Hiya Peeps!!
Rockin, was it u who asked about my pedometer?? Sorry, I am just swamped lately and forgot. I have an Omron. About $20.00, it's a very simple one. I believe I could put in my stride for distance info, but I got to where I don't care about that at all. I just want to hit my 10k steps daily (which I have done for 4 days at least now, yay!). I do check it by walking with it for 25 steps or so and see how it did. It was one step hi so I pushed the minus sign on it and it slowed down a little. So I'm good. Love that thing.
Feel lost when I lose one too. I feel like if I don't have it, then I can't work toward something unless I actually count minutes or miles, which are hard to count all day while you are doing other things. So this helps me count my whole day and then elevate the level by adding steps, if I need to, which can happen all day.
Hope you like yours as much as I like mine. I really depend on it, which may not be so good, but better than depending on food for whatever. Jogging while I'm on the phone doesn't count as much without it.
Oh about weighing. I literally can't stand the way my weight changes so much and I get off track bc I feel bad if I've done great but it doesn't move, etc.
So I weigh once a week or once every two weeks, which I think I'm going to go back to. That way, who cares what I weigh?? I am just going to keep going anyway. But if I weigh and it's not down, I feel like what I'm doing isn't enough, I get frustrated.
When I first started losing, do you know I didn't have a scale? So I weighed if I went to the doc and to my kids' doc. LOL. I have calenders from 2004, 2005, and 2006. I can look back and see how often I weighed. It was like once every 3 months. LOL. I just stayed focused on my goal and every time I weighed I was down!
5 lbs one month, 11 lbs another, etc. You get my point. We are going to keep going anyway, why mess with it? I weigh bc I just want to know. I don't even need to know. When you can't wear your clothes bc they are swallowing you whole then you know you are doing well.
I just wanted to share that. It's from my own experience. I did better when I didn't weigh. I did awfully if I weighed more than once a week, daily was just horrible for me. Just see what works best for you.
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The truth is that this is about changing the way we are, for the rest of our lives, not something to monitor for a few months. ( I learned that the hard way, let me tell you.) This is true even more so for those of us who have alot to lose. So why count the days, hours, minutes til we can stop it? I have decided just to go full speed ahead into my new lifestyle, not look back, not let scales slow my resolve, not care how long it takes to get from A to B.
I just want to live my life, being happy that I'm in fact going in the right direction, you know? Obsessing makes it really hard for me to think about this being a forever thing. It is less painful for me to change if I do it slowly. Any of you like that too?
Good afternoon!!!
we already covered that subject a couple of weeks ago.) I just didn't realize how low my average was until I read Susans Averages.
I've never been a size 1-2 in my life. I was in a size 4 at my daughters wedding 9 years ago but never a 1-2. Congratulations. Don't you just want to parade around in front of all your friends? You can do that with your friends here on 3FC!
I was wondering if you make separate lunches and night time meals for yourself. You have a big household to cook for with your family and foster kids. Sometimes with large families pasta and rice dishes can stretch the budget but hard on calories. I come from a family of 7 and my mom could make delicious meals for 7 on the size of meat DH and I eat alone. We lived on Goulash and soup! 
Just kidding, she made something different and from scratch every night and always had jello with fruit or pudding for dessert. It made me wonder how you handle meals at your house.
I have a scale that measures body fat and I can't wait for it to go down. It'll never be below 125, I'm too old and not as active as I used to be. 
Bobbi
