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Post by LR63402 on Jun 17, 2019 9:44:15 GMT
This thread is for anyone that has been away from healthy eating, had a gain and is recommitting. We accept all forms of healthy eating here, whatever that means to you. We touch base daily for accountability and to encourage one another. This is a judgment free zone.
We all struggle to get the weight off and keep it off. Sometimes this is a challenge, but we never give up and that is the key. Regardless of our situation or where we are in reaching our goal, we count on talking to each other every day and are blessed to have one another as friends.
Our motto is persistence, not perfection.
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Post by LR63402 on Jun 17, 2019 10:01:28 GMT
Good morning all,
I woke up at 4am but I'm feeling rested and energetic. I was just reading back and realized that I didn't post at all yesterday. Oopsie! Although it was a stay at home day for us, it was also busy for me (plus I managed to grab a 2 hour nap...Whaaaaaaat?) - probably also why I'm up at 4am. Ha!
DH and I spent some time watching an HBO show that we've been wanting to see. I deep cleaned the kitchen, listened to more banging and thumping overhead. Bless their hearts, the roof guys had quite a chore getting the old roof off and the new one on. The pitch/steepness of our roof line made it challenging and slow going. The had to use rope lines and strap in for safety and that really slowed down the process for them. But....IT'S DONE! I put a before & after pic on FB yesterday evening. We really could not be happier with the outcome. The look and color are exactly what we were hoping for. It's a really clean and sharp look. The color is more neutral and less specific than the previous brown shingles, and will allow us more options with colors when we upgrade the siding down the road. I'm not planning anything for a little while. I'm wore out from workman. Haha! Anyway, these guys finished at 2pm yesterday, so basically worked all weekend (including most of Father's Day) to get us completed. Rain is supposed to move in this evening and continue off and n all week. So if they hadn't finished yesterday, it would have been slow going to get that done. But now it's done, and we're happy and I'm looking forward to see what it's like when that first rain comes. I'm thinking it will make me want to nap. Lol.
Today is pretty much laundry and some food prep. I meant to HB some eggs yesterday but never got around to it. So I'll do that today along with dividing out a big pack of ground beef into individual burgers and getting those in the freezer. I cooked the pork belly that we bought at the farmers market a couple of weeks ago. I'd never had "pastured raised", it's actually quite different in taste from normal grocery store pork. We really like it, and have leftovers for the week. The taste is a little stronger than grocery store pork (which is actually pretty bland, I guess). Once we get the freezer I'm wanting, I'm sure we'll go back and get more product from him.
Well, I've rambled long enough. I hope Monday treats everyone with kindness. Looking forward to checking in and catching up with everybody's busy weekend. BBL
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Post by keshet51 on Jun 17, 2019 10:19:39 GMT
Good morning Lora and ATF. I didn't get enough sleep last night, got home from Much Ado About Nothing around 11, was asleep before midnight but up again at 5. Since a lot of the day today I'll be working from home, I will catch a quick nap. I have training this morning at 8, which is a whole lot more civilized than my usual 6 AM. The show last night was wonderful and the weather cooperated enough so that we didn't have to deal with much rain. The play wasn't as well attended as usual so we were able to move to better seats and it was really fun.
I have kind of a stressful week ahead with a 2-day major audit of our state funded programs tomorrow and Wednesday and then into the city for my monthly meeting on Thursday. And then next week more merger stuff. But vacation for a week starting on the 29th!!! Countdown begins.
My scale is up half a pound this morning for no reason. I guess that's the issue with weighing every day, you see all these fluctuations. Lora, how are you doing with not weighing yourself? Also, how was the coaching session yesterday? Btw, I saw the pix of the roof on FB and your house looks amazing. You guys did a super job on choosing it.
Have a great day, all, will bbl.
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Post by Jarmstrong on Jun 17, 2019 12:38:46 GMT
Good morning everyone.
My weekend was wonderful. The weather was amazing. I hope all of you had an amazing weekend as well.
I am feeling somewhat at odds this morning. My weight is up a couple of lbs and I expected this. I am still above what my norm has been for the past 2 or 3 years by 5 to 7 lbs. so my clothes are uncomfortable. But I am just so tired of worrying about it and trying to watch what I eat etc. I am not mad or upset, I am mostly just tired of if it always being something that I need to be so aware of. I wish I could just go keto and not look back.
