Hi, Mary! Congratulations on the pound down.

Saef, thanks for the welcome.

I cleaned up my food plan a bit and am down a pound, too. I've been thinking about what Bright Angel posted about continually needing to adjust what we eat as we get older and thinner.

In four more pounds I will have lost half of my new weight, counting from my highest-ever weight in 2000. To weigh 50% more is half a person. It's a very odd feeling, that I ate myself into that state, and that I carried all that. I'm glad to be taking much better care of myself and honoring more who I am.

Hope you are all doing well today.

Great action here chicks

Please do forgive my horrific spelling-- all the time-- so bad...

update- I did see a loss of 2.5 pounds since my monty statement was made. (FYI, Monte and Monty bring up that red wiggly line that tells me it is not correct--- weigh (pun) in on this issue writers and smartypants please???---- wait no red line on either when capitalized... since I am on the tangent-- the verb form of binge is spelled bingeing or binging??)

Hello to all

Editor here. Webster's dictionary says that either one is correct, but I prefer bingeing. I don't care what the spell check says.

You shouldn't get the wiggly red lines with proper names (capitalized).

Jay

A-ha! Many thanks, Jay

Kittycat, congratulations on your success.

Am having a bit of a rest day today, as it's Sunday, and, thinking about my food and exercise plans, for better health and improved body composition. It's a pastime of mine.

No great successes to report today, just staying on plan and enjoying not needing to water, as it rained yesterday evening!

Hope you all are having a nice Sunday morning.

Hi guys! Exercise fell off track for me due to being sick. DH and I had signed up for a 20-mile non-competitive bike ride which was yesterday and I dragged myself out of bed to do it, since I was feeling a bit better, but then felt so wiped out afterwards I slept all afternoon. Mostly better today, just a lingering cough and some sniffles, so hopefully I'll be back on track this coming week.

Food has been pretty good. One night I had to tell DH that he needed to stop snacking because he was making me want to eat even though I wasn't hungry. I guess he hadn't had enough to eat for lunch so was extra hungry, but I swear he was getting up every five minutes for the entire evening to get something else to eat.

I had a couple food accomplishments this week. First, after we got back from being out of town late Monday night, we had house guests Tuesday. I cooked a healthy dinner rather than taking them out. Then I worked from home Friday when we have a lunch meeting at work. Then yesterday I was really hungry while we were out doing some shopping and thought about stopping for a snack at a fast food place, but DH luckily talked me out of it and I ate a healthy snack when I got home (this was before I passed out for the rest of the afternoon). Then I thought about making a healthy dessert for us last night, but wasn't hungry and ended up not making dessert at all (no dessert is still less calories than healthy dessert!). Okay last one -- we went to Baskin Robbins yesterday to buy me a birthday cake, and I was about to buy one that serves 6-8 people even though it was just the two of us when I noticed they had some smaller cakes. I ended up buying one that serves 4 instead so we will have less left over, even though it wasn't as pretty. We'll probably eat the whole thing tonight, but cake has zero calories on your birthday, right? Oh yeah, and when DH asked me what we should do for my birthday, instead of going out I told him that I wanted him to cook me dinner instead -- the same dinner we eat all the time, baked salmon, steamed broccoli, and rice. Plus a bonus glass of wine and some candles. Still need to go out today to buy the salmon, hopefully I can find some fresh salmon somewhere.

Jessica, Happy Birthday!

I wish you a beautiful, new year.

Jessica - did you send me your cold? I've been sniffly with a scratchy throat since yesterday afternoon. Grrrr.

While being on the lower dose of medication has cut the nausea way back, a lot of foods still don't look/sound/taste good. We had a back-to-school bbq after church, and since it was kid-centered, there were hot dogs, chips, and cookies. I looked at everything, poured a cup of coffee and left. I'm about to eat a tomato and cheese sandwich and go to a play. Much healthier.

SilverLife, thanks!

LOL Pat, hopefully not! If you have the same one I did, this is how it went -- 1.5 days of sore throat with slight headache, 2 days of faucet nose, and since then it's been sniffles and coughing. I'm back at work today but still coughing and sniffling. Hopefully I'm not contagious anymore.

Detoxing - I threw caution to the wind over the weekend, and discovered that my concept of bingeing has changed quite a bit. I can't handle an 8oz cheeseburger. Nor does a cookie AND a brownie for dessert set well. I used to LOVE being full - now it's nauseating and I'm suffering the internal consequences the day after. Lesson Learned!!!

Lacing up and doing Week 1, Workout 1 of C25K tonight. The journey begins anew. I'll find an appropriate ticker this evening.

Placeholder post. I am here. In bed, actually, while the wind rages outside.

Rest is an integral part of my weight loss plan.

Week 1, workout 1 is in the bag. I hauled DS11 along with me to keep me company, and it was actually FUN. I do so love fall in Michigan ... cool breezes, drier air, no deer flies. Happy camper here. 2.5 lbs of the bad-weekend bloat are off; 1 to go and then, off we go towards new scale territory!

silverbirch - Wishing you wonderful rest. Agree with you that sleep is a Key Process Characteristic for good health.

Jessica - belated happy birthday, and hope the snuffles have passed.

Pat - No sniffles for you, either! What play did you see? DS11 is taking a field trip to Stratford, ONT today to do a backstage tour and see "As You Like It."

to everyone - still getting back into the habit of posting. I'll get better with this again. I have a direct correlation between my scale movement and my accountability here, I've learned!!

Hi guys,
I recognize that correlation also, Becky

Scale bounced up a bit and I am back to 2.5 pounds lost. I am pretty certain they are real, not dehydration...
just had a vat of onion-y garlic-y gazpacho for breakfast. that will teach people to stay away from me! heh

another thing that is so very critical to my weight loss and maintenance is to take the time to prepare and cook my own meals. It is so easy to get lazy and eat whatever is around... It tends to be high in calorie, carbs and likely processed to some degree. That just doesn't work well. Even if I am careful to count the calories, the carb addiction pathway is opened wide and I begin to overeat...
ok, I get it.

a small (well, large for me ) NSV- 2 days ago I learned some very sad and anxiety raising news. It was a rough night. I woke up still feeling mentally horrible and dragged myself to work, no balance bar or breakfast in tow. As I went into the local food place-- land of all things muffin and marvelous-- I considered, ah what the heck, maybe I will drown my sorrows in one of the huge moist bran muffins. Then I thought about the fact that I have not had a muffin for breakfast since end february 2008.
And that still has not changed. I collected my coffee and went outside to the fruit guy, bought a big sweet navel orange and felt good, at least about that!

as stated in an earlier post, onward and forward. we don't have much choice.

Silverbirch, thank you for the reminder about rest. I need a rest during the day, and I don't always let myself do that.

I've discovered that my maintenance calories are not as high as I'd hoped, and that my high-cal day in my calorie cycling needs to be lower. Yep, that mindset of staying on the cutting edge has to be there for me.

ICUWishing and KittyCat, congratulations on the 2.5 down!

Wishing you all a lovely day.

Keeping focussed here. Lamb sofrito, roast beetroot, cabbage, potato for tea. Possibly not the most 'authentic' meal but I simply don't care. Let the N and S of Europe meet in my tummy, which, dear friends, is looking a little flatter of late. Good.

Becky - keep posting. Have you started your new work yet?

Kitty - Sorry to hear you've had sad news. Very well done for not turning to food which wouldn't help at all, in the long run. "Take the time to prepare and cook my own meals". There's no way round it, as far as I can see, and the results are so much more delicious.

SilverLife