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Good Morning! It'll be a busy Friday-Eve for me but that means it'll be Friyay soon!! I hope your work chaos isn't too bad and so wish you could spill the tea!
QOTD: Home life we still have a few we write to our housekeeper, lawn maintenance, and some bills. Work life there are 7 accounts I have physical checks that we write from and the remaining are for accounting/pr and printed.
TSS: 10 years
B: SF latte, Fiber/protein oatmeal, turkey sausage, and an orange
L: Turkey and cheese sticks, carrots, light and fit yogurt and some fruit
S: Mixed nuts, a piece of fruit and yogurt
D: Tri tip salad with avocado, a banana, and dark chocolate
ES: Protein ice cream and carbmaster toast
E: 1/2 hour elliptical and 20 mins Pilates bar
V/W: On track
Totals: Cals:1311 Protein:103 Carbs:129 Fat:50
Have a great day!
RNY 8/11/14 with Dr. Kelvin Higa PS Lipectomy 4/12/17 with Dr. John Burnett HW291.4/CW165/GW150
Good morning ~ It's going to be a hot one today - 90's everywhere and even hotter in the hills. But nothing is going to dampen my mood, not even our sweat lodge of a house w/no AC after work. It's week 1, game 1 of NFL - Ravens @Chiefs. Will TS be there?? bring it! I was able to complete my annual beast report - today will be polish and revisions then boom it's over. I'm now looking forward to passing on my monthly reports to staff (in stages), I just have to update them first, but there is a path I'm excited about. I can see the weekend from here, lots of fun plans and more football. I'm always happy at week 1, ask me again at week 5 when I'm restless and feel chained to the house. Actually I'm going to try and avoid that this year by being super active on Saturdays to more enjoy the lazy Sundays.
QOTD - Yes, Rob's mom and now Chloe's groomer stopped taking plastic due to cost. Who carries cash these days? I wish we could venmo but no, they are both old school.
Accountability - better, much better on food - no extra bites of any kind. I think a diet break is good in that I got it out of my system, but I don't want to get stuck there, regain or prolong the agony of losing this weight. I've pulled my head out of the sand and I'm going to work hard to get to my goal. 56 active minutes and 10,210 steps. Today I'm 168.6, 30 minutes done on the treadmill.
B- coffee, cottage cheese
l - leftover chicken on zero tortillas
d - bacon cheeseburgers on the grill, no bun
s - melon/strawberries, nectarine, jerky
Have a great day!!
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RNY 11/21/16 - HW/SW 309 LW 150
REVISION 4/10/23 - HW 240 SW 225 CW 164 GW 155
on 9/5/24 4:56 am - Amarillo, TX
I love meerkats! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
those meerkats are so cute - I would have loved that!
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
Mornin' All!
well I fell asleep around 1:00 AM, and was wide awake at 4:00 AM. I finally gave up trying to get back to sleep and went out to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee. This could be a very long day.
my brother arrived yesterday afternoon on schedule, but he decided he was going to sleep over at my mom's. It's just as well. It's kind of disruptive having someone else in the house, and by having him stay mostly at my mom's, it'll give me a few days off of having to deal with her, which can get really stressful at times. I'll look at this as a much-needed break.
classes start today, but I can't go to my in-person one since I have a hair appt at that time (my hair dresser schedules three or four months out and is really hard to get into on short notice, so I'm NOT giving up that appt...). Not much else going on. It's supposed to rain later, but hopefully it won't be too humid beforehand because I need to get out and bike or walk this morning.
QOTD: the only checks I write any more are to my hairdresser and my massage therapist. They're both in business for themselves (and my massage person works out of her home), so they just take cash and checks. I used to write several checks a month - now it's like one or two. It takes me FOREVER to use up a check pad!
coffee with half & half
skyr with fruit
protein shake
protein muffin
2 T black bean dip with 5 tortilla chips
L&F yogurt?
not sure about dinner (again!). Maybe a salad with chickpeas on it (for protein)?
have a great day, everyone!
RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)
HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163
Good morning and happy Thursday! The weekend is just over the horizon!
QJB sounds like there's a good reason why your university has a robust and senior hr team, it's always something! They needed you!! Glad you have interesting work at a place you are enjoying.
I have a massage scheduled this afternoon, yay me! Just have to get through a busy work day and earn it. I also need to fold all the clothes I washed yesterday and Tuesday. My next round of GOTV postcards are supposed to arrive today and I'd like to get them done before I go back to work travel so depending on when they get here, I might start them tonight too.
QOTD - when required.
Accountability - I was really craving a burger yesterday so I went and had one. It was not as good as I thought it would be. I should have gone to 5 guys. 63 active minutes yesterday!
menu today
greek yogurt with granola
salami and cheese on naan
tbd on dinner
One of the adventures we went on was a meerkat safari in Oudtshoorn (pronounced Oat's Horn). The family that own this area has habituated the meerkats to groups of about 10 people (they don't feed them or anything so they are still wild but not scared of people that don't move). So you go before dawn and sit in your lawn chairs until they come out. Because it was winter, we didn't have to be there until 7 am (in the summer, it's before 5!) and we didn't have to wait too long, only about 40 minutes...and then we watched them for about an hour until they went off to do meerkat things!
Have a fantastic Thursday everyone!
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
on 9/5/24 2:42 am - Amarillo, TX
Good mornin everyone!
Miss Tange is out in the wild that is our house. She has knocked over the trash can, she seems to REALLY like pork chops(the bones were in the trash lol). She has knocked over a full tray of chainmaille rings and such. Normal kitty stuff. She has a clean bill of health and is indeed a girl! The other cats are not fans yet.
My dentist appointment is still on that I know of today. My myelogram is on the 13th. Didn't think it'd be hat soon but I am grateful it is. My stomach bothered me allll day yesterday. Mango salsa seems to not like me. I found some whipped feta at the grocery store a few days ago and it's so good! I'm hoping for a do nothing day but we'll see.
QOTD: no, It has been 7 or 8+ years since I have.
B: Eggs, cheese, chicken sausage and coffee
L: pp pancakes and a chicken sausage patty
D: undecided.
It's Lil' Friday and I am ready for this week to be over. We had a kind of crazy thing happen at work (that I can't talk about, of course) but it's going to negatively affect my department for a few weeks, so we are steeling ourselves for the madness. Naturally my body thought that sleeping and resting to prepare would be a bad idea, so I have been up watching TikTok since 1am. Apparently Grim and I are on opposite sleeping schedules. He got up shortly after we went to bed, and literally the minute I got up this morning, he went back. It's nothing personal, right? lol.
QOTD: Do you still write checks? I haven't whipped out a checkbook for anything in about 5 years I think. I do write digital checks through my bank account to pay bills, of course, though. Have you followed the "Chase Bank Glitch" news story? Kids who have never written checks before discovered that they would write checks for huge amounts, like 30K and Chase was making the entire amount available at the ATM without wait, so they were taking out big amounts. Now kids are learning about bouncing checks and check fraud. Yikes. Apparently thousands of kids saw this "hack" and have tried it and they are all about to get arrested. God, people are stupid!
Accountability: I had a little breakfast and dinner but only managed a handful of almonds and lifesavers during the day. I was starving! I haven't lost any weight this week, and I am on the cusp of going down a 10lb mark that would be exciting to see. I hope it's tomorrow!
I think that since I am awake and hungry I am going to start the day with "dinner" and eat lighter from there.
- protein coffee
- cheeseburger (no bun)
- Greek yogurt & almonds
- Caesar salad
I've only had one session and the next one is Friday. I did feel some relief after the first one but I with 4-6 sessions total it'll take a little while to know for sure. John's Plantar fasciitis has improved so much.
RNY 8/11/14 with Dr. Kelvin Higa PS Lipectomy 4/12/17 with Dr. John Burnett HW291.4/CW165/GW150
Yay! There's only a 20% chance a butterscotch cat is a female.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
