This is scary as ****. Because. Because I fell asleep over the Lord of the Rings after lunch and woke up planning things for you to do on the weekends. Like go to the local hardware stores and try to figure out what all the little pieces of hardware are for. I'll just bet you can't wait.
You two are too funny! While you are dreaming why don't you dream us up some weight loss! I don't think I have time for dreaming right now... it's just been a busy week. Three funerals on top of my regular work load. And when I called to get the results of the MRI on my ankle, it was one of those ..."we need to have you come in for a follow-up appointment." I'm less than excited about that, but we'll just see what happens when I see the doctor tomorrow.
Marion, hope your appointment goes well tomorrow. Sounds like you've had a busy week! Positive thoughts coming your way! I'll see what I can "dream" up tonight on the weight loss idea.
Linden, That is some crazy .....! So weird it's scarey. As for the hardware store...hmmmmm...I was putting up Christmas lights outside today and had a hard enough time figuring out all the extension cords and what goes where and how to tie them all together. I may have to try that idea of yours and visit the hardware store. They'd probably kick me out for loitering
Planning a weekend get away with some friends this weekend. It's our annual get away for the weekend Christmas shopping trip. One year it was Chicago, the next Des Moines, last year St Louis and this year it's Galena Illinois. They have a Christmas celebration going on and we're staying in an Irish Hotel with live entertainment in the center of the downtown area. Last year that was the beginning of the end of my diet. One little cream puff set me off. Man I wish I would never of eaten it. Hope to do a lot better this year. Stay away from the carbs!
Y And when I called to get the results of the MRI on my ankle, it was one of those ..."we need to have you come in for a follow-up appointment." I'm less than excited about that, but we'll just see what happens when I see the doctor tomorrow.
I, too, wish you the very best, and shoot! don't you just hate those kind of ambiguous conversations. Here's hoping today goes really well. You're about due for a break. Or a little rest. If I ever manage dreaming on demand you'll be uppermost in my mind. I have an ad on my screen for cementing software that "optimizes the displacement of mud." I'd send you the link if I thought it would help.
And IHM, I really like hardware stores, the older the better, so I wasn't wishing anything painful on you. For a time I lived in the town where Jimmy Stewart's father's store was stiil going strong. And I have to share this. To measure rope, they marked 1 yard increments on the wooden floor out through the store, over the sidewalk, and into the middle of the main street until they got to 50 yards. They just stopped traffic to measure. Isn't that a scream?
My doctor appointment actually went better than I had feared. We aren't talking surgery right now. I have a few small cysts that have developed in a couple of places on my foot, but the big thing is that my ankle is setting where it is supposed to in the joint. He wants me to wear a brace and get custom orthotics made for my shoes. We'll do a recheck in 4 weeks and see where things are at. I can dance in a brace.
Right now, I need to wait for the workers comp to approve everything, but I don't think that will be as bad for me as it has been for others.
My doctor appointment actually went better than I had feared. We aren't talking surgery right now. I have a few small cysts that have developed in a couple of places on my foot, but the big thing is that my ankle is setting where it is supposed to in the joint. He wants me to wear a brace and get custom orthotics made for my shoes. We'll do a recheck in 4 weeks and see where things are at. I can dance in a brace.
Right now, I need to wait for the workers comp to approve everything, but I don't think that will be as bad for me as it has been for others.
That must be a bit of a relief. Will the brace slow you down? make it difficult to dance?
That must be a bit of a relief. Will the brace slow you down? make it difficult to dance?
The brace will slow me a little, but not much. I won't be able to point the toes on that foot as well, but truth be told, I'm not that good at that anyway! I am relieved, that's for sure. I'd like the pain to be gone, but it's not unbearable, just annoying and the meds they gave me for the pain don't leave me feeling drugged out, so I'll take them a bit more than I was and see how it goes. I am definitely breathing easier though! I've lived for years wearing a brace and while it's ugly, it's doable--and I can keep dancing in it.
Does anyone else find it much harder to drink your water when it's cold outside? I'm really struggling and I normally have no problem at all.
So happy to hear your doctors appointment went well Marion. It always makes me a nervous mess when I get a recall from the dr. Hopefully the brace won't get in your way much and your recheck in 4 weeks will show more improvement.
I have a hard time drinking all my water in the winter months. I try to get at least half of it in and then do the rest with herbal tea.
