. I went through the same thing as you seem to be when I gave up sugar for six days recently. I haven't yet had a successful day on my new sugar resolution, but today is day 1. Again. =) When I did do it successfully, I just didn't want to eat as much. It was a blessing, but I remember it making me feel uncomfortable. My doctor told me I would be eating sub-1000 calories for life, though, so I don't have alarms sound when I am in the calorie range you describe. I am just not sure what "normal" calories are anymore, and honestly, I'm done worrying about it for the most part. I just want to feel healthy and happy, and so long as I'm getting the required nutrients as indicated by blood tests, I'm good with it. Lilion I thought being tired was the ideal state to go to the gym in. =) Actually, my husband and I have two scheduled gym times -- Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30, when we drop the kids off across the street to do judo. So often, one or the other of us will feel exhausted or otherwise completed unmotivated. Sometimes, the work-out gets a solid rating of "Better than not doing it, I suppose." But, other times, working out makes us feel so. much. better. Hope you find your work-out juju again. But I think the food is more important, and it sounds like you're on track with that after a minor detour. I hope to get where you are with that. I am gaining weight. I read a few articles about weight gain and why it happens and how to prevent it. Most of them said things like, "Weight gain just creeps up on you, so you have to weigh yourself regularly and monitor how your clothes fit." Really? Weight gain sneaks up? In my case, I lose control and eat too much of all of the wrong things. There's no stealth involved. Yet another reminder that I am "different" from most people in this regard. I cannot eat normally. I cannot eat normally. I cannot eat normally. There. Hopefully, I will remember that. I do need to be vigilant, but damnit, it's just not that hard to be vigilant. I have developed the habits. I know my triggers. I know how quickly I can gain weight. I know that I am inclined to eat the entire sheet cake. (Uber reference there, on the off chance she is lurking.) So, I will be vigilant for the next fourteen days. No assuring myself that I can start my fourteen days tomorrow, and then tomorrow, and then tomorrow. Fourteen days, then a regroup to determine my next steps. I can do this. More importantly, I want to do this. I want to feel light and full of energy, which I don't when I eat myself into a stupor, or even when I just eat the wrong foods or too much of the right foods. I want to be strong and healthy and fit into the clothes I just purchased. It is critical that I start today, even if it means I refuse to inconvenience other people for the sake of my health. Goals - 1 - Lift weights 2 - NO SUGAR 3 - Reasonable portions 4 - Get my 15K steps Hope everyone has a fantastic day! |
Laurie: Well, I guess that's what some of us have in common... I have never had slow weight gain. I either am on track or I'm not/gaining quickly. I don't think I can just relax on eating ever again. Even if I get to where I want to be, I still see the battle looming. It just doesn't take much to go spiraling out of control and back up the scale. So, that's why we'll keep at it, I guess.
For me, I took a couple of days off from the gym. I'm at that age where I don't get shark week very often. It seems to be every 3 months or so, but when it is here, it is strenuous. I just don't like to fight it while trying to workout. I think tomorrow will be fine, so I'll be back there again. I don't get why it just won't go away.... Food is still a struggle, but I'm doing better than before. Baby steps. |
Diane - It seems like we are on the same mental page. Not boisterously enthusiastic, as I hope to be again at some point. Not desperate and wanting to quit. Just doggedly determined, and aware that it will be a forever battle. I am, theoretically, about where I want to be. But, with the exception of a few days or few weeks here and there, I have yet to find it to be "easy." I don't blame you for skipping the gym when you are bleeding. I still have regular periods, but they are inconsistent. Some are surprisingly light, but those seem to be followed by brutally heavy ones. Hope yours goes away soon and you can get the release found at the gym. And hopefully, you get the food issue sorted out well enough that you have an easier period of being on track.
I had a relatively easy first day of no sugar. Gym wasn't stellar, but it was decent. My body is slowly letting go of some of the weight I piled on in only a couple of days. Maybe after fourteen days, I'll figure out some way of being able to integrate sugar in my life without being out of control on it. Neither completely sugar-free nor out-of-control-on-sugar feel like the correct decisions for me, but I have never been able to be moderate about it. But maybe, after I am out of the active sugar addiction (13 more days maybe?), it will be easier for me to be able to restrict sugar to special occasions and to enjoy it rather than allow it to lead me into out of control eating. |
LaurieDawn, good luck on no sugar! Does that include honey, etc.? If not, I have some great raw honey muffin recipes that I could pass along. You wouldn't believe they were sugar free! I totally hear you (and Slashnl) on weight gain not being a "stealthy creeper." I'm either really good or really bad, and when I'm really bad, the weight comes on FAST. Yeah, I think that initial burst of enthusiasm has faded for all of us. :D But you're right, dogged determination is the way to win. Man oh man. It's a tough slog for sure!