One of the things I struggle with is when we socialize and other people cook. I almost always bring things I can eat for myself. this weekend each couple was responsible for 1 night of food. When we got there on Friday they had gotten a pizza and for the healthy version they had picked up a spinach pizza. Well that still does not really work for me.............Even when I am not trying to do keto 95% of the time I do not eat bread. Sunday morning the other couple made a breakfast casserole that had crumbled bread in the bottom. When I told them (once again) that I do not eat bread the comment was "there isn't "that much" bread" in it........ well it is still bread. This one couple also caters a lot of my work meetings. They are making a squash casserole for a meeting here this week - apparently it has crushed ritz crackers on top. They asked if I could eat that - and I told them no - I could not eat the crackers but I could eat the rest of it - so once again the comment was made There aren't that many crackers on it. I have told them over and over, do not worry about me with the catering - they always bring salad and I can eat that. I always have some sort of food here I can eat.
Anyway I am rambling - I guess I am tired because I have not accepted it as my "normal way" of eating and it still feels diety to me. Although I feel the least deprived eating Keto than I do any other way and my body really does like the sugar stability - I am just feeling super tired of always being concerned with what I am eating at the moment. At the same time - I do not want to gain any more weight.
enough rambling - I have a dr. appointment for a physical this morning. I think it is just going to confirm that I am probably going through menopause (yay me) but I need to get going so I can make it to the appointment on time.
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Post by LR63402 on Jun 17, 2019 14:50:18 GMT
Jana - I can totally understand the struggle with other peoples cooking. Maybe some ideas to help you the next time you're in a similar situation, for pizza night, I would probably just eaten the toppings off the pizza. Nothing wrong with doing that. And if somebody gets upset of offended, screw them. IDK about the breakfast casserole though, that would be a little harder. Personally I probably would have just skipped eating or just scrambled myself an egg or something or had some cheese and coffee. Of course I know that it's easy for me to say all this from the comfort of my own clean ingredient home...Lol. Being in the moment can definitely be more challenging. It kind of sounds like they think you just "prefer" not to eat bread, instead of you DON'T eat bread. But that's definitely one thing I've learned is that I can't hold someone else responsible for what they think my eating plan might be. As to the "just a little bit" topic, I had a similar incident when my SIL was here for the weekend. When we were at the farmers market, and talking to the pork vendor, she tried to get me to go in with her on a 5lbs. breakfast sausage deal. I asked him if he had the ingredients, and he pulled out a pack to let me read the label. It had 2 different kinds of sugar listed, so I just said, "No, we won't eat that because of the sugar." She said, "Seriously? I mean, it can't be that much." I was annoyed beyond belief. She knows our history with diabetes, she knows that we eat clean and no sugar, and yet I still felt like my lifestyle was being questioned or discounted. I told her that firstly, there is no nutrition label, so there is no way to know how much there is or isn't. And secondly, any added sugar is too much added sugar for us. She dropped it, but I still don't think she totally gets it. Clearly I'm still annoyed by the whole conversation. Lol I don't know how to get this way of life the same respect that as a society we give to vegetarians & vegans. I mean if you told them you had a peanut allergy, they wouldn't be trying to get you to eat peanut butter cookies, right? So why does this have to be so different? Anyway, I supposed we won't fix all the worlds problems here today, right?  Andi - coaching is going good. After the first 10 days or so I haven't really thought about the scale or daily weighing. I'm actually enjoying not feeling tied to the scale or having emotions or my opinions of whether yesterday was a success or not tied to whatever number the scale may be reporting each morning. I feel like I'm getting more in touch with how I actually feel, instead of what I weigh. I mean if my clothes that currently own are fitting comfortably, then should the number on the scale really matter to me? Nope, I don't think it should. What is to say that the random number that I pick in my head as a weight goal is realistic or attainable? Or, would hitting that random number look much different than whatever I currently weight right now? Probably not. So that being said, I'm working more on how I feel and how my current clothes are fitting. And honestly, that has been a pretty freeing way of thinking for me. |
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Post by Jarmstrong on Jun 17, 2019 16:46:14 GMT
Dr. apt was uneventful other than it took so long. Why do Dr. always take so freaking long?
They put me in a room with a dinosaur table so I had some fun while waiting - check out FB LOL
Lora thanks for understanding my current feelings and I totally get how your felt about the SIL. It's not like I am forcing someone else to eat the way I eat - I just don't want to feel obligated to eat the way you eat............ Oh well it is what it is.