Ugh, here I am again. Had surgery, carbed out and have not been able to restart. Up 9 pounds Not easy during the holidays. But anyway here I am again. Going to order more food when I get back into town next week.
Ugh, here I am again. Had surgery, carbed out and have not been able to restart. Up 9 pounds Not easy during the holidays. But anyway here I am again. Going to order more food when I get back into town next week.
Hi Amalia It's really nice to see you again, but I'm awfully sorry about the circumstances. Anyway, welcome.
I came across this post (quoted below) on another 3FC forum I visit on occasion & thought it might be of interest to somebody here... the original poster was disappointed that she had hit a plateau...
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Originally Posted by kaplods
You're not necessarily doing anything wrong - except expecting the scale to "reward" you when you expect it to (whether it's every day, week or however often) for doing nothing wrong.
Fluctuations happen, and some bodies fluctuate more than others. I'm convinced that if I ate absolutely nothing I would still gain at least 5 lbs during TOM (as long as I was drinking water to retain).
The myth that weight loss should be steadily progressive and routinely rewarding (at least on a weekly weigh-in schedule) is a dangerous one. I think it's one of the leading cause of diet frustration (which I also believe is the leading cause of diet abandonment. It's not the hard work involved - it's the not seeing the expected results of that work. Unfortunately it's not because the results aren't there - we're just no seeing them when and where and to the degree we're expecting them.
Sad News! Weight loss isn't steadily progressive. Not for most of us. It doesn't have to be frustrating, it really doesn't. Frustration comes in when we don't get what we expect.
Imagine that you've only ever gotten paid by the week, and you get a new job which pays monthly or quarterly - only you weren't aware of it. How many weeks are you going to work before you give up (because with weight loss there's no way to ask the boss "when do I get paid?"
If you expect a weekly or a daily pay-off, you're going to be severely disappointed, and as a result severely frustrated, "maybe I am just supossed to be fat forever" is a way of telling yourself "this isn't working the way I want it to, the way it's "supposed to" so why bother."
The problem is we're telling ourselves a very big and terrible lie. It's not "supposed to" be linear, but we want it to be anyway. We're encouraged to want it. We're encouraged to think it's right and normal and if we don't get it, we must be doing something wrong and must work harder to MAKE it work (and it still doesn't).
Change your expectations. Stick to your plan and change your internal "schedule." If you're weighing daily, that's fine but don't compare today to yesterday. Compare today's weight to last months.
Some people are on monthly "paydays." I've even met people on bi-monthly paydays - boy that must suck. To work hard and not see results for six or seven weeks.
If you still aren't losing weight after more than a month on plan, you'll have to make additional changes, but it doesn't mean you were doing anything "wrong" before. Maybe you're not cutting calories enough. Maybe you're cutting them so far that you're exhausted and aren't moving as much (except during your exercise sessions), or aren't sleeping as well, or a billion other things that can affect your metabolism. But you can't declare failure by comparing today's weight to yesterday's or last week's.
Women need at least a monthly cycle, so you have to be on plan at least three months to really even begin to understand your cycle patterns (some people experience one water weight gain week per month, some women experimence two, and some experience none).
Experimenting is the only strategy you've got, but you have to go in willing to look for patterns, not determine ahead of time what they're supposed to be and try to somehow force yourself into the pattern you want (I know it's the way most of us have been taught to diet, but it's also the way most of us have been taught to quit a diet too. Most diets fail, and it's not a stretch to suspect that false expectations are a major cause).
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I've lost count now of how many days I've been back on protocol, but it's been more than a week!.. YAY!!!.. feels good to be doing this for myself again... I'm staying off the scales for now, just going by how my jeans are fitting & they are a little looser this morning than they were a week ago... thank goodness!.. I was getting worried that they'd never be baggy again... I was looking at some of my photos from earlier in the year & those same jeans were loose, so that's my goal for now, to get back to that same looseness...