No updates here, just waiting on test results (which can take up to 3 weeks). Still not weighing but doing really well with my eating. No sugar/no honey felt crippling the first few days but I've gotten into kind of a rhythm with it. No sugar jam to replace the honey in my yogurt, etc. But I'll be really glad to go back to my sustainable plan, which is in hold until I find out about the candida. So let's just keep slogging along through our various issues! That's the difference between those who lose and those who gain...perseverance! (Right?!?!? That's what I'm telling myself, anyway!) |
Things have been not-so-great on the diet and exercise front. The second job, which is really not many hours but just seeks to take all my energy. Husband and I have both been exhausted. Thankfully, this is the last night for that.:carrot: I've not been cooking like I should. I've not been working out like I should - just too tired to get out of bed and onto the elliptical in the morning. Too tired to go to the Y at night. All in all...bad. And the scale did show a pretty big jump today. I'm NOT logging it. Two reasons. #1. I haven't done well, but I haven't eaten so much over my goal consistently as to gain 5 lbs. #2. My wedding ring usually is upside down on my finger because it's getting too large. Today I can barely get it off. That's water. Given the hibachi grill food yesterday, I'm not terribly surprised.
So...one more bad day - family reunion and trip to Bass Pro Shop for my hub's birthday tomorrow - in a town 3 hours from home, so another dinner out likely. Sunday, we're off and we're likely going to SLEEP. But I plan to try to get my meals planned for the next week and do some real meal prep. Cut up veggies so they're ready to cook, maybe pre-cook some meats so I can throw together meals quickly at night instead of saying, "I don't want to cook! Let's go out! Pick up something on the way home!" I'm not good at meal prep...I've never really done it. But I need to give that a try so we can at least get more fresh veggies, etc. in our diets. Time to get back on track. |
Quick check in. We're really short handed at work, and I'm swamped. Not great on plan for the last couple of days. Might need to regroup this weekend.... again.... hahahaha!
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Good afternoon, everyone! Looking forward to the weekend!
Diane - You are forever short-handed at work. Hopefully, they appreciate your hard work and diligence! I love the weekend re-group! Hopefully, things go well. Lillion - Maybe you're not getting formal exercise, but it seems like you're doing a lot of activity, since your second job is so physical. I also agree that the "five pound gain" is not actually fat gain, but almost certainly mostly water, if not entirely water. Still, it's frustrating. Glad you've been down this road before so that you are able to take it in stride. I, too, tend to dislike meal planning. I actually like doing it for my family, so I don't have the frustrating "what's for dinner" panic, but for just me, it gets to be super annoying. However, if you get into the habit, you might find it useful and convenient. Let us know how it goes! Frances - I just Googled raw honey muffins, and I am almost salivating. I would love to see your recipes! Honestly, though, I almost never bake for myself. I bake chocolate chip cookies relentlessly because it's the only thing I prepare that my husband has said he enjoys. I am ruthlessly efficient at it now, but I am almost never able to make them without sampling the cookie dough, then eating enough cookies that I feel ill. My sugar-free ban is to stop myself from eating those cookies or the candy that's ever-present, or the donuts that people bring in randomly. But maybe making something like the raw honey muffins would be useful in preventing myself from being as tempted by the other, readily-available junk. My concern, though, is that they will be so delicious I will eat all of them in one sitting! I'm not good at shutting it down once I've started. And yay for slogging through until the test results come back! I think you're right. The ultimate difference comes down to perseverance. I am halfway through Day 3 without sugar. We're going into the weekend, so that might prove to be a challenge. The scale is going down again, but I can't help but feel a bit frustrated losing that same pound yet again. Still, I am trying to resign myself to the realization that maintenance is exactly that -- losing the same pounds again and again and again so that, hopefully, I stay in a fairly tight weight range. So far, I have spent about six months in the 143-160 weight range, and while that is a tremendous improvement over the huge bounces and losses I traditionally have, I would much rather be in the 140-145 range, and I'm at 153. But I also don't know why I'm so worried about the scale. I'm still struggling with being okay with forever-fat thighs and calves, but otherwise, I'm very happy with my body shape and my general overall health. That will be the same at 143 as at 153. It's just the ever-increasing creep that I am trying to avoid. Ugh. Am I right? Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! |