Oh the Dr. said my weight was up 3 lbs since the last time I saw him - so that isn't horrible I guess. |
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Post by keshet51 on Jun 17, 2019 18:04:14 GMT
Oh, Jana, I TOTALLY get your fatigue! I could have written your post myself and in fact have done so here on numerous occasions. I have felt so immensely burdened by all of it and the unendingness of it all, and in fact that's a major reason I'm doing coaching right now and trying to understand why I feel so rebellious and angry and desperate. If I reach enlightenment I will be certain to let you know  . Congrats on such a small weight gain in the past year. I do think that's a win, given the ups and downs we've had over the past 12 months. That's actually stability, no? I also understand your frustration with people not understanding or accommodating your food needs and acting so doggone clueless. I'm sure Susie hears this a lot around needing to be gluten free and no matter what food plan I've been on, people try to get me to eat the way they do. It's always super annoying and feels so dismissive. And I get resentful at having to bring my own food, because once again I can't go with the flow, always have to be a special case, always kind of an outsider. At least you didn't end up in that kind of place, so sounds like your mental attitude is a lot healthier than mine. Oh, and glad you had such a great weekend despite the food issues. I think those of us who go out a lot or are in a lot of social situations have to figure out a way to make peace with the rest of the world not doing what we do. I just don't know how to get there and see to it that my needs are met. And Lora I can also understand your feelings about your SIL's lack of understanding. People just don't understand the concept of "no," as in I don't eat that particular thing, in any quantity. I had my morning meeting, back home now to work (and write the ROs), derm appointment at 4 locally for that thing on my arm that won't go away. Of course today I think it looks a lot better but it's been so long, I know I'll feel better having it checked out. |
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Post by success4susie on Jun 17, 2019 18:41:01 GMT
Hi All...a bad headache night again...I am not taking the new meds today or tomorrow and see how I do. I had a massage and that was very good; I had her massage my head too. I made two stops and then went to the podiatrist - my issue is probably a bone spurr...if it continues to bother me, I will have the bone shaved - I am not going to just keep padding it, etc. Then I picked up DGS and took him to Vacation Bible School and I am home to chill for 2 hours before I have to pick him up...think I will read (and maybe nap). I have book club tonight, but may leave early so DH does not have DGS all evening by himself.
Lora - as I told you last night, I loved the roof..the whole house just looks sharper!
Andi - glad you got better seats last night and that the rain was not an issue for you...did you get to swim in the pool at DS's in-laws? Hope the derm appt goes well and the spot is no big deal.
Jana - I so agree about the food and was thinking the same thing Lora said,,, that is someone said I have a peanut allergy... there would be no questions asked...they would know that you could DIE. I get so upset at all the events like our "coffee" last week at the clubhouse...dish after dish after dish of brownies, muffins, sweet rolls - on and on. Thank goodness there was some fruit. I came home and told DH I was soooo hungry! Don't you just get so tired of bringing your own food?!
My book club members are so sweet (the one I am going to tonight). The one gal has celiac disease and it went undiagnosed for soooo long that it is really serious...she often has bouts with other issues too....each member who hosts fixes EVERYTHING GF - it is just amazing and it is a whole dinner (appetizer, main course, dessert, etc).
OK...off to rest a little
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Post by robinmd on Jun 18, 2019 2:06:43 GMT
Hi everyone,
Lora, I sure love the new roof... let us know how the rain sounds! The pork does sound good. My nephew has a farm near-by, and he raises his own pigs and get his pork done with some great flavors of herbs and spices, and even the more plain meats are delicious. They really do have more of a flavor than what might be in the store.
Jana, I sure understand your frustration with food choices that people make you have to work around. It gets tiresome, but you seem good at dealing with it, when it happens. I laughed at the dinosaur picture! I don't know why doctors seem to think it is ok to make patients wait. I am really good about getting my patients back at the time of their appointment - or early, if they show up early...I can usually go on and get them back. We stay on time pretty good, even when a thoughtless patient shows up late. We just bring back the next on-time patient, and then the late one. The provider I work with just hates to be behind.
Susie, I hope your headache got better... Enjoy the gf food at the book club!
Andi, I'm glad the weather held off for you and you enjoyed the play. Hopefully you will be busy enough at work this week to make the time go by quickly... I hope the derm gives you the "all clear" on the spot on your arm.
I am off tomorrow, and have some things to get done, but I will be here. I hope everyone has a good evening.
RobinMD
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. Congrats on such a small weight gain in the past year. I do think that's a win, given the ups and downs we've had over the past 12 months. That's actually stability, no? I also understand your frustration with people not understanding or accommodating your food needs and acting so doggone clueless. I'm sure Susie hears this a lot around needing to be gluten free and no matter what food plan I've been on, people try to get me to eat the way they do. It's always super annoying and feels so dismissive. And I get resentful at having to bring my own food, because once again I can't go with the flow, always have to be a special case, always kind of an outsider. At least you didn't end up in that kind of place, so sounds like your mental attitude is a lot healthier than mine. Oh, and glad you had such a great weekend despite the food issues. 