Another thing I'm doing is amping up my calories-out (exercise).. I haven't lost any significant weight since joining the gym in February, so I'm adding 200 kettlebell swings a day (100, rest about 5 minutes, another 100).. doing 100 KB swings non-stop raises my heart & breathing rates more than any of the hour-long cardio classes I do at the gym... I'm not planning to quit the gym, I enjoy it, but I'm hoping that adding KB every day will get the inch-loss/weight loss going in the right direction again... I know, this much exercise goes against the IP rules, but last year when the inches/lbs. were just melting off, I was doing more exercise than this... somehow it works for me... I just had this thought -- maybe exercising at home makes me more conscious of my diet, whereas exercising at the gym separates me, mentally, from my diet... I don't know , but it's worth the experiment...
I came across this post (quoted below) on another 3FC forum I visit on occasion & thought it might be of interest to somebody here... the original poster was disappointed that she had hit a plateau...
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I've lost count now of how many days I've been back on protocol, but it's been more than a week!.. YAY!!!.. feels good to be doing this for myself again... I'm staying off the scales for now, just going by how my jeans are fitting & they are a little looser this morning than they were a week ago... thank goodness!.. I was getting worried that they'd never be baggy again... I was looking at some of my photos from earlier in the year & those same jeans were loose, so that's my goal for now, to get back to that same looseness...
Another thing I'm doing is amping up my calories-out (exercise).. I haven't lost any significant weight since joining the gym in February, so I'm adding 200 kettlebell swings a day (100, rest about 5 minutes, another 100).. doing 100 KB swings non-stop raises my heart & breathing rates more than any of the hour-long cardio classes I do at the gym... I'm not planning to quit the gym, I enjoy it, but I'm hoping that adding KB every day will get the inch-loss/weight loss going in the right direction again... I know, this much exercise goes against the IP rules, but last year when the inches/lbs. were just melting off, I was doing more exercise than this... somehow it works for me... I just had this thought -- maybe exercising at home makes me more conscious of my diet, whereas exercising at the gym separates me, mentally, from my diet... I don't know , but it's worth the experiment...
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You look great! I noticed your height is about the same as mine and original starting point about the same as mine. I like to see how people similar to myself progress.
I've lost count now of how many days I've been back on protocol, but it's been more than a week!.. YAY!!!.. feels good to be doing this for myself again...
Nice post! YAY from me, too. I remember how much you used to like kettle balls. In fact, I'd almost convinced myself to get some just before I decided to come to Germany. Then couldn't imagine lugging them across two oceans. And yes they have them here. And they're about 4 times as expensive as Walmart. My upbringing won't allow that.
Aunt Sheshie
Thanks for sharing, it brought up some good points.
Hi to everyone else. I just posted in the weekend thread so I won't bore you with repetition, but I wanted to pop in. Hopefully a quick trip to the grocery store and then I can chill for the evening!
My dedication to staying on plan stinks! Weigh in tomorrow will show that evidence, I'm certain. Not sure what to do. There's a part of me that feels that even doing as poorly as I am is better than gaining weight---which I know is true, but I fee like I'm letting down my doctor every time I go in for a weigh in. (He has never said anything to imply that and has just been awesome with me!) I'm not giving up though...
Weigh in was pretty much what I expected... up 1.4lb. I'm not really beating myself up about it though I wonder if I should... I'm trying to be a bit more proactive with having foods ready that I can eat this week. I know I have a square dance Christmas party Friday and one at a funeral home I work with on Saturday, but if I can behave the rest of the time I should be good.
Thanks, y'all... I am kinda enjoying doing kettlebells again... I just now did 100 KB swings & will do another 100 in a few minutes... too bad, Linden, they're so expensive over there... maybe you can find a way to try them out without having to buy first?..
I made a dash to stock up on IP-friendly groceries yesterday, ahead of the snow we're having today... so far, there's about an inch of the cold white stuff on the ground, with more & more falling... supposed to keep it up all day & maybe into tomorrow morning... I don't mind it if I don't have to drive in it...
While you are dreaming why don't you dream us up some weight loss! I don't think I have time for dreaming right now... it's just been a busy week. Three funerals on top of my regular work load. And when I called to get the results of the MRI on my ankle, it was one of those ..."we need to have you come in for a follow-up appointment." 
I'm less than excited about that, but we'll just see what happens when I see the doctor tomorrow.
If I ever manage dreaming on demand you'll be uppermost in my mind. I have an ad on my screen for cementing software that "optimizes the displacement of mud." I'd send you the link if I thought it would help. 
Not easy during the holidays. But anyway here I am again. Going to order more food when I get back into town next week.
, but it's worth the experiment...
