Weighed in at 142.8 today

Today's meals:

Breakfast: Egg bake with spinach, roasted peppers and onions and mushrooms, same steel-cut oats, yogurt and cantaloupe
Lunch: Mixed green salad with roasted vegetables, almonds, avocado and black olives
Dinner: Greek chicken leg quarter with tomatoes & feta over whole grain egg noodles
Dessert: Frozen Jell-O pudding cup

Exercise:

Front leg raise 3x20, Lateral leg raise 3x20, Lateral w/ toes up 3x20, Lateral opposite 3x20 (just left leg) Bicycle 3x20, Kickback 3x20 and High knee 3x20 (just left leg)
Did this twice today

5-lb. dumbbell routine

Saef-- looks like you're getting a pretty good chunk of exercise in and your weight it going down, down, down!

I got on the scale this morning. I'm still right in the middle of my "winter" range at 138.2 lbs. : That's with no counting, measuring, or weighing etc. So it looks like I can maintain a certain weight range even with some excess eating. But the junk food and excess sugar is affecting my sleep, which affects everything else.

I am now on day 36 of no alcohol. Day 40 will be on Friday. I think it's time to start no sugary treats on Saturday with certain exceptions for birthdays - my cousin's 60th, my 58th, and DH's 53rd. They all happen in the next 6 weeks and I will allow myself one piece of good cake at each. I will supply the cake so I know it'll be GOOD cake.

Dagmar

Michele, yes, it looks as though I am losing weight. It's solely due to my diet, certainly not to exercise. The exercise is mainly to keep up some strength in my arms and especially, in my legs.

It's fascinating to me (and upsetting) at how my left calf muscle is shrinking, because of my being non-weight-bearing on that leg, and has become so slack that the skin is getting wrinkly there from being mostly empty. That accounts for some of the weight loss, surely, as the glycogen drains from my muscles.

I'm unhappy tonight because today's snowstorm brought down more than six inches, with a thick glaze of ice on top. My mother judged it unsafe for me to attempt to use the walker to get to her minivan. Anyway the minivan was encased in ice. I'd really looked forward to getting to the gym at physical therapy, using the arm bike and working my legs. Now I won't be able to go till my Wednesday appointment. (They don't let you exercise on consecutive days!)

Dagmar, your comment about a slow-cooker full of turkey, tomato and spinach sounded so perfect I've just found a recipe for it online. Will make a chili-flavored version for dinner tomorrow. along with quinoa.

I got DH a fancy new scale for Chanukah (that assesses body fat%, and communicates via bluetooth with a phone-based app to log and track your weight) but I hate it. Our weight can bounce by 3 pounds or more from day to day despite consistently measuring first thing in the morning, and it will go up or down by a pound or more in 10 minutes, without eating, drinking or excreting. AND it weighs higher than the old scale (verified before I gave the old scale away) but I'm not sure by how much (2 pounds when I compared them side by side; but see above). So, I don't know if my old 125 is a new 127 or if that's being too generous. And I don't know, when I get a weight like 129, whether to panic or just wait a day. UGH. Wish I had the old scale back, but I gave it away.

I found the constantly changing numbers on the scale to be quite distressing also. It took me a long time to give up daily weighing because I was afraid my weight would go up and up. I weaned myself off the scale by weighing every other day, then 2 X per week, and now I do it once a month. The number doesn't really mean much but I do note month to month whether there's a change. Usually it's a fraction of a lb. I feel much better now that a number doesn't dictate the day or week.

Dagmar

My DD gave me a scale for Christmas a few years back. Not that there was anything wrong with my old one--she just decided I needed one that measured in increments of .1 rather than .5. I weighed myself on both every day until they both read the exact same weight and only then did I put the old scale in an extra bathroom. I think it's a bit neurotic of me to have done that.

My scale "remembers" the previous weight, so I always have to remember to re-set it by stepping on it with one foot. Otherwise it would erroneously have me weighing the same day after day.

No weigh-in today. The monotony of my days is getting to me. Shut in because of snow, doing the same exercises, eating the same stuff.

Today's meals:

Breakfast: Egg bake with spinach, roasted peppers and onions and mushrooms, same steel-cut oats, yogurt and cantaloupe
Lunch: Mixed green salad with roasted vegetables, walnuts, avocado and two very small sliced-up peaches
Dinner: Marinated lamb chop, half of a sweet potato, green squash & tomatoes, steamed brussel sprouts
Dessert: Frozen Jell-O pudding cup

Exercise:

Front leg raise 3x20, Lateral leg raise 3x20, Lateral w/ toes up 3x20, Lateral opposite 3x20 (just left leg) Bicycle 3x20, Kickback 3x20 and High knee 3x20 (just left leg)
Did this twice today

5-lb dumbbell routine

No weigh-in today, as I awoke intent on getting to the TV to hear the news about last night's train crash and went right past the bathroom scale.

Today's meals:

Breakfast: Egg bake with spinach, roasted peppers and onions and mushrooms, same steel-cut oats, yogurt and blueberries
Snack, as lunch was delayed: MacIntosh apple
Lunch: Mixed greens salad with roasted vegetables, feta, almonds, avocado slices and Craisins
Dinner: Greek chicken with tomatoes and feta over cauliflower
Dessert: Frozen Jell-O pudding cup

Exercise:

Front leg raise 3x20, Lateral leg raise 3x20, Lateral w/ toes up 3x20, Lateral opposite 3x20 (just left leg) Bicycle 3x20, Kickback 3x20 and High knee 3x20 (just left leg)
12 minutes recumbent bike, low resistance, about 2.5 miles; leg curl machine, over & under, 3x12; stepping on squishy ball, practicing putting weight on leg

5-lb dumbbell routine

Do all digital scales have that memory thing? I don't like it. Sometimes I know my scale is showing a memory number, so I shake it, turn it upside down, then step on it again and it will finally decide to show a change.

Saef, can you do any ab exercises?

Howlin', that's an interesting way to zero a scale Saef got me started on the "naked plank" approach to zero my scale, which sticks like hers does. I still do it just to make my husband laugh.

My digital scales don't have any memory.

Neither does mine. My scale is Tanita brand.

Alice, yes, I do some Pilates moves, when I remember to. Doing all the leg raises takes about 45 minutes and sometimes I'm just feeling pretty "done" at the end of the session.

Yes, it's weird about the scale "remembering" the last weight. I don't like being lied to by inanimate objects.

Weigh in: 142.7 before breakfast

Today's meals:

Breakfast: Egg bake with spinach, roasted peppers and onions and mushrooms, same steel-cut oats, yogurt and blueberries
Lunch: Mixed green salad with roasted vegetables, avocados, almonds and Craisins
Snack: Small peach
Dinner: Greek chicken with tomatoes and feta over cauliflower
Dessert: Frozen Jell-O pudding cup

Exercise:

Front leg raise 3x20, Lateral leg raise 3x20, Lateral w/ toes up 3x20, Lateral opposite 3x20 (just left leg) Bicycle 3x20, Kickback 3x20 and High knee 3x20 (just left leg) Did this twice. Wanted to get to my old gym for bike but did not. Too snowy in the morning, mother too busy to take me in the afternoon.

5-lb dumbbell routine