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Hope everyone had a great weekend! Things went pretty well for me on both the fitness and nutrition fronts. I did eat a limited amount of sugar on Saturday and Sunday, and have thoughtfully decided to suspend my 14-day sugar-free challenge. On Saturday evening, I went to a wedding reception and did not partake of any of the multiple sugar options. However, late that evening, I ate part of a chocolate muffin. I made cookies on Sunday, and rather than tell myself I couldn't have any, I told myself that I would wait to eat any cookie dough until after the cookies were in the oven, when I would allow myself to lick the bowl. I did that, and then ate 1.5 small cookies. I was able to reel it in after both incidents. I think perhaps I'm going to try to transition to allowing myself small amounts of sugar. That might make moderation more successful? On the other hand, I also made a lot of good choices. I brought water and raspberries to the movie instead of snacking on soda and popcorn. I skipped the pizza we ordered Sunday evening and enjoyed scrambled eggs instead. I also ran 4.25 miles yesterday, the most I've run consecutively since my surgery in May. I very much enjoyed doing yoga in the park Saturday morning. I bought some dress pants from the thrift store, and the pair I am wearing to work today is a size 4 (though, full disclosure, they are a bit tighter than I thought they were when I put them on this morning, judged by the fact that they are not terribly comfortable). Maybe I'm finally starting to find the moderation with food and fitness that has eluded me for my entire life? Probably not. But I am going to appreciate this port in the storm for as long as it lasts. Diane and Lilion - I know both of you had regrouping plans this weekend. Hope you had a fantastic weekend, and that you were able to find your way back to being on track. Frances - Hope you're finding a way to enjoy the slog as you wait for your results. Vladadog, Pacifica, Uber, Amanda, Carter, Mandy - Hope things are going well and that you get an opportunity to post soon. |
Laurie: Glad that you had a good weekend! I think your modification of the no sugar plan is effective. It is hard to have that absolute "no". Then, if you do have even just a little bit, you feel guilty and that never helps anyone! I also think you are right about having to lose the same pound over and over. It may just be how it is going to be with maintenance. As long as you don't allow the creep up the scale. It probably is just really hard to wrap your mind around "maintenance" after having been on the wanting-to-lose side for so long.
For me, I think I had a much more successful regroup. You know when you say you are regrouping, but you're just not feeling it? That's what I have been doing for a while now. But last weekend, I felt differently about it. I had the time to really think about it and do some real planning. And, honestly, with hunting vacation coming up in October, I need to be better and be ready to go. I took the plunge and had the negativity of getting on the scale. It honestly wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, but it wasn't good either. A place to start. Again. I just can't be the person who can wing it. I have to be super disciplined and super diligent about weighing, logging food, and working out. That's just the way it is. I don't like the way I've started feeling lately, so stopping that now. Back to what made me feel good. The deviations have to stop. So, everything is updated. I'm going to weigh every day again for a while. I think I need the discipline. Back to spin today, body pump tomorrow morning and running tomorrow after work. Here we go! |
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Diane - Really glad your regrouping was more successful this weekend. I, too, have periods where daily monitoring and white-knuckling are needed to get me back on track. (You well know this, as you have cheered me through countless of these periods!) Congratulations on taking that step and weighing in. It can be so difficult to do it. I also love this part - "I don't like the way I've started feeling lately, so stopping that now. Back to what makes me feel good. the deviations have to stop." I am exactly at this point too. I know I can deviate and be okay, sometimes. But, I feel like it's a fork right now. I either can be disciplined now and reduce my suffering later as I try to get back on plan when I am not as fit or as thin as I am now. Or I can fall into the abyss, and who knows how long it will take to pull myself out of that? Thank you for being such a rock star. It is inspiring. I was very tired last night, so I went to bed at about 10:30. I was surprised to wake up at 5:40, feeling pretty rested. I almost decided to try to go back to sleep, as I don't typically get up until 6:45, but instead got up and went for a run. It was fantastic. The morning was cool and beautiful. I ran 4.2 miles in 46 minutes, a very good pace for me, and I didn't stop at all even on the steep hill. (Full disclosure - I stopped about a third of the way in to tie my shoe, but it was only thirty seconds, so it doesn't really count.) Maybe I could become a morning exerciser after all? Probably not, but I am going to start setting my alarm for 5:40, and see how it goes. On a related note, I am pretty sure my Fitbit challenge group is hating me now, as I am nailing the steps lately. =) Scale was up from yesterday, but I lifted weights yesterday, so that's to be expected. I also ate right before I went to bed -- a controlled amount to prevent the "can't sleep cuz I'm starving" thing. That might be reflected in a first-thing-in-the-morning weigh-in as well. Not gonna worry about it at all, though. Things are going well. We are playing board games again tonight, which means that I will again be making cookies. The "no cookie dough until all the cookies are in the oven" strategy worked reasonably well last time. I think I will employ it again. Goals - 1 - Get 30K steps today (just cuz I can) 2 - Eat reasonable amounts 3 - Focus on work today (since I got my run in BEFORE work this morning. Woot!) Hope everyone is having a great start to their week! |
